Web Development Contract Job Trends

Web Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Web Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 291 301
Rank change year-on-year -134 +10 -35
Contract jobs citing Web Development 132 298 382
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.80% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.93% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 204 277
10th Percentile £329 £270 £350
25th Percentile £417 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £650
90th Percentile £706 £772 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile - - £14.40
25th Percentile £25.00 £42.25 £16.51
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% +143.97% -76.33%
75th Percentile £39.52 £55.75 £34.15
90th Percentile £47.28 £63.55 £63.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £17.42
% change year-on-year - +287.49% -76.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web 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 30,286 31,889 42,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 86.07% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,837 19,171 28,834
10th Percentile £295 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,193 1,584
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.23 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.43% -5.88% +59.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Web Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Development

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Development

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the UK over the 6 months to 21 October 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 -122 110 £520 +4.00% 669
UK excluding London -68 57 £550 +25.71% 613
London -66 54 £520 - 205
Work from Home -55 35 £510 +3.03% 182
North of England -40 18 £650 +48.57% 172
South East 0 14 £575 +22.67% 161
Yorkshire -34 14 £650 +36.84% 63
South West +12 8 £648 +72.80% 44
Scotland +7 7 £513 +101.97% 35
North East -2 5 - - 20
East of England -13 5 £531 +53.21% 66
Midlands -63 5 £410 -26.23% 103
East Midlands -9 4 £368 +3.23% 44
North West -25 2 £575 +109.09% 91
West Midlands -62 1 £700 +24.67% 59

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.06%) CMS
2 4 (3.03%) Apache
2 4 (3.03%) Headless CMS
2 4 (3.03%) Moodle
3 3 (2.27%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
5 1 (0.76%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
5 1 (0.76%) Kentico
5 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.52%) Trello
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.42%) Azure
2 20 (15.15%) AWS
3 16 (12.12%) GitHub
4 11 (8.33%) GCP
5 7 (5.30%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.55%) Figma
7 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.79%) SaaS
8 4 (3.03%) npm
9 3 (2.27%) Cloud Run
9 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.27%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.27%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.27%) Serverless
9 3 (2.27%) Yarn
10 2 (1.52%) Asana
10 2 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.52%) Commercetools
10 2 (1.52%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) Intranet
2 1 (0.76%) SSL
2 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.27%) Mixpanel
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.52%) GIS
6 2 (1.52%) MySQL
6 2 (1.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.76%) DB2
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (20.45%) Git
2 12 (9.09%) Mockito
3 8 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.30%) webpack
5 6 (4.55%) JIRA
6 5 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.03%) Maven
7 4 (3.03%) MSI
7 4 (3.03%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.27%) Newman
8 3 (2.27%) Selenium
9 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.52%) GitLab
9 2 (1.52%) Gradle
9 2 (1.52%) Mocha
9 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 2 (1.52%) Vite
General
1 48 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.33%) Finance
4 8 (6.06%) Marketing
5 7 (5.30%) Banking
6 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.27%) Legal
7 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 93 (70.45%) Developer
2 28 (21.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (15.91%) Senior
4 17 (12.88%) Senior Developer
5 15 (11.36%) Java Developer
6 14 (10.61%) Web Developer
7 11 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (6.82%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.82%) React Developer
10 8 (6.06%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 5 (3.79%) Lecturer
12 4 (3.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Angular Developer
12 4 (3.03%) Integration Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Java Web Developer
12 4 (3.03%) Project Manager
13 3 (2.27%) .NET Developer
13 3 (2.27%) Software Engineer
13 3 (2.27%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (43.18%) HTML
2 54 (40.91%) CSS
3 46 (34.85%) React
4 21 (15.91%) Node.js
5 19 (14.39%) RESTful
6 15 (11.36%) AngularJS
6 15 (11.36%) REST
7 14 (10.61%) Jest
8 13 (9.85%) Vue
9 12 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (9.09%) JAX-RS
10 11 (8.33%) Kafka
11 10 (7.58%) .NET
11 10 (7.58%) FastAPI
11 10 (7.58%) Next.js
12 9 (6.82%) Spring
13 7 (5.30%) Ruby on Rails
13 7 (5.30%) Sass
14 6 (4.55%) Express.js
14 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.03%) PKI
5 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.27%) Derivative
5 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.27%) Genomics
5 3 (2.27%) Life Science
5 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Social Media
7 1 (0.76%) AS400
7 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.76%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.76%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.39%) Linux
2 12 (9.09%) Mac OS X
2 12 (9.09%) Unix
3 8 (6.06%) Windows
4 6 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.79%) CentOS
6 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.76%) AIX
7 1 (0.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.52%) Agile
2 43 (32.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (22.73%) DevOps
5 26 (19.70%) CI/CD
5 26 (19.70%) Computer Science
5 26 (19.70%) User Experience
6 25 (18.94%) Microservices
6 25 (18.94%) Test Automation
7 21 (15.91%) Responsive Web Design
8 20 (15.15%) Front End Development
8 20 (15.15%) TDD
9 17 (12.88%) Code Quality
10 16 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 15 (11.36%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.61%) BDD
12 14 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.61%) UX Design
13 13 (9.85%) AI
13 13 (9.85%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.48%) JavaScript
2 41 (31.06%) Python
3 37 (28.03%) Java
4 35 (26.52%) SQL
5 30 (22.73%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.33%) C#
7 9 (6.82%) PHP
7 9 (6.82%) Ruby
8 6 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.27%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.27%) Go
9 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.52%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.76%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.76%) RPG
11 1 (0.76%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 33 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.24%) Degree
3 24 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) QA
2 9 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.79%) WCAG
4 3 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) MiFID
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.30%) Argo
2 7 (5.30%) Terraform
3 4 (3.03%) Ansible
3 4 (3.03%) WMI
4 2 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.76%) Consul
Vendors
1 20 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Google
3 8 (6.06%) Oracle
4 7 (5.30%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.79%) OutSystems
5 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.79%) VMware
6 4 (3.03%) Optimizely
6 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.27%) SAP
7 3 (2.27%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.52%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.52%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.52%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.76%) Adobe
9 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.76%) IBM