Web Development Contracts in the South East

Web Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 142 187 178
Rank change year-on-year +45 -9 +34
Contract jobs citing Web Development 17 18 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.32% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.38% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 32
10th Percentile £385 £365 £313
25th Percentile £405 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +1.76% -8.11%
75th Percentile £521 £500 £600
90th Percentile - - £646
England median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 £15.38 -
Median hourly rate £40.59 £42.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% - -
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.25 -
90th Percentile - £78.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.24% +70.45% -57.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the South East

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the South East

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the South East

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the South East

Web 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 Development within the South East 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
Hampshire +34 11 £513 - 18
Surrey +16 3 - - 18
Thames Valley +38 2 £463 -7.40% 31
Berkshire +31 2 £463 +23.47% 13
East Sussex -3 1 - - 3
Web Development
England

Web Development
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 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Codeception
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
2 2 (11.76%) Subversion
2 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.88%) Vite
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Web Developer
4 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Developer
5 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) RPG Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) React
4 3 (17.65%) Laravel
4 3 (17.65%) Next.js
4 3 (17.65%) REST
4 3 (17.65%) Visualforce
4 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) Bootstrap
5 2 (11.76%) Phalcon
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 2 (11.76%) YAML
6 1 (5.88%) ADO
6 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (5.88%) Blazor
6 1 (5.88%) Framer.js
6 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) CentOS
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Front End Development
3 6 (35.29%) OO
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (29.41%) Sprint Retrospective
4 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) MVC
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
6 3 (17.65%) OO PHP
6 3 (17.65%) SDLC
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
6 3 (17.65%) UX Design
7 2 (11.76%) Insurtech
7 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 5 (29.41%) PHP
4 3 (17.65%) Apex Code
4 3 (17.65%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) RPG
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
1 3 (17.65%) Zend
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft