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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 287 315
Rank change year-on-year -203 +28 0
Contract jobs citing Web Development 93 199 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.77% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.86% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 131 171
10th Percentile £355 £355 £263
25th Percentile £409 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.18% -17.71%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £468
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 31,633 23,246 33,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.88% 90.44% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,235 14,775 22,032
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 £615 £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 1,951 810 2,137
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.49 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%

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 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 7 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 -101 49 £500 -13.04% 74
North of England -80 18 £475 +1.06% 106
South East -38 12 £413 +0.86% 101
North West -48 10 £417 -9.46% 45
Yorkshire -64 6 £500 -11.82% 44
South West -35 4 £650 +73.33% 49
North East -11 3 - - 21
East of England -22 2 £413 -28.26% 55
East Midlands -33 1 £325 -6.68% 41
Midlands -90 1 £325 -31.58% 65
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 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.15%) CMS
1 2 (2.15%) WordPress
2 1 (1.08%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.08%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) IIS
2 1 (1.08%) Kentico
2 1 (1.08%) Moodle
2 1 (1.08%) Mule
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.08%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.48%) Azure
2 18 (19.35%) AWS
3 15 (16.13%) GitHub
4 14 (15.05%) GCP
5 8 (8.60%) Figma
5 8 (8.60%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.23%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.23%) SaaS
8 2 (2.15%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.08%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.08%) Commercetools
9 1 (1.08%) Contentful
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.08%) npm
9 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) DNS
1 4 (4.30%) HTTP
1 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.08%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) VLAN
2 1 (1.08%) VoIP
2 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.15%) Mixpanel
4 2 (2.15%) Redis
4 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.08%) GIS
5 1 (1.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.08%) Power BI
5 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Git
2 7 (7.53%) Mockito
3 4 (4.30%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.15%) Mocha
5 2 (2.15%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.08%) GitLab
6 1 (1.08%) JIRA
6 1 (1.08%) Maven
6 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Finance
3 16 (17.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.30%) Marketing
8 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.15%) Front Office
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.08%) Publishing
10 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (68.82%) Developer
2 21 (22.58%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (11.83%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.75%) Web Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Python Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.60%) .NET Developer
6 8 (8.60%) C# Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (8.60%) React Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Senior
6 8 (8.60%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.53%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Angular Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (5.38%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) SQL Developer
10 4 (4.30%) .NET Software Developer
10 4 (4.30%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (43.01%) HTML
2 33 (35.48%) React
3 32 (34.41%) CSS
4 25 (26.88%) AngularJS
5 16 (17.20%) .NET
6 15 (16.13%) Node.js
7 11 (11.83%) FastAPI
7 11 (11.83%) Jest
7 11 (11.83%) RESTful
7 11 (11.83%) Spring
8 9 (9.68%) Next.js
9 8 (8.60%) JAX-RS
9 8 (8.60%) Kafka
9 8 (8.60%) pytest
9 8 (8.60%) Vue
10 7 (7.53%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (7.53%) REST
10 7 (7.53%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (5.38%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) Genomics
4 3 (3.23%) Life Science
4 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.08%) Derivative
6 1 (1.08%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.08%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.08%) SCORM
6 1 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.13%) Linux
2 13 (13.98%) Unix
3 9 (9.68%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.15%) Android
4 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.15%) Windows
4 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) Agile
2 35 (37.63%) CI/CD
3 34 (36.56%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (30.11%) DevOps
6 23 (24.73%) Containerisation
7 22 (23.66%) TDD
8 21 (22.58%) Microservices
9 20 (21.51%) Code Quality
10 15 (16.13%) Front End Development
10 15 (16.13%) Test Automation
10 15 (16.13%) User Experience
11 14 (15.05%) Responsive Web Design
12 12 (12.90%) BDD
13 10 (10.75%) Pair Programming
13 10 (10.75%) Web Design
14 9 (9.68%) API Development
14 9 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
14 9 (9.68%) UX Design
14 9 (9.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (52.69%) JavaScript
2 36 (38.71%) Python
3 28 (30.11%) Java
3 28 (30.11%) TypeScript
4 27 (29.03%) SQL
5 19 (20.43%) C#
6 8 (8.60%) PHP
7 7 (7.53%) Ruby
8 4 (4.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.15%) C++
9 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.08%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.08%) Go
10 1 (1.08%) Groovy
10 1 (1.08%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) Degree
4 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CCNA
6 1 (1.08%) CCNP
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.45%) WCAG
2 3 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (31.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.53%) Argo
3 4 (4.30%) Grafana
4 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.08%) Consul
5 1 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Google
1 12 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.23%) Adobe
3 3 (3.23%) Netskope
3 3 (3.23%) Optimizely
3 3 (3.23%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.15%) Amplitude
4 2 (2.15%) Hotjar
4 2 (2.15%) Marketo
4 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.08%) ESRI
5 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.08%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) SAP