Web Developer Job Trends

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 306 527
Rank change year-on-year -301 +221 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 61 591 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.84% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.88% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 40 173 192
10th Percentile £26,150 £31,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -18.18% +13.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £69,063
90th Percentile - £60,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

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 43,959 67,207 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 95.34% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,826 38,508 41,480
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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
UK excluding London -260 51 £45,000 - 90
England -250 46 £37,500 -16.67% 86
South East -61 19 £42,500 +6.25% 19
Work from Home -30 15 £37,500 -23.19% 22
Wales 0 11 £60,000 +33.33% 3
London +14 7 £54,750 -0.45% 16
Midlands -60 7 £25,500 -40.00% 18
North of England -97 7 £35,000 -33.33% 27
East Midlands -24 4 £25,250 -40.59% 6
South West +7 3 £37,500 -9.09% 8
West Midlands -22 3 £34,000 -20.00% 12
North West -55 3 £52,500 - 13
East of England -57 3 £37,500 -16.67% 8
North East 0 2 £39,250 +57.00% 3
Yorkshire -24 2 £31,250 -16.67% 11
Scotland -25 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, 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 60 (98.36%) Web Development
2 47 (77.05%) JavaScript
3 38 (62.30%) HTML
4 30 (49.18%) CSS
5 27 (44.26%) Git
6 26 (42.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (40.98%) React
8 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
9 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (34.43%) User Experience
10 21 (34.43%) Agile
11 19 (31.15%) Azure
11 19 (31.15%) Marketing
11 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
12 18 (29.51%) AWS
13 17 (27.87%) UX Design
13 17 (27.87%) PHP
14 16 (26.23%) Test Automation
14 16 (26.23%) QA
14 16 (26.23%) Docker
14 16 (26.23%) Node.js
15 15 (24.59%) DevOps
15 15 (24.59%) GCP
15 15 (24.59%) RESTful
15 15 (24.59%) MySQL
15 15 (24.59%) Law
15 15 (24.59%) CMS
16 14 (22.95%) Customer Engagement
16 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
16 14 (22.95%) Containerisation

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 15 (24.59%) CMS
2 8 (13.11%) WordPress
3 3 (4.92%) IIS
3 3 (4.92%) Umbraco
4 2 (3.28%) Drupal
4 2 (3.28%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.64%) Confluence
5 1 (1.64%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (4.92%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (3.28%) Adobe XD
3 2 (3.28%) Elementor
4 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) Azure
2 18 (29.51%) AWS
3 15 (24.59%) GCP
4 5 (8.20%) GitHub
5 4 (6.56%) Cloudflare
5 4 (6.56%) Figma
5 4 (6.56%) npm
6 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.28%) Vercel
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.64%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.64%) Firebase
8 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.64%) Sage Pay
8 1 (1.64%) Serverless
8 1 (1.64%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) MySQL
2 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (44.26%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) webpack
3 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.64%) Mocha
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.15%) Marketing
3 15 (24.59%) Law
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Finance
5 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (62.30%) HTML
2 30 (49.18%) CSS
3 25 (40.98%) React
4 16 (26.23%) Node.js
5 15 (24.59%) RESTful
6 13 (21.31%) .NET
7 12 (19.67%) Vue
8 10 (16.39%) ASP.NET
8 10 (16.39%) Sass
9 7 (11.48%) Symfony
10 6 (9.84%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (9.84%) CSS3
10 6 (9.84%) HTML5
11 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
11 5 (8.20%) REST
12 4 (6.56%) Ajax
12 4 (6.56%) jQuery
12 4 (6.56%) Laravel
13 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
13 3 (4.92%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Legacy Code
2 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.64%) EPoS
3 1 (1.64%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.64%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Android
2 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (98.36%) Web Development
2 26 (42.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (34.43%) Agile
4 21 (34.43%) User Experience
5 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
6 17 (27.87%) UX Design
7 16 (26.23%) Test Automation
8 15 (24.59%) DevOps
9 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
9 14 (22.95%) Customer Engagement
9 14 (22.95%) Design Patterns
10 11 (18.03%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.48%) MVC
11 7 (11.48%) SEO
12 6 (9.84%) Clean Code
12 6 (9.84%) Computer Science
12 6 (9.84%) E-Commerce
12 6 (9.84%) Front End Development
12 6 (9.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (77.05%) JavaScript
2 17 (27.87%) PHP
3 10 (16.39%) C#
4 7 (11.48%) SQL
4 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.28%) Python
6 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.23%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Adobe
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Google
2 2 (3.28%) HubSpot
2 2 (3.28%) Netlify
2 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.28%) WooCommerce
3 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle