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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 608 306
Rank change year-on-year +1 -302 +221
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 210 61 591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.14% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 189 40 173
10th Percentile £34,555 £26,150 £31,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,000 - £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%

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 110,105 43,964 67,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 89.90% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74,779 25,831 38,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -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 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 16 October 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
UK excluding London +13 195 £47,500 +5.56% 14
England +11 193 £47,500 +26.67% 11
South East +18 93 £50,000 +17.65% 4
Work from Home -6 51 £42,500 +13.33% 5
North of England -37 36 £40,000 +14.29% 3
Midlands -26 27 £40,000 +56.86% 1
Yorkshire -20 17 £40,000 +28.00% 3
South West -54 17 £33,750 -10.00%
North West -18 15 £40,000 -23.81%
East Midlands -26 15 £50,000 +98.02% 1
East of England -37 13 £45,000 +20.00% 3
West Midlands -35 12 £40,000 +17.65%
Wales -79 8 £55,000 -8.33% 2
London -76 7 £46,250 -15.53%
North East -69 4 £40,000 +1.91%
Scotland +4 1 £42,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 203 (96.67%) Web Development
2 82 (39.05%) JavaScript
3 75 (35.71%) HTML
4 74 (35.24%) .NET
5 72 (34.29%) CSS
6 62 (29.52%) SQL Server
7 52 (24.76%) PHP
7 52 (24.76%) SQL
8 43 (20.48%) jQuery
9 42 (20.00%) C#
10 38 (18.10%) ASP.NET
11 35 (16.67%) Agile
11 35 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 35 (16.67%) Degree
12 33 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 32 (15.24%) Internet
13 32 (15.24%) MVC
14 31 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (13.81%) Accessibility
15 29 (13.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 29 (13.81%) SEO
16 25 (11.90%) AngularJS
17 24 (11.43%) RESTful
18 23 (10.95%) Azure
18 23 (10.95%) React
18 23 (10.95%) REST
19 22 (10.48%) E-Commerce
19 22 (10.48%) JSON
20 21 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
20 21 (10.00%) CI/CD

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 11 (5.24%) IIS
2 8 (3.81%) WordPress
3 7 (3.33%) CMS
3 7 (3.33%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.90%) Apache
5 3 (1.43%) Confluence
5 3 (1.43%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.95%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 11 (5.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.95%) Azure
2 19 (9.05%) AWS
3 7 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.43%) Figma
4 3 (1.43%) GitHub
4 3 (1.43%) npm
4 3 (1.43%) SaaS
5 2 (0.95%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.48%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.48%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.48%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.48%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.24%) Internet
2 5 (2.38%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (29.52%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.62%) MySQL
3 15 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.95%) Metadata
5 2 (0.95%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.95%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (9.05%) Git
2 6 (2.86%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.38%) JIRA
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.95%) Bower
4 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.48%) Storybook
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (3.81%) Retail
3 5 (2.38%) Marketing
4 4 (1.90%) Finance
5 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
5 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.95%) Legal
5 2 (0.95%) Publishing
5 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.48%) Japanese Language
6 1 (0.48%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (35.71%) HTML
2 74 (35.24%) .NET
3 72 (34.29%) CSS
4 43 (20.48%) jQuery
5 38 (18.10%) ASP.NET
6 25 (11.90%) AngularJS
7 24 (11.43%) RESTful
8 23 (10.95%) React
8 23 (10.95%) REST
9 22 (10.48%) JSON
10 21 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
11 20 (9.52%) SOAP
12 19 (9.05%) Vue
12 19 (9.05%) XML
13 16 (7.62%) Terraform
14 15 (7.14%) .NET Framework
14 15 (7.14%) Entity Framework
15 11 (5.24%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (4.76%) Google Maps API
16 10 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.95%) NHS
4 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.48%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.33%) Windows
2 6 (2.86%) Linux
3 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (96.67%) Web Development
2 35 (16.67%) Agile
2 35 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 33 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (15.24%) MVC
5 31 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.81%) SEO
7 22 (10.48%) E-Commerce
8 21 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 17 (8.10%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (7.62%) Microservices
10 16 (7.62%) SDLC
11 15 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (7.14%) OOP
11 15 (7.14%) User Experience
12 10 (4.76%) Data Management
12 10 (4.76%) Front End Development
12 10 (4.76%) OO
12 10 (4.76%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.05%) JavaScript
2 52 (24.76%) PHP
2 52 (24.76%) SQL
3 42 (20.00%) C#
4 13 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.38%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.95%) Python
6 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.48%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (16.67%) Degree
2 29 (13.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.81%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.90%) WCAG
3 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.71%) Google
3 5 (2.38%) Oracle
3 5 (2.38%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe
4 1 (0.48%) SolarWinds