Web Development Contracts

Web Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Development over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 290 283
Rank change year-on-year -56 -7 -25
Contract jobs citing Web Development 187 334 511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.77% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.90% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 244 362
10th Percentile £350 £269 £325
25th Percentile £408 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -5.24% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £429 £500
% change year-on-year +10.79% -14.25% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 7
10th Percentile £25.00 £15.38 £16.30
25th Percentile £25.13 £22.75 £18.92
Median hourly rate £30.50 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% +93.18% -68.57%
75th Percentile £39.19 £68.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £44.03 £76.00 £45.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.59 £46.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% +109.09% -70.67%

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 28,184 37,006 49,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 85.27% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,766 23,597 34,412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,384 2,548 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 14 Contract 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 2 July 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 -56 150 £513 +2.50% 2,140
London -50 87 £525 +0.96% 704
UK excluding London +29 76 £475 +10.79% 1,632
Work from Home -64 42 £450 -7.22% 1,011
South West +52 20 £370 -22.11% 161
South East +53 19 £514 +2.80% 383
Scotland +19 17 £500 +41.34% 77
Midlands +2 10 £410 +60.00% 282
North West +4 7 £313 -25.25% 221
North of England -12 7 £313 -32.32% 403
East Midlands +5 6 £366 -12.44% 112
West Midlands +4 4 £475 +245.45% 170
East of England +2 3 £613 +53.13% 251
Wales +5 1 - - 63

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.35%) CMS
2 7 (3.74%) Apache
3 6 (3.21%) WordPress
4 4 (2.14%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.60%) Moodle
6 2 (1.07%) Drupal
6 2 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.07%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.53%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.53%) IIS
7 1 (0.53%) Kentico
7 1 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.67%) Magento
3 3 (1.60%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (24.60%) Azure
2 27 (14.44%) AWS
3 16 (8.56%) GCP
4 12 (6.42%) GitHub
4 12 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (5.88%) Figma
6 10 (5.35%) npm
6 10 (5.35%) PowerApps
7 9 (4.81%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.28%) Serverless
8 8 (4.28%) Yarn
9 7 (3.74%) Google Analytics
10 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.21%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) HTTP
1 4 (2.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.53%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.74%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.14%) MySQL
7 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.53%) DB2
9 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.53%) Power BI
9 1 (0.53%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 28 (14.97%) Git
2 9 (4.81%) webpack
3 6 (3.21%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.67%) JIRA
4 5 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.14%) Maven
5 4 (2.14%) MSI
5 4 (2.14%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.60%) Newman
6 3 (1.60%) Selenium
7 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.07%) GitLab
7 2 (1.07%) Gradle
7 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.07%) JUnit
7 2 (1.07%) Mockito
7 2 (1.07%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 52 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.65%) Finance
3 28 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.16%) Marketing
5 18 (9.63%) Banking
6 17 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 12 (6.42%) Telecoms
8 11 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.74%) Electronics
9 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.60%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Retail
11 3 (1.60%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Automotive
13 1 (0.53%) Legal
13 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 126 (67.38%) Developer
2 31 (16.58%) Senior
3 27 (14.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (10.16%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.63%) Web Developer
6 17 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 13 (6.95%) ServiceNow Developer
8 12 (6.42%) Architect
9 10 (5.35%) UI Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Angular Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) C# Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.81%) React Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Applications Support
11 8 (4.28%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Senior UI Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.74%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (51.34%) CSS
2 94 (50.27%) HTML
3 47 (25.13%) React
4 39 (20.86%) .NET
5 32 (17.11%) AngularJS
6 24 (12.83%) .NET Framework
7 23 (12.30%) REST
8 22 (11.76%) RESTful
9 20 (10.70%) jQuery
10 18 (9.63%) JSON
11 16 (8.56%) ASP.NET Web API
11 16 (8.56%) WCF
12 15 (8.02%) Node.js
13 14 (7.49%) Next.js
13 14 (7.49%) Web Services
14 13 (6.95%) Vue
15 12 (6.42%) .NET Core
16 11 (5.88%) ASP.NET
16 11 (5.88%) XML
17 9 (4.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.42%) Derivative
2 9 (4.81%) Algorithms
2 9 (4.81%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.21%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.21%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.14%) PKI
6 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.14%) Wiki
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.07%) Equities
8 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.07%) Social Media
8 2 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.81%) Linux
2 5 (2.67%) CentOS
2 5 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.14%) Windows
3 4 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.60%) AIX
5 2 (1.07%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (40.64%) Agile
2 46 (24.60%) Full-Stack Development
3 40 (21.39%) CI/CD
4 38 (20.32%) User Experience
5 32 (17.11%) Software Engineering
6 30 (16.04%) Computer Science
7 29 (15.51%) DevOps
8 27 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.37%) Front End Development
10 24 (12.83%) TDD
10 24 (12.83%) UX Design
11 23 (12.30%) Analytics
11 23 (12.30%) Scrum
12 21 (11.23%) Test Automation
13 20 (10.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.70%) CRM
14 17 (9.09%) MVC
15 15 (8.02%) Project Management
16 14 (7.49%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 107 (57.22%) JavaScript
2 54 (28.88%) SQL
3 44 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 40 (21.39%) C#
5 38 (20.32%) Python
6 26 (13.90%) Java
7 12 (6.42%) PHP
8 6 (3.21%) Apex Code
8 6 (3.21%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.21%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.60%) C++
11 2 (1.07%) Bash
11 2 (1.07%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.53%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
12 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (21.39%) Degree
2 28 (14.97%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (8.56%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.28%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.67%) MCPD
6 5 (2.67%) MCSD
6 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.53%) CISA
10 1 (0.53%) CISM
10 1 (0.53%) CISSP
10 1 (0.53%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) QA
2 12 (6.42%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.74%) WCAG
4 4 (2.14%) GRC
5 3 (1.60%) NCSC
5 3 (1.60%) PERC
6 2 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.07%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (9.63%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.42%) Terraform
2 6 (3.21%) Ansible
2 6 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.14%) WMI
4 2 (1.07%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.76%) Google
3 16 (8.56%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.95%) Oracle
5 10 (5.35%) SAP
6 8 (4.28%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.74%) VMware
8 5 (2.67%) Adobe
8 5 (2.67%) OutSystems
9 4 (2.14%) Snow
10 2 (1.07%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.07%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.53%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.53%) Databricks
11 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.53%) IBM
11 1 (0.53%) Sybase
11 1 (0.53%) Veracode