Web Development Contracts in the West Midlands

Web Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 104 125
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing Web Development 12 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.43% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £363 - £384
25th Percentile £381 £131 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £138 £446
Median % change year-on-year +241.82% -69.14% +1.83%
75th Percentile £493 £144 £553
90th Percentile £506 £166 £607
England median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the West Midlands

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the West Midlands

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the West Midlands

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the West Midlands

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +13 3 £488 +254.55% 16
Coventry - 3 £470 - 2
Walsall - 2 £375 - 1
Warwickshire - 2 - - 5
Shropshire - 1 - - 9
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Ant
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Gradle
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Flutter Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Scala Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 6 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) React
3 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 3 (25.00%) SPFx
4 2 (16.67%) Flutter
4 2 (16.67%) Play Framework
4 2 (16.67%) WebAssembly
5 1 (8.33%) .NET
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (8.33%) Django
5 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
5 1 (8.33%) Flask
5 1 (8.33%) Laravel
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) Spring
5 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) Edge Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) User Research
4 1 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Siemens
2 1 (8.33%) Sybase