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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 315 310
Rank change year-on-year -214 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Web Development 89 225 315
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.85% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 154 229
10th Percentile £194 £355 £263
25th Percentile £400 £407 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +6.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £601
90th Percentile £605 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £470 £424
% change year-on-year -3.72% +10.91% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile - £26.60 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +59.18% +11.36%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £75.00
90th Percentile - £43.15 £78.00
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 38,955 26,496 37,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,674 17,197 24,574
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,314 992 2,359
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.02 £19.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.48 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.87 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.55% -7.69% -11.69%

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 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 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 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 -217 79 £470 -7.39% 231
London -137 41 £470 -15.16% 52
UK excluding London -157 41 £453 -3.72% 220
North of England -76 20 £488 +3.72% 49
Work from Home -81 17 £505 +8.60% 50
South East -65 11 £500 +18.34% 62
North West -46 10 £417 -10.43% 24
Yorkshire -48 9 £500 +6.38% 17
Scotland -5 3 £455 -9.00% 7
Wales -8 3 £175 -14.70% 10
North East -16 2 - - 8
East of England -34 2 - - 35
East Midlands -34 1 £325 -4.57% 16
South West -45 1 - - 26
Midlands -82 1 £325 -30.85% 34

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 (7.87%) CMS
2 3 (3.37%) WordPress
3 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.12%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.12%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) IIS
4 1 (1.12%) Kentico
4 1 (1.12%) Mule
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.83%) Azure
2 16 (17.98%) AWS
3 8 (8.99%) Figma
4 7 (7.87%) GCP
5 5 (5.62%) GitHub
6 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.49%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.25%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.25%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.12%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.12%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.12%) Contentful
8 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.12%) npm
8 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.12%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) DNS
1 7 (7.87%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.62%) HTTP
3 4 (4.49%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) VLAN
3 4 (4.49%) VPN
4 2 (2.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.12%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) MongoDB
1 8 (8.99%) NoSQL
1 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.25%) Redis
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.12%) GIS
4 1 (1.12%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) MySQL
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Git
1 8 (8.99%) Mockito
2 4 (4.49%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (3.37%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.25%) GitLab
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) Mocha
5 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.12%) Maven
5 1 (1.12%) NUnit
5 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 16 (17.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.87%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.25%) Marketing
7 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.12%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.12%) Front Office
8 1 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (67.42%) Developer
2 12 (13.48%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (13.48%) Java Developer
2 12 (13.48%) Web Developer
3 11 (12.36%) C# Developer
4 10 (11.24%) .NET Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Senior
4 10 (11.24%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Software Developer
5 9 (10.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.74%) Angular Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Azure Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) React Developer
7 6 (6.74%) SQL Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Web Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) .NET Software Developer
8 5 (5.62%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (39.33%) HTML
2 25 (28.09%) CSS
3 20 (22.47%) .NET
4 19 (21.35%) AngularJS
5 18 (20.22%) React
6 9 (10.11%) JAX-RS
6 9 (10.11%) Kafka
6 9 (10.11%) Node.js
6 9 (10.11%) REST
7 8 (8.99%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (7.87%) Jest
9 6 (6.74%) RESTful
10 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET
10 5 (5.62%) HTML5
10 5 (5.62%) Next.js
10 5 (5.62%) OAuth
11 4 (4.49%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.49%) pytest
11 4 (4.49%) SAML
11 4 (4.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.12%) Derivative
5 1 (1.12%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.12%) NHS
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 14 (15.73%) Unix
3 10 (11.24%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.25%) Android
4 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.25%) Windows
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.19%) Agile
2 26 (29.21%) CI/CD
3 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (24.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (23.60%) TDD
6 20 (22.47%) DevOps
7 16 (17.98%) Front End Development
7 16 (17.98%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (17.98%) User Experience
8 15 (16.85%) Microservices
8 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.61%) BDD
10 11 (12.36%) Pair Programming
10 11 (12.36%) Web Design
11 10 (11.24%) Containerisation
11 10 (11.24%) Continuous Deployment
11 10 (11.24%) UX Design
12 7 (7.87%) Code Quality
12 7 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.19%) JavaScript
2 26 (29.21%) Python
3 24 (26.97%) SQL
4 22 (24.72%) C#
5 20 (22.47%) Java
6 16 (17.98%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.99%) PHP
8 7 (7.87%) Bash
9 2 (2.25%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.25%) C++
9 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.12%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.12%) Groovy
10 1 (1.12%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) CCNA
3 4 (4.49%) CCNP
3 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.37%) Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) WCAG
2 11 (12.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (20.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.49%) Grafana
3 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.12%) Consul
4 1 (1.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.37%) Adobe
2 3 (3.37%) Netskope
2 3 (3.37%) Zscaler
3 2 (2.25%) Google
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle
3 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.12%) ESRI
4 1 (1.12%) Marketo
4 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.12%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.12%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.12%) SAP
4 1 (1.12%) WooCommerce