Web Developer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Web Developer
England > South East

The median Web Developer daily rate in the South East is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 188 203
Rank change year-on-year +31 +15 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.022% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.023% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £334 - £379
25th Percentile £366 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £225 £400
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -43.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £487 £238 -
90th Percentile £505 - £408
England median daily rate £410 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% -19.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 - -
Median hourly rate £40.59 - -
75th Percentile £43.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.80 £67.50 £19.31
% change year-on-year -54.38% +249.65% -73.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,140 4,272 5,340
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 92.41% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,025 2,550 3,649
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £370 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 335 241
10th Percentile £13.58 £16.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +111.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.53 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Web Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the South East

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the South East

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in the South East

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the South East

Web Developer
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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 September 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 - 4 £477 - 4
Berkshire - 3 £517 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £438 - 1
Surrey - 1 - - 3
Web Developer
England

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Web Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Web Development
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Maven
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) MySQL
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) Gradle
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) React
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (16.67%) Agile

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) dbt
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) ADO
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) Blazor
4 1 (16.67%) DWR
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Servlets
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle