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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 473 392
Rank change year-on-year +86 -81 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 256 79 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.23% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.26% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 235 58 201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £60,000 - £57,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 70,658 30,652 59,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 89.58% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 48,894 17,631 40,396
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,759 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 31 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 31 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 +53 116 £50,000 +11.11% 22
North of England +5 47 £40,000 -25.58% 19
East of England -1 32 £65,000 +62.50% 14
Midlands -21 26 £40,000 - 13
North West +17 25 £50,000 -9.09% 7
South West -51 21 £40,000 +6.67% 10
Yorkshire -16 18 £40,000 +23.08% 10
East Midlands -10 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
West Midlands -14 10 £40,000 +8.11% 2
Scotland +14 7 £40,000 - 5
Wales -63 6 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North East -47 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
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 31 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.

1 243 (94.92%) Web Development
2 85 (33.20%) .NET
3 78 (30.47%) JavaScript
4 70 (27.34%) HTML
5 67 (26.17%) CSS
6 66 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 58 (22.66%) PHP
8 55 (21.48%) SQL Server
9 53 (20.70%) SQL
10 46 (17.97%) C#
10 46 (17.97%) Internet
11 40 (15.63%) ASP.NET
12 38 (14.84%) jQuery
13 37 (14.45%) Degree
14 36 (14.06%) Accessibility
14 36 (14.06%) Computer Science
15 34 (13.28%) Agile
16 30 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
16 30 (11.72%) SEO
17 29 (11.33%) MVC
17 29 (11.33%) React
18 26 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
19 25 (9.77%) Azure
20 24 (9.38%) AngularJS
20 24 (9.38%) AWS
21 23 (8.98%) MySQL
21 23 (8.98%) Vue
22 22 (8.59%) REST
23 21 (8.20%) Microsoft
24 20 (7.81%) 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 11 (4.30%) WordPress
2 7 (2.73%) CMS
2 7 (2.73%) ColdFusion
3 6 (2.34%) IIS
4 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.77%) Azure
2 24 (9.38%) AWS
3 6 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
4 5 (1.95%) GitHub
5 3 (1.17%) Figma
5 3 (1.17%) npm
6 2 (0.78%) SaaS
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.39%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.39%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.39%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.39%) Serverless
7 1 (0.39%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.97%) Internet
2 5 (1.95%) Intranet
3 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.48%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.98%) MySQL
3 13 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.78%) Metadata
5 2 (0.78%) phpMyAdmin
6 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (7.42%) Git
2 5 (1.95%) Claude Code
3 4 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.78%) Bower
4 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) JIRA
4 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.39%) Maven
5 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Storybook
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (16.02%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.13%) Marketing
4 6 (2.34%) Retail
5 5 (1.95%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.78%) Finance
6 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (33.20%) .NET
2 70 (27.34%) HTML
3 67 (26.17%) CSS
4 40 (15.63%) ASP.NET
5 38 (14.84%) jQuery
6 29 (11.33%) React
7 24 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 23 (8.98%) Vue
9 22 (8.59%) REST
10 20 (7.81%) ASP.NET Core
11 19 (7.42%) JSON
12 17 (6.64%) RESTful
12 17 (6.64%) SOAP
13 15 (5.86%) XML
14 11 (4.30%) .NET Framework
15 10 (3.91%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (3.91%) Classic ASP
15 10 (3.91%) Entity Framework
15 10 (3.91%) Google Maps API
16 8 (3.13%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.34%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.39%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (94.92%) Web Development
2 66 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (14.06%) Computer Science
4 34 (13.28%) Agile
5 30 (11.72%) SEO
6 29 (11.33%) MVC
7 26 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (7.03%) E-Commerce
9 17 (6.64%) CI/CD
10 16 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (5.86%) Clean Code
11 15 (5.86%) Front End Development
11 15 (5.86%) SDLC
12 14 (5.47%) Microservices
13 13 (5.08%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (5.08%) OOP
14 12 (4.69%) AI
15 11 (4.30%) Responsive Web Design
16 10 (3.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (30.47%) JavaScript
2 58 (22.66%) PHP
3 53 (20.70%) SQL
4 46 (17.97%) C#
5 11 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.13%) Python
7 4 (1.56%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.39%) CFML
8 1 (0.39%) Java
8 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (14.45%) Degree
2 30 (11.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.95%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.06%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.56%) WCAG
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (5.47%) Terraform
2 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.69%) Google
3 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.56%) Oracle
3 4 (1.56%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.78%) Adobe
5 1 (0.39%) Netlify