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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 290 316
Rank change year-on-year -190 +26 -36
Contract jobs citing Web Development 114 298 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.83% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.95% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 208 227
10th Percentile £311 £254 £328
25th Percentile £400 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -2.93% -10.87%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £648
90th Percentile £710 £779 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +6.38% +4.44% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £39.58 £14.03
25th Percentile £26.88 £40.46 £16.17
Median hourly rate £30.25 £41.91 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year -27.82% +141.70% -60.59%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £22.31
90th Percentile £41.69 £42.78 £38.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.60 - £17.34

All Process and 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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -149 101 £500 - 553
UK excluding London -122 57 £500 +6.38% 528
London -83 42 £510 -3.77% 135
Work from Home -89 28 £510 +5.15% 82
North of England -58 24 £575 +22.34% 140
South East -10 15 £525 +27.27% 132
Yorkshire -35 15 £650 +15.76% 53
North West -36 7 £417 -7.19% 70
North East -2 5 - - 19
South West -4 5 £649 +23.62% 35
East of England -24 4 £413 +18.96% 71
Scotland +1 3 £455 +23.39% 25
Wales -3 3 £175 -22.22% 25
Midlands -85 3 £410 -25.45% 101
East Midlands -16 2 £368 +3.23% 41
West Midlands -74 1 £700 +27.27% 59

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 6 (5.26%) CMS
2 3 (2.63%) Moodle
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.75%) Apache
3 2 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) HCL Domino
4 1 (0.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.75%) Trello
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.04%) AWS
1 16 (14.04%) Azure
2 11 (9.65%) GCP
2 11 (9.65%) GitHub
3 9 (7.89%) Figma
4 7 (6.14%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.51%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.51%) SaaS
6 3 (2.63%) Cloud Run
6 3 (2.63%) Commercetools
6 3 (2.63%) Contentful
6 3 (2.63%) npm
6 3 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.63%) Yarn
7 2 (1.75%) Asana
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (0.88%) Internet
1 1 (0.88%) Intranet
1 1 (0.88%) SSL
1 1 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 10 (8.77%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.63%) Mixpanel
6 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) Redis
6 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.88%) DB2
7 1 (0.88%) GIS
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.88%) Power BI
7 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (25.44%) Git
2 12 (10.53%) Mockito
3 7 (6.14%) webpack
4 3 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.63%) JIRA
4 3 (2.63%) Maven
5 2 (1.75%) Gradle
5 2 (1.75%) Mocha
5 2 (1.75%) MSI
5 2 (1.75%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.75%) Selenium
5 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (1.75%) Vite
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.53%) Finance
4 8 (7.02%) Marketing
5 5 (4.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.51%) Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Law
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Automotive
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Front Office
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 76 (66.67%) Developer
2 22 (19.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (15.79%) Senior
4 17 (14.91%) Senior Developer
5 15 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 15 (13.16%) Web Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Python Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 8 (7.02%) React Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (4.39%) Lecturer
12 4 (3.51%) Project Manager
13 3 (2.63%) .NET Developer
13 3 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (2.63%) Java Web Developer
13 3 (2.63%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 3 (2.63%) Senior UI Developer
13 3 (2.63%) Software Engineer
13 3 (2.63%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (36.84%) CSS
2 41 (35.96%) React
3 40 (35.09%) HTML
4 17 (14.91%) RESTful
5 15 (13.16%) Node.js
6 13 (11.40%) AngularJS
6 13 (11.40%) JAX-RS
7 12 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (10.53%) Kafka
7 12 (10.53%) Vue
8 11 (9.65%) FastAPI
9 10 (8.77%) Jest
9 10 (8.77%) Spring
10 9 (7.89%) Next.js
11 8 (7.02%) pytest
11 8 (7.02%) REST
12 7 (6.14%) .NET
12 7 (6.14%) Ruby on Rails
13 5 (4.39%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.63%) Derivative
3 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.63%) Genomics
3 3 (2.63%) Life Science
3 3 (2.63%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.63%) Social Media
4 2 (1.75%) PKI
4 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) AS400
5 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.88%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.88%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.42%) Linux
2 17 (14.91%) Unix
3 13 (11.40%) Mac OS X
4 6 (5.26%) Windows
5 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.63%) CentOS
7 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (47.37%) Agile
2 36 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (21.93%) TDD
5 24 (21.05%) Microservices
6 23 (20.18%) CI/CD
6 23 (20.18%) Test Automation
6 23 (20.18%) User Experience
7 22 (19.30%) Containerisation
8 21 (18.42%) Code Quality
9 20 (17.54%) DevOps
10 17 (14.91%) Computer Science
10 17 (14.91%) Front End Development
11 16 (14.04%) BDD
11 16 (14.04%) Responsive Web Design
12 14 (12.28%) Web Design
13 13 (11.40%) Continuous Deployment
14 12 (10.53%) UX Design
14 12 (10.53%) Visualisation
15 11 (9.65%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.23%) JavaScript
2 41 (35.96%) Python
3 38 (33.33%) Java
4 26 (22.81%) TypeScript
5 25 (21.93%) SQL
6 11 (9.65%) PHP
7 9 (7.89%) Ruby
8 7 (6.14%) C#
9 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.63%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.63%) Go
11 2 (1.75%) C++
11 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.88%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.88%) RPG
12 1 (0.88%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) Degree
2 21 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 18 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.14%) WCAG
3 6 (5.26%) QA
4 3 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (21.93%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Argo
3 4 (3.51%) Grafana
4 3 (2.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.75%) Ansible
5 2 (1.75%) Terraform
5 2 (1.75%) WMI
6 1 (0.88%) Consul
Vendors
1 15 (13.16%) Google
2 14 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.14%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.39%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) Adobe
6 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.63%) OneTrust
6 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.63%) SAP
7 2 (1.75%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.75%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.75%) Marketo
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle
7 2 (1.75%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) OpenAI