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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 352 290
Rank change year-on-year -170 -62 -6
Contract jobs citing Web Development 133 187 334
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.66% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 124 244
10th Percentile £362 £350 £269
25th Percentile £420 £408 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +3.02% -5.24%
75th Percentile £654 £600 £588
90th Percentile £738 £738 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £429
% change year-on-year -2.63% +10.79% -14.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile - £25.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.13 £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 £97.50 £44.03 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £40.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -49.21% -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 43,739 28,136 37,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.86% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,189 17,763 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,627 1,381 2,550
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +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 2 July 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 2 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 15 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 2 July 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 -144 122 £502 -2.15% 244
London -93 65 £583 +10.95% 68
UK excluding London -136 58 £463 -2.63% 231
Work from Home -68 28 £675 +50.00% 68
South East -58 19 £375 -27.04% 55
North of England -66 15 £500 +59.74% 62
South West -45 8 £505 +36.49% 22
Midlands -51 8 £425 +3.66% 32
Yorkshire - 8 £481 - 22
East of England -16 7 £505 -17.55% 38
North West -50 7 £700 +123.64% 33
West Midlands -55 7 £388 -18.42% 14
Scotland -22 3 £475 -5.00% 14
East Midlands -23 1 £500 +36.61% 18
North East - 1 - - 8

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 9 (6.77%) CMS
2 5 (3.76%) WordPress
3 4 (3.01%) Confluence
4 3 (2.26%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.26%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.75%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.75%) Drupal
6 1 (0.75%) Kentico
6 1 (0.75%) Liferay
6 1 (0.75%) Mule
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.75%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) ContrOCC
2 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.58%) Azure
2 18 (13.53%) AWS
3 17 (12.78%) GCP
4 13 (9.77%) GitHub
5 9 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.77%) Figma
5 9 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.50%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.50%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.75%) npm
10 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.75%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) Firewall
1 8 (6.02%) VPN
2 7 (5.26%) DNS
2 7 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.76%) HTTP
4 4 (3.01%) VLAN
5 2 (1.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.02%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.51%) Power BI
6 5 (3.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.76%) MySQL
6 5 (3.76%) Redis
7 4 (3.01%) Couchbase
7 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.26%) GIS
8 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.26%) Tableau
9 2 (1.50%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.75%) Metadata
10 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Git
2 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.27%) JIRA
3 10 (7.52%) Mockito
4 7 (5.26%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (3.01%) JUnit
6 3 (2.26%) GitLab
7 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.75%) MLflow
8 1 (0.75%) NUnit
8 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.75%) Subversion
8 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.06%) Finance
3 26 (19.55%) Banking
4 21 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 16 (12.03%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.51%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Local Government
9 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.26%) Publishing
10 2 (1.50%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Automotive
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.75%) Front Office
11 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (67.67%) Developer
2 26 (19.55%) Web Developer
3 22 (16.54%) Senior
4 21 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Software Developer
6 13 (9.77%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.27%) Angular Developer
9 10 (7.52%) .NET Developer
9 10 (7.52%) C# Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Backend Developer
11 8 (6.02%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Applications Support
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Developer
12 7 (5.26%) Java Engineer
12 7 (5.26%) Web Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (37.59%) HTML
2 41 (30.83%) CSS
3 29 (21.80%) AngularJS
4 28 (21.05%) .NET
5 18 (13.53%) React
5 18 (13.53%) REST
6 15 (11.28%) Spring
7 14 (10.53%) OAuth
8 12 (9.02%) Node.js
9 11 (8.27%) Kafka
10 10 (7.52%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (7.52%) JAX-RS
11 8 (6.02%) RxJava
12 7 (5.26%) .NET Core
12 7 (5.26%) Jest
12 7 (5.26%) jQuery
13 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
13 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET
13 6 (4.51%) Spring Boot
14 5 (3.76%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.02%) Derivative
4 5 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.26%) Genomics
7 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.50%) Life Science
7 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) CMDB
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.75%) FMCG
8 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.75%) Mashup
8 1 (0.75%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.03%) Unix
2 12 (9.02%) Linux
3 11 (8.27%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.50%) Android
4 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.75%) MVS
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (55.64%) Agile
2 44 (33.08%) CI/CD
3 42 (31.58%) DevOps
4 36 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (24.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (24.81%) Microservices
6 22 (16.54%) Test Automation
7 21 (15.79%) Responsive Web Design
8 17 (12.78%) TDD
9 16 (12.03%) AI
9 16 (12.03%) User Experience
10 14 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.77%) BDD
11 13 (9.77%) Pair Programming
11 13 (9.77%) UX Design
12 12 (9.02%) API Integration
12 12 (9.02%) Continuous Deployment
12 12 (9.02%) Scrum
13 11 (8.27%) Web Design
14 10 (7.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.85%) JavaScript
2 35 (26.32%) Java
2 35 (26.32%) SQL
3 30 (22.56%) C#
4 29 (21.80%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.29%) Python
6 7 (5.26%) Bash
6 7 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.01%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.26%) PHP
8 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Bicep
10 1 (0.75%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.75%) Groovy
10 1 (0.75%) JCL
10 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.75%) REXX
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.27%) Degree
4 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.01%) CCNA
4 4 (3.01%) CCNP
4 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.02%) WCAG
3 4 (3.01%) SLA
4 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) WAI
5 1 (0.75%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 22 (16.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.75%) Ansible
3 1 (0.75%) Control-M
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) Google
3 8 (6.02%) Oracle
4 4 (3.01%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (2.26%) ESRI
5 3 (2.26%) Netskope
5 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.26%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.50%) Adobe
6 2 (1.50%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.50%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.75%) BMC
7 1 (0.75%) CODA
7 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.75%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.75%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.75%) Pardot
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) TikTok