Web Application Development Contract Job Trends in the South West

Web Application Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Web Application Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 125 137
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 28 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.15% 0.051% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.058% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 1 3
10th Percentile - - £330
25th Percentile £450 £213 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £748
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -69.92% +45.94%
75th Percentile £500 £238 £749
90th Percentile - - £750
England median daily rate £475 £250 £800
% change year-on-year +90.00% -68.75% +45.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,005 1,736 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.00% 87.77% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,060 1,626
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £723
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 109 262
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.45 £19.13
25th Percentile £20.82 £46.25 £46.05
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.13 £74.55 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

Web Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Web Application Development job vacancy trend in the South West

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Web Application Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Gloucestershire - 27 £475 -
Somerset - 1 £458 - 1
Web Application Development
England

Web Application Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) Azure
1 27 (96.43%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Dagster
2 1 (3.57%) Prefect
Development Applications
1 27 (96.43%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 27 (96.43%) Senior
2 27 (96.43%) Senior Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.57%) Django
1 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
1 1 (3.57%) Flask
1 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Agile
1 27 (96.43%) Collaborative Working
1 27 (96.43%) DevOps
1 27 (96.43%) Requirements Analysis
1 27 (96.43%) Scrum
1 27 (96.43%) Software Delivery
1 27 (96.43%) Validation
2 1 (3.57%) Analytics
2 1 (3.57%) Containerisation
2 1 (3.57%) Data Science
2 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) JavaScript
1 27 (96.43%) PL/SQL
1 27 (96.43%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (96.43%) SC Cleared
1 27 (96.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (96.43%) Oracle