Web Developer Jobs

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 626 515 575
Rank change year-on-year -111 +60 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 108 419 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.44% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 83 294 294
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,275 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £41,235 £45,000
% change year-on-year +18.23% -8.37% +5.88%

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 53,808 94,839 77,253
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 94.85% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 29,775 65,861 52,945
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,205 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,700
% change year-on-year - -5.12% +2.63%

Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Developer over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

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 18 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 -96 92 £52,500 +31.25% 124
UK excluding London -101 85 £48,750 +18.23% 122
Work from Home -13 36 £55,000 +29.41% 37
South East +15 24 £45,000 +12.50% 28
East of England -1 21 £40,000 +6.67% 23
London +88 20 £62,500 +26.90% 28
Wales +24 11 £60,000 +33.33% 12
North of England -40 11 £55,000 +35.41% 30
South West +72 10 £37,500 - 6
North West -27 9 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Midlands -19 6 £40,000 -5.88% 21
West Midlands +6 3 £37,000 -26.00% 12
East Midlands +2 3 £45,000 +5.88% 9
Scotland +78 2 - - 3
North East +30 1 £28,500 -18.57% 8
Yorkshire +3 1 £32,500 -7.14% 9

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, 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 Web Developer in the job title.

1 99 (91.67%) Web Development
2 81 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 63 (58.33%) HTML
4 53 (49.07%) CSS
5 48 (44.44%) PHP
6 37 (34.26%) Git
6 37 (34.26%) React
7 36 (33.33%) Agile
8 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
9 34 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (27.78%) User Experience
11 30 (27.78%) AWS
11 30 (27.78%) Node.js
12 27 (25.00%) Marketing
12 27 (25.00%) MySQL
13 23 (21.30%) Azure
13 23 (21.30%) QA
14 22 (20.37%) WordPress
14 22 (20.37%) CI/CD
15 21 (19.44%) Degree
15 21 (19.44%) SQL
15 21 (19.44%) CMS
15 21 (19.44%) SEO
16 20 (18.52%) RESTful
17 19 (17.59%) GCP
17 19 (17.59%) Docker
17 19 (17.59%) DevOps
18 18 (16.67%) Kubernetes
18 18 (16.67%) UX Design

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 22 (20.37%) WordPress
2 21 (19.44%) CMS
3 3 (2.78%) Drupal
4 2 (1.85%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.85%) Joomla!
4 2 (1.85%) Strapi
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
5 1 (0.93%) nginx
5 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (4.63%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.70%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.78%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.85%) Elementor
5 1 (0.93%) Sketch
5 1 (0.93%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Shopify
2 2 (1.85%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.78%) AWS
2 23 (21.30%) Azure
3 19 (17.59%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) GitHub
5 5 (4.63%) Cloudflare
5 5 (4.63%) npm
6 4 (3.70%) Figma
6 4 (3.70%) Google Analytics
7 3 (2.78%) MailChimp
7 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.85%) SaaS
8 2 (1.85%) Serverless
8 2 (1.85%) Vercel
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.93%) Datadog
9 1 (0.93%) Firebase
9 1 (0.93%) Sage Pay
9 1 (0.93%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Broadband
1 1 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.00%) MySQL
2 13 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (12.04%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.85%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (34.26%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Mocha
2 4 (3.70%) PHPUnit
2 4 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.78%) Jasmine
3 3 (2.78%) webpack
4 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) gulp
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.00%) Marketing
3 15 (13.89%) Law
4 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Finance
5 4 (3.70%) Local Government
5 4 (3.70%) Retail
6 3 (2.78%) Advertising
6 3 (2.78%) Automotive
6 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (58.33%) HTML
2 53 (49.07%) CSS
3 37 (34.26%) React
4 30 (27.78%) Node.js
5 20 (18.52%) RESTful
6 17 (15.74%) Vue
7 16 (14.81%) jQuery
8 15 (13.89%) .NET
8 15 (13.89%) Sass
9 11 (10.19%) AngularJS
9 11 (10.19%) HTML5
10 9 (8.33%) CSS3
10 9 (8.33%) Symfony
11 7 (6.48%) Bootstrap
11 7 (6.48%) LAMP
11 7 (6.48%) Laravel
11 7 (6.48%) LESS
11 7 (6.48%) REST
12 6 (5.56%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Legacy Code
2 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.70%) Social Media
4 3 (2.78%) Blog
4 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.78%) Motion Graphics
4 3 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.85%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.85%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.93%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) EPoS
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (91.67%) Web Development
2 36 (33.33%) Agile
3 34 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (27.78%) User Experience
6 22 (20.37%) CI/CD
7 21 (19.44%) SEO
8 19 (17.59%) DevOps
9 18 (16.67%) Design Patterns
9 18 (16.67%) UX Design
10 17 (15.74%) Computer Science
10 17 (15.74%) Mentoring
10 17 (15.74%) Test Automation
11 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
11 14 (12.96%) Customer Engagement
12 11 (10.19%) E-Commerce
12 11 (10.19%) Software Engineering
13 9 (8.33%) Front End Development
13 9 (8.33%) MVC
14 8 (7.41%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 81 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 48 (44.44%) PHP
3 21 (19.44%) SQL
4 12 (11.11%) C#
4 12 (11.11%) Python
5 11 (10.19%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.78%) C++
7 2 (1.85%) Go
7 2 (1.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (19.44%) Degree
2 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.30%) QA
2 7 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (17.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.33%) Google
2 7 (6.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.63%) Adobe
4 3 (2.78%) PayPal
4 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.78%) WooCommerce
5 2 (1.85%) Netlify
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Zend