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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 286 318
Rank change year-on-year -201 +32 -22
Contract jobs citing Web Development 95 269 297
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.83% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.94% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 182 216
10th Percentile £308 £257 £305
25th Percentile £400 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +6.32% -17.39%
75th Percentile £637 £612 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £470 £419
% change year-on-year +3.72% +12.17% -20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - £39.58 £13.95
25th Percentile £27.50 £40.46 £17.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £41.91 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +139.49% -71.43%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £26.78
90th Percentile - £42.78 £44.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.60 - £17.50

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 32,541 28,533 37,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.91% 88.47% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,569 17,345 24,861
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,000 921 1,535
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% -32.33% +55.17%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -182 85 £500 -1.48% 254
UK excluding London -136 48 £488 +3.72% 240
London -95 36 £505 -11.79% 45
Work from Home -75 25 £510 +7.37% 78
North of England -63 24 £575 +22.34% 59
Yorkshire -48 15 £650 +15.76% 24
South East -30 10 £469 +14.61% 76
North West -40 7 £417 -10.43% 23
North East -12 5 - - 12
South West -4 4 £650 +23.81% 20
Wales 0 3 £175 -17.78% 7
Scotland -2 3 £455 -9.00% 9
East of England -30 3 £413 +10.00% 35
East Midlands -27 1 £325 -8.71% 22
Midlands -90 1 £325 -40.91% 35

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 4 (4.21%) CMS
2 2 (2.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) IIS
3 1 (1.05%) Moodle
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.79%) AWS
2 14 (14.74%) Azure
3 11 (11.58%) GitHub
4 10 (10.53%) GCP
5 8 (8.42%) Figma
6 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.16%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.16%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.16%) SaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.11%) Commercetools
9 2 (2.11%) Contentful
9 2 (2.11%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.11%) npm
9 2 (2.11%) Yarn
10 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.05%) Internet
1 1 (1.05%) Intranet
1 1 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.11%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.11%) Redis
5 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.05%) GIS
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) Power BI
6 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (28.42%) Git
2 12 (12.63%) Mockito
3 5 (5.26%) webpack
4 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.11%) Maven
5 2 (2.11%) Mocha
5 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.11%) Vite
6 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.05%) GitLab
6 1 (1.05%) Gradle
6 1 (1.05%) JIRA
6 1 (1.05%) NUnit
6 1 (1.05%) Selenium
6 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.53%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Marketing
6 3 (3.16%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Automotive
8 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) Front Office
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 67 (70.53%) Developer
2 21 (22.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (17.89%) Senior
4 16 (16.84%) Senior Developer
5 14 (14.74%) Java Developer
6 13 (13.68%) Web Developer
7 11 (11.58%) Python Developer
8 10 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 8 (8.42%) React Developer
11 7 (7.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 3 (3.16%) .NET Developer
12 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Salesforce Developer
12 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 3 (3.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (3.16%) Software Engineer
13 2 (2.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 2 (2.11%) Lecturer
13 2 (2.11%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (40.00%) React
2 35 (36.84%) CSS
3 34 (35.79%) HTML
4 15 (15.79%) Node.js
4 15 (15.79%) RESTful
5 13 (13.68%) JAX-RS
6 12 (12.63%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (12.63%) Kafka
7 11 (11.58%) AngularJS
7 11 (11.58%) FastAPI
8 10 (10.53%) Jest
8 10 (10.53%) Spring
8 10 (10.53%) Vue
9 9 (9.47%) Next.js
10 8 (8.42%) pytest
11 7 (7.37%) .NET
11 7 (7.37%) REST
11 7 (7.37%) Ruby on Rails
12 5 (5.26%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.16%) Genomics
3 3 (3.16%) Life Science
3 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.11%) Derivative
4 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.11%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Social Media
5 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.05%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.05%) NHS
5 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.00%) Linux
2 17 (17.89%) Unix
3 13 (13.68%) Mac OS X
4 4 (4.21%) Windows
5 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.05%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (49.47%) Agile
2 32 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (25.26%) TDD
5 23 (24.21%) Microservices
6 22 (23.16%) Containerisation
7 21 (22.11%) CI/CD
7 21 (22.11%) Code Quality
8 20 (21.05%) User Experience
9 19 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (17.89%) Front End Development
11 16 (16.84%) BDD
11 16 (16.84%) Responsive Web Design
12 15 (15.79%) DevOps
13 14 (14.74%) Web Design
14 13 (13.68%) Continuous Deployment
15 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
15 11 (11.58%) Pair Programming
15 11 (11.58%) UX Design
15 11 (11.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (42.11%) JavaScript
2 33 (34.74%) Python
3 31 (32.63%) Java
4 24 (25.26%) TypeScript
5 19 (20.00%) SQL
6 9 (9.47%) PHP
6 9 (9.47%) Ruby
7 6 (6.32%) C#
8 3 (3.16%) Apex Code
8 3 (3.16%) Go
9 2 (2.11%) C++
9 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.79%) Degree
4 11 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.37%) WCAG
3 2 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.05%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Argo
3 4 (4.21%) Grafana
4 2 (2.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.05%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (13.68%) Google
2 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.37%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.21%) Optimizely
5 3 (3.16%) Adobe
5 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.11%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.11%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.11%) Marketo
6 2 (2.11%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.05%) Cloudera