Web Engineer Jobs

Web Engineer
UK

The median Web Engineer salary in the UK is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 878 932
Rank change year-on-year +179 +54 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Engineer 7 20 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.020% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.021% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 33
10th Percentile £52,750 £37,625 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,375 £48,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.04% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64,125 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £64,650 £85,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,750 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -19.23% +27.84%

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 49,511 93,886 92,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,626 67,255 58,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Web Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Web Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Web Engineer.

Salary trend for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Engineer in the UK

Web Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +182 6 £57,750 +10.00% 6
England +145 6 £63,250 +19.34% 7
South West - 3 - - 1
Work from Home +145 2 £61,500 -15.17% 7
South East +101 1 £61,500 +44.71% 2
London +101 1 £65,000 +22.64% 4
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £54,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Web Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) Web Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) Content Writing
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) WCAG
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing

Web Engineer 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 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Content Writing
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
1 3 (42.86%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) F5
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Okta
1 1 (14.29%) Symantec