Web Development Job Trends in the South East

Web Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Web Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 219 120
Rank change year-on-year +49 -99 -6
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 162 73 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.98% 0.84% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.96% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 139 55 158
10th Percentile £36,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £60,000 - £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,889 7,635 11,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.76% 88.06% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,475 4,123 7,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,982 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Web Development job vacancy trend in the South East

Web Development
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Development

Web Development
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Development in the South East

Web Development
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
East Sussex +33 76 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Thames Valley +17 46 £55,000 +10.00% 12
Oxfordshire 0 23 £55,000 - 3
Buckinghamshire +1 19 £55,000 +69.23% 6
Surrey -19 18 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Hampshire -42 17 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Berkshire +2 4 £34,500 +15.00% 3
West Sussex -18 3 £40,000 +23.08% 3
Kent -24 2 £44,500 +7.88% 4
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (6.79%) WordPress
2 9 (5.56%) ColdFusion
3 4 (2.47%) IIS
3 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.85%) CMS
5 2 (1.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.62%) ExpressionEngine
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.60%) AWS
2 30 (18.52%) Azure
3 14 (8.64%) GitHub
4 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.47%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.85%) GCP
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.85%) Power Automate
6 3 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.23%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.23%) Figma
7 2 (1.23%) SaaS
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
8 1 (0.62%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.62%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 47 (29.01%) Internet
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (33.95%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.96%) MySQL
3 15 (9.26%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.23%) Redis
7 1 (0.62%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (9.88%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) Claude Code
2 4 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) Mocha
3 2 (1.23%) Selenium
3 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.62%) PHPUnit
General
1 49 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.32%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.09%) Multimedia
5 4 (2.47%) Banking
5 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.47%) Law
5 4 (2.47%) Marketing
5 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Finance
8 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 140 (86.42%) Developer
2 117 (72.22%) Web Developer
3 24 (14.81%) .NET Developer
4 23 (14.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (13.58%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 21 (12.96%) .NET Web Developer
6 21 (12.96%) Senior
7 18 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.49%) C# Developer
9 13 (8.02%) C# .NET Developer
10 11 (6.79%) C# Web Developer
11 9 (5.56%) Administrator
11 9 (5.56%) E-Commerce Developer
11 9 (5.56%) Senior Web Developer
12 7 (4.32%) E-Commerce Web Developer
12 7 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (4.32%) PHP Developer
12 7 (4.32%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.70%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (51.23%) .NET
2 61 (37.65%) HTML
3 59 (36.42%) CSS
4 32 (19.75%) jQuery
5 31 (19.14%) ASP.NET
6 30 (18.52%) React
7 25 (15.43%) AngularJS
8 18 (11.11%) Vue
9 15 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
9 15 (9.26%) RESTful
10 14 (8.64%) REST
11 13 (8.02%) SOAP
12 10 (6.17%) .NET Framework
12 10 (6.17%) Entity Framework
13 7 (4.32%) JSON
13 7 (4.32%) Node.js
14 6 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (3.70%) Classic ASP
14 6 (3.70%) Google Maps API
14 6 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.85%) Clustering
4 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.85%) IoT
4 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.23%) EPoS
5 2 (1.23%) NHS
6 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.62%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.09%) Linux
2 4 (2.47%) Debian
3 3 (1.85%) Gentoo
3 3 (1.85%) Windows
4 2 (1.23%) Android
4 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (22.84%) Agile
2 37 (22.84%) SEO
3 35 (21.60%) Computer Science
4 31 (19.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (13.58%) CI/CD
6 17 (10.49%) AI
7 16 (9.88%) SDLC
8 15 (9.26%) Microservices
9 13 (8.02%) Collaborative Culture
9 13 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (8.02%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (8.02%) User Experience
10 12 (7.41%) DevOps
10 12 (7.41%) E-Commerce
11 11 (6.79%) MVC
12 10 (6.17%) Clean Code
12 10 (6.17%) Software Engineering
13 9 (5.56%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.36%) JavaScript
2 52 (32.10%) SQL
3 45 (27.78%) PHP
4 42 (25.93%) C#
5 20 (12.35%) Python
6 12 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.09%) C++
7 5 (3.09%) R
8 4 (2.47%) Bash
8 4 (2.47%) Ruby
8 4 (2.47%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.85%) C
9 3 (1.85%) CFML
9 3 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.23%) Java
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (27.78%) Degree
2 33 (20.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.09%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.37%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.32%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) WCAG
4 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.49%) Terraform
2 4 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.85%) Ansible
3 3 (1.85%) Podman
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.56%) Google
3 4 (2.47%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.47%) Oracle
4 3 (1.85%) Adobe
5 2 (1.23%) WooCommerce
5 2 (1.23%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.62%) Ahrefs
6 1 (0.62%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.62%) HubSpot