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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 392 266
Rank change year-on-year -159 -126 +32
Contract jobs citing Web Development 128 163 339
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.50% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.55% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 112 244
10th Percentile £361 £333 £270
25th Percentile £415 £412 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% +2.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £602
90th Percentile £731 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £514 £475
% change year-on-year -8.56% +8.21% -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% +93.18%
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% +206.82%

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 45,377 29,398 32,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,769 18,279 20,543
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% -3.49%
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 2,906 1,760 1,592
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.30 £18.69
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.03 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.58 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.14% -47.37% +14.67%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -141 114 £505 -1.46% 336
UK excluding London -112 63 £470 -8.56% 254
London -86 54 £600 +16.22% 143
Work from Home -56 29 £600 +33.33% 99
South East -72 15 £375 -27.04% 59
Midlands -43 14 £438 +6.71% 35
East of England -11 13 £593 -8.70% 39
West Midlands -38 13 £431 -38.39% 17
North of England -66 10 £463 -28.85% 61
South West -42 8 £505 +36.49% 28
Yorkshire -45 6 £475 -26.92% 24
Scotland -33 4 £470 -10.48% 25
North West -48 4 £345 -22.30% 29
East Midlands -24 1 £500 +36.61% 18
North East -43 1 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 4

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 10 (7.81%) CMS
2 6 (4.69%) WordPress
3 4 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.13%) Confluence
3 4 (3.13%) Drupal
4 3 (2.34%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.56%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.78%) Headless CMS
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 6 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.91%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.78%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.53%) Azure
2 20 (15.63%) GCP
3 13 (10.16%) AWS
3 13 (10.16%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.03%) GitHub
5 7 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.69%) Figma
6 6 (4.69%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.56%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.78%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.78%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.78%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) Firewall
1 13 (10.16%) VPN
2 4 (3.13%) DNS
3 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.34%) VLAN
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.38%) Relational Database
1 12 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.59%) MongoDB
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
6 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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
9 1 (0.78%) Chroma
9 1 (0.78%) Metadata
9 1 (0.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (25.00%) Git
2 12 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.81%) JIRA
4 5 (3.91%) Mockito
5 4 (3.13%) JUnit
6 3 (2.34%) Browser DevTools
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 31 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.88%) Finance
3 26 (20.31%) Banking
4 17 (13.28%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.16%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.03%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.25%) Marketing
8 6 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.91%) Local Government
10 4 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Automotive
11 2 (1.56%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.56%) Publishing
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.78%) Games
12 1 (0.78%) Law
12 1 (0.78%) Retail
12 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (66.41%) Developer
2 30 (23.44%) Web Developer
3 21 (16.41%) Senior
4 19 (14.84%) Java Developer
5 17 (13.28%) Backend Developer
6 12 (9.38%) Java Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (8.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.59%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.81%) Software Developer
9 9 (7.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) IAM Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (5.47%) Angular Developer
12 6 (4.69%) Architect
12 6 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.91%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (36.72%) HTML
2 46 (35.94%) CSS
3 23 (17.97%) .NET
4 21 (16.41%) React
5 18 (14.06%) AngularJS
6 17 (13.28%) REST
7 14 (10.94%) Spring
8 13 (10.16%) Node.js
9 10 (7.81%) .NET Framework
9 10 (7.81%) HTML5
9 10 (7.81%) OAuth
10 9 (7.03%) JSON
11 8 (6.25%) CSS3
12 7 (5.47%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.47%) Jest
12 7 (5.47%) jQuery
12 7 (5.47%) RESTful
12 7 (5.47%) RxJava
12 7 (5.47%) Spring Boot
13 6 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) 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%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) FMCG
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Mashup
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.81%) Unix
2 6 (4.69%) Linux
3 4 (3.13%) 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 37 (28.91%) CI/CD
3 36 (28.13%) DevOps
4 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (21.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (19.53%) Microservices
7 23 (17.97%) User Experience
8 21 (16.41%) Software Engineering
9 17 (13.28%) Responsive Web Design
10 16 (12.50%) API Integration
10 16 (12.50%) Front End Development
10 16 (12.50%) UX Design
11 15 (11.72%) AI
11 15 (11.72%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.16%) Clean Code
13 12 (9.38%) Scrum
14 10 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (7.81%) Identity Management
14 10 (7.81%) Load Balancing
14 10 (7.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.38%) JavaScript
2 31 (24.22%) Java
3 28 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 24 (18.75%) SQL
5 19 (14.84%) C#
6 10 (7.81%) Python
7 6 (4.69%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.91%) PHP
9 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.34%) Bash
11 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.78%) Bicep
12 1 (0.78%) JCL
12 1 (0.78%) REXX
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.16%) 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
6 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.28%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.16%) QA
2 13 (10.16%) WCAG
3 5 (3.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) WAI
5 1 (0.78%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 9 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) Adobe
5 5 (3.91%) Liquidlogic
6 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) ESRI
7 2 (1.56%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.56%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.78%) BMC
8 1 (0.78%) CODA
8 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.78%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.78%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.78%) Pardot
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) TikTok