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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 318 323
Rank change year-on-year -196 +5 -17
Contract jobs citing Web Development 92 221 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.72% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.80% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 139 208
10th Percentile £300 £357 £263
25th Percentile £400 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +12.18% -13.13%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £728 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £413
% change year-on-year +3.26% +11.52% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile - £26.38 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £29.38 £17.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £37.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +51.02% -36.36%
75th Percentile £37.20 £41.18 £56.25
90th Percentile - £42.46 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.60 - £24.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.36%

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 35,362 27,619 38,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 89.84% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,059 25,415
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 859 2,186
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.30 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 22 February 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
Top 15 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 22 February 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 -174 84 £500 -4.76% 362
UK excluding London -124 47 £475 +3.26% 373
London -103 36 £505 -12.93% 69
North of England -74 22 £500 +6.38% 95
Work from Home -79 20 £510 +7.37% 72
South East -31 12 £413 +0.86% 90
Yorkshire -59 12 £650 +14.64% 40
North West -41 8 £417 -10.43% 41
South West -28 4 £650 +44.44% 49
Scotland -4 3 £490 -2.00% 27
Wales -4 3 £175 -14.70% 16
North East -21 3 - - 15
East of England -27 2 £413 -28.26% 51
East Midlands -29 1 £325 -8.71% 36
Midlands -77 1 £325 -33.33% 47

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 5 (5.43%) CMS
2 2 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.17%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.17%) WordPress
3 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.09%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) IIS
3 1 (1.09%) Kentico
3 1 (1.09%) Moodle
3 1 (1.09%) Mule
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.65%) Azure
2 15 (16.30%) GitHub
3 14 (15.22%) AWS
4 10 (10.87%) Figma
4 10 (10.87%) GCP
5 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.26%) Cloud Run
6 3 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (3.26%) SaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.09%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.09%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.09%) Contentful
8 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.09%) npm
8 1 (1.09%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.09%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.78%) MongoDB
2 9 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.17%) GIS
5 2 (2.17%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.17%) Redis
6 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (23.91%) Git
2 9 (9.78%) Mockito
3 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.17%) Mocha
4 2 (2.17%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (1.09%) Maven
5 1 (1.09%) NUnit
5 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 35 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.96%) Finance
4 5 (5.43%) Banking
4 5 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
6 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Front Office
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
8 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (66.30%) Developer
2 21 (22.83%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (14.13%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.04%) Senior
4 12 (13.04%) Web Developer
5 11 (11.96%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.78%) Python Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 8 (8.70%) React Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Lead
11 3 (3.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 2 (2.17%) Applications Developer
12 2 (2.17%) Conversion Specialist
12 2 (2.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (2.17%) Lecturer
12 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) CSS
1 35 (38.04%) React
2 34 (36.96%) HTML
3 16 (17.39%) AngularJS
3 16 (17.39%) Node.js
4 12 (13.04%) RESTful
5 11 (11.96%) FastAPI
5 11 (11.96%) Jest
5 11 (11.96%) Spring
6 10 (10.87%) JAX-RS
6 10 (10.87%) Kafka
7 9 (9.78%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (9.78%) Next.js
7 9 (9.78%) Vue
8 8 (8.70%) pytest
9 7 (7.61%) .NET
9 7 (7.61%) REST
9 7 (7.61%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (5.43%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.43%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.26%) Genomics
4 3 (3.26%) Life Science
4 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.09%) Derivative
6 1 (1.09%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.09%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.09%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.09%) NHS
6 1 (1.09%) SCORM
6 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.57%) Linux
2 16 (17.39%) Unix
3 12 (13.04%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.17%) Android
4 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.00%) Agile
2 31 (33.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (28.26%) TDD
4 25 (27.17%) CI/CD
5 24 (26.09%) Microservices
6 23 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 20 (21.74%) Code Quality
7 20 (21.74%) User Experience
8 19 (20.65%) Test Automation
9 18 (19.57%) DevOps
9 18 (19.57%) Responsive Web Design
10 16 (17.39%) Front End Development
11 15 (16.30%) BDD
12 14 (15.22%) Web Design
13 13 (14.13%) Pair Programming
14 12 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
14 12 (13.04%) UX Design
15 9 (9.78%) Deployment Automation
15 9 (9.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.65%) JavaScript
2 33 (35.87%) Python
3 31 (33.70%) Java
4 29 (31.52%) TypeScript
5 17 (18.48%) SQL
6 10 (10.87%) C#
7 8 (8.70%) PHP
8 7 (7.61%) Ruby
9 2 (2.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.17%) C++
9 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.09%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.09%) Go
10 1 (1.09%) Groovy
10 1 (1.09%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) Degree
4 8 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.78%) WCAG
3 3 (3.26%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (31.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.61%) Argo
3 4 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.09%) Consul
4 1 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Google
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.61%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.35%) Adobe
5 3 (3.26%) Optimizely
6 2 (2.17%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.17%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.17%) Marketo
6 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) ESRI
7 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.09%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle
7 1 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow