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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 496 284
Rank change year-on-year +69 -212 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 245 53 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.15% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.17% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 227 36 172
10th Percentile £32,665 £31,125 £30,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +19.44% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%

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 76,456 30,703 53,516
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.33% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 53,184 17,577 33,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,750
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 5 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 5 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 +54 113 £50,000 +17.65% 19
North of England -24 45 £40,000 -23.81% 21
Midlands -13 31 £40,000 +17.65% 10
South West -57 24 £35,000 -24.32% 8
North West +8 23 £45,000 -18.18% 8
East of England -19 23 £65,000 +62.50% 16
East Midlands -17 19 £50,000 +81.82% 8
Yorkshire - 18 £40,000 - 11
West Midlands -26 12 £40,000 +8.11% 2
Wales -70 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -60 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
Scotland +5 2 £37,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 2
Web Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 234 (95.51%) Web Development
2 87 (35.51%) .NET
3 85 (34.69%) JavaScript
4 76 (31.02%) HTML
5 73 (29.80%) CSS
6 64 (26.12%) SQL Server
7 59 (24.08%) PHP
8 56 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (22.86%) SQL
9 48 (19.59%) C#
9 48 (19.59%) Internet
10 46 (18.78%) jQuery
11 42 (17.14%) ASP.NET
12 39 (15.92%) Degree
13 38 (15.51%) Computer Science
14 37 (15.10%) Accessibility
15 35 (14.29%) Agile
16 32 (13.06%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (13.06%) SEO
17 31 (12.65%) MVC
17 31 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (11.84%) React
19 26 (10.61%) E-Commerce
20 25 (10.20%) Azure
20 25 (10.20%) Microsoft
21 24 (9.80%) AngularJS
21 24 (9.80%) AWS
21 24 (9.80%) REST
22 23 (9.39%) RESTful
22 23 (9.39%) Vue

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 10 (4.08%) IIS
2 6 (2.45%) CMS
2 6 (2.45%) ColdFusion
2 6 (2.45%) WordPress
3 4 (1.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.20%) Azure
2 24 (9.80%) AWS
3 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (1.22%) Figma
4 3 (1.22%) GitHub
4 3 (1.22%) npm
5 2 (0.82%) SaaS
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.41%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.41%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.41%) Serverless
6 1 (0.41%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 48 (19.59%) Internet
2 5 (2.04%) Intranet
3 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.12%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.98%) MySQL
3 15 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.82%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) phpMyAdmin
6 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.16%) Git
2 6 (2.45%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.82%) Bower
4 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) JIRA
4 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.41%) Maven
5 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.41%) Storybook
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (2.45%) Retail
4 5 (2.04%) Multimedia
5 4 (1.63%) Marketing
6 3 (1.22%) Finance
7 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (35.51%) .NET
2 76 (31.02%) HTML
3 73 (29.80%) CSS
4 46 (18.78%) jQuery
5 42 (17.14%) ASP.NET
6 29 (11.84%) React
7 24 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 24 (9.80%) REST
8 23 (9.39%) RESTful
8 23 (9.39%) Vue
9 22 (8.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 22 (8.98%) JSON
10 20 (8.16%) SOAP
11 18 (7.35%) XML
12 16 (6.53%) Terraform
13 14 (5.71%) .NET Framework
14 13 (5.31%) Entity Framework
15 11 (4.49%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (4.08%) Classic ASP
16 10 (4.08%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.82%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.41%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.86%) Linux
2 5 (2.04%) Windows
3 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (95.51%) Web Development
2 56 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (15.51%) Computer Science
4 35 (14.29%) Agile
5 32 (13.06%) SEO
6 31 (12.65%) MVC
6 31 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (10.61%) E-Commerce
8 19 (7.76%) CI/CD
9 17 (6.94%) Performance Optimisation
9 17 (6.94%) SDLC
10 16 (6.53%) Microservices
11 15 (6.12%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (5.31%) Clean Code
12 13 (5.31%) OOP
12 13 (5.31%) User Experience
13 11 (4.49%) Front End Development
13 11 (4.49%) Responsive Web Design
14 10 (4.08%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (34.69%) JavaScript
2 59 (24.08%) PHP
3 56 (22.86%) SQL
4 48 (19.59%) C#
5 12 (4.90%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.86%) Python
7 5 (2.04%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.41%) CFML
8 1 (0.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 39 (15.92%) Degree
2 32 (13.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.10%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.63%) WCAG
3 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.90%) Google
3 5 (2.04%) Oracle
4 4 (1.63%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.82%) Adobe
5 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.41%) Netlify