Web Developer Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Web Developer was £400 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

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

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Web Developer UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	245	259	207
Rank change year-on-year	+14	-52
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer	426	510	655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.92%	0.96%	1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.97%	1.01%	1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	324	362	480
Median daily rate	£400	£363	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.34%	+11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£240	£230
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£515	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£363	£325	£300
% change year-on-year	+11.53%	+8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	8	10
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£20.32	£19.73
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+121.45%	+3.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.10	£10.40	£17.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£108.00	£40.50	£29.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£19.00	£18.66
% change year-on-year	+136.84%	+1.83%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	43855	50329	53147
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.75%	94.86%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	28363	32827	33406
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£245
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£568
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1353	1495	2037
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.00
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+9.06%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Web Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Web Developer.

Contractor daily rate trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Web Developer over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Web Developer over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+12	390	£400	+8.84%	302
London	-10	177	£461	+15.31%	54
South East	+50	92	£400	+9.58%	71
Surrey	+25	38	£425	-11.68%	9
Scotland	+28	29	£375	+15.38%	11
City of London	-7	28	£475	+26.66%	9
Redhill	-	27	£425	-
West Midlands	+20	25	£350	+7.69%	31
East Midlands	+1	23	£325	-5.45%	16
North West	+6	21	£350	-	32
East of England	-17	19	£360	+10.76%	40
Edinburgh	+4	16	£400	+48.14%	3
East Sussex	+14	15	£292	-10.15%	9
South West	-8	15	£340	+7.93%	33
Birmingham	+18	14	£325	-7.14%	7
Brighton	+13	14	£313	-3.84%	8
Manchester	+7	14	£365	+4.28%	17
Berkshire	+15	13	£358	-4.66%	9
Glasgow	+7	12	£363	+1.75%	4
Yorkshire	+6	12	£311	-4.23%	21
Hampshire	+10	9	£331	-1.85%	16
Hertfordshire	+3	9	£350	+7.69%	6
Leicestershire	-3	9	£300	-7.69%
West Yorkshire	+11	8	£313	-3.84%	12
Leeds	+8	7	£318	-2.30%	5
Oxfordshire	-14	7	£413	+60.97%	8
Northamptonshire	0	6	£435	+3.57%	5
Cambridgeshire	-4	6	£395	+12.85%	14
West Sussex	+20	5	£475	+5.55%	7
Wiltshire	+7	5	£378	+162.60%	3

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, Web Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1	787 (92.26%)	Web Development
2	635 (74.44%)	JavaScript
3	579 (67.88%)	HTML
4	553 (64.83%)	CSS
5	324 (37.98%)	Agile Software Development
6	307 (35.99%)	HTML5
7	304 (35.64%)	AngularJS
8	272 (31.89%)	jQuery
9	236 (27.67%)	CSS3
10	219 (25.67%)	.NET
11	191 (22.39%)	MVC
11	191 (22.39%)	Finance
12	188 (22.04%)	C#
13	170 (19.93%)	React
14	166 (19.46%)	Git (software)

15	153 (17.94%)	Java
16	150 (17.58%)	User Experience
17	149 (17.47%)	Node.js
18	141 (16.53%)	TDD
19	139 (16.30%)	Web Services
20	136 (15.94%)	Front End Development
21	130 (15.24%)	SQL
22	125 (14.65%)	ASP.NET
23	123 (14.42%)	SQL Server
24	122 (14.30%)	Python
24	122 (14.30%)	Ajax
25	115 (13.48%)	PHP
26	114 (13.36%)	Scrum
27	102 (11.96%)	MySQL
28	101 (11.84%)	Continuous Integration

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	98 (11.49%)	CMS
2	43 (5.04%)	WordPress
3	29 (3.40%)	Apache
4	20 (2.34%)	Tomcat
5	19 (2.23%)	Drupal
6	18 (2.11%)	EPiServer
7	16 (1.88%)	SharePoint
8	12 (1.41%)	Elasticsearch
9	9 (1.06%)	Adobe Experience Manager
9	9 (1.06%)	DNN
9	9 (1.06%)	GeoServer
9	9 (1.06%)	Umbraco
10	7 (0.82%)	ArcGIS
10	7 (0.82%)	IIS
10	7 (0.82%)	JBoss
11	6 (0.70%)	Confluence
12	5 (0.59%)	Sitecore CMS
12	5 (0.59%)	WebLogic
12	5 (0.59%)	WebLogic Portal
13	4 (0.47%)	Apache Solr

Applications
1	51 (5.98%)	Photoshop
2	15 (1.76%)	Adobe Illustrator
3	3 (0.35%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	3 (0.35%)	Fireworks
3	3 (0.35%)	InDesign
3	3 (0.35%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.12%)	Adobe After Effects
4	1 (0.12%)	Adobe Premiere

