Web Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Web Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 399 458
Rank change year-on-year -117 +59 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 74 424 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.54% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.57% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 67 307 218
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,235 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -8.37% +10.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,200 £62,500 £69,125
UK median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,150 73,926 47,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.29% 94.94% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 20,400 51,424 29,147
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Web Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Web Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Web Developer 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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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
East of England +4 23 £37,500 -6.25% 33
Wales +23 11 £60,000 +33.33% 17
South East +8 11 £45,000 +12.50% 45
North of England -36 11 £55,000 +37.50% 47
South West +65 10 £37,500 - 15
North West -36 9 £55,000 +22.22% 28
Midlands -11 6 £40,000 -6.43% 39
West Midlands +7 3 £37,000 -26.00% 25
East Midlands 0 3 £45,000 +5.88% 14
Scotland +76 2 - - 12
North East +38 1 £28,500 -18.57% 5
Yorkshire +6 1 £32,500 -10.34% 14
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Web Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 70 (94.59%) Web Development
2 52 (70.27%) JavaScript
3 43 (58.11%) PHP
4 41 (55.41%) HTML
5 31 (41.89%) CSS
6 21 (28.38%) MySQL
7 19 (25.68%) Degree
8 18 (24.32%) WordPress
8 18 (24.32%) Git
9 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
9 17 (22.97%) SEO
9 17 (22.97%) SQL
9 17 (22.97%) Computer Science
10 15 (20.27%) CMS
10 15 (20.27%) Agile
10 15 (20.27%) React
11 14 (18.92%) Vue
11 14 (18.92%) Mentoring
11 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (17.57%) jQuery
13 12 (16.22%) .NET
13 12 (16.22%) Sass
14 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (14.86%) QA
15 10 (13.51%) AWS
15 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
15 10 (13.51%) Python
15 10 (13.51%) Node.js
16 9 (12.16%) E-Commerce
16 9 (12.16%) Symfony

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (24.32%) WordPress
2 15 (20.27%) CMS
3 3 (4.05%) Drupal
4 2 (2.70%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.70%) Joomla!
4 2 (2.70%) Strapi
5 1 (1.35%) Apache
5 1 (1.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.35%) IIS
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (5.41%) Chatbot
1 4 (5.41%) Photoshop
2 3 (4.05%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.70%) Elementor
4 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.35%) Sketch
4 1 (1.35%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.51%) AWS
2 5 (6.76%) Cloudflare
2 5 (6.76%) npm
3 4 (5.41%) Figma
4 3 (4.05%) Azure
4 3 (4.05%) GCP
4 3 (4.05%) GitHub
4 3 (4.05%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.05%) MailChimp
5 2 (2.70%) Vercel
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.35%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) Sage Pay
6 1 (1.35%) Serverless
6 1 (1.35%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.38%) MySQL
2 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) webpack
3 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) gulp
4 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Mocha
4 1 (1.35%) PHPUnit
General
1 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Marketing
3 4 (5.41%) Finance
4 3 (4.05%) Advertising
4 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Automotive
4 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Law
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (55.41%) HTML
2 31 (41.89%) CSS
3 15 (20.27%) React
4 14 (18.92%) Vue
5 13 (17.57%) jQuery
6 12 (16.22%) .NET
6 12 (16.22%) Sass
7 10 (13.51%) Node.js
8 9 (12.16%) Symfony
9 8 (10.81%) HTML5
10 7 (9.46%) Bootstrap
10 7 (9.46%) LAMP
10 7 (9.46%) Laravel
10 7 (9.46%) REST
11 6 (8.11%) AngularJS
11 6 (8.11%) CSS3
12 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET
12 5 (6.76%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (5.41%) LESS
14 3 (4.05%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Legacy Code
2 4 (5.41%) Social Media
3 3 (4.05%) Blog
3 3 (4.05%) Motion Graphics
3 3 (4.05%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.35%) EPoS
5 1 (1.35%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (94.59%) Web Development
2 17 (22.97%) Computer Science
2 17 (22.97%) SEO
3 15 (20.27%) Agile
4 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (18.92%) Mentoring
5 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.16%) E-Commerce
7 7 (9.46%) Front End Development
7 7 (9.46%) Responsive Web Design
7 7 (9.46%) Software Engineering
7 7 (9.46%) User Experience
8 6 (8.11%) CI/CD
8 6 (8.11%) OOP
9 5 (6.76%) Code Quality
9 5 (6.76%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (6.76%) MVC
10 4 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (5.41%) Clean Code
10 4 (5.41%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (70.27%) JavaScript
2 43 (58.11%) PHP
3 17 (22.97%) SQL
4 10 (13.51%) Python
5 8 (10.81%) C#
6 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.05%) C++
8 2 (2.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) QA
2 7 (9.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Google
2 4 (5.41%) Adobe
3 3 (4.05%) PayPal
4 2 (2.70%) Netlify
5 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) WooCommerce
5 1 (1.35%) Zend