Web Applications Developer Contracts in London

Web Application Developer
England > London

The median Web Application Developer daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 370 490
Rank change year-on-year +22 +120 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Web Applications Developer 5 21 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.12% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.13% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 2
10th Percentile £537 - £535
25th Percentile - - £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £850 £585
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% +45.30% -2.50%
75th Percentile - - £609
90th Percentile - - £616
England median daily rate £630 £850 £550
% change year-on-year -25.88% +54.55% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Web Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Web Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Applications Developer in London

Web Applications Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Applications Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Web Applications Developer in London

Web Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Applications Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Applications Developer in London

Web Applications Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Applications Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Applications Developer in London

Web Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Web Applications Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Web Applications Developer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (80.00%) API Development
1 4 (80.00%) API Design
1 4 (80.00%) Kotlin
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) e-Learning

Web Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) API Design
1 4 (80.00%) API Development
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker