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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 292 331
Rank change year-on-year -168 +39 -10
Contract jobs citing Web Development 90 207 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.80% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.89% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 129 163
10th Percentile £313 £357 £263
25th Percentile £403 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +9.14% -19.13%
75th Percentile £649 £600 £621
90th Percentile £680 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £519 £468
% change year-on-year -8.43% +10.84% -14.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £27.50 £16.69
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +85.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £37.20 £41.91 £34.15
90th Percentile - £42.56 £61.88
UK median hourly rate £33.60 £37.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.19% +76.19% -45.45%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £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 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -104 37 £500 -13.04% 61
North of England -66 27 £650 +38.30% 97
Yorkshire -50 18 £650 +14.64% 46
South East -42 12 £413 +0.86% 79
North West -42 7 £417 -10.43% 38
North East -13 5 - - 14
South West -24 4 £650 +23.81% 41
East of England -25 2 £413 -15.38% 51
East Midlands -26 1 £325 -8.71% 35
Midlands -92 1 £325 -35.00% 44
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 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.22%) CMS
1 2 (2.22%) WordPress
2 1 (1.11%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.11%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) Kentico
2 1 (1.11%) Moodle
2 1 (1.11%) Mule
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Sitefinity
2 1 (1.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.22%) Azure
2 15 (16.67%) GitHub
3 13 (14.44%) AWS
4 10 (11.11%) GCP
5 9 (10.00%) Figma
6 7 (7.78%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.33%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.33%) SaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (2.22%) Commercetools
9 2 (2.22%) Contentful
9 2 (2.22%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.22%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.11%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.22%) GIS
5 2 (2.22%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.22%) Redis
5 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) MySQL
6 1 (1.11%) Power BI
6 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (23.33%) Git
2 13 (14.44%) Mockito
3 3 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.22%) Mocha
4 2 (2.22%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.11%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) JIRA
5 1 (1.11%) Maven
5 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Marketing
4 5 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Front Office
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Publishing
7 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (68.89%) Developer
2 21 (23.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (18.89%) Senior
4 16 (17.78%) Java Developer
4 16 (17.78%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (11.11%) Web Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Python Developer
8 8 (8.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 8 (8.89%) React Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Lead
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.22%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
12 2 (2.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (2.22%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (2.22%) Lecturer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (36.67%) React
2 31 (34.44%) CSS
3 30 (33.33%) HTML
4 15 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 15 (16.67%) Node.js
5 14 (15.56%) JAX-RS
6 13 (14.44%) ActiveMQ
6 13 (14.44%) Kafka
7 12 (13.33%) RESTful
8 11 (12.22%) FastAPI
8 11 (12.22%) Jest
9 10 (11.11%) Spring
10 9 (10.00%) Next.js
11 8 (8.89%) pytest
11 8 (8.89%) REST
11 8 (8.89%) Vue
12 7 (7.78%) .NET
12 7 (7.78%) Ruby on Rails
13 5 (5.56%) GraphQL
13 5 (5.56%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.33%) Genomics
4 3 (3.33%) Life Science
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Social Media
6 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.11%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.44%) Linux
2 20 (22.22%) Unix
3 16 (17.78%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.33%) Windows
5 2 (2.22%) Android
5 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) Agile
2 30 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (32.22%) TDD
4 27 (30.00%) Microservices
5 24 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 23 (25.56%) Containerisation
7 22 (24.44%) Test Automation
8 20 (22.22%) Code Quality
8 20 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
9 19 (21.11%) BDD
10 18 (20.00%) DevOps
11 16 (17.78%) Continuous Deployment
11 16 (17.78%) Pair Programming
11 16 (17.78%) User Experience
11 16 (17.78%) Web Design
12 15 (16.67%) Front End Development
13 10 (11.11%) UX Design
14 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
14 9 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.22%) JavaScript
2 34 (37.78%) Java
3 32 (35.56%) Python
4 28 (31.11%) TypeScript
5 18 (20.00%) SQL
6 10 (11.11%) C#
7 8 (8.89%) PHP
8 7 (7.78%) Ruby
9 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.22%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.22%) C++
11 1 (1.11%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.11%) Go
11 1 (1.11%) Groovy
11 1 (1.11%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.44%) Degree
4 9 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.67%) WCAG
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (31.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.78%) Argo
3 4 (4.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) Google
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.44%) Optimizely
5 3 (3.33%) Adobe
6 2 (2.22%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.22%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.22%) Marketo
6 2 (2.22%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) ESRI
7 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle