Web Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Web Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 487 388
Rank change year-on-year +94 -99 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 245 73 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.22% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.24% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 222 66 279
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,875 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £41,235
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +9.13% -8.37%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £66,200 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 66,980 29,954 70,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.39% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46,383 17,034 49,843
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,214 £64,623
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Web Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Web Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
South East +53 106 £50,000 +11.11% 22
North of England -2 47 £40,000 -27.27% 21
East of England +2 34 £65,000 +67.74% 16
Midlands -11 25 £50,000 +25.00% 14
North West +13 24 £40,000 -27.27% 8
Yorkshire -13 19 £40,000 +23.08% 10
South West -48 19 £48,000 +28.00% 12
East Midlands -8 17 £50,000 +11.11% 8
West Midlands -9 8 £40,000 +8.11% 6
Scotland +20 7 £40,000 - 4
Wales -52 6 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North East -43 4 £40,000 +40.35% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 1
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 July 2026, Web Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 229 (93.47%) Web Development
2 77 (31.43%) .NET
3 69 (28.16%) JavaScript
4 67 (27.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (26.12%) HTML
6 61 (24.90%) CSS
7 57 (23.27%) PHP
8 53 (21.63%) SQL
9 45 (18.37%) Internet
10 44 (17.96%) SQL Server
11 43 (17.55%) C#
12 37 (15.10%) Degree
13 35 (14.29%) Computer Science
14 33 (13.47%) Accessibility
15 32 (13.06%) ASP.NET
15 32 (13.06%) jQuery
16 31 (12.65%) Agile
17 29 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
17 29 (11.84%) SEO
18 28 (11.43%) React
19 26 (10.61%) Azure
20 21 (8.57%) MVC
21 20 (8.16%) AWS
21 20 (8.16%) Git
21 20 (8.16%) Vue
22 19 (7.76%) Front End Development
22 19 (7.76%) MySQL
23 18 (7.35%) AngularJS
23 18 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
24 17 (6.94%) JSON

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (4.90%) WordPress
2 10 (4.08%) CMS
3 7 (2.86%) ColdFusion
4 4 (1.63%) Apache
5 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.82%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.61%) Azure
2 20 (8.16%) AWS
3 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.27%) GitHub
5 5 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.22%) Figma
6 3 (1.22%) SaaS
7 2 (0.82%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (0.82%) npm
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.41%) Serverless
8 1 (0.41%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 45 (18.37%) Internet
2 5 (2.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.96%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.76%) MySQL
3 11 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.82%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.82%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.16%) Git
2 2 (0.82%) Bower
2 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.82%) JIRA
2 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (13.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.27%) Marketing
3 7 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.45%) Retail
5 5 (2.04%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.43%) .NET
2 64 (26.12%) HTML
3 61 (24.90%) CSS
4 32 (13.06%) ASP.NET
4 32 (13.06%) jQuery
5 28 (11.43%) React
6 20 (8.16%) Vue
7 18 (7.35%) AngularJS
8 17 (6.94%) JSON
9 16 (6.53%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (6.53%) REST
10 13 (5.31%) RESTful
10 13 (5.31%) XML
11 11 (4.49%) SOAP
12 10 (4.08%) .NET Framework
12 10 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (3.67%) Entity Framework
14 8 (3.27%) Google Maps API
14 8 (3.27%) Laravel
14 8 (3.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.49%) Cloud Native
1 11 (4.49%) Mobile App
2 2 (0.82%) Educational Technology
2 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.41%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.67%) Linux
2 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (93.47%) Web Development
2 67 (27.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 31 (12.65%) Agile
5 29 (11.84%) SEO
6 21 (8.57%) MVC
7 19 (7.76%) Front End Development
8 18 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (6.53%) Clean Code
9 16 (6.53%) E-Commerce
10 13 (5.31%) CI/CD
11 12 (4.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (4.49%) AI
12 11 (4.49%) API Integration
12 11 (4.49%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (4.49%) SDLC
13 10 (4.08%) Microservices
14 9 (3.67%) B2B
14 9 (3.67%) DevOps
14 9 (3.67%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 69 (28.16%) JavaScript
2 57 (23.27%) PHP
3 53 (21.63%) SQL
4 43 (17.55%) C#
5 7 (2.86%) Python
6 6 (2.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.41%) CFML
7 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (15.10%) Degree
2 29 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.47%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.67%) Google
3 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.63%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe
4 1 (0.41%) Netlify