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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 349 281
Rank change year-on-year -143 -68 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Development 125 157 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.58% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.63% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 113 214
10th Percentile £363 £335 £300
25th Percentile £441 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +2.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £672 £623 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -1.75% +2.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile - £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £27.50 £31.03
Median hourly rate £29.06 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% -4.49% +93.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £44.03 £70.31
90th Percentile £97.50 £48.91 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £29.06 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.73% -28.24% +93.18%

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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in England

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 13 July 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 -92 65 £583 +8.37% 67
South East -76 17 £406 -20.96% 53
North of England -69 15 £488 +36.75% 53
East of England -13 11 £505 -17.55% 22
Midlands -51 9 £425 +3.66% 26
South West -44 8 £505 +36.49% 24
West Midlands -62 8 £388 -34.04% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 19
North West -53 7 £700 +96.35% 30
East Midlands -19 1 £500 +36.61% 16
North East - 1 - - 5
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 8 (6.40%) CMS
2 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 3 (2.40%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.40%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.80%) Drupal
5 1 (0.80%) Kentico
5 1 (0.80%) Liferay
5 1 (0.80%) Mule
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.80%) SAS
5 1 (0.80%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.80%) Azure
2 21 (16.80%) GCP
3 11 (8.80%) AWS
4 9 (7.20%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.40%) GitHub
6 7 (5.60%) Figma
7 4 (3.20%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.60%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.60%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.80%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.80%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.80%) LangSmith
10 1 (0.80%) npm
10 1 (0.80%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) Firewall
1 12 (9.60%) VPN
2 7 (5.60%) DNS
2 7 (5.60%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.00%) HTTP
4 4 (3.20%) VLAN
5 2 (1.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.20%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.80%) Power BI
5 5 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.20%) Couchbase
6 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.20%) MySQL
7 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.40%) GIS
7 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.40%) Tableau
8 2 (1.60%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.80%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (14.40%) Git
2 9 (7.20%) Mockito
3 7 (5.60%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.20%) JIRA
5 4 (3.20%) JUnit
6 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.60%) GitLab
7 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.80%) MLflow
7 1 (0.80%) NUnit
7 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.80%) Subversion
7 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 36 (28.80%) Finance
2 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.20%) Banking
4 20 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 16 (12.80%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.80%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.80%) Marketing
8 5 (4.00%) Local Government
9 3 (2.40%) Publishing
10 2 (1.60%) Automotive
10 2 (1.60%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Front Office
11 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (64.80%) Developer
2 23 (18.40%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.80%) Web Developer
4 20 (16.00%) Senior
5 16 (12.80%) Software Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Angular Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Backend Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Senior Developer
8 10 (8.00%) C# Developer
8 10 (8.00%) Java Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) .NET Developer
10 8 (6.40%) Applications Support
10 8 (6.40%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.80%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (37.60%) HTML
2 37 (29.60%) CSS
3 29 (23.20%) AngularJS
4 27 (21.60%) .NET
5 17 (13.60%) React
6 15 (12.00%) Spring
7 14 (11.20%) OAuth
8 13 (10.40%) REST
9 10 (8.00%) Kafka
10 9 (7.20%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (7.20%) JAX-RS
11 8 (6.40%) RxJava
12 7 (5.60%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.60%) jQuery
13 6 (4.80%) .NET Framework
13 6 (4.80%) ASP.NET
13 6 (4.80%) Node.js
13 6 (4.80%) Spring Boot
14 5 (4.00%) JSON
14 5 (4.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.40%) Derivative
4 5 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.40%) Genomics
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) Life Science
6 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) CMDB
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.80%) Mashup
7 1 (0.80%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.00%) Unix
2 11 (8.80%) Linux
2 11 (8.80%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.60%) Android
3 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.80%) MVS
4 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (61.60%) Agile
2 48 (38.40%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.00%) DevOps
4 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (21.60%) Microservices
7 20 (16.00%) Responsive Web Design
8 19 (15.20%) Test Automation
9 18 (14.40%) Software Engineering
10 16 (12.80%) AI
10 16 (12.80%) TDD
11 15 (12.00%) User Experience
12 13 (10.40%) API Integration
13 12 (9.60%) BDD
13 12 (9.60%) Scrum
14 11 (8.80%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (8.80%) Pair Programming
14 11 (8.80%) UX Design
14 11 (8.80%) Web Design
15 9 (7.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 38 (30.40%) Java
3 35 (28.00%) SQL
4 30 (24.00%) C#
5 29 (23.20%) TypeScript
6 19 (15.20%) Python
7 7 (5.60%) Bash
7 7 (5.60%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.80%) Groovy
11 1 (0.80%) JCL
11 1 (0.80%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.80%) PHP
11 1 (0.80%) REXX
11 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) Degree
4 4 (3.20%) CCNA
4 4 (3.20%) CCNP
4 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) QA
2 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.80%) WCAG
4 5 (4.00%) SLA
5 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.80%) WAI
6 1 (0.80%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 16 (12.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.80%) Ansible
3 1 (0.80%) Control-M
3 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) Oracle
3 7 (5.60%) Google
4 5 (4.00%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.40%) Adobe
5 3 (2.40%) ESRI
5 3 (2.40%) Netskope
5 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.40%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.60%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.80%) BMC
7 1 (0.80%) CODA
7 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.80%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.80%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.80%) Pardot
7 1 (0.80%) Splunk