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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 140 159
Rank change year-on-year -39 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Web Development 8 26 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.63% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.75% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 32
10th Percentile £193 £213 £306
25th Percentile £238 £231 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £333 £604
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -44.93% +20.75%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £691
90th Percentile £533 £499 £700
England median daily rate £506 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% -

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 3,517 3,486 4,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.86% 84.00% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,245 2,107 3,204
10th Percentile £268 £301 £295
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £600
90th Percentile £649 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 247 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.30 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -13.65% +46.50%
75th Percentile £44.09 £48.13 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.25 £69.85 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 6 August 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 6 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
North West -9 8 £313 +13.82% 95
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 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Magento
1 3 (37.50%) Sage 200
2 1 (12.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Figma
1 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Architect
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Digital Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Laravel
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (12.50%) A/B Testing
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Contextual Inquiry
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (12.50%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Typography
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft