Lightning Web Components Contract Job Trends in the South East

Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Lightning Web Components skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 172 197
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +46
Contract jobs citing Lightning Web Components 11 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 1.30% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £373 £435 £320
25th Percentile £463 £600 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +18.18% -11.29%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £600
90th Percentile £501 - £606
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Lightning Web Components falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 615 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.86% 16.21% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 397 474
10th Percentile £287 £300 £316
25th Percentile £400 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £577 £638 £624
90th Percentile £648 £675 £679
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 36
10th Percentile £37.50 £55.03 £47.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.50 £54.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.04% -4.05%
75th Percentile £79.25 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.20 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Lightning Web Components
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lightning Web Components relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Lightning Web Components job vacancy trend in the South East

Lightning Web Components
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Lightning Web Components.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Lightning Web Components

Lightning Web Components
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lightning Web Components in the South East over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lightning Web Components in the South East

Lightning Web Components
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lightning Web Components within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Thames Valley -5 11 £493 -24.23% 1
Berkshire +4 10 £496 +4.47%
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £325 -50.00% 1
Lightning Web Components
England

Lightning Web Components
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP PM
2 2 (18.18%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Salesforce Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce Solution Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Visualforce
2 6 (54.55%) REST
2 6 (54.55%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) SAP PI
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) jQuery
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
2 8 (72.73%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 4 (36.36%) Product Requirements
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
6 2 (18.18%) ETL
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (9.09%) B2C
7 1 (9.09%) Case Management
7 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) DevOps
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Technical Debt
7 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft