Web Development Job Trends in the North of England

Web Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Web Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 205 106
Rank change year-on-year +178 -99 +101
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 1,099 91 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.87% 1.18% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 1.25% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 104 73 271
10th Percentile £27,500 - £29,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,280 7,302 13,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.91% 95.03% 82.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,740 3,704 11,129
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Web Development job vacancy trend in the North of England

Web Development
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Web Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Web Development

Web Development
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Development in the North of England

Web Development
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
North West +171 962 £40,000 +23.08% 27
Yorkshire +39 131 £42,039 -23.57% 24
North East -42 6 £25,000 -54.55% 10
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (2.37%) WordPress
2 10 (0.91%) CMS
3 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.091%) Apache
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.091%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 990 (90.08%) Cloud Computing
2 31 (2.82%) Azure
3 30 (2.73%) AWS
4 26 (2.37%) GitHub
5 5 (0.45%) Google Sheets
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.18%) Figma
6 2 (0.18%) IaaS
6 2 (0.18%) PaaS
6 2 (0.18%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.18%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.18%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.18%) SaaS
7 1 (0.091%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.091%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.091%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.091%) Firebase
7 1 (0.091%) GCP
7 1 (0.091%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.091%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1,015 (92.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.18%) Intranet
3 1 (0.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.45%) Tableau
2 4 (0.36%) MySQL
2 4 (0.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.18%) Power BI
4 1 (0.091%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.091%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (3.18%) Git
2 3 (0.27%) JIRA
3 1 (0.091%) gulp
3 1 (0.091%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.091%) webpack
General
1 999 (90.90%) Social Skills
2 991 (90.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 990 (90.08%) Banking
4 25 (2.27%) Multimedia
5 23 (2.09%) Marketing
6 5 (0.45%) Law
7 3 (0.27%) Legal
8 2 (0.18%) Finance
8 2 (0.18%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.091%) Advertising
9 1 (0.091%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.091%) Back Office
9 1 (0.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 728 (66.24%) Lecturer
2 63 (5.73%) Developer
3 42 (3.82%) Web Developer
4 25 (2.27%) Trainee
5 23 (2.09%) Administrator
5 23 (2.09%) Trainee Administrator
5 23 (2.09%) Web Administrator
6 17 (1.55%) Senior
7 12 (1.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (1.09%) Senior Developer
8 7 (0.64%) Head of Marketing
8 7 (0.64%) Lead
8 7 (0.64%) Lead Developer
8 7 (0.64%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (0.64%) Senior Web Developer
9 6 (0.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (0.45%) Analyst
10 5 (0.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 5 (0.45%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 5 (0.45%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.55%) HTML
2 38 (3.46%) CSS
3 18 (1.64%) React
4 8 (0.73%) Spring
5 6 (0.55%) RESTful
6 5 (0.45%) .NET
7 4 (0.36%) ASP.NET
7 4 (0.36%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (0.36%) HTML5
7 4 (0.36%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (0.27%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.27%) Ajax
8 3 (0.27%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.27%) CSS3
8 3 (0.27%) JSON
9 2 (0.18%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.18%) Bootstrap
9 2 (0.18%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.18%) Laravel
9 2 (0.18%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 990 (90.08%) IoT
2 6 (0.55%) Mobile App
3 3 (0.27%) Social Media
4 2 (0.18%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.091%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.091%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.091%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.091%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.091%) Linux
1 1 (0.091%) VMS
1 1 (0.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,008 (91.72%) User Experience
2 996 (90.63%) AI
3 993 (90.35%) Machine Learning
4 992 (90.26%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (2.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (1.82%) Front End Development
7 15 (1.36%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (1.00%) Mentoring
9 8 (0.73%) CI/CD
9 8 (0.73%) Clean Code
9 8 (0.73%) Digital Marketing
9 8 (0.73%) Software Engineering
10 7 (0.64%) B2B
10 7 (0.64%) B2B Marketing
10 7 (0.64%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (0.64%) DevOps
10 7 (0.64%) E-Commerce
10 7 (0.64%) UX Design
11 6 (0.55%) Computer Science
11 6 (0.55%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (4.37%) JavaScript
2 26 (2.37%) Python
3 23 (2.09%) R
4 19 (1.73%) SQL
5 13 (1.18%) PHP
6 11 (1.00%) Java
6 11 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.55%) C#
8 1 (0.091%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 998 (90.81%) Degree
2 990 (90.08%) Master's Degree
2 990 (90.08%) PhD
2 990 (90.08%) Postgraduate
3 25 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 25 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 25 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 25 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.27%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.18%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.091%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.18%) QA
2 2 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 28 (2.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.55%) Google
3 5 (0.45%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe
4 1 (0.091%) Foundry
4 1 (0.091%) Netlify
4 1 (0.091%) Sage