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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 317 317
Rank change year-on-year -195 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Web Development 97 213 299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.73% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.81% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 146 213
10th Percentile £268 £355 £250
25th Percentile £409 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £504 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +6.05% -8.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £620
90th Percentile £660 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £430 £419
% change year-on-year +8.14% +2.63% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.60 £15.38
25th Percentile £27.50 £31.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £33.60 £39.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +1.30% +75.00%
75th Percentile £37.20 £42.46 £70.31
90th Percentile - £43.15 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.60 £40.59 £38.50
% change year-on-year -17.22% +5.43% +75.00%

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 37,633 26,370 38,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.88% 90.52% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,862 17,096 24,871
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 936 2,338
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.61 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -6.77% +1.63% -13.19%

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 24 March 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
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 24 March 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 -202 87 £475 -5.00% 199
London -113 47 £488 -16.67% 48
UK excluding London -139 41 £465 +8.14% 181
Work from Home -85 20 £600 +27.66% 47
North of England -76 17 £475 +1.06% 39
South East -57 11 £500 +21.73% 53
North West -46 10 £417 -9.46% 21
Yorkshire -57 6 £500 +6.38% 12
South West -41 4 £650 +74.50% 22
Scotland -6 3 £455 -9.00% 3
Wales -8 3 £175 -14.70% 8
North East -18 2 - - 6
East of England -26 2 - - 27
East Midlands -36 1 £325 -8.71% 12
Midlands -81 1 £325 -13.33% 31

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 7 (7.22%) CMS
2 3 (3.09%) WordPress
3 2 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.03%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) IIS
4 1 (1.03%) Kentico
4 1 (1.03%) Mule
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.03%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.08%) Azure
2 20 (20.62%) AWS
3 14 (14.43%) GitHub
4 13 (13.40%) GCP
5 10 (10.31%) Figma
6 8 (8.25%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.06%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.06%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.03%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.03%) Commercetools
9 1 (1.03%) Contentful
9 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
1 5 (5.15%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.12%) HTTP
3 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) Network Security
3 2 (2.06%) VLAN
3 2 (2.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.03%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.25%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.03%) GIS
6 1 (1.03%) Metadata
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) Power BI
6 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) Mockito
3 4 (4.12%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.09%) JIRA
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.06%) GitLab
5 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.06%) Mocha
6 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.03%) Maven
6 1 (1.03%) NUnit
6 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 34 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.59%) Finance
3 18 (18.56%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Front Office
7 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.06%) Marketing
7 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.03%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (69.07%) Developer
2 19 (19.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (11.34%) C# Developer
3 11 (11.34%) Web Developer
4 10 (10.31%) .NET Developer
4 10 (10.31%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.31%) Software Developer
5 9 (9.28%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (8.25%) React Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Senior
6 8 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Angular Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Azure Developer
8 6 (6.19%) SQL Developer
9 5 (5.15%) .NET Software Developer
9 5 (5.15%) C# Software Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (46.39%) HTML
2 35 (36.08%) CSS
3 30 (30.93%) React
4 28 (28.87%) AngularJS
5 20 (20.62%) .NET
6 16 (16.49%) Node.js
7 11 (11.34%) Spring
8 9 (9.28%) Vue
9 8 (8.25%) REST
10 7 (7.22%) JAX-RS
10 7 (7.22%) Jest
10 7 (7.22%) Kafka
10 7 (7.22%) RESTful
10 7 (7.22%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (6.19%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (6.19%) FastAPI
11 6 (6.19%) HTML5
12 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET
12 5 (5.15%) Next.js
12 5 (5.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.06%) Genomics
5 2 (2.06%) Life Science
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.03%) Derivative
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.03%) NHS
6 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.43%) Linux
2 12 (12.37%) Unix
3 8 (8.25%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.06%) Android
4 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.06%) Windows
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) Agile
2 33 (34.02%) CI/CD
3 32 (32.99%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (29.90%) DevOps
5 20 (20.62%) Microservices
6 19 (19.59%) Containerisation
6 19 (19.59%) TDD
7 16 (16.49%) User Experience
8 15 (15.46%) Code Quality
8 15 (15.46%) Front End Development
8 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.40%) Responsive Web Design
10 11 (11.34%) BDD
10 11 (11.34%) UX Design
11 9 (9.28%) Pair Programming
11 9 (9.28%) Visualisation
11 9 (9.28%) Web Design
12 8 (8.25%) Computer Science
12 8 (8.25%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (55.67%) JavaScript
2 33 (34.02%) Python
3 26 (26.80%) Java
4 24 (24.74%) SQL
4 24 (24.74%) TypeScript
5 22 (22.68%) C#
6 8 (8.25%) PHP
6 8 (8.25%) Ruby
7 5 (5.15%) Bash
8 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.06%) C++
8 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.03%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.03%) Go
9 1 (1.03%) Groovy
9 1 (1.03%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) Degree
4 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.06%) CCNA
6 2 (2.06%) CCNP
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.34%) WCAG
2 10 (10.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.22%) Argo
3 4 (4.12%) Grafana
4 3 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.03%) Consul
5 1 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Google
3 7 (7.22%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.12%) Adobe
5 3 (3.09%) Netskope
5 3 (3.09%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.06%) Marketo
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) ESRI
7 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.03%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) WooCommerce