Web Application Development Contracts

Web Application Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Web Application Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Application 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 495 513 613
Rank change year-on-year +18 +100 +68
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 25 69 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 57 70
10th Percentile £331 £385 £363
25th Percentile £375 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £475 £850 £678
90th Percentile £538 - £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £463 £438
% change year-on-year -16.22% +5.71% -14.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Application 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Web Application Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Application Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Application Development.

Daily rate trend for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Application Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Application Development.

Hourly rate trend for Web Application Development in the UK

Web Application Development
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the UK 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
England +7 18 £438 -30.00% 139
London +6 14 £450 -47.06% 37
Work from Home +29 11 £400 -36.51% 58
UK excluding London +43 3 £388 -16.22% 120
Midlands +20 2 £300 -28.23% 20
West Midlands +15 2 £300 +50.00% 11
East of England +30 1 £475 -13.64% 22

Web Application Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Miro
4 1 (4.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) ScalaTest
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) HTML
2 11 (44.00%) CSS
3 10 (40.00%) React
4 9 (36.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (36.00%) REST
5 8 (32.00%) .NET
5 8 (32.00%) Vue
6 7 (28.00%) Django
7 6 (24.00%) Ajax
7 6 (24.00%) FastAPI
7 6 (24.00%) Flask
8 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (12.00%) RESTful
10 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
10 2 (8.00%) Kafka
10 2 (8.00%) Middleware
10 2 (8.00%) SOAP
10 2 (8.00%) Web Services
11 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
11 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) CMDB
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (40.00%) OO
4 10 (40.00%) OOP
5 8 (32.00%) Front End Development
6 6 (24.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Change Management
7 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
8 3 (12.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
9 2 (8.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (8.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) SQL
4 6 (24.00%) C#
5 4 (16.00%) Java
5 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Kotlin
7 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.00%) Bash
8 1 (4.00%) Scala
8 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Typelevel