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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 415 273
Rank change year-on-year -130 -142 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Development 135 144 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.44% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.48% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 96 231
10th Percentile £359 £341 £274
25th Percentile £414 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +2.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £595
90th Percentile £738 £723 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £516 £475
% change year-on-year -7.86% +8.53% -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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
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 £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -122 122 £508 -0.98% 454
UK excluding London -90 72 £475 -7.86% 339
London -94 52 £600 +17.65% 169
Work from Home -74 30 £600 +29.73% 150
North of England -65 19 £470 -27.69% 108
South East -67 15 £375 -27.04% 61
East of England -20 14 £600 +12.94% 40
Midlands -38 14 £438 +6.71% 54
West Midlands -33 13 £431 -38.39% 27
North West -45 12 £450 -21.74% 49
South West -37 8 £505 +8.14% 32
Yorkshire -40 6 £475 -26.92% 47
Scotland -29 3 £473 -10.00% 26
North East -45 2 £470 - 12
East Midlands -21 1 £500 +36.61% 27
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 (7.41%) CMS
2 6 (4.44%) WordPress
3 4 (2.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.96%) Confluence
3 4 (2.96%) Drupal
4 3 (2.22%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.48%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Liferay
6 1 (0.74%) SAS
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.70%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.74%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.74%) Magento
3 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.30%) Azure
2 21 (15.56%) GCP
3 14 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.41%) AWS
5 8 (5.93%) GitHub
6 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.70%) Figma
8 5 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.70%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.48%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.48%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.74%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.74%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.89%) Firewall
1 12 (8.89%) VPN
2 3 (2.22%) DNS
3 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.48%) VLAN
4 1 (0.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.63%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.15%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.19%) Power BI
5 6 (4.44%) MySQL
6 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.70%) Couchbase
6 5 (3.70%) Redis
7 4 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.22%) Tableau
9 2 (1.48%) GIS
9 2 (1.48%) Looker
9 2 (1.48%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (25.19%) Git
2 12 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.67%) JIRA
4 5 (3.70%) Mockito
5 4 (2.96%) JUnit
6 3 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (1.48%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.48%) GitLab
7 2 (1.48%) Gradle
7 2 (1.48%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
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%) Vite
General
1 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.00%) Finance
3 25 (18.52%) Banking
4 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.63%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.93%) Marketing
8 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.70%) Local Government
10 2 (1.48%) Automotive
10 2 (1.48%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (65.93%) Developer
2 36 (26.67%) Web Developer
3 27 (20.00%) Senior
4 20 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 17 (12.59%) Backend Developer
5 17 (12.59%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.37%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Java Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Senior Web Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) IAM Developer
10 8 (5.93%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Angular Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.59%) CSS
1 44 (32.59%) HTML
2 22 (16.30%) React
3 20 (14.81%) .NET
3 20 (14.81%) REST
4 17 (12.59%) Spring
5 16 (11.85%) AngularJS
5 16 (11.85%) Node.js
6 10 (7.41%) .NET Framework
6 10 (7.41%) HTML5
6 10 (7.41%) OAuth
6 10 (7.41%) RESTful
6 10 (7.41%) Spring Boot
7 9 (6.67%) CSS3
7 9 (6.67%) JSON
8 7 (5.19%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.19%) Jest
8 7 (5.19%) RxJava
9 6 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (4.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.19%) Derivative
2 7 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.22%) CMDB
4 3 (2.22%) Genomics
4 3 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.48%) Life Science
6 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.74%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Unix
2 7 (5.19%) Linux
3 4 (2.96%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.48%) Windows
5 1 (0.74%) MVS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.85%) Agile
2 40 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 36 (26.67%) DevOps
4 32 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (20.00%) Microservices
6 25 (18.52%) Software Engineering
7 24 (17.78%) User Experience
8 19 (14.07%) Responsive Web Design
9 18 (13.33%) API Integration
10 17 (12.59%) Front End Development
11 15 (11.11%) AI
11 15 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 15 (11.11%) UX Design
12 13 (9.63%) Clean Code
12 13 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (9.63%) Scrum
13 11 (8.15%) Unit Testing
14 10 (7.41%) Load Balancing
14 10 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.11%) JavaScript
2 34 (25.19%) Java
3 31 (22.96%) TypeScript
4 23 (17.04%) SQL
5 17 (12.59%) C#
6 9 (6.67%) Python
7 5 (3.70%) PHP
7 5 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.96%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.48%) Bash
9 2 (1.48%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) JCL
10 1 (0.74%) REXX
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.63%) Degree
3 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.48%) CCNA
5 2 (1.48%) CCNP
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.59%) Accessibility
2 14 (10.37%) QA
3 11 (8.15%) WCAG
4 6 (4.44%) SLA
5 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) WAI
6 1 (0.74%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 19 (14.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) Ansible
2 1 (0.74%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.15%) Google
3 6 (4.44%) Adobe
3 6 (4.44%) Oracle
4 5 (3.70%) Liquidlogic
4 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.48%) ESRI
5 2 (1.48%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) BMC
6 1 (0.74%) CODA
6 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.74%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.74%) Pardot
6 1 (0.74%) Remedy
6 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.74%) WooCommerce