Web Applications Engineer Contracts

Web Application Engineer
UK

The median Web Application Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 - 862
Rank change year-on-year - - -175
Contract jobs requiring a Web Applications Engineer 11 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £488 - £380
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.70%
75th Percentile £519 - £563
90th Percentile £581 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Web Applications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Web Applications Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Applications Engineer in the UK

Web Applications Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Applications Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Web Applications Engineer in the UK

Web Applications Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Applications Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Web Applications Engineer in the UK

Web Applications Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Applications Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England - 10 £500 - 1
UK excluding London - 8 £500 -
East of England - 4 £500 -
South East - 4 - -
London - 2 £625 -
Work from Home - 1 £500 -

Web Applications Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Web Applications Engineer 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 featuring Web Applications Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) React
3 4 (36.36%) React Native
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Billing
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
3 4 (36.36%) SCCM
3 4 (36.36%) SCOM
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) IIS
3 4 (36.36%) CRM
4 3 (27.27%) Firewall
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) Python
5 2 (18.18%) Application Security
5 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) Terraform
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (9.09%) Social Skills

Web Applications Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (36.36%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) HTTPS
3 1 (9.09%) BIG-IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Billing
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) Node.js
1 4 (36.36%) React
1 4 (36.36%) React Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) CRM
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Application Security
3 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) SCOM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) F5