Web Development Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Web Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Web Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 121 181
Rank change year-on-year +102 +60 -40
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 3,848 836 572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 9.15% 2.24% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.48% 2.54% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 169 333 485
10th Percentile - £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £61,016
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £43,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.10% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,518 32,882 27,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.16% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,196 15,153 20,782
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,700 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Web Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Web Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Development

Web Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Development in the UK excluding London

Web Development
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 Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
North of England +86 1,665 £40,538 +1.34% 180
North West +82 1,503 £35,000 - 84
Midlands +94 1,085 £37,500 +7.14% 131
West Midlands +107 933 £50,000 +8.11% 67
South East +113 629 £55,000 +4.76% 184
East of England +66 375 £45,000 - 98
East Midlands +32 164 £35,000 - 60
Yorkshire +51 159 £42,000 -30.00% 76
South West -24 41 £41,250 -28.26% 67
Wales +11 39 £60,000 +26.32% 18
Scotland -26 17 £32,500 -45.83% 26
Channel Islands +10 9 £90,000 -
North East -20 3 £48,686 -7.27% 23
Northern Ireland -14 2 £53,165 +11.93% 5
Web Development
UK

Web Development
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 37 (0.96%) WordPress
2 18 (0.47%) CMS
3 7 (0.18%) Umbraco
4 5 (0.13%) nginx
5 4 (0.10%) IIS
6 2 (0.052%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.052%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.026%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.026%) Apache
7 1 (0.026%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.026%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.026%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.026%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.026%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.026%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3,649 (94.83%) Cloud Computing
2 78 (2.03%) AWS
3 68 (1.77%) Azure
4 39 (1.01%) GitHub
5 20 (0.52%) GCP
6 14 (0.36%) SaaS
7 9 (0.23%) Figma
7 9 (0.23%) Power Automate
8 6 (0.16%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.16%) Google Analytics
9 5 (0.13%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.10%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.078%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.078%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.052%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.052%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.052%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.052%) Sage Pay
13 1 (0.026%) Azure App Service
13 1 (0.026%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3,681 (95.66%) Internet
2 3 (0.078%) VPN
3 2 (0.052%) HTTP
3 2 (0.052%) Intranet
4 1 (0.026%) DNS
4 1 (0.026%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (0.60%) SQL Server
2 16 (0.42%) MySQL
3 6 (0.16%) NoSQL
3 6 (0.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.078%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.052%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.052%) Power BI
7 1 (0.026%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.026%) GIS
7 1 (0.026%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (1.51%) Git
2 11 (0.29%) JIRA
3 2 (0.052%) GitLab
3 2 (0.052%) Moq
3 2 (0.052%) MSTest
3 2 (0.052%) NSubstitute
3 2 (0.052%) NUnit
4 1 (0.026%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.026%) JUnit
4 1 (0.026%) Maven
4 1 (0.026%) Selenium
4 1 (0.026%) Storybook
4 1 (0.026%) webpack
General
1 3,708 (96.36%) Social Skills
2 3,656 (95.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,649 (94.83%) Banking
4 43 (1.12%) Marketing
5 32 (0.83%) Multimedia
6 17 (0.44%) Law
7 8 (0.21%) Finance
8 7 (0.18%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (0.18%) Public Sector
8 7 (0.18%) Retail
9 6 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.078%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.052%) Games
11 2 (0.052%) Legal
12 1 (0.026%) Back Office
12 1 (0.026%) Local Government
12 1 (0.026%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.026%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2,811 (73.05%) Lecturer
2 125 (3.25%) Developer
3 68 (1.77%) Web Developer
4 49 (1.27%) Senior
5 45 (1.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 45 (1.17%) Senior Developer
6 32 (0.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (0.83%) Trainee
7 28 (0.73%) Senior Web Developer
8 25 (0.65%) Administrator
8 25 (0.65%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 25 (0.65%) Trainee Administrator
8 25 (0.65%) Web Administrator
9 12 (0.31%) Lead
10 11 (0.29%) .NET Developer
11 9 (0.23%) PHP Developer
12 8 (0.21%) .NET Web Developer
12 8 (0.21%) C# Developer
12 8 (0.21%) Junior Developer
12 8 (0.21%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (2.47%) HTML
2 90 (2.34%) CSS
3 57 (1.48%) React
4 39 (1.01%) .NET
5 30 (0.78%) RESTful
6 26 (0.68%) Node.js
7 21 (0.55%) ASP.NET
8 20 (0.52%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.34%) Web Services
10 11 (0.29%) REST
11 9 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (0.23%) Django
11 9 (0.23%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (0.21%) Vue
13 7 (0.18%) .NET Core
14 6 (0.16%) .NET Framework
14 6 (0.16%) HTML5
15 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Graph
15 5 (0.13%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (0.13%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (94.83%) IoT
2 10 (0.26%) Product Ownership
3 9 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (0.18%) Onboarding
5 6 (0.16%) Mobile App
5 6 (0.16%) Social Media
6 3 (0.078%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.078%) e-Learning
6 3 (0.078%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.078%) W3C
7 2 (0.052%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.052%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.026%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.026%) Blog
8 1 (0.026%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.026%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.026%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.026%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.026%) Life Science
8 1 (0.026%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.078%) Android
1 3 (0.078%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.078%) Windows
2 2 (0.052%) Linux
3 1 (0.026%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,700 (96.15%) User Experience
2 3,661 (95.14%) Cybersecurity
3 3,657 (95.04%) AI
4 3,651 (94.88%) Machine Learning
5 59 (1.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (1.22%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (1.14%) Agile
8 35 (0.91%) CI/CD
9 28 (0.73%) Design Patterns
10 26 (0.68%) Mentoring
11 25 (0.65%) DevOps
11 25 (0.65%) UX Design
12 20 (0.52%) Front End Development
12 20 (0.52%) MVC
13 18 (0.47%) E-Commerce
14 17 (0.44%) Digital Marketing
15 16 (0.42%) Customer Engagement
16 15 (0.39%) Software Engineering
16 15 (0.39%) Test Automation
17 14 (0.36%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 111 (2.88%) JavaScript
2 54 (1.40%) Python
3 39 (1.01%) C#
4 36 (0.94%) SQL
5 25 (0.65%) R
6 24 (0.62%) PHP
7 16 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.36%) Java
9 3 (0.078%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.026%) Go
10 1 (0.026%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.026%) Swift
10 1 (0.026%) VB
Qualifications
1 3,667 (95.30%) Degree
2 3,650 (94.85%) PhD
3 3,649 (94.83%) Master's Degree
3 3,649 (94.83%) Postgraduate
4 34 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 32 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (0.16%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.16%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.13%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.026%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (0.52%) QA
2 15 (0.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.10%) GDPR
4 3 (0.078%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (0.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.026%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (1.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (0.29%) Google
3 7 (0.18%) Adobe
4 5 (0.13%) HubSpot
5 3 (0.078%) Oracle
6 2 (0.052%) Ahrefs
6 2 (0.052%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.052%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.026%) ESRI
7 1 (0.026%) Foundry
7 1 (0.026%) Hootsuite
7 1 (0.026%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.026%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.026%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.026%) Xero