Web Design Contracts

Web Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Web Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Design 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 498 532 629
Rank change year-on-year +34 +97 -41
Contract jobs citing Web Design 22 50 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 64
10th Percentile £150 £290 £308
25th Percentile £275 £400 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% - -12.44%
75th Percentile £577 £750 £716
90th Percentile £600 - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Design 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 Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Design in the UK

Web Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Design in the UK

Web Design
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Design in the UK

Web Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Design in the UK

Web Design
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 Design 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 +31 21 £413 -23.26% 104
London +26 14 £409 -45.47% 40
UK excluding London +51 7 £413 -2.94% 72
North West +22 7 £413 +50.00% 11
North of England +18 7 £413 +32.00% 20
Work from Home +35 6 £413 -2.94% 72

Web Design
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:

Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (18.18%) Photoshop
2 3 (13.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (13.64%) InDesign
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Figma
3 1 (4.55%) npm
3 1 (4.55%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 6 (27.27%) Jasmine
2 6 (27.27%) Mocha
2 6 (27.27%) Subversion
3 5 (22.73%) Grunt
3 5 (22.73%) gulp
4 1 (4.55%) Babel
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Storybook
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Arabic Language
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) French Language
2 1 (4.55%) German Language
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.55%) Italian Language
2 1 (4.55%) Japanese Language
2 1 (4.55%) Korean Language
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (13.64%) Designer
3 3 (13.64%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (13.64%) React Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Artworker
5 1 (4.55%) Business Change Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Business Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) HTML Developer
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Junior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) CSS
2 13 (59.09%) HTML
3 9 (40.91%) Node.js
4 8 (36.36%) HTML5
5 7 (31.82%) jQuery
5 7 (31.82%) Sass
6 6 (27.27%) Mustache
7 3 (13.64%) .NET
7 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
7 3 (13.64%) Express.js
7 3 (13.64%) React
7 3 (13.64%) Sequelize
7 3 (13.64%) Vue
8 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
8 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
8 2 (9.09%) CSS3
9 1 (4.55%) NgRx
9 1 (4.55%) Redux
9 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) e-Learning
1 1 (4.55%) Graphic Design
1 1 (4.55%) New Media
1 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Mac OS X
2 5 (22.73%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) User Experience
2 9 (40.91%) Front End Development
2 9 (40.91%) Responsive Web Design
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) TDD
3 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 8 (36.36%) Web Accessibility
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (18.18%) Web Development
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (13.64%) SOLID
7 2 (9.09%) Project Management
7 2 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (9.09%) UX Design
7 2 (9.09%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 9 (40.91%) WCAG
3 1 (4.55%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Pega