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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 321 297
Rank change year-on-year -226 -24 -10
Contract jobs citing Web Development 88 204 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.71% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.78% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 143 229
10th Percentile £382 £355 £268
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £517 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +8.84% -9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £588
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +4.28% +12.82% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £36.54 £26.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £36.96 £27.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +93.18%
75th Percentile £57.19 £43.39 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.38 £43.77 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £40.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -8.35% -11.76% +109.09%

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 41,015 26,042 36,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 91.03% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,698 16,721 23,544
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.59% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,419 1,056 2,449
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.70 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -33.82% +8.57%

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 23 May 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 23 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 14 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 23 May 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 -198 83 £503 -3.27% 184
London -126 49 £505 -13.68% 38
UK excluding London -144 36 £500 +4.28% 189
Work from Home -74 19 £600 +29.73% 27
North of England -72 13 £500 +40.25% 46
South East -72 11 £463 -9.89% 49
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 20
North West -43 6 £700 +96.35% 20
East of England -28 4 £505 -12.17% 29
South West -49 4 £505 +36.49% 20
Scotland -17 3 £455 -9.00% 11
Midlands -80 2 £425 +3.66% 28
East Midlands -34 1 £500 +55.28% 18
West Midlands -68 1 £350 -28.21% 10

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 7 (7.95%) CMS
2 4 (4.55%) WordPress
3 3 (3.41%) ArcGIS
4 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.27%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.14%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.14%) Drupal
5 1 (1.14%) Kentico
5 1 (1.14%) Mule
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.14%) SAS
5 1 (1.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) Azure
2 12 (13.64%) AWS
2 12 (13.64%) GCP
3 8 (9.09%) Figma
4 7 (7.95%) GitHub
5 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.41%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.27%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (1.14%) Algolia
9 1 (1.14%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.14%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.14%) npm
9 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.14%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) DNS
1 7 (7.95%) Firewall
1 7 (7.95%) TCP/IP
1 7 (7.95%) VPN
2 5 (5.68%) HTTP
3 4 (4.55%) VLAN
4 2 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.95%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.41%) GIS
4 3 (3.41%) Tableau
5 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.27%) Power BI
5 2 (2.27%) Spatial Data
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.14%) Metadata
6 1 (1.14%) MySQL
6 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Git
2 7 (7.95%) Mockito
3 6 (6.82%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.27%) GitLab
5 2 (2.27%) NUnit
6 1 (1.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.14%) Subversion
6 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 23 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Finance
3 14 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.77%) Banking
5 8 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Marketing
8 3 (3.41%) Publishing
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.14%) Automotive
10 1 (1.14%) Dutch Language
10 1 (1.14%) Front Office
10 1 (1.14%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (70.45%) Developer
2 16 (18.18%) Web Developer
3 13 (14.77%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 11 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 11 (12.50%) C# Developer
6 10 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.23%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (9.09%) Angular Developer
8 8 (9.09%) Senior
9 7 (7.95%) Azure Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Backend Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) SQL Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Web Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) .NET Software Developer
11 5 (5.68%) C# Software Developer
12 4 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (43.18%) HTML
2 28 (31.82%) CSS
3 25 (28.41%) .NET
4 22 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.91%) React
6 10 (11.36%) REST
7 9 (10.23%) OAuth
8 8 (9.09%) Kafka
9 7 (7.95%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (7.95%) JAX-RS
9 7 (7.95%) Spring
10 6 (6.82%) .NET Framework
10 6 (6.82%) ASP.NET
11 5 (5.68%) HTML5
11 5 (5.68%) Node.js
12 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
12 4 (4.55%) Entity Framework
12 4 (4.55%) RxJava
12 4 (4.55%) SAML
13 3 (3.41%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.55%) Derivative
3 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Genomics
5 2 (2.27%) Life Science
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Linux
1 9 (10.23%) Mac OS X
1 9 (10.23%) Unix
2 2 (2.27%) Android
2 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.14%) MVS
3 1 (1.14%) Windows
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (56.82%) Agile
2 31 (35.23%) DevOps
3 30 (34.09%) CI/CD
4 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (19.32%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 15 (17.05%) Microservices
9 12 (13.64%) TDD
10 11 (12.50%) User Experience
11 10 (11.36%) BDD
11 10 (11.36%) Pair Programming
12 9 (10.23%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (10.23%) UX Design
12 9 (10.23%) Web Design
13 8 (9.09%) API Integration
13 8 (9.09%) Front End Development
13 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
14 6 (6.82%) AI
14 6 (6.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 27 (30.68%) C#
3 25 (28.41%) SQL
4 22 (25.00%) Java
5 19 (21.59%) TypeScript
6 17 (19.32%) Python
7 7 (7.95%) Bash
8 3 (3.41%) PHP
8 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.14%) Bicep
10 1 (1.14%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.14%) Groovy
10 1 (1.14%) JCL
10 1 (1.14%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.14%) REXX
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) Degree
4 4 (4.55%) CCNA
4 4 (4.55%) CCNP
4 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.95%) WCAG
3 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) WAI
4 1 (1.14%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.14%) Control-M
2 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) Google
3 3 (3.41%) ESRI
3 3 (3.41%) Netskope
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle
3 3 (3.41%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.27%) Adobe
4 2 (2.27%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.14%) BMC
5 1 (1.14%) CODA
5 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.14%) Pardot
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk
5 1 (1.14%) WooCommerce