Web Development Contracts in England

Web Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 295 231
Rank change year-on-year -1 -64 -10
Contract jobs citing Web Development 274 409 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.86% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.95% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 299 651
10th Percentile £300 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £587 £653 £656
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £479 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -8.81% +1.45% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 30
10th Percentile £15.38 - £35.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -68.57% +180.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £23.00 £77.09
90th Percentile £76.00 £56.90 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £68.68
% change year-on-year +93.18% -67.97% +172.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,458 42,946 64,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.64% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,501 30,170 46,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,518 1,726
10th Percentile £12.83 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in England

Web Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Development in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Development in England

Web Development
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 Development within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +43 173 £514 -13.94% 98
North of England +17 33 £463 -16.85% 79
Yorkshire +9 20 £463 -28.85% 38
East of England -2 20 £400 -21.95% 29
South East -4 20 £433 +1.76% 64
North West +6 12 £425 -18.07% 32
Midlands -2 12 £138 -73.17% 63
West Midlands +14 7 £138 -70.49% 39
South West +5 7 £475 +5.56% 32
East Midlands -13 5 £419 -20.29% 25
North East +12 1 - - 10
Web Development
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Web Development
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 20 (7.30%) CMS
2 17 (6.20%) WordPress
3 12 (4.38%) nginx
4 6 (2.19%) IIS
5 5 (1.82%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.82%) Moodle
6 4 (1.46%) Drupal
7 3 (1.09%) Confluence
7 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.73%) Apache
8 2 (0.73%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.73%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.36%) Kentico
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Sketch
2 2 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.73%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.73%) InVision
2 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Aladdin
1 4 (1.46%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Shopify
3 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (18.98%) AWS
2 34 (12.41%) Azure
3 16 (5.84%) SaaS
4 15 (5.47%) Figma
5 12 (4.38%) GitHub
6 11 (4.01%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 10 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.28%) GCP
9 8 (2.92%) Serverless
10 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.19%) npm
12 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.82%) Yarn
13 4 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.09%) Contentful
15 2 (0.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.85%) MongoDB
2 22 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.47%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.65%) MySQL
7 7 (2.55%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.46%) GIS
9 3 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.73%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.73%) Looker
10 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.36%) Power BI
11 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (13.14%) Git
2 18 (6.57%) Mockito
3 12 (4.38%) webpack
4 8 (2.92%) JIRA
5 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.46%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.46%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.46%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.09%) Babel
7 3 (1.09%) git-flow
7 3 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.73%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.73%) Gradle
8 2 (0.73%) gulp
8 2 (0.73%) Maven
9 1 (0.36%) Moq
9 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.31%) Finance
3 27 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.66%) Marketing
6 15 (5.47%) Games
7 8 (2.92%) Banking
8 6 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.82%) Advertising
9 5 (1.82%) Front Office
10 4 (1.46%) Automotive
10 4 (1.46%) Digital Healthcare
10 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.46%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.73%) French Language
12 2 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 185 (67.52%) Developer
2 49 (17.88%) Senior
3 38 (13.87%) Senior Developer
4 31 (11.31%) Full Stack Developer
5 28 (10.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 28 (10.22%) Web Developer
6 23 (8.39%) Java Developer
7 16 (5.84%) React Developer
8 15 (5.47%) JavaScript Developer
8 15 (5.47%) UI Developer
9 14 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (4.01%) Lead
11 10 (3.65%) Architect
12 9 (3.28%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 9 (3.28%) WordPress Developer
13 8 (2.92%) Analyst
13 8 (2.92%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (47.08%) CSS
2 128 (46.72%) HTML
3 71 (25.91%) React
4 49 (17.88%) REST
5 47 (17.15%) Node.js
6 40 (14.60%) .NET
7 39 (14.23%) AngularJS
8 38 (13.87%) Vue
9 29 (10.58%) Web Services
10 23 (8.39%) Sass
11 22 (8.03%) Laravel
12 19 (6.93%) ASP.NET
12 19 (6.93%) JAX-RS
12 19 (6.93%) Kafka
13 18 (6.57%) ActiveMQ
14 16 (5.84%) HTML5
15 15 (5.47%) JSON
16 14 (5.11%) CSS3
16 14 (5.11%) Next.js
16 14 (5.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.38%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.01%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.55%) Derivative
6 6 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.82%) Learning Management System
7 5 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.46%) Social Media
9 3 (1.09%) Animation
9 3 (1.09%) Biopharmaceutical
9 3 (1.09%) CMDB
9 3 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.73%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.96%) Linux
2 31 (11.31%) Unix
3 17 (6.20%) Mac OS X
4 12 (4.38%) Android
5 8 (2.92%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.55%) Windows
7 4 (1.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.75%) Agile
2 57 (20.80%) Full Stack Development
3 46 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (15.69%) Microservices
5 42 (15.33%) TDD
6 40 (14.60%) Front End Development
7 39 (14.23%) Test Automation
8 33 (12.04%) Responsive Web Design
9 30 (10.95%) User Experience
10 27 (9.85%) DevOps
11 26 (9.49%) Design Patterns
12 25 (9.12%) OO
13 24 (8.76%) Computer Science
13 24 (8.76%) MVC
14 23 (8.39%) BDD
15 22 (8.03%) Scrum
16 21 (7.66%) Pair Programming
16 21 (7.66%) Unit Testing
17 20 (7.30%) E-Commerce
17 20 (7.30%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 141 (51.46%) JavaScript
2 47 (17.15%) C#
3 46 (16.79%) Java
3 46 (16.79%) SQL
4 33 (12.04%) TypeScript
5 31 (11.31%) Python
6 27 (9.85%) PHP
7 14 (5.11%) C++
8 11 (4.01%) Apex Code
9 10 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.55%) C
11 5 (1.82%) Bash
12 3 (1.09%) Go
13 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.73%) Rust
13 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) VBA
14 1 (0.36%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.22%) Degree
3 27 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.46%) PMP
7 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CISM
8 1 (0.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.03%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.47%) QA
3 8 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.82%) WCAG
5 3 (1.09%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) MISRA
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (5.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.73%) VirtualBox
2 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.82%) Terraform
3 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.01%) Oracle
2 11 (4.01%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 4 (1.46%) Google
5 4 (1.46%) SimCorp
5 4 (1.46%) WooCommerce
6 3 (1.09%) Adobe
6 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.09%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.73%) ESRI
7 2 (0.73%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.73%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.73%) VMware
8 1 (0.36%) Compaq
8 1 (0.36%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.36%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.36%) Qualys
8 1 (0.36%) SAP