Web Development Contracts

Web Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Web Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Development over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 283 248
Rank change year-on-year -16 -35 -31
Contract jobs citing Web Development 324 526 1,000
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.92% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.03% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 381 734
10th Percentile £267 £325 £352
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 31
10th Percentile £15.38 - £35.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.00 £45.21
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -68.57% +194.74%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.00 £76.67
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.00 £22.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +109.09% -69.66% +222.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 15 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 16 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
England +5 276 £488 -11.36% 489
London +40 179 £520 -16.80% 152
Work from Home +35 147 £475 -9.52% 194
UK excluding London -33 93 £425 -10.53% 377
North of England +11 26 £463 -19.57% 103
South East -4 22 £433 +1.76% 79
East of England +3 20 £400 -20.00% 32
Yorkshire +5 15 £463 -28.85% 39
Midlands +4 12 £138 -71.35% 72
North West +13 10 £425 -16.05% 53
West Midlands +22 7 £138 -67.65% 46
South West +7 7 £475 +11.76% 47
Scotland +4 6 £304 -32.50% 26
East Midlands -5 5 £419 -16.30% 26
North East +11 1 - - 12

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 27 (8.33%) CMS
2 22 (6.79%) nginx
3 16 (4.94%) WordPress
4 6 (1.85%) IIS
4 6 (1.85%) Tornado
5 5 (1.54%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.54%) Moodle
6 4 (1.23%) Confluence
6 4 (1.23%) Drupal
6 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.93%) Kentico
8 2 (0.62%) Apache
8 2 (0.62%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.62%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.31%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.31%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Sketch
2 3 (0.93%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.62%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.62%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.62%) Camtasia
3 2 (0.62%) InVision
3 2 (0.62%) Lectora
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.09%) Shopify
2 4 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.23%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (19.75%) AWS
2 50 (15.43%) Azure
3 22 (6.79%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 17 (5.25%) Figma
5 16 (4.94%) SaaS
6 13 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.40%) GCP
8 10 (3.09%) GitHub
9 9 (2.78%) Serverless
10 8 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (1.85%) npm
12 5 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.54%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.54%) Yarn
13 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.23%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.31%) Intranet
2 1 (0.31%) SSH
2 1 (0.31%) SSL
2 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.02%) MongoDB
3 20 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.86%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.32%) MySQL
6 12 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.16%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.23%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.23%) GIS
9 2 (0.62%) Big Data
9 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.62%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.62%) Looker
9 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (16.05%) Git
2 21 (6.48%) webpack
3 17 (5.25%) Mockito
4 8 (2.47%) JIRA
5 7 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.93%) Babel
8 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.93%) git-flow
8 3 (0.93%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.62%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.62%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) gulp
9 2 (0.62%) Maven
9 2 (0.62%) rollup.js
9 2 (0.62%) Storybook
9 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.73%) Finance
3 35 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.41%) Marketing
6 15 (4.63%) Games
7 14 (4.32%) Banking
8 10 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.85%) Front Office
11 5 (1.54%) Advertising
12 4 (1.23%) Automotive
12 4 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.93%) Retail
14 2 (0.62%) Law
14 2 (0.62%) Legal
14 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 224 (69.14%) Developer
2 51 (15.74%) Senior
3 46 (14.20%) Full Stack Developer
4 39 (12.04%) Senior Developer
5 36 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 36 (11.11%) Web Developer
6 24 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 20 (6.17%) JavaScript Developer
8 19 (5.86%) React Developer
9 17 (5.25%) .NET Developer
10 16 (4.94%) Architect
11 15 (4.63%) UI Developer
12 14 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (3.40%) HTML Developer
14 10 (3.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 10 (3.09%) Shopify Developer
15 9 (2.78%) E-Commerce Developer
15 9 (2.78%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
15 9 (2.78%) HTML CSS Developer
15 9 (2.78%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (46.91%) CSS
1 152 (46.91%) HTML
2 94 (29.01%) React
3 62 (19.14%) Node.js
4 53 (16.36%) .NET
5 52 (16.05%) Vue
6 49 (15.12%) REST
7 48 (14.81%) AngularJS
8 35 (10.80%) Sass
8 35 (10.80%) Web Services
9 31 (9.57%) Laravel
10 27 (8.33%) ASP.NET
11 25 (7.72%) WebSockets
12 23 (7.10%) Kafka
13 20 (6.17%) HTML5
14 18 (5.56%) JAX-RS
15 17 (5.25%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (5.25%) CSS3
15 17 (5.25%) RESTful
16 15 (4.63%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.01%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (2.47%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.16%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.16%) Derivative
3 7 (2.16%) Learning Management System
3 7 (2.16%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.54%) Blockchain
5 5 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.23%) Social Media
7 3 (0.93%) CMDB
7 3 (0.93%) e-Learning
7 3 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.93%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.74%) Linux
2 41 (12.65%) Unix
3 16 (4.94%) Mac OS X
4 15 (4.63%) Android
5 10 (3.09%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.85%) Windows
7 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (30.56%) Agile
2 74 (22.84%) Full Stack Development
3 59 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (16.98%) Front End Development
4 55 (16.98%) Microservices
5 54 (16.67%) TDD
6 50 (15.43%) Test Automation
7 44 (13.58%) User Experience
8 41 (12.65%) DevOps
9 37 (11.42%) Responsive Web Design
10 35 (10.80%) Computer Science
11 34 (10.49%) Design Patterns
12 33 (10.19%) MVC
13 30 (9.26%) OO
14 26 (8.02%) CI/CD
15 25 (7.72%) Scrum
15 25 (7.72%) Software Engineering
16 24 (7.41%) BDD
16 24 (7.41%) OOP
16 24 (7.41%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 181 (55.86%) JavaScript
2 58 (17.90%) C#
3 54 (16.67%) SQL
4 51 (15.74%) Java
5 43 (13.27%) TypeScript
6 41 (12.65%) Python
7 38 (11.73%) PHP
8 13 (4.01%) C++
9 9 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.47%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.85%) C
12 5 (1.54%) Bash
13 3 (0.93%) Clojure
13 3 (0.93%) Go
13 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.93%) Rust
13 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.62%) R
14 2 (0.62%) VBA
15 1 (0.31%) JSX
Qualifications
1 41 (12.65%) Degree
2 39 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 26 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.47%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.23%) PMP
9 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.79%) QA
3 8 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.47%) WCAG
4 3 (0.93%) MiFID
5 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) GRC
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) MISRA
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.62%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.16%) Terraform
3 4 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.70%) Oracle
3 9 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.85%) Databricks
5 6 (1.85%) Google
6 5 (1.54%) Adobe
6 5 (1.54%) Confluent
6 5 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.23%) ESRI
7 4 (1.23%) SimCorp
7 4 (1.23%) Xamarin
8 3 (0.93%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.62%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
9 2 (0.62%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.62%) VMware
10 1 (0.31%) Compaq
10 1 (0.31%) Sun