Web Development Contracts in the North West

Web Development
England > North West

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 113 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing Web Development 8 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.60% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 11
10th Percentile £193 £213 £313
25th Percentile £238 £225 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £275 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -52.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £450 £474 £639
90th Percentile £533 £517 £645
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -9.09% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,935 2,016 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.67% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,233 1,853
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 181 170
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -4.41% +49.45%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.08
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the North West over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
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 Web Development within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Merseyside +3 3 - - 21
Manchester +1 3 £375 +7.14% 40
Cheshire - 1 £313 - 13
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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