Web Development Job Trends in the South West

Web Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Web Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 112 179
Rank change year-on-year -40 +67 -63
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 14 135 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.40% 1.79% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 2.36% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12 70 52
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,188 £33,438 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -6.98% +41.56%
75th Percentile £59,063 £64,938 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,250 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,000 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.22% -11.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,868 5,730 4,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.78% 76.06% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,811 3,444 3,339
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the South West

Web Development
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Web Development
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Development in the South West

Web Development
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Bristol +5 5 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Devon +3 4 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Wiltshire +8 2 £48,750 -2.50% 7
Gloucestershire +16 1 - - 11
Dorset +9 1 £40,000 +23.08% 9
Somerset +7 1 £21,000 -30.00% 7
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (28.57%) WordPress
2 2 (14.29%) CMS
2 2 (14.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Elementor
2 2 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (14.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Figma
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) Vercel
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (21.43%) PHP Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Web Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) HTML
2 8 (57.14%) CSS
2 8 (57.14%) HTML5
3 5 (35.71%) React
4 4 (28.57%) .NET
4 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 4 (28.57%) CSS3
4 4 (28.57%) jQuery
5 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
5 3 (21.43%) RESTful
5 3 (21.43%) Sass
5 3 (21.43%) Web Services
6 2 (14.29%) Ajax
6 2 (14.29%) Bootstrap
6 2 (14.29%) Framer.js
6 2 (14.29%) LESS
6 2 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (14.29%) Vue
7 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) User Experience
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) MVC
3 4 (28.57%) OOP
3 4 (28.57%) SEO
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
4 3 (21.43%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) PHP
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Netlify
1 2 (14.29%) WooCommerce
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Twitter