Web Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Web Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 381 428
Rank change year-on-year +54 +47 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 9 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.087% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.094% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 22
10th Percentile £315 £293 £351
25th Percentile £361 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £423 £409
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +3.36% -3.82%
75th Percentile £485 £488 £419
90th Percentile £521 £534 £463
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £445
% change year-on-year +5.56% +1.12% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 - -
Median hourly rate £40.59 - -
75th Percentile £43.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.59 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Web Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
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 Developer 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
South East +43 3 £517 +20.94% 16
Scotland +15 3 £430 +32.31%
Midlands - 3 £375 - 8
West Midlands - 2 £375 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 1
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Web Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Web Development
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) HTML
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
5 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) .NET
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 2 (22.22%) C#
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
6 2 (22.22%) SEO
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) Web Services
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
6 2 (22.22%) AWS
6 2 (22.22%) Google
6 2 (22.22%) WCAG
6 2 (22.22%) Google Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) WordPress
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Flutter
6 2 (22.22%) RESTful
6 2 (22.22%) PERC
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core

Web Developer Skill Set
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 2 (22.22%) WordPress
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Google Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Mockito
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (22.22%) Flutter
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) WebAssembly
4 1 (11.11%) ADO
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) Blazor
4 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 1 (11.11%) Jest
4 1 (11.11%) JPA
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) Redux
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Web Development
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) SEO
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (11.11%) Coaching
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) Fintech
6 1 (11.11%) Kanban
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PERC
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Veracode