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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 416 278
Rank change year-on-year -130 -138 +16
Contract jobs citing Web Development 139 141 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.43% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.47% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 95 219
10th Percentile £361 £350 £270
25th Percentile £417 £428 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £712 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile - - £38.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.00 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -28.24% +145.10%
75th Percentile £43.03 £39.52 £49.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £47.28 £60.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +289.27%

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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 16 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 1 October 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 -95 125 £519 -0.24% 486
UK excluding London -83 77 £488 -7.14% 362
London -92 51 £600 +15.27% 174
Work from Home -76 31 £575 +19.92% 161
North of England -69 21 £470 -27.69% 114
East of England -14 16 £600 +12.94% 43
South East -62 15 £375 -27.26% 67
North West -38 14 £513 -10.87% 51
Midlands -41 14 £438 +6.71% 53
West Midlands -27 13 £431 -38.39% 27
South West -37 8 £505 -22.07% 39
Yorkshire -47 5 £469 -27.88% 52
Scotland -24 4 £475 -7.32% 26
North East -37 3 £470 - 12
East Midlands -18 1 £500 +36.61% 26
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 9

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 10 (7.19%) CMS
2 7 (5.04%) WordPress
3 4 (2.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.88%) Confluence
3 4 (2.88%) Drupal
4 3 (2.16%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.44%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.72%) Liferay
6 1 (0.72%) SAS
6 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.60%) ContrOCC
3 2 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.72%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.11%) Azure
1 21 (15.11%) GCP
2 16 (11.51%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.76%) AWS
3 8 (5.76%) GitHub
4 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.60%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.88%) Figma
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.16%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.44%) Cloud Run
8 2 (1.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.72%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.72%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.91%) Firewall
1 11 (7.91%) VPN
2 1 (0.72%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.91%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.76%) Power BI
5 6 (4.32%) MySQL
6 5 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.60%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.60%) Redis
7 4 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.88%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.16%) Looker
8 3 (2.16%) Tableau
9 2 (1.44%) GIS
9 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.44%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (24.46%) Git
2 12 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.47%) JIRA
4 5 (3.60%) Mockito
5 4 (2.88%) JUnit
6 3 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (1.44%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.44%) GitLab
7 2 (1.44%) Gradle
7 2 (1.44%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.72%) Maven
8 1 (0.72%) MLflow
8 1 (0.72%) NUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 28 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.42%) Finance
3 26 (18.71%) Banking
4 19 (13.67%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.35%) Investment Banking
6 10 (7.19%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.76%) Marketing
8 6 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.60%) Local Government
10 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.44%) Publishing
11 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.72%) Back Office
11 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (66.19%) Developer
2 36 (25.90%) Web Developer
3 28 (20.14%) Senior
4 21 (15.11%) Java Developer
5 18 (12.95%) Backend Developer
5 18 (12.95%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.23%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.35%) Java Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Senior Web Developer
8 10 (7.19%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.47%) IAM Developer
9 9 (6.47%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Angular Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.65%) CSS
1 44 (31.65%) HTML
2 23 (16.55%) REST
3 22 (15.83%) React
4 20 (14.39%) .NET
5 19 (13.67%) Node.js
5 19 (13.67%) Spring
6 17 (12.23%) AngularJS
7 12 (8.63%) RESTful
7 12 (8.63%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.19%) .NET Framework
8 10 (7.19%) HTML5
8 10 (7.19%) OAuth
9 9 (6.47%) CSS3
9 9 (6.47%) JSON
10 7 (5.04%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.04%) Jest
10 7 (5.04%) RxJava
11 6 (4.32%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (4.32%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.04%) Derivative
2 7 (5.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.88%) CMDB
4 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.16%) Genomics
5 3 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.44%) Life Science
7 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) FMCG
7 1 (0.72%) Mashup
7 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.91%) Unix
2 7 (5.04%) Linux
3 4 (2.88%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.44%) Windows
5 1 (0.72%) MVS
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (53.24%) Agile
2 45 (32.37%) CI/CD
3 40 (28.78%) DevOps
4 34 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (21.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (20.86%) Microservices
6 29 (20.86%) Software Engineering
7 23 (16.55%) User Experience
8 18 (12.95%) API Integration
8 18 (12.95%) Responsive Web Design
9 17 (12.23%) Front End Development
10 15 (10.79%) AI
10 15 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.79%) Test Automation
10 15 (10.79%) UX Design
11 13 (9.35%) Scrum
12 12 (8.63%) Clean Code
12 12 (8.63%) Containerisation
13 11 (7.91%) Identity Management
13 11 (7.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.65%) JavaScript
2 37 (26.62%) Java
3 33 (23.74%) TypeScript
4 25 (17.99%) SQL
5 17 (12.23%) C#
6 8 (5.76%) Python
7 6 (4.32%) PHP
7 6 (4.32%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.88%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.16%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.72%) Bicep
10 1 (0.72%) JCL
10 1 (0.72%) REXX
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) Degree
3 12 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.95%) Accessibility
2 14 (10.07%) QA
3 10 (7.19%) WCAG
4 7 (5.04%) SLA
5 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.72%) WAI
6 1 (0.72%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (13.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 9 (6.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Ansible
2 1 (0.72%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.63%) Google
3 7 (5.04%) Oracle
4 6 (4.32%) Adobe
4 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.60%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.44%) ESRI
6 2 (1.44%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.44%) Remedy
6 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) BMC
7 1 (0.72%) CODA
7 1 (0.72%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.72%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.72%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.72%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.72%) Pardot
7 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) WooCommerce