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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 279 324
Rank change year-on-year -177 +45 -19
Contract jobs citing Web Development 85 233 229
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.85% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.96% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 155 164
10th Percentile £313 £310 £309
25th Percentile £408 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +6.84% -22.61%
75th Percentile £640 £634 £645
90th Percentile £678 £765 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - £39.58 £13.95
25th Percentile £27.50 £40.46 £17.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +139.49% -68.18%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £26.78
90th Percentile - £42.78 £44.46
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.50
% change year-on-year -19.83% +139.49% -71.43%

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 27,898 24,261 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.43% 88.86% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,820 14,910 21,421
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £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 1,749 794 1,420
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -87 36 £505 -11.79% 45
North of England -63 24 £575 +22.34% 62
Yorkshire -51 15 £650 +15.76% 26
South East -25 10 £469 +14.61% 72
North West -43 7 £417 -10.43% 24
North East -11 5 - - 12
South West -9 4 £650 +23.81% 21
East of England -25 3 £413 +10.00% 29
East Midlands -24 1 £325 -8.71% 22
Midlands -89 1 £325 -40.91% 32
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
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
2 1 (1.18%) IIS
2 1 (1.18%) Moodle
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
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 15 (17.65%) AWS
2 14 (16.47%) Azure
3 11 (12.94%) GitHub
4 10 (11.76%) GCP
5 7 (8.24%) Figma
5 7 (8.24%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.53%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.53%) SaaS
8 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.35%) Commercetools
8 2 (2.35%) Contentful
8 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.35%) npm
8 2 (2.35%) Yarn
9 1 (1.18%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.18%) Internet
1 1 (1.18%) Intranet
1 1 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.35%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.35%) Redis
6 1 (1.18%) GIS
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
6 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (30.59%) Git
2 11 (12.94%) Mockito
3 5 (5.88%) webpack
4 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.35%) Maven
5 2 (2.35%) Mocha
5 2 (2.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.35%) Vite
6 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.18%) GitLab
6 1 (1.18%) Gradle
6 1 (1.18%) Selenium
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.76%) Finance
4 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Marketing
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (71.76%) Developer
2 21 (24.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (18.82%) Senior
4 15 (17.65%) Senior Developer
5 13 (15.29%) Java Developer
6 11 (12.94%) Python Developer
6 11 (12.94%) Web Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (9.41%) React Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Conversion Specialist
11 2 (2.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Full-Stack Web Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Lecturer
11 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (42.35%) React
2 33 (38.82%) CSS
3 31 (36.47%) HTML
4 15 (17.65%) RESTful
5 14 (16.47%) Node.js
6 12 (14.12%) JAX-RS
7 11 (12.94%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (12.94%) FastAPI
7 11 (12.94%) Kafka
8 10 (11.76%) AngularJS
8 10 (11.76%) Jest
8 10 (11.76%) Spring
9 9 (10.59%) Next.js
9 9 (10.59%) Vue
10 8 (9.41%) pytest
11 7 (8.24%) REST
11 7 (8.24%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (7.06%) .NET
13 5 (5.88%) GraphQL
13 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%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Derivative
4 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Social Media
5 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
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 4 (4.71%) Windows
5 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) Agile
2 31 (36.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (36.47%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.88%) Containerisation
3 22 (25.88%) Microservices
3 22 (25.88%) TDD
4 21 (24.71%) CI/CD
4 21 (24.71%) Code Quality
5 17 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 15 (17.65%) BDD
6 15 (17.65%) DevOps
6 15 (17.65%) Front End Development
6 15 (17.65%) User Experience
7 14 (16.47%) Responsive Web Design
8 12 (14.12%) Continuous Deployment
8 12 (14.12%) Web Design
9 11 (12.94%) Computer Science
9 11 (12.94%) Pair Programming
9 11 (12.94%) Visualisation
10 10 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) JavaScript
2 33 (38.82%) Python
3 30 (35.29%) Java
4 23 (27.06%) TypeScript
5 19 (22.35%) SQL
6 9 (10.59%) PHP
6 9 (10.59%) Ruby
7 5 (5.88%) C#
8 3 (3.53%) Apex Code
8 3 (3.53%) Go
9 2 (2.35%) C++
9 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.65%) Degree
4 11 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.88%) WCAG
3 2 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (29.41%) 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 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.35%) Adobe
6 2 (2.35%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.35%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.35%) Marketo
6 2 (2.35%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.35%) SAP
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.18%) Cloudera