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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 286 330
Rank change year-on-year -164 +44 -48
Contract jobs citing Web Development 122 302 323
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.83% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.96% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 209 235
10th Percentile £313 £250 £327
25th Percentile £400 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -3.41% -8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +22.28% +2.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile - £39.58 £14.03
25th Percentile £25.00 £40.46 £16.17
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.91 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +141.70% -61.47%
75th Percentile £35.00 £42.46 £22.31
90th Percentile £40.15 £42.78 £38.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - £17.34
% change year-on-year - - -74.26%

All Process and 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 31,532 31,312 41,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.80% 86.28% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,731 18,831 28,017
10th Percentile £299 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 1,101 1,605
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +25.24%
75th Percentile £44.77 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.30% -22.80% +48.98%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -171 106 £505 +2.02% 689
UK excluding London -111 58 £563 +22.28% 607
London -73 46 £500 -0.25% 199
Work from Home -75 28 £510 +7.37% 153
North of England -60 21 £650 +38.30% 156
South East -5 16 £575 +39.39% 152
Yorkshire -41 14 £650 +36.84% 59
South West +7 7 £649 +44.22% 47
North East -7 5 - - 19
East of England -27 5 £531 +53.21% 72
North West -39 5 £358 -20.22% 82
Wales 0 3 £175 -22.22% 32
Scotland -1 3 £450 +100.00% 29
Midlands -76 3 £410 -25.45% 118
East Midlands -15 2 £368 +3.23% 44
West Midlands -72 1 £700 +25.96% 74

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 (5.74%) CMS
2 4 (3.28%) Apache
2 4 (3.28%) Moodle
3 2 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.64%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.82%) Confluence
4 1 (0.82%) Drupal
4 1 (0.82%) HCL Domino
4 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.82%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.64%) Trello
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.57%) Azure
2 16 (13.11%) AWS
3 13 (10.66%) GitHub
4 11 (9.02%) GCP
5 9 (7.38%) Figma
6 7 (5.74%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.28%) Google Analytics
8 4 (3.28%) npm
8 4 (3.28%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.28%) SaaS
9 3 (2.46%) Cloud Run
9 3 (2.46%) Commercetools
9 3 (2.46%) Contentful
9 3 (2.46%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.46%) Yarn
10 2 (1.64%) Asana
10 2 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (0.82%) Internet
2 1 (0.82%) Intranet
2 1 (0.82%) SSL
2 1 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.84%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.46%) Mixpanel
5 3 (2.46%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.64%) MySQL
6 2 (1.64%) Redis
7 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.82%) DB2
7 1 (0.82%) GIS
7 1 (0.82%) Power BI
7 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (23.77%) Git
2 11 (9.02%) Mockito
3 7 (5.74%) webpack
4 5 (4.10%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.10%) JIRA
5 4 (3.28%) MSI
5 4 (3.28%) Robot Framework
5 4 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.46%) Maven
7 2 (1.64%) Gradle
7 2 (1.64%) Mocha
7 2 (1.64%) Selenium
7 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.64%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (1.64%) Vite
8 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.82%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
General
1 46 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.66%) Finance
4 8 (6.56%) Marketing
5 5 (4.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Legal
7 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Automotive
9 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.82%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 82 (67.21%) Developer
2 26 (21.31%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (14.75%) Senior
4 17 (13.93%) Senior Developer
5 15 (12.30%) Web Developer
6 14 (11.48%) Java Developer
7 11 (9.02%) Python Developer
8 10 (8.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (8.20%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 9 (7.38%) React Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Lecturer
11 4 (3.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.46%) .NET Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Senior UI Developer
12 3 (2.46%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.46%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (39.34%) CSS
2 45 (36.89%) HTML
3 43 (35.25%) React
4 21 (17.21%) RESTful
5 17 (13.93%) Node.js
6 15 (12.30%) AngularJS
7 14 (11.48%) Vue
8 12 (9.84%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (9.84%) JAX-RS
9 11 (9.02%) FastAPI
9 11 (9.02%) Jest
9 11 (9.02%) Kafka
9 11 (9.02%) REST
10 10 (8.20%) .NET
10 10 (8.20%) Next.js
11 9 (7.38%) Spring
12 8 (6.56%) pytest
13 7 (5.74%) Ruby on Rails
14 6 (4.92%) GraphQL
15 5 (4.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.28%) PKI
3 3 (2.46%) Derivative
3 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.46%) Genomics
3 3 (2.46%) Life Science
3 3 (2.46%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.46%) Social Media
4 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) AS400
5 1 (0.82%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.82%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.82%) NHS
5 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.03%) Linux
2 15 (12.30%) Unix
3 12 (9.84%) Mac OS X
4 8 (6.56%) Windows
5 6 (4.92%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.10%) CentOS
7 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.82%) AIX
8 1 (0.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.36%) Agile
2 39 (31.97%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (21.31%) User Experience
5 24 (19.67%) TDD
5 24 (19.67%) Test Automation
6 23 (18.85%) CI/CD
6 23 (18.85%) DevOps
6 23 (18.85%) Microservices
7 22 (18.03%) Containerisation
7 22 (18.03%) Front End Development
8 21 (17.21%) Computer Science
9 20 (16.39%) Code Quality
10 19 (15.57%) Responsive Web Design
11 15 (12.30%) BDD
11 15 (12.30%) UX Design
12 13 (10.66%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (10.66%) Visualisation
12 13 (10.66%) Web Design
13 12 (9.84%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 51 (41.80%) JavaScript
2 46 (37.70%) Python
3 38 (31.15%) Java
4 30 (24.59%) SQL
5 28 (22.95%) TypeScript
6 12 (9.84%) PHP
7 10 (8.20%) C#
8 9 (7.38%) Ruby
9 6 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.46%) Go
10 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.64%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.64%) C++
11 2 (1.64%) Perl
12 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.82%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.82%) RPG
12 1 (0.82%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 26 (21.31%) Degree
2 25 (20.49%) Security Cleared
3 20 (16.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.46%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.64%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.84%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.20%) QA
3 7 (5.74%) WCAG
4 3 (2.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.82%) MiFID
5 1 (0.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (20.49%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (13.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.74%) Argo
3 4 (3.28%) Ansible
3 4 (3.28%) Terraform
3 4 (3.28%) WMI
4 3 (2.46%) Grafana
4 3 (2.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.82%) Consul
Vendors
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.30%) Google
3 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.10%) Optimizely
4 5 (4.10%) Oracle
4 5 (4.10%) VMware
5 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.46%) Adobe
6 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.46%) OneTrust
6 3 (2.46%) SAP
7 2 (1.64%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.64%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.64%) Marketo
7 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.64%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.82%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.82%) IBM
8 1 (0.82%) OpenAI