Business Applications
1	8 (0.94%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	3 (0.35%)	Dynamics CRM
3	2 (0.23%)	Magento
4	1 (0.12%)	ION MarketView
4	1 (0.12%)	Oracle ERP
4	1 (0.12%)	SDL Web 8
4	1 (0.12%)	SystmOne
4	1 (0.12%)	Unit4 Business World

Cloud Services
1	29 (3.40%)	Microsoft Azure
2	23 (2.70%)	Amazon AWS
3	12 (1.41%)	SaaS
4	11 (1.29%)	Google Analytics
5	8 (0.94%)	AWS Lambda
6	6 (0.70%)	Adobe Analytics
6	6 (0.70%)	GitHub
6	6 (0.70%)	PaaS
7	5 (0.59%)	Amazon SQS
7	5 (0.59%)	Heroku
8	4 (0.47%)	Amazon Kinesis
9	3 (0.35%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	2 (0.23%)	Amazon EC2
10	2 (0.23%)	Amazon S3
10	2 (0.23%)	Bluemix
10	2 (0.23%)	BrowserStack
10	2 (0.23%)	CloudFront
10	2 (0.23%)	IBM Cloud
10	2 (0.23%)	Trello
10	2 (0.23%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	13 (1.52%)	Internet
2	11 (1.29%)	HTTP
3	7 (0.82%)	Intranet
4	5 (0.59%)	SSH
4	5 (0.59%)	SSL
5	3 (0.35%)	DNS
6	2 (0.23%)	Broadband
6	2 (0.23%)	LDAP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	123 (14.42%)	SQL Server
2	102 (11.96%)	MySQL
3	55 (6.45%)	Relational Database
4	40 (4.69%)	NoSQL
5	38 (4.45%)	PostgreSQL
6	28 (3.28%)	RDBMS
7	23 (2.70%)	Oracle Database
8	21 (2.46%)	MongoDB
9	19 (2.23%)	SQL Server 2008
10	15 (1.76%)	SQL Server 2012
11	11 (1.29%)	Big Data
12	9 (1.06%)	Amazon Redshift
12	9 (1.06%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
13	8 (0.94%)	Redis
13	8 (0.94%)	SQL Server Integration Services
14	7 (0.82%)	QGIS
15	6 (0.70%)	Apache Hive
15	6 (0.70%)	Presto
16	4 (0.47%)	BusinessObjects
16	4 (0.47%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	166 (19.46%)	Git (software)
2	64 (7.50%)	Subversion
3	44 (5.16%)	Jenkins
4	42 (4.92%)	Selenium
5	32 (3.75%)	Grunt
6	30 (3.52%)	Maven
6	30 (3.52%)	Visual Studio
7	25 (2.93%)	JIRA
8	24 (2.81%)	Team Foundation Server
9	23 (2.70%)	Cucumber
9	23 (2.70%)	gulp
10	21 (2.46%)	TeamCity
11	20 (2.34%)	Jasmine
12	18 (2.11%)	Karma Test Runner
13	17 (1.99%)	JUnit
13	17 (1.99%)	NUnit
14	16 (1.88%)	webpack
15	14 (1.64%)	Mocha
16	13 (1.52%)	Protractor
17	11 (1.29%)	Bitbucket

General
1	191 (22.39%)	Finance
2	100 (11.72%)	Banking
3	37 (4.34%)	Marketing
4	33 (3.87%)	Investment Banking
5	29 (3.40%)	Front Office
6	24 (2.81%)	Retail
7	22 (2.58%)	Telecoms
8	14 (1.64%)	Games
8	14 (1.64%)	Publishing
9	13 (1.52%)	Legal
10	12 (1.41%)	Electronics
11	8 (0.94%)	Manufacturing
12	4 (0.47%)	German Language
12	4 (0.47%)	Pharmaceutical
13	3 (0.35%)	Back Office
13	3 (0.35%)	Italian Language
13	3 (0.35%)	Japanese Language
13	3 (0.35%)	Korean Language
13	3 (0.35%)	Russian Language
13	3 (0.35%)	Spanish Language

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	579 (67.88%)	HTML
2	553 (64.83%)	CSS
3	307 (35.99%)	HTML5
4	304 (35.64%)	AngularJS
5	272 (31.89%)	jQuery
6	236 (27.67%)	CSS3
7	219 (25.67%)	.NET
8	170 (19.93%)	React
9	149 (17.47%)	Node.js
10	139 (16.30%)	Web Services
11	125 (14.65%)	ASP.NET
12	122 (14.30%)	Ajax
13	99 (11.61%)	Sass
14	93 (10.90%)	REST
15	91 (10.67%)	Twitter Bootstrap
16	84 (9.85%)	RESTful
17	80 (9.38%)	JSON
18	71 (8.32%)	XML
19	70 (8.21%)	ASP.NET MVC
20	63 (7.39%)	Django

Miscellaneous
1	150 (17.58%)	User Experience
2	30 (3.52%)	Computer Science
3	28 (3.28%)	Greenfield Project
4	24 (2.81%)	Mobile App
5	20 (2.34%)	Analytical Skills
6	17 (1.99%)	Fintech
6	17 (1.99%)	Linux Command Line
7	14 (1.64%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
8	11 (1.29%)	W3C
9	10 (1.17%)	Enterprise Software
9	10 (1.17%)	Equities
9	10 (1.17%)	Fixed Income
9	10 (1.17%)	Virtual Team
10	8 (0.94%)	Digital Media
11	6 (0.70%)	Linked Data
12	5 (0.59%)	Derivative
13	4 (0.47%)	Algorithms
13	4 (0.47%)	Internet of Things
13	4 (0.47%)	iPad
13	4 (0.47%)	Social Media

Operating Systems
1	60 (7.03%)	Linux
2	48 (5.63%)	Unix
3	30 (3.52%)	Windows
4	21 (2.46%)	Android
5	14 (1.64%)	Apple iOS
6	6 (0.70%)	Mac OS X
7	4 (0.47%)	Ubuntu
8	3 (0.35%)	Debian
9	2 (0.23%)	Windows 10
9	2 (0.23%)	Windows Server
10	1 (0.12%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	787 (92.26%)	Web Development
2	324 (37.98%)	Agile Software Development
3	191 (22.39%)	MVC
4	141 (16.53%)	TDD
5	136 (15.94%)	Front End Development
6	114 (13.36%)	Scrum
7	101 (11.84%)	Continuous Integration
8	72 (8.44%)	BDD
9	71 (8.32%)	Test Automation
9	71 (8.32%)	Web Design
10	62 (7.27%)	Responsive Web Design
11	50 (5.86%)	E-Commerce
11	50 (5.86%)	OO
12	48 (5.63%)	Wireframes
13	47 (5.51%)	Microservices
14	41 (4.81%)	DevOps
15	39 (4.57%)	Cross-Browser Compatibility
15	39 (4.57%)	OOP
16	38 (4.45%)	Continuous Deployment
17	34 (3.99%)	User Stories

Programming Languages
1	635 (74.44%)	JavaScript
2	188 (22.04%)	C#
3	153 (17.94%)	Java
4	130 (15.24%)	SQL
5	122 (14.30%)	Python
6	115 (13.48%)	PHP
7	62 (7.27%)	TypeScript
8	39 (4.57%)	ES6
9	37 (4.34%)	T-SQL
10	19 (2.23%)	Ruby
11	13 (1.52%)	Shell Script
12	12 (1.41%)	Perl
12	12 (1.41%)	VB.NET
13	11 (1.29%)	XPath
14	9 (1.06%)	Scala
15	7 (0.82%)	ECMAScript
15	7 (0.82%)	PowerShell
16	6 (0.70%)	Groovy
16	6 (0.70%)	VB
17	5 (0.59%)	Korn

Qualifications
1	54 (6.33%)	Degree
2	27 (3.17%)	Security Cleared
3	18 (2.11%)	SC Cleared
4	9 (1.06%)	Computer Science Degree
5	7 (0.82%)	ISTQB
6	5 (0.59%)	Master's Degree
7	2 (0.23%)	BPSS Clearance
7	2 (0.23%)	Postgraduate
8	1 (0.12%)	DBS Check
8	1 (0.12%)	DV Cleared
8	1 (0.12%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	24 (2.81%)	QA
2	5 (0.59%)	FATCA
3	4 (0.47%)	Data Quality
4	1 (0.12%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	1 (0.12%)	WAI

System Software
1	48 (5.63%)	Docker
2	1 (0.12%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	24 (2.81%)	Kubernetes
2	6 (0.70%)	Control-M
3	4 (0.47%)	Puppet
4	3 (0.35%)	TeamSite
4	3 (0.35%)	Terraform
5	2 (0.23%)	Ansible
6	1 (0.12%)	Opscode Chef

Vendors
1	61 (7.15%)	Oracle
2	58 (6.80%)	Microsoft
3	29 (3.40%)	Adobe
4	26 (3.05%)	Google
5	17 (1.99%)	Telerik
6	12 (1.41%)	Demandware
7	10 (1.17%)	SAP
7	10 (1.17%)	Zend
8	9 (1.06%)	Sitecore
9	7 (0.82%)	Sencha
10	6 (0.70%)	Salesforce.com
10	6 (0.70%)	Sybase
10	6 (0.70%)	Twitter
11	5 (0.59%)	Solace
12	4 (0.47%)	Progress
13	3 (0.35%)	IBM
14	2 (0.23%)	Apple
14	2 (0.23%)	Atlassian
14	2 (0.23%)	Kofax
14	2 (0.23%)	MuleSoft