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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 280 331
Rank change year-on-year -157 +51 -24
Contract jobs citing Web Development 96 243 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.84% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.95% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 165 171
10th Percentile £323 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% -14.58%
75th Percentile £648 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile - £39.58 £14.03
25th Percentile £27.50 £40.46 £16.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +141.70% -68.47%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £22.31
90th Percentile - £42.78 £38.57
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.34
% change year-on-year -19.83% +141.70% -71.69%

All Process and 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 27,932 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.81% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,758 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.90 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -89 40 £510 -10.05% 72
North of England -61 24 £575 +22.34% 105
Yorkshire -41 15 £650 +15.76% 46
South East -29 13 £500 +22.25% 100
North West -38 7 £417 -9.46% 46
North East -6 5 - - 16
South West -10 4 £650 +23.81% 23
East of England -31 4 £413 +10.00% 54
Midlands -88 3 £410 -25.45% 70
East Midlands -19 2 £368 +3.23% 29
West Midlands -79 1 £700 +24.67% 41
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 3 (3.13%) CMS
2 2 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) HCL Domino
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) Moodle
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.08%) Trello
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.67%) AWS
1 16 (16.67%) Azure
2 11 (11.46%) GitHub
3 10 (10.42%) GCP
4 8 (8.33%) Figma
5 7 (7.29%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.17%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.13%) Commercetools
7 3 (3.13%) Contentful
7 3 (3.13%) Google Analytics
7 3 (3.13%) npm
7 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.13%) Yarn
8 2 (2.08%) Asana
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
1 1 (1.04%) Intranet
1 1 (1.04%) SSL
1 1 (1.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.13%) Mixpanel
6 2 (2.08%) Redis
7 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.04%) DB2
7 1 (1.04%) GIS
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL
7 1 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (28.13%) Git
2 11 (11.46%) Mockito
3 7 (7.29%) webpack
4 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.08%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) Maven
5 2 (2.08%) Mocha
5 2 (2.08%) Selenium
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.08%) Vite
6 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.04%) GitLab
6 1 (1.04%) Gradle
6 1 (1.04%) MSI
6 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.50%) Finance
2 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.29%) Marketing
4 5 (5.21%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Automotive
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 67 (69.79%) Developer
2 22 (22.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (17.71%) Senior
4 16 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 13 (13.54%) Java Developer
6 12 (12.50%) Web Developer
7 11 (11.46%) Python Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 9 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.33%) React Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Senior UI Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) UI Developer
12 2 (2.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) Lecturer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (40.63%) React
2 36 (37.50%) CSS
3 33 (34.38%) HTML
4 15 (15.63%) RESTful
5 14 (14.58%) Node.js
6 12 (12.50%) JAX-RS
7 11 (11.46%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (11.46%) FastAPI
7 11 (11.46%) Kafka
7 11 (11.46%) Vue
8 10 (10.42%) AngularJS
8 10 (10.42%) Jest
8 10 (10.42%) Spring
9 9 (9.38%) Next.js
10 8 (8.33%) pytest
10 8 (8.33%) REST
11 7 (7.29%) Ruby on Rails
12 6 (6.25%) .NET
13 5 (5.21%) GraphQL
13 5 (5.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.13%) Derivative
3 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.13%) Genomics
3 3 (3.13%) Life Science
3 3 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.13%) Social Media
4 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) AS400
5 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.04%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.04%) PKI
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Linux
2 16 (16.67%) Unix
3 12 (12.50%) Mac OS X
4 5 (5.21%) Windows
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.08%) CentOS
7 1 (1.04%) Android
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.04%) Agile
2 34 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (34.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (23.96%) Microservices
4 23 (23.96%) TDD
5 22 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.92%) Containerisation
6 21 (21.88%) Code Quality
7 20 (20.83%) Test Automation
8 19 (19.79%) DevOps
9 18 (18.75%) User Experience
10 15 (15.63%) BDD
10 15 (15.63%) Front End Development
11 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
11 14 (14.58%) Responsive Web Design
12 12 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
12 12 (12.50%) Visualisation
12 12 (12.50%) Web Design
13 11 (11.46%) Data Visualisation
13 11 (11.46%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 36 (37.50%) Python
3 33 (34.38%) Java
4 25 (26.04%) TypeScript
5 23 (23.96%) SQL
6 10 (10.42%) PHP
7 9 (9.38%) Ruby
8 5 (5.21%) C#
9 3 (3.13%) Apex Code
9 3 (3.13%) Go
9 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.08%) C++
11 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.04%) LotusScript
11 1 (1.04%) RPG
11 1 (1.04%) RPG IV
11 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Degree
2 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.08%) PMP
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.21%) WCAG
3 4 (4.17%) QA
4 3 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.04%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) Argo
3 4 (4.17%) Grafana
4 3 (3.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.04%) Ansible
5 1 (1.04%) Consul
5 1 (1.04%) Terraform
5 1 (1.04%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Google
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.29%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.21%) Optimizely
5 3 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.13%) OneTrust
5 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.13%) SAP
5 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.08%) Adobe
6 2 (2.08%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.08%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.08%) Marketo
6 2 (2.08%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.04%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.04%) IBM
7 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.04%) VMware