Web Development Contracts in the South West

Web Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 94 150 158
Rank change year-on-year +56 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Web Development 17 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile - £418 £313
25th Percentile £355 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £463 £548 £494
90th Percentile £568 £572 £525
England median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the South West

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the South West

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the South West

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the South West

Web 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 Development within the South West 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
Bristol +28 10 £370 -12.94% 10
Dorset - 4 £600 - 6
Wiltshire - 3 - - 7
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) NUnit
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Marketing
3 8 (47.06%) Electronics
3 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 8 (47.06%) Manufacturing
3 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
3 8 (47.06%) Telecoms
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Applications Support
3 7 (41.18%) Applications Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Support Engineer
4 6 (35.29%) Azure Developer
4 6 (35.29%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (35.29%) C# Developer
4 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior
6 3 (17.65%) Account Manager
7 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
8 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) CSS
1 13 (76.47%) HTML
2 9 (52.94%) .NET
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (23.53%) jQuery
4 4 (23.53%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Management Information System
2 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 11 (64.71%) Digital Marketing
2 11 (64.71%) Service Management
2 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 11 (64.71%) User Experience
3 9 (52.94%) TDD
3 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
4 8 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (47.06%) Computer Science
4 8 (47.06%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (47.06%) Programme Management
4 8 (47.06%) Service Delivery
4 8 (47.06%) Software Delivery
5 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 4 (23.53%) CAD
7 4 (23.53%) ITSM
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Azure Certification
1 8 (47.06%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Google
1 8 (47.06%) SAP
2 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle