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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 276 329
Rank change year-on-year -139 +53 -63
Contract jobs citing Web Development 104 265 269
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.98% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 181 198
10th Percentile £333 £298 £350
25th Percentile £410 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -7.83% -6.47%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £643
90th Percentile £718 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £29.82 £39.58 £14.40
25th Percentile £33.31 £40.46 £16.51
Median hourly rate £40.72 £41.91 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +140.59% -76.77%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.33 £34.15
90th Percentile £50.19 £63.38 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £41.91 £17.42
% change year-on-year -28.42% +140.59% -76.55%

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 26,674 26,919 35,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.55% 86.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,953 16,411 24,057
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,726 969 1,471
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.81 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%

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 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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 -88 47 £500 -2.20% 253
North of England -59 18 £650 +38.30% 171
South East -3 15 £575 +22.67% 210
Yorkshire -36 14 £650 +36.84% 58
South West +12 8 £648 +44.00% 58
North East -10 5 - - 22
East of England -26 5 £531 +53.21% 70
Midlands -78 4 £410 -25.45% 132
East Midlands -17 3 £410 +15.17% 53
North West -33 2 £575 +31.43% 95
West Midlands -71 1 £700 +25.96% 77
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 4 (3.85%) Apache
2 3 (2.88%) CMS
3 2 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.92%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.96%) Drupal
4 1 (0.96%) HCL Domino
4 1 (0.96%) IIS
4 1 (0.96%) Moodle
4 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.92%) Trello
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.15%) Azure
2 16 (15.38%) AWS
3 13 (12.50%) GitHub
4 11 (10.58%) GCP
5 7 (6.73%) Figma
5 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.81%) SaaS
7 4 (3.85%) npm
7 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.88%) Cloud Run
8 3 (2.88%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.88%) Yarn
9 2 (1.92%) Asana
9 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.92%) Commercetools
9 2 (1.92%) Contentful
9 2 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.96%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.96%) Intranet
2 1 (0.96%) SSL
2 1 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.46%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.58%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.88%) Mixpanel
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.92%) GIS
6 2 (1.92%) MySQL
6 2 (1.92%) Redis
7 1 (0.96%) DB2
7 1 (0.96%) Power BI
7 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (27.88%) Git
2 10 (9.62%) Mockito
3 7 (6.73%) webpack
4 5 (4.81%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.85%) JIRA
5 4 (3.85%) MSI
5 4 (3.85%) Robot Framework
5 4 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.88%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) Gradle
7 2 (1.92%) Mocha
7 2 (1.92%) Selenium
7 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.92%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (1.92%) Vite
8 1 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.96%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.96%) GitLab
8 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.58%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Marketing
5 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 5 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Automotive
8 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Front Office
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (74.04%) Developer
2 28 (26.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (16.35%) Senior
4 16 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 13 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 12 (11.54%) Web Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Python Developer
8 10 (9.62%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 10 (9.62%) React Developer
9 9 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 3 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) Java Web Developer
12 3 (2.88%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (2.88%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (43.27%) CSS
2 43 (41.35%) HTML
2 43 (41.35%) React
3 21 (20.19%) RESTful
4 17 (16.35%) Node.js
5 13 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 13 (12.50%) Vue
6 12 (11.54%) FastAPI
7 11 (10.58%) JAX-RS
7 11 (10.58%) Jest
8 10 (9.62%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (9.62%) Kafka
8 10 (9.62%) Next.js
8 10 (9.62%) REST
9 9 (8.65%) .NET
9 9 (8.65%) Spring
10 8 (7.69%) pytest
11 7 (6.73%) Ruby on Rails
12 5 (4.81%) HTML5
12 5 (4.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.85%) PKI
3 3 (2.88%) Derivative
3 3 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.88%) Genomics
3 3 (2.88%) Life Science
3 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.92%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.92%) Social Media
5 1 (0.96%) AS400
5 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.96%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.96%) Equities
5 1 (0.96%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.96%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.35%) Linux
2 11 (10.58%) Mac OS X
2 11 (10.58%) Unix
3 8 (7.69%) Windows
4 6 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.81%) CentOS
6 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.96%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) Agile
2 41 (39.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 24 (23.08%) DevOps
5 22 (21.15%) Microservices
5 22 (21.15%) TDD
5 22 (21.15%) Test Automation
6 21 (20.19%) User Experience
7 20 (19.23%) Code Quality
7 20 (19.23%) Front End Development
8 19 (18.27%) Containerisation
9 18 (17.31%) Computer Science
10 17 (16.35%) Responsive Web Design
11 14 (13.46%) BDD
12 13 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (12.50%) UX Design
13 12 (11.54%) AI
14 11 (10.58%) Software Engineering
14 11 (10.58%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 49 (47.12%) JavaScript
2 38 (36.54%) Python
3 32 (30.77%) SQL
4 31 (29.81%) Java
5 28 (26.92%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.65%) PHP
6 9 (8.65%) Ruby
7 8 (7.69%) C#
8 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.88%) Go
9 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.92%) Perl
10 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.96%) C++
11 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.96%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.96%) RPG
11 1 (0.96%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 24 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.12%) Degree
3 18 (17.31%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.73%) QA
3 4 (3.85%) WCAG
4 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.92%) GDPR
6 1 (0.96%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (21.15%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.73%) Argo
3 4 (3.85%) Ansible
3 4 (3.85%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) WMI
4 2 (1.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.96%) Consul
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.46%) Google
3 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.81%) Oracle
5 4 (3.85%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.85%) VMware
6 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.92%) Adobe
7 2 (1.92%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.92%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.92%) Marketo
7 2 (1.92%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.92%) SAP
7 2 (1.92%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.96%) IBM
8 1 (0.96%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.96%) Salesforce