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 25 October 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 482 223
Rank change year-on-year -24 -259 +192
Permanent Web Developer jobs 182 54 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.16% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 164 39 139
10th Percentile £32,583 £26,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
25 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,011 30,965 46,106
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.06% 90.06% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 56,208 17,908 25,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £52,500 £56,509
% change year-on-year +12.86% -7.09% -5.82%

Web Developer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Web Developer job postings 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 Web Developer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 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 Web Developer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +3 86 £50,000 +17.65% 7
North of England -57 32 £40,000 +15.94% 17
Midlands -40 25 £45,000 +63.64% 8
South West -71 17 £33,750 -10.00% 5
Yorkshire -24 14 £40,000 +45.45% 11
North West -26 14 £35,000 -33.33% 6
East Midlands -35 14 £50,000 +98.02% 2
East of England -29 12 £43,750 +16.67% 9
West Midlands -39 11 £40,000 +23.08% 6
Wales -75 9 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North East -67 4 £40,000 +1.91%
Scotland +11 1 £42,500 +41.67% 3
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Web Developer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, Web Developer job ads cited 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 Web Developer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Web Development97.3%177
2JavaScript39.6%72
3HTML37.9%69
4CSS36.3%66
5.NET35.7%65
6SQL Server32.4%59
7PHP26.9%49
8SQL26.4%48
9jQuery23.1%42
10C#19.2%35
11Agile18.7%34
11Computer Science18.7%34
11Degree18.7%34
14ASP.NET18.1%33
15Full-Stack Development17.0%31
16Internet16.5%30
16Problem-Solving16.5%30
18MVC15.9%29
19Accessibility15.4%28
19Computer Science Degree15.4%28
19SEO15.4%28
22RESTful12.6%23
23JSON12.1%22
23React12.1%22
25AngularJS11.5%21
25REST11.5%21
27E-Commerce11.0%20
27Microsoft11.0%20
29SOAP10.4%19
29XML10.4%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 Developer14.3%26
2.NET Web Developer12.1%22
3PHP Web Developer7.7%14
4Senior Web Developer6.0%11
5Full-Stack .NET Developer5.5%10
6Junior Web Developer3.8%7
7VB.NET Web Developer2.7%5
7Website Developer2.7%5
9Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)2.2%4
10ASP.NET MVC Developer1.6%3
10PHP Laravel Developer1.6%3
10WordPress Developer1.6%3
13Junior WordPress Developer1.1%2
13Mobile Web Developer1.1%2
13Web Applications Developer1.1%2
13Web Applications Engineer1.1%2
17CMS Developer0.5%1
17E-Commerce Web Developer0.5%1
17Senior WordPress Developer0.5%1
17Shopify Developer0.5%1
56 Web Developer jobs in the UK excluding London