Web Developer Contracts in Manchester

Web Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Web Developer daily rate in Manchester is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 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
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 90 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 0.23% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £223 -
25th Percentile £563 £238 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £275 -
Median % change year-on-year +109.09% - -
75th Percentile £588 £406 -
90th Percentile - £478 -
North West median daily rate £575 £250 -
% change year-on-year +130.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 922 1,227 1,734
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 95.86% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 812 1,279
10th Percentile £292 £313 £303
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -7.98% -2.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 63 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.63 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.27 £18.39 £16.29
Median hourly rate £20.26 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.34% +123.68% +4.11%
75th Percentile £40.31 £62.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £74.10 £64.65
North West median hourly rate £27.25 £32.90 £27.60
% change year-on-year -17.16% +19.18% +10.40%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in Manchester

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in Manchester

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in Manchester

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 Manchester region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft