Web Development Contracts

Web Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Web Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Development over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 301 298
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -48
Contract jobs citing Web Development 212 318 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.73% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.85% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 225 376
10th Percentile £355 £263 £325
25th Percentile £420 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +10.59% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £26.38 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £29.38 £20.91 £21.00
Median hourly rate £37.80 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +81.82% -56.00%
75th Percentile £43.29 £50.81 £23.00
90th Percentile £43.71 £76.50 £42.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.59 £24.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +65.67% +11.36% -58.10%

All Process and 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 26,620 37,484 53,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 86.34% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,162 24,149 37,016
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 2,454 1,744
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%
75th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 16 Contract 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 3 May 2025. 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 -7 183 £513 +7.05% 488
London -18 106 £585 +10.12% 169
UK excluding London +56 88 £470 +10.59% 370
Work from Home -42 56 £470 -1.05% 272
North of England +9 24 £470 +1.62% 99
North West +20 21 £470 +10.59% 51
South West +40 17 £370 -22.11% 32
South East +35 17 £513 +18.50% 108
Scotland +22 17 £500 +53.85% 13
Midlands +19 15 £470 +135.00% 68
West Midlands +17 11 £470 +241.82% 43
East Midlands +11 4 £318 -24.22% 22
North East -2 3 £470 - 19
Yorkshire -3 3 £470 +1.62% 29
East of England +19 1 £575 +43.75% 54
Wales +7 1 - - 9

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.77%) CMS
2 8 (3.77%) WordPress
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Drupal
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) Kentico
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.94%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.36%) Magento
3 3 (1.42%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.47%) Azure
2 30 (14.15%) AWS
3 29 (13.68%) Power Platform
4 25 (11.79%) PowerApps
5 24 (11.32%) Power Automate
6 16 (7.55%) GCP
7 15 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.13%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (5.66%) GitHub
9 12 (5.66%) npm
10 11 (5.19%) Yarn
11 10 (4.72%) Figma
12 8 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.30%) Google Analytics
13 7 (3.30%) Serverless
14 6 (2.83%) Azure Functions
15 5 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) Intranet
2 2 (0.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.66%) NoSQL
2 12 (5.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.36%) MySQL
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.94%) Power Query
7 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.94%) Redis
7 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.47%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.47%) Power BI
8 1 (0.47%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 49 (23.11%) Git
2 11 (5.19%) webpack
3 6 (2.83%) Subversion
4 5 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.89%) Jasmine
5 4 (1.89%) JIRA
5 4 (1.89%) Mocha
5 4 (1.89%) Selenium
6 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.42%) Grunt
6 3 (1.42%) gulp
6 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.42%) Maven
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.94%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.94%) Codeception
7 2 (0.94%) JUnit
7 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.28%) Finance
3 36 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.38%) Banking
5 20 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (8.96%) Marketing
7 18 (8.49%) Investment Banking
8 11 (5.19%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.77%) Electronics
9 8 (3.77%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.42%) Front Office
11 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Automotive
12 2 (0.94%) Back Office
12 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.94%) Military
13 1 (0.47%) Local Government
13 1 (0.47%) Retail
13 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (72.17%) Developer
2 43 (20.28%) Senior
3 32 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (14.62%) Senior Developer
5 21 (9.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 19 (8.96%) Web Developer
7 17 (8.02%) Software Developer
8 15 (7.08%) UI Developer
9 14 (6.60%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 13 (6.13%) Senior UI Developer
11 12 (5.66%) Architect
11 12 (5.66%) Azure Developer
11 12 (5.66%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.66%) Lead
11 12 (5.66%) Python Developer
11 12 (5.66%) ServiceNow Developer
12 10 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.25%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.77%) Applications Support
14 8 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (57.55%) CSS
2 110 (51.89%) HTML
3 62 (29.25%) React
4 45 (21.23%) .NET
5 37 (17.45%) AngularJS
6 29 (13.68%) RESTful
7 26 (12.26%) .NET Framework
8 23 (10.85%) Node.js
9 22 (10.38%) REST
10 21 (9.91%) jQuery
11 17 (8.02%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (8.02%) WCF
12 16 (7.55%) ASP.NET
12 16 (7.55%) Vue
13 15 (7.08%) JSON
13 15 (7.08%) Next.js
13 15 (7.08%) Web Services
14 12 (5.66%) .NET Core
15 11 (5.19%) HTML5
15 11 (5.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Derivative
2 14 (6.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (6.13%) Algorithms
4 12 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.83%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.89%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.89%) Wiki
8 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.94%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.77%) Linux
2 4 (1.89%) Unix
3 3 (1.42%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.94%) AIX
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) CentOS
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (42.45%) Agile
2 54 (25.47%) Full-Stack Development
3 46 (21.70%) CI/CD
4 43 (20.28%) User Experience
5 36 (16.98%) DevOps
6 34 (16.04%) Front End Development
6 34 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.04%) Software Engineering
7 31 (14.62%) TDD
8 28 (13.21%) Analytics
9 26 (12.26%) Test Automation
10 25 (11.79%) Computer Science
11 22 (10.38%) Scrum
11 22 (10.38%) UX Design
12 21 (9.91%) Artificial Intelligence
13 18 (8.49%) CRM
13 18 (8.49%) MVC
14 16 (7.55%) Microservices
14 16 (7.55%) OO
14 16 (7.55%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 129 (60.85%) JavaScript
2 57 (26.89%) TypeScript
3 47 (22.17%) C#
4 46 (21.70%) SQL
5 36 (16.98%) Python
6 29 (13.68%) Java
7 15 (7.08%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.19%) PHP
9 7 (3.30%) C++
9 7 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.83%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.36%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.42%) RPG
12 3 (1.42%) Rust
13 2 (0.94%) Bash
13 2 (0.94%) Scala
13 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.47%) Ada
14 1 (0.47%) Go
14 1 (0.47%) VB6
Qualifications
1 35 (16.51%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.36%) MCPD
7 5 (2.36%) MCSD
7 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) CISA
9 1 (0.47%) CISM
9 1 (0.47%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.96%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.19%) WCAG
3 10 (4.72%) QA
4 4 (1.89%) GRC
4 4 (1.89%) PERC
5 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.94%) GDPR
5 2 (0.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (9.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.47%) Firmware
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.77%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.85%) Google
3 15 (7.08%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.19%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.72%) SAP
6 8 (3.77%) Oracle
7 7 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.83%) Adobe
9 4 (1.89%) Snow
10 3 (1.42%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.42%) Zend
11 2 (0.94%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.94%) Screaming Frog
11 2 (0.94%) VMware
12 1 (0.47%) Databricks
12 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.47%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.47%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.47%) Veracode