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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 334 294
Rank change year-on-year -201 -40 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Development 105 197 335
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.74% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 132 238
10th Percentile £363 £355 £269
25th Percentile £434 £427 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £523 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +7.78% -7.62%
75th Percentile £667 £623 £587
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £433
% change year-on-year +3.20% +12.02% -11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £28.28 £25.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £84.06 £35.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £43.51 £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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -168 100 £504 -4.00% 169
London -117 56 £550 -5.90% 47
UK excluding London -126 45 £500 +3.20% 160
Work from Home -71 22 £650 +44.44% 103
South East -56 18 £406 -20.96% 37
North of England -75 12 £600 +68.30% 40
South West -36 6 £505 +36.49% 18
North West -47 6 £700 +96.35% 20
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 15
East of England -21 5 £505 -17.55% 25
Midlands -72 3 £425 +16.12% 22
Scotland -28 2 £488 -2.50% 9
West Midlands -62 2 £350 -26.32% 11
East Midlands -31 1 £500 +55.28% 11

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 (7.62%) CMS
2 4 (3.81%) WordPress
3 3 (2.86%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.95%) Drupal
5 1 (0.95%) Kentico
5 1 (0.95%) Mule
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.95%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) ContrOCC
2 1 (0.95%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.29%) Azure
2 17 (16.19%) GCP
3 13 (12.38%) AWS
4 9 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.62%) Figma
5 8 (7.62%) GitHub
6 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.90%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.95%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.95%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.95%) npm
10 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.95%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) Firewall
1 8 (7.62%) VPN
2 7 (6.67%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.76%) HTTP
4 4 (3.81%) VLAN
5 2 (1.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Power BI
4 5 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (4.76%) MySQL
4 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.81%) Couchbase
5 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.86%) GIS
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.86%) Tableau
7 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.90%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.95%) Metadata
8 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.95%) Redis
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (6.67%) Mockito
3 6 (5.71%) JIRA
4 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.81%) JUnit
6 3 (2.86%) GitLab
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.95%) NUnit
8 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.95%) Subversion
8 1 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 29 (27.62%) Finance
2 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (20.95%) Banking
4 16 (15.24%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.43%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.76%) Marketing
9 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.86%) Publishing
10 2 (1.90%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.95%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.95%) Automotive
11 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.95%) Front Office
11 1 (0.95%) Law
11 1 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (67.62%) Developer
2 20 (19.05%) Web Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Java Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Senior
4 13 (12.38%) Software Developer
5 10 (9.52%) .NET Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Angular Developer
5 10 (9.52%) C# Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Backend Developer
7 8 (7.62%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Developer
8 7 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) SQL Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Web Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (43.81%) HTML
2 37 (35.24%) CSS
3 27 (25.71%) AngularJS
4 26 (24.76%) .NET
5 14 (13.33%) React
6 13 (12.38%) Spring
7 12 (11.43%) OAuth
7 12 (11.43%) REST
8 8 (7.62%) Kafka
9 7 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (6.67%) JAX-RS
9 7 (6.67%) jQuery
10 6 (5.71%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.71%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET
10 6 (5.71%) Node.js
10 6 (5.71%) RxJava
10 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.76%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (5.71%) Derivative
4 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Genomics
6 2 (1.90%) Life Science
6 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.38%) Unix
2 9 (8.57%) Linux
2 9 (8.57%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.90%) Android
3 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.95%) MVS
4 1 (0.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) Agile
2 40 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 37 (35.24%) DevOps
4 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (21.90%) Microservices
7 18 (17.14%) Responsive Web Design
7 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 14 (13.33%) User Experience
9 13 (12.38%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.43%) AI
10 12 (11.43%) TDD
10 12 (11.43%) UX Design
11 10 (9.52%) API Integration
11 10 (9.52%) BDD
11 10 (9.52%) Pair Programming
11 10 (9.52%) Scrum
12 9 (8.57%) Analytics
12 9 (8.57%) MVC
12 9 (8.57%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 32 (30.48%) SQL
3 29 (27.62%) Java
4 28 (26.67%) C#
5 23 (21.90%) TypeScript
6 17 (16.19%) Python
7 7 (6.67%) Bash
7 7 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.86%) PHP
9 3 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.95%) Bicep
11 1 (0.95%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.95%) Groovy
11 1 (0.95%) JCL
11 1 (0.95%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.95%) REXX
11 1 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 4 (3.81%) CCNA
4 4 (3.81%) CCNP
4 4 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) Accessibility
1 8 (7.62%) WCAG
2 7 (6.67%) QA
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) WAI
4 1 (0.95%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 16 (15.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.95%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Google
3 7 (6.67%) Oracle
4 3 (2.86%) ESRI
4 3 (2.86%) Netskope
4 3 (2.86%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.90%) Adobe
5 2 (1.90%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) BMC
6 1 (0.95%) CODA
6 1 (0.95%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.95%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.95%) Pardot
6 1 (0.95%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) WooCommerce