Web Development Contracts in London

Web Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 214 255
Rank change year-on-year -35 +41 -17
Contract jobs citing Web Development 109 179 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 1.03% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.16% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 131 171
10th Percentile £362 £350 £400
25th Percentile £475 £455 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £520 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% -16.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £661 £763
90th Percentile £788 £775 £825
England median daily rate £521 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +6.77% -11.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile £41.60 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.82 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -22.73% +1.96%
75th Percentile £44.03 £42.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.05 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -14.89% +81.82% -68.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,442 15,487 23,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.69% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,745 11,095 17,006
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £805 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 307 268
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £64.31
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.60 £82.33
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in London

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in London

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in London

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in London

Web Development
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 Development within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -8 19 £585 +21.24% 19
West London +10 3 £550 +41.94% 1
East London - 2 £525 - 4
Web Development
England

Web Development
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 9 (8.26%) CMS
2 3 (2.75%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.83%) WordPress
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) Drupal
4 1 (0.92%) Kentico
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.92%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.28%) Azure
2 15 (13.76%) AWS
3 12 (11.01%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.09%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (10.09%) npm
4 11 (10.09%) Yarn
5 10 (9.17%) PowerApps
6 9 (8.26%) Power Automate
7 8 (7.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (7.34%) GitHub
8 6 (5.50%) Azure Functions
8 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.50%) Serverless
9 5 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.67%) Figma
10 4 (3.67%) GCP
11 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Intranet
2 2 (1.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (8.26%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.83%) Power Query
7 1 (0.92%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.92%) GIS
7 1 (0.92%) MySQL
7 1 (0.92%) Power BI
7 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) webpack
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.92%) Maven
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.92%) Subversion
5 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (23.85%) Finance
1 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.10%) Banking
3 20 (18.35%) Investment Banking
4 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Marketing
5 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.75%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Front Office
6 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Automotive
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 76 (69.72%) Developer
2 30 (27.52%) Senior
3 25 (22.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (22.02%) Senior Developer
5 15 (13.76%) UI Developer
6 13 (11.93%) Senior UI Developer
7 12 (11.01%) Python Developer
8 10 (9.17%) Lead
9 9 (8.26%) Web Developer
10 8 (7.34%) Architect
11 7 (6.42%) CRM Architect
11 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Lead Developer
12 6 (5.50%) React Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Azure Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (48.62%) CSS
2 44 (40.37%) HTML
3 39 (35.78%) React
4 25 (22.94%) .NET
5 19 (17.43%) .NET Framework
6 17 (15.60%) WCF
7 16 (14.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (12.84%) AngularJS
8 14 (12.84%) JSON
9 13 (11.93%) RESTful
10 12 (11.01%) ASP.NET
10 12 (11.01%) Node.js
10 12 (11.01%) Vue
11 11 (10.09%) FastAPI
11 11 (10.09%) Next.js
11 11 (10.09%) XML
12 10 (9.17%) REST
12 10 (9.17%) Web Services
13 9 (8.26%) .NET Core
13 9 (8.26%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.68%) Derivative
2 14 (12.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.42%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.59%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.67%) Wiki
7 3 (2.75%) Educational Technology
7 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.83%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.92%) Equities
9 1 (0.92%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.92%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Android
1 1 (0.92%) Linux
1 1 (0.92%) Mac OS X
1 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.79%) Agile
2 44 (40.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (20.18%) CI/CD
4 21 (19.27%) DevOps
5 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.51%) CRM
7 16 (14.68%) Analytics
7 16 (14.68%) Software Engineering
8 15 (13.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (13.76%) User Experience
9 14 (12.84%) Customer Requirements
9 14 (12.84%) Electronic Trading
9 14 (12.84%) Event-Driven
9 14 (12.84%) TDD
10 12 (11.01%) Design Patterns
10 12 (11.01%) MVC
11 11 (10.09%) Event-Driven Programming
11 11 (10.09%) OOP
12 10 (9.17%) Scrum
12 10 (9.17%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 62 (56.88%) JavaScript
2 36 (33.03%) SQL
3 33 (30.28%) TypeScript
4 29 (26.61%) Python
5 27 (24.77%) C#
6 20 (18.35%) Java
7 7 (6.42%) C++
8 6 (5.50%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.75%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.75%) Rust
10 2 (1.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.92%) Ada
11 1 (0.92%) Go
11 1 (0.92%) RPG
Qualifications
1 16 (14.68%) Degree
2 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.59%) MCPD
4 5 (4.59%) MCSD
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) CISA
6 1 (0.92%) CISM
6 1 (0.92%) CISSP
6 1 (0.92%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.75%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) WCAG
3 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) MiFID
3 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Ansible
2 1 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.09%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.50%) Google
4 3 (2.75%) Adobe
4 3 (2.75%) Oracle
4 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.83%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.92%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.92%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.92%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.92%) SAP
6 1 (0.92%) Sitecore