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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 295 321
Rank change year-on-year -181 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Web Development 91 192 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.76% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.84% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 126 167
10th Percentile £329 £357 £263
25th Percentile £409 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.18% -17.71%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £616
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £468
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.18% -12.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £27.50 £16.69
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +85.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £37.20 £41.91 £60.94
90th Percentile - £42.56 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £37.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.19% +76.19% -45.45%

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -105 46 £500 -13.04% 76
North of England -73 19 £488 +3.72% 135
South East -34 12 £413 +0.86% 143
North West -50 10 £417 -10.43% 53
Yorkshire -64 7 £575 +1.41% 59
South West -36 4 £650 +44.44% 77
North East -13 3 - - 27
East of England -24 2 £413 -28.26% 80
East Midlands -32 1 £325 -8.71% 64
Midlands -86 1 £325 -33.33% 93
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 2 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.20%) CMS
1 2 (2.20%) WordPress
2 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) Kentico
2 1 (1.10%) Moodle
2 1 (1.10%) Mule
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) AWS
2 15 (16.48%) GitHub
3 11 (12.09%) GCP
4 8 (8.79%) Figma
4 8 (8.79%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.30%) Cloud Run
6 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (3.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.10%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.10%) Contentful
8 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.10%) npm
8 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.10%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.10%) DNS
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Network Security
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.10%) VLAN
1 1 (1.10%) VoIP
1 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.20%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) GIS
6 1 (1.10%) MySQL
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) Mockito
3 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.20%) Mocha
4 2 (2.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Marketing
7 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Front Office
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Publishing
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (70.33%) Developer
2 21 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (13.19%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Web Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Python Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Senior
5 9 (9.89%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (8.79%) React Developer
7 7 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.69%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.59%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (5.49%) Angular Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) C# Software Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.40%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (42.86%) HTML
2 34 (37.36%) React
3 32 (35.16%) CSS
4 24 (26.37%) AngularJS
5 15 (16.48%) .NET
5 15 (16.48%) Node.js
6 12 (13.19%) RESTful
7 11 (12.09%) FastAPI
7 11 (12.09%) Jest
7 11 (12.09%) Spring
8 9 (9.89%) JAX-RS
8 9 (9.89%) Kafka
8 9 (9.89%) Next.js
9 8 (8.79%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (8.79%) pytest
9 8 (8.79%) Vue
10 7 (7.69%) REST
10 7 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (5.49%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Genomics
4 3 (3.30%) Life Science
4 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) Derivative
6 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.10%) SCORM
6 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.58%) Linux
2 14 (15.38%) Unix
3 10 (10.99%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.20%) Android
4 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.20%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) Agile
2 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
2 34 (37.36%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (29.67%) DevOps
5 23 (25.27%) Containerisation
5 23 (25.27%) TDD
6 22 (24.18%) Microservices
7 20 (21.98%) Code Quality
8 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
9 15 (16.48%) Front End Development
9 15 (16.48%) Responsive Web Design
9 15 (16.48%) User Experience
10 13 (14.29%) BDD
11 11 (12.09%) Pair Programming
11 11 (12.09%) Web Design
12 10 (10.99%) Continuous Deployment
13 9 (9.89%) API Development
13 9 (9.89%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (9.89%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.75%) JavaScript
2 34 (37.36%) Python
3 29 (31.87%) Java
3 29 (31.87%) TypeScript
4 26 (28.57%) SQL
5 18 (19.78%) C#
6 8 (8.79%) PHP
7 7 (7.69%) Ruby
8 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.20%) C++
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) Groovy
9 1 (1.10%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) Degree
4 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CCNA
6 1 (1.10%) CCNP
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.59%) WCAG
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (31.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.69%) Argo
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.10%) Consul
4 1 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Google
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.30%) Adobe
3 3 (3.30%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.20%) Amplitude
4 2 (2.20%) Hotjar
4 2 (2.20%) Marketo
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.10%) ESRI
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) SAP