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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 453 409
Rank change year-on-year +84 -44 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 230 72 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.25% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.28% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 211 54 313
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £31,750
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 £65,000 £67,110 £64,750
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 63,304 25,417 67,992
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 88.95% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 42,224 13,484 49,469
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +55 96 £50,000 +11.11% 19
North of England -13 45 £40,000 -27.27% 20
East of England -2 40 £65,000 +67.74% 13
North West +12 25 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Midlands -13 23 £35,000 -22.22% 12
Yorkshire -36 20 £40,000 +23.08% 9
East Midlands -21 17 £35,000 -22.22% 10
South West -55 15 £55,000 +46.67% 9
Scotland +2 10 £35,000 -46.15% 6
West Midlands -30 6 - - 2
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 29 May 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.

1 212 (92.17%) Web Development
2 66 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 60 (26.09%) .NET
4 50 (21.74%) HTML
5 49 (21.30%) JavaScript
6 48 (20.87%) CSS
7 43 (18.70%) PHP
8 41 (17.83%) Internet
9 40 (17.39%) SQL
10 32 (13.91%) C#
11 27 (11.74%) Accessibility
11 27 (11.74%) Azure
11 27 (11.74%) Degree
11 27 (11.74%) SQL Server
12 25 (10.87%) Computer Science
13 24 (10.43%) React
14 22 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (9.57%) SEO
15 21 (9.13%) ASP.NET
15 21 (9.13%) jQuery
16 20 (8.70%) AWS
16 20 (8.70%) Front End Development
17 16 (6.96%) E-Commerce
18 15 (6.52%) Vue
19 14 (6.09%) Agile
19 14 (6.09%) Clean Code
19 14 (6.09%) MySQL
20 13 (5.65%) Git
21 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
21 12 (5.22%) 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 (5.22%) WordPress
2 9 (3.91%) CMS
3 7 (3.04%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Joomla!
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.74%) Azure
2 20 (8.70%) AWS
3 8 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.04%) GitHub
5 4 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.30%) SaaS
7 2 (0.87%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (0.87%) Figma
8 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.43%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.74%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.09%) MySQL
3 8 (3.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.43%) Metadata
5 1 (0.43%) phpMyAdmin
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (5.65%) Git
2 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.91%) Multimedia
3 7 (3.04%) Marketing
3 7 (3.04%) Retail
4 6 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (26.09%) .NET
2 50 (21.74%) HTML
3 48 (20.87%) CSS
4 24 (10.43%) React
5 21 (9.13%) ASP.NET
5 21 (9.13%) jQuery
6 15 (6.52%) Vue
7 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 10 (4.35%) REST
9 9 (3.91%) Tailwind CSS
10 7 (3.04%) Node.js
10 7 (3.04%) RESTful
11 6 (2.61%) Bootstrap
12 5 (2.17%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.17%) React Native
12 5 (2.17%) SOAP
13 4 (1.74%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (1.74%) Laravel
13 4 (1.74%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.65%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (0.87%) Educational Technology
3 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.43%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (92.17%) Web Development
2 66 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (10.87%) Computer Science
4 22 (9.57%) SEO
5 20 (8.70%) Front End Development
6 16 (6.96%) E-Commerce
7 14 (6.09%) Agile
7 14 (6.09%) Clean Code
8 11 (4.78%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (4.35%) API Integration
10 9 (3.91%) AI
10 9 (3.91%) B2B
10 9 (3.91%) CI/CD
10 9 (3.91%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (3.91%) DevOps
10 9 (3.91%) Mentoring
10 9 (3.91%) Mobile Application Development
10 9 (3.91%) MVC
11 7 (3.04%) SDLC
11 7 (3.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.30%) JavaScript
2 43 (18.70%) PHP
3 40 (17.39%) SQL
4 32 (13.91%) C#
5 11 (4.78%) Python
6 5 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.43%) CFML
7 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (11.74%) Degree
2 22 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.91%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 9 (3.91%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.74%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.30%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe
4 1 (0.43%) Netlify