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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 604 359
Rank change year-on-year +48 -245 +155
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 255 65 542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.13% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.15% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 235 45 189
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,100 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -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 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +67 241 £47,500 +5.56% 106
UK excluding London +73 237 £47,500 -9.52% 94
South East +48 112 £50,000 +17.65% 18
Work from Home -2 58 £42,500 -5.56% 19
North of England -19 44 £40,000 -23.81% 22
Midlands -24 31 £40,000 +30.08% 12
North West -3 22 £45,000 -18.18% 5
South West -61 22 £35,000 -6.67% 8
East of England -12 21 £50,000 +25.00% 17
East Midlands -12 19 £50,000 +81.82% 8
Yorkshire - 18 £40,000 - 15
West Midlands -30 12 £40,000 +17.65% 4
London -47 10 £50,000 -12.28% 37
Wales -77 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
North East -59 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
Scotland +4 1 £42,500 - 13

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 244 (95.69%) Web Development
2 92 (36.08%) .NET
3 88 (34.51%) JavaScript
4 76 (29.80%) HTML
5 73 (28.63%) CSS
6 67 (26.27%) SQL Server
7 59 (23.14%) SQL
8 58 (22.75%) PHP
9 56 (21.96%) C#
10 53 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 47 (18.43%) jQuery
12 46 (18.04%) ASP.NET
13 43 (16.86%) Internet
14 40 (15.69%) Degree
15 38 (14.90%) Computer Science
16 36 (14.12%) Accessibility
17 35 (13.73%) Agile
17 35 (13.73%) MVC
18 32 (12.55%) Computer Science Degree
18 32 (12.55%) SEO
19 31 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
20 26 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
20 26 (10.20%) E-Commerce
21 25 (9.80%) AngularJS
21 25 (9.80%) Azure
21 25 (9.80%) React
22 24 (9.41%) REST
22 24 (9.41%) RESTful
22 24 (9.41%) Vue
23 23 (9.02%) 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 12 (4.71%) CMS
2 11 (4.31%) IIS
3 8 (3.14%) Umbraco
3 8 (3.14%) WordPress
4 5 (1.96%) ColdFusion
5 4 (1.57%) Apache
5 4 (1.57%) Confluence
6 3 (1.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.80%) Azure
2 19 (7.45%) AWS
3 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (1.18%) Figma
4 3 (1.18%) GitHub
4 3 (1.18%) npm
4 3 (1.18%) 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 (16.86%) Internet
2 5 (1.96%) Intranet
3 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (26.27%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.63%) MySQL
3 15 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.49%) 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 (7.84%) Git
2 6 (2.35%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.35%) JIRA
3 5 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.96%) 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 56 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.53%) Retail
3 7 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (1.96%) Finance
5 4 (1.57%) 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 (36.08%) .NET
2 76 (29.80%) HTML
3 73 (28.63%) CSS
4 47 (18.43%) jQuery
5 46 (18.04%) ASP.NET
6 26 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
7 25 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 25 (9.80%) React
8 24 (9.41%) REST
8 24 (9.41%) RESTful
8 24 (9.41%) Vue
9 23 (9.02%) JSON
10 20 (7.84%) SOAP
11 19 (7.45%) XML
12 16 (6.27%) Terraform
13 15 (5.88%) .NET Framework
14 14 (5.49%) Entity Framework
15 11 (4.31%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (3.92%) Classic ASP
16 10 (3.92%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.35%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.39%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
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 (2.75%) Linux
2 6 (2.35%) Windows
3 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (95.69%) Web Development
2 53 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (14.90%) Computer Science
4 35 (13.73%) Agile
4 35 (13.73%) MVC
5 32 (12.55%) SEO
6 31 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (10.20%) E-Commerce
8 21 (8.24%) CI/CD
9 17 (6.67%) Microservices
9 17 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (6.27%) SDLC
11 15 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (5.88%) User Experience
12 14 (5.49%) Front End Development
13 13 (5.10%) OOP
14 12 (4.71%) Clean Code
15 11 (4.31%) Responsive Web Design
16 10 (3.92%) OO
Programming Languages
1 88 (34.51%) JavaScript
2 59 (23.14%) SQL
3 58 (22.75%) PHP
4 56 (21.96%) C#
5 14 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.96%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.78%) Python
8 1 (0.39%) F#
8 1 (0.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (15.69%) Degree
2 32 (12.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.12%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.57%) WCAG
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.71%) Google
3 5 (1.96%) Oracle
4 4 (1.57%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe
6 1 (0.39%) Netlify