Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 563 504
Rank change year-on-year +38 -59 -203
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 409 466 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.49% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 361 373 588
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,425
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,615 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.17% +15.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,875
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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +80 365 £43,000 -14.00% 88
UK excluding London +37 347 £42,500 -5.56% 78
Work from Home +13 155 £45,000 -14.29% 33
North of England +80 94 £40,000 -11.11% 16
Midlands +59 78 £42,500 -5.56% 21
East of England +19 55 £40,000 - 9
South West +33 52 £38,750 -3.13% 8
West Midlands +62 48 £42,500 -5.56% 11
North West +31 47 £45,000 - 5
London +50 46 £67,500 +3.85% 19
Yorkshire +119 40 £37,500 -23.86% 10
South East -48 40 £41,500 -7.78% 15
East Midlands +1 30 £43,000 +23.43% 10
Wales +21 14 £52,500 +35.50% 6
Northern Ireland +34 8 £45,000 - 1
North East -18 7 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Scotland -82 7 £50,000 -4.76% 3

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 369 (90.22%) Web Development
2 266 (65.04%) JavaScript
3 222 (54.28%) CSS
4 221 (54.03%) HTML
5 165 (40.34%) PHP
6 123 (30.07%) .NET
7 96 (23.47%) MySQL
8 92 (22.49%) Full Stack Development
9 90 (22.00%) C#
10 81 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (19.80%) Social Skills
11 80 (19.56%) Git
12 77 (18.83%) Marketing
13 74 (18.09%) Laravel
14 71 (17.36%) WordPress
14 71 (17.36%) CMS
15 70 (17.11%) Vue
16 69 (16.87%) React
16 69 (16.87%) E-Commerce
17 68 (16.63%) SQL
17 68 (16.63%) jQuery
17 68 (16.63%) AngularJS
18 65 (15.89%) MVC
19 58 (14.18%) Front End Development
20 53 (12.96%) User Experience
20 53 (12.96%) .NET Core
21 49 (11.98%) Agile
21 49 (11.98%) Azure
22 48 (11.74%) ASP.NET
23 43 (10.51%) SQL Server

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 71 (17.36%) CMS
1 71 (17.36%) WordPress
2 19 (4.65%) Umbraco
3 18 (4.40%) Apache
4 11 (2.69%) Headless CMS
5 9 (2.20%) IIS
5 9 (2.20%) nginx
6 8 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.98%) Drupal
7 4 (0.98%) Kentico
7 4 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
Applications
1 9 (2.20%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 15 (3.67%) Shopify
2 12 (2.93%) Magento
3 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.73%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.49%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.49%) OpenCart
5 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.98%) Azure
2 37 (9.05%) AWS
3 23 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.96%) GitHub
6 6 (1.47%) Figma
7 4 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.98%) npm
7 4 (0.98%) SaaS
8 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (0.73%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.49%) Kontent
9 2 (0.49%) PaaS
9 2 (0.49%) Serverless
10 1 (0.24%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.24%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.69%) DNS
2 10 (2.44%) SSL
3 7 (1.71%) Firewall
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.98%) MQTT
6 2 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (23.47%) MySQL
2 43 (10.51%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.69%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.98%) Redis
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.49%) phpMyAdmin
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 80 (19.56%) Git
2 12 (2.93%) JIRA
2 12 (2.93%) Subversion
3 8 (1.96%) Selenium
4 7 (1.71%) gulp
5 6 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.47%) JMeter
5 6 (1.47%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.47%) webpack
6 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.98%) Storybook
7 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.49%) git-flow
8 2 (0.49%) Mocha
8 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.24%) Moq
9 1 (0.24%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.24%) NUnit
9 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.83%) Marketing
3 18 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.91%) Retail
5 11 (2.69%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.96%) Law
7 7 (1.71%) Finance
8 6 (1.47%) Games
9 5 (1.22%) iGaming
10 3 (0.73%) Back Office
10 3 (0.73%) Legal
10 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.49%) Automotive
11 2 (0.49%) Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Electronics
12 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.24%) Local Government
12 1 (0.24%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (54.28%) CSS
2 221 (54.03%) HTML
3 123 (30.07%) .NET
4 74 (18.09%) Laravel
5 70 (17.11%) Vue
6 69 (16.87%) React
7 68 (16.63%) AngularJS
7 68 (16.63%) jQuery
8 53 (12.96%) .NET Core
9 48 (11.74%) ASP.NET
10 41 (10.02%) LAMP
11 35 (8.56%) Sass
12 34 (8.31%) HTML5
13 32 (7.82%) Node.js
14 27 (6.60%) .NET Framework
15 23 (5.62%) CSS3
16 19 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
16 19 (4.65%) Entity Framework
17 18 (4.40%) REST
18 16 (3.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.42%) Mobile App
2 12 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.71%) Animation
4 7 (1.71%) Graphic Design
4 7 (1.71%) Video Editing
5 5 (1.22%) Digital Media
5 5 (1.22%) IoT
5 5 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.22%) Social Media
6 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (0.98%) Life Science
7 3 (0.73%) Arduino
7 3 (0.73%) BBC
7 3 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.73%) Photography
7 3 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.31%) Linux
2 11 (2.69%) Windows
3 3 (0.73%) VMS
3 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (90.22%) Web Development
2 92 (22.49%) Full Stack Development
3 81 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (16.87%) E-Commerce
5 65 (15.89%) MVC
6 58 (14.18%) Front End Development
7 53 (12.96%) User Experience
8 49 (11.98%) Agile
9 43 (10.51%) DevOps
10 35 (8.56%) OOP
11 31 (7.58%) SEO
12 30 (7.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 29 (7.09%) Computer Science
14 28 (6.85%) CRM
15 25 (6.11%) Collaborative Working
16 24 (5.87%) Mentoring
17 23 (5.62%) Web Design
18 22 (5.38%) Content Management
19 20 (4.89%) OO
19 20 (4.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 266 (65.04%) JavaScript
2 165 (40.34%) PHP
3 90 (22.00%) C#
4 68 (16.63%) SQL
5 31 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.67%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.18%) Python
8 9 (2.20%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.71%) Java
9 7 (1.71%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.49%) VB
10 2 (0.49%) XPath
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (10.02%) Degree
2 18 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.49%) HND
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.89%) QA
2 19 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (7.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.47%) Rancher
3 4 (0.98%) Terraform
4 2 (0.49%) cPanel
5 1 (0.24%) Plesk
Vendors
1 34 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.65%) Adobe
3 12 (2.93%) WooCommerce
4 8 (1.96%) Google
5 5 (1.22%) Sitecore
6 4 (0.98%) SAP
7 3 (0.73%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.49%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.24%) New Relic
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce