Senior Web Developer
UK

The median Senior Web Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 895 1057
Rank change year-on-year +47 +162 -266
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 66 69 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.067% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.073% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 58 47 62
10th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £43,309
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £49,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +9.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £63,063 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £65,375 £85,000 £74,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%

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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Web Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Web Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +96 55 £60,000 -8.40% 12
UK excluding London +11 55 £55,000 -3.51% 13
Work from Home +72 31 £55,000 -13.73% 12
Midlands +33 21 £57,500 +22.34% 5
North of England +62 20 £55,000 - 1
North West +25 15 £60,000 -
West Midlands +31 12 £60,000 +5.26% 3
London +107 9 £77,500 +8.77% 3
East Midlands -6 9 £42,500 -9.57% 2
Wales - 8 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £53,750 - 1
South East +22 3 £50,000 -6.98% 1
East of England +8 2 £60,000 -11.11%
Northern Ireland - 1 £45,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Web Developer in the job title.

1 64 (96.97%) Web Development
2 45 (68.18%) JavaScript
3 31 (46.97%) HTML
4 26 (39.39%) CSS
5 22 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 21 (31.82%) PHP
7 15 (22.73%) .NET
8 14 (21.21%) MVC
8 14 (21.21%) Node.js
9 13 (19.70%) DevOps
9 13 (19.70%) React
9 13 (19.70%) ASP.NET
10 12 (18.18%) MySQL
11 11 (16.67%) C#
11 11 (16.67%) E-Commerce
11 11 (16.67%) Agile
12 10 (15.15%) Vue
13 9 (13.64%) GraphQL
13 9 (13.64%) .NET Core
13 9 (13.64%) jQuery
13 9 (13.64%) Azure
13 9 (13.64%) AWS
14 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (12.12%) Marketing
14 8 (12.12%) Software Delivery
14 8 (12.12%) Docker
14 8 (12.12%) Scrum
14 8 (12.12%) React Native
14 8 (12.12%) Full Stack Development
15 7 (10.61%) Front End Development

Senior 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 (10.61%) CMS
2 6 (9.09%) WordPress
3 3 (4.55%) IIS
4 2 (3.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.52%) Apache
5 1 (1.52%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Magento
2 5 (7.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) AWS
1 9 (13.64%) Azure
2 4 (6.06%) npm
3 1 (1.52%) Datadog
3 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) DNS
1 3 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) MySQL
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Redis
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Cypress.io
1 5 (7.58%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) Storybook
3 1 (1.52%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 8 (12.12%) Marketing
2 6 (9.09%) Retail
3 5 (7.58%) Games
4 4 (6.06%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.97%) HTML
2 26 (39.39%) CSS
3 22 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 15 (22.73%) .NET
5 14 (21.21%) Node.js
6 13 (19.70%) ASP.NET
6 13 (19.70%) React
7 10 (15.15%) Vue
8 9 (13.64%) .NET Core
8 9 (13.64%) GraphQL
8 9 (13.64%) jQuery
9 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (12.12%) React Native
10 6 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
11 5 (7.58%) Laravel
11 5 (7.58%) Next.js
11 5 (7.58%) Sass
12 4 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (6.06%) HTML5
12 4 (6.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (96.97%) Web Development
2 14 (21.21%) MVC
3 13 (19.70%) DevOps
4 11 (16.67%) Agile
4 11 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 8 (12.12%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (12.12%) Scrum
5 8 (12.12%) Software Delivery
6 7 (10.61%) Front End Development
6 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
6 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 5 (7.58%) Clean Code
9 4 (6.06%) A/B Testing
9 4 (6.06%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (6.06%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.06%) User Experience
10 3 (4.55%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (4.55%) Waterfall
10 3 (4.55%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (68.18%) JavaScript
2 21 (31.82%) PHP
3 11 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (10.61%) SQL
4 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.03%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.52%) Google