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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 290 246
Rank change year-on-year +2 -44 -22
Contract jobs citing Web Development 326 502 1,014
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.90% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.00% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 370 734
10th Percentile £269 £325 £350
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +1.45% +15.00%
75th Percentile £578 £655 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -11.46% +1.05% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 32
10th Percentile £15.38 - £35.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.00 £47.19
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £68.68
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -67.97% +189.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £23.00 £76.26
90th Percentile £76.00 £56.90 £80.65
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -3 275 £483 -12.27% 366
London +45 174 £508 -14.99% 94
Work from Home +35 148 £475 -9.52% 194
UK excluding London -43 98 £425 -11.46% 279
North of England +13 33 £463 -16.85% 77
Yorkshire +12 20 £463 -28.85% 37
East of England -3 20 £400 -21.95% 28
South East -7 20 £433 +1.76% 59
North West +17 12 £425 -18.07% 33
Midlands -3 12 £138 -73.17% 62
West Midlands +12 7 £138 -70.49% 38
South West +3 7 £475 +5.56% 31
Scotland +16 6 £304 -36.05% 17
East Midlands -11 5 £419 -20.29% 25
North East +12 1 - - 8

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 26 (7.98%) CMS
2 18 (5.52%) WordPress
3 17 (5.21%) nginx
4 6 (1.84%) IIS
5 5 (1.53%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.53%) Moodle
6 4 (1.23%) Drupal
7 3 (0.92%) Confluence
7 3 (0.92%) Kentico
7 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.61%) Apache
8 2 (0.61%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.61%) 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 7 (2.15%) Sketch
2 2 (0.61%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.61%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.61%) Camtasia
2 2 (0.61%) InVision
2 2 (0.61%) Lectora
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.61%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Shopify
2 4 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.23%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (18.71%) AWS
2 41 (12.58%) Azure
3 18 (5.52%) Figma
4 16 (4.91%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 16 (4.91%) SaaS
5 12 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.68%) GitHub
6 11 (3.37%) GCP
7 9 (2.76%) Serverless
8 8 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.84%) npm
10 5 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.53%) Yarn
11 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.23%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.92%) Contentful
12 3 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 27 (8.28%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.52%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.52%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.29%) MySQL
5 13 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.15%) MariaDB
7 4 (1.23%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.23%) GIS
8 3 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.61%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.61%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.61%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.61%) Looker
9 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.31%) Big Data
10 1 (0.31%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 51 (15.64%) Git
2 20 (6.13%) webpack
3 18 (5.52%) Mockito
4 8 (2.45%) JIRA
5 6 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.92%) Babel
8 3 (0.92%) git-flow
8 3 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.61%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.61%) Gradle
9 2 (0.61%) gulp
9 2 (0.61%) Maven
9 2 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 71 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.74%) Finance
2 35 (10.74%) Public Sector
3 34 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.75%) Marketing
5 15 (4.60%) Games
6 9 (2.76%) Banking
7 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.53%) Advertising
9 5 (1.53%) Automotive
9 5 (1.53%) Front Office
10 4 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
10 4 (1.23%) Retail
11 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 223 (68.40%) Developer
2 52 (15.95%) Senior
3 40 (12.27%) Senior Developer
4 37 (11.35%) Full Stack Developer
5 35 (10.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 33 (10.12%) Web Developer
7 25 (7.67%) Java Developer
8 18 (5.52%) JavaScript Developer
8 18 (5.52%) React Developer
9 15 (4.60%) .NET Developer
9 15 (4.60%) Architect
9 15 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (4.60%) UI Developer
10 12 (3.68%) Lead
11 10 (3.07%) Lead Developer
11 10 (3.07%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 9 (2.76%) HTML Developer
12 9 (2.76%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (2.76%) UX Developer
12 9 (2.76%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (47.24%) CSS
1 154 (47.24%) HTML
2 88 (26.99%) React
3 55 (16.87%) Node.js
4 52 (15.95%) REST
5 50 (15.34%) .NET
5 50 (15.34%) Vue
6 49 (15.03%) AngularJS
7 32 (9.82%) Web Services
8 30 (9.20%) Sass
9 27 (8.28%) Laravel
10 25 (7.67%) ASP.NET
11 19 (5.83%) JAX-RS
11 19 (5.83%) Kafka
12 18 (5.52%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (5.52%) HTML5
12 18 (5.52%) RESTful
13 17 (5.21%) XML
14 16 (4.91%) CSS3
14 16 (4.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.68%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.37%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.37%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.15%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.15%) Derivative
4 7 (2.15%) Learning Management System
4 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.53%) Blockchain
5 5 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.23%) Social Media
7 3 (0.92%) Animation
7 3 (0.92%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (0.92%) CMDB
7 3 (0.92%) e-Learning
7 3 (0.92%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (0.92%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.42%) Linux
2 36 (11.04%) Unix
3 17 (5.21%) Mac OS X
4 15 (4.60%) Android
5 10 (3.07%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.15%) Windows
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (30.37%) Agile
2 66 (20.25%) Full Stack Development
3 58 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (15.34%) Front End Development
4 50 (15.34%) Microservices
5 49 (15.03%) TDD
6 44 (13.50%) Test Automation
7 40 (12.27%) User Experience
8 37 (11.35%) Responsive Web Design
9 36 (11.04%) Computer Science
10 33 (10.12%) DevOps
11 32 (9.82%) Design Patterns
12 31 (9.51%) MVC
12 31 (9.51%) OO
13 25 (7.67%) BDD
13 25 (7.67%) Unit Testing
14 24 (7.36%) Scrum
15 23 (7.06%) E-Commerce
16 22 (6.75%) Analytics
16 22 (6.75%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 177 (54.29%) JavaScript
2 55 (16.87%) C#
3 53 (16.26%) Java
4 50 (15.34%) SQL
5 38 (11.66%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.04%) Python
7 34 (10.43%) PHP
8 18 (5.52%) C++
9 11 (3.37%) Apex Code
10 10 (3.07%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.15%) C
12 5 (1.53%) Bash
13 3 (0.92%) Clojure
13 3 (0.92%) Go
13 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.92%) Rust
13 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.61%) VBA
15 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (13.50%) Degree
2 38 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 27 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.23%) PMP
7 3 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CISM
9 1 (0.31%) CISSP
9 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.20%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.44%) QA
3 8 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.45%) WCAG
4 3 (0.92%) MiFID
5 2 (0.61%) 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 20 (6.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.61%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.84%) Terraform
3 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (6.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.68%) Salesforce
3 11 (3.37%) Oracle
4 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.53%) Adobe
5 5 (1.53%) Google
5 5 (1.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (1.23%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.23%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.92%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.61%) ESRI
8 2 (0.61%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.61%) SAP
8 2 (0.61%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.61%) VMware
9 1 (0.31%) Compaq
9 1 (0.31%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.31%) mParticle
9 1 (0.31%) OneTrust