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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 395 264
Rank change year-on-year -113 -131 +35
Contract jobs citing Web Development 115 124 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.45% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.49% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 89 204
10th Percentile £362 £325 £300
25th Percentile £414 £409 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +2.80% -13.04%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £793
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -1.75% +2.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile - £42.51 £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £43.88 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.13 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +10.89% +145.10%
75th Percentile £43.03 £50.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £51.35 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +145.10%

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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 18 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in England

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 18 September 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 -85 53 £569 +10.98% 157
South East -67 15 £375 -27.26% 54
Midlands -38 14 £438 +6.71% 40
West Midlands -33 13 £431 -38.39% 19
North of England -70 13 £463 -28.85% 73
East of England -21 12 £593 +11.71% 41
South West -35 8 £505 +12.22% 24
North West -48 7 £345 -40.00% 32
Yorkshire -43 6 £475 -26.92% 29
East Midlands -18 1 £500 +36.61% 21
North East -48 1 - - 13
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 8 (6.96%) CMS
2 4 (3.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.48%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) WordPress
3 3 (2.61%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.74%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.74%) Drupal
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.87%) Liferay
5 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.35%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.87%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.52%) GCP
2 17 (14.78%) Azure
3 13 (11.30%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (5.22%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.35%) Figma
7 4 (3.48%) AWS
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.61%) GitHub
8 3 (2.61%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.74%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.87%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.87%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) Firewall
1 12 (10.43%) VPN
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) Relational Database
2 12 (10.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.22%) MySQL
3 6 (5.22%) Power BI
4 5 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.35%) Couchbase
4 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.61%) Tableau
7 2 (1.74%) GIS
7 2 (1.74%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.87%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 28 (24.35%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.48%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) JUnit
3 4 (3.48%) Mockito
4 3 (2.61%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.74%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) Gradle
6 1 (0.87%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.87%) Maven
6 1 (0.87%) MLflow
6 1 (0.87%) NUnit
6 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.87%) Subversion
6 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.87%) Vite
General
1 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.48%) Finance
3 25 (21.74%) Banking
4 13 (11.30%) Investment Banking
4 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.83%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.96%) Marketing
7 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.35%) Local Government
9 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Automotive
10 2 (1.74%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.74%) Publishing
11 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.87%) Games
11 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Law
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (64.35%) Developer
2 31 (26.96%) Web Developer
3 21 (18.26%) Senior
4 18 (15.65%) Java Developer
5 16 (13.91%) Backend Developer
6 12 (10.43%) Java Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Software Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) Senior Developer
8 10 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (7.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (6.96%) IAM Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Java Software Developer
10 8 (6.96%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.22%) Architect
11 6 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.35%) Applications Support
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (38.26%) CSS
1 44 (38.26%) HTML
2 22 (19.13%) React
3 20 (17.39%) .NET
4 15 (13.04%) AngularJS
5 14 (12.17%) Spring
6 13 (11.30%) REST
7 11 (9.57%) HTML5
8 10 (8.70%) OAuth
9 9 (7.83%) .NET Framework
9 9 (7.83%) CSS3
9 9 (7.83%) JSON
10 7 (6.09%) .NET Core
10 7 (6.09%) jQuery
10 7 (6.09%) Node.js
10 7 (6.09%) RESTful
10 7 (6.09%) RxJava
10 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.09%) Derivative
2 7 (6.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.61%) Genomics
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.74%) Life Science
6 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.87%) CMDB
6 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.87%) Mashup
6 1 (0.87%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.70%) Unix
2 5 (4.35%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.74%) Windows
5 1 (0.87%) MVS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (58.26%) Agile
2 37 (32.17%) CI/CD
3 34 (29.57%) DevOps
4 32 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (19.13%) Software Engineering
7 21 (18.26%) User Experience
8 19 (16.52%) Microservices
9 17 (14.78%) Responsive Web Design
10 16 (13.91%) API Integration
11 15 (13.04%) AI
11 15 (13.04%) Front End Development
12 14 (12.17%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.17%) UX Design
13 13 (11.30%) Scrum
14 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.70%) Identity Management
14 10 (8.70%) Load Balancing
15 9 (7.83%) MVC
15 9 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.65%) JavaScript
2 30 (26.09%) Java
3 27 (23.48%) TypeScript
4 23 (20.00%) SQL
5 17 (14.78%) C#
6 8 (6.96%) Python
7 6 (5.22%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.35%) PHP
9 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.74%) Bash
10 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.87%) Bicep
11 1 (0.87%) JCL
11 1 (0.87%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Degree
2 10 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.74%) CCNA
3 2 (1.74%) CCNP
3 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) Accessibility
1 14 (12.17%) QA
2 11 (9.57%) WCAG
3 5 (4.35%) SLA
4 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.87%) WAI
5 1 (0.87%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.87%) Ansible
2 1 (0.87%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Google
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) Adobe
4 5 (4.35%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.74%) ESRI
6 2 (1.74%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.87%) BMC
7 1 (0.87%) CODA
7 1 (0.87%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.87%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.87%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.87%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.87%) Pardot
7 1 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk