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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 496 230
Rank change year-on-year +15 -266 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 207 50 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.15% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.16% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 186 34 149
10th Percentile £32,775 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £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 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -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.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 79,938 30,816 48,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.54% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 55,216 17,381 26,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -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 12 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 12 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 +32 99 £50,000 +17.65% 8
North of England -25 38 £40,000 +14.29% 18
Midlands -23 27 £40,000 +50.94% 9
South West -55 20 £35,000 -6.67% 4
Yorkshire -25 18 £40,000 +28.00% 11
North West -15 16 £45,000 -14.29% 7
East Midlands -18 15 £50,000 +96.08% 3
East of England -27 14 £43,750 +16.67% 9
West Midlands -31 12 £40,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -71 8 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North East -65 4 £40,000 +1.91%
Scotland +4 1 £42,500 - 1
Web Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 199 (96.14%) Web Development
2 77 (37.20%) JavaScript
3 73 (35.27%) .NET
4 72 (34.78%) HTML
5 69 (33.33%) CSS
6 62 (29.95%) SQL Server
7 54 (26.09%) PHP
8 52 (25.12%) SQL
9 44 (21.26%) jQuery
10 40 (19.32%) C#
11 36 (17.39%) Computer Science
11 36 (17.39%) Degree
11 36 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (17.39%) Internet
12 35 (16.91%) Agile
12 35 (16.91%) ASP.NET
13 31 (14.98%) Accessibility
13 31 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (14.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (14.49%) SEO
15 29 (14.01%) MVC
16 25 (12.08%) React
17 24 (11.59%) RESTful
18 22 (10.63%) AngularJS
18 22 (10.63%) E-Commerce
18 22 (10.63%) JSON
18 22 (10.63%) REST
19 20 (9.66%) Git
19 20 (9.66%) Microsoft
19 20 (9.66%) SOAP

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 11 (5.31%) IIS
2 7 (3.38%) WordPress
3 4 (1.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.18%) Azure
2 17 (8.21%) AWS
3 4 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.45%) Figma
4 3 (1.45%) GitHub
4 3 (1.45%) npm
5 2 (0.97%) SaaS
6 1 (0.48%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.48%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.48%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.48%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.48%) Serverless
6 1 (0.48%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 36 (17.39%) Internet
2 5 (2.42%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (29.95%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.73%) MySQL
3 15 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.97%) Metadata
5 2 (0.97%) phpMyAdmin
6 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (9.66%) Git
2 6 (2.90%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.42%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.97%) Bower
4 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.97%) JIRA
4 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.48%) Storybook
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (2.90%) Retail
4 5 (2.42%) Marketing
5 3 (1.45%) Finance
6 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.48%) Legal
7 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (35.27%) .NET
2 72 (34.78%) HTML
3 69 (33.33%) CSS
4 44 (21.26%) jQuery
5 35 (16.91%) ASP.NET
6 25 (12.08%) React
7 24 (11.59%) RESTful
8 22 (10.63%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.63%) JSON
8 22 (10.63%) REST
9 20 (9.66%) SOAP
9 20 (9.66%) Vue
10 19 (9.18%) XML
11 18 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (7.73%) Terraform
13 14 (6.76%) .NET Framework
13 14 (6.76%) Entity Framework
14 11 (5.31%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.83%) Classic ASP
15 10 (4.83%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.38%) Linux
2 6 (2.90%) Windows
3 4 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (96.14%) Web Development
2 36 (17.39%) Computer Science
2 36 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (16.91%) Agile
4 31 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (14.49%) SEO
6 29 (14.01%) MVC
7 22 (10.63%) E-Commerce
8 19 (9.18%) CI/CD
9 17 (8.21%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (7.73%) Microservices
10 16 (7.73%) SDLC
11 15 (7.25%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (7.25%) OOP
12 13 (6.28%) User Experience
13 10 (4.83%) Data Management
13 10 (4.83%) OO
13 10 (4.83%) Responsive Web Design
14 8 (3.86%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.20%) JavaScript
2 54 (26.09%) PHP
3 52 (25.12%) SQL
4 40 (19.32%) C#
5 13 (6.28%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.42%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.97%) Python
8 1 (0.48%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (17.39%) Degree
2 30 (14.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.98%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.93%) WCAG
3 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.80%) Google
3 5 (2.42%) Oracle
3 5 (2.42%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe
4 1 (0.48%) Netlify