Web Development Job Trends in the West Midlands

Web Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Web Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 109 148
Rank change year-on-year +89 +39 +44
Permanent jobs citing Web Development 353 109 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 8.25% 2.14% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.01% 2.45% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 15 36 27
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,438 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -22.73% +1.38%
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,487 £61,250 £78,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,526 4,441 3,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 87.20% 92.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,114 2,012 2,425
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Web Development job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Web Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Web Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Web Development

Web Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Development in the West Midlands

Web Development
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Staffordshire +39 93 - - 8
Warwickshire +57 86 £35,000 -15.15% 2
Worcestershire +27 57 - -
Birmingham +15 24 £48,520 -11.78% 8
Shropshire +8 17 £50,000 +17.65% 13
Wolverhampton +3 5 - - 7
Sutton Coldfield - 5 - - 3
Solihull - 4 £90,000 -
Walsall +10 3 - - 7
Coventry 0 3 - - 8
Dudley - 3 - - 5
Halesowen - 3 - -
Kingswinford - 3 - -
Rowley Regis - 3 - - 1
Smethwick - 3 - -
Stourbridge - 3 - -
Brierley Hill - 3 - -
Wednesbury - 3 - -
West Bromwich - 3 - - 1
Tipton - 3 - - 1
Bilston - 3 - -
Willenhall - 2 - -
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (1.70%) CMS
2 5 (1.42%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 338 (95.75%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (1.13%) Azure
2 4 (1.13%) Figma
2 4 (1.13%) Power Automate
2 4 (1.13%) Power Platform
3 2 (0.57%) AWS
3 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (0.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.28%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 338 (95.75%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.57%) Power BI
3 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Moq
1 2 (0.57%) MSTest
1 2 (0.57%) NSubstitute
1 2 (0.57%) NUnit
2 1 (0.28%) Git
2 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 344 (97.45%) Social Skills
2 340 (96.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 338 (95.75%) Banking
4 3 (0.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 229 (64.87%) Lecturer
2 11 (3.12%) Developer
3 4 (1.13%) Web Developer
4 3 (0.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (0.85%) Lead
4 3 (0.85%) Lead Developer
5 2 (0.57%) Architect
5 2 (0.57%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (0.57%) Senior
5 2 (0.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (0.57%) Website Developer
6 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Graduate
6 1 (0.28%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (0.28%) Graduate Web Developer
6 1 (0.28%) iOS Developer
6 1 (0.28%) Lead iOS Developer
6 1 (0.28%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (0.28%) Systems Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.27%) CSS
1 8 (2.27%) HTML
2 4 (1.13%) .NET
2 4 (1.13%) .NET Framework
3 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.85%) ASP.NET
3 3 (0.85%) SVG
4 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (0.57%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.57%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (0.57%) YAML
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.28%) Core Animation
5 1 (0.28%) Core Data
5 1 (0.28%) Django
5 1 (0.28%) Node.js
5 1 (0.28%) React
5 1 (0.28%) RESTful
5 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 338 (95.75%) IoT
2 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (0.85%) W3C
3 2 (0.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.28%) Animation
4 1 (0.28%) CMDB
4 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.28%) Android
1 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (96.60%) User Experience
2 340 (96.32%) AI
3 338 (95.75%) Cybersecurity
3 338 (95.75%) Machine Learning
4 5 (1.42%) Content Management
5 4 (1.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (1.13%) Front End Development
5 4 (1.13%) Mentoring
5 4 (1.13%) MVC
5 4 (1.13%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (0.85%) Agile
6 3 (0.85%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 3 (0.85%) Mobile First
6 3 (0.85%) Software Architecture
6 3 (0.85%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (0.85%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (0.57%) CI/CD
7 2 (0.57%) Intelligent Automation
7 2 (0.57%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (0.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (1.70%) C#
3 4 (1.13%) SQL
4 2 (0.57%) PHP
4 2 (0.57%) Python
4 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 340 (96.32%) Degree
2 338 (95.75%) Master's Degree
2 338 (95.75%) PhD
2 338 (95.75%) Postgraduate
3 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.85%) GDPR
3 2 (0.57%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (1.13%) Microsoft