Web Development Contracts in the North of England

Web Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 159 182
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -48
Contract jobs citing Web Development 24 26 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.64% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 30
10th Percentile £330 £406 £324
25th Percentile £418 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% - -7.50%
75th Percentile - £497 £588
90th Percentile £488 £625 £700
England median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the North of England

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the North of England

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the North of England

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the North of England

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +27 21 £470 +10.59% 82
North East +2 3 £470 - 23
Yorkshire -3 3 £470 +1.62% 46
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (54.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Magento
1 3 (12.50%) Sage 200
2 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
1 13 (54.17%) Power Automate
1 13 (54.17%) Power Platform
1 13 (54.17%) PowerApps
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Figma
3 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jasmine
1 4 (16.67%) Mocha
2 3 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Grunt
2 3 (12.50%) gulp
2 3 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Developer
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 11 (45.83%) Software Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) .NET Architect
6 2 (8.33%) .NET Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Linux Developer
7 1 (4.17%) SailPoint Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (79.17%) CSS
1 19 (79.17%) HTML
2 9 (37.50%) React
2 9 (37.50%) SPFx
3 5 (20.83%) Node.js
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 4 (16.67%) Sass
5 3 (12.50%) HTML5
5 3 (12.50%) jQuery
5 3 (12.50%) Mustache
6 2 (8.33%) RESTful
7 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
7 1 (4.17%) Jest
7 1 (4.17%) JSON
7 1 (4.17%) Nunjucks
7 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
7 1 (4.17%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Task Automation
2 6 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 5 (20.83%) User Experience
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) TDD
4 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
5 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 3 (12.50%) Open Source
5 3 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (12.50%) Web Design
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (8.33%) Microservices
6 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
3 9 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (12.50%) PHP
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle