Web Engineer
UK

The median Web Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 947 1024
Rank change year-on-year +62 +77 -214
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Engineer 23 51 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.052% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23 34 57
10th Percentile £39,500 £45,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,845
% change year-on-year -7.69% +27.84% +27.11%

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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Web Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +108 23 £60,000 -7.69% 9
Work from Home +99 15 £72,500 +3.57% 7
London +137 12 £56,500 +2.73% 3
UK excluding London +9 11 £60,000 -7.69% 5
North of England - 8 £58,750 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £72,500 -
Midlands +12 2 £60,000 -27.27% 1
North West - 2 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
South East -4 1 £42,500 -34.62% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Web Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 11 (47.83%) REST
3 11 (47.83%) .NET
4 10 (43.48%) C#
4 10 (43.48%) DevOps
5 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (39.13%) SQL
5 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
5 9 (39.13%) Git
6 8 (34.78%) Scrum
7 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
7 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
8 6 (26.09%) Process Improvement
8 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
8 6 (26.09%) MVC
8 6 (26.09%) CMS
8 6 (26.09%) T-SQL
8 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
8 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET
8 6 (26.09%) CSS
8 6 (26.09%) SOAP
8 6 (26.09%) Web Services
8 6 (26.09%) XML
8 6 (26.09%) XSLT
8 6 (26.09%) OWASP
8 6 (26.09%) Content Management
8 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) Web Development

Web Engineer 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 6 (26.09%) CMS
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 2 (8.70%) nginx
3 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.35%) EPiServer
4 1 (4.35%) IIS
4 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Automotive
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) .NET
1 11 (47.83%) REST
2 6 (26.09%) .NET Framework
2 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET
2 6 (26.09%) CSS
2 6 (26.09%) JSON
2 6 (26.09%) SOAP
2 6 (26.09%) Web Services
2 6 (26.09%) XML
2 6 (26.09%) XSLT
3 5 (21.74%) FastAPI
3 5 (21.74%) Flask
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
4 4 (17.39%) Vue
4 4 (17.39%) Vuex
5 3 (13.04%) LAMP
5 3 (13.04%) React
6 2 (8.70%) Sass
6 2 (8.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (8.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) Scrum
5 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
6 6 (26.09%) Content Management
6 6 (26.09%) MVC
6 6 (26.09%) OWASP
6 6 (26.09%) Process Improvement
6 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Web Development
7 5 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 5 (21.74%) Web Application Development
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
9 3 (13.04%) Change Management
10 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (8.70%) Identity Management
10 2 (8.70%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) T-SQL
3 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
3 6 (26.09%) XPath
4 5 (21.74%) Python
5 3 (13.04%) PHP
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.35%) C
7 1 (4.35%) Dart
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Puppet
1 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian