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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 288 331
Rank change year-on-year -160 +43 -30
Contract jobs citing Web Development 91 233 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.82% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.92% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 156 168
10th Percentile £328 £300 £311
25th Percentile £409 £405 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -18.53%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £646
90th Percentile £725 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - £39.58 £13.95
25th Percentile £27.50 £40.46 £17.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +139.49% -68.18%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £26.78
90th Percentile - £42.78 £44.46
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.50
% change year-on-year -19.83% +139.49% -71.43%

All Process and 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 27,947 25,226 32,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.49% 88.70% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 15,552 22,007
10th Percentile £301 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 831 1,432
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -81 40 £510 -10.53% 113
North of England -52 24 £575 +22.34% 162
Yorkshire -45 15 £650 +15.76% 76
South East -23 10 £469 +14.61% 151
North West -35 7 £417 -9.46% 66
North East -6 5 - - 23
South West -4 4 £650 +23.81% 45
East of England -32 3 £413 +10.00% 68
Midlands -88 2 £513 -6.82% 98
East Midlands -23 1 £325 -8.71% 43
West Midlands -73 1 £700 +24.67% 53
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 (3.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.20%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) Moodle
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.20%) Trello
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) AWS
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 11 (12.09%) GitHub
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 8 (8.79%) Figma
6 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.30%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.30%) Commercetools
8 3 (3.30%) Contentful
8 3 (3.30%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.30%) npm
8 3 (3.30%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Yarn
9 2 (2.20%) Asana
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.10%) Flurry Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) Intranet
1 1 (1.10%) SSL
1 1 (1.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Mixpanel
6 2 (2.20%) Redis
7 1 (1.10%) GIS
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (1.10%) Power BI
7 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (29.67%) Git
2 11 (12.09%) Mockito
3 6 (6.59%) webpack
4 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 2 (2.20%) Maven
5 2 (2.20%) Mocha
5 2 (2.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.20%) Vite
6 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.10%) GitLab
6 1 (1.10%) Gradle
6 1 (1.10%) Selenium
6 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Finance
2 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.69%) Marketing
4 5 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 63 (69.23%) Developer
2 21 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior
4 16 (17.58%) Senior Developer
5 13 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Python Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Web Developer
7 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 9 (9.89%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (8.79%) React Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.30%) Salesforce Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior UI Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) UI Developer
11 2 (2.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 2 (2.20%) Lecturer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (40.66%) React
2 34 (37.36%) CSS
3 31 (34.07%) HTML
4 15 (16.48%) RESTful
5 14 (15.38%) Node.js
6 12 (13.19%) JAX-RS
7 11 (12.09%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (12.09%) FastAPI
7 11 (12.09%) Kafka
8 10 (10.99%) AngularJS
8 10 (10.99%) Jest
8 10 (10.99%) Spring
9 9 (9.89%) Next.js
9 9 (9.89%) Vue
10 8 (8.79%) pytest
11 7 (7.69%) REST
11 7 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (6.59%) .NET
13 5 (5.49%) GraphQL
13 5 (5.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Derivative
3 3 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.30%) Genomics
3 3 (3.30%) Life Science
3 3 (3.30%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.30%) Social Media
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.10%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.78%) Linux
2 16 (17.58%) Unix
3 12 (13.19%) Mac OS X
4 4 (4.40%) Windows
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.10%) Android
6 1 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) Agile
2 33 (36.26%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (35.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (25.27%) Microservices
4 23 (25.27%) TDD
5 22 (24.18%) CI/CD
5 22 (24.18%) Containerisation
6 21 (23.08%) Code Quality
7 18 (19.78%) DevOps
7 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
7 18 (19.78%) User Experience
8 15 (16.48%) BDD
8 15 (16.48%) Front End Development
9 14 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
10 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 12 (13.19%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (13.19%) Web Design
12 11 (12.09%) Pair Programming
12 11 (12.09%) Visualisation
13 10 (10.99%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.76%) JavaScript
2 33 (36.26%) Python
3 32 (35.16%) Java
4 24 (26.37%) TypeScript
5 19 (20.88%) SQL
6 9 (9.89%) PHP
6 9 (9.89%) Ruby
7 5 (5.49%) C#
8 3 (3.30%) Apex Code
8 3 (3.30%) Go
9 2 (2.20%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Degree
2 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
3 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.49%) WCAG
3 4 (4.40%) QA
4 3 (3.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (27.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.69%) Argo
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 3 (3.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.10%) Consul
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Google
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.49%) Optimizely
5 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.30%) OneTrust
5 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.30%) SAP
5 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.20%) Adobe
6 2 (2.20%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.20%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.20%) Marketo
6 2 (2.20%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.10%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.10%) Cloudera