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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 115 176
Rank change year-on-year -27 +61 -41
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 37 99 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.83% 1.71% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 2.19% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11 47 46
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,875 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £59,375 £73,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,372 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.09% -

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 3,420 4,523 4,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 76.51% 78.10% 93.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,285 2,519 3,177
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,700 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Web Development job vacancy trend 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 24 November 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 24 November 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
Devon +5 15 £48,750 +21.88% 9
Somerset -3 6 £21,000 -42.47% 5
Gloucestershire +20 5 - - 8
Bristol +12 4 £42,500 -45.16% 13
Cornwall -16 4 - -
Wiltshire +1 2 £48,750 -15.22% 7
Dorset -15 1 £40,000 +23.08% 7
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (10.81%) WordPress
2 2 (5.41%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Elementor
2 2 (5.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (5.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (64.86%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Figma
4 2 (5.41%) Cloudflare
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Vercel
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (64.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 26 (70.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (67.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (64.86%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Lecturer
2 11 (29.73%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Web Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.41%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 2 (5.41%) PHP Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.70%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Head of Delivery
6 1 (2.70%) Junior
6 1 (2.70%) Junior WordPress Developer
6 1 (2.70%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (2.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) QA Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) HTML
2 7 (18.92%) CSS
2 7 (18.92%) HTML5
3 5 (13.51%) React
4 4 (10.81%) CSS3
5 3 (8.11%) .NET
5 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.11%) jQuery
5 3 (8.11%) RESTful
5 3 (8.11%) Sass
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.41%) Ajax
6 2 (5.41%) Bootstrap
6 2 (5.41%) Framer.js
6 2 (5.41%) LESS
6 2 (5.41%) REST
6 2 (5.41%) Symfony
6 2 (5.41%) Vue
6 2 (5.41%) Web Services
7 1 (2.70%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 24 (64.86%) IoT
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) User Experience
2 24 (64.86%) AI
2 24 (64.86%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (64.86%) Machine Learning
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.81%) Agile
4 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (10.81%) OOP
4 4 (10.81%) SEO
5 3 (8.11%) E-Commerce
5 3 (8.11%) MVC
5 3 (8.11%) OO
6 2 (5.41%) Clean Code
6 2 (5.41%) Customer Experience
6 2 (5.41%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (5.41%) Kanban
6 2 (5.41%) Scrum
6 2 (5.41%) TDD
6 2 (5.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
2 8 (21.62%) PHP
3 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (67.57%) Degree
2 24 (64.86%) Master's Degree
2 24 (64.86%) PhD
2 24 (64.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Netlify
1 2 (5.41%) WooCommerce
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft