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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 286 296
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -55
Contract jobs citing Web Development 175 276 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.75% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.87% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 197 304
10th Percentile £352 £300 £316
25th Percentile £407 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £488 £544
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £688
90th Percentile £788 £750 £809
UK median daily rate £520 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +7.77% -3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £26.15 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £20.91 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.59 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +81.82% -58.10%
75th Percentile £43.39 £50.81 £47.00
90th Percentile £43.77 £76.50 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £37.80 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.51% +81.82% -57.07%

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 22,330 31,821 44,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.48% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,615 20,850 31,044
10th Percentile £308 £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 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 2,250 1,565
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.92 £10.68
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +52.24%
75th Percentile £63.13 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 110 £590 +13.37% 208
South West +51 18 £370 -22.11% 36
South East +40 17 £513 +18.50% 115
North West +15 12 £400 -5.88% 68
Midlands +11 12 £375 +87.50% 58
North of England +3 12 £400 -13.51% 117
West Midlands +17 8 £475 +245.45% 35
East Midlands +6 4 £318 -24.22% 22
East of England +11 1 £575 +43.75% 55
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 9 (5.14%) CMS
2 4 (2.29%) WordPress
3 3 (1.71%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.57%) Drupal
5 1 (0.57%) Kentico
5 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.14%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (6.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.29%) Magento
3 3 (1.71%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.00%) Azure
2 28 (16.00%) AWS
3 16 (9.14%) GCP
4 13 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.86%) npm
6 11 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (6.29%) PowerApps
6 11 (6.29%) Yarn
7 10 (5.71%) GitHub
7 10 (5.71%) Power Automate
8 9 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.14%) Figma
9 8 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.43%) Serverless
11 5 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.29%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Intranet
2 3 (1.71%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.86%) MySQL
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.14%) Power Query
7 2 (1.14%) Redis
8 1 (0.57%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) GIS
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.57%) Power BI
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.57%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 43 (24.57%) Git
2 11 (6.29%) webpack
3 6 (3.43%) Subversion
4 5 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.29%) Jasmine
5 4 (2.29%) JIRA
5 4 (2.29%) Mocha
5 4 (2.29%) Selenium
6 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.71%) Grunt
6 3 (1.71%) gulp
6 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.71%) Maven
7 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.14%) Codeception
7 2 (1.14%) GitLab
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.14%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.43%) Finance
3 24 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 23 (13.14%) Banking
5 20 (11.43%) Investment Banking
6 18 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.29%) Marketing
7 13 (7.43%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.57%) Electronics
8 8 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.71%) Front Office
10 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.71%) Retail
10 3 (1.71%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.14%) Automotive
11 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 125 (71.43%) Developer
2 41 (23.43%) Senior
3 32 (18.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (18.29%) Senior Developer
4 19 (10.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 15 (8.57%) UI Developer
5 15 (8.57%) Web Developer
6 13 (7.43%) Python Developer
6 13 (7.43%) Senior UI Developer
7 11 (6.29%) Architect
7 11 (6.29%) Azure Developer
7 11 (6.29%) C# Developer
8 10 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Lead
9 9 (5.14%) Applications Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Applications Support
10 8 (4.57%) C# Application Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (53.71%) CSS
2 84 (48.00%) HTML
3 52 (29.71%) React
4 41 (23.43%) .NET
5 25 (14.29%) RESTful
6 24 (13.71%) .NET Framework
6 24 (13.71%) AngularJS
7 20 (11.43%) Node.js
8 17 (9.71%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (9.71%) WCF
9 16 (9.14%) Next.js
9 16 (9.14%) Vue
10 15 (8.57%) jQuery
10 15 (8.57%) JSON
10 15 (8.57%) REST
11 14 (8.00%) ASP.NET
12 12 (6.86%) Web Services
13 11 (6.29%) FastAPI
13 11 (6.29%) XML
14 10 (5.71%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.14%) Derivative
2 14 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (6.86%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.29%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.43%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.29%) Wiki
8 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.71%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.14%) Solar Panel
10 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.57%) Social Media
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Linux
2 4 (2.29%) Unix
3 3 (1.71%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) CentOS
4 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (46.29%) Agile
2 52 (29.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (25.14%) CI/CD
4 38 (21.71%) User Experience
5 34 (19.43%) Software Engineering
6 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (17.71%) TDD
8 30 (17.14%) DevOps
9 26 (14.86%) Computer Science
9 26 (14.86%) Front End Development
10 25 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 21 (12.00%) Analytics
12 20 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (11.43%) UX Design
13 19 (10.86%) Scrum
14 18 (10.29%) CRM
14 18 (10.29%) MVC
15 16 (9.14%) Design Patterns
15 16 (9.14%) OO
16 15 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 104 (59.43%) JavaScript
2 45 (25.71%) TypeScript
3 44 (25.14%) C#
4 42 (24.00%) SQL
5 34 (19.43%) Python
6 26 (14.86%) Java
7 11 (6.29%) PHP
8 7 (4.00%) Apex Code
8 7 (4.00%) C++
9 6 (3.43%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.71%) RPG
10 3 (1.71%) Rust
11 2 (1.14%) Bash
11 2 (1.14%) Scala
11 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) Ada
12 1 (0.57%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (18.86%) Degree
2 19 (10.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 14 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.57%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.86%) MCPD
6 5 (2.86%) MCSD
6 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) CISA
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.14%) QA
3 7 (4.00%) WCAG
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) MiFID
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) PERC
5 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) Google
3 11 (6.29%) Atlassian
4 9 (5.14%) SAP
5 8 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.86%) Adobe
7 5 (2.86%) Oracle
8 3 (1.71%) Zend
9 1 (0.57%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.57%) Databricks
9 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.57%) IBM
9 1 (0.57%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.57%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.57%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (0.57%) Siemens
9 1 (0.57%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.57%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) Veracode