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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 280 339
Rank change year-on-year -212 +59 -44
Contract jobs citing Web Development 91 267 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.95% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 180 216
10th Percentile £285 £255 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% -14.41%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £470 £419
% change year-on-year -1.06% +12.17% -20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - £26.15 £14.48
25th Percentile £27.50 £27.50 £17.22
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +85.71% -61.82%
75th Percentile £37.20 £41.91 £26.65
90th Percentile - £42.56 £41.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.60 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 33,018 28,000 37,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.63% 88.93% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 16,996 25,071
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,000 892 1,828
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.37 £74.99 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.55 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.24% -23.05% +53.85%

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 January 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
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 January 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 -202 81 £500 -3.15% 535
UK excluding London -138 51 £465 -1.06% 552
London -108 29 £500 -13.04% 72
North of England -63 23 £575 +22.34% 118
Work from Home -89 20 £510 +3.03% 206
Yorkshire -48 16 £650 +15.76% 55
South East -29 14 £438 +6.97% 155
North East -13 5 - - 22
North West -49 5 £358 -23.01% 43
South West -14 4 £650 +23.81% 63
Scotland +6 3 £455 -9.00% 25
Wales 0 3 £175 -17.78% 33
East of England -30 3 £413 +10.00% 92
East Midlands -31 1 £325 -8.71% 42
Midlands -95 1 £325 -40.91% 66

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 5 (5.49%) CMS
2 2 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.20%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.20%) WordPress
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) Kentico
3 1 (1.10%) Moodle
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) GitHub
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 8 (8.79%) Figma
6 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.30%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.20%) Commercetools
9 2 (2.20%) Contentful
9 2 (2.20%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.10%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.20%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) GIS
6 1 (1.10%) MySQL
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Git
2 12 (13.19%) Mockito
3 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.30%) webpack
4 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.20%) Maven
4 2 (2.20%) Mocha
4 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (2.20%) Vite
5 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (1.10%) Gradle
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) NUnit
5 1 (1.10%) Selenium
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.69%) Finance
4 5 (5.49%) Marketing
4 5 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Front Office
6 2 (2.20%) Law
6 2 (2.20%) Legal
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (69.23%) Developer
2 21 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (17.58%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Senior Developer
5 14 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 14 (15.38%) Web Developer
6 10 (10.99%) Python Developer
6 10 (10.99%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (8.79%) React Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Lead
9 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (2.20%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (2.20%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (40.66%) React
2 31 (34.07%) CSS
2 31 (34.07%) HTML
3 15 (16.48%) Node.js
3 15 (16.48%) RESTful
4 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 13 (14.29%) JAX-RS
5 12 (13.19%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (13.19%) Kafka
6 11 (12.09%) FastAPI
6 11 (12.09%) Jest
6 11 (12.09%) Spring
7 10 (10.99%) Next.js
8 9 (9.89%) Vue
9 8 (8.79%) pytest
10 7 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (6.59%) .NET
11 6 (6.59%) REST
12 5 (5.49%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Genomics
3 3 (3.30%) Life Science
3 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.20%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Social Media
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.10%) NHS
5 1 (1.10%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.88%) Linux
2 17 (18.68%) Unix
3 13 (14.29%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.30%) Windows
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) Agile
2 30 (32.97%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (32.97%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (26.37%) Microservices
3 24 (26.37%) TDD
4 23 (25.27%) CI/CD
5 22 (24.18%) Code Quality
5 22 (24.18%) Containerisation
6 20 (21.98%) Test Automation
6 20 (21.98%) User Experience
7 17 (18.68%) DevOps
7 17 (18.68%) Front End Development
7 17 (18.68%) Responsive Web Design
8 16 (17.58%) BDD
9 14 (15.38%) Web Design
10 13 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (13.19%) Pair Programming
11 12 (13.19%) UX Design
12 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
12 10 (10.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 31 (34.07%) Python
3 29 (31.87%) Java
4 23 (25.27%) TypeScript
5 16 (17.58%) SQL
6 9 (9.89%) Ruby
7 8 (8.79%) PHP
8 7 (7.69%) C#
9 3 (3.30%) Go
10 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.20%) C++
11 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.38%) Degree
4 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.79%) WCAG
3 3 (3.30%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (27.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.69%) Argo
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.10%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Google
2 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.40%) Optimizely
5 3 (3.30%) Adobe
6 2 (2.20%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.20%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.20%) Marketo
6 2 (2.20%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow