Web Engineer Contracts

Web Engineer
UK

The median Web Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 556 674
Rank change year-on-year +43 +118 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Web Engineer 7 26 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.060% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.064% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 37
10th Percentile £365 £419 £398
25th Percentile £388 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -25.00% +17.07%
75th Percentile £481 £500 £650
90th Percentile £538 £503 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +9.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Web Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Web Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +40 7 £425 -5.56% 11
London +30 5 £500 +11.11% 6
UK excluding London +53 2 £375 -25.00% 11
Work from Home +41 2 £400 -20.00% 7
South East +43 1 £350 - 3
South West - 1 £400 - 1

Web Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Web Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Web Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Next.js
3 2 (28.57%) Vue
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree

Web Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Vite
2 1 (14.29%) webpack
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Korean Language
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Next.js
2 2 (28.57%) Vue
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) DOM
3 1 (14.29%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) JAX-RS
3 1 (14.29%) JAX-WS
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) LAMP
3 1 (14.29%) React Native
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Sass
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Practice Management
4 1 (14.29%) Process Management
4 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Wealth Management
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Amplitude
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Pega