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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 295 246
Rank change year-on-year -8 -49 -30
Contract jobs citing Web Development 334 506 1,004
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.91% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.02% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 371 722
10th Percentile £269 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £587 £659 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £786
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -11.73% +3.16% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 33
10th Percentile £15.38 - £35.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -67.34% +166.77%
75th Percentile £68.75 £23.00 £75.84
90th Percentile £76.00 £56.90 £80.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.00 £22.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +109.09% -70.67% +200.00%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +7 285 £488 -11.36% 371
London +31 180 £508 -14.99% 83
Work from Home +34 150 £475 -9.52% 198
UK excluding London -37 102 £433 -11.73% 298
North of England +13 31 £463 -16.85% 88
South East -2 23 £500 +14.29% 65
East of England -7 20 £400 -21.95% 31
Yorkshire +4 18 £463 -28.85% 40
Midlands -1 15 £375 -26.83% 65
North West +9 12 £425 -18.07% 34
West Midlands +14 10 £138 -70.49% 40
South West +8 7 £475 +5.56% 29
Scotland +20 6 £304 -36.05% 21
East Midlands -11 5 £419 -20.29% 26
North East +13 1 - - 15

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 (7.78%) CMS
2 18 (5.39%) WordPress
3 16 (4.79%) nginx
4 6 (1.80%) IIS
5 5 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.50%) Moodle
6 3 (0.90%) Confluence
6 3 (0.90%) Drupal
6 3 (0.90%) Kentico
7 2 (0.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.60%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.60%) Gunicorn
7 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.30%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Sketch
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.60%) Camtasia
2 2 (0.60%) InVision
2 2 (0.60%) Lectora
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Shopify
2 4 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.20%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.30%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.30%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (18.56%) AWS
2 43 (12.87%) Azure
3 19 (5.69%) Figma
4 16 (4.79%) SaaS
5 15 (4.49%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 12 (3.59%) GitHub
7 11 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.29%) GCP
8 9 (2.69%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.69%) Serverless
9 8 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.10%) npm
10 7 (2.10%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.50%) Yarn
12 4 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.20%) Contentful
12 4 (1.20%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.58%) SQL Server
2 27 (8.08%) MongoDB
3 19 (5.69%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.39%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.79%) MySQL
6 14 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.10%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.20%) GIS
8 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.60%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.60%) Looker
10 2 (0.60%) Power BI
10 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (15.57%) Git
2 20 (5.99%) webpack
3 19 (5.69%) Mockito
4 9 (2.69%) JIRA
5 8 (2.40%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.20%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.90%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.90%) Babel
8 3 (0.90%) git-flow
8 3 (0.90%) Gradle
8 3 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (0.90%) Maven
9 2 (0.60%) gulp
9 2 (0.60%) rollup.js
9 2 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 77 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.08%) Finance
3 35 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.89%) Marketing
5 15 (4.49%) Games
6 10 (2.99%) Banking
7 8 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.50%) Advertising
9 5 (1.50%) Automotive
9 5 (1.50%) Retail
10 4 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
10 4 (1.20%) Front Office
10 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (67.96%) Developer
2 54 (16.17%) Senior
3 42 (12.57%) Senior Developer
4 36 (10.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 36 (10.78%) Full Stack Developer
5 33 (9.88%) Web Developer
6 26 (7.78%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.39%) Architect
7 18 (5.39%) React Developer
8 17 (5.09%) .NET Developer
8 17 (5.09%) JavaScript Developer
9 15 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (4.49%) UI Developer
10 12 (3.59%) Lead
11 10 (2.99%) Lead Developer
11 10 (2.99%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 10 (2.99%) UX Developer
12 9 (2.69%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.69%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (48.50%) CSS
2 161 (48.20%) HTML
3 93 (27.84%) React
4 55 (16.47%) .NET
4 55 (16.47%) Node.js
4 55 (16.47%) REST
5 53 (15.87%) AngularJS
6 50 (14.97%) Vue
7 33 (9.88%) Web Services
8 28 (8.38%) Sass
9 27 (8.08%) Laravel
10 24 (7.19%) ASP.NET
11 23 (6.89%) XML
12 21 (6.29%) JSON
13 20 (5.99%) Kafka
14 19 (5.69%) JAX-RS
15 18 (5.39%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (5.39%) HTML5
16 17 (5.09%) RESTful
17 16 (4.79%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.19%) Data Structures
2 12 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.99%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.40%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.10%) Derivative
5 7 (2.10%) Learning Management System
5 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.80%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.50%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.20%) Biopharmaceutical
8 4 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.20%) Social Media
9 3 (0.90%) Animation
9 3 (0.90%) CMDB
9 3 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (0.90%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.97%) Linux
2 36 (10.78%) Unix
3 17 (5.09%) Mac OS X
4 14 (4.19%) Android
5 10 (2.99%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.40%) Windows
7 5 (1.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.84%) Agile
2 65 (19.46%) Full Stack Development
3 61 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (15.57%) Front End Development
5 50 (14.97%) Microservices
6 49 (14.67%) TDD
7 43 (12.87%) Test Automation
8 40 (11.98%) User Experience
9 38 (11.38%) Computer Science
10 37 (11.08%) Responsive Web Design
11 34 (10.18%) DevOps
11 34 (10.18%) OO
12 33 (9.88%) MVC
13 32 (9.58%) Design Patterns
14 26 (7.78%) Unit Testing
15 25 (7.49%) Scrum
16 24 (7.19%) BDD
16 24 (7.19%) E-Commerce
16 24 (7.19%) UX Design
17 23 (6.89%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 182 (54.49%) JavaScript
2 60 (17.96%) C#
3 54 (16.17%) Java
4 52 (15.57%) SQL
5 37 (11.08%) Python
5 37 (11.08%) TypeScript
6 34 (10.18%) PHP
7 19 (5.69%) C++
8 11 (3.29%) Apex Code
8 11 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.10%) C
10 5 (1.50%) Bash
11 3 (0.90%) Clojure
11 3 (0.90%) Go
11 3 (0.90%) Groovy
11 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.90%) Rust
11 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.90%) VBA
12 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 50 (14.97%) Degree
2 39 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 27 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.20%) PMP
8 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.08%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.29%) QA
3 8 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.10%) WCAG
5 3 (0.90%) MiFID
6 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) MISRA
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (6.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.60%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.40%) Terraform
3 3 (0.90%) Ansible
3 3 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.89%) Oracle
3 12 (3.59%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.50%) Adobe
5 5 (1.50%) Google
5 5 (1.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (1.20%) SAP
6 4 (1.20%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.20%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.90%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.60%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.60%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.60%) VMware
9 1 (0.30%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.30%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.30%) mParticle
9 1 (0.30%) Oneserve
9 1 (0.30%) OneTrust