Web Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Development 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 245 307 278
Rank change year-on-year +62 -29 -40
Contract jobs citing Web Development 91 92 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.52% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 65 146
10th Percentile £324 £131 £313
25th Percentile £363 £263 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £521 £488 £538
90th Percentile £575 £539 £619
UK median daily rate £508 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.84% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 £15.38 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.59 £24.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.67% +11.36% -58.10%
75th Percentile £43.39 £75.00 £23.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £37.80 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +70.45% -56.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the UK excluding London

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the UK excluding London

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the UK excluding London

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the UK excluding London

Web Development
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 Development 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
North of England +17 24 £470 +1.62% 151
North West +27 21 £470 +10.59% 82
South West +56 17 £370 -22.11% 57
South East +45 17 £513 +18.50% 132
Scotland +24 17 £500 +53.85% 29
Midlands +24 16 £423 +111.25% 91
West Midlands +19 12 £470 +241.82% 53
East Midlands +7 4 £318 -24.22% 34
Wales +3 3 £205 -4.57% 23
North East +2 3 £470 - 23
Yorkshire -3 3 £470 +1.62% 46
East of England +11 1 £575 +43.75% 72
Web Development
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Web Development
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 13 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.40%) WordPress
3 2 (2.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) IIS
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Magento
1 3 (3.30%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) Power Platform
3 14 (15.38%) AWS
4 13 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 13 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 11 (12.09%) GCP
6 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.40%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.30%) Figma
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (2.20%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.10%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.10%) dbt
10 1 (1.10%) npm
10 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.40%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Redis
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 17 (18.68%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Subversion
3 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.40%) Jasmine
3 4 (4.40%) Mocha
4 3 (3.30%) Grunt
4 3 (3.30%) gulp
4 3 (3.30%) JIRA
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (3.30%) Selenium
5 2 (2.20%) Codeception
5 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.20%) JUnit
5 2 (2.20%) Maven
5 2 (2.20%) Mockito
5 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.10%) Gradle
General
1 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.67%) Public Sector
3 17 (18.68%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Marketing
5 10 (10.99%) Telecoms
6 8 (8.79%) Electronics
6 8 (8.79%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.20%) Back Office
9 2 (2.20%) Military
10 1 (1.10%) Automotive
10 1 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 74 (81.32%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 13 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 12 (13.19%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Senior
5 9 (9.89%) C# Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.89%) ServiceNow Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Web Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Applications Support
7 7 (7.69%) Applications Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Azure Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (65.93%) CSS
2 58 (63.74%) HTML
3 22 (24.18%) .NET
4 21 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 18 (19.78%) React
6 16 (17.58%) RESTful
7 12 (13.19%) jQuery
7 12 (13.19%) REST
8 9 (9.89%) SPFx
9 8 (8.79%) HTML5
9 8 (8.79%) Node.js
10 7 (7.69%) .NET Framework
11 5 (5.49%) SOAP
11 5 (5.49%) Web Services
12 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
12 4 (4.40%) Laravel
12 4 (4.40%) Sass
12 4 (4.40%) Visualforce
12 4 (4.40%) Vue
13 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Unix
3 2 (2.20%) AIX
3 2 (2.20%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.20%) Windows
4 1 (1.10%) CentOS
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.36%) Agile
2 24 (26.37%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.27%) Front End Development
3 23 (25.27%) Test Automation
3 23 (25.27%) User Experience
4 17 (18.68%) TDD
5 16 (17.58%) Computer Science
5 16 (17.58%) DevOps
5 16 (17.58%) Software Engineering
6 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (12.09%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (12.09%) Service Management
8 11 (12.09%) Task Automation
9 10 (10.99%) OO
9 10 (10.99%) Scrum
10 9 (9.89%) Analytics
10 9 (9.89%) Software Delivery
10 9 (9.89%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (64.84%) JavaScript
2 19 (20.88%) C#
2 19 (20.88%) TypeScript
3 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.09%) SQL
5 9 (9.89%) PHP
6 8 (8.79%) Java
7 5 (5.49%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.40%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.40%) Python
9 2 (2.20%) Scala
9 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.10%) RPG
10 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.10%) VB
10 1 (1.10%) VB6
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
4 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.79%) WCAG
3 5 (5.49%) QA
4 4 (4.40%) GRC
4 4 (4.40%) PERC
5 2 (2.20%) NCSC
6 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Google
3 11 (12.09%) ServiceNow
4 8 (8.79%) SAP
5 6 (6.59%) Oracle
6 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.40%) Snow
7 3 (3.30%) Zend
8 2 (2.20%) Adobe
8 2 (2.20%) VMware
9 1 (1.10%) Siemens
9 1 (1.10%) Sybase
9 1 (1.10%) Veracode