Web Developer Job Trends

Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 343 519
Rank change year-on-year -265 +176 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 65 577 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.74% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.78% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 45 188 228
10th Percentile £31,100 £30,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +13.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £68,750
90th Percentile - £60,000 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +5.88%

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 44,155 74,074 57,839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 25,862 44,536 44,785
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 15 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 September 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 -250 52 £52,500 +16.67% 115
England -246 49 £45,000 - 115
Work from Home -13 20 £45,000 - 18
South East -34 19 £42,500 +6.25% 28
Wales -1 11 £60,000 +33.33% 5
London +24 9 £57,000 +3.64% 25
North of England -63 7 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Midlands -43 6 £30,750 -27.65% 34
North West -58 5 £55,000 +4.76% 11
East of England -64 5 £40,000 -20.00% 12
South West +30 3 £37,500 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -9 3 £34,000 -20.00% 17
East Midlands -26 3 £27,500 -35.29% 17
North East +7 2 £39,250 +30.83% 4
Scotland +33 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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 63 (96.92%) Web Development
2 51 (78.46%) JavaScript
3 41 (63.08%) HTML
4 33 (50.77%) CSS
5 28 (43.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (41.54%) Git
7 23 (35.38%) User Experience
7 23 (35.38%) React
7 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
8 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (33.85%) Agile
9 20 (30.77%) PHP
10 19 (29.23%) Marketing
11 18 (27.69%) AWS
12 17 (26.15%) UX Design
12 17 (26.15%) Azure
12 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
12 17 (26.15%) GCP
13 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
13 16 (24.62%) Docker
13 16 (24.62%) DevOps
13 16 (24.62%) Node.js
13 16 (24.62%) RESTful
14 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
14 15 (23.08%) QA
14 15 (23.08%) MySQL
14 15 (23.08%) Law
15 14 (21.54%) CMS
15 14 (21.54%) Customer Engagement
15 14 (21.54%) Design Patterns

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 14 (21.54%) CMS
2 9 (13.85%) WordPress
3 2 (3.08%) Drupal
3 2 (3.08%) IIS
3 2 (3.08%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.54%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.54%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (7.69%) Photoshop
3 3 (4.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (4.62%) Adobe XD
4 2 (3.08%) Elementor
5 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.54%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Shopify
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.08%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) AWS
2 17 (26.15%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) GCP
3 6 (9.23%) GitHub
4 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.15%) Cloudflare
5 4 (6.15%) npm
6 3 (4.62%) Figma
7 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.08%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.08%) SaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Vercel
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.54%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.54%) Firebase
8 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.54%) Sage Pay
8 1 (1.54%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) MySQL
2 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (41.54%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) webpack
3 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Mocha
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.23%) Marketing
3 15 (23.08%) Law
4 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (63.08%) HTML
2 33 (50.77%) CSS
3 23 (35.38%) React
4 16 (24.62%) Node.js
4 16 (24.62%) RESTful
5 12 (18.46%) Vue
6 10 (15.38%) Sass
7 9 (13.85%) .NET
8 8 (12.31%) ASP.NET
9 7 (10.77%) Symfony
10 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
10 6 (9.23%) CSS3
10 6 (9.23%) HTML5
11 5 (7.69%) jQuery
11 5 (7.69%) REST
12 4 (6.15%) Ajax
12 4 (6.15%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (6.15%) GraphQL
12 4 (6.15%) Laravel
13 3 (4.62%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Legacy Code
2 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Digital Media
3 2 (3.08%) Graphic Design
3 2 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) EPoS
4 1 (1.54%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Android
2 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (96.92%) Web Development
2 28 (43.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (35.38%) User Experience
4 22 (33.85%) Agile
4 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
5 17 (26.15%) UX Design
6 16 (24.62%) DevOps
7 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
8 14 (21.54%) Customer Engagement
8 14 (21.54%) Design Patterns
9 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 8 (12.31%) SEO
10 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.23%) Computer Science
11 6 (9.23%) E-Commerce
11 6 (9.23%) Front End Development
12 5 (7.69%) Clean Code
12 5 (7.69%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 51 (78.46%) JavaScript
2 20 (30.77%) PHP
3 9 (13.85%) SQL
4 8 (12.31%) C#
5 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.08%) Java
6 2 (3.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Adobe
1 5 (7.69%) Google
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.08%) Netlify
3 2 (3.08%) WooCommerce
4 1 (1.54%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle