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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 260 293
Rank change year-on-year -131 +33 -43
Contract jobs citing Web Development 123 298 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.92% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.07% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 214 232
10th Percentile £325 £312 £351
25th Percentile £409 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £564
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -10.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £666
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £42.51 £38.05 £14.03
25th Percentile £43.88 £40.75 £16.17
Median hourly rate £47.13 £42.50 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% +145.10% -76.44%
75th Percentile £50.13 £49.25 £22.31
90th Percentile £51.35 £60.95 £47.87
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £17.34
% change year-on-year -28.24% +145.10% -76.44%

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 25,024 27,970 37,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.03% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,893 17,419 26,295
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,490 1,309 1,438
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £49.31 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -80 63 £510 -2.39% 178
South East +27 20 £516 -10.35% 172
North of England -24 19 £650 +36.84% 172
Yorkshire -24 12 £650 +36.84% 63
South West +24 8 £450 -5.26% 63
North West -11 6 £575 +109.09% 91
Midlands -50 6 £410 -26.23% 142
East Midlands -4 4 £366 -12.44% 59
East of England -17 4 £531 +41.67% 85
North East -3 3 - - 23
West Midlands -50 2 £700 +24.67% 82
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 7 (5.69%) CMS
2 6 (4.88%) Apache
3 3 (2.44%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Drupal
5 1 (0.81%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.81%) Kentico
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.81%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.63%) Trello
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Magento
1 3 (2.44%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.51%) Azure
2 11 (8.94%) AWS
3 8 (6.50%) npm
4 7 (5.69%) Figma
4 7 (5.69%) Yarn
5 5 (4.07%) GCP
6 4 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.25%) GitHub
6 4 (3.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.25%) SaaS
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.44%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.63%) Asana
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.63%) dbt
8 2 (1.63%) Serverless
8 2 (1.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) HTTP
1 3 (2.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.69%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.44%) Mixpanel
4 3 (2.44%) MySQL
4 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.63%) GIS
6 1 (0.81%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.81%) DB2
6 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Git
2 11 (8.94%) Mockito
2 11 (8.94%) webpack
3 5 (4.07%) JIRA
3 5 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (3.25%) MSI
4 4 (3.25%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.44%) Maven
5 3 (2.44%) Selenium
5 3 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.44%) Vite
6 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.63%) Gradle
6 2 (1.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 1 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.81%) GitLab
7 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.82%) Finance
3 14 (11.38%) Banking
3 14 (11.38%) Investment Banking
4 12 (9.76%) Marketing
5 11 (8.94%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Retail
8 3 (2.44%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Electronics
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 88 (71.54%) Developer
2 24 (19.51%) Senior
3 22 (17.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (16.26%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.82%) Web Developer
6 14 (11.38%) Java Developer
7 12 (9.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (7.32%) Python Developer
8 9 (7.32%) React Developer
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 8 (6.50%) UI Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Senior UI Developer
11 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 4 (3.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Angular Developer
12 4 (3.25%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Java Web Developer
12 4 (3.25%) Salesforce Developer
12 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (40.65%) CSS
2 42 (34.15%) HTML
3 41 (33.33%) React
4 17 (13.82%) .NET
4 17 (13.82%) Next.js
5 16 (13.01%) RESTful
6 14 (11.38%) REST
7 12 (9.76%) Node.js
8 11 (8.94%) Kafka
9 10 (8.13%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
9 10 (8.13%) JAX-RS
9 10 (8.13%) Vue
10 8 (6.50%) Web Services
11 7 (5.69%) .NET Framework
11 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET
11 7 (5.69%) FastAPI
12 6 (4.88%) Jest
13 5 (4.07%) .NET Core
13 5 (4.07%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Derivative
2 7 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.25%) N-Tier
3 4 (3.25%) PKI
4 3 (2.44%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.63%) Social Media
5 2 (1.63%) Wiki
6 1 (0.81%) AS400
6 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.81%) Equities
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.01%) Linux
2 11 (8.94%) Mac OS X
2 11 (8.94%) Unix
3 6 (4.88%) Windows
4 5 (4.07%) CentOS
4 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (47.97%) Agile
2 36 (29.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (18.70%) Test Automation
5 22 (17.89%) TDD
6 21 (17.07%) User Experience
7 19 (15.45%) CI/CD
7 19 (15.45%) DevOps
8 17 (13.82%) Front End Development
9 16 (13.01%) BDD
9 16 (13.01%) Microservices
10 15 (12.20%) Computer Science
10 15 (12.20%) Responsive Web Design
10 15 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 15 (12.20%) UX Design
11 12 (9.76%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (9.76%) Customer Requirements
12 11 (8.94%) Analytics
12 11 (8.94%) Project Management
12 11 (8.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.90%) JavaScript
2 38 (30.89%) SQL
3 26 (21.14%) Java
3 26 (21.14%) Python
4 24 (19.51%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.82%) C#
6 11 (8.94%) PHP
7 6 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.25%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.63%) Go
10 2 (1.63%) Perl
10 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.63%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.81%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.81%) RPG
11 1 (0.81%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Degree
2 20 (16.26%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.44%) MCPD
6 3 (2.44%) MCSD
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.63%) PMP
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.50%) QA
3 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.63%) GDPR
4 2 (1.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.50%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.07%) Ansible
1 5 (4.07%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) WMI
3 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) Google
3 7 (5.69%) Atlassian
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle
4 5 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.25%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.25%) VMware
6 3 (2.44%) SAP
6 3 (2.44%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.63%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.63%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.63%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.63%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.81%) IBM
8 1 (0.81%) Veracode