Web Development Contract Job Trends in England

Web Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Web Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 292 314
Rank change year-on-year -216 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing Web Development 80 191 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.79% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.87% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 136 185
10th Percentile £353 £353 £255
25th Percentile £409 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £544 £610 £625
90th Percentile £668 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile - £26.38 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £30.07 £17.22
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.80 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +3.36% +75.00%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.73 £70.31
90th Percentile - £43.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -13.85% +1.30% +75.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Web Development job vacancy trend in England

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Development

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Development

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the England region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -128 44 £475 -15.56% 52
North of England -77 18 £488 +3.72% 49
South East -60 11 £500 +21.21% 62
North West -46 10 £417 -9.46% 24
Yorkshire -50 7 £500 +6.38% 17
North East -13 2 - - 8
East of England -34 2 - - 35
East Midlands -41 1 £325 -8.71% 16
South West -42 1 - - 26
Midlands -80 1 £325 -13.33% 34
Web Development
UK

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) CMS
1 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.50%) WordPress
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.25%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) Kentico
2 1 (1.25%) Mule
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.25%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 9 (11.25%) GCP
4 7 (8.75%) Figma
4 7 (8.75%) GitHub
5 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.50%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Run
6 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.25%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.25%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.25%) Contentful
7 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.25%) npm
7 1 (1.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) DNS
1 7 (8.75%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.25%) HTTP
3 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 4 (5.00%) VLAN
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
4 2 (2.50%) Network Security
5 1 (1.25%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) Redis
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.25%) GIS
6 1 (1.25%) MySQL
6 1 (1.25%) Power BI
6 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
2 6 (7.50%) Mockito
3 4 (5.00%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.50%) Mocha
5 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.25%) GitLab
5 1 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.75%) Finance
3 15 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.75%) Banking
5 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (65.00%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Web Developer
5 8 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 8 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Angular Developer
6 7 (8.75%) React Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Azure Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (7.50%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) SQL Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Web Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
8 5 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.50%) HTML
2 21 (26.25%) CSS
3 20 (25.00%) React
4 19 (23.75%) AngularJS
5 18 (22.50%) .NET
6 9 (11.25%) REST
7 8 (10.00%) Node.js
8 7 (8.75%) JAX-RS
8 7 (8.75%) Jest
8 7 (8.75%) Kafka
9 6 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (7.50%) FastAPI
9 6 (7.50%) RESTful
10 5 (6.25%) HTML5
10 5 (6.25%) Next.js
10 5 (6.25%) OAuth
11 4 (5.00%) CSS3
11 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
11 4 (5.00%) pytest
11 4 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.50%) Genomics
3 2 (2.50%) Life Science
3 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.25%) Derivative
4 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Linux
2 12 (15.00%) Unix
3 8 (10.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.50%) Android
4 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.50%) Windows
4 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) Agile
2 26 (32.50%) CI/CD
3 23 (28.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (27.50%) DevOps
4 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (22.50%) TDD
6 15 (18.75%) Front End Development
7 13 (16.25%) Microservices
7 13 (16.25%) Responsive Web Design
7 13 (16.25%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (13.75%) BDD
9 11 (13.75%) User Experience
10 9 (11.25%) Pair Programming
10 9 (11.25%) Visualisation
11 8 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (10.00%) Web Design
12 7 (8.75%) Code Quality
13 6 (7.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 40 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 28 (35.00%) Python
3 24 (30.00%) SQL
4 21 (26.25%) C#
5 18 (22.50%) Java
5 18 (22.50%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.75%) Bash
6 7 (8.75%) PHP
7 2 (2.50%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.50%) C++
7 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.25%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) CCNA
3 4 (5.00%) CCNP
3 4 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) WCAG
2 6 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (23.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.25%) Consul
4 1 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) Netskope
2 3 (3.75%) Zscaler
3 2 (2.50%) Adobe
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.25%) ESRI
4 1 (1.25%) Marketo
4 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.25%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.25%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.25%) SAP