Web Developer Jobs

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 550 526
Rank change year-on-year +30 -24 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 433 439 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.46% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.51% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 371 347 557
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,621 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Developer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +65 384 £42,500 -15.00% 100
UK excluding London +14 377 £42,500 -5.56% 97
Work from Home -10 158 £45,000 -14.29% 43
North of England +66 93 £40,000 -11.11% 24
Midlands +56 89 £42,500 -9.57% 19
South West +7 55 £40,000 - 7
South East -92 55 £42,500 -5.56% 19
West Midlands +35 53 £42,500 -20.93% 9
East of England +3 52 £40,000 - 12
North West +15 47 £45,000 - 10
Yorkshire +82 39 £37,500 -31.82% 12
London +31 39 £60,000 -8.40% 17
East Midlands +7 36 £42,500 +22.00% 10
Wales +22 18 £52,500 +40.00% 7
Northern Ireland +23 8 £45,000 - 3
Scotland -77 8 - - 6
North East -26 7 £35,000 -17.65% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Web Developer 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 permanent job ads featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 387 (89.38%) Web Development
2 274 (63.28%) JavaScript
3 231 (53.35%) HTML
4 228 (52.66%) CSS
5 174 (40.18%) PHP
6 131 (30.25%) .NET
7 103 (23.79%) MySQL
8 93 (21.48%) C#
9 90 (20.79%) Full Stack Development
10 86 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (19.86%) Marketing
11 85 (19.63%) Git
12 80 (18.48%) Social Skills
13 79 (18.24%) Laravel
14 75 (17.32%) SQL
15 74 (17.09%) CMS
16 72 (16.63%) jQuery
16 72 (16.63%) WordPress
17 71 (16.40%) Vue
18 69 (15.94%) AngularJS
18 69 (15.94%) React
18 69 (15.94%) E-Commerce
19 68 (15.70%) MVC
20 57 (13.16%) User Experience
21 56 (12.93%) Front End Development
21 56 (12.93%) SQL Server
22 53 (12.24%) Agile
23 52 (12.01%) ASP.NET
24 51 (11.78%) Azure
25 46 (10.62%) DevOps

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 74 (17.09%) CMS
2 72 (16.63%) WordPress
3 18 (4.16%) Apache
4 17 (3.93%) Umbraco
5 11 (2.54%) Headless CMS
5 11 (2.54%) IIS
6 9 (2.08%) nginx
7 7 (1.62%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.92%) Drupal
9 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.46%) Kentico
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.23%) EPiServer
Applications
1 10 (2.31%) Adobe XD
2 7 (1.62%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.92%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.23%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 16 (3.70%) Shopify
2 15 (3.46%) Magento
3 4 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.69%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.46%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.46%) OpenCart
5 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 51 (11.78%) Azure
2 40 (9.24%) AWS
3 24 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (1.62%) GitHub
6 6 (1.39%) Figma
7 5 (1.15%) SaaS
8 4 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.92%) npm
8 4 (0.92%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 3 (0.69%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.69%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.46%) GCP
10 2 (0.46%) Sage Pay
10 2 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.54%) DNS
2 10 (2.31%) SSL
3 7 (1.62%) Firewall
4 5 (1.15%) Internet
5 4 (0.92%) MQTT
6 2 (0.46%) Intranet
7 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (23.79%) MySQL
2 56 (12.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.92%) Power BI
7 4 (0.92%) Redis
8 3 (0.69%) Big Data
8 3 (0.69%) MS Access
8 3 (0.69%) Power Query
9 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.46%) phpMyAdmin
10 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 85 (19.63%) Git
2 14 (3.23%) JIRA
3 12 (2.77%) Subversion
4 8 (1.85%) Selenium
5 7 (1.62%) gulp
6 6 (1.39%) JMeter
6 6 (1.39%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.92%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.92%) Storybook
8 4 (0.92%) webpack
9 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.46%) git-flow
10 2 (0.46%) Mocha
10 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.23%) GitLab
11 1 (0.23%) Moq
11 1 (0.23%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.23%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (19.86%) Marketing
2 80 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.70%) Retail
5 14 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.54%) Law
7 7 (1.62%) Finance
8 5 (1.15%) Games
8 5 (1.15%) iGaming
9 3 (0.69%) Back Office
9 3 (0.69%) Legal
9 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.46%) Automotive
10 2 (0.46%) Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Electronics
11 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.23%) Local Government
11 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (53.35%) HTML
2 228 (52.66%) CSS
3 131 (30.25%) .NET
4 79 (18.24%) Laravel
5 72 (16.63%) jQuery
6 71 (16.40%) Vue
7 69 (15.94%) AngularJS
7 69 (15.94%) React
8 52 (12.01%) ASP.NET
9 45 (10.39%) .NET Core
10 41 (9.47%) LAMP
11 37 (8.55%) HTML5
12 36 (8.31%) Sass
13 33 (7.62%) Node.js
14 30 (6.93%) .NET Framework
15 25 (5.77%) CSS3
16 24 (5.54%) REST
17 23 (5.31%) ASP.NET MVC
18 21 (4.85%) Entity Framework
19 18 (4.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.46%) Mobile App
2 14 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.62%) Animation
4 7 (1.62%) Graphic Design
4 7 (1.62%) Video Editing
5 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.15%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.15%) IoT
6 5 (1.15%) Social Media
7 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.92%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.92%) Life Science
8 3 (0.69%) Arduino
8 3 (0.69%) BBC
8 3 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.69%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.69%) Photography
8 3 (0.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.31%) Linux
2 14 (3.23%) Windows
3 3 (0.69%) Android
3 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.69%) VMS
3 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (89.38%) Web Development
2 90 (20.79%) Full Stack Development
3 86 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (15.94%) E-Commerce
5 68 (15.70%) MVC
6 57 (13.16%) User Experience
7 56 (12.93%) Front End Development
8 53 (12.24%) Agile
9 46 (10.62%) DevOps
10 40 (9.24%) OOP
11 31 (7.16%) SEO
12 28 (6.47%) CRM
13 27 (6.24%) Computer Science
13 27 (6.24%) Performance Optimisation
14 26 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (5.54%) Content Management
15 24 (5.54%) OO
16 23 (5.31%) Mentoring
17 22 (5.08%) Digital Marketing
17 22 (5.08%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 274 (63.28%) JavaScript
2 174 (40.18%) PHP
3 93 (21.48%) C#
4 75 (17.32%) SQL
5 30 (6.93%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.62%) T-SQL
7 14 (3.23%) Python
8 12 (2.77%) VB.NET
9 8 (1.85%) Java
10 7 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.69%) VBA
12 2 (0.46%) VB
12 2 (0.46%) XPath
13 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.23%) C
13 1 (0.23%) Delphi
13 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (8.55%) Degree
2 17 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.46%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.62%) QA
3 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (6.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.39%) Rancher
3 4 (0.92%) Terraform
4 3 (0.69%) cPanel
5 2 (0.46%) Plesk
Vendors
1 37 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.08%) Adobe
3 13 (3.00%) Google
4 12 (2.77%) WooCommerce
5 4 (0.92%) SAP
5 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.69%) Hotjar
6 3 (0.69%) HubSpot
6 3 (0.69%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.23%) New Relic
7 1 (0.23%) Salesforce