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 £47,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 476 398
Rank change year-on-year +91 -78 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 241 74 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.23% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.25% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 218 67 288
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £45,000 £41,867
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% +7.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
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 66,699 29,386 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 46,234 16,643 50,240
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,230 £63,750
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 8 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 8 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 +66 104 £50,000 +11.11% 24
North of England -6 47 £40,000 -27.27% 22
East of England -12 34 £65,000 +73.33% 16
North West +6 24 £40,000 -27.27% 9
Midlands -6 24 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Yorkshire -10 19 £40,000 +23.08% 10
South West -48 18 £49,000 +30.67% 13
East Midlands -12 16 £50,000 +11.11% 8
West Midlands -10 8 £40,000 +8.11% 6
Scotland +16 7 £40,000 - 4
Wales -57 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -42 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 8 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.

1 225 (93.36%) Web Development
2 74 (30.71%) .NET
3 65 (26.97%) JavaScript
4 64 (26.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (26.14%) HTML
6 60 (24.90%) CSS
7 56 (23.24%) PHP
8 53 (21.99%) SQL
9 45 (18.67%) Internet
10 41 (17.01%) SQL Server
11 40 (16.60%) C#
12 37 (15.35%) Degree
13 35 (14.52%) Computer Science
14 33 (13.69%) Accessibility
15 32 (13.28%) jQuery
16 29 (12.03%) ASP.NET
16 29 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
16 29 (12.03%) SEO
17 28 (11.62%) Agile
17 28 (11.62%) React
18 26 (10.79%) Azure
19 20 (8.30%) AWS
19 20 (8.30%) Git
19 20 (8.30%) Vue
20 19 (7.88%) Front End Development
21 18 (7.47%) AngularJS
21 18 (7.47%) MySQL
21 18 (7.47%) Problem-Solving
22 17 (7.05%) MVC
23 16 (6.64%) 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 12 (4.98%) WordPress
2 10 (4.15%) CMS
3 7 (2.90%) ColdFusion
4 3 (1.24%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.79%) Azure
2 20 (8.30%) AWS
3 9 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.32%) GitHub
5 5 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.24%) Figma
6 3 (1.24%) SaaS
7 2 (0.83%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (0.83%) 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 (18.67%) Internet
2 5 (2.07%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.01%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.47%) MySQL
3 11 (4.56%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.83%) Metadata
5 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.83%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.30%) Git
2 2 (0.83%) Bower
2 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (13.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.32%) Marketing
3 7 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.49%) Retail
5 5 (2.07%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (30.71%) .NET
2 63 (26.14%) HTML
3 60 (24.90%) CSS
4 32 (13.28%) jQuery
5 29 (12.03%) ASP.NET
6 28 (11.62%) React
7 20 (8.30%) Vue
8 18 (7.47%) AngularJS
9 16 (6.64%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (6.64%) REST
10 14 (5.81%) JSON
11 13 (5.39%) RESTful
12 11 (4.56%) SOAP
13 10 (4.15%) XML
14 8 (3.32%) Node.js
15 7 (2.90%) .NET Framework
15 7 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (2.90%) Laravel
16 6 (2.49%) Ajax
16 6 (2.49%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.56%) Cloud Native
1 11 (4.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
2 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.41%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.32%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (93.36%) Web Development
2 64 (26.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (14.52%) Computer Science
4 29 (12.03%) SEO
5 28 (11.62%) Agile
6 19 (7.88%) Front End Development
7 18 (7.47%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (7.05%) MVC
9 16 (6.64%) Clean Code
9 16 (6.64%) E-Commerce
10 13 (5.39%) CI/CD
11 12 (4.98%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (4.56%) AI
12 11 (4.56%) API Integration
12 11 (4.56%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (4.56%) SDLC
13 10 (4.15%) Microservices
14 9 (3.73%) DevOps
14 9 (3.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (3.73%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.97%) JavaScript
2 56 (23.24%) PHP
3 53 (21.99%) SQL
4 40 (16.60%) C#
5 7 (2.90%) Python
6 6 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.41%) CFML
7 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (15.35%) Degree
2 29 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (4.98%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.49%) Google
3 4 (1.66%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.66%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe
4 1 (0.41%) Netlify