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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 320 287
Rank change year-on-year -219 -33 +11
Contract jobs citing Web Development 90 204 325
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.71% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.78% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 140 233
10th Percentile £366 £355 £269
25th Percentile £450 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +7.82% -8.10%
75th Percentile £654 £623 £588
90th Percentile £731 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +5.89% +11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile - £25.15 £15.38
25th Percentile £36.25 £26.38 £22.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £43.75 £39.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £43.64 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £40.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -8.35% -11.76% +109.09%

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 41,286 26,078 36,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.54% 91.02% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,818 16,706 23,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,472 1,084 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.08 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.19 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 28 May 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 28 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 14 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 28 May 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 -205 86 £505 -2.98% 230
London -123 51 £510 -13.49% 56
UK excluding London -129 36 £503 +5.89% 221
Work from Home -80 19 £600 +33.33% 47
South East -57 13 £463 -9.89% 52
North of England -72 12 £600 +68.30% 56
North West -43 6 £700 +96.35% 25
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 21
East of England -26 4 £505 -12.17% 34
South West -40 4 £505 +36.49% 24
Scotland -19 2 £488 -2.50% 13
Midlands -69 2 £425 +16.12% 35
East Midlands -30 1 £500 +55.28% 23
West Midlands -64 1 £350 -26.32% 12

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 8 (8.89%) CMS
2 4 (4.44%) WordPress
3 3 (3.33%) ArcGIS
3 3 (3.33%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.22%) Confluence
4 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.11%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.11%) Drupal
5 1 (1.11%) Kentico
5 1 (1.11%) Mule
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.11%) SAS
5 1 (1.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.78%) Azure
2 12 (13.33%) AWS
2 12 (13.33%) GCP
3 8 (8.89%) Figma
4 7 (7.78%) GitHub
5 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.33%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.22%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.11%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (1.11%) Algolia
10 1 (1.11%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.11%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.11%) npm
10 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.11%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) DNS
1 7 (7.78%) Firewall
1 7 (7.78%) TCP/IP
1 7 (7.78%) VPN
2 5 (5.56%) HTTP
3 4 (4.44%) VLAN
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.78%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.33%) GIS
5 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.33%) Tableau
6 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.22%) Power BI
6 2 (2.22%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.11%) Metadata
7 1 (1.11%) MySQL
7 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Git
2 7 (7.78%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (7.78%) Mockito
3 4 (4.44%) JIRA
4 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) NUnit
5 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.11%) Subversion
5 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.33%) Finance
3 14 (15.56%) Banking
4 13 (14.44%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.44%) Marketing
8 3 (3.33%) Publishing
9 2 (2.22%) Japanese Language
9 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.22%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.11%) Automotive
10 1 (1.11%) Dutch Language
10 1 (1.11%) Front Office
10 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (70.00%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Web Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 10 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Angular Developer
7 8 (8.89%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Senior
8 7 (7.78%) Azure Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Backend Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Web Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) .NET Software Developer
10 5 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (4.44%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (45.56%) HTML
2 32 (35.56%) CSS
3 26 (28.89%) .NET
4 24 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.56%) React
6 11 (12.22%) OAuth
6 11 (12.22%) REST
7 8 (8.89%) Kafka
8 7 (7.78%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (7.78%) JAX-RS
9 6 (6.67%) .NET Core
9 6 (6.67%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.67%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.67%) Spring
10 5 (5.56%) Entity Framework
10 5 (5.56%) HTML5
10 5 (5.56%) Node.js
11 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (4.44%) RxJava
11 4 (4.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.44%) Derivative
3 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Genomics
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
1 9 (10.00%) Mac OS X
1 9 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.22%) Android
2 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.11%) MVS
3 1 (1.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.67%) Agile
2 33 (36.67%) DevOps
3 31 (34.44%) CI/CD
4 26 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (17.78%) Test Automation
8 15 (16.67%) Microservices
9 12 (13.33%) TDD
9 12 (13.33%) User Experience
10 10 (11.11%) BDD
10 10 (11.11%) Pair Programming
10 10 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 10 (11.11%) UX Design
11 9 (10.00%) API Integration
11 9 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (10.00%) Web Design
12 8 (8.89%) Front End Development
13 7 (7.78%) Scrum
14 6 (6.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) JavaScript
2 28 (31.11%) C#
3 27 (30.00%) SQL
4 21 (23.33%) Java
5 20 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 17 (18.89%) Python
7 7 (7.78%) Bash
8 3 (3.33%) PHP
8 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.11%) Bicep
10 1 (1.11%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.11%) Groovy
10 1 (1.11%) JCL
10 1 (1.11%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.11%) REXX
10 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) CCNA
4 4 (4.44%) CCNP
4 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) Accessibility
1 8 (8.89%) WCAG
2 5 (5.56%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) WAI
4 1 (1.11%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.11%) Control-M
2 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.44%) Google
3 3 (3.33%) ESRI
3 3 (3.33%) Netskope
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.22%) Adobe
4 2 (2.22%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.11%) BMC
5 1 (1.11%) CODA
5 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.11%) Pardot
5 1 (1.11%) Splunk
5 1 (1.11%) WooCommerce