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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 376 298
Rank change year-on-year -144 -78 -9
Contract jobs citing Web Development 138 188 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.58% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.64% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 128 230
10th Percentile £363 £344 £273
25th Percentile £425 £412 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.65% -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £738 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £438
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.63% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 8
10th Percentile - - £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £31.03
Median hourly rate £29.06 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £43.39 £70.31
90th Percentile £97.50 £45.66 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £67.50
% change year-on-year -49.21% -39.87% +206.82%

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 44,826 29,510 35,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.34% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,532 22,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,642 1,578 2,152
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.94 £62.76
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.13 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.45%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -145 127 £500 -2.44% 181
London -89 67 £550 +4.76% 48
UK excluding London -109 61 £475 -1.86% 170
Work from Home -72 28 £629 +39.78% 42
North of England -63 17 £469 +31.49% 46
South East -72 15 £406 -20.96% 43
East of England -17 11 £505 -22.31% 21
North West -45 9 £450 +26.23% 25
Midlands -57 9 £425 +3.66% 26
South West -48 8 £505 +36.49% 19
West Midlands -57 8 £388 -34.04% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 16
Scotland -14 3 £475 -9.52% 10
East Midlands -17 1 £500 +36.61% 16
North East - 1 - - 6

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 9 (6.52%) 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%) Drupal
5 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.72%) Liferay
6 1 (0.72%) Mule
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.72%) SAS
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 40 (28.99%) Azure
2 22 (15.94%) GCP
3 19 (13.77%) AWS
4 12 (8.70%) GitHub
5 9 (6.52%) Figma
5 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.17%) 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%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.72%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.72%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.72%) npm
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 16 (11.59%) MongoDB
2 11 (7.97%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.35%) MySQL
5 6 (4.35%) Power BI
6 5 (3.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.62%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.62%) Redis
7 4 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.17%) GIS
8 3 (2.17%) Tableau
9 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.45%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.72%) Metadata
10 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
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%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
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%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 37 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.64%) Finance
3 28 (20.29%) Banking
4 23 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.87%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.35%) Marketing
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%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (67.39%) Developer
2 26 (18.84%) Web Developer
3 23 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 22 (15.94%) Senior
5 17 (12.32%) Software Developer
6 14 (10.14%) Backend Developer
7 13 (9.42%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.42%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.97%) Angular Developer
9 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (7.25%) C# Developer
10 10 (7.25%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.80%) Applications Support
11 8 (5.80%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (5.07%) Azure Developer
12 7 (5.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (5.07%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (36.23%) HTML
2 40 (28.99%) CSS
3 30 (21.74%) .NET
4 27 (19.57%) AngularJS
5 19 (13.77%) REST
6 17 (12.32%) React
7 14 (10.14%) OAuth
7 14 (10.14%) Spring
8 11 (7.97%) Kafka
8 11 (7.97%) Node.js
9 10 (7.25%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (7.25%) JAX-RS
10 8 (5.80%) RxJava
11 7 (5.07%) jQuery
12 6 (4.35%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.35%) HTML5
12 6 (4.35%) Jest
12 6 (4.35%) RESTful
12 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.62%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.42%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.80%) Derivative
2 8 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.17%) Genomics
5 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.45%) Life Science
5 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.72%) CMDB
6 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.72%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
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 76 (55.07%) Agile
2 47 (34.06%) CI/CD
3 45 (32.61%) DevOps
4 41 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (23.91%) Microservices
6 31 (22.46%) 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%) AI
10 17 (12.32%) User Experience
11 16 (11.59%) TDD
12 14 (10.14%) API Integration
13 13 (9.42%) BDD
14 12 (8.70%) Continuous Deployment
14 12 (8.70%) Pair Programming
14 12 (8.70%) UX Design
15 11 (7.97%) Scrum
15 11 (7.97%) Web Design
16 10 (7.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 38 (27.54%) Java
3 35 (25.36%) SQL
4 28 (20.29%) C#
5 27 (19.57%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.04%) Python
7 7 (5.07%) Bash
7 7 (5.07%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.62%) PHP
9 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.17%) T-SQL
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%) PowerShell
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 11 (7.97%) Accessibility
1 11 (7.97%) QA
2 8 (5.80%) WCAG
3 5 (3.62%) SLA
4 3 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) WAI
5 1 (0.72%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 21 (15.22%) 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 12 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) 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%) MuleSoft
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%) Pardot
7 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk