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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 323 297
Rank change year-on-year -221 -26 +3
Contract jobs citing Web Development 86 214 315
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.73% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.80% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 148 227
10th Percentile £277 £354 £263
25th Percentile £415 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £600
90th Percentile £669 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -3.72% +10.59% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £29.44 £26.38 £15.38
25th Percentile £32.35 £29.38 £19.07
Median hourly rate £37.20 £37.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +0.79% +70.45%
75th Percentile - £43.29 £58.88
90th Percentile - £43.71 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £40.59 £24.50
% change year-on-year -8.35% +65.67% +11.36%

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 39,989 26,597 37,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.89% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,206 17,155 24,229
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.62% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,068 2,445
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.76 £37.18
% change year-on-year +57.38% -25.34% +3.28%

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 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
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 1 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 -200 78 £500 -2.44% 202
London -114 44 £500 -15.18% 52
UK excluding London -148 39 £453 -3.72% 181
North of England -72 18 £488 +3.72% 64
Work from Home -76 17 £600 +30.43% 47
South East -61 12 £375 -26.83% 50
North West -51 11 £417 -11.38% 31
Yorkshire -48 7 £500 +6.38% 24
Wales -8 3 £175 -14.70% 9
Scotland -18 3 £455 -9.00% 4
East of England -27 1 - - 27
East Midlands -33 1 £500 +57.48% 10
South West -46 1 - - 12
Midlands -91 1 £500 +18.34% 16

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 7 (8.14%) CMS
2 3 (3.49%) WordPress
3 2 (2.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.16%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.16%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.16%) Drupal
4 1 (1.16%) Kentico
4 1 (1.16%) Mule
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.16%) SAS
4 1 (1.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.16%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.72%) Azure
2 12 (13.95%) AWS
3 10 (11.63%) Figma
4 9 (10.47%) GCP
5 7 (8.14%) GitHub
6 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (2.33%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.33%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.16%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.16%) Contentful
8 1 (1.16%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) DNS
1 7 (8.14%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.81%) HTTP
3 4 (4.65%) Firewall
3 4 (4.65%) VLAN
3 4 (4.65%) VPN
4 2 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.16%) GIS
5 1 (1.16%) Metadata
5 1 (1.16%) MySQL
5 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Git
1 8 (9.30%) Mockito
2 4 (4.65%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (4.65%) JIRA
3 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.16%) GitLab
4 1 (1.16%) NUnit
4 1 (1.16%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.16%) Subversion
4 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Finance
3 16 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.47%) Banking
5 6 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.65%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.33%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.16%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.16%) Front Office
9 1 (1.16%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (65.12%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Web Developer
3 12 (13.95%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.79%) C# Developer
5 10 (11.63%) .NET Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Software Developer
6 9 (10.47%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Angular Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Senior
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Web Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) .NET Software Developer
10 5 (5.81%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.49%) HTML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (40.70%) HTML
2 25 (29.07%) CSS
3 22 (25.58%) AngularJS
4 21 (24.42%) .NET
5 15 (17.44%) React
6 10 (11.63%) REST
7 9 (10.47%) Kafka
8 8 (9.30%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (9.30%) JAX-RS
9 7 (8.14%) OAuth
10 6 (6.98%) HTML5
11 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET
12 4 (4.65%) CSS3
12 4 (4.65%) Node.js
12 4 (4.65%) SAML
12 4 (4.65%) Spring
13 3 (3.49%) jQuery
13 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Graph
13 3 (3.49%) Playwright
13 3 (3.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.33%) Derivative
3 2 (2.33%) Genomics
3 2 (2.33%) Life Science
3 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.16%) NHS
4 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
1 14 (16.28%) Unix
2 10 (11.63%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.33%) Android
3 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.16%) MVS
4 1 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Agile
2 24 (27.91%) DevOps
3 22 (25.58%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.60%) Responsive Web Design
6 15 (17.44%) Test Automation
7 14 (16.28%) TDD
8 13 (15.12%) Microservices
9 12 (13.95%) BDD
10 11 (12.79%) Pair Programming
10 11 (12.79%) User Experience
11 10 (11.63%) Continuous Deployment
11 10 (11.63%) Web Design
12 8 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (9.30%) UX Design
12 8 (9.30%) Visualisation
13 7 (8.14%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.14%) Data Visualisation
13 7 (8.14%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) JavaScript
2 25 (29.07%) C#
3 22 (25.58%) SQL
4 21 (24.42%) Python
5 19 (22.09%) Java
6 17 (19.77%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.14%) Bash
8 6 (6.98%) PHP
9 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.49%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.33%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.16%) C++
11 1 (1.16%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.16%) Groovy
11 1 (1.16%) JCL
11 1 (1.16%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.16%) REXX
11 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Degree
4 4 (4.65%) CCNA
4 4 (4.65%) CCNP
4 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.30%) WCAG
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) WAI
3 1 (1.16%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 14 (16.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Grafana
1 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.16%) Control-M
3 1 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) Google
3 3 (3.49%) Adobe
3 3 (3.49%) Netskope
3 3 (3.49%) Oracle
3 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
4 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.16%) BMC
5 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.16%) ESRI
5 1 (1.16%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.16%) Marketo
5 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.16%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.16%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.16%) Pardot
5 1 (1.16%) SAP
5 1 (1.16%) Splunk
5 1 (1.16%) WooCommerce