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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 458 389
Rank change year-on-year +64 -69 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 248 85 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.25% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.28% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 226 64 248
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £41,867
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +16.44% -6.96%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
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 68,551 30,401 65,937
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 89.42% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 47,522 17,433 46,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,948 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,145
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 20 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 20 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 +60 108 £50,000 +11.11% 17
North of England +14 49 £40,000 -27.27% 10
East of England -5 33 £65,000 +62.50% 6
North West +9 25 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Midlands -10 24 £40,000 - 9
Yorkshire -5 20 £40,000 +23.08% 5
South West -50 20 £45,250 +20.67% 8
East Midlands -8 15 £50,000 +11.11% 5
West Midlands -12 9 £40,000 +8.11% 4
Scotland +19 7 £40,000 -
Wales -59 6 £55,000 -8.33%
North East -42 4 £40,000 +40.35% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 -
Web Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 234 (94.35%) Web Development
2 78 (31.45%) .NET
3 72 (29.03%) JavaScript
4 70 (28.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (25.40%) HTML
6 60 (24.19%) CSS
7 56 (22.58%) PHP
8 50 (20.16%) SQL
9 48 (19.35%) SQL Server
10 44 (17.74%) C#
10 44 (17.74%) Internet
11 36 (14.52%) Degree
12 35 (14.11%) ASP.NET
13 34 (13.71%) Computer Science
14 33 (13.31%) Accessibility
14 33 (13.31%) jQuery
15 32 (12.90%) Agile
16 28 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
16 28 (11.29%) SEO
17 27 (10.89%) React
18 24 (9.68%) Azure
18 24 (9.68%) MVC
19 22 (8.87%) AWS
20 21 (8.47%) AngularJS
20 21 (8.47%) MySQL
20 21 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
20 21 (8.47%) Vue
21 20 (8.06%) Git
22 19 (7.66%) JSON
22 19 (7.66%) Microsoft

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 (4.84%) WordPress
2 10 (4.03%) CMS
3 7 (2.82%) ColdFusion
4 4 (1.61%) Apache
4 4 (1.61%) IIS
5 2 (0.81%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.68%) Azure
2 22 (8.87%) AWS
3 7 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.42%) GitHub
5 5 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.21%) Figma
6 3 (1.21%) npm
6 3 (1.21%) SaaS
7 2 (0.81%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.40%) Serverless
8 1 (0.40%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.74%) Internet
2 5 (2.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.47%) MySQL
3 12 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.81%) Metadata
5 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.81%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.06%) Git
2 3 (1.21%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.81%) Bower
3 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.81%) JIRA
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.40%) Maven
4 1 (0.40%) Storybook
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (13.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.23%) Marketing
3 7 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.42%) Retail
5 5 (2.02%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.40%) Finance
7 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (31.45%) .NET
2 63 (25.40%) HTML
3 60 (24.19%) CSS
4 35 (14.11%) ASP.NET
5 33 (13.31%) jQuery
6 27 (10.89%) React
7 21 (8.47%) AngularJS
7 21 (8.47%) Vue
8 19 (7.66%) JSON
9 18 (7.26%) REST
10 17 (6.85%) ASP.NET Core
11 15 (6.05%) XML
12 14 (5.65%) RESTful
13 13 (5.24%) SOAP
14 11 (4.44%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.03%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.03%) Classic ASP
15 10 (4.03%) Entity Framework
15 10 (4.03%) Google Maps API
16 9 (3.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.82%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.81%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.40%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.63%) Linux
2 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (94.35%) Web Development
2 70 (28.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (13.71%) Computer Science
4 32 (12.90%) Agile
5 28 (11.29%) SEO
6 24 (9.68%) MVC
7 21 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (6.45%) E-Commerce
8 16 (6.45%) Front End Development
9 15 (6.05%) CI/CD
9 15 (6.05%) Clean Code
10 13 (5.24%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (5.24%) SDLC
11 12 (4.84%) AI
12 11 (4.44%) Microservices
12 11 (4.44%) Responsive Web Design
13 10 (4.03%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (4.03%) Data Management
13 10 (4.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (3.63%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 72 (29.03%) JavaScript
2 56 (22.58%) PHP
3 50 (20.16%) SQL
4 44 (17.74%) C#
5 10 (4.03%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.23%) Python
7 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.40%) CFML
8 1 (0.40%) Java
8 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (14.52%) Degree
2 28 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.02%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.31%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (7.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.44%) Google
3 4 (1.61%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.61%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.81%) Adobe
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle
5 1 (0.40%) Netlify