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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 424 288
Rank change year-on-year -122 -136 +13
Contract jobs citing Web Development 145 134 303
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.41% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.45% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 90 208
10th Percentile £362 £348 £266
25th Percentile £419 £427 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +4.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £605 £645 £600
90th Percentile £738 £721 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -9.52% +15.07% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile - - £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +143.97%
75th Percentile £43.03 £39.52 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £47.28 £60.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +287.49%

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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 16 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 8 October 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 -80 129 £519 -0.29% 343
UK excluding London -83 80 £475 -9.52% 204
London -86 53 £600 +15.27% 154
Work from Home -77 32 £600 +23.97% 155
North of England -54 22 £470 -27.69% 67
East of England -22 16 £600 +12.94% 26
North West -31 16 £513 -10.87% 31
South East -63 15 £375 -29.71% 33
Midlands -41 14 £438 +6.71% 31
West Midlands -33 13 £431 -38.39% 20
South West -39 8 £505 -22.07% 14
Scotland -18 6 £475 -7.32% 16
North East -38 4 £470 - 6
Yorkshire -43 3 £469 -27.88% 31
East Midlands -15 1 £500 +36.61% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 8

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 10 (6.90%) CMS
2 7 (4.83%) WordPress
3 4 (2.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.76%) Confluence
3 4 (2.76%) Drupal
4 3 (2.07%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.38%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.69%) Liferay
6 1 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.45%) ContrOCC
3 2 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.69%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.86%) Azure
1 23 (15.86%) GCP
2 16 (11.03%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.90%) AWS
4 8 (5.52%) GitHub
5 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.76%) Figma
8 3 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.38%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.69%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.69%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) Firewall
1 11 (7.59%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) DNS
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.03%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.28%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.52%) Power BI
5 7 (4.83%) MySQL
6 5 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.45%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.45%) Redis
7 4 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.07%) Looker
8 3 (2.07%) Tableau
9 2 (1.38%) GIS
9 2 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.38%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (24.83%) Git
2 12 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.21%) JIRA
4 4 (2.76%) JUnit
5 3 (2.07%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.07%) Mockito
6 2 (1.38%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.38%) GitLab
6 2 (1.38%) Gradle
6 2 (1.38%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.69%) Maven
7 1 (0.69%) MLflow
7 1 (0.69%) NUnit
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.69%) Storybook
7 1 (0.69%) Subversion
7 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.31%) Finance
3 27 (18.62%) Banking
4 21 (14.48%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.66%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.52%) Marketing
8 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.45%) Local Government
10 2 (1.38%) Automotive
10 2 (1.38%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.38%) Publishing
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Front Office
11 1 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (66.90%) Developer
2 39 (26.90%) Web Developer
3 30 (20.69%) Senior
4 20 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 19 (13.10%) Java Developer
6 18 (12.41%) Backend Developer
6 18 (12.41%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Java Engineer
8 12 (8.28%) Senior Web Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Software Developer
11 9 (6.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) IAM Developer
11 9 (6.21%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Angular Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.72%) CSS
1 46 (31.72%) HTML
2 26 (17.93%) REST
3 25 (17.24%) React
4 20 (13.79%) .NET
4 20 (13.79%) Node.js
4 20 (13.79%) Spring
5 17 (11.72%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.66%) RESTful
7 13 (8.97%) Spring Boot
8 12 (8.28%) HTML5
9 11 (7.59%) CSS3
10 10 (6.90%) .NET Framework
10 10 (6.90%) JSON
10 10 (6.90%) OAuth
11 8 (5.52%) Jest
12 7 (4.83%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.83%) Next.js
12 7 (4.83%) RxJava
13 6 (4.14%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.83%) Derivative
4 4 (2.76%) CMDB
4 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.07%) Genomics
5 3 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Life Science
7 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.69%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) FMCG
7 1 (0.69%) Mashup
7 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Unix
2 5 (3.45%) Linux
3 2 (1.38%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.69%) MVS
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (52.41%) Agile
2 48 (33.10%) CI/CD
3 41 (28.28%) DevOps
4 35 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (22.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (21.38%) Software Engineering
7 28 (19.31%) Microservices
8 24 (16.55%) User Experience
9 21 (14.48%) Front End Development
10 18 (12.41%) API Integration
10 18 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.41%) Responsive Web Design
11 16 (11.03%) Test Automation
11 16 (11.03%) UX Design
12 15 (10.34%) AI
13 14 (9.66%) Containerisation
13 14 (9.66%) Scrum
14 13 (8.97%) Clean Code
15 12 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (7.59%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.72%) JavaScript
2 37 (25.52%) Java
3 36 (24.83%) TypeScript
4 25 (17.24%) SQL
5 17 (11.72%) C#
6 9 (6.21%) Python
7 6 (4.14%) PHP
7 6 (4.14%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.07%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.69%) Bicep
10 1 (0.69%) JCL
10 1 (0.69%) REXX
10 1 (0.69%) Ruby
10 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.66%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.97%) Degree
4 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.48%) Accessibility
2 14 (9.66%) QA
3 10 (6.90%) WCAG
4 7 (4.83%) SLA
5 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.69%) WAI
6 1 (0.69%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 21 (14.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 10 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Ansible
2 1 (0.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (9.66%) Google
1 14 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.83%) Oracle
3 6 (4.14%) Adobe
3 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.45%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.38%) ESRI
5 2 (1.38%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.38%) Remedy
5 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.69%) BMC
6 1 (0.69%) CODA
6 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.69%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.69%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.69%) Pardot
6 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) WooCommerce