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 £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 489 229
Rank change year-on-year +13 -260 +179
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 195 51 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.15% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.17% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 176 35 145
10th Percentile £32,775 £25,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -18.18%

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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,602 30,608 47,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 89.75% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,718 17,467 26,033
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +18 93 £50,000 +17.65% 7
North of England -37 36 £40,000 +14.29% 18
Midlands -26 27 £40,000 +56.86% 8
Yorkshire -20 17 £40,000 +28.00% 11
South West -54 17 £33,750 -10.00% 4
North West -18 15 £40,000 -23.81% 7
East Midlands -26 15 £50,000 +98.02% 2
East of England -37 13 £45,000 +20.00% 9
West Midlands -35 12 £40,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -79 8 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North East -69 4 £40,000 +1.91%
Scotland +4 1 £42,500 - 3
Web Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Web Development96.4%188
2JavaScript37.9%74
3HTML35.9%70
4.NET35.4%69
5CSS34.4%67
6SQL Server31.3%61
7PHP26.7%52
8SQL25.6%50
9jQuery22.1%43
10C#19.0%37
11Agile17.9%35
11Computer Science17.9%35
11Degree17.9%35
14ASP.NET17.4%34
15Full-Stack Development16.9%33
16Internet16.4%32
17Problem-Solving15.9%31
18Accessibility14.9%29
18Computer Science Degree14.9%29
18MVC14.9%29
18SEO14.9%29
22RESTful12.3%24
23React11.8%23
24AngularJS11.3%22
24E-Commerce11.3%22
24JSON11.3%22
24REST11.3%22
28Microsoft10.3%20
28SOAP10.3%20
30Azure9.7%19

Web Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Full-Stack Web Developer14.4%28
2.NET Web Developer11.8%23
3PHP Web Developer7.2%14
4Senior Web Developer5.6%11
5Full-Stack .NET Developer5.1%10
6Junior Web Developer3.6%7
6Website Developer3.6%7
8VB.NET Web Developer2.6%5
9Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)2.1%4
10ASP.NET MVC Developer1.5%3
10PHP Laravel Developer1.5%3
10WordPress Developer1.5%3
13E-Commerce Web Developer1.0%2
13Junior WordPress Developer1.0%2
13Mobile Web Developer1.0%2
13Web Applications Developer1.0%2
13Web Applications Engineer1.0%2
18C# .NET Developer0.5%1
18C# Web Developer0.5%1
18CMS Developer0.5%1
55 Web Developer jobs in the UK excluding London