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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 368 282
Rank change year-on-year -128 -86 +7
Contract jobs citing Web Development 126 143 277
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.51% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.57% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 106 211
10th Percentile £363 £325 £300
25th Percentile £423 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £635 £600 £644
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £504 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile - £38.56 £38.65
25th Percentile £20.31 £39.70 £42.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +0.74% +116.07%
75th Percentile £43.03 £48.10 £68.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £50.53 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +116.07%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 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 65 £544 +4.47% 131
North of England -52 17 £469 +49.76% 70
South East -78 16 £375 -27.04% 58
East of England -9 11 £505 -22.31% 36
North West -41 9 £450 +43.77% 34
Midlands -47 9 £425 +3.66% 40
West Midlands -44 8 £388 -44.64% 17
South West -51 8 £505 +36.49% 26
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 28
East Midlands -13 1 £500 +36.61% 23
North East - 1 - - 9
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 (5.56%) CMS
2 4 (3.17%) Confluence
3 3 (2.38%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.38%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.38%) WordPress
4 2 (1.59%) Drupal
4 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.79%) Liferay
5 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.79%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) ContrOCC
2 4 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.19%) Azure
2 22 (17.46%) GCP
3 11 (8.73%) AWS
4 10 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.97%) Figma
7 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.17%) GitHub
8 3 (2.38%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.59%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.59%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.79%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.79%) LangSmith
10 1 (0.79%) npm
10 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.52%) Firewall
1 12 (9.52%) VPN
2 7 (5.56%) DNS
2 7 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.97%) HTTP
4 4 (3.17%) VLAN
5 2 (1.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.94%) MongoDB
1 10 (7.94%) Relational Database
1 10 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.76%) MySQL
2 6 (4.76%) Power BI
3 5 (3.97%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.97%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.38%) GIS
5 3 (2.38%) Tableau
6 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.59%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Git
2 9 (7.14%) Mockito
3 7 (5.56%) Browser DevTools
3 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.17%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) JUnit
5 2 (1.59%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.79%) Gradle
6 1 (0.79%) MLflow
6 1 (0.79%) NUnit
6 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.79%) Subversion
6 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 34 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.19%) Finance
3 26 (20.63%) Banking
4 22 (17.46%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.56%) Marketing
7 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.97%) Local Government
9 2 (1.59%) Automotive
9 2 (1.59%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.59%) Publishing
10 1 (0.79%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.79%) Games
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (64.29%) Developer
2 25 (19.84%) Web Developer
3 23 (18.25%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.67%) Senior
5 14 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 14 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 12 (9.52%) .NET Developer
7 11 (8.73%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.73%) Software Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) Angular Developer
8 10 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.94%) Java Engineer
9 9 (7.14%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.35%) Applications Support
10 8 (6.35%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (5.56%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (36.51%) HTML
2 36 (28.57%) CSS
3 30 (23.81%) .NET
4 26 (20.63%) AngularJS
5 15 (11.90%) React
6 14 (11.11%) OAuth
6 14 (11.11%) Spring
7 12 (9.52%) REST
8 11 (8.73%) Kafka
9 9 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (7.14%) JAX-RS
10 8 (6.35%) RxJava
11 7 (5.56%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.56%) .NET Framework
11 7 (5.56%) jQuery
11 7 (5.56%) JSON
11 7 (5.56%) RESTful
12 6 (4.76%) HTML5
12 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.35%) Derivative
2 8 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.38%) Genomics
5 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.59%) Life Science
6 1 (0.79%) CMDB
6 1 (0.79%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.79%) Mashup
6 1 (0.79%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.70%) Unix
2 11 (8.73%) Linux
2 11 (8.73%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) MVS
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.73%) Agile
2 46 (36.51%) CI/CD
3 45 (35.71%) DevOps
4 39 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (21.43%) Microservices
7 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
8 19 (15.08%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.90%) AI
10 15 (11.90%) API Integration
10 15 (11.90%) User Experience
11 13 (10.32%) TDD
12 12 (9.52%) BDD
13 11 (8.73%) Continuous Deployment
13 11 (8.73%) Pair Programming
13 11 (8.73%) Scrum
13 11 (8.73%) Web Design
14 10 (7.94%) UX Design
15 9 (7.14%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 35 (27.78%) Java
3 33 (26.19%) SQL
4 27 (21.43%) C#
5 25 (19.84%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.70%) Python
7 7 (5.56%) Bash
8 6 (4.76%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.17%) PHP
9 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.79%) Bicep
11 1 (0.79%) JCL
11 1 (0.79%) REXX
11 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.52%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) CCNA
4 4 (3.17%) CCNP
4 4 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.32%) QA
2 9 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.76%) WCAG
4 5 (3.97%) SLA
5 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.79%) WAI
6 1 (0.79%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 14 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.79%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Control-M
2 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.35%) Google
3 7 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (3.97%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.38%) ESRI
5 3 (2.38%) Netskope
5 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.38%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.59%) Adobe
6 2 (1.59%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.79%) BMC
7 1 (0.79%) CODA
7 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.79%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.79%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.79%) Pardot
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Splunk