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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 389 276
Rank change year-on-year -117 -113 +28
Contract jobs citing Web Development 122 125 275
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.45% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.49% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 89 190
10th Percentile £362 £330 £300
25th Percentile £416 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +3.40% -13.04%
75th Percentile £654 £648 £600
90th Percentile £738 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £517 £500
% change year-on-year +0.34% +3.40% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile - £42.51 £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £43.88 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.13 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +10.89% +145.10%
75th Percentile £43.03 £50.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £51.35 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +145.10%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -96 50 £600 +15.33% 170
North of England -71 19 £470 -27.69% 107
East of England -22 16 £600 +12.94% 43
South East -74 15 £375 -27.04% 66
Midlands -37 14 £438 +6.71% 54
West Midlands -34 13 £431 -38.39% 26
North West -38 12 £450 -21.74% 51
South West -41 8 £505 -22.07% 37
Yorkshire -47 6 £475 -26.92% 44
North East -40 2 £470 - 12
East Midlands -18 1 £500 +36.61% 28
Web Development
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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 (6.56%) CMS
2 4 (3.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.28%) Confluence
2 4 (3.28%) WordPress
3 3 (2.46%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.64%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.82%) Liferay
5 1 (0.82%) SAS
5 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.10%) ContrOCC
3 2 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.82%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.21%) GCP
2 15 (12.30%) Azure
2 15 (12.30%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.10%) Figma
5 5 (4.10%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (2.46%) GitHub
6 3 (2.46%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.64%) AWS
7 2 (1.64%) Cloud Run
7 2 (1.64%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.82%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.82%) LangSmith
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.02%) Firewall
1 11 (9.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) Relational Database
2 11 (9.02%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.56%) Power BI
4 6 (4.92%) MySQL
5 5 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.10%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.28%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.46%) Looker
7 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.46%) Tableau
8 2 (1.64%) GIS
8 2 (1.64%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 28 (22.95%) Git
2 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.28%) JIRA
3 4 (3.28%) JUnit
3 4 (3.28%) Mockito
4 3 (2.46%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.64%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.64%) GitLab
5 2 (1.64%) Gradle
6 1 (0.82%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.82%) Maven
6 1 (0.82%) MLflow
6 1 (0.82%) NUnit
6 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.82%) Subversion
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.82%) Vite
General
1 27 (22.13%) Finance
1 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.31%) Banking
3 15 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.66%) Investment Banking
5 10 (8.20%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.56%) Marketing
7 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.10%) Local Government
9 2 (1.64%) Automotive
9 2 (1.64%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.82%) Games
10 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Law
10 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 81 (66.39%) Developer
2 35 (28.69%) Web Developer
3 25 (20.49%) Senior
4 19 (15.57%) Java Developer
5 17 (13.93%) Backend Developer
6 15 (12.30%) Senior Developer
6 15 (12.30%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (8.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (7.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (7.38%) IAM Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Java Software Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Senior Web Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Software Developer
10 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.92%) Architect
12 6 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (4.10%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (35.25%) CSS
1 43 (35.25%) HTML
2 21 (17.21%) React
3 19 (15.57%) .NET
4 16 (13.11%) REST
4 16 (13.11%) Spring
5 15 (12.30%) AngularJS
6 10 (8.20%) HTML5
6 10 (8.20%) OAuth
7 9 (7.38%) .NET Framework
7 9 (7.38%) CSS3
7 9 (7.38%) JSON
7 9 (7.38%) Node.js
7 9 (7.38%) RESTful
7 9 (7.38%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.74%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.74%) RxJava
9 6 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (4.92%) jQuery
10 5 (4.10%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.74%) Derivative
2 7 (5.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.28%) CMDB
3 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.46%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.46%) Genomics
5 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.64%) Life Science
6 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.82%) Mashup
6 1 (0.82%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.20%) Unix
2 5 (4.10%) Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.64%) Windows
5 1 (0.82%) MVS
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (56.56%) Agile
2 39 (31.97%) CI/CD
3 36 (29.51%) DevOps
4 32 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (20.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (20.49%) Software Engineering
6 21 (17.21%) Microservices
6 21 (17.21%) User Experience
7 18 (14.75%) API Integration
8 17 (13.93%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (13.11%) Front End Development
10 15 (12.30%) AI
11 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
11 14 (11.48%) UX Design
12 13 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.66%) Scrum
13 11 (9.02%) Identity Management
13 11 (9.02%) Load Balancing
14 10 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.43%) JavaScript
2 33 (27.05%) Java
3 29 (23.77%) TypeScript
4 24 (19.67%) SQL
5 16 (13.11%) C#
6 8 (6.56%) Python
7 5 (4.10%) PHP
7 5 (4.10%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.46%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.82%) Bicep
10 1 (0.82%) JCL
10 1 (0.82%) REXX
10 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.66%) Degree
3 5 (4.10%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.11%) Accessibility
2 14 (11.48%) QA
3 11 (9.02%) WCAG
4 7 (5.74%) SLA
5 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.82%) WAI
6 1 (0.82%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (10.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.82%) Ansible
2 1 (0.82%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) Google
3 6 (4.92%) Oracle
3 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.10%) Adobe
4 5 (4.10%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.64%) ESRI
5 2 (1.64%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.64%) Remedy
5 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.82%) BMC
6 1 (0.82%) CODA
6 1 (0.82%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.82%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.82%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.82%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.82%) Pardot
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Splunk
466 Web Development jobs in England