Web Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Web Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Web Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 352 397
Rank change year-on-year -25 +45 +17
Contract jobs citing Web Design 22 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.050% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.059% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 11
10th Percentile £454 - £263
25th Percentile £497 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £338 £365
Median % change year-on-year +89.63% -7.53% -41.60%
75th Percentile £675 £411 £484
90th Percentile £700 £419 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +53.57% -12.50% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.90
25th Percentile - - £16.98
Median hourly rate - - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.67
90th Percentile - - £17.77
UK median hourly rate - - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - -73.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Web Design 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,488 13,615 17,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.73% 85.92% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,453 7,914 11,623
10th Percentile £215 £241 £250
25th Percentile £373 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 854 1,266
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%
75th Percentile £44.95 £64.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.33 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Web Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Web Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Web Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Design

Web Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Design in the UK excluding London

Web Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Design

Web Design
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 Web Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
North of England -27 17 £650 +57.58% 50
Yorkshire - 14 £650 - 19
North East - 3 - - 8
South East -15 2 £630 +110.00% 54
North West -17 2 £550 +33.33% 24
South West -12 1 £400 +6.67% 12
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 26
East of England - 1 £475 - 26
Midlands - 1 £450 - 40
Web Design
UK

Web Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.55%) InDesign
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.55%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Google Play
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) GIS
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Mockito
2 4 (18.18%) Git
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 14 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 13 (59.09%) Senior
4 11 (50.00%) Senior Developer
4 11 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Android Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Agile Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Agile Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Trainer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Agile Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Agile Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Graphic Designer
6 1 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) ActiveMQ
1 12 (54.55%) JAX-RS
1 12 (54.55%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) HTML
3 4 (18.18%) CSS3
3 4 (18.18%) HTML5
4 2 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (9.09%) Android SDK
4 2 (9.09%) Dagger
4 2 (9.09%) Jest
4 2 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) React Native
4 2 (9.09%) Redux
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) Retrofit
4 2 (9.09%) RxJava
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Blog
1 1 (4.55%) Graphic Design
1 1 (4.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Unix
2 14 (63.64%) Linux
2 14 (63.64%) Mac OS X
3 4 (18.18%) Android
4 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Responsive Web Design
2 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) BDD
2 15 (68.18%) Continuous Deployment
2 15 (68.18%) Microservices
2 15 (68.18%) TDD
2 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
3 14 (63.64%) Pair Programming
4 11 (50.00%) Web Development
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) Benchmarking
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Mobile Development
6 2 (9.09%) MVVM
6 2 (9.09%) Open Source
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (9.09%) Push Notifications
6 2 (9.09%) SOLID
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft