Web Developer Contracts in London

Web Developer
England > London

The median Web Developer daily rate in London is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 371 467
Rank change year-on-year +4 +96 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 8 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.058% 0.092% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.098% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 6
10th Percentile £350 £369 £275
25th Percentile £354 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -9.27% -2.38%
75th Percentile £522 £572 £781
90th Percentile £588 £634 £856
England median daily rate £410 £413 £400
% change year-on-year -0.61% +3.13% -20.00%

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 12,757 15,285 22,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.22% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,637 10,873 16,706
10th Percentile £325 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.80 £18.55
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +11.94%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in London

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in London

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in London

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in London

Web Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Central London -3 1 £625 +30.89% 4
Web Developer
England

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Web 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 Developer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Web Development
2 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (62.50%) React
4 4 (50.00%) User Experience
4 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) CSS
5 3 (37.50%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) UX Design
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) HTML
5 3 (37.50%) Node.js
5 3 (37.50%) Next.js
5 3 (37.50%) Figma
5 3 (37.50%) Material-UI
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 1 (12.50%) Intranet
7 1 (12.50%) Internet
7 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
7 1 (12.50%) .NET
7 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (12.50%) Kanban
7 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 1 (12.50%) Git
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum

Web 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) Material-UI
2 3 (37.50%) Next.js
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) Flask
4 1 (12.50%) Highcharts JS
4 1 (12.50%) Pandas
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Web Development
2 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (37.50%) UX Design
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
6 1 (12.50%) Data Science
6 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Progressive Web App
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera