Senior Web Developer Contract Job Trends

Senior Web Developer
UK

The median Senior Web Developer daily rate in the UK is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 - 606
Rank change year-on-year - - +199
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.65%
75th Percentile £428 - £713
90th Percentile £434 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +62.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Senior Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Web Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Web Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Web Developer within the UK 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
England - 2 £413 - 5
Work from Home - 1 £425 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £425 - 5
South East - 1 £425 - 1

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Senior Web Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Web Developer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python