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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 283 298
Rank change year-on-year -217 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Development 79 196 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.80% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.88% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 138 196
10th Percentile £349 £355 £263
25th Percentile £409 £407 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +6.84% -11.63%
75th Percentile £531 £612 £625
90th Percentile £608 £753 £750
UK median daily rate £470 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -7.39% +6.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.38 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £30.07 £15.38
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.80 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +62.43% +11.36%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.73 £75.00
90th Percentile - £43.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.85% +59.18% +11.36%

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 33,455 22,163 32,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.84% 90.86% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,444 14,600 21,357
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £614 £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 2,067 867 2,171
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.54 £19.00 £15.87
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.59 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.53%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -137 41 £470 -15.16% 52
North of England -76 20 £488 +3.72% 49
South East -65 11 £500 +18.34% 62
North West -46 10 £417 -10.43% 24
Yorkshire -48 9 £500 +6.38% 17
North East -16 2 - - 8
East of England -34 2 - - 35
East Midlands -34 1 £325 -4.57% 16
South West -45 1 - - 26
Midlands -82 1 £325 -30.85% 34
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 (2.53%) CMS
1 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.53%) WordPress
2 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.27%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.27%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) Kentico
2 1 (1.27%) Mule
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.27%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) AWS
3 7 (8.86%) GCP
4 5 (6.33%) Figma
4 5 (6.33%) GitHub
5 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.53%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.27%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.27%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.27%) Contentful
7 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.27%) npm
7 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) DNS
1 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.33%) HTTP
3 4 (5.06%) Firewall
3 4 (5.06%) VLAN
3 4 (5.06%) VPN
4 2 (2.53%) Network Security
5 1 (1.27%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
1 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Redis
4 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.27%) GIS
5 1 (1.27%) MySQL
5 1 (1.27%) Power BI
5 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Mockito
2 7 (8.86%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.53%) Mocha
5 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Maven
5 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Finance
3 14 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.86%) Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.27%) Front Office
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (67.09%) Developer
2 12 (15.19%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (15.19%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.66%) C# Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Senior Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Software Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Web Developer
5 8 (10.13%) .NET Developer
5 8 (10.13%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Angular Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) React Developer
6 6 (7.59%) SQL Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Web Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) .NET Software Developer
7 5 (6.33%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (6.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (36.71%) HTML
2 20 (25.32%) CSS
3 18 (22.78%) .NET
3 18 (22.78%) AngularJS
4 17 (21.52%) React
5 9 (11.39%) JAX-RS
5 9 (11.39%) Kafka
5 9 (11.39%) REST
6 8 (10.13%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (10.13%) Node.js
7 7 (8.86%) Jest
8 6 (7.59%) RESTful
9 5 (6.33%) HTML5
9 5 (6.33%) Next.js
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth
10 4 (5.06%) CSS3
10 4 (5.06%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.06%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.06%) pytest
10 4 (5.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.27%) Derivative
4 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Linux
2 14 (17.72%) Unix
3 10 (12.66%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.53%) Android
4 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.53%) Windows
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (49.37%) Agile
2 26 (32.91%) CI/CD
3 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (26.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (25.32%) DevOps
5 20 (25.32%) TDD
6 15 (18.99%) Microservices
6 15 (18.99%) Responsive Web Design
7 14 (17.72%) Front End Development
8 13 (16.46%) BDD
8 13 (16.46%) Test Automation
9 11 (13.92%) Pair Programming
9 11 (13.92%) User Experience
10 10 (12.66%) Containerisation
10 10 (12.66%) Continuous Deployment
10 10 (12.66%) Web Design
11 7 (8.86%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.86%) Visualisation
12 6 (7.59%) Data Visualisation
12 6 (7.59%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) JavaScript
2 26 (32.91%) Python
3 24 (30.38%) SQL
4 21 (26.58%) C#
5 20 (25.32%) Java
6 16 (20.25%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.86%) Bash
7 7 (8.86%) PHP
8 2 (2.53%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.53%) C++
8 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.27%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.27%) Groovy
9 1 (1.27%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) CCNA
3 4 (5.06%) CCNP
3 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.53%) Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) WCAG
2 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (21.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Grafana
3 3 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.27%) Consul
4 1 (1.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Netskope
2 3 (3.80%) Zscaler
3 2 (2.53%) Adobe
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.27%) ESRI
4 1 (1.27%) Google
4 1 (1.27%) Marketo
4 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.27%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.27%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.27%) SAP