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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 385 269
Rank change year-on-year -151 -116 +25
Contract jobs citing Web Development 131 168 344
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.51% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.57% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 118 255
10th Percentile £363 £325 £270
25th Percentile £425 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £611
90th Percentile £738 £738 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
10th Percentile - - £38.65
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +116.07%
75th Percentile £43.03 £43.55 £68.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £46.47 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £73.75
% change year-on-year -49.21% -44.96% +274.94%

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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -144 120 £500 - 279
London -85 64 £544 +5.33% 103
UK excluding London -130 57 £463 -7.50% 229
Work from Home -74 28 £629 +39.78% 66
South East -64 15 £375 -27.04% 54
North of England -54 12 £463 -19.57% 66
East of England -11 11 £505 -22.31% 35
Midlands -53 10 £425 +3.66% 30
West Midlands -47 9 £388 -44.64% 10
South West -47 8 £505 +36.49% 19
Yorkshire -37 6 £475 -26.92% 23
North West -37 6 £345 -22.30% 34
Scotland -25 3 £463 -11.90% 20
East Midlands -22 1 £500 +36.61% 20
North East - 1 - - 11

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 (6.87%) CMS
2 5 (3.82%) WordPress
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
4 3 (2.29%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.53%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.53%) Drupal
5 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.76%) Liferay
6 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) ContrOCC
2 4 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 37 (28.24%) Azure
2 22 (16.79%) GCP
3 16 (12.21%) AWS
4 10 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.87%) GitHub
6 8 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.58%) Figma
8 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.29%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.53%) Cloud Run
11 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.76%) Amazon Bedrock
12 1 (0.76%) Google Analytics
12 1 (0.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.76%) Google Sheets
12 1 (0.76%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) Firewall
1 12 (9.16%) VPN
2 7 (5.34%) DNS
2 7 (5.34%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.82%) HTTP
4 4 (3.05%) VLAN
5 2 (1.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) MongoDB
2 10 (7.63%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.58%) MySQL
4 6 (4.58%) Power BI
5 5 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.82%) Couchbase
5 5 (3.82%) Redis
6 4 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.29%) Tableau
8 2 (1.53%) GIS
8 2 (1.53%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.76%) Metadata
9 1 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Git
2 12 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.63%) JIRA
4 7 (5.34%) Browser DevTools
4 7 (5.34%) Mockito
5 4 (3.05%) JUnit
6 3 (2.29%) GitLab
7 2 (1.53%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.76%) Gradle
8 1 (0.76%) MLflow
8 1 (0.76%) NUnit
8 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.76%) Subversion
8 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.43%) Finance
3 25 (19.08%) Banking
4 19 (14.50%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.92%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.34%) Marketing
7 6 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.82%) Local Government
9 2 (1.53%) Automotive
9 2 (1.53%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.53%) Publishing
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (65.65%) Developer
2 27 (20.61%) Web Developer
3 21 (16.03%) Senior
4 18 (13.74%) Java Developer
5 15 (11.45%) Backend Developer
5 15 (11.45%) Software Developer
6 13 (9.92%) .NET Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Software Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Angular Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Applications Support
10 8 (6.11%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Web Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (36.64%) HTML
2 37 (28.24%) CSS
3 31 (23.66%) .NET
4 26 (19.85%) AngularJS
5 16 (12.21%) REST
6 15 (11.45%) React
7 13 (9.92%) OAuth
7 13 (9.92%) Spring
8 9 (6.87%) Node.js
9 8 (6.11%) Kafka
10 7 (5.34%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.34%) .NET Framework
10 7 (5.34%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (5.34%) JAX-RS
10 7 (5.34%) jQuery
10 7 (5.34%) JSON
10 7 (5.34%) RESTful
10 7 (5.34%) RxJava
11 6 (4.58%) HTML5
11 6 (4.58%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.40%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.34%) Derivative
2 7 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.29%) Genomics
5 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.53%) Life Science
5 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.76%) CMDB
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.76%) FMCG
6 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.76%) Mashup
6 1 (0.76%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.16%) Unix
2 7 (5.34%) Linux
3 6 (4.58%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.53%) Windows
5 1 (0.76%) MVS
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.44%) Agile
2 44 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 43 (32.82%) DevOps
4 36 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (22.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (20.61%) Microservices
7 18 (13.74%) Software Engineering
8 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
8 17 (12.98%) User Experience
9 16 (12.21%) Responsive Web Design
10 15 (11.45%) AI
10 15 (11.45%) API Integration
11 13 (9.92%) Clean Code
12 12 (9.16%) Scrum
12 12 (9.16%) UX Design
13 10 (7.63%) Front End Development
14 9 (6.87%) TDD
15 8 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (6.11%) Identity Management
15 8 (6.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.11%) JavaScript
2 32 (24.43%) SQL
3 30 (22.90%) Java
4 27 (20.61%) C#
5 24 (18.32%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.69%) Python
7 7 (5.34%) Bash
8 6 (4.58%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.82%) PHP
10 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Bicep
12 1 (0.76%) JCL
12 1 (0.76%) REXX
12 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Degree
4 4 (3.05%) CCNA
4 4 (3.05%) CCNP
4 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) QA
2 10 (7.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.34%) WCAG
4 5 (3.82%) SLA
5 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.76%) WAI
6 1 (0.76%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (14.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Google
3 7 (5.34%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.29%) Netskope
5 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.29%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.53%) Adobe
6 2 (1.53%) ESRI
6 2 (1.53%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.53%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.76%) BMC
7 1 (0.76%) CODA
7 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.76%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.76%) Pardot
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk