Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 577 483
Rank change year-on-year +69 -94 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 273 104 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.24% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 248 85 312
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £41,235
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.13% -8.37%

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 92,998 44,238 95,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,730 26,125 68,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +84 250 £50,000 -4.76% 50
UK excluding London +82 246 £50,000 +11.11% 50
South East +63 106 £50,000 +11.11% 16
Work from Home +24 69 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North of England +8 47 £40,000 -27.27% 11
East of England -5 34 £65,000 +67.74% 8
Midlands -12 26 £45,000 +12.50% 7
North West 0 24 £40,000 -27.27% 5
Yorkshire -16 19 £40,000 +23.08% 5
South West -53 19 £48,000 +28.00% 8
East Midlands -16 17 £50,000 +11.11% 3
London -29 17 £50,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands -15 9 £40,000 +8.11% 4
Scotland +13 7 £40,000 -
Wales -53 6 £55,000 -8.33%
North East -48 4 £40,000 +40.35% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £31,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 256 (93.77%) Web Development
2 85 (31.14%) .NET
3 80 (29.30%) JavaScript
4 71 (26.01%) Full-Stack Development
5 69 (25.27%) HTML
6 66 (24.18%) CSS
7 58 (21.25%) PHP
8 57 (20.88%) C#
9 55 (20.15%) SQL
10 47 (17.22%) SQL Server
11 44 (16.12%) Internet
12 41 (15.02%) Degree
13 40 (14.65%) ASP.NET
14 35 (12.82%) Computer Science
15 33 (12.09%) Agile
16 32 (11.72%) Accessibility
16 32 (11.72%) jQuery
17 31 (11.36%) Azure
17 31 (11.36%) React
18 28 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
18 28 (10.26%) MVC
18 28 (10.26%) SEO
19 23 (8.42%) Front End Development
20 21 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
20 21 (7.69%) Git
20 21 (7.69%) MySQL
20 21 (7.69%) Vue
21 20 (7.33%) AWS
22 19 (6.96%) Clean Code
22 19 (6.96%) Problem-Solving

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 17 (6.23%) CMS
2 15 (5.49%) WordPress
3 8 (2.93%) Umbraco
4 7 (2.56%) ColdFusion
5 4 (1.47%) Apache
5 4 (1.47%) Confluence
5 4 (1.47%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.10%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.36%) Azure
2 20 (7.33%) AWS
3 13 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.93%) GitHub
5 5 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.10%) Figma
6 3 (1.10%) SaaS
7 2 (0.73%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (0.73%) npm
7 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.37%) Serverless
8 1 (0.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.12%) Internet
2 5 (1.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.22%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.69%) MySQL
3 11 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.73%) Metadata
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.73%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Power BI
6 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (2.20%) JIRA
3 2 (0.73%) Bower
3 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (3.66%) Retail
3 8 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (2.93%) Marketing
4 5 (1.83%) Multimedia
5 2 (0.73%) Finance
5 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.37%) Japanese Language
6 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (31.14%) .NET
2 69 (25.27%) HTML
3 66 (24.18%) CSS
4 40 (14.65%) ASP.NET
5 32 (11.72%) jQuery
6 31 (11.36%) React
7 21 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 21 (7.69%) Vue
8 18 (6.59%) AngularJS
8 18 (6.59%) JSON
9 16 (5.86%) REST
10 14 (5.13%) RESTful
10 14 (5.13%) XML
11 12 (4.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.03%) .NET Framework
12 11 (4.03%) SOAP
13 10 (3.66%) Entity Framework
13 10 (3.66%) Node.js
14 9 (3.30%) Classic ASP
14 9 (3.30%) Google Maps API
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.66%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.73%) Educational Technology
5 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.37%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.37%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.66%) Linux
2 2 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (93.77%) Web Development
2 71 (26.01%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (12.82%) Computer Science
4 33 (12.09%) Agile
5 28 (10.26%) MVC
5 28 (10.26%) SEO
6 23 (8.42%) Front End Development
7 19 (6.96%) Clean Code
7 19 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (5.86%) E-Commerce
9 15 (5.49%) CI/CD
10 13 (4.76%) DevOps
11 12 (4.40%) Microservices
11 12 (4.40%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (4.03%) AI
12 11 (4.03%) API Integration
12 11 (4.03%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (4.03%) SDLC
13 9 (3.30%) Data Management
13 9 (3.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (29.30%) JavaScript
2 58 (21.25%) PHP
3 57 (20.88%) C#
4 55 (20.15%) SQL
5 8 (2.93%) Python
5 8 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.73%) F#
7 1 (0.37%) CFML
7 1 (0.37%) R
7 1 (0.37%) Ruby
7 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (15.02%) Degree
2 28 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.83%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (1.83%) Azure Certification
3 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.37%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.72%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.66%) Google
3 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.47%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe
4 1 (0.37%) Apple
4 1 (0.37%) Netlify
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle