Web Development Contracts in Scotland

Web Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 99 123 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing Web Development 17 6 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.05% 0.27% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.31% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 30
10th Percentile £401 £145 £400
25th Percentile £450 £145 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -27.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £425 £488
90th Percentile £575 £463 -
UK median daily rate £508 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.84% -5.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in Scotland

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +12 9 £500 +25.00% 8
Glasgow +6 7 £550 +279.02% 4
Stirling - 1 £513 -
Web Development
UK

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (17.65%) WordPress
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Google Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.88%) Appium
3 1 (5.88%) Storybook
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Back Office
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Web Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.88%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) AngularJS
2 10 (58.82%) CSS
2 10 (58.82%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) REST
4 5 (29.41%) HTML5
4 5 (29.41%) jQuery
4 5 (29.41%) SOAP
5 4 (23.53%) .NET
5 4 (23.53%) RESTful
6 3 (17.65%) Web Services
7 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
7 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
7 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (11.76%) Ajax
7 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
7 2 (11.76%) Entity Framework
7 2 (11.76%) JMS
7 2 (11.76%) Middleware
7 2 (11.76%) Node.js
7 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) AIX
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Front End Development
3 5 (29.41%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) API Development
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
4 4 (23.53%) User Stories
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) SEO
6 2 (11.76%) Case Management
6 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) OWASP
7 1 (5.88%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (5.88%) Fintech
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) VB
4 1 (5.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GRC
1 4 (23.53%) WCAG
2 3 (17.65%) PERC
3 2 (11.76%) NCSC
4 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Snow
3 3 (17.65%) Google
4 2 (11.76%) VMware