Web Developer Contracts in England

Web Developer
UK > England

The median Web Developer daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 550 636
Rank change year-on-year +66 +86 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 30 39 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.096% 0.097% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 91
10th Percentile - £302 £300
25th Percentile £213 £311 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £630 £556 £638
90th Percentile - £721 £788
UK median daily rate £338 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -15.63% -20.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £14.82 £36.43
25th Percentile £66.25 £19.31 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £26.78 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.05% -64.29% +94.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.52 £77.50
90th Percentile - £50.36 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £26.78 £75.00
% change year-on-year +152.05% -64.29% +152.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Developer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in England

Web Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
London +56 15 £630 +80.00% 18
North of England +30 8 £225 -27.42% 19
Yorkshire +15 5 £263 -15.32% 7
North West +28 3 £225 - 10
South West +22 3 £300 -52.94% 5
Midlands +2 2 £300 -25.00% 20
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 15
South East +36 1 £225 -43.75% 12
East of England +18 1 - - 12
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Web Developer 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 across the England region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 21 (70.00%) Web Development
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) GitHub
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 9 (30.00%) HTML
3 9 (30.00%) Java
3 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) CSS
4 8 (26.67%) JIRA
4 8 (26.67%) Spring
4 8 (26.67%) Docker
4 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 8 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (23.33%) React
5 7 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (23.33%) API Development
5 7 (23.33%) API Design
5 7 (23.33%) Kotlin
5 7 (23.33%) Web Application Development
5 7 (23.33%) Confluence
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.00%) Azure
7 3 (10.00%) Sass
7 3 (10.00%) HTML5
7 3 (10.00%) C#
8 2 (6.67%) XML
8 2 (6.67%) PHP

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (23.33%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) PrestaShop
3 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
1 10 (33.33%) GitHub
2 7 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (23.33%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) BrowserStack
4 2 (6.67%) Figma
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.33%) Gradle
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (3.33%) Marketing
1 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (3.33%) Publishing
1 1 (3.33%) Retail
1 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) HTML
2 8 (26.67%) CSS
2 8 (26.67%) Spring
2 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 7 (23.33%) React
4 3 (10.00%) HTML5
4 3 (10.00%) Sass
5 2 (6.67%) .NET
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.67%) JSON
5 2 (6.67%) XML
6 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.33%) Blazor
6 1 (3.33%) Flutter
6 1 (3.33%) LESS
6 1 (3.33%) Micronaut
6 1 (3.33%) Next.js
6 1 (3.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Animation
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Web Development
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) API Design
3 7 (23.33%) API Development
3 7 (23.33%) Web Application Development
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.67%) Integration Testing
6 2 (6.67%) MVC
7 1 (3.33%) Email Marketing
7 1 (3.33%) Performance Management
7 1 (3.33%) Project Management
7 1 (3.33%) Scrum
7 1 (3.33%) Unit Testing
7 1 (3.33%) Validation
7 1 (3.33%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (3.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Java
1 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (23.33%) Kotlin
3 3 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.67%) QA
1 2 (6.67%) WCAG
2 1 (3.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Databricks
1 1 (3.33%) Google
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle