Web Developer Contracts

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 638 694
Rank change year-on-year +100 +56 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 41 56 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.098% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 113
10th Percentile £314 £320 £303
25th Percentile £363 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £491 £700 £575
90th Percentile £561 - £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £409 £415
% change year-on-year +2.14% -1.51% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £41.13
25th Percentile £66.25 - £46.70
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £67.50
75th Percentile £68.75 - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £78.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +225.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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 +125 37 £450 +7.14% 114
Work from Home +102 22 £433 -38.21% 43
London +109 19 £465 +4.49% 26
UK excluding London +43 19 £418 +2.14% 108
South East +20 6 £428 +6.88% 27
North of England +33 4 £388 +29.17% 17
South West +11 4 £475 +35.71% 7
East of England +13 3 £375 - 14
Scotland +31 2 £304 -26.36% 7
Yorkshire +20 2 - - 7
North West - 2 £388 - 7

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 36 (87.80%) Web Development
2 24 (58.54%) JavaScript
3 20 (48.78%) HTML
4 19 (46.34%) CSS
5 12 (29.27%) React
6 10 (24.39%) Agile
6 10 (24.39%) Front End Development
7 8 (19.51%) E-Commerce
8 7 (17.07%) CMS
8 7 (17.07%) C#
8 7 (17.07%) AWS
8 7 (17.07%) HTML5
8 7 (17.07%) Node.js
8 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
8 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
9 6 (14.63%) Sass
9 6 (14.63%) Microservices
9 6 (14.63%) CSS3
9 6 (14.63%) Azure
9 6 (14.63%) SaaS
9 6 (14.63%) Marketing
9 6 (14.63%) Python
9 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
9 6 (14.63%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (12.20%) PHP
10 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (12.20%) Scrum
10 5 (12.20%) MVC
10 5 (12.20%) Finance
10 5 (12.20%) User Experience

Web Developer Skill Set
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 7 (17.07%) CMS
2 3 (7.32%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.88%) GeoServer
3 2 (4.88%) Gunicorn
3 2 (4.88%) nginx
3 2 (4.88%) WordPress
4 1 (2.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) InVision
1 1 (2.44%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Shopify
2 1 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) SaaS
3 3 (7.32%) Figma
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Google Analytics
4 2 (4.88%) Stripe
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Contentstack
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) GIS
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) webpack
3 2 (4.88%) gulp
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) git-flow
4 1 (2.44%) Grunt
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) Subversion
4 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (14.63%) Marketing
1 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (48.78%) HTML
2 19 (46.34%) CSS
3 12 (29.27%) React
4 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.07%) HTML5
4 7 (17.07%) Node.js
5 6 (14.63%) CSS3
5 6 (14.63%) Sass
6 4 (9.76%) Flask
7 3 (7.32%) Jest
7 3 (7.32%) jQuery
7 3 (7.32%) Laravel
7 3 (7.32%) Redux
7 3 (7.32%) REST
7 3 (7.32%) Vue
8 2 (4.88%) Next.js
8 2 (4.88%) Nunjucks
8 2 (4.88%) OpenLayers
8 2 (4.88%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.44%) Animation
2 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.44%) Life Science
2 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.44%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (87.80%) Web Development
2 10 (24.39%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Front End Development
3 8 (19.51%) E-Commerce
4 6 (14.63%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (14.63%) Microservices
5 5 (12.20%) API Development
5 5 (12.20%) MVC
5 5 (12.20%) Scrum
5 5 (12.20%) User Experience
6 4 (9.76%) DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Analytics
7 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.32%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.32%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (7.32%) SEO
7 3 (7.32%) TDD
7 3 (7.32%) UX Design
8 2 (4.88%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) JavaScript
2 7 (17.07%) C#
2 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
3 6 (14.63%) Python
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
5 4 (9.76%) Java
6 2 (4.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.44%) C++
7 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
1 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) MISRA
2 1 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Google
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Atlassian