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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 277 327
Rank change year-on-year -188 +50 -16
Contract jobs citing Web Development 85 213 244
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.82% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.91% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 132 173
10th Percentile £311 £363 £263
25th Percentile £402 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £505 £470
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.45% -18.83%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £749 £775
UK median daily rate £469 £508 £470
% change year-on-year -7.64% +7.98% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £26.15 £14.32
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 £34.15
90th Percentile - £42.56 £61.88
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 28,984 23,348 33,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.57% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,549 14,241 22,377
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,798 747 1,965
10th Percentile £15.06 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +8.53%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -95 35 £500 -9.09% 75
North of England -69 23 £575 +22.34% 100
Yorkshire -44 16 £650 +14.64% 51
South East -30 13 £438 +6.97% 80
North East -13 5 - - 14
North West -48 5 £358 -23.83% 37
South West -20 4 £650 +23.81% 37
East of England -27 2 £413 +10.00% 46
East Midlands -29 1 £325 -8.71% 27
Midlands -97 1 £325 -35.00% 43
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 (2.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.35%) CMS
1 2 (2.35%) WordPress
2 1 (1.18%) IIS
2 1 (1.18%) Kentico
2 1 (1.18%) Moodle
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.18%) Azure
2 14 (16.47%) GitHub
3 11 (12.94%) AWS
4 10 (11.76%) GCP
5 8 (9.41%) Figma
6 7 (8.24%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.53%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.53%) SaaS
9 2 (2.35%) Commercetools
9 2 (2.35%) Contentful
9 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.18%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
1 11 (12.94%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) Mixpanel
4 2 (2.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.18%) GIS
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) Power BI
5 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (27.06%) Git
2 11 (12.94%) Mockito
3 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) Maven
4 2 (2.35%) Mocha
4 2 (2.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.18%) GitLab
5 1 (1.18%) Gradle
5 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.76%) Finance
2 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.88%) Marketing
3 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.53%) Banking
4 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.35%) Front Office
6 1 (1.18%) Automotive
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Publishing
6 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (70.59%) Developer
2 21 (24.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (17.65%) Senior
4 14 (16.47%) Senior Developer
5 13 (15.29%) Java Developer
6 12 (14.12%) Web Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Python Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 8 (9.41%) React Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Angular Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Full-Stack Web Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Lead Web Developer
11 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.00%) React
2 31 (36.47%) CSS
3 30 (35.29%) HTML
4 15 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 15 (17.65%) Node.js
5 14 (16.47%) RESTful
6 12 (14.12%) JAX-RS
7 11 (12.94%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (12.94%) FastAPI
7 11 (12.94%) Jest
7 11 (12.94%) Kafka
7 11 (12.94%) Spring
8 10 (11.76%) Next.js
9 8 (9.41%) pytest
9 8 (9.41%) Vue
10 7 (8.24%) .NET
10 7 (8.24%) REST
10 7 (8.24%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (5.88%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) Genomics
3 3 (3.53%) Life Science
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Social Media
5 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.18%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.18%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.18%) Linux
2 16 (18.82%) Unix
3 12 (14.12%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.53%) Windows
5 2 (2.35%) Android
5 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (49.41%) Agile
2 30 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (29.41%) TDD
5 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
5 23 (27.06%) Microservices
6 22 (25.88%) Code Quality
6 22 (25.88%) Containerisation
7 17 (20.00%) DevOps
7 17 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 17 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 16 (18.82%) Front End Development
8 16 (18.82%) User Experience
9 15 (17.65%) BDD
10 12 (14.12%) Continuous Deployment
10 12 (14.12%) Pair Programming
10 12 (14.12%) Web Design
11 11 (12.94%) UX Design
12 9 (10.59%) Computer Science
12 9 (10.59%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) JavaScript
2 31 (36.47%) Python
3 29 (34.12%) Java
4 27 (31.76%) TypeScript
5 16 (18.82%) SQL
6 11 (12.94%) C#
7 8 (9.41%) PHP
8 7 (8.24%) Ruby
9 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.35%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Go
11 1 (1.18%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.29%) Degree
4 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.06%) WCAG
3 3 (3.53%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Argo
3 4 (4.71%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Google
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.71%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.35%) Adobe
5 2 (2.35%) Amplitude
5 2 (2.35%) Hotjar
5 2 (2.35%) Marketo
5 2 (2.35%) OneTrust
5 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.35%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow