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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 297 306
Rank change year-on-year -111 +9 -45
Contract jobs citing Web Development 109 247 317
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.89% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 166 231
10th Percentile £321 £299 £360
25th Percentile £414 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% -10.89% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £656
90th Percentile £722 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.05% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £42.51 - £14.40
25th Percentile £43.88 £42.25 £16.51
Median hourly rate £47.13 £42.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% +143.97% -76.55%
75th Percentile £50.13 £55.75 £34.15
90th Percentile £51.35 £63.55 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £17.42
% change year-on-year -28.24% +143.97% -76.33%

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 25,696 27,604 36,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.48% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,288 16,802 25,341
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 1,086 1,495
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.03 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £44.78 £67.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.43 £74.47 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.31% -9.60% +35.03%

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 October 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 18 October 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 -55 53 £520 +0.05% 191
North of England -42 18 £650 +48.57% 156
South East +3 14 £575 +22.67% 140
Yorkshire -30 14 £650 +36.84% 57
South West +19 8 £648 +67.23% 40
North East +1 5 - - 18
East of England -17 5 £531 +53.21% 58
Midlands -55 5 £410 -26.23% 88
East Midlands -8 4 £368 +3.23% 39
North West -19 2 £575 +109.09% 83
West Midlands -59 1 £700 +24.67% 49
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 7 (6.42%) CMS
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.92%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.92%) Drupal
5 1 (0.92%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.92%) Kentico
5 1 (0.92%) Moodle
5 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.92%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.83%) Trello
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.10%) Azure
2 16 (14.68%) AWS
3 13 (11.93%) GitHub
4 11 (10.09%) GCP
5 7 (6.42%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.50%) Figma
7 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.59%) SaaS
8 4 (3.67%) npm
9 3 (2.75%) Cloud Run
9 3 (2.75%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.75%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.75%) Yarn
10 2 (1.83%) Asana
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.83%) Commercetools
10 2 (1.83%) Contentful
10 2 (1.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (0.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.92%) Intranet
2 1 (0.92%) SSL
2 1 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) MongoDB
1 11 (10.09%) NoSQL
1 11 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.75%) Mixpanel
3 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.83%) GIS
4 2 (1.83%) MySQL
4 2 (1.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.92%) DB2
5 1 (0.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (23.85%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) Mockito
3 7 (6.42%) webpack
4 5 (4.59%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.59%) JIRA
4 5 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.67%) Maven
5 4 (3.67%) MSI
5 4 (3.67%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.75%) Selenium
7 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.83%) GitLab
7 2 (1.83%) Gradle
7 2 (1.83%) Mocha
7 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.83%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (1.83%) Vite
8 1 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
General
1 36 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.09%) Finance
4 8 (7.34%) Marketing
5 6 (5.50%) Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
9 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Automotive
10 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 82 (75.23%) Developer
2 26 (23.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (15.60%) Senior
4 16 (14.68%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.84%) Java Developer
6 13 (11.93%) Web Developer
7 10 (9.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (8.26%) Python Developer
8 9 (8.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 8 (7.34%) React Developer
10 4 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Angular Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Java Web Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.75%) Salesforce Developer
11 3 (2.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (2.75%) SQL Developer
11 3 (2.75%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.95%) CSS
1 49 (44.95%) HTML
2 43 (39.45%) React
3 18 (16.51%) Node.js
3 18 (16.51%) RESTful
4 14 (12.84%) AngularJS
5 13 (11.93%) REST
5 13 (11.93%) Vue
6 11 (10.09%) JAX-RS
7 10 (9.17%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (9.17%) FastAPI
7 10 (9.17%) Jest
7 10 (9.17%) Kafka
7 10 (9.17%) Next.js
8 9 (8.26%) .NET
8 9 (8.26%) Spring
9 7 (6.42%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (4.59%) HTML5
10 5 (4.59%) jQuery
10 5 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.67%) PKI
3 3 (2.75%) Derivative
3 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.75%) Genomics
3 3 (2.75%) Life Science
3 3 (2.75%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.83%) Social Media
5 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.92%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.60%) Linux
2 11 (10.09%) Mac OS X
2 11 (10.09%) Unix
3 8 (7.34%) Windows
4 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.59%) CentOS
6 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) Agile
2 38 (34.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (23.85%) DevOps
5 23 (21.10%) Microservices
5 23 (21.10%) Test Automation
6 22 (20.18%) CI/CD
7 21 (19.27%) User Experience
8 20 (18.35%) Computer Science
9 19 (17.43%) Front End Development
9 19 (17.43%) TDD
10 17 (15.60%) Responsive Web Design
11 16 (14.68%) Code Quality
11 16 (14.68%) Containerisation
12 14 (12.84%) UX Design
13 13 (11.93%) AI
13 13 (11.93%) BDD
13 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
14 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
14 11 (10.09%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.46%) JavaScript
2 35 (32.11%) Python
3 33 (30.28%) SQL
4 30 (27.52%) Java
5 26 (23.85%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.26%) C#
6 9 (8.26%) Ruby
7 8 (7.34%) PHP
8 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.75%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.75%) Go
9 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.83%) Perl
10 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.92%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.92%) RPG
11 1 (0.92%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 26 (23.85%) Degree
1 26 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.42%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) WCAG
4 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.92%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Argo
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
3 4 (3.67%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) WMI
4 2 (1.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.92%) Consul
Vendors
1 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.84%) Google
3 7 (6.42%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.50%) Oracle
5 4 (3.67%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.67%) VMware
6 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.75%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.83%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.83%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.83%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.83%) OutSystems
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
8 1 (0.92%) Adobe
8 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.92%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.92%) IBM