Senior Web Developer Jobs

Senior Web Developer
UK

The median Senior Web Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 832 920
Rank change year-on-year +160 +88 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 20 64 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.065% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.069% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 15 56 46
10th Percentile - £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -17.94% +9.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,688 £76,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £65,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -2.27% +3.29%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Top 12 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 1 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
UK excluding London +174 19 £56,250 +4.65% 15
Work from Home +176 11 £65,000 +18.18% 10
England +131 10 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Wales +44 6 £52,500 - 2
North of England +70 5 £57,500 +4.55% 2
North West +22 5 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Scotland - 4 £65,000 -
South East +108 2 £48,750 -2.50% 6
London +103 1 £77,500 -7.46% 9
Midlands +63 1 - - 1
East of England +56 1 £55,000 -8.33% 4
West Midlands +40 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 20 (100.00%) Web Development
2 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (75.00%) HTML
4 14 (70.00%) CSS
5 9 (45.00%) PHP
5 9 (45.00%) React
6 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (40.00%) Git
7 7 (35.00%) User Experience
7 7 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (30.00%) Front End Development
8 6 (30.00%) AWS
9 5 (25.00%) Symfony
9 5 (25.00%) MySQL
9 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (25.00%) Docker
9 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
10 4 (20.00%) Next.js
10 4 (20.00%) Agile
10 4 (20.00%) RESTful
11 3 (15.00%) Marketing
11 3 (15.00%) CMS
11 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
11 3 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (15.00%) API Integration
11 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
11 3 (15.00%) LEMP Stack

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 3 (15.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) Strapi
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) Datadog
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) git-flow
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Grunt
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (75.00%) HTML
2 14 (70.00%) CSS
3 9 (45.00%) React
4 5 (25.00%) Symfony
5 4 (20.00%) Next.js
5 4 (20.00%) RESTful
6 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
6 3 (15.00%) Laravel
6 3 (15.00%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (10.00%) Django
7 2 (10.00%) Node.js
7 2 (10.00%) REST
7 2 (10.00%) Sass
7 2 (10.00%) Vue
8 1 (5.00%) DOM
8 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
8 1 (5.00%) LAMP
8 1 (5.00%) Web Services
8 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Web Development
2 7 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (35.00%) User Experience
3 6 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
6 3 (15.00%) API Integration
6 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) MVC
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) SDLC
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (5.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (45.00%) PHP
3 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) Zend