Web Developer Contracts

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 539 648
Rank change year-on-year +44 +109 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 25 43 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.099% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 53
10th Percentile £350 £293 £350
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +1.12% -6.32%
75th Percentile £630 £488 £700
90th Percentile £633 £568 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £423 £409
% change year-on-year -11.24% +3.36% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 - -
Median hourly rate £40.59 - -
75th Percentile £43.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.59 - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 9 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 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 +39 21 £475 +5.56% 77
London +30 14 £628 +38.06% 24
Work from Home +27 10 £365 -13.61% 47
UK excluding London +54 9 £375 -11.24% 59
South East +43 3 £517 +20.94% 17
Scotland +15 3 £430 +32.31%
Midlands - 3 £375 - 8
West Midlands - 2 £375 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 1

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Web Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 20 (80.00%) Web Development
2 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (36.00%) HTML
4 9 (36.00%) CSS
5 7 (28.00%) React
5 7 (28.00%) Azure
6 6 (24.00%) AWS
6 6 (24.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Node.js
7 5 (20.00%) GitHub
7 5 (20.00%) Confluence
7 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (20.00%) API Development
7 5 (20.00%) API Design
7 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 5 (20.00%) Java
7 5 (20.00%) JIRA
8 4 (16.00%) Agile
8 4 (16.00%) Spring
8 4 (16.00%) SQL
8 4 (16.00%) Python
8 4 (16.00%) Finance
8 4 (16.00%) Kotlin
8 4 (16.00%) User Experience
8 4 (16.00%) UX Design
8 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (16.00%) Docker

Web Developer 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Figma
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Power Query
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) Mockito
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Marketing
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) CSS
1 9 (36.00%) HTML
2 7 (28.00%) React
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
3 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (16.00%) Spring
5 3 (12.00%) .NET
5 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (12.00%) Material-UI
5 3 (12.00%) Next.js
5 3 (12.00%) RESTful
6 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (8.00%) Bootstrap
6 2 (8.00%) Flutter
6 2 (8.00%) jQuery
6 2 (8.00%) Web Services
6 2 (8.00%) WebAssembly
7 1 (4.00%) ADO
7 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.00%) iSeries
2 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Web Development
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (24.00%) Analytics
4 5 (20.00%) API Design
4 5 (20.00%) API Development
4 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) UX Design
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.00%) Content Management
7 2 (8.00%) SEO
7 2 (8.00%) TDD
7 2 (8.00%) Use Case
8 1 (4.00%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (4.00%) Kanban
8 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning
8 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) Kotlin
3 4 (16.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) RPG
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) PERC
1 2 (8.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Veracode