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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 572 500
Rank change year-on-year +44 -72 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 413 467 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.49% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 366 375 573
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,615 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,369
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +10.21% +13.42%
75th Percentile £56,188 £61,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,250 £67,500
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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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%

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 3 May 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 3 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 +65 367 £45,000 -10.00% 86
UK excluding London +40 350 £42,500 -5.56% 82
Work from Home +18 156 £45,000 -10.00% 33
North of England +80 94 £40,000 -8.57% 17
Midlands +68 80 £42,500 -1.16% 20
East of England +20 53 £40,000 - 7
South West +12 52 £38,750 -3.13% 7
West Midlands +56 50 £42,500 -5.56% 10
London +37 47 £65,000 - 15
North West +28 47 £45,000 - 6
South East -67 41 £43,250 -3.89% 20
Yorkshire +103 40 £37,500 -13.79% 10
East Midlands +10 30 £43,000 +23.43% 10
Wales +17 16 £52,500 +35.50% 5
Northern Ireland +32 8 £45,000 - 3
North East -20 7 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Scotland -81 7 £50,000 -4.76% 3

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 374 (90.56%) Web Development
2 269 (65.13%) JavaScript
3 225 (54.48%) CSS
4 224 (54.24%) HTML
5 169 (40.92%) PHP
6 124 (30.02%) .NET
7 98 (23.73%) MySQL
8 95 (23.00%) Full Stack Development
9 91 (22.03%) C#
10 82 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (19.61%) Social Skills
12 80 (19.37%) Git
13 78 (18.89%) Marketing
14 77 (18.64%) Laravel
15 72 (17.43%) WordPress
15 72 (17.43%) CMS
16 70 (16.95%) SQL
16 70 (16.95%) E-Commerce
17 69 (16.71%) Vue
17 69 (16.71%) React
18 68 (16.46%) jQuery
19 67 (16.22%) AngularJS
19 67 (16.22%) MVC
20 58 (14.04%) Front End Development
21 52 (12.59%) User Experience
21 52 (12.59%) .NET Core
22 50 (12.11%) Agile
22 50 (12.11%) Azure
23 49 (11.86%) ASP.NET
24 44 (10.65%) 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 72 (17.43%) CMS
1 72 (17.43%) WordPress
2 19 (4.60%) Umbraco
3 18 (4.36%) Apache
4 11 (2.66%) Headless CMS
5 9 (2.18%) IIS
5 9 (2.18%) nginx
6 8 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.97%) Drupal
7 4 (0.97%) Kentico
7 4 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.45%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.97%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 14 (3.39%) Shopify
2 12 (2.91%) Magento
3 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.73%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.48%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.48%) OpenCart
5 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.11%) Azure
2 38 (9.20%) AWS
3 23 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.94%) GitHub
6 5 (1.21%) Figma
6 5 (1.21%) SaaS
7 4 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.97%) npm
8 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (0.73%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.48%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.48%) Kontent
9 2 (0.48%) PaaS
9 2 (0.48%) Serverless
10 1 (0.24%) GCP
10 1 (0.24%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.66%) DNS
2 10 (2.42%) SSL
3 7 (1.69%) Firewall
4 5 (1.21%) Internet
5 4 (0.97%) MQTT
6 2 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (23.73%) MySQL
2 44 (10.65%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.97%) Redis
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.48%) phpMyAdmin
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 80 (19.37%) Git
2 13 (3.15%) JIRA
3 12 (2.91%) Subversion
4 8 (1.94%) Selenium
5 7 (1.69%) gulp
6 6 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.45%) JMeter
6 6 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.45%) webpack
7 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.97%) Storybook
8 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) git-flow
9 2 (0.48%) Mocha
9 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.24%) GitLab
10 1 (0.24%) Moq
10 1 (0.24%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
General
1 81 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.89%) Marketing
3 18 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.87%) Retail
5 11 (2.66%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.18%) Law
7 7 (1.69%) Finance
7 7 (1.69%) Games
8 5 (1.21%) iGaming
9 3 (0.73%) Back Office
9 3 (0.73%) Legal
9 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.48%) Automotive
10 2 (0.48%) Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Electronics
11 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.24%) Local Government
11 1 (0.24%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (54.48%) CSS
2 224 (54.24%) HTML
3 124 (30.02%) .NET
4 77 (18.64%) Laravel
5 69 (16.71%) React
5 69 (16.71%) Vue
6 68 (16.46%) jQuery
7 67 (16.22%) AngularJS
8 52 (12.59%) .NET Core
9 49 (11.86%) ASP.NET
10 41 (9.93%) LAMP
11 35 (8.47%) Sass
12 34 (8.23%) HTML5
13 32 (7.75%) Node.js
14 28 (6.78%) .NET Framework
15 24 (5.81%) CSS3
16 21 (5.08%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (4.84%) Entity Framework
17 20 (4.84%) REST
18 16 (3.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.39%) Mobile App
2 12 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.69%) Animation
4 7 (1.69%) Video Editing
5 6 (1.45%) Graphic Design
5 6 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.21%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.21%) IoT
6 5 (1.21%) Social Media
7 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.97%) Life Science
8 3 (0.73%) Arduino
8 3 (0.73%) BBC
8 3 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.73%) Photography
8 3 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.47%) Linux
2 12 (2.91%) Windows
3 3 (0.73%) VMS
3 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (90.56%) Web Development
2 95 (23.00%) Full Stack Development
3 82 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (16.95%) E-Commerce
5 67 (16.22%) MVC
6 58 (14.04%) Front End Development
7 52 (12.59%) User Experience
8 50 (12.11%) Agile
9 44 (10.65%) DevOps
10 37 (8.96%) OOP
11 31 (7.51%) SEO
12 30 (7.26%) Performance Optimisation
13 28 (6.78%) Computer Science
13 28 (6.78%) CRM
14 25 (6.05%) Collaborative Working
14 25 (6.05%) Mentoring
15 22 (5.33%) Content Management
15 22 (5.33%) OO
15 22 (5.33%) Web Design
16 21 (5.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 269 (65.13%) JavaScript
2 169 (40.92%) PHP
3 91 (22.03%) C#
4 70 (16.95%) SQL
5 31 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.87%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.15%) Python
8 10 (2.42%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.69%) Java
9 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.48%) VB
10 2 (0.48%) XPath
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (9.44%) Degree
2 17 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.48%) HND
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.84%) QA
2 18 (4.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (7.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.45%) Rancher
3 4 (0.97%) Terraform
4 2 (0.48%) cPanel
5 1 (0.24%) Plesk
Vendors
1 35 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.36%) Adobe
3 12 (2.91%) WooCommerce
4 8 (1.94%) Google
5 5 (1.21%) Sitecore
6 4 (0.97%) SAP
7 3 (0.73%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.73%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.24%) New Relic
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce