Web Development Contracts in England

Web Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 295 302
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -62
Contract jobs citing Web Development 183 267 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.83% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 195 292
10th Percentile £354 £263 £325
25th Percentile £409 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £691
90th Percentile £788 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £508 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.84% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £26.15 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £19.07 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.59 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% +70.45% -57.07%
75th Percentile £43.39 £58.88 £23.00
90th Percentile £43.77 £77.00 £42.20
UK median hourly rate £37.80 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +70.45% -56.00%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development in England.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -25 105 £590 +12.29% 176
North of England +17 24 £470 +1.62% 151
North West +27 21 £470 +10.59% 82
South West +56 17 £370 -22.11% 57
South East +45 17 £513 +18.50% 134
Midlands +24 16 £423 +111.25% 91
West Midlands +19 12 £470 +241.82% 53
East Midlands +7 4 £318 -24.22% 34
North East +2 3 £470 - 23
Yorkshire -3 3 £470 +1.62% 46
East of England +11 1 £575 +43.75% 70
Web Development
UK

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.28%) CMS
3 4 (2.19%) Drupal
3 4 (2.19%) WordPress
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.55%) Kentico
5 1 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.09%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.19%) Magento
3 3 (1.64%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.14%) Azure
2 29 (15.85%) AWS
3 26 (14.21%) Power Platform
4 25 (13.66%) PowerApps
5 24 (13.11%) Power Automate
6 17 (9.29%) GCP
7 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (6.56%) npm
9 11 (6.01%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (6.01%) Yarn
10 10 (5.46%) GitHub
11 9 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.92%) Figma
12 8 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.28%) Azure Functions
13 6 (3.28%) Serverless
14 5 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) Intranet
2 2 (1.09%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
3 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.57%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.73%) MySQL
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.09%) Power Query
8 2 (1.09%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.55%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.55%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 43 (23.50%) Git
2 11 (6.01%) webpack
3 6 (3.28%) Subversion
4 5 (2.73%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.19%) Jasmine
5 4 (2.19%) JIRA
5 4 (2.19%) Mocha
5 4 (2.19%) Selenium
6 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.64%) Grunt
6 3 (1.64%) gulp
6 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.64%) Maven
7 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.09%) Codeception
7 2 (1.09%) GitLab
7 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.09%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.86%) Finance
3 28 (15.30%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.48%) Banking
5 18 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.84%) Investment Banking
5 18 (9.84%) Marketing
6 10 (5.46%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.37%) Electronics
7 8 (4.37%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.64%) Front Office
9 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Automotive
10 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.09%) Local Government
10 2 (1.09%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (71.04%) Developer
2 40 (21.86%) Senior
3 31 (16.94%) Senior Developer
4 30 (16.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (9.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 17 (9.29%) Software Developer
7 16 (8.74%) Web Developer
8 15 (8.20%) UI Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 13 (7.10%) Senior UI Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Architect
11 11 (6.01%) Azure Developer
11 11 (6.01%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Lead
13 9 (4.92%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.92%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 8 (4.37%) Applications Support
14 8 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (57.38%) CSS
2 92 (50.27%) HTML
3 56 (30.60%) React
4 41 (22.40%) .NET
5 25 (13.66%) RESTful
6 24 (13.11%) .NET Framework
7 22 (12.02%) AngularJS
8 19 (10.38%) Node.js
9 17 (9.29%) ASP.NET Web API
9 17 (9.29%) WCF
10 16 (8.74%) Vue
11 15 (8.20%) jQuery
12 14 (7.65%) ASP.NET
13 13 (7.10%) JSON
13 13 (7.10%) Next.js
13 13 (7.10%) REST
14 12 (6.56%) Web Services
15 11 (6.01%) SPFx
15 11 (6.01%) XML
16 10 (5.46%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.74%) Derivative
2 14 (7.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.01%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.28%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.19%) Wiki
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.64%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.09%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.55%) Social Media
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.28%) Linux
2 4 (2.19%) Unix
3 3 (1.64%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.17%) Agile
2 50 (27.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (23.50%) CI/CD
4 39 (21.31%) User Experience
5 33 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.94%) Software Engineering
6 31 (16.94%) TDD
7 29 (15.85%) DevOps
8 25 (13.66%) Front End Development
8 25 (13.66%) Test Automation
9 23 (12.57%) Computer Science
10 21 (11.48%) Analytics
11 20 (10.93%) UX Design
12 19 (10.38%) Scrum
13 18 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 18 (9.84%) CRM
13 18 (9.84%) MVC
14 16 (8.74%) Design Patterns
14 16 (8.74%) OO
15 15 (8.20%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 111 (60.66%) JavaScript
2 53 (28.96%) TypeScript
3 43 (23.50%) C#
4 40 (21.86%) SQL
5 31 (16.94%) Python
6 26 (14.21%) Java
7 15 (8.20%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.01%) PHP
9 7 (3.83%) C++
10 6 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.73%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.64%) RPG
12 3 (1.64%) Rust
13 2 (1.09%) Bash
13 2 (1.09%) Scala
13 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.55%) Ada
14 1 (0.55%) Go
14 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (15.85%) Degree
2 18 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.73%) MCPD
6 5 (2.73%) MCSD
6 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.55%) CISA
9 1 (0.55%) CISM
9 1 (0.55%) CISSP
9 1 (0.55%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.84%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.92%) QA
3 7 (3.83%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) MiFID
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) PERC
5 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (11.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.37%) Terraform
3 2 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 34 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Google
3 11 (6.01%) Atlassian
4 9 (4.92%) SAP
5 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.73%) Adobe
6 5 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.64%) Oracle
7 3 (1.64%) Zend
8 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.55%) Databricks
8 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.55%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.55%) Screaming Frog
8 1 (0.55%) Siemens
8 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.55%) Sybase
8 1 (0.55%) Veracode