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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 312 302
Rank change year-on-year -218 -10 -8
Contract jobs citing Web Development 85 218 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.74% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.82% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 149 229
10th Percentile £322 £355 £260
25th Percentile £409 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +6.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £609 £600
90th Percentile £633 £748 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £470 £424
% change year-on-year -3.19% +10.91% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.60 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +25.81% +40.91%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £65.94
90th Percentile - £43.15 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.60 £40.59 £24.50
% change year-on-year -17.22% +65.67% +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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 April 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 13 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 21 April 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 -216 75 £475 -6.86% 1,039
London -128 44 £475 -18.10% 315
UK excluding London -158 35 £455 -3.19% 768
Work from Home -71 18 £600 +30.43% 46
North of England -71 17 £488 +3.72% 318
North West -60 10 £417 -10.43% 261
South East -63 10 £350 -29.82% 211
Yorkshire -60 7 £500 +6.38% 50
Wales -8 3 £175 -14.70% 9
Scotland -11 3 £455 -9.00% 4
East of England -31 1 - - 126
East Midlands -36 1 £500 +55.28% 40
Midlands -80 1 £500 +6.38% 61

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 (8.24%) CMS
2 3 (3.53%) WordPress
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.18%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) Kentico
4 1 (1.18%) Mule
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.18%) SAS
4 1 (1.18%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.12%) Azure
2 12 (14.12%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Figma
4 9 (10.59%) GCP
5 7 (8.24%) GitHub
6 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.71%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.35%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.18%) Algolia
8 1 (1.18%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.18%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.18%) Contentful
8 1 (1.18%) npm
8 1 (1.18%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) DNS
1 7 (8.24%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.88%) HTTP
3 4 (4.71%) Firewall
3 4 (4.71%) VLAN
3 4 (4.71%) VPN
4 2 (2.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.18%) GIS
6 1 (1.18%) Metadata
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Git
2 8 (9.41%) Mockito
3 4 (4.71%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.53%) JIRA
5 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.18%) GitLab
6 1 (1.18%) NUnit
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Finance
3 16 (18.82%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.41%) Banking
5 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.35%) Marketing
6 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.35%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.18%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.18%) Front Office
7 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (65.88%) Developer
2 14 (16.47%) Web Developer
3 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.94%) C# Developer
5 10 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 9 (10.59%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (9.41%) Angular Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Senior
8 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Web Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) .NET Software Developer
10 5 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
10 5 (5.88%) React Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.71%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.00%) HTML
2 24 (28.24%) CSS
3 21 (24.71%) AngularJS
4 20 (23.53%) .NET
5 17 (20.00%) React
6 9 (10.59%) Kafka
6 9 (10.59%) REST
7 8 (9.41%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (9.41%) JAX-RS
8 7 (8.24%) OAuth
9 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET
9 5 (5.88%) FastAPI
9 5 (5.88%) HTML5
9 5 (5.88%) Node.js
10 4 (4.71%) Jest
10 4 (4.71%) Next.js
10 4 (4.71%) RESTful
10 4 (4.71%) SAML
11 3 (3.53%) SOAP
11 3 (3.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.35%) Genomics
3 2 (2.35%) Life Science
3 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.18%) Derivative
4 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.18%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.18%) NHS
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.47%) Linux
1 14 (16.47%) Unix
2 10 (11.76%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.35%) Android
3 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.18%) MVS
4 1 (1.18%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) Agile
2 24 (28.24%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.88%) DevOps
3 22 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (24.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (21.18%) TDD
6 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
7 15 (17.65%) Responsive Web Design
8 12 (14.12%) Microservices
9 11 (12.94%) BDD
9 11 (12.94%) Front End Development
9 11 (12.94%) Pair Programming
9 11 (12.94%) Web Design
10 10 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 10 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
10 10 (11.76%) User Experience
11 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.24%) UX Design
11 7 (8.24%) Visualisation
12 6 (7.06%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.24%) JavaScript
2 25 (29.41%) Python
3 23 (27.06%) SQL
4 22 (25.88%) C#
5 19 (22.35%) Java
6 18 (21.18%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.24%) Bash
8 6 (7.06%) PHP
9 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.35%) C++
10 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.18%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.18%) Groovy
11 1 (1.18%) JCL
11 1 (1.18%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.18%) REXX
11 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Degree
4 4 (4.71%) CCNA
4 4 (4.71%) CCNP
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) WCAG
2 8 (9.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 16 (18.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Grafana
3 3 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.18%) Control-M
4 1 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Google
3 3 (3.53%) Adobe
3 3 (3.53%) Netskope
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle
3 3 (3.53%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) BMC
5 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.18%) ESRI
5 1 (1.18%) Marketo
5 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.18%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.18%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.18%) SAP
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Splunk
5 1 (1.18%) WooCommerce