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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 576 511
Rank change year-on-year +82 -65 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 284 102 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.23% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 261 77 222
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -5.56%

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 97,263 44,589 81,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.05% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 66,554 26,541 55,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 1 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 1 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 +93 261 £50,000 -4.76% 82
UK excluding London +82 258 £47,500 -7.32% 86
South East +54 117 £50,000 +11.11% 21
Work from Home +15 66 £42,500 -22.73% 6
North of England -7 47 £40,000 -25.58% 20
East of England +1 32 £65,000 +62.50% 14
Midlands -10 27 £40,000 - 14
North West +12 25 £50,000 -9.09% 7
South West -58 21 £40,000 +6.67% 11
Yorkshire -13 18 £40,000 +23.08% 11
East Midlands -15 16 £50,000 +11.11% 11
London -38 16 £50,000 -20.00% 13
West Midlands -21 11 £40,000 +8.11% 3
Scotland +18 7 £40,000 - 5
Wales -66 6 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North East -50 4 £40,000 +1.91% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 270 (95.07%) Web Development
2 93 (32.75%) .NET
3 89 (31.34%) JavaScript
4 76 (26.76%) HTML
5 73 (25.70%) CSS
6 69 (24.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (21.48%) PHP
8 59 (20.77%) C#
9 58 (20.42%) SQL Server
10 57 (20.07%) SQL
11 47 (16.55%) Internet
12 46 (16.20%) ASP.NET
13 43 (15.14%) Degree
14 39 (13.73%) jQuery
15 38 (13.38%) Computer Science
16 37 (13.03%) Accessibility
17 35 (12.32%) Agile
18 34 (11.97%) MVC
19 31 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
19 31 (10.92%) React
19 31 (10.92%) SEO
20 30 (10.56%) Azure
21 26 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
22 25 (8.80%) ASP.NET Core
23 24 (8.45%) AngularJS
23 24 (8.45%) AWS
23 24 (8.45%) MySQL
23 24 (8.45%) Vue
24 22 (7.75%) Microsoft
24 22 (7.75%) REST

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 (4.93%) CMS
1 14 (4.93%) WordPress
2 8 (2.82%) Umbraco
3 7 (2.46%) ColdFusion
4 6 (2.11%) IIS
5 4 (1.41%) Apache
5 4 (1.41%) Confluence
6 3 (1.06%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.35%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.56%) Azure
2 24 (8.45%) AWS
3 10 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 5 (1.76%) GitHub
5 3 (1.06%) Figma
5 3 (1.06%) npm
6 2 (0.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.70%) SaaS
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.35%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.35%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.35%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.35%) Serverless
7 1 (0.35%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 47 (16.55%) Internet
2 5 (1.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (20.42%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.45%) MySQL
3 13 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.70%) Metadata
5 2 (0.70%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.70%) Power BI
6 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (7.04%) Git
2 6 (2.11%) JIRA
3 5 (1.76%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.70%) Bower
5 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.35%) Storybook
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (17.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (3.52%) Retail
3 9 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.82%) Marketing
5 5 (1.76%) Multimedia
6 4 (1.41%) Finance
7 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.70%) Publishing
8 1 (0.35%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (32.75%) .NET
2 76 (26.76%) HTML
3 73 (25.70%) CSS
4 46 (16.20%) ASP.NET
5 39 (13.73%) jQuery
6 31 (10.92%) React
7 25 (8.80%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (8.45%) AngularJS
8 24 (8.45%) Vue
9 22 (7.75%) REST
10 19 (6.69%) JSON
11 18 (6.34%) RESTful
12 17 (5.99%) SOAP
13 15 (5.28%) XML
14 11 (3.87%) .NET Framework
14 11 (3.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (3.52%) Classic ASP
15 10 (3.52%) Entity Framework
15 10 (3.52%) Google Maps API
16 9 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.11%) Mobile App
2 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.70%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.35%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.35%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (95.07%) Web Development
2 69 (24.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (13.38%) Computer Science
4 35 (12.32%) Agile
5 34 (11.97%) MVC
6 31 (10.92%) SEO
7 26 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (6.69%) CI/CD
8 19 (6.69%) Front End Development
9 18 (6.34%) Clean Code
9 18 (6.34%) E-Commerce
10 16 (5.63%) Microservices
10 16 (5.63%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (5.28%) SDLC
12 13 (4.58%) Collaborative Culture
12 13 (4.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (4.58%) OOP
13 12 (4.23%) AI
14 11 (3.87%) DevOps
14 11 (3.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 89 (31.34%) JavaScript
2 61 (21.48%) PHP
3 59 (20.77%) C#
4 57 (20.07%) SQL
5 12 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.82%) Python
7 4 (1.41%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.70%) F#
9 1 (0.35%) CFML
9 1 (0.35%) Java
9 1 (0.35%) R
9 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (15.14%) Degree
2 31 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.76%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
3 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.03%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.41%) WCAG
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.23%) Google
3 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.41%) Oracle
3 4 (1.41%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.70%) Adobe
5 1 (0.35%) Apple
5 1 (0.35%) Netlify