Web Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Web Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 441 465
Rank change year-on-year -67 +24 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 74 355 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.52% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51 309 239
10th Percentile - £29,000 £32,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,656
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £43,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.09% -14.00% +10.66%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Web Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK excluding London

Web Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Web Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Web Developer 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 22 May 2025.

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 22 May 2025. 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
East of England +9 22 £37,500 -6.25% 32
South West +63 14 £37,500 - 18
North of England -28 12 £55,000 +37.50% 44
North West -37 10 £55,000 +22.22% 16
South East +55 9 £45,000 +5.88% 50
Scotland +126 6 £65,000 - 7
Midlands -17 6 £45,000 +5.88% 25
Wales +32 5 £58,750 +11.90% 25
East Midlands +4 5 £45,000 +4.65% 8
Yorkshire +30 2 £32,500 -13.33% 18
West Midlands +19 1 - - 15
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Web Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 68 (91.89%) Web Development
2 52 (70.27%) JavaScript
3 43 (58.11%) PHP
3 43 (58.11%) HTML
4 42 (56.76%) CSS
5 23 (31.08%) Degree
6 22 (29.73%) WordPress
7 21 (28.38%) Git
8 19 (25.68%) Computer Science
8 19 (25.68%) Front End Development
8 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
9 17 (22.97%) SQL
10 16 (21.62%) React
11 14 (18.92%) QA
11 14 (18.92%) E-Commerce
11 14 (18.92%) SEO
11 14 (18.92%) Agile
11 14 (18.92%) User Experience
11 14 (18.92%) Accessibility
12 13 (17.57%) .NET
12 13 (17.57%) Marketing
13 12 (16.22%) jQuery
14 11 (14.86%) MySQL
14 11 (14.86%) CMS
15 10 (13.51%) Python
15 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
15 10 (13.51%) AWS
15 10 (13.51%) Vue
16 9 (12.16%) Node.js
16 9 (12.16%) C#

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (29.73%) WordPress
2 11 (14.86%) CMS
3 3 (4.05%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.70%) Joomla!
4 2 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (1.35%) Apache
5 1 (1.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.35%) Drupal
5 1 (1.35%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.35%) IIS
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.35%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Adobe XD
1 3 (4.05%) Chatbot
1 3 (4.05%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.70%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.35%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.51%) AWS
2 7 (9.46%) Stripe
3 6 (8.11%) Azure
4 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.05%) Cloudflare
4 3 (4.05%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.05%) MailChimp
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) npm
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.35%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) Figma
6 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.35%) Sage Pay
6 1 (1.35%) Serverless
6 1 (1.35%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Broadband
1 1 (1.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.86%) MySQL
2 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.35%) Redis
4 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (28.38%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) webpack
3 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
4 2 (2.70%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.35%) GitLab
5 1 (1.35%) Grunt
5 1 (1.35%) gulp
5 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.35%) Mocha
5 1 (1.35%) PHPUnit
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Marketing
3 8 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.05%) Advertising
6 3 (4.05%) Automotive
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Finance
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (58.11%) HTML
2 42 (56.76%) CSS
3 16 (21.62%) React
4 13 (17.57%) .NET
5 12 (16.22%) jQuery
6 10 (13.51%) Vue
7 9 (12.16%) Node.js
8 7 (9.46%) AngularJS
8 7 (9.46%) REST
9 6 (8.11%) ASP.NET
9 6 (8.11%) LAMP
9 6 (8.11%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (6.76%) Bootstrap
10 5 (6.76%) Next.js
10 5 (6.76%) Sass
11 4 (5.41%) HTML5
11 4 (5.41%) Laravel
12 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (4.05%) Django
12 3 (4.05%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Learning Management System
2 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.41%) Social Media
2 4 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.05%) Blog
3 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.05%) Motion Graphics
3 3 (4.05%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.35%) EPoS
5 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (91.89%) Web Development
2 19 (25.68%) Computer Science
2 19 (25.68%) Front End Development
3 14 (18.92%) Agile
3 14 (18.92%) E-Commerce
3 14 (18.92%) SEO
3 14 (18.92%) User Experience
4 8 (10.81%) OOP
4 8 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
4 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (10.81%) Project Management
5 7 (9.46%) Change Management
5 7 (9.46%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 7 (9.46%) Line Management
5 7 (9.46%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.46%) Software Engineering
5 7 (9.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (8.11%) CI/CD
6 6 (8.11%) Digital Marketing
6 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (70.27%) JavaScript
2 43 (58.11%) PHP
3 17 (22.97%) SQL
4 10 (13.51%) Python
5 9 (12.16%) C#
6 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.05%) C++
8 2 (2.70%) Go
9 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (31.08%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) Accessibility
1 14 (18.92%) QA
2 7 (9.46%) WCAG
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.76%) Google
3 3 (4.05%) Adobe
3 3 (4.05%) ANSYS
3 3 (4.05%) PayPal
4 2 (2.70%) Optimizely
4 2 (2.70%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) WooCommerce
5 1 (1.35%) Zend