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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 463 375
Rank change year-on-year +102 -88 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 233 71 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.24% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.27% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 212 61 338
10th Percentile £35,000 - £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £54,875
90th Percentile £64,500 £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 63,411 26,495 74,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.99% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,940 14,354 53,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +71 101 £50,000 +11.11% 15
North of England +10 50 £40,000 -27.27% 16
East of England -4 36 £65,000 +73.33% 11
North West +21 25 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Midlands +5 23 £35,000 -12.50% 8
Yorkshire -17 21 £40,000 +23.08% 7
East Midlands -8 17 £35,000 -22.22% 6
South West -53 14 £55,000 +46.67% 9
Scotland +7 6 £37,500 - 4
West Midlands -18 6 - - 2
North East -41 4 £40,000 +40.35% 3
Wales -48 2 - - 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 16 June 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.

1 217 (93.13%) Web Development
2 62 (26.61%) .NET
3 60 (25.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 50 (21.46%) HTML
5 49 (21.03%) JavaScript
6 48 (20.60%) PHP
7 47 (20.17%) CSS
8 45 (19.31%) SQL
9 41 (17.60%) Internet
10 32 (13.73%) C#
11 31 (13.30%) Degree
11 31 (13.30%) SQL Server
12 29 (12.45%) Accessibility
12 29 (12.45%) Computer Science
13 25 (10.73%) jQuery
13 25 (10.73%) SEO
14 24 (10.30%) Azure
14 24 (10.30%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (10.30%) React
15 21 (9.01%) ASP.NET
16 20 (8.58%) Front End Development
17 19 (8.15%) AWS
18 18 (7.73%) Agile
18 18 (7.73%) Vue
19 17 (7.30%) E-Commerce
20 15 (6.44%) AngularJS
20 15 (6.44%) Git
20 15 (6.44%) MySQL
20 15 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
21 14 (6.01%) ASP.NET Core

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 13 (5.58%) WordPress
2 10 (4.29%) CMS
3 7 (3.00%) ColdFusion
4 2 (0.86%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.30%) Azure
2 19 (8.15%) AWS
3 8 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.00%) GitHub
5 4 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.29%) Figma
6 3 (1.29%) SaaS
7 2 (0.86%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.43%) npm
8 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.43%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.60%) Internet
2 2 (0.86%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.30%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.44%) MySQL
3 10 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.86%) Metadata
5 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.86%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.44%) Git
2 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.43%) Bower
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 27 (11.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.43%) Marketing
3 7 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.00%) Retail
4 5 (2.15%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (26.61%) .NET
2 50 (21.46%) HTML
3 47 (20.17%) CSS
4 25 (10.73%) jQuery
5 24 (10.30%) React
6 21 (9.01%) ASP.NET
7 18 (7.73%) Vue
8 15 (6.44%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.01%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (6.01%) REST
10 10 (4.29%) RESTful
11 9 (3.86%) SOAP
12 7 (3.00%) Node.js
13 6 (2.58%) Bootstrap
13 6 (2.58%) Tailwind CSS
14 5 (2.15%) React Native
15 4 (1.72%) JSON
15 4 (1.72%) Laravel
15 4 (1.72%) Sass
16 3 (1.29%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.58%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (0.86%) Educational Technology
3 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (0.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.43%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (93.13%) Web Development
2 60 (25.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (12.45%) Computer Science
4 25 (10.73%) SEO
5 20 (8.58%) Front End Development
6 18 (7.73%) Agile
7 17 (7.30%) E-Commerce
8 15 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (6.01%) Clean Code
10 11 (4.72%) CI/CD
10 11 (4.72%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (4.29%) AI
11 10 (4.29%) API Integration
11 10 (4.29%) SDLC
12 9 (3.86%) B2B
12 9 (3.86%) Mobile Application Development
13 8 (3.43%) DevOps
13 8 (3.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (3.43%) Microservices
13 8 (3.43%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.03%) JavaScript
2 48 (20.60%) PHP
3 45 (19.31%) SQL
4 32 (13.73%) C#
5 7 (3.00%) Python
6 5 (2.15%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.43%) CFML
7 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (13.30%) Degree
2 24 (10.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.15%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (2.15%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
2 4 (1.72%) WooCommerce
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe
3 1 (0.43%) Netlify