Web Development Job Trends

Web Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Web Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 278 159
Rank change year-on-year -46 -119 +70
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 524 482 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.09% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.18% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 457 389 1,228
10th Percentile £29,900 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Web Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Web Development
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Development

Web Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Development in the UK

Web Development
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 0 475 £50,000 -9.09% 148
UK excluding London -6 415 £50,000 -7.41% 145
South East +48 132 £50,000 -4.76% 36
Work from Home -53 120 £50,000 -16.67% 38
North of England +2 113 £40,000 -20.00% 39
London -62 78 £50,000 -23.08% 42
East of England +13 74 £62,500 +38.89% 16
North West +24 58 £42,500 -10.53% 20
Yorkshire -17 46 £42,410 -39.41% 14
South West -67 39 £50,000 -28.57% 18
Midlands -30 35 £37,500 -16.67% 19
East Midlands -23 22 £35,000 - 9
West Midlands -42 13 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Scotland -7 10 £36,250 -60.73% 8
North East -36 9 £30,000 -42.86% 5
Wales -58 8 £72,500 +11.54% 9
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland -35 1 £31,000 - 2

Web Development
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 74 (14.12%) WordPress
2 35 (6.68%) CMS
3 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.72%) ColdFusion
5 8 (1.53%) Umbraco
6 6 (1.15%) Confluence
6 6 (1.15%) Drupal
6 6 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.76%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.57%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.38%) nginx
10 1 (0.19%) Apache
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) Joomla!
Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.57%) Blender
2 3 (0.57%) Maya
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.91%) Shopify
2 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.19%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 119 (22.71%) AWS
2 106 (20.23%) Azure
3 63 (12.02%) GitHub
4 20 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.48%) GCP
6 10 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.53%) SaaS
9 7 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (1.34%) Google Sheets
10 6 (1.15%) Figma
11 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.95%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.76%) Google Ads
12 4 (0.76%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.57%) Serverless
14 2 (0.38%) PaaS
14 2 (0.38%) Sentry
14 2 (0.38%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 84 (16.03%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) Intranet
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.59%) MySQL
2 42 (8.02%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.44%) NoSQL
4 16 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.34%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.34%) Tableau
6 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.57%) GIS
7 3 (0.57%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.57%) Power BI
8 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.38%) Metadata
8 2 (0.38%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.38%) Redis
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 91 (17.37%) Git
2 12 (2.29%) JIRA
3 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.38%) GitLab
3 2 (0.38%) gulp
3 2 (0.38%) Mocha
3 2 (0.38%) Selenium
3 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.38%) webpack
4 1 (0.19%) Bower
4 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.19%) MSTest
4 1 (0.19%) NUnit
4 1 (0.19%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.19%) Storybook
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 64 (12.21%) Marketing
3 48 (9.16%) Multimedia
4 36 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.39%) Finance
6 18 (3.44%) Retail
7 12 (2.29%) Law
8 9 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.15%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.76%) Games
10 4 (0.76%) Legal
10 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.57%) Humanities
11 3 (0.57%) Local Government
11 3 (0.57%) Social Science
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Banking
12 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 346 (66.03%) Developer
2 246 (46.95%) Web Developer
3 82 (15.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 74 (14.12%) Senior
5 55 (10.50%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 55 (10.50%) Senior Developer
6 53 (10.11%) Trainee
7 44 (8.40%) Administrator
8 43 (8.21%) Trainee Administrator
8 43 (8.21%) Web Administrator
9 40 (7.63%) Lead
10 39 (7.44%) Senior Web Developer
10 39 (7.44%) Software Engineer
11 28 (5.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 22 (4.20%) C# Developer
13 20 (3.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.63%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (3.44%) C# Web Developer
16 17 (3.24%) Software Developer
17 15 (2.86%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (30.34%) CSS
1 159 (30.34%) HTML
2 104 (19.85%) React
3 86 (16.41%) .NET
4 45 (8.59%) Node.js
5 34 (6.49%) AngularJS
6 31 (5.92%) REST
6 31 (5.92%) Vue
7 30 (5.73%) jQuery
8 28 (5.34%) ASP.NET
9 21 (4.01%) RESTful
10 20 (3.82%) ASP.NET Core
10 20 (3.82%) Web Services
11 18 (3.44%) HTML5
11 18 (3.44%) Laravel
12 17 (3.24%) Django
13 14 (2.67%) CSS3
13 14 (2.67%) Tailwind CSS
14 13 (2.48%) JSON
15 12 (2.29%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.77%) Mobile App
3 18 (3.44%) e-Learning
4 16 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.10%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.10%) Social Media
8 10 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.15%) Blog
12 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.57%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.57%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.57%) EPoS
13 3 (0.57%) Photography
13 3 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
14 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.82%) Linux
2 7 (1.34%) Windows
3 3 (0.57%) Android
3 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Debian
4 1 (0.19%) Gentoo
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (26.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 99 (18.89%) Agile
3 89 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (12.21%) Software Engineering
5 57 (10.88%) Computer Science
6 56 (10.69%) DevOps
7 53 (10.11%) Front End Development
7 53 (10.11%) User Experience
8 49 (9.35%) CI/CD
9 46 (8.78%) Mentoring
10 44 (8.40%) SEO
11 42 (8.02%) AI
12 37 (7.06%) Clean Code
12 37 (7.06%) E-Commerce
13 35 (6.68%) UX Design
14 29 (5.53%) Digital Marketing
15 27 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (4.77%) Scrum
17 24 (4.58%) Code Quality
17 24 (4.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 216 (41.22%) JavaScript
2 110 (20.99%) Python
3 87 (16.60%) PHP
4 85 (16.22%) SQL
5 61 (11.64%) C#
5 61 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.40%) R
7 30 (5.73%) Java
8 8 (1.53%) C++
9 3 (0.57%) CFML
9 3 (0.57%) Perl
10 2 (0.38%) Bash
10 2 (0.38%) C
10 2 (0.38%) Go
10 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) Delphi
11 1 (0.19%) F#
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (13.93%) Degree
2 48 (9.16%) AWS Certification
2 48 (9.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 48 (9.16%) Azure Certification
2 48 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 44 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.48%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.53%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.76%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.92%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.68%) QA
3 8 (1.53%) WCAG
4 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (2.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (2.67%) Terraform
2 7 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Plesk
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) Podman
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.67%) Google
3 8 (1.53%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.15%) Sitecore
5 5 (0.95%) Pinterest
5 5 (0.95%) TikTok
6 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.76%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.57%) Adobe
7 3 (0.57%) ESRI
7 3 (0.57%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.38%) Sage
8 2 (0.38%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.19%) Apple
9 1 (0.19%) Netlify
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle
9 1 (0.19%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.19%) Splunk