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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 316 284
Rank change year-on-year -189 -32 +11
Contract jobs citing Web Development 98 162 285
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.66% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 114 206
10th Percentile £362 £350 £304
25th Percentile £423 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £654 £625 £588
90th Percentile £726 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £523 £483
% change year-on-year -3.78% +8.34% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £28.28 £25.93 £15.38
25th Percentile £36.25 £26.94 £22.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -19.89% +93.18%
75th Percentile £84.06 £43.55 £68.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £43.84 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.15% -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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -122 54 £510 -14.57% 46
South East -54 18 £406 -20.96% 39
North of England -71 12 £600 +68.30% 48
South West -40 6 £505 +36.49% 17
North West -40 6 £700 +96.35% 23
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 17
East of England -28 5 £505 -17.55% 28
Midlands -67 3 £425 +16.12% 21
West Midlands -61 2 £350 -26.32% 12
East Midlands -32 1 £500 +55.28% 9
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 6 (6.12%) CMS
2 3 (3.06%) ArcGIS
2 3 (3.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.06%) WordPress
3 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.02%) Drupal
4 1 (1.02%) Kentico
4 1 (1.02%) Mule
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.02%) SAS
4 1 (1.02%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.02%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) ContrOCC
2 1 (1.02%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Azure
2 17 (17.35%) GCP
3 10 (10.20%) AWS
4 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.14%) GitHub
6 6 (6.12%) Figma
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.06%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.04%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.02%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (1.02%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.02%) Google Sheets
10 1 (1.02%) npm
10 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.02%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) Firewall
1 8 (8.16%) VPN
2 7 (7.14%) DNS
2 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.10%) HTTP
4 4 (4.08%) VLAN
5 2 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.12%) Power BI
4 5 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (5.10%) MySQL
4 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.08%) Couchbase
5 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.06%) GIS
6 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.06%) Tableau
7 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.04%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (7.14%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (7.14%) Mockito
3 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.08%) JUnit
4 3 (3.06%) JIRA
5 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.04%) GitLab
6 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.02%) NUnit
6 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.02%) Subversion
6 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 27 (27.55%) Finance
1 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.41%) Banking
3 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.20%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.10%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.06%) Publishing
9 2 (2.04%) Japanese Language
9 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.02%) Automotive
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Front Office
10 1 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (66.33%) Developer
2 19 (19.39%) Web Developer
3 15 (15.31%) Java Developer
3 15 (15.31%) Senior
4 13 (13.27%) Software Developer
5 10 (10.20%) Angular Developer
5 10 (10.20%) C# Developer
5 10 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.18%) .NET Developer
7 8 (8.16%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Azure Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Backend Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Java Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Web Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) .NET Software Developer
10 5 (5.10%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (43.88%) HTML
2 34 (34.69%) CSS
3 27 (27.55%) AngularJS
4 25 (25.51%) .NET
5 14 (14.29%) React
6 12 (12.24%) OAuth
7 11 (11.22%) REST
7 11 (11.22%) Spring
8 8 (8.16%) Kafka
9 7 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (7.14%) JAX-RS
9 7 (7.14%) jQuery
10 6 (6.12%) .NET Core
10 6 (6.12%) .NET Framework
10 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
11 5 (5.10%) Entity Framework
11 5 (5.10%) HTML5
11 5 (5.10%) Node.js
12 4 (4.08%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.08%) Derivative
3 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.04%) Genomics
5 2 (2.04%) Life Science
5 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.27%) Unix
2 9 (9.18%) Linux
2 9 (9.18%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.04%) Android
3 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.02%) MVS
4 1 (1.02%) Windows
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (57.14%) Agile
2 38 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 35 (35.71%) DevOps
4 27 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (25.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (20.41%) Microservices
7 18 (18.37%) Responsive Web Design
8 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.27%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.24%) AI
10 12 (12.24%) TDD
10 12 (12.24%) User Experience
11 10 (10.20%) API Integration
11 10 (10.20%) BDD
11 10 (10.20%) Pair Programming
11 10 (10.20%) Scrum
11 10 (10.20%) UX Design
12 9 (9.18%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (9.18%) MVC
12 9 (9.18%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.98%) JavaScript
2 32 (32.65%) SQL
3 28 (28.57%) C#
4 27 (27.55%) Java
5 23 (23.47%) TypeScript
6 17 (17.35%) Python
7 7 (7.14%) Bash
7 7 (7.14%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.04%) PHP
10 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.02%) Bicep
11 1 (1.02%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.02%) Groovy
11 1 (1.02%) JCL
11 1 (1.02%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.02%) REXX
11 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.18%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) CCNA
4 4 (4.08%) CCNP
4 4 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.12%) WCAG
3 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) WAI
4 1 (1.02%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.02%) Control-M
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Google
2 7 (7.14%) Oracle
3 3 (3.06%) ESRI
3 3 (3.06%) Netskope
3 3 (3.06%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.04%) Adobe
4 2 (2.04%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.02%) BMC
5 1 (1.02%) CODA
5 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.02%) Pardot
5 1 (1.02%) Splunk