Web Development Contracts in the Midlands

Web Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Web Development 11 14 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.47% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.59% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 36
10th Percentile £300 - £350
25th Percentile £320 £131 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £256 £513
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -50.00% +7.89%
75th Percentile £494 £454 £588
90th Percentile £576 £523 £625
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,987 2,384 2,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.19% 80.22% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 1,587 1,984
10th Percentile £208 £246 £257
25th Percentile £356 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 175 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.18 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.09 £13.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £18.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -26.73% +29.49%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the Midlands

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the Midlands

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the Midlands

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the Midlands

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
East Midlands +5 6 £366 -12.44% 45
West Midlands +3 5 £588 +327.27% 71
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Figma
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Asana
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
2 2 (18.18%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) Ant
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Web Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Designer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) UI Designer
3 2 (18.18%) UI/UX Designer
3 2 (18.18%) UX Designer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Junior Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Junior UI/UX Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Junior UX Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Scala Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) J2EE
4 1 (9.09%) Jest
4 1 (9.09%) JPA
4 1 (9.09%) Laravel
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) Play Framework
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) Visualforce
4 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) TDD
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) A/B Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Contextual Inquiry
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Interaction Design
3 2 (18.18%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (18.18%) UX Design
3 2 (18.18%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) Veracode