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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 348 291
Rank change year-on-year -185 -57 -9
Contract jobs citing Web Development 111 189 339
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.70% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 124 243
10th Percentile £360 £352 £264
25th Percentile £428 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £514 £483
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +6.53% -8.10%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £586
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £433
% change year-on-year +4.28% +10.87% -13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 9
10th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £28.28 £25.13 £22.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £70.63 £39.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £44.03 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -49.21% -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 42,754 27,087 37,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,630 17,192 23,755
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,570 1,249 2,608
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.87 £16.02
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -166 105 £505 -1.75% 222
London -87 58 £558 -1.24% 59
UK excluding London -126 48 £500 +4.28% 218
Work from Home -65 23 £675 +50.00% 37
South East -54 18 £406 -20.96% 54
North of England -69 12 £600 +68.30% 51
South West -37 7 £505 +36.49% 29
East of England -23 6 £505 -17.55% 27
North West -40 6 £700 +96.35% 24
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 20
Midlands -59 4 £425 +16.12% 33
West Midlands -52 3 £350 -26.32% 14
Scotland -25 2 £488 -2.50% 11
East Midlands -26 1 £500 +55.28% 19

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 (7.21%) CMS
2 4 (3.60%) WordPress
3 3 (2.70%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 3 (2.70%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.90%) Drupal
5 1 (0.90%) Kentico
5 1 (0.90%) Mule
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
5 1 (0.90%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.90%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) ContrOCC
1 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.33%) Azure
2 17 (15.32%) GCP
3 14 (12.61%) AWS
4 9 (8.11%) GitHub
4 9 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.21%) Figma
6 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.80%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.90%) Algolia
10 1 (0.90%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.90%) npm
10 1 (0.90%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.21%) Firewall
1 8 (7.21%) VPN
2 7 (6.31%) DNS
2 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.50%) HTTP
4 4 (3.60%) VLAN
5 2 (1.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.41%) Power BI
4 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.50%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.60%) Couchbase
6 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.70%) GIS
7 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.70%) Tableau
8 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.80%) Redis
8 2 (1.80%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.90%) Metadata
9 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (6.31%) JIRA
2 7 (6.31%) Mockito
3 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.60%) JUnit
5 3 (2.70%) GitLab
6 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.90%) NUnit
7 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.90%) Subversion
7 1 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 30 (27.03%) Finance
2 28 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Banking
4 17 (15.32%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.50%) Marketing
9 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.70%) Publishing
10 2 (1.80%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.80%) Local Government
10 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.90%) Front Office
11 1 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 76 (68.47%) Developer
2 22 (19.82%) Web Developer
3 18 (16.22%) Senior
4 17 (15.32%) Java Developer
5 13 (11.71%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (9.01%) .NET Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Angular Developer
7 10 (9.01%) C# Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Backend Developer
9 8 (7.21%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Java Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Web Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Applications Support
12 5 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (42.34%) HTML
2 38 (34.23%) CSS
3 28 (25.23%) AngularJS
4 26 (23.42%) .NET
5 14 (12.61%) React
5 14 (12.61%) Spring
6 13 (11.71%) REST
7 12 (10.81%) OAuth
8 8 (7.21%) Kafka
9 7 (6.31%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (6.31%) JAX-RS
9 7 (6.31%) jQuery
9 7 (6.31%) Node.js
9 7 (6.31%) RxJava
10 6 (5.41%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.41%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET
10 6 (5.41%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.50%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.31%) Derivative
4 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.70%) Genomics
6 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) Life Science
6 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.90%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.90%) CMDB
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Unix
2 9 (8.11%) Linux
2 9 (8.11%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.80%) Android
3 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.90%) MVS
4 1 (0.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.86%) Agile
2 41 (36.94%) CI/CD
3 39 (35.14%) DevOps
4 31 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (22.52%) Microservices
7 18 (16.22%) Responsive Web Design
7 18 (16.22%) Test Automation
8 14 (12.61%) User Experience
9 13 (11.71%) AI
9 13 (11.71%) Software Engineering
10 12 (10.81%) TDD
10 12 (10.81%) UX Design
11 11 (9.91%) API Integration
11 11 (9.91%) Scrum
12 10 (9.01%) BDD
12 10 (9.01%) Pair Programming
13 9 (8.11%) Analytics
13 9 (8.11%) MVC
13 9 (8.11%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.95%) JavaScript
2 32 (28.83%) SQL
3 30 (27.03%) Java
4 28 (25.23%) C#
5 23 (20.72%) TypeScript
6 17 (15.32%) Python
7 7 (6.31%) Bash
7 7 (6.31%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.70%) PHP
9 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.90%) Bicep
11 1 (0.90%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.90%) Groovy
11 1 (0.90%) JCL
11 1 (0.90%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.90%) REXX
11 1 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.01%) Degree
4 4 (3.60%) CCNA
4 4 (3.60%) CCNP
4 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) Accessibility
1 8 (7.21%) WCAG
2 7 (6.31%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.90%) WAI
5 1 (0.90%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 18 (16.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.90%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.21%) Google
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle
4 3 (2.70%) ESRI
4 3 (2.70%) Netskope
4 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.70%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.80%) Adobe
5 2 (1.80%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.80%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.90%) BMC
6 1 (0.90%) CODA
6 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.90%) Pardot
6 1 (0.90%) Splunk
6 1 (0.90%) WooCommerce