Web Developer Jobs

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 582 569
Rank change year-on-year +77 -13 -216
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 367 327 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.41% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.44% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 241 288 567
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London +43 326 £42,500 -5.56% 77
England +23 300 £42,500 -15.00% 74
Work from Home -10 116 £42,500 -17.07% 24
Midlands +50 83 £42,500 -24.11% 16
North of England +60 73 £45,000 - 18
South East -69 57 £40,000 - 18
West Midlands +41 51 £50,000 -12.28% 12
East of England +12 41 £37,500 -14.29% 11
North West +24 39 £50,000 +11.11% 11
East Midlands -1 32 £42,500 +41.67% 4
Yorkshire +73 29 £35,000 -28.93% 5
Wales +53 26 £45,000 +20.00% 2
London +23 25 £47,000 -28.24% 9
South West -10 18 £35,250 -21.67% 5
Scotland -37 16 - - 4
Northern Ireland +31 12 £45,000 -20.35% 6
North East -7 5 £32,500 -23.53% 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 338 (92.10%) Web Development
2 257 (70.03%) JavaScript
3 226 (61.58%) HTML
4 223 (60.76%) CSS
5 141 (38.42%) PHP
6 106 (28.88%) .NET
7 91 (24.80%) Full Stack Development
8 77 (20.98%) SQL
9 76 (20.71%) MySQL
10 75 (20.44%) React
11 72 (19.62%) C#
12 70 (19.07%) SQL Server
13 67 (18.26%) Social Skills
14 66 (17.98%) Marketing
14 66 (17.98%) Git
15 62 (16.89%) HTML5
15 62 (16.89%) MVC
16 61 (16.62%) CMS
16 61 (16.62%) AngularJS
16 61 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
17 59 (16.08%) Vue
18 58 (15.80%) Laravel
19 55 (14.99%) E-Commerce
19 55 (14.99%) WordPress
20 52 (14.17%) CSS3
21 50 (13.62%) jQuery
21 50 (13.62%) User Experience
22 44 (11.99%) Agile
23 42 (11.44%) Azure
23 42 (11.44%) Front End Development

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 61 (16.62%) CMS
2 55 (14.99%) WordPress
3 20 (5.45%) Umbraco
4 12 (3.27%) IIS
5 9 (2.45%) Headless CMS
6 8 (2.18%) Apache
7 6 (1.63%) nginx
7 6 (1.63%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.36%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.54%) Drupal
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.00%) Adobe XD
2 8 (2.18%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.09%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 14 (3.81%) Magento
2 10 (2.72%) Shopify
3 4 (1.09%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.54%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 42 (11.44%) Azure
2 37 (10.08%) GitHub
3 33 (8.99%) AWS
4 20 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.45%) GCP
6 8 (2.18%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.18%) SaaS
7 7 (1.91%) Figma
7 7 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.63%) Datadog
9 5 (1.36%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.09%) npm
11 3 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.82%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.82%) Sage Pay
12 2 (0.54%) Contentful
13 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 1 (0.27%) Firebase
13 1 (0.27%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.18%) Internet
2 3 (0.82%) DNS
2 3 (0.82%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) MQTT
4 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (20.71%) MySQL
2 70 (19.07%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.27%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.18%) Power BI
5 6 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.09%) MS Access
7 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.82%) Power Query
9 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.27%) Big Data
10 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (17.98%) Git
2 13 (3.54%) JIRA
3 9 (2.45%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.63%) PHPUnit
5 5 (1.36%) gulp
6 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.09%) Subversion
7 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.82%) webpack
8 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.54%) JMeter
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) Storybook
8 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.27%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.27%) git-flow
9 1 (0.27%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.27%) PowerBuilder
General
1 67 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.98%) Marketing
3 31 (8.45%) Multimedia
4 16 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.36%) Law
5 15 (4.09%) Retail
6 6 (1.63%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.36%) Finance
7 5 (1.36%) Games
7 5 (1.36%) Legal
8 3 (0.82%) iGaming
9 2 (0.54%) Automotive
9 2 (0.54%) Banking
9 2 (0.54%) Billing
9 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Back Office
10 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Electronics
10 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (61.58%) HTML
2 223 (60.76%) CSS
3 106 (28.88%) .NET
4 75 (20.44%) React
5 62 (16.89%) HTML5
6 61 (16.62%) AngularJS
7 59 (16.08%) Vue
8 58 (15.80%) Laravel
9 52 (14.17%) CSS3
10 50 (13.62%) jQuery
11 41 (11.17%) ASP.NET
12 31 (8.45%) .NET Core
13 30 (8.17%) Node.js
13 30 (8.17%) Sass
14 28 (7.63%) .NET Framework
14 28 (7.63%) REST
15 25 (6.81%) Symfony
16 19 (5.18%) LAMP
17 18 (4.90%) ASP.NET Web API
18 17 (4.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (3.54%) Mobile App
3 12 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.91%) Graphic Design
5 7 (1.91%) Social Media
6 4 (1.09%) Digital Media
6 4 (1.09%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.09%) Life Science
6 4 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.54%) Media Streaming
7 2 (0.54%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.54%) W3C
7 2 (0.54%) Wiki
8 1 (0.27%) Animation
8 1 (0.27%) IoT
8 1 (0.27%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.27%) Robotics
8 1 (0.27%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.72%) Linux
2 19 (5.18%) Windows
3 6 (1.63%) VMS
4 4 (1.09%) Android
4 4 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (92.10%) Web Development
2 91 (24.80%) Full Stack Development
3 62 (16.89%) MVC
4 61 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (14.99%) E-Commerce
6 50 (13.62%) User Experience
7 44 (11.99%) Agile
8 42 (11.44%) Front End Development
9 39 (10.63%) DevOps
10 35 (9.54%) SEO
11 33 (8.99%) OOP
12 29 (7.90%) Software Engineering
13 28 (7.63%) OO
14 24 (6.54%) Computer Science
15 22 (5.99%) Collaborative Working
16 19 (5.18%) Content Management
16 19 (5.18%) Design Patterns
17 18 (4.90%) Scrum
18 17 (4.63%) Mentoring
19 16 (4.36%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 257 (70.03%) JavaScript
2 141 (38.42%) PHP
3 77 (20.98%) SQL
4 72 (19.62%) C#
5 35 (9.54%) Python
6 24 (6.54%) T-SQL
6 24 (6.54%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.54%) VB.NET
8 4 (1.09%) VBA
9 3 (0.82%) Java
10 2 (0.54%) VB
11 1 (0.27%) Delphi
11 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (8.45%) Degree
2 13 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.54%) HND
4 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.17%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.81%) QA
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.36%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.36%) Rancher
2 4 (1.09%) Plesk
2 4 (1.09%) Terraform
3 3 (0.82%) cPanel
Vendors
1 36 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.27%) Google
3 21 (5.72%) Adobe
4 10 (2.72%) WooCommerce
5 3 (0.82%) Hotjar
5 3 (0.82%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.54%) Netlify
7 1 (0.27%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.27%) SAP
7 1 (0.27%) Sitecore