Senior Web Developer Jobs

Senior Web Developer
UK

The median Senior Web Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 835 879 1074
Rank change year-on-year +44 +195 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 72 68 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.072% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.079% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 50 59
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,186
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,813 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% +16.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,125 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.30% +14.50% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Web Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Web Developer in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Web Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 -8 61 £52,500 -8.30% 8
England +32 59 £55,000 -18.52% 4
Work from Home +42 34 £53,750 -17.62% 5
Midlands +5 24 £55,000 +5.77%
North of England +50 20 £55,000 - 1
North West +8 15 £60,000 -
West Midlands -3 13 £57,500 +0.88%
East Midlands -11 11 £42,500 -9.57%
Wales - 10 £48,750 - 3
London +94 9 £77,500 +8.77% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £53,750 - 1
South East -13 3 £50,000 -21.57%
East of England -9 2 £60,000 -11.11%
South West -30 1 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Web Developer in the job title.

1 70 (97.22%) Web Development
2 49 (68.06%) JavaScript
3 35 (48.61%) HTML
4 30 (41.67%) CSS
5 23 (31.94%) PHP
5 23 (31.94%) AngularJS
6 16 (22.22%) .NET
7 15 (20.83%) MVC
8 14 (19.44%) MySQL
8 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET
8 14 (19.44%) Node.js
8 14 (19.44%) DevOps
9 13 (18.06%) React
9 13 (18.06%) E-Commerce
10 12 (16.67%) C#
10 12 (16.67%) jQuery
11 11 (15.28%) Agile
11 11 (15.28%) Full Stack Development
12 10 (13.89%) Vue
12 10 (13.89%) Marketing
12 10 (13.89%) Azure
12 10 (13.89%) AWS
13 9 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (12.50%) CMS
13 9 (12.50%) GraphQL
14 8 (11.11%) React Native
14 8 (11.11%) Software Delivery
14 8 (11.11%) Front End Development
14 8 (11.11%) .NET Core
14 8 (11.11%) Scrum

Senior 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 9 (12.50%) CMS
2 8 (11.11%) WordPress
3 3 (4.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.39%) Apache
4 1 (1.39%) nginx
4 1 (1.39%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Magento
2 6 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) AWS
1 10 (13.89%) Azure
2 4 (5.56%) npm
3 1 (1.39%) Datadog
3 1 (1.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) DNS
1 3 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) MySQL
2 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.56%) Redis
4 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Cypress.io
1 5 (6.94%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) Storybook
3 1 (1.39%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 10 (13.89%) Marketing
2 6 (8.33%) Retail
3 5 (6.94%) Games
4 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Law
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (48.61%) HTML
2 30 (41.67%) CSS
3 23 (31.94%) AngularJS
4 16 (22.22%) .NET
5 14 (19.44%) ASP.NET
5 14 (19.44%) Node.js
6 13 (18.06%) React
7 12 (16.67%) jQuery
8 10 (13.89%) Vue
9 9 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (12.50%) GraphQL
10 8 (11.11%) .NET Core
10 8 (11.11%) React Native
11 6 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (6.94%) HTML5
12 5 (6.94%) Laravel
12 5 (6.94%) Next.js
12 5 (6.94%) Sass
13 4 (5.56%) Kafka
13 4 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.39%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (97.22%) Web Development
2 15 (20.83%) MVC
3 14 (19.44%) DevOps
4 13 (18.06%) E-Commerce
5 11 (15.28%) Agile
5 11 (15.28%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 8 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 8 (11.11%) Scrum
6 8 (11.11%) Software Delivery
7 7 (9.72%) Clean Code
7 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 5 (6.94%) User Experience
10 4 (5.56%) A/B Testing
10 4 (5.56%) Design Patterns
10 4 (5.56%) OOP
10 4 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (5.56%) Unit Testing
11 3 (4.17%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 49 (68.06%) JavaScript
2 23 (31.94%) PHP
3 12 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (9.72%) SQL
4 7 (9.72%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.17%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.39%) Java
6 1 (1.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) Google