Lightning Web Components Contracts in the UK excluding London

Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Lightning Web Components skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lightning Web Components 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 313 364 425
Rank change year-on-year +51 +61 +45
Contract jobs citing Lightning Web Components 23 35 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 1.06% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 28
10th Percentile £392 £408 £463
25th Percentile £416 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -8.09% +9.30%
75th Percentile £596 £575 £624
90th Percentile £635 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £515 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -2.83% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £84.38 - -
25th Percentile £84.67 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £96.85 £14.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +579.61% - -
75th Percentile £102.00 £14.38 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £96.85 £14.25 £55.69
% change year-on-year +579.61% -74.41% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Lightning Web Components falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Lightning Web Components
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Lightning Web Components as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London

Lightning Web Components
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London

Lightning Web Components
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London

Lightning Web Components
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lightning Web Components in the UK excluding London

Lightning Web Components
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lightning Web Components within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +24 5 £447 -34.98% 8
South East +39 4 £600 +9.09% 22
North of England +18 4 - - 28
Yorkshire +11 4 - - 10
Scotland - 4 £425 - 1
South West +44 3 £450 -10.00% 4
East of England +23 3 £450 -7.69% 6
East Midlands - 3 £447 - 3
West Midlands +13 2 - - 4
Lightning Web Components
UK

Lightning Web Components
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 12 (52.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Ant
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Developer
1 12 (52.17%) Salesforce Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 5 (21.74%) Salesforce Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Visualforce
2 3 (13.04%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) JWT
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) CRM
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Architecture Roadmap
4 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
5 4 (17.39%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Debt
6 3 (13.04%) Batch Processing
6 3 (13.04%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
6 3 (13.04%) System Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (8.70%) API Design
7 2 (8.70%) API Integration
7 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Apex Code
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.35%) Pardot
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) SnapLogic