Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 606 382
Rank change year-on-year +69 -224 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 265 66 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.13% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.15% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 245 45 198
10th Percentile £32,610 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £53,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.63% +19.44% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 104,213 44,238 75,109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 71,757 26,100 47,326
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Web Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Web Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Web Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Web Developer job vacancies in the UK

Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Developer over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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 +76 248 £47,500 +5.56% 93
UK excluding London +69 245 £47,500 -11.63% 87
South East +54 113 £50,000 +17.65% 19
Work from Home +2 58 £42,500 - 8
North of England -24 45 £40,000 -23.81% 21
Midlands -13 31 £40,000 +17.65% 10
South West -57 24 £35,000 -24.32% 8
North West +8 23 £45,000 -18.18% 8
East of England -19 23 £65,000 +62.50% 16
East Midlands -17 19 £50,000 +81.82% 8
Yorkshire - 18 £40,000 - 11
West Midlands -26 12 £40,000 +8.11% 2
London -50 11 £46,250 -18.86% 27
Wales -70 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -60 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
Scotland +5 2 £37,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 2

Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 September 2026, Web Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Web Developer in the job title.

1 253 (95.47%) Web Development
2 94 (35.47%) .NET
3 93 (35.09%) JavaScript
4 80 (30.19%) HTML
5 77 (29.06%) CSS
6 66 (24.91%) SQL Server
7 59 (22.26%) PHP
7 59 (22.26%) SQL
8 57 (21.51%) C#
8 57 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (18.11%) ASP.NET
9 48 (18.11%) Internet
10 46 (17.36%) jQuery
11 42 (15.85%) Degree
12 38 (14.34%) Computer Science
13 37 (13.96%) Accessibility
14 36 (13.58%) MVC
15 35 (13.21%) Agile
16 32 (12.08%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (12.08%) SEO
17 31 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (11.32%) Azure
18 30 (11.32%) React
19 27 (10.19%) ASP.NET Core
20 26 (9.81%) E-Commerce
20 26 (9.81%) Microsoft
21 25 (9.43%) AngularJS
22 24 (9.06%) AWS
22 24 (9.06%) REST
22 24 (9.06%) Vue

Web Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (4.91%) CMS
2 10 (3.77%) IIS
3 8 (3.02%) Umbraco
3 8 (3.02%) WordPress
4 6 (2.26%) ColdFusion
5 4 (1.51%) Apache
5 4 (1.51%) Confluence
6 3 (1.13%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.32%) Azure
2 24 (9.06%) AWS
3 8 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (1.13%) Figma
4 3 (1.13%) GitHub
4 3 (1.13%) npm
4 3 (1.13%) SaaS
5 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.38%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.38%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.38%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.38%) Serverless
6 1 (0.38%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 48 (18.11%) Internet
2 5 (1.89%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.91%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.30%) MySQL
3 15 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.75%) Metadata
5 2 (0.75%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.75%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.55%) Git
2 6 (2.26%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.26%) JIRA
3 5 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.75%) Bower
4 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.38%) Maven
5 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Storybook
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.40%) Retail
3 7 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (1.89%) Finance
4 5 (1.89%) Multimedia
5 4 (1.51%) Marketing
6 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.75%) Publishing
7 1 (0.38%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (35.47%) .NET
2 80 (30.19%) HTML
3 77 (29.06%) CSS
4 48 (18.11%) ASP.NET
5 46 (17.36%) jQuery
6 30 (11.32%) React
7 27 (10.19%) ASP.NET Core
8 25 (9.43%) AngularJS
9 24 (9.06%) REST
9 24 (9.06%) Vue
10 23 (8.68%) RESTful
11 22 (8.30%) JSON
12 20 (7.55%) SOAP
13 18 (6.79%) XML
14 16 (6.04%) Terraform
15 14 (5.28%) .NET Framework
16 13 (4.91%) Entity Framework
17 12 (4.53%) ASP.NET MVC
18 10 (3.77%) Classic ASP
18 10 (3.77%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.75%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.38%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.38%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.64%) Linux
2 5 (1.89%) Windows
3 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (95.47%) Web Development
2 57 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (14.34%) Computer Science
4 36 (13.58%) MVC
5 35 (13.21%) Agile
6 32 (12.08%) SEO
7 31 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (9.81%) E-Commerce
9 21 (7.92%) CI/CD
10 18 (6.79%) Microservices
11 17 (6.42%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (6.42%) SDLC
12 15 (5.66%) Clean Code
12 15 (5.66%) Collaborative Culture
12 15 (5.66%) Front End Development
12 15 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (5.66%) User Experience
13 13 (4.91%) OOP
14 11 (4.15%) Responsive Web Design
15 10 (3.77%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (35.09%) JavaScript
2 59 (22.26%) PHP
2 59 (22.26%) SQL
3 57 (21.51%) C#
4 14 (5.28%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.64%) Python
6 5 (1.89%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.75%) F#
8 1 (0.38%) CFML
8 1 (0.38%) Java
8 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (15.85%) Degree
2 32 (12.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.51%) WCAG
3 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.53%) Google
3 5 (1.89%) Oracle
4 4 (1.51%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.75%) Adobe
5 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.38%) Netlify