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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 301 327
Rank change year-on-year -177 +26 -21
Contract jobs citing Web Development 91 196 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.78% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.86% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 131 171
10th Percentile £359 £355 £250
25th Percentile £417 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.18% -16.24%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £597
90th Percentile £668 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £468
% change year-on-year -9.52% +12.18% -12.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £27.50 £16.69
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +85.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £37.20 £41.91 £60.94
90th Percentile - £42.56 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £37.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.19% +76.19% -45.45%

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 31,372 22,802 33,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.81% 90.52% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,079 14,552 21,849
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,949 811 2,155
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.58
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.82
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -102 49 £500 -14.53% 77
North of England -74 18 £475 +1.06% 102
South East -48 11 £500 +22.25% 96
North West -46 10 £417 -9.46% 45
Yorkshire -64 6 £500 -11.82% 42
South West -27 4 £650 +73.33% 49
North East -9 3 - - 19
East of England -27 1 - - 54
East Midlands -32 1 £325 -6.68% 40
Midlands -92 1 £325 -31.58% 62
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 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.20%) CMS
1 2 (2.20%) WordPress
2 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) Kentico
2 1 (1.10%) Moodle
2 1 (1.10%) Mule
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.26%) Azure
2 18 (19.78%) AWS
3 15 (16.48%) GitHub
4 14 (15.38%) GCP
5 8 (8.79%) Figma
5 8 (8.79%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.30%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.30%) SaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.10%) Commercetools
9 1 (1.10%) Contentful
9 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.10%) npm
9 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.10%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) DNS
1 4 (4.40%) HTTP
1 4 (4.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) VLAN
2 1 (1.10%) VoIP
2 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.20%) Mixpanel
4 2 (2.20%) Redis
4 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.10%) GIS
5 1 (1.10%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) Mockito
3 4 (4.40%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.20%) Mocha
5 2 (2.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.10%) GitLab
6 1 (1.10%) JIRA
6 1 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 34 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 16 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Banking
6 4 (4.40%) Marketing
6 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Front Office
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Publishing
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (68.13%) Developer
2 20 (21.98%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.89%) Software Developer
4 9 (9.89%) Web Developer
5 8 (8.79%) .NET Developer
5 8 (8.79%) C# Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Python Developer
5 8 (8.79%) React Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 8 (8.79%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Angular Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) SQL Developer
9 4 (4.40%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (4.40%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (43.96%) HTML
2 32 (35.16%) CSS
2 32 (35.16%) React
3 25 (27.47%) AngularJS
4 16 (17.58%) .NET
5 15 (16.48%) Node.js
6 11 (12.09%) Spring
7 10 (10.99%) FastAPI
7 10 (10.99%) Jest
7 10 (10.99%) RESTful
8 8 (8.79%) JAX-RS
8 8 (8.79%) Kafka
8 8 (8.79%) Next.js
8 8 (8.79%) Vue
9 7 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (7.69%) pytest
9 7 (7.69%) REST
9 7 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (5.49%) HTML5
10 5 (5.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Genomics
4 3 (3.30%) Life Science
4 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) Derivative
6 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.10%) SCORM
6 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.48%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Unix
3 9 (9.89%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.20%) Android
4 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.20%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.85%) Agile
2 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
3 33 (36.26%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (35.16%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (30.77%) DevOps
6 22 (24.18%) Containerisation
7 21 (23.08%) Microservices
7 21 (23.08%) TDD
8 19 (20.88%) Code Quality
9 15 (16.48%) Test Automation
9 15 (16.48%) User Experience
10 14 (15.38%) Front End Development
10 14 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
11 12 (13.19%) BDD
12 10 (10.99%) Pair Programming
12 10 (10.99%) Web Design
13 9 (9.89%) Continuous Deployment
13 9 (9.89%) Data Visualisation
13 9 (9.89%) UX Design
13 9 (9.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 35 (38.46%) Python
3 28 (30.77%) Java
4 27 (29.67%) TypeScript
5 26 (28.57%) SQL
6 19 (20.88%) C#
7 8 (8.79%) PHP
8 7 (7.69%) Ruby
9 4 (4.40%) Bash
10 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.20%) C++
10 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.10%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.10%) Go
11 1 (1.10%) Groovy
11 1 (1.10%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) Degree
4 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CCNA
6 1 (1.10%) CCNP
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.59%) WCAG
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.69%) Argo
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.10%) Consul
5 1 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Google
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.30%) Adobe
3 3 (3.30%) Netskope
3 3 (3.30%) Optimizely
3 3 (3.30%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.20%) Amplitude
4 2 (2.20%) Hotjar
4 2 (2.20%) Marketo
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.10%) ESRI
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) SAP