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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 355 404
Rank change year-on-year +35 +49 +67
Contract jobs citing Lightning Web Components 23 35 35
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% 1.07% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 26
10th Percentile £397 £423 £463
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% -5.78% +4.65%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £633
90th Percentile £620 £700 £678
UK median daily rate £513 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £88.26 £14.14 -
25th Percentile £93.41 £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £102.00 £14.38 -
Median % change year-on-year +609.57% - -
75th Percentile - £14.66 -
90th Percentile - £14.71 -
UK median hourly rate £102.00 £14.38 £55.69
% change year-on-year +609.57% -74.19% -

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 2,364 3,264 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 16.11% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 2,138 3,144
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 212 88
10th Percentile £33.91 £21.81 £22.21
25th Percentile £55.19 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.36% +28.36%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.31 £73.94
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.95 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

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 16 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 16 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 +17 6 £449 -35.93% 16
North of England +18 5 £475 -13.64% 24
South East +45 4 £538 -3.15% 43
Scotland - 4 £425 - 2
South West +38 3 £450 -7.69% 1
East of England +18 3 £450 -7.69% 10
Yorkshire +16 3 - - 9
West Midlands +11 3 £450 -35.71% 10
East Midlands - 3 £447 - 5
North West +7 2 £475 -13.64% 15
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (4.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 9 (39.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Figma
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.70%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (8.70%) UI Automator
2 1 (4.35%) Ant
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
1 14 (60.87%) Salesforce Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Salesforce Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Administrator
6 2 (8.70%) UI Developer
6 2 (8.70%) UI/UX Developer
6 2 (8.70%) UX Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Functional Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Visualforce
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) Ajax
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) JSON
3 2 (8.70%) Middleware
3 2 (8.70%) React
3 2 (8.70%) Semantic HTML
3 2 (8.70%) Vue
3 2 (8.70%) XML
4 1 (4.35%) JWT
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) CRM
4 4 (17.39%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
4 4 (17.39%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) Batch Processing
5 3 (13.04%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
5 3 (13.04%) System Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Debt
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Apex Code
2 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.70%) WCAG
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.35%) Pardot
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) SnapLogic