Web Development Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Web Development
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Web Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 36 29
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 -7
Contract jobs citing Web Development 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.42% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.38% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £350
75th Percentile - - £375
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £470 - £350

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 601 218 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.59% 87.55% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 132 78
10th Percentile £313 £225 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +0.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £589
90th Percentile £650 £642 £689
North East median daily rate £450 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 11 19
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.75 £13.75
25th Percentile £42.60 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% +4.05% -5.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £50.00
90th Percentile - £36.00 £70.00
North East median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £29.77
% change year-on-year +132.96% -36.61% +48.85%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Web Development job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Development

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Development

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -42 3 £470 - 1
Web Development
North East

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) JAX-RS
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) SFIA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility