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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 340 292
Rank change year-on-year -178 -48 -13
Contract jobs citing Web Development 134 197 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.61% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.67% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 134 243
10th Percentile £363 £352 £270
25th Percentile £438 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +2.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £600
90th Percentile £736 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £484 £425
% change year-on-year +3.31% +13.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 8
10th Percentile - £25.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.13 £31.03
Median hourly rate £29.06 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £39.19 £70.31
90th Percentile £97.50 £44.03 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £67.50
% change year-on-year -49.21% -39.87% +206.82%

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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -145 123 £504 -1.95% 174
London -96 65 £558 +3.72% 47
UK excluding London -124 59 £500 +3.31% 165
Work from Home -86 27 £650 +44.44% 44
South East -64 15 £406 -20.96% 45
North of England -76 15 £488 +36.75% 40
East of England -13 11 £505 -17.55% 18
Midlands -62 9 £425 +3.66% 23
South West -40 8 £505 +36.49% 24
West Midlands -53 8 £388 -34.04% 9
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 14
North West -53 7 £700 +96.35% 22
Scotland -26 3 £475 -5.00% 8
East Midlands -16 1 £500 +36.61% 14
North East - 1 - - 5

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 (6.72%) CMS
2 4 (2.99%) Confluence
2 4 (2.99%) WordPress
3 3 (2.24%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.75%) Drupal
5 1 (0.75%) Kentico
5 1 (0.75%) Liferay
5 1 (0.75%) Mule
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
5 1 (0.75%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 40 (29.85%) Azure
2 22 (16.42%) GCP
3 18 (13.43%) AWS
4 13 (9.70%) GitHub
5 9 (6.72%) Figma
5 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.49%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.75%) Algolia
11 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.75%) npm
11 1 (0.75%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) Firewall
1 12 (8.96%) VPN
2 7 (5.22%) DNS
2 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.73%) HTTP
4 4 (2.99%) VLAN
5 2 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.21%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.21%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.48%) Power BI
5 5 (3.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.73%) Couchbase
5 5 (3.73%) MySQL
5 5 (3.73%) Redis
6 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.24%) GIS
7 3 (2.24%) Tableau
8 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.49%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.75%) Metadata
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.75%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 23 (17.16%) Git
2 11 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.21%) JIRA
3 10 (7.46%) Mockito
4 7 (5.22%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.99%) JUnit
6 3 (2.24%) GitLab
7 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.75%) MLflow
8 1 (0.75%) NUnit
8 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.75%) Subversion
8 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 36 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.12%) Finance
3 28 (20.90%) Banking
4 22 (16.42%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.19%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.48%) Marketing
8 5 (3.73%) Local Government
9 3 (2.24%) Publishing
10 2 (1.49%) Automotive
10 2 (1.49%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.75%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (66.42%) Developer
2 23 (17.16%) Java Developer
3 21 (15.67%) Senior
3 21 (15.67%) Web Developer
4 17 (12.69%) Software Developer
5 12 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) Angular Developer
6 11 (8.21%) Backend Developer
7 10 (7.46%) .NET Developer
7 10 (7.46%) C# Developer
7 10 (7.46%) Java Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Applications Support
8 8 (5.97%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (5.97%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.22%) Azure Developer
9 7 (5.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (37.31%) HTML
2 40 (29.85%) CSS
3 29 (21.64%) AngularJS
4 27 (20.15%) .NET
5 19 (14.18%) REST
6 18 (13.43%) React
7 14 (10.45%) OAuth
7 14 (10.45%) Spring
8 11 (8.21%) Kafka
8 11 (8.21%) Node.js
9 10 (7.46%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (7.46%) JAX-RS
10 8 (5.97%) RxJava
11 7 (5.22%) jQuery
12 6 (4.48%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.48%) HTML5
12 6 (4.48%) Jest
12 6 (4.48%) RESTful
12 6 (4.48%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.73%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.70%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.97%) Derivative
2 8 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.24%) Genomics
5 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.49%) Life Science
5 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.75%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.94%) Unix
2 12 (8.96%) Linux
3 11 (8.21%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.49%) Android
4 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.49%) Windows
5 1 (0.75%) MVS
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) Agile
2 47 (35.07%) CI/CD
3 44 (32.84%) DevOps
4 41 (30.60%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (24.63%) Microservices
6 32 (23.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (16.42%) Test Automation
8 21 (15.67%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (13.43%) Software Engineering
10 17 (12.69%) TDD
11 16 (11.94%) AI
11 16 (11.94%) User Experience
12 13 (9.70%) API Integration
12 13 (9.70%) BDD
13 12 (8.96%) Continuous Deployment
13 12 (8.96%) Pair Programming
13 12 (8.96%) Scrum
13 12 (8.96%) UX Design
14 11 (8.21%) Web Design
15 10 (7.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.81%) JavaScript
2 38 (28.36%) Java
3 35 (26.12%) SQL
4 29 (21.64%) C#
4 29 (21.64%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.18%) Python
6 7 (5.22%) Bash
6 7 (5.22%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.24%) PHP
8 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Bicep
10 1 (0.75%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.75%) Groovy
10 1 (0.75%) JCL
10 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.75%) REXX
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.99%) CCNA
4 4 (2.99%) CCNP
4 4 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) QA
2 9 (6.72%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.22%) WCAG
4 5 (3.73%) SLA
5 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.75%) WAI
6 1 (0.75%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 22 (16.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.75%) Ansible
3 1 (0.75%) Control-M
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Google
3 8 (5.97%) Oracle
4 5 (3.73%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.24%) Adobe
5 3 (2.24%) ESRI
5 3 (2.24%) Netskope
5 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.24%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.49%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.49%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.75%) BMC
7 1 (0.75%) CODA
7 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.75%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.75%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.75%) Pardot
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) TikTok