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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 378 281
Rank change year-on-year -158 -97 -2
Contract jobs citing Web Development 136 177 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.54% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.59% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 122 237
10th Percentile £363 £326 £262
25th Percentile £425 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £623
90th Percentile £738 £736 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 6
10th Percentile - - £25.82
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £37.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £43.03 £43.55 £62.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £46.47 £74.38
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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -108 125 £502 -0.94% 261
London -77 64 £575 +10.47% 84
UK excluding London -121 62 £475 -2.06% 220
Work from Home -73 28 £650 +44.44% 51
North of England -60 17 £469 +49.76% 58
South East -64 16 £375 -27.04% 50
East of England -11 11 £505 -22.31% 32
North West -50 9 £450 +43.77% 29
Midlands -51 9 £425 +3.66% 37
West Midlands -49 8 £388 -44.64% 14
South West -54 8 £505 +36.49% 25
Yorkshire - 8 £475 - 22
Scotland -15 3 £475 -9.52% 12
East Midlands -12 1 £500 +36.61% 23
North East - 1 - - 7

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 (6.62%) CMS
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
2 5 (3.68%) WordPress
3 3 (2.21%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.21%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.47%) Drupal
4 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.74%) Liferay
5 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) ContrOCC
2 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.21%) Azure
2 22 (16.18%) GCP
3 18 (13.24%) AWS
4 10 (7.35%) GitHub
5 9 (6.62%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.88%) Figma
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.47%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.74%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.74%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) Firewall
1 12 (8.82%) VPN
2 7 (5.15%) DNS
2 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.68%) HTTP
4 4 (2.94%) VLAN
5 2 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 10 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.41%) MySQL
5 6 (4.41%) Power BI
6 5 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.68%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.68%) Redis
7 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.21%) GIS
8 3 (2.21%) Tableau
9 2 (1.47%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.74%) Metadata
10 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 24 (17.65%) Git
2 12 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.82%) JIRA
3 10 (7.35%) Mockito
4 7 (5.15%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.94%) JUnit
6 3 (2.21%) GitLab
7 2 (1.47%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.74%) Gradle
8 1 (0.74%) MLflow
8 1 (0.74%) NUnit
8 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.74%) Subversion
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.26%) Finance
3 26 (19.12%) Banking
4 24 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.29%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.15%) Marketing
8 6 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.68%) Local Government
10 2 (1.47%) Automotive
10 2 (1.47%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.47%) Publishing
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (66.18%) Developer
2 27 (19.85%) Web Developer
3 24 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 23 (16.91%) Senior
5 15 (11.03%) Backend Developer
5 15 (11.03%) Software Developer
6 13 (9.56%) .NET Developer
6 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.09%) Software Engineer
8 10 (7.35%) Angular Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.62%) C# Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.15%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (35.29%) HTML
2 38 (27.94%) CSS
3 30 (22.06%) .NET
4 26 (19.12%) AngularJS
5 17 (12.50%) REST
6 14 (10.29%) OAuth
6 14 (10.29%) React
6 14 (10.29%) Spring
7 12 (8.82%) Kafka
8 10 (7.35%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (7.35%) JAX-RS
9 8 (5.88%) Node.js
9 8 (5.88%) RxJava
10 7 (5.15%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.15%) jQuery
11 6 (4.41%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.41%) HTML5
11 6 (4.41%) Jest
11 6 (4.41%) JSON
11 6 (4.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.88%) Derivative
2 8 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.21%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.21%) Genomics
5 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.47%) Life Science
5 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.50%) Unix
2 12 (8.82%) Linux
3 11 (8.09%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.74%) MVS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (55.88%) Agile
2 45 (33.09%) CI/CD
2 45 (33.09%) DevOps
3 42 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (24.26%) Microservices
5 30 (22.06%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (16.18%) Test Automation
7 19 (13.97%) Responsive Web Design
8 18 (13.24%) Software Engineering
9 16 (11.76%) AI
9 16 (11.76%) User Experience
10 14 (10.29%) API Integration
10 14 (10.29%) TDD
11 13 (9.56%) BDD
12 12 (8.82%) Clean Code
12 12 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
12 12 (8.82%) Pair Programming
12 12 (8.82%) UX Design
13 11 (8.09%) Scrum
13 11 (8.09%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.09%) JavaScript
2 36 (26.47%) Java
3 32 (23.53%) SQL
4 26 (19.12%) C#
5 23 (16.91%) TypeScript
6 16 (11.76%) Python
7 7 (5.15%) Bash
8 6 (4.41%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.68%) PHP
10 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.74%) Bicep
12 1 (0.74%) JCL
12 1 (0.74%) REXX
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) Degree
4 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.94%) CCNA
4 4 (2.94%) CCNP
4 4 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) QA
2 11 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.88%) WCAG
4 5 (3.68%) SLA
5 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) WAI
6 1 (0.74%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 20 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Control-M
3 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.35%) Google
3 7 (5.15%) Oracle
4 5 (3.68%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.21%) Adobe
5 3 (2.21%) ESRI
5 3 (2.21%) Netskope
5 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.21%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.47%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.47%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.74%) BMC
7 1 (0.74%) CODA
7 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.74%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.74%) Pardot
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) TikTok