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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 295 289
Rank change year-on-year -216 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Development 79 183 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.75% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.82% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 129 195
10th Percentile £362 £354 £278
25th Percentile £432 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.22% -10.23%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £704 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £29.44 £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £32.35 £27.50 £20.91
Median hourly rate £37.20 £40.59 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% +1.48% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £43.39 £50.81
90th Percentile - £43.77 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £37.20 £37.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.57% -5.51% +81.82%

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 34,426 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,983 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,140 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +44.62% -19.06% -0.47%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -117 45 £500 -14.53% 366
North of England -65 18 £488 +3.72% 306
South East -62 12 £375 -26.83% 200
North West -45 11 £417 -11.38% 239
Yorkshire -43 7 £500 +6.38% 58
East Midlands -36 1 £500 +57.48% 46
East of England -44 1 - - 131
South West -54 1 - - 45
Midlands -84 1 £500 +6.38% 58
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 3 (3.80%) CMS
2 2 (2.53%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.53%) WordPress
3 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.27%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.27%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.27%) Drupal
3 1 (1.27%) Kentico
3 1 (1.27%) Mule
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.27%) Sitefinity
3 1 (1.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.71%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) AWS
3 9 (11.39%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) Figma
5 7 (8.86%) GitHub
6 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.53%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.53%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.27%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.27%) Contentful
8 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.27%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.27%) npm
8 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) DNS
1 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.33%) HTTP
3 4 (5.06%) Firewall
3 4 (5.06%) VLAN
3 4 (5.06%) VPN
4 2 (2.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.27%) GIS
5 1 (1.27%) MySQL
5 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Mockito
2 7 (8.86%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.53%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.27%) Subversion
5 1 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 22 (27.85%) Finance
2 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.66%) Banking
5 7 (8.86%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Marketing
8 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.27%) Front Office
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (64.56%) Developer
2 12 (15.19%) Java Developer
3 11 (13.92%) Web Developer
4 10 (12.66%) C# Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Software Developer
5 8 (10.13%) .NET Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Angular Developer
5 8 (10.13%) C# .NET Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Senior
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Azure Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) SQL Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Web Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) .NET Software Developer
8 5 (6.33%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (5.06%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.97%) HTML
2 21 (26.58%) AngularJS
2 21 (26.58%) CSS
3 19 (24.05%) .NET
4 14 (17.72%) React
5 10 (12.66%) REST
6 9 (11.39%) Kafka
7 8 (10.13%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (10.13%) JAX-RS
8 7 (8.86%) OAuth
9 6 (7.59%) HTML5
10 5 (6.33%) Spring
11 4 (5.06%) ASP.NET
11 4 (5.06%) CSS3
11 4 (5.06%) Node.js
11 4 (5.06%) SAML
12 3 (3.80%) jQuery
12 3 (3.80%) Playwright
12 3 (3.80%) RxJava
12 3 (3.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.80%) Derivative
2 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.53%) Genomics
3 2 (2.53%) Life Science
3 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Linux
1 14 (17.72%) Unix
2 10 (12.66%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.53%) Android
3 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.27%) MVS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.90%) Agile
2 25 (31.65%) DevOps
3 23 (29.11%) CI/CD
4 22 (27.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (20.25%) Responsive Web Design
7 14 (17.72%) Microservices
7 14 (17.72%) TDD
7 14 (17.72%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.19%) BDD
9 11 (13.92%) Pair Programming
10 10 (12.66%) Continuous Deployment
10 10 (12.66%) Web Design
11 8 (10.13%) Visualisation
12 7 (8.86%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (8.86%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (8.86%) User Experience
13 6 (7.59%) Front End Development
13 6 (7.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) JavaScript
2 24 (30.38%) C#
3 22 (27.85%) SQL
4 21 (26.58%) Python
5 20 (25.32%) Java
6 17 (21.52%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.86%) Bash
8 5 (6.33%) PHP
9 3 (3.80%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.53%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.27%) C++
11 1 (1.27%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.27%) Groovy
11 1 (1.27%) JCL
11 1 (1.27%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.27%) REXX
11 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) CCNA
4 4 (5.06%) CCNP
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) WCAG
2 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) WAI
4 1 (1.27%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 14 (17.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Grafana
1 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.27%) Control-M
3 1 (1.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.06%) Google
3 3 (3.80%) Adobe
3 3 (3.80%) Netskope
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle
3 3 (3.80%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) BMC
5 1 (1.27%) CODA
5 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.27%) ESRI
5 1 (1.27%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.27%) Marketo
5 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.27%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.27%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.27%) Pardot
5 1 (1.27%) SAP
5 1 (1.27%) Splunk