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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 287 288
Rank change year-on-year -220 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Web Development 77 201 270
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.82% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.91% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 141 201
10th Percentile £349 £355 £263
25th Percentile £407 £409 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +6.84% -11.63%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £601
90th Percentile £608 £788 £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 6
10th Percentile - £26.38 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £30.07 £17.22
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.80 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +28.37% +40.91%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.73 £65.94
90th Percentile - £43.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% +25.81% +40.91%

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 33,593 22,172 32,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,515 14,589 21,312
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £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 2,076 879 2,200
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.30 £71.30
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £30.78 £33.31
% change year-on-year +19.27% -7.59% -7.48%

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 13 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 13 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 -130 41 £470 -15.16% 56
North of England -76 18 £488 +3.72% 49
North West -50 10 £417 -10.43% 17
South East -62 10 £350 -17.16% 66
Yorkshire -54 8 £500 +6.38% 22
East Midlands -35 2 £413 +4.70% 21
East of England -38 2 - - 29
Midlands -78 2 £413 -12.23% 38
North East -18 1 - - 10
South West -47 1 - - 28
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 (2.60%) CMS
1 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.60%) WordPress
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.30%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.30%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) Kentico
2 1 (1.30%) Mule
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.30%) SAS
2 1 (1.30%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) Azure
2 12 (15.58%) AWS
3 7 (9.09%) GCP
4 5 (6.49%) Figma
4 5 (6.49%) GitHub
5 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.30%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.30%) Contentful
7 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.30%) npm
7 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) DNS
1 7 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.49%) HTTP
3 4 (5.19%) Firewall
3 4 (5.19%) VLAN
3 4 (5.19%) VPN
4 2 (2.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.30%) GIS
4 1 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Power BI
4 1 (1.30%) Redis
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Mockito
2 7 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (5.19%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) JIRA
5 1 (1.30%) Maven
5 1 (1.30%) Mocha
5 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.30%) Front Office
8 1 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (66.23%) Developer
2 12 (15.58%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (15.58%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.99%) C# Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Software Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Senior Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Web Developer
5 8 (10.39%) .NET Developer
5 8 (10.39%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Angular Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Azure Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) React Developer
6 6 (7.79%) SQL Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Web Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) .NET Software Developer
7 5 (6.49%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (36.36%) HTML
2 19 (24.68%) CSS
3 18 (23.38%) .NET
3 18 (23.38%) AngularJS
4 16 (20.78%) React
5 9 (11.69%) JAX-RS
5 9 (11.69%) Kafka
5 9 (11.69%) REST
6 8 (10.39%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (7.79%) Jest
7 6 (7.79%) Node.js
7 6 (7.79%) RESTful
8 5 (6.49%) HTML5
8 5 (6.49%) Next.js
8 5 (6.49%) OAuth
9 4 (5.19%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.19%) CSS3
9 4 (5.19%) pytest
9 4 (5.19%) SAML
9 4 (5.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Derivative
4 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Linux
2 14 (18.18%) Unix
3 10 (12.99%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.90%) Windows
4 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.60%) Android
5 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.30%) MVS
6 1 (1.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) Agile
2 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (25.97%) DevOps
6 19 (24.68%) TDD
7 15 (19.48%) Responsive Web Design
8 14 (18.18%) Microservices
9 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
10 12 (15.58%) BDD
10 12 (15.58%) Front End Development
11 11 (14.29%) Pair Programming
12 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
12 10 (12.99%) Continuous Deployment
12 10 (12.99%) Web Design
13 9 (11.69%) User Experience
14 7 (9.09%) Code Quality
14 7 (9.09%) Visualisation
15 6 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (7.79%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) JavaScript
2 26 (33.77%) Python
3 23 (29.87%) SQL
4 21 (27.27%) C#
5 20 (25.97%) Java
6 16 (20.78%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.09%) Bash
7 7 (9.09%) PHP
8 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.60%) C++
8 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.30%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.30%) Groovy
9 1 (1.30%) JCL
9 1 (1.30%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.30%) REXX
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) CCNA
3 4 (5.19%) CCNP
3 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.90%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) WCAG
2 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (20.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Grafana
3 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.30%) Consul
4 1 (1.30%) Control-M
4 1 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.90%) Netskope
2 3 (3.90%) Zscaler
3 2 (2.60%) Adobe
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle
3 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.30%) BMC
4 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.30%) ESRI
4 1 (1.30%) Google
4 1 (1.30%) Marketo
4 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.30%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.30%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.30%) SAP
4 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.30%) Splunk