Web Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Web Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 415 439
Rank change year-on-year +33 +24 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 17 23 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 50
10th Percentile £285 £248 £300
25th Percentile £363 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £415
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.61% +3.75%
75th Percentile £475 £419 £488
90th Percentile £514 £449 £525
UK median daily rate £450 £445 £463
% change year-on-year +1.12% -3.78% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £51.53
25th Percentile £66.25 - £62.61
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £68.75 - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +225.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North of England +28 4 £388 +55.00% 23
South West +11 4 £475 +35.71% 6
South East +8 4 £423 +5.63% 19
East of England +10 3 £375 - 12
Scotland +33 2 £304 -16.21% 5
Yorkshire +16 2 - - 11
North West - 2 £388 - 10
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Web Development
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
4 4 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (23.53%) SaaS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) GIS
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) Jest
5 3 (17.65%) Docker
5 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
5 3 (17.65%) React
6 2 (11.76%) Flask
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (11.76%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 2 (11.76%) GeoServer
6 2 (11.76%) OpenLayers

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (11.76%) GeoServer
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Shopify
2 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Figma
3 2 (11.76%) Stripe
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Contentstack
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) GIS
2 2 (11.76%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) git-flow
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) German Language
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
1 5 (29.41%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) Jest
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
3 3 (17.65%) React
4 2 (11.76%) Ajax
4 2 (11.76%) CSS3
4 2 (11.76%) Flask
4 2 (11.76%) HTML5
4 2 (11.76%) LESS
4 2 (11.76%) OpenLayers
4 2 (11.76%) PostGIS
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) Sass
4 2 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.88%) CakePHP
5 1 (5.88%) Qt
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Web Development
2 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
3 4 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (23.53%) Scrum
4 2 (11.76%) API Development
4 2 (11.76%) B2C
4 2 (11.76%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Open Source
4 2 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (11.76%) Wireframes
5 1 (5.88%) Content Management
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.88%) Document Management
5 1 (5.88%) OOP
5 1 (5.88%) SEO
5 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) MISRA
1 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google