Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £54,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 570 622 387
Rank change year-on-year +52 -235 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 167 505 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.41% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.43% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 151 384 687
10th Percentile £33,500 £33,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,349 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +81 154 £55,000 +10.00% 129
UK excluding London +59 115 £48,000 +6.67% 97
Work from Home +90 97 £50,000 - 80
South East +137 56 £46,500 -7.00% 30
London +164 44 £60,000 -7.69% 30
East of England +82 19 £68,750 +71.88% 12
North of England +101 16 £35,000 -20.00% 28
Yorkshire +92 9 £35,000 -12.50% 5
Midlands +98 8 £57,500 +35.29% 9
South West +54 7 £60,000 +60.00% 14
East Midlands +42 6 £53,000 +27.46% 5
North West +73 5 £32,000 -28.89% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 £43,750 - 1
Scotland +3 3 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands +103 2 £57,500 +27.78% 4
North East +39 2 £40,000 -5.88% 5
Wales +12 2 £55,000 +41.96% 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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.

1 159 (95.21%) Web Development
2 141 (84.43%) JavaScript
3 129 (77.25%) CSS
4 119 (71.26%) HTML
5 66 (39.52%) PHP
6 60 (35.93%) SQL
7 55 (32.93%) Full Stack Development
8 54 (32.34%) .NET
8 54 (32.34%) C#
9 52 (31.14%) MVC
10 51 (30.54%) Vue
11 47 (28.14%) Laravel
12 44 (26.35%) MySQL
13 42 (25.15%) React
14 39 (23.35%) E-Commerce
14 39 (23.35%) jQuery
15 32 (19.16%) Web Services
15 32 (19.16%) Front End Development
16 31 (18.56%) WordPress
17 29 (17.37%) Social Skills
18 28 (16.77%) AngularJS
19 26 (15.57%) User Experience
19 26 (15.57%) CMS
20 25 (14.97%) Sass
20 25 (14.97%) Git
20 25 (14.97%) .NET Core
21 23 (13.77%) CRM
21 23 (13.77%) TDD
22 22 (13.17%) Degree
22 22 (13.17%) REST

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 31 (18.56%) WordPress
2 26 (15.57%) CMS
3 9 (5.39%) IIS
4 8 (4.79%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.99%) ColdFusion
6 4 (2.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.80%) Confluence
7 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.20%) Drupal
8 2 (1.20%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) FileZilla
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Magento
2 10 (5.99%) Shopify
3 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.98%) AWS
1 15 (8.98%) Azure
2 5 (2.99%) Figma
2 5 (2.99%) Serverless
3 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.40%) Google Ads
4 3 (1.80%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.80%) Cloudflare
4 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.20%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.20%) PaaS
5 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.60%) GitHub
6 1 (0.60%) Heroku
6 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) Internet
2 3 (1.80%) FTP
2 3 (1.80%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.35%) MySQL
2 17 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (14.97%) Git
2 17 (10.18%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.40%) JIRA
4 3 (1.80%) webpack
5 2 (1.20%) GitLab
5 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.60%) ESLint
6 1 (0.60%) Moq
6 1 (0.60%) NUnit
6 1 (0.60%) RSpec
6 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.60%) WebPageTest
General
1 29 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.99%) Manufacturing
3 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.79%) Marketing
4 7 (4.19%) Finance
5 6 (3.59%) Retail
6 3 (1.80%) Games
6 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Back Office
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (77.25%) CSS
2 119 (71.26%) HTML
3 54 (32.34%) .NET
4 51 (30.54%) Vue
5 47 (28.14%) Laravel
6 42 (25.15%) React
7 39 (23.35%) jQuery
8 32 (19.16%) Web Services
9 28 (16.77%) AngularJS
10 25 (14.97%) .NET Core
10 25 (14.97%) Sass
11 22 (13.17%) REST
12 20 (11.98%) ASP.NET
12 20 (11.98%) HTML5
13 14 (8.38%) CSS3
14 13 (7.78%) JSON
14 13 (7.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 12 (7.19%) .NET Framework
15 12 (7.19%) GraphQL
16 11 (6.59%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.40%) Social Media
4 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.80%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.20%) IoT
5 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.60%) Life Science
6 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.60%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.60%) NHS
6 1 (0.60%) Online Games
6 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.60%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (95.21%) Web Development
2 55 (32.93%) Full Stack Development
3 52 (31.14%) MVC
4 39 (23.35%) E-Commerce
5 32 (19.16%) Front End Development
6 26 (15.57%) User Experience
7 23 (13.77%) CRM
7 23 (13.77%) TDD
8 20 (11.98%) OOP
9 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
10 18 (10.78%) Mentoring
11 15 (8.98%) SEO
12 12 (7.19%) Agile
13 10 (5.99%) OO
13 10 (5.99%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (5.99%) Software Engineering
14 9 (5.39%) API Integration
15 8 (4.79%) Responsive Web Design
15 8 (4.79%) UX Design
16 6 (3.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 141 (84.43%) JavaScript
2 66 (39.52%) PHP
3 60 (35.93%) SQL
4 54 (32.34%) C#
5 14 (8.38%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.79%) Ruby
7 6 (3.59%) Python
8 4 (2.40%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (13.17%) Degree
2 10 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.80%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.60%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.59%) Google
3 4 (2.40%) Adobe
3 4 (2.40%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.80%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.60%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.60%) New Relic