Web Applications Developer Jobs

Web Application Developer
UK

The median Web Application Developer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 716 874 904
Rank change year-on-year +158 +30 +257
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Applications Developer 12 48 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.044% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.047% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 9 35 9
10th Percentile - £35,000 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £36,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £86,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £60,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +15.71% +19.32%

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 52,152 102,300 81,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.79% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 72,142 54,048
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

Web Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Applications Developer in the UK

Web Applications Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Web Applications Developer in the UK

Web Applications Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Applications Developer over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Applications Developer in the UK

Web Applications Developer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Applications Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 July 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
England +141 11 £95,000 +61.70% 36
London +105 9 £95,000 +111.11% 14
Work from Home +116 5 £52,500 +31.25% 27
UK excluding London +164 3 - - 28
South East +78 1 - - 2
North of England +55 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +48 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Web Applications 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 Web Applications Developer in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) TypeScript
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 7 (58.33%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) React
4 6 (50.00%) Svelte
5 5 (41.67%) Fintech
5 5 (41.67%) GraphQL
5 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (41.67%) koa
5 5 (41.67%) Azure
5 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (41.67%) .NET
5 5 (41.67%) MySQL
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
6 4 (33.33%) C#
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) Local Government
6 4 (33.33%) NHibernate
6 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
6 4 (33.33%) Data Privacy
6 4 (33.33%) User Experience
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

Web Applications 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) npm
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Mocha
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) CSS
1 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 6 (50.00%) React
2 6 (50.00%) Svelte
3 5 (41.67%) .NET
3 5 (41.67%) GraphQL
3 5 (41.67%) koa
4 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 4 (33.33%) NHibernate
5 1 (8.33%) Jest
5 1 (8.33%) Laravel
5 1 (8.33%) Playwright
5 1 (8.33%) Puppeteer
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) SvelteKit
5 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (8.33%) Vue
5 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Fintech
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
3 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 4 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 4 (33.33%) MVC
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (8.33%) API Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Mobile First
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle