Senior Web Developer Jobs

Senior Web Developer
UK

The median Senior Web Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 August 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 759 780
Rank change year-on-year +60 +21 +307
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 36 67 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.077% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.081% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 18 58 48
10th Percentile £50,500 £38,750 £49,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £55,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £59,375 £80,000
90th Percentile - £63,775 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +30.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 55,179 82,422 67,691
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.20% 95.17% 92.09%
Number of salaries quoted 30,337 52,692 48,143
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £44,266
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £71,991 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,822 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%

Senior Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Web Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Web Developer over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Web Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 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
UK excluding London +62 32 £60,000 +14.29% 7
England +46 25 £55,000 +4.76% 9
South East - 18 £52,500 - 3
Wales +2 11 £60,000 +33.33%
London +67 4 £67,250 +12.08% 2
Work from Home +17 3 £55,000 +4.76% 4
West Midlands +23 1 - - 1
Midlands +20 1 - - 1
North of England -13 1 £52,500 - 2
East of England -20 1 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North West -32 1 £52,500 -

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Web Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Web Development
2 27 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (72.22%) JavaScript
4 25 (69.44%) HTML
5 24 (66.67%) Git
6 21 (58.33%) React
7 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
8 18 (50.00%) AWS
8 18 (50.00%) CSS
9 17 (47.22%) RESTful
9 17 (47.22%) User Experience
9 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
10 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
10 16 (44.44%) Docker
10 16 (44.44%) Azure
10 16 (44.44%) Node.js
10 16 (44.44%) UX Design
10 16 (44.44%) QA
10 16 (44.44%) Agile
10 16 (44.44%) Marketing
11 15 (41.67%) Test Automation
11 15 (41.67%) GCP
11 15 (41.67%) Design Patterns
12 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
12 14 (38.89%) DevOps
12 14 (38.89%) Customer Engagement
12 14 (38.89%) Law
13 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
14 10 (27.78%) MySQL

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (13.89%) CMS
2 2 (5.56%) WordPress
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.78%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 15 (41.67%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) npm
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.78%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.78%) Datadog
5 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) MySQL
2 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) webpack
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Mocha
3 1 (2.78%) PHPUnit
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (44.44%) Marketing
3 14 (38.89%) Law
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (69.44%) HTML
2 21 (58.33%) React
3 18 (50.00%) CSS
4 17 (47.22%) RESTful
5 16 (44.44%) Node.js
6 9 (25.00%) Symfony
6 9 (25.00%) Vue
7 8 (22.22%) Sass
8 4 (11.11%) Laravel
9 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.56%) Jest
9 2 (5.56%) Next.js
9 2 (5.56%) REST
9 2 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (2.78%) Material-UI
10 1 (2.78%) NestJS
10 1 (2.78%) Playwright
10 1 (2.78%) Puppeteer
10 1 (2.78%) Redux
10 1 (2.78%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Web Development
2 27 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (47.22%) User Experience
4 16 (44.44%) Agile
4 16 (44.44%) UX Design
5 15 (41.67%) Design Patterns
5 15 (41.67%) Test Automation
6 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 14 (38.89%) Customer Engagement
6 14 (38.89%) DevOps
7 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.33%) E-Commerce
8 3 (8.33%) Time Management
9 2 (5.56%) B2B
9 2 (5.56%) B2C
9 2 (5.56%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (5.56%) MVC
9 2 (5.56%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 26 (72.22%) JavaScript
2 7 (19.44%) PHP
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
1 2 (5.56%) WooCommerce
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Zend