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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 265 334
Rank change year-on-year -202 +69 -32
Contract jobs citing Web Development 81 234 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.88% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.98% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 154 166
10th Percentile £310 £330 £305
25th Percentile £384 £409 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +8.68% -20.83%
75th Percentile £649 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £508 £475
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% -14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - £26.15 £14.48
25th Percentile £27.50 £27.50 £17.22
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +85.71% -45.45%
75th Percentile £37.20 £41.91 £26.65
90th Percentile - £42.56 £41.52
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% +85.71% -61.82%

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 28,450 23,808 32,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.33% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,222 14,593 21,730
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,765 770 1,701
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.01 £63.29
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -108 29 £500 -13.04% 76
North of England -63 23 £575 +22.34% 122
Yorkshire -48 16 £650 +15.76% 57
South East -29 14 £438 +6.97% 164
North East -13 5 - - 23
North West -49 5 £358 -23.01% 44
South West -14 4 £650 +23.81% 66
East of England -30 3 £413 +10.00% 96
East Midlands -31 1 £325 -8.71% 39
Midlands -95 1 £325 -40.91% 64
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 (2.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.47%) CMS
1 2 (2.47%) WordPress
2 1 (1.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) Kentico
2 1 (1.23%) Moodle
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.23%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) Azure
2 14 (17.28%) AWS
3 11 (13.58%) GitHub
4 10 (12.35%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) Figma
5 7 (8.64%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.70%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.70%) SaaS
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.47%) Commercetools
8 2 (2.47%) Contentful
8 2 (2.47%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.47%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.35%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.47%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.47%) Redis
6 1 (1.23%) GIS
6 1 (1.23%) MySQL
6 1 (1.23%) Power BI
6 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (28.40%) Git
2 11 (13.58%) Mockito
3 3 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.70%) webpack
4 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.47%) Maven
4 2 (2.47%) Mocha
4 2 (2.47%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (2.47%) Vite
5 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Gradle
5 1 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.64%) Finance
4 5 (6.17%) Marketing
4 5 (6.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (70.37%) Developer
2 21 (25.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (18.52%) Senior
4 14 (17.28%) Senior Developer
5 13 (16.05%) Java Developer
6 12 (14.81%) Web Developer
7 10 (12.35%) Python Developer
8 9 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 9 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (9.88%) React Developer
10 6 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Lead
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
12 2 (2.47%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (2.47%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (2.47%) Lecturer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (43.21%) React
2 29 (35.80%) CSS
3 28 (34.57%) HTML
4 15 (18.52%) RESTful
5 14 (17.28%) Node.js
6 12 (14.81%) AngularJS
6 12 (14.81%) JAX-RS
7 11 (13.58%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (13.58%) FastAPI
7 11 (13.58%) Jest
7 11 (13.58%) Kafka
7 11 (13.58%) Spring
8 10 (12.35%) Next.js
9 8 (9.88%) pytest
9 8 (9.88%) Vue
10 7 (8.64%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (7.41%) REST
12 5 (6.17%) .NET
12 5 (6.17%) GraphQL
12 5 (6.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.70%) Genomics
3 3 (3.70%) Life Science
3 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Social Media
5 1 (1.23%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.23%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.23%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.22%) Linux
2 16 (19.75%) Unix
3 12 (14.81%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.70%) Windows
5 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (51.85%) Agile
2 30 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (35.80%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (28.40%) CI/CD
4 23 (28.40%) Microservices
5 22 (27.16%) Code Quality
5 22 (27.16%) Containerisation
5 22 (27.16%) TDD
6 18 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 17 (20.99%) DevOps
8 15 (18.52%) BDD
8 15 (18.52%) Front End Development
8 15 (18.52%) Responsive Web Design
8 15 (18.52%) User Experience
9 12 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
9 12 (14.81%) Pair Programming
9 12 (14.81%) Web Design
10 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
10 10 (12.35%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (12.35%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) JavaScript
2 31 (38.27%) Python
3 28 (34.57%) Java
4 22 (27.16%) TypeScript
5 16 (19.75%) SQL
6 9 (11.11%) Ruby
7 8 (9.88%) PHP
8 6 (7.41%) C#
9 3 (3.70%) Go
10 2 (2.47%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.47%) C++
11 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.28%) Degree
2 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.41%) WCAG
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.47%) GDPR
5 1 (1.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (30.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.64%) Argo
3 4 (4.94%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Google
2 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.94%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.47%) Adobe
4 2 (2.47%) Amplitude
4 2 (2.47%) Hotjar
4 2 (2.47%) Marketo
4 2 (2.47%) OneTrust
4 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.47%) SAP
4 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow