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 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 479 231
Rank change year-on-year +26 -248 +175
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 223 50 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.15% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.16% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 204 34 162
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,400 £30,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,938
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 80,107 30,772 51,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 89.43% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 55,470 17,291 28,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,598 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.54% - -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +35 109 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North of England -27 41 £40,000 -21.95% 20
Midlands -26 29 £40,000 +50.94% 5
South West -65 20 £35,000 -6.67% 3
North West -20 19 £45,000 -16.28% 8
Yorkshire - 18 £40,000 - 12
East of England -15 17 £47,500 +5.56% 10
East Midlands -22 17 £50,000 +96.08% 1
West Midlands -28 12 £40,000 +17.65% 4
Wales -65 6 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North East -63 4 £40,000 +1.91%
Scotland +6 1 £42,500 - 2
Web Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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.

1 213 (95.52%) Web Development
2 81 (36.32%) .NET
3 78 (34.98%) JavaScript
4 71 (31.84%) HTML
5 68 (30.49%) CSS
6 64 (28.70%) SQL Server
7 56 (25.11%) SQL
8 54 (24.22%) PHP
9 46 (20.63%) jQuery
10 45 (20.18%) C#
11 43 (19.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 42 (18.83%) Internet
13 38 (17.04%) ASP.NET
13 38 (17.04%) Computer Science
13 38 (17.04%) Degree
14 35 (15.70%) Accessibility
14 35 (15.70%) Agile
15 32 (14.35%) Computer Science Degree
15 32 (14.35%) SEO
16 31 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (13.00%) MVC
18 24 (10.76%) AngularJS
18 24 (10.76%) React
18 24 (10.76%) RESTful
19 23 (10.31%) E-Commerce
20 22 (9.87%) JSON
20 22 (9.87%) REST
20 22 (9.87%) Vue
21 20 (8.97%) Git
21 20 (8.97%) Microsoft

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 (4.93%) IIS
2 6 (2.69%) WordPress
3 4 (1.79%) Apache
3 4 (1.79%) CMS
4 3 (1.35%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.52%) AWS
1 19 (8.52%) Azure
2 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (1.35%) Figma
3 3 (1.35%) GitHub
3 3 (1.35%) npm
4 2 (0.90%) SaaS
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.45%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.45%) Serverless
5 1 (0.45%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.83%) Internet
2 5 (2.24%) Intranet
3 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (28.70%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.97%) MySQL
3 15 (6.73%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.28%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.90%) Metadata
5 2 (0.90%) phpMyAdmin
6 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.97%) Git
2 6 (2.69%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.90%) Bower
4 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.90%) JIRA
4 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.45%) Maven
5 1 (0.45%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.45%) Storybook
5 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (2.69%) Retail
4 5 (2.24%) Marketing
5 3 (1.35%) Finance
6 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (36.32%) .NET
2 71 (31.84%) HTML
3 68 (30.49%) CSS
4 46 (20.63%) jQuery
5 38 (17.04%) ASP.NET
6 24 (10.76%) AngularJS
6 24 (10.76%) React
6 24 (10.76%) RESTful
7 22 (9.87%) JSON
7 22 (9.87%) REST
7 22 (9.87%) Vue
8 20 (8.97%) SOAP
9 19 (8.52%) ASP.NET Core
9 19 (8.52%) XML
10 16 (7.17%) Terraform
11 14 (6.28%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.28%) Entity Framework
12 11 (4.93%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (4.48%) Google Maps API
13 10 (4.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.14%) Linux
2 6 (2.69%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (95.52%) Web Development
2 43 (19.28%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (17.04%) Computer Science
4 35 (15.70%) Agile
5 32 (14.35%) SEO
6 31 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (13.00%) MVC
8 23 (10.31%) E-Commerce
9 19 (8.52%) CI/CD
10 17 (7.62%) Performance Optimisation
11 16 (7.17%) Microservices
11 16 (7.17%) SDLC
12 15 (6.73%) Collaborative Culture
12 15 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (5.83%) OOP
13 13 (5.83%) User Experience
14 10 (4.48%) Data Management
14 10 (4.48%) OO
14 10 (4.48%) Responsive Web Design
15 9 (4.04%) AI
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.98%) JavaScript
2 56 (25.11%) SQL
3 54 (24.22%) PHP
4 45 (20.18%) C#
5 13 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.24%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.90%) Python
8 1 (0.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (17.04%) Degree
2 32 (14.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.79%) WCAG
3 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.38%) Google
3 5 (2.24%) Oracle
3 5 (2.24%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe
5 1 (0.45%) Netlify