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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 611 364
Rank change year-on-year +58 -247 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 257 64 544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.13% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 237 44 192
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +19.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -

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 105,974 44,478 74,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 89.66% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,002 26,192 45,789
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 16 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 12 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 +70 242 £47,500 +5.56% 81
UK excluding London +52 237 £47,500 -9.52% 83
South East +57 112 £50,000 +17.65% 19
Work from Home +5 58 £42,500 -12.82% 9
North of England -17 44 £40,000 -23.81% 20
Midlands -12 31 £40,000 +17.65% 10
North West -1 23 £45,000 -18.18% 5
South West -61 22 £35,000 -6.67% 8
East of England -11 21 £65,000 +62.50% 16
East Midlands -19 19 £50,000 +81.82% 8
Yorkshire - 17 £40,000 - 13
West Midlands -30 12 £40,000 +8.11% 2
London -42 11 £46,250 -18.86% 17
Wales -75 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -60 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
Scotland +9 1 £42,500 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 245 (95.33%) Web Development
2 92 (35.80%) .NET
3 88 (34.24%) JavaScript
4 75 (29.18%) HTML
5 72 (28.02%) CSS
6 66 (25.68%) SQL Server
7 59 (22.96%) SQL
8 58 (22.57%) PHP
9 56 (21.79%) C#
10 54 (21.01%) Full-Stack Development
11 47 (18.29%) ASP.NET
12 46 (17.90%) jQuery
13 43 (16.73%) Internet
14 42 (16.34%) Degree
15 38 (14.79%) Computer Science
16 37 (14.40%) Accessibility
17 36 (14.01%) MVC
18 35 (13.62%) Agile
19 32 (12.45%) Computer Science Degree
19 32 (12.45%) SEO
20 31 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
21 26 (10.12%) ASP.NET Core
22 25 (9.73%) AngularJS
22 25 (9.73%) Azure
22 25 (9.73%) E-Commerce
22 25 (9.73%) React
23 24 (9.34%) REST
23 24 (9.34%) Vue
24 23 (8.95%) RESTful
25 22 (8.56%) JSON

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 (5.06%) CMS
2 10 (3.89%) IIS
3 8 (3.11%) Umbraco
3 8 (3.11%) WordPress
4 5 (1.95%) ColdFusion
5 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 4 (1.56%) Confluence
6 3 (1.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.73%) Azure
2 19 (7.39%) AWS
3 8 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (1.17%) Figma
4 3 (1.17%) GitHub
4 3 (1.17%) npm
4 3 (1.17%) SaaS
5 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.39%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.39%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.39%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.39%) Serverless
6 1 (0.39%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 43 (16.73%) Internet
2 5 (1.95%) Intranet
3 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (25.68%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.56%) MySQL
3 15 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.78%) Metadata
5 2 (0.78%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.78%) Power BI
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.78%) Git
2 6 (2.33%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.33%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.78%) Bower
4 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.39%) Maven
5 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Storybook
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.50%) Retail
3 7 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (1.95%) Finance
5 4 (1.56%) Marketing
6 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.78%) Publishing
7 1 (0.39%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (35.80%) .NET
2 75 (29.18%) HTML
3 72 (28.02%) CSS
4 47 (18.29%) ASP.NET
5 46 (17.90%) jQuery
6 26 (10.12%) ASP.NET Core
7 25 (9.73%) AngularJS
7 25 (9.73%) React
8 24 (9.34%) REST
8 24 (9.34%) Vue
9 23 (8.95%) RESTful
10 22 (8.56%) JSON
11 20 (7.78%) SOAP
12 18 (7.00%) XML
13 16 (6.23%) Terraform
14 14 (5.45%) .NET Framework
15 13 (5.06%) Entity Framework
16 12 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (3.89%) Classic ASP
17 10 (3.89%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.39%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.39%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.72%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (95.33%) Web Development
2 54 (21.01%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (14.79%) Computer Science
4 36 (14.01%) MVC
5 35 (13.62%) Agile
6 32 (12.45%) SEO
7 31 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (9.73%) E-Commerce
9 21 (8.17%) CI/CD
10 18 (7.00%) Microservices
11 17 (6.61%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (6.23%) SDLC
13 15 (5.84%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (5.84%) Front End Development
13 15 (5.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (5.84%) User Experience
14 13 (5.06%) Clean Code
14 13 (5.06%) OOP
15 11 (4.28%) Responsive Web Design
16 10 (3.89%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (34.24%) JavaScript
2 59 (22.96%) SQL
3 58 (22.57%) PHP
4 56 (21.79%) C#
5 14 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.95%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.78%) F#
7 2 (0.78%) Python
8 1 (0.39%) Java
8 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (16.34%) Degree
2 32 (12.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.40%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.56%) WCAG
3 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.67%) Google
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle
4 4 (1.56%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe
6 1 (0.39%) Netlify