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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 367 301
Rank change year-on-year -153 -66 -23
Contract jobs citing Web Development 136 179 304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.60% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 125 228
10th Percentile £363 £339 £250
25th Percentile £425 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +2.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £425
% change year-on-year -2.06% +14.12% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 7
10th Percentile - - £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £25.82
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £43.03 £43.55 £55.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £46.47 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £41.44
% change year-on-year -49.21% -2.05% +88.36%

All Process & 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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 30 July 2026.

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 30 July 2026.

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 30 July 2026. 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 -135 125 £500 -2.72% 218
London -90 65 £550 +4.76% 60
UK excluding London -103 61 £475 -2.06% 206
Work from Home -71 25 £650 +44.44% 44
North of England -61 17 £469 +49.76% 55
South East -72 15 £406 -20.96% 51
East of England -7 11 £505 -22.31% 25
North West -50 9 £450 +43.77% 27
Midlands -57 9 £425 +3.66% 33
South West -47 8 £505 +36.49% 22
West Midlands -58 8 £388 -44.64% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 21
Scotland -24 3 £475 -9.52% 14
East Midlands -16 1 £500 +36.61% 23
North East - 1 - - 8

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 9 (6.62%) CMS
2 5 (3.68%) WordPress
3 4 (2.94%) Confluence
4 3 (2.21%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.21%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.47%) Drupal
5 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.74%) Liferay
6 1 (0.74%) Mule
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.21%) Azure
2 22 (16.18%) GCP
3 19 (13.97%) AWS
4 10 (7.35%) GitHub
5 9 (6.62%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.88%) Figma
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.47%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.74%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.74%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.74%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.74%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) Firewall
1 12 (8.82%) VPN
2 7 (5.15%) DNS
2 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.68%) HTTP
4 4 (2.94%) VLAN
5 2 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.09%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.41%) MySQL
5 6 (4.41%) Power BI
6 5 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.68%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.68%) Redis
7 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.21%) GIS
8 3 (2.21%) Tableau
9 2 (1.47%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.74%) Metadata
10 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 23 (16.91%) Git
2 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.09%) JIRA
3 10 (7.35%) Mockito
4 7 (5.15%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.94%) JUnit
6 3 (2.21%) GitLab
7 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.47%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) MLflow
8 1 (0.74%) NUnit
8 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.74%) Subversion
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.53%) Finance
3 27 (19.85%) Banking
4 23 (16.91%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.03%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.41%) Marketing
8 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.68%) Local Government
9 2 (1.47%) Automotive
9 2 (1.47%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.47%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.74%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (66.18%) Developer
2 26 (19.12%) Web Developer
3 23 (16.91%) Java Developer
4 22 (16.18%) Senior
5 16 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 14 (10.29%) Backend Developer
7 13 (9.56%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.82%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.35%) Angular Developer
9 10 (7.35%) Java Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) C# Developer
10 9 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Applications Support
11 8 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Azure Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.03%) HTML
2 39 (28.68%) CSS
3 28 (20.59%) .NET
4 26 (19.12%) AngularJS
5 18 (13.24%) REST
6 16 (11.76%) React
7 14 (10.29%) OAuth
7 14 (10.29%) Spring
8 11 (8.09%) Kafka
9 10 (7.35%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (7.35%) JAX-RS
9 10 (7.35%) Node.js
10 8 (5.88%) RxJava
11 7 (5.15%) jQuery
12 6 (4.41%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.41%) HTML5
12 6 (4.41%) Jest
12 6 (4.41%) RESTful
12 6 (4.41%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.68%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.88%) Derivative
2 8 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.21%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.21%) Genomics
5 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.47%) Life Science
5 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.74%) CMDB
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.74%) FMCG
6 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.74%) Mashup
6 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Unix
2 12 (8.82%) Linux
3 11 (8.09%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) MVS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (55.15%) Agile
2 46 (33.82%) CI/CD
3 45 (33.09%) DevOps
4 41 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (24.26%) Microservices
6 29 (21.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (16.91%) Test Automation
8 20 (14.71%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (13.24%) Software Engineering
9 18 (13.24%) User Experience
10 16 (11.76%) AI
11 15 (11.03%) TDD
12 14 (10.29%) API Integration
13 13 (9.56%) BDD
13 13 (9.56%) UX Design
14 12 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
14 12 (8.82%) Pair Programming
15 11 (8.09%) Clean Code
15 11 (8.09%) Web Design
16 10 (7.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 38 (27.94%) Java
3 34 (25.00%) SQL
4 25 (18.38%) C#
4 25 (18.38%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.76%) Python
6 7 (5.15%) Bash
6 7 (5.15%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.68%) PHP
8 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) JCL
10 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.74%) REXX
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.09%) Degree
4 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.94%) CCNA
4 4 (2.94%) CCNP
4 4 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 11 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.88%) WCAG
4 5 (3.68%) SLA
5 3 (2.21%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) WAI
6 1 (0.74%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (13.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Control-M
3 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.35%) Google
3 8 (5.88%) Oracle
4 5 (3.68%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.21%) Adobe
5 3 (2.21%) ESRI
5 3 (2.21%) Netskope
5 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.21%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.47%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.47%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.74%) BMC
7 1 (0.74%) CODA
7 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.74%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.74%) Pardot
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) Splunk