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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 431 293
Rank change year-on-year -117 -138 +11
Contract jobs citing Web Development 149 130 297
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.39% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.43% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 86 202
10th Percentile £362 £341 £270
25th Percentile £425 £427 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +4.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £600
90th Percentile £738 £710 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -13.64% +25.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile - - -
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% +143.97%
75th Percentile £43.03 £39.52 £55.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £47.28 £63.55
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 46,870 30,047 32,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 90.49% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,156 18,700 19,515
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,444 1,888 1,247
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £65.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 15 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 15 October 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 15 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 -103 132 £513 -1.54% 58
UK excluding London -72 82 £475 -13.64% 57
London -80 54 £575 +10.47% 9
Work from Home -73 36 £550 +10.66% 22
North of England -66 24 £470 -27.69% 15
North West -35 17 £513 -10.87% 7
East of England -15 16 £600 +12.94% 8
South East -66 15 £375 -34.78% 14
West Midlands -31 13 £431 -38.39% 3
Midlands -39 13 £431 +5.18% 6
South West -36 9 £490 -24.38% 6
Scotland -23 6 £475 -7.32% 4
North East -36 5 £470 - 1
Yorkshire -51 3 £469 -27.88% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 -

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 12 (8.05%) CMS
2 7 (4.70%) WordPress
3 6 (4.03%) Confluence
4 5 (3.36%) Umbraco
5 4 (2.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (2.68%) Drupal
6 2 (1.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.67%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.67%) Kentico
7 1 (0.67%) Liferay
7 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.36%) ContrOCC
3 2 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.67%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.44%) Azure
2 21 (14.09%) GCP
3 16 (10.74%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.71%) AWS
5 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub
7 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.36%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.01%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.34%) Figma
9 2 (1.34%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.67%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.67%) LangSmith
10 1 (0.67%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.38%) Firewall
1 11 (7.38%) VPN
2 1 (0.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.74%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.04%) MongoDB
3 9 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.37%) Power BI
5 7 (4.70%) MySQL
6 5 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.36%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.36%) Redis
7 4 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.68%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.01%) Looker
8 3 (2.01%) Tableau
9 2 (1.34%) GIS
9 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.34%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (22.82%) Git
2 12 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.38%) JIRA
4 4 (2.68%) JUnit
5 3 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.01%) Mockito
6 2 (1.34%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.34%) GitLab
6 2 (1.34%) Gradle
6 2 (1.34%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.67%) MLflow
7 1 (0.67%) NUnit
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.67%) Storybook
7 1 (0.67%) Subversion
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.79%) Finance
3 27 (18.12%) Banking
4 24 (16.11%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.40%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.71%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.37%) Marketing
8 7 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (3.36%) Local Government
11 2 (1.34%) Automotive
11 2 (1.34%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.67%) Games
12 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Law
12 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (65.77%) Developer
2 40 (26.85%) Web Developer
3 31 (20.81%) Senior
4 21 (14.09%) Senior Developer
5 19 (12.75%) Java Developer
6 18 (12.08%) Backend Developer
6 18 (12.08%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Java Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Senior Web Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (6.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Software Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) IAM Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Analyst
11 6 (4.03%) Angular Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (30.87%) CSS
1 46 (30.87%) HTML
2 26 (17.45%) REST
3 23 (15.44%) React
4 22 (14.77%) .NET
5 21 (14.09%) Node.js
5 21 (14.09%) Spring
6 17 (11.41%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.07%) RESTful
8 14 (9.40%) Spring Boot
9 12 (8.05%) HTML5
10 11 (7.38%) CSS3
11 10 (6.71%) .NET Framework
11 10 (6.71%) JSON
11 10 (6.71%) OAuth
12 8 (5.37%) Jest
13 7 (4.70%) .NET Core
13 7 (4.70%) Next.js
13 7 (4.70%) RxJava
14 6 (4.03%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.70%) Derivative
4 4 (2.68%) CMDB
4 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.67%) FMCG
7 1 (0.67%) Genomics
7 1 (0.67%) Mashup
7 1 (0.67%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Unix
2 5 (3.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.34%) macOS
4 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (52.35%) Agile
2 50 (33.56%) CI/CD
3 40 (26.85%) DevOps
4 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (21.48%) Software Engineering
6 29 (19.46%) Microservices
7 25 (16.78%) User Experience
8 22 (14.77%) Front End Development
9 20 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.08%) Responsive Web Design
11 17 (11.41%) API Integration
12 16 (10.74%) Scrum
12 16 (10.74%) UX Design
13 15 (10.07%) Test Automation
14 13 (8.72%) AI
14 13 (8.72%) Containerisation
15 12 (8.05%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (7.38%) Acceptance Criteria
16 11 (7.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.53%) JavaScript
2 38 (25.50%) Java
3 35 (23.49%) TypeScript
4 25 (16.78%) SQL
5 17 (11.41%) C#
6 8 (5.37%) Python
7 6 (4.03%) PHP
7 6 (4.03%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.68%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.01%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) Ruby
10 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) CSPO
5 2 (1.34%) IIBA
5 2 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.78%) Accessibility
2 15 (10.07%) QA
3 12 (8.05%) WCAG
4 7 (4.70%) SLA
5 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) WAI
6 1 (0.67%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (12.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.05%) Google
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle
4 6 (4.03%) Adobe
5 5 (3.36%) Liquidlogic
5 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.34%) ESRI
6 2 (1.34%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.34%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.34%) Remedy
6 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) CODA
7 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.67%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.67%) Pardot
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.67%) TikTok
7 1 (0.67%) WooCommerce