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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 392 265
Rank change year-on-year -154 -127 +31
Contract jobs citing Web Development 128 166 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.51% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.56% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 116 251
10th Percentile £363 £328 £270
25th Percentile £420 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £601 £623 £600
90th Percentile £734 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 4
10th Percentile - - £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +116.07%
75th Percentile £43.03 £43.55 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £46.47 £60.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £67.50
% change year-on-year -49.21% -39.87% +243.16%

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 45,399 29,629 33,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.55% 90.46% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,782 18,436 20,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,881 1,773 1,687
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +6.25%

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 27 August 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 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 16 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 27 August 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 -121 116 £505 +1.00% 337
UK excluding London -108 63 £473 -6.67% 261
London -88 56 £600 +17.07% 133
Work from Home -71 28 £608 +35.11% 99
South East -63 15 £375 -27.04% 64
East of England -12 13 £593 -8.70% 37
Midlands -48 13 £469 +14.33% 43
West Midlands -39 12 £438 -37.50% 21
North of England -72 11 £463 -19.57% 65
South West -48 8 £505 +36.49% 23
Yorkshire -50 6 £475 -26.92% 23
North West -47 5 £345 -22.30% 33
Scotland -25 4 £470 -10.48% 23
East Midlands -20 1 £500 +36.61% 22
North East -42 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 3

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 (6.25%) CMS
2 5 (3.91%) WordPress
3 4 (3.13%) Confluence
4 3 (2.34%) Drupal
4 3 (2.34%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.56%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.78%) Liferay
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) ContrOCC
2 4 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.66%) Azure
2 23 (17.97%) GCP
3 15 (11.72%) AWS
4 11 (8.59%) Power Platform
5 9 (7.03%) GitHub
6 7 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.69%) Figma
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.56%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.78%) Algolia
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.78%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.78%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.78%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) Firewall
1 13 (10.16%) VPN
2 6 (4.69%) DNS
2 6 (4.69%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.13%) HTTP
4 3 (2.34%) VLAN
5 1 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.38%) MongoDB
1 12 (9.38%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.69%) MySQL
4 6 (4.69%) Power BI
5 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.91%) Couchbase
5 5 (3.91%) Redis
6 4 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.34%) Tableau
8 2 (1.56%) GIS
8 2 (1.56%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.78%) Metadata
9 1 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 30 (23.44%) Git
2 12 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.81%) JIRA
4 6 (4.69%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (4.69%) Mockito
5 4 (3.13%) JUnit
6 3 (2.34%) GitLab
7 2 (1.56%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.56%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.56%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.78%) Gradle
8 1 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.78%) MLflow
8 1 (0.78%) NUnit
8 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.78%) Subversion
8 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.00%) Finance
3 26 (20.31%) Banking
4 18 (14.06%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.16%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.47%) Marketing
8 6 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.91%) Local Government
10 2 (1.56%) Automotive
10 2 (1.56%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.78%) Advertising
11 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.78%) Games
11 1 (0.78%) Law
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (65.63%) Developer
2 28 (21.88%) Web Developer
3 21 (16.41%) Senior
4 20 (15.63%) Java Developer
5 17 (13.28%) Backend Developer
6 12 (9.38%) Java Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.59%) Software Developer
8 10 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (7.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (7.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Angular Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Applications Support
10 8 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) IAM Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (5.47%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.69%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (35.16%) HTML
2 42 (32.81%) CSS
3 23 (17.97%) .NET
4 20 (15.63%) AngularJS
5 19 (14.84%) React
6 17 (13.28%) REST
7 14 (10.94%) Spring
8 13 (10.16%) OAuth
9 10 (7.81%) Node.js
10 8 (6.25%) .NET Framework
10 8 (6.25%) HTML5
11 7 (5.47%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.47%) Jest
11 7 (5.47%) jQuery
11 7 (5.47%) JSON
11 7 (5.47%) Kafka
11 7 (5.47%) RESTful
11 7 (5.47%) RxJava
11 7 (5.47%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.69%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.47%) Derivative
2 7 (5.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.34%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.34%) Genomics
5 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.56%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) CMDB
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) FMCG
6 1 (0.78%) Mashup
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.59%) Unix
2 6 (4.69%) Linux
3 5 (3.91%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.56%) Windows
5 1 (0.78%) MVS
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (52.34%) Agile
2 38 (29.69%) CI/CD
3 37 (28.91%) DevOps
4 36 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (20.31%) Microservices
6 22 (17.19%) User Experience
7 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 17 (13.28%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (12.50%) API Integration
9 16 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 16 (12.50%) UX Design
10 15 (11.72%) AI
11 14 (10.94%) Front End Development
12 13 (10.16%) Clean Code
13 12 (9.38%) Scrum
14 10 (7.81%) Identity Management
14 10 (7.81%) Load Balancing
14 10 (7.81%) Unit Testing
15 9 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.81%) JavaScript
2 32 (25.00%) Java
3 26 (20.31%) TypeScript
4 24 (18.75%) SQL
5 19 (14.84%) C#
6 13 (10.16%) Python
7 6 (4.69%) Bash
7 6 (4.69%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.91%) PHP
9 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) JCL
11 1 (0.78%) REXX
11 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.38%) Degree
3 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.34%) CCNA
5 3 (2.34%) CCNP
5 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.72%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.16%) QA
3 11 (8.59%) WCAG
4 5 (3.91%) SLA
5 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.78%) WAI
6 1 (0.78%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (14.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.78%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle
4 5 (3.91%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.34%) Adobe
5 3 (2.34%) Netskope
5 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.34%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.56%) ESRI
6 2 (1.56%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.56%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.78%) BMC
7 1 (0.78%) CODA
7 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.78%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) Pardot
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk