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 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 439 470
Rank change year-on-year -59 +31 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 87 352 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.52% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59 307 244
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,453
90th Percentile £66,460 £65,000 £61,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +9.29%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +14 25 £37,500 -6.25% 17
North of England -19 18 £53,750 +34.38% 26
South West +79 14 £37,500 - 8
North West -34 14 £55,000 +22.22% 11
South East +61 9 £45,000 +2.86% 23
Scotland +115 7 £65,000 - 1
Wales +31 7 £52,500 - 7
Midlands -8 7 £45,000 +5.88% 12
East Midlands +13 6 £45,000 +4.65%
Yorkshire +29 3 £32,500 -13.33% 6
North East +36 1 £45,000 +28.57% 10
West Midlands +7 1 - - 11
Web Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 80 (91.95%) Web Development
2 61 (70.11%) JavaScript
3 51 (58.62%) HTML
4 50 (57.47%) CSS
5 49 (56.32%) PHP
6 28 (32.18%) Degree
7 25 (28.74%) Git
8 24 (27.59%) WordPress
8 24 (27.59%) Computer Science
8 24 (27.59%) Front End Development
8 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
9 23 (26.44%) React
10 20 (22.99%) SQL
11 19 (21.84%) Marketing
12 18 (20.69%) QA
12 18 (20.69%) User Experience
13 17 (19.54%) SEO
13 17 (19.54%) Agile
14 15 (17.24%) Accessibility
14 15 (17.24%) E-Commerce
14 15 (17.24%) .NET
15 14 (16.09%) MySQL
15 14 (16.09%) TypeScript
16 13 (14.94%) Vue
17 12 (13.79%) Python
17 12 (13.79%) OOP
17 12 (13.79%) CMS
17 12 (13.79%) jQuery
18 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
18 11 (12.64%) C#

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 24 (27.59%) WordPress
2 12 (13.79%) CMS
3 3 (3.45%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.30%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.30%) Joomla!
4 2 (2.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.15%) Apache
5 1 (1.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.15%) Drupal
5 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.15%) IIS
5 1 (1.15%) nginx
5 1 (1.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Adobe XD
1 3 (3.45%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.45%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Azure
3 7 (8.05%) Stripe
4 6 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.45%) Cloudflare
5 3 (3.45%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.45%) MailChimp
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.30%) GitHub
6 2 (2.30%) npm
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.15%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.15%) Datadog
7 1 (1.15%) Figma
7 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.15%) Serverless
7 1 (1.15%) Supabase
7 1 (1.15%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Broadband
1 1 (1.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) MySQL
2 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.15%) Redis
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (28.74%) Git
2 5 (5.75%) webpack
3 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.30%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.15%) Babel
5 1 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) Grunt
5 1 (1.15%) gulp
5 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.15%) Mocha
5 1 (1.15%) PHPUnit
General
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Marketing
3 9 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Automotive
5 4 (4.60%) Finance
6 3 (3.45%) Advertising
6 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (58.62%) HTML
2 50 (57.47%) CSS
3 23 (26.44%) React
4 15 (17.24%) .NET
5 13 (14.94%) Vue
6 12 (13.79%) jQuery
7 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
7 11 (12.64%) Node.js
8 9 (10.34%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (9.20%) ASP.NET
9 8 (9.20%) Next.js
10 7 (8.05%) REST
11 6 (6.90%) gRPC
11 6 (6.90%) LAMP
11 6 (6.90%) Laravel
12 5 (5.75%) Bootstrap
12 5 (5.75%) HTML5
12 5 (5.75%) Sass
13 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
13 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Learning Management System
2 7 (8.05%) Virtual Team
3 6 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.60%) Social Media
5 3 (3.45%) Blog
5 3 (3.45%) Motion Graphics
5 3 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.15%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.15%) EPoS
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (91.95%) Web Development
2 24 (27.59%) Computer Science
2 24 (27.59%) Front End Development
3 18 (20.69%) User Experience
4 17 (19.54%) Agile
4 17 (19.54%) SEO
5 15 (17.24%) E-Commerce
6 12 (13.79%) OOP
7 11 (12.64%) Microservices
7 11 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.49%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (9.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (9.20%) Mathematics
9 8 (9.20%) Project Management
9 8 (9.20%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.05%) Design Patterns
10 7 (8.05%) Digital Marketing
10 7 (8.05%) OO
10 7 (8.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 61 (70.11%) JavaScript
2 49 (56.32%) PHP
3 20 (22.99%) SQL
4 14 (16.09%) TypeScript
5 12 (13.79%) Python
6 11 (12.64%) C#
7 3 (3.45%) C++
8 2 (2.30%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) Degree
2 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.69%) QA
2 15 (17.24%) Accessibility
3 7 (8.05%) WCAG
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) cPanel
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) ANSYS
3 5 (5.75%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) Adobe
4 3 (3.45%) PayPal
5 2 (2.30%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.30%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.15%) Zend