Web Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Web Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Development over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 274 243
Rank change year-on-year -36 -31 -36
Contract jobs citing Web Development 93 192 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.80% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.90% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 151 238
10th Percentile £131 £313 £325
25th Percentile £263 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £488 £553 £538
90th Percentile £539 £625 £631
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile - - £41.46
25th Percentile £15.38 £21.00 £43.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -58.10% +133.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £23.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £78.00 - £66.39
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -56.00% +110.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Web Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 3 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 May 2024. 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 +11 26 £463 -11.90% 86
East of England +17 20 £400 -13.51% 28
South East -6 19 £433 +1.76% 70
Yorkshire +13 14 £463 -22.92% 32
Midlands +8 14 £200 -57.08% 68
North West +8 11 £425 -8.11% 47
West Midlands +18 7 £138 -69.14% 40
South West +16 7 £475 +11.76% 47
East Midlands +8 7 £419 -16.20% 28
Scotland +1 6 £325 -27.78% 20
Wales +18 1 £215 +4.88% 9
North East +17 1 - - 7
Web Development
UK

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 12 (12.90%) WordPress
2 5 (5.38%) CMS
2 5 (5.38%) Moodle
3 3 (3.23%) Drupal
4 2 (2.15%) Confluence
4 2 (2.15%) GeoServer
4 2 (2.15%) IIS
4 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.08%) EPiServer
5 1 (1.08%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.08%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Photoshop
1 3 (3.23%) Sketch
2 2 (2.15%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.15%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.15%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.15%) Lectora
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (2.15%) Shopify
2 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) AWS
2 12 (12.90%) Azure
3 7 (7.53%) SaaS
4 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.30%) Figma
5 4 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.30%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.30%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.15%) GitHub
6 2 (2.15%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.15%) Stripe
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.08%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.08%) Contentstack
7 1 (1.08%) npm
7 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.45%) MariaDB
2 6 (6.45%) MySQL
3 5 (5.38%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.30%) GIS
4 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.15%) CouchDB
5 2 (2.15%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.08%) DB2
6 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.08%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) JIRA
2 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.15%) Axure RP
3 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.15%) git-flow
3 2 (2.15%) Mockito
4 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Marketing
3 9 (9.68%) Games
3 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.60%) Finance
5 4 (4.30%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.08%) Advertising
7 1 (1.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Electronics
7 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Law
7 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Publishing
7 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (58.06%) Developer
2 18 (19.35%) Web Developer
3 7 (7.53%) Senior
4 6 (6.45%) Applications Developer
4 6 (6.45%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (6.45%) WordPress Developer
5 5 (5.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (5.38%) Support Officer
5 5 (5.38%) Technical Support
5 5 (5.38%) Technical Support Officer
6 4 (4.30%) Designer
6 4 (4.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (4.30%) Salesforce Developer
6 4 (4.30%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.30%) Systems Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (3.23%) E-Commerce Web Developer
7 3 (3.23%) UI Designer
7 3 (3.23%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (3.23%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (36.56%) HTML
2 32 (34.41%) CSS
3 18 (19.35%) React
4 15 (16.13%) Node.js
5 12 (12.90%) REST
5 12 (12.90%) Vue
6 11 (11.83%) AngularJS
7 10 (10.75%) .NET
8 6 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (5.38%) Next.js
9 5 (5.38%) RESTful
10 4 (4.30%) Flask
10 4 (4.30%) Ionic Framework
10 4 (4.30%) Laravel
10 4 (4.30%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (4.30%) React Native
10 4 (4.30%) Visualforce
11 3 (3.23%) Jest
11 3 (3.23%) LDAP
11 3 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Learning Management System
2 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.30%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.23%) CMDB
4 3 (3.23%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.15%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.15%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Mac OS X
2 2 (2.15%) Unix
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.26%) Agile
2 15 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
2 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (12.90%) Scrum
4 11 (11.83%) DevOps
4 11 (11.83%) Test Automation
5 10 (10.75%) User Experience
6 9 (9.68%) E-Commerce
7 8 (8.60%) Front End Development
7 8 (8.60%) Software Engineering
7 8 (8.60%) TDD
8 7 (7.53%) Pair Programming
8 7 (7.53%) User Stories
9 6 (6.45%) Analytics
9 6 (6.45%) Change Management
9 6 (6.45%) Kanban
9 6 (6.45%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.45%) Responsive Web Design
9 6 (6.45%) Web Application Development
10 5 (5.38%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) JavaScript
2 18 (19.35%) C#
3 17 (18.28%) SQL
4 12 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.83%) PHP
6 10 (10.75%) Java
6 10 (10.75%) Python
7 4 (4.30%) Apex Code
7 4 (4.30%) C
8 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.15%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.15%) PMP
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.45%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.15%) VirtualBox
2 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.30%) Adobe
2 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.15%) Google
4 2 (2.15%) VMware
5 1 (1.08%) Compaq
5 1 (1.08%) mParticle
5 1 (1.08%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) SAP