Senior Web Developer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Web Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Web Developer daily rate in the North West is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.025% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £469 £475 -
% change year-on-year -1.32% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 3,566 2,039 2,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 92.18% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,037 1,317 1,366
10th Percentile £296 £268 £275
25th Percentile £403 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £585
90th Percentile £688 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 162 188
10th Percentile £16.99 £13.00 £12.72
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -28.14% +14.20%
75th Percentile £71.91 £50.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.33 £72.40 £70.90
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

Senior Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Web Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Senior Web Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Web Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Web Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Merseyside - 1 £450 -
Senior Web Developer
England

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 29 August 2026, Senior Web Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Web Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce