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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 352 301
Rank change year-on-year -168 -51 -18
Contract jobs citing Web Development 138 192 333
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.59% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.66% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 129 243
10th Percentile £363 £350 £269
25th Percentile £431 £409 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +2.80% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £595
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +1.67% +12.82% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile - £25.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.13 £22.75
Median hourly rate £29.06 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 July 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 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

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 9 July 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 -149 127 £505 -1.75% 244
London -94 65 £583 +5.53% 63
UK excluding London -126 63 £488 +1.67% 240
Work from Home -62 28 £675 +50.00% 54
South East -55 19 £375 -27.04% 59
North of England -71 15 £488 +55.75% 66
East of England -15 11 £505 -17.55% 31
Midlands -62 9 £425 +3.66% 31
South West -46 8 £505 +36.49% 26
West Midlands -61 8 £388 -34.04% 11
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 24
North West -41 7 £700 +123.64% 36
Scotland -21 3 £475 -5.00% 15
East Midlands -18 1 £500 +36.61% 20
North East - 1 - - 7

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 10 (7.25%) CMS
2 5 (3.62%) WordPress
3 4 (2.90%) Confluence
4 3 (2.17%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.17%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.72%) Drupal
6 1 (0.72%) Kentico
6 1 (0.72%) Liferay
6 1 (0.72%) Mule
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.72%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.43%) Azure
2 21 (15.22%) GCP
3 18 (13.04%) AWS
4 13 (9.42%) GitHub
5 9 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.52%) Figma
5 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.45%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.72%) Algolia
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.72%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.72%) npm
10 1 (0.72%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.70%) Firewall
1 12 (8.70%) VPN
2 7 (5.07%) DNS
2 7 (5.07%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.62%) HTTP
4 4 (2.90%) VLAN
5 2 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.97%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.35%) Power BI
6 5 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.62%) MySQL
6 5 (3.62%) Redis
7 4 (2.90%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.17%) GIS
8 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.17%) Tableau
9 2 (1.45%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.72%) Metadata
10 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (16.67%) Git
2 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.97%) JIRA
3 10 (7.25%) Mockito
4 7 (5.07%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.90%) JUnit
6 3 (2.17%) GitLab
7 2 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.72%) MLflow
8 1 (0.72%) NUnit
8 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 36 (26.09%) Finance
1 36 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.01%) Banking
3 22 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.59%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.07%) Marketing
7 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.62%) Local Government
9 3 (2.17%) Publishing
10 2 (1.45%) Automotive
10 2 (1.45%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.45%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.72%) Front Office
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (67.39%) Developer
2 25 (18.12%) Web Developer
3 24 (17.39%) Java Developer
4 22 (15.94%) Senior
5 17 (12.32%) Software Developer
6 13 (9.42%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.70%) Backend Developer
7 12 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.97%) Angular Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.25%) .NET Developer
9 10 (7.25%) C# Developer
9 10 (7.25%) Java Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.80%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (36.23%) HTML
2 41 (29.71%) CSS
3 29 (21.01%) AngularJS
4 28 (20.29%) .NET
5 18 (13.04%) React
5 18 (13.04%) REST
6 15 (10.87%) OAuth
6 15 (10.87%) Spring
7 12 (8.70%) Node.js
8 11 (7.97%) Kafka
9 10 (7.25%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (7.25%) JAX-RS
10 8 (5.80%) RxJava
11 7 (5.07%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.07%) Jest
11 7 (5.07%) jQuery
12 6 (4.35%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET
12 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.80%) Derivative
4 5 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.17%) Genomics
7 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.45%) Life Science
7 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) CMDB
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.72%) FMCG
8 1 (0.72%) Mashup
8 1 (0.72%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.59%) Unix
2 12 (8.70%) Linux
3 11 (7.97%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.45%) Android
4 2 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.45%) Windows
5 1 (0.72%) MVS
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (57.97%) Agile
2 48 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 46 (33.33%) DevOps
4 41 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (23.91%) Microservices
6 32 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (15.94%) Test Automation
8 21 (15.22%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 17 (12.32%) TDD
10 17 (12.32%) User Experience
11 16 (11.59%) AI
12 13 (9.42%) API Integration
12 13 (9.42%) BDD
12 13 (9.42%) Pair Programming
12 13 (9.42%) UX Design
13 12 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
13 12 (8.70%) Scrum
14 11 (7.97%) Web Design
15 10 (7.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.41%) JavaScript
2 39 (28.26%) Java
3 35 (25.36%) SQL
4 30 (21.74%) C#
5 29 (21.01%) TypeScript
6 19 (13.77%) Python
7 7 (5.07%) Bash
7 7 (5.07%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.17%) PHP
9 3 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.72%) Bicep
11 1 (0.72%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.72%) Groovy
11 1 (0.72%) JCL
11 1 (0.72%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.72%) REXX
11 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.97%) Degree
4 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.90%) CCNA
4 4 (2.90%) CCNP
4 4 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.25%) QA
2 9 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.80%) WCAG
4 5 (3.62%) SLA
5 3 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.72%) WAI
6 1 (0.72%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 22 (15.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Control-M
3 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.52%) Google
3 8 (5.80%) Oracle
4 5 (3.62%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.17%) Adobe
5 3 (2.17%) ESRI
5 3 (2.17%) Netskope
5 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.17%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.45%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.45%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.72%) BMC
7 1 (0.72%) CODA
7 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.72%) Pardot
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.72%) TikTok