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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 328 300
Rank change year-on-year -220 -28 -11
Contract jobs citing Web Development 97 199 323
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.69% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.76% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 135 230
10th Percentile £363 £355 £268
25th Percentile £431 £419 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £521 £479
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +8.72% -8.81%
75th Percentile £644 £623 £575
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £425
% change year-on-year +4.28% +12.82% -11.46%
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 £42.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.34% -28.24% +93.18%
75th Percentile £97.50 £39.19 £68.75
90th Percentile - £43.64 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year - -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 41,432 26,234 36,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 91.00% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,858 16,712 23,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,493 1,127 2,523
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -184 93 £502 -4.48% 218
London -120 53 £530 -11.22% 63
UK excluding London -137 41 £500 +4.28% 195
Work from Home -67 20 £625 +38.89% 324
South East -59 17 £406 -20.96% 47
North of England -72 12 £600 +68.30% 49
North West -34 6 £700 +96.35% 23
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 17
South West -46 5 £505 +36.49% 21
East of England -30 4 £505 -17.55% 34
Scotland -24 2 £488 -2.50% 7
Midlands -69 2 £425 +16.12% 29
East Midlands -29 1 £500 +55.28% 15
West Midlands -63 1 £350 -26.32% 14

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 (8.25%) CMS
2 4 (4.12%) WordPress
3 3 (3.09%) ArcGIS
3 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.03%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.03%) Drupal
5 1 (1.03%) Kentico
5 1 (1.03%) Mule
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.03%) SAS
5 1 (1.03%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.03%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.08%) Azure
2 15 (15.46%) GCP
3 12 (12.37%) AWS
4 8 (8.25%) Figma
4 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.22%) GitHub
6 4 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.06%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.03%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.03%) npm
9 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.03%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) DNS
1 7 (7.22%) Firewall
1 7 (7.22%) TCP/IP
1 7 (7.22%) VPN
2 5 (5.15%) HTTP
3 4 (4.12%) VLAN
4 2 (2.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.15%) Power BI
4 4 (4.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.12%) MySQL
4 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.09%) Couchbase
5 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.09%) GIS
5 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.09%) Tableau
6 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.03%) Metadata
7 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Git
2 7 (7.22%) Browser DevTools
2 7 (7.22%) Mockito
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 3 (3.09%) GitLab
4 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.09%) JUnit
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.03%) NUnit
6 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.03%) Subversion
6 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 28 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.77%) Finance
3 18 (18.56%) Banking
4 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.31%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.12%) Marketing
9 3 (3.09%) Publishing
10 2 (2.06%) Japanese Language
10 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.03%) Automotive
11 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Dutch Language
11 1 (1.03%) Front Office
11 1 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (68.04%) Developer
2 19 (19.59%) Web Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Java Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Senior
4 12 (12.37%) Software Developer
5 10 (10.31%) .NET Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Angular Developer
5 10 (10.31%) C# Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (8.25%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Azure Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) SQL Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Web Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) .NET Software Developer
9 5 (5.15%) C# Software Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (46.39%) HTML
2 36 (37.11%) CSS
3 26 (26.80%) .NET
3 26 (26.80%) AngularJS
4 14 (14.43%) React
5 12 (12.37%) OAuth
6 11 (11.34%) REST
7 10 (10.31%) Spring
8 8 (8.25%) Kafka
9 7 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (7.22%) JAX-RS
10 6 (6.19%) .NET Core
10 6 (6.19%) .NET Framework
10 6 (6.19%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.19%) jQuery
11 5 (5.15%) Entity Framework
11 5 (5.15%) HTML5
11 5 (5.15%) Node.js
11 5 (5.15%) Spring Boot
12 4 (4.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.12%) Derivative
3 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Genomics
5 2 (2.06%) Life Science
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.37%) Unix
2 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.06%) Android
3 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.03%) MVS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.70%) Agile
2 36 (37.11%) CI/CD
3 34 (35.05%) DevOps
4 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (25.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (19.59%) Microservices
7 18 (18.56%) Responsive Web Design
7 18 (18.56%) Test Automation
8 13 (13.40%) User Experience
9 12 (12.37%) TDD
10 11 (11.34%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.34%) UX Design
11 10 (10.31%) AI
11 10 (10.31%) API Integration
11 10 (10.31%) BDD
11 10 (10.31%) Pair Programming
11 10 (10.31%) Scrum
12 9 (9.28%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (9.28%) Web Design
13 8 (8.25%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.52%) JavaScript
2 31 (31.96%) SQL
3 28 (28.87%) C#
4 25 (25.77%) Java
5 22 (22.68%) TypeScript
6 17 (17.53%) Python
7 7 (7.22%) Bash
8 6 (6.19%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.09%) PHP
9 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.03%) Bicep
11 1 (1.03%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.03%) Groovy
11 1 (1.03%) JCL
11 1 (1.03%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.03%) REXX
11 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) CCNA
4 4 (4.12%) CCNP
4 4 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
1 8 (8.25%) WCAG
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) WAI
4 1 (1.03%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.03%) Control-M
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Google
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) ESRI
4 3 (3.09%) Netskope
4 3 (3.09%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe
5 2 (2.06%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) BMC
6 1 (1.03%) CODA
6 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) Pardot
6 1 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.03%) WooCommerce