Web Application Development Contract Job Trends in the South East

Web Application Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Web Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 163 199
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 +24
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% 0.030% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.034% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £367 - £573
25th Percentile £381 £213 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £225 £634
Median % change year-on-year +92.22% -64.50% +40.83%
75th Percentile £506 £238 £669
90th Percentile £532 - £688
England median daily rate £475 £250 £813
% change year-on-year +90.00% -69.23% +47.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Web Application 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,759 2,935 4,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.98% 89.37% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 1,809 2,868
10th Percentile £250 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £614
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 106 306
10th Percentile £14.50 £19.00 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.54 £23.63
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.69 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.78% -14.62% +14.94%
75th Percentile £51.94 £62.64 £64.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.93 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

Web Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Web Application Development job vacancy trend in the South East

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Application Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Application Development

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Application Development in the South East over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Application Development in the South East

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Application Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Application Development

Web Application Development
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 Web Application Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Thames Valley - 1 £365 - 4
Surrey - 1 £500 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £365 - 1
Web Application Development
England

Web Application Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP