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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 375 259
Rank change year-on-year -141 -116 +36
Contract jobs citing Web Development 114 131 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.48% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.53% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 96 209
10th Percentile £363 £325 £300
25th Percentile £415 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +2.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.61% +2.65% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile - £38.56 £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £39.70 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +0.74% +93.18%
75th Percentile £43.03 £48.10 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £50.53 £60.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +93.18%

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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -86 54 £600 +16.22% 138
South East -72 15 £375 -27.04% 59
Midlands -43 14 £438 +6.71% 35
East of England -11 13 £593 -8.70% 38
West Midlands -38 13 £431 -38.39% 17
North of England -66 10 £463 -28.85% 61
South West -42 8 £505 +36.49% 28
Yorkshire -45 6 £475 -26.92% 24
North West -48 4 £345 -22.30% 29
East Midlands -24 1 £500 +36.61% 18
North East -43 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 (6.14%) CMS
2 4 (3.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.51%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.63%) WordPress
4 2 (1.75%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.75%) Drupal
4 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.88%) Liferay
5 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.39%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.88%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.54%) Azure
1 20 (17.54%) GCP
2 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.39%) AWS
5 5 (4.39%) Figma
6 4 (3.51%) GitHub
7 3 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.75%) Cloud Run
8 2 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.88%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.88%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.40%) Firewall
1 13 (11.40%) VPN
2 3 (2.63%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.63%) VLAN
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.53%) Relational Database
1 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.26%) MySQL
2 6 (5.26%) Power BI
3 5 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.39%) Couchbase
3 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.63%) Tableau
6 2 (1.75%) GIS
6 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.75%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 27 (23.68%) Git
2 7 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.51%) JIRA
3 4 (3.51%) JUnit
3 4 (3.51%) Mockito
4 3 (2.63%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.75%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.88%) Gradle
6 1 (0.88%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.88%) MLflow
6 1 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.88%) Subversion
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.56%) Finance
3 26 (22.81%) Banking
4 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.40%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 8 (7.02%) Marketing
8 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.39%) Local Government
10 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Automotive
11 2 (1.75%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.75%) Publishing
12 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.88%) Games
12 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.88%) Law
12 1 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (64.04%) Developer
2 28 (24.56%) Web Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Senior
4 17 (14.91%) Java Developer
5 16 (14.04%) Backend Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Java Engineer
6 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) IAM Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Angular Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Architect
10 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.39%) .NET Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (38.60%) HTML
2 43 (37.72%) CSS
3 22 (19.30%) .NET
4 21 (18.42%) React
5 17 (14.91%) AngularJS
6 13 (11.40%) Spring
7 12 (10.53%) REST
8 10 (8.77%) HTML5
8 10 (8.77%) OAuth
9 9 (7.89%) .NET Framework
9 9 (7.89%) JSON
10 8 (7.02%) CSS3
11 7 (6.14%) .NET Core
11 7 (6.14%) jQuery
11 7 (6.14%) Node.js
11 7 (6.14%) RESTful
11 7 (6.14%) RxJava
12 6 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (5.26%) Spring Boot
13 5 (4.39%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Derivative
2 7 (6.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.63%) Genomics
5 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.75%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.88%) CMDB
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) Mashup
6 1 (0.88%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.89%) Unix
2 4 (3.51%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) MVS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (57.89%) Agile
2 36 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 35 (30.70%) DevOps
4 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (17.54%) Software Engineering
6 20 (17.54%) User Experience
7 19 (16.67%) Microservices
8 16 (14.04%) API Integration
8 16 (14.04%) Responsive Web Design
9 15 (13.16%) AI
9 15 (13.16%) Front End Development
10 14 (12.28%) UX Design
11 13 (11.40%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.53%) Scrum
13 10 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.77%) Identity Management
13 10 (8.77%) Load Balancing
14 9 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
15 8 (7.02%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 29 (25.44%) Java
3 27 (23.68%) TypeScript
4 24 (21.05%) SQL
5 19 (16.67%) C#
6 10 (8.77%) Python
7 6 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.51%) PHP
8 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.63%) Bash
10 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.88%) Bicep
11 1 (0.88%) JCL
11 1 (0.88%) REXX
11 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Degree
2 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) CCNA
4 3 (2.63%) CCNP
4 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 13 (11.40%) QA
3 12 (10.53%) WCAG
4 5 (4.39%) SLA
5 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.88%) WAI
6 1 (0.88%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (11.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Google
3 7 (6.14%) Oracle
4 5 (4.39%) Adobe
4 5 (4.39%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.75%) ESRI
6 2 (1.75%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) BMC
7 1 (0.88%) CODA
7 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.88%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.88%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Pardot
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk