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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 603 409
Rank change year-on-year +77 -194 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 272 85 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.19% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 253 61 202
10th Percentile £32,555 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £72,500 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.84% +21.11% -

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 103,220 45,012 77,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.83% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 70,861 26,764 49,481
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £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 £75,000 £74,521 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +88 254 £47,500 -9.52% 76
UK excluding London +48 250 £47,500 -12.84% 80
South East +60 114 £50,000 +11.11% 20
Work from Home -7 60 £42,500 -22.73% 6
North of England -32 48 £40,000 -27.27% 17
Midlands -8 31 £40,000 +8.11% 11
North West +7 25 £45,000 -18.18% 6
South West -53 24 £35,000 -6.67% 8
East of England -1 23 £65,000 +23.81% 15
East Midlands -8 19 £50,000 +37.93% 9
Yorkshire - 19 £40,000 - 9
London -47 13 £50,000 -16.67% 14
West Midlands -18 12 £40,000 +8.11% 2
Wales -72 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -58 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
Scotland 0 3 £40,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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.

1 259 (95.22%) Web Development
2 93 (34.19%) .NET
3 90 (33.09%) JavaScript
4 78 (28.68%) HTML
5 75 (27.57%) CSS
6 63 (23.16%) SQL Server
7 61 (22.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 59 (21.69%) PHP
9 57 (20.96%) C#
9 57 (20.96%) SQL
10 48 (17.65%) ASP.NET
11 47 (17.28%) Internet
12 43 (15.81%) jQuery
13 42 (15.44%) Degree
14 37 (13.60%) Accessibility
14 37 (13.60%) Computer Science
15 36 (13.24%) Agile
15 36 (13.24%) MVC
16 31 (11.40%) Azure
16 31 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (11.40%) React
16 31 (11.40%) SEO
17 27 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
18 25 (9.19%) E-Commerce
19 24 (8.82%) AngularJS
19 24 (8.82%) AWS
19 24 (8.82%) Microsoft
19 24 (8.82%) REST
19 24 (8.82%) 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 14 (5.15%) CMS
2 8 (2.94%) IIS
2 8 (2.94%) Umbraco
2 8 (2.94%) WordPress
3 7 (2.57%) ColdFusion
4 4 (1.47%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) Confluence
5 3 (1.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.04%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.40%) Azure
2 24 (8.82%) AWS
3 9 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.47%) GitHub
5 3 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (1.10%) Figma
5 3 (1.10%) npm
6 2 (0.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.74%) SaaS
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.37%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.37%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.37%) Serverless
7 1 (0.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 47 (17.28%) Internet
2 5 (1.84%) Intranet
3 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.16%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.09%) MySQL
3 15 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.74%) Metadata
5 2 (0.74%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.35%) Git
2 6 (2.21%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.21%) JIRA
3 5 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.74%) Bower
4 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.37%) Maven
5 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Storybook
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.31%) Retail
3 8 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (1.84%) Finance
4 5 (1.84%) Multimedia
5 4 (1.47%) Marketing
6 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.74%) Publishing
7 1 (0.37%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (34.19%) .NET
2 78 (28.68%) HTML
3 75 (27.57%) CSS
4 48 (17.65%) ASP.NET
5 43 (15.81%) jQuery
6 31 (11.40%) React
7 27 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (8.82%) AngularJS
8 24 (8.82%) REST
8 24 (8.82%) Vue
9 21 (7.72%) RESTful
10 20 (7.35%) JSON
10 20 (7.35%) SOAP
11 16 (5.88%) Terraform
11 16 (5.88%) XML
12 12 (4.41%) .NET Framework
12 12 (4.41%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (4.04%) Entity Framework
14 10 (3.68%) Classic ASP
14 10 (3.68%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.74%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.37%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.37%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.57%) Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Debian
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (95.22%) Web Development
2 61 (22.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (13.60%) Computer Science
4 36 (13.24%) Agile
4 36 (13.24%) MVC
5 31 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (11.40%) SEO
6 25 (9.19%) E-Commerce
7 21 (7.72%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.62%) Microservices
9 17 (6.25%) Clean Code
9 17 (6.25%) Front End Development
9 17 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 17 (6.25%) SDLC
10 15 (5.51%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (5.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (5.15%) User Experience
12 13 (4.78%) OOP
13 11 (4.04%) Responsive Web Design
14 10 (3.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 90 (33.09%) JavaScript
2 59 (21.69%) PHP
3 57 (20.96%) C#
3 57 (20.96%) SQL
4 13 (4.78%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.57%) Python
6 5 (1.84%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.74%) F#
8 1 (0.37%) CFML
8 1 (0.37%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (15.44%) Degree
2 31 (11.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.84%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
3 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.47%) WCAG
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.41%) Google
3 5 (1.84%) Oracle
4 4 (1.47%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.74%) Adobe
5 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.37%) Netlify