Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 569 513
Rank change year-on-year +52 -56 -196
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 408 456 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.49% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 360 369 557
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,621 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +2.56%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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

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

Salary trend for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Developer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Web Developer in the UK

Web Developer
Top 17 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 13 May 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
England +73 364 £43,000 -14.00% 96
UK excluding London +28 350 £42,500 -5.56% 86
Work from Home +13 151 £45,000 -10.00% 37
North of England +81 93 £40,000 -9.86% 16
Midlands +54 80 £42,500 -9.57% 22
East of England +25 53 £40,000 - 9
South West +16 52 £38,750 - 8
West Midlands +58 50 £42,500 -19.05% 12
North West +27 47 £45,000 - 9
South East -63 44 £43,750 -2.78% 19
London +26 42 £65,000 -0.76% 21
Yorkshire +106 39 £37,500 -13.79% 6
East Midlands +8 30 £43,000 +23.43% 10
Wales +25 16 £52,500 +35.50% 6
Northern Ireland +28 7 £45,000 - 2
North East -19 7 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Scotland -70 6 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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.

1 369 (90.44%) Web Development
2 267 (65.44%) JavaScript
3 223 (54.66%) CSS
4 222 (54.41%) HTML
5 168 (41.18%) PHP
6 123 (30.15%) .NET
7 100 (24.51%) MySQL
8 90 (22.06%) C#
9 89 (21.81%) Full Stack Development
10 81 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (19.61%) Git
12 79 (19.36%) Social Skills
13 78 (19.12%) Marketing
14 76 (18.63%) Laravel
15 72 (17.65%) CMS
16 71 (17.40%) WordPress
17 70 (17.16%) jQuery
18 69 (16.91%) SQL
18 69 (16.91%) MVC
19 68 (16.67%) E-Commerce
19 68 (16.67%) Vue
20 67 (16.42%) React
20 67 (16.42%) AngularJS
21 56 (13.73%) Front End Development
22 51 (12.50%) Agile
22 51 (12.50%) User Experience
23 50 (12.25%) ASP.NET
23 50 (12.25%) Azure
24 49 (12.01%) .NET Core
25 45 (11.03%) SQL Server

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 72 (17.65%) CMS
2 71 (17.40%) WordPress
3 18 (4.41%) Apache
3 18 (4.41%) Umbraco
4 11 (2.70%) Headless CMS
5 9 (2.21%) IIS
5 9 (2.21%) nginx
6 8 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.98%) Drupal
7 4 (0.98%) Kentico
7 4 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
Applications
1 9 (2.21%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.47%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) InDesign
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (3.43%) Shopify
2 12 (2.94%) Magento
3 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.74%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.49%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.49%) OpenCart
5 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.25%) Azure
2 38 (9.31%) AWS
3 23 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.96%) GitHub
6 5 (1.23%) Figma
6 5 (1.23%) SaaS
7 4 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.98%) npm
8 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.49%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.49%) Kontent
9 2 (0.49%) PaaS
9 2 (0.49%) Serverless
10 1 (0.25%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.70%) DNS
2 10 (2.45%) SSL
3 7 (1.72%) Firewall
4 5 (1.23%) Internet
5 4 (0.98%) MQTT
6 2 (0.49%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (24.51%) MySQL
2 45 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.98%) Redis
7 3 (0.74%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.49%) phpMyAdmin
9 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.25%) Power BI
9 1 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 80 (19.61%) Git
2 14 (3.43%) JIRA
3 12 (2.94%) Subversion
4 8 (1.96%) Selenium
5 7 (1.72%) gulp
6 6 (1.47%) JMeter
6 6 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.47%) webpack
7 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.98%) Storybook
9 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.49%) git-flow
10 2 (0.49%) Mocha
10 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.25%) Moq
11 1 (0.25%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.25%) NUnit
11 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (19.36%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.12%) Marketing
3 18 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.92%) Retail
5 11 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.21%) Law
7 7 (1.72%) Finance
8 6 (1.47%) Games
9 5 (1.23%) iGaming
10 3 (0.74%) Back Office
10 3 (0.74%) Legal
10 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.49%) Automotive
11 2 (0.49%) Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Electronics
12 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Local Government
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (54.66%) CSS
2 222 (54.41%) HTML
3 123 (30.15%) .NET
4 76 (18.63%) Laravel
5 70 (17.16%) jQuery
6 68 (16.67%) Vue
7 67 (16.42%) AngularJS
7 67 (16.42%) React
8 50 (12.25%) ASP.NET
9 49 (12.01%) .NET Core
10 41 (10.05%) LAMP
11 35 (8.58%) Sass
12 34 (8.33%) HTML5
13 32 (7.84%) Node.js
14 28 (6.86%) .NET Framework
15 24 (5.88%) CSS3
16 22 (5.39%) ASP.NET MVC
16 22 (5.39%) REST
17 20 (4.90%) Entity Framework
18 16 (3.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.43%) Mobile App
2 12 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.72%) Animation
4 7 (1.72%) Video Editing
5 6 (1.47%) Graphic Design
5 6 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.23%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.23%) IoT
6 5 (1.23%) Social Media
7 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.98%) Life Science
8 3 (0.74%) Arduino
8 3 (0.74%) BBC
8 3 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.74%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.74%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.74%) Photography
8 3 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.82%) Linux
2 12 (2.94%) Windows
3 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.49%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (90.44%) Web Development
2 89 (21.81%) Full Stack Development
3 81 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (16.91%) MVC
5 68 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 56 (13.73%) Front End Development
7 51 (12.50%) Agile
7 51 (12.50%) User Experience
8 43 (10.54%) DevOps
9 38 (9.31%) OOP
10 30 (7.35%) SEO
11 28 (6.86%) CRM
11 28 (6.86%) Performance Optimisation
12 26 (6.37%) Computer Science
13 24 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
13 24 (5.88%) OO
14 23 (5.64%) Content Management
14 23 (5.64%) Mentoring
15 22 (5.39%) Software Engineering
15 22 (5.39%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 267 (65.44%) JavaScript
2 168 (41.18%) PHP
3 90 (22.06%) C#
4 69 (16.91%) SQL
5 30 (7.35%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.19%) Python
8 10 (2.45%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.72%) Java
9 7 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.49%) VB
10 2 (0.49%) XPath
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (8.82%) Degree
2 15 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.49%) HND
5 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.90%) QA
2 19 (4.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.47%) Rancher
3 4 (0.98%) Terraform
4 2 (0.49%) cPanel
5 1 (0.25%) Plesk
Vendors
1 35 (8.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.41%) Adobe
3 12 (2.94%) WooCommerce
4 9 (2.21%) Google
5 5 (1.23%) Sitecore
6 4 (0.98%) SAP
7 3 (0.74%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.74%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.74%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.25%) New Relic
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce