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 £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 471 378
Rank change year-on-year +85 -93 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 240 74 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.23% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.25% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 217 67 304
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £40,617
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +10.79% -9.74%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £66,200 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 66,738 29,315 71,409
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,304 16,594 50,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 7 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 7 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 +64 102 £50,000 +11.11% 22
North of England -8 47 £40,000 -27.27% 22
East of England -6 35 £65,000 +73.33% 16
North West +11 24 £40,000 -27.27% 9
Midlands -4 24 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Yorkshire -8 19 £40,000 +23.08% 10
South West -55 18 £49,000 +30.67% 10
East Midlands -10 16 £50,000 +11.11% 8
West Midlands -17 8 £40,000 +8.11% 6
Scotland +11 7 £40,000 - 4
Wales -54 6 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North East -44 4 £40,000 +40.35% 4
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 7 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.

1 224 (93.33%) Web Development
2 72 (30.00%) .NET
3 64 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (26.25%) JavaScript
5 61 (25.42%) HTML
6 58 (24.17%) CSS
7 54 (22.50%) PHP
8 52 (21.67%) SQL
9 44 (18.33%) Internet
10 39 (16.25%) C#
10 39 (16.25%) SQL Server
11 36 (15.00%) Degree
12 34 (14.17%) Computer Science
13 32 (13.33%) Accessibility
14 31 (12.92%) jQuery
15 28 (11.67%) ASP.NET
15 28 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
15 28 (11.67%) React
15 28 (11.67%) SEO
16 27 (11.25%) Agile
17 26 (10.83%) Azure
18 20 (8.33%) AWS
18 20 (8.33%) Git
18 20 (8.33%) Vue
19 19 (7.92%) Front End Development
20 18 (7.50%) AngularJS
20 18 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
21 17 (7.08%) MySQL
22 16 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
22 16 (6.67%) Clean Code

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 12 (5.00%) WordPress
2 10 (4.17%) CMS
3 7 (2.92%) ColdFusion
4 3 (1.25%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.83%) Azure
2 20 (8.33%) AWS
3 9 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.33%) GitHub
5 5 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.25%) Figma
6 3 (1.25%) SaaS
7 2 (0.83%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (0.83%) npm
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.42%) Serverless
8 1 (0.42%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 44 (18.33%) Internet
2 5 (2.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.08%) MySQL
3 11 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.83%) Metadata
5 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.83%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (0.83%) Bower
2 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (12.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.33%) Marketing
3 7 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.50%) Retail
5 5 (2.08%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (30.00%) .NET
2 61 (25.42%) HTML
3 58 (24.17%) CSS
4 31 (12.92%) jQuery
5 28 (11.67%) ASP.NET
5 28 (11.67%) React
6 20 (8.33%) Vue
7 18 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 16 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (6.67%) REST
9 13 (5.42%) JSON
9 13 (5.42%) RESTful
10 11 (4.58%) SOAP
11 9 (3.75%) XML
12 8 (3.33%) Node.js
13 6 (2.50%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.50%) Ajax
13 6 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (2.50%) Laravel
13 6 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
1 11 (4.58%) Mobile App
2 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
2 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.42%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (93.33%) Web Development
2 64 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (14.17%) Computer Science
4 28 (11.67%) SEO
5 27 (11.25%) Agile
6 19 (7.92%) Front End Development
7 18 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (6.67%) Clean Code
8 16 (6.67%) E-Commerce
9 15 (6.25%) MVC
10 13 (5.42%) CI/CD
11 12 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (4.58%) AI
12 11 (4.58%) API Integration
12 11 (4.58%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (4.58%) SDLC
13 10 (4.17%) Microservices
14 9 (3.75%) B2B
14 9 (3.75%) DevOps
14 9 (3.75%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (26.25%) JavaScript
2 54 (22.50%) PHP
3 52 (21.67%) SQL
4 39 (16.25%) C#
5 7 (2.92%) Python
6 6 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.42%) CFML
7 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (15.00%) Degree
2 28 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.08%) Google
3 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.67%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe
4 1 (0.42%) Netlify