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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 569 507
Rank change year-on-year +40 -62 -191
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 410 456 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.49% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 362 368 559
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 £55,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,750
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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 10 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 10 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 +69 366 £45,000 -10.00% 94
UK excluding London +16 349 £42,500 -5.56% 84
Work from Home -9 152 £45,000 -10.00% 35
North of England +77 92 £40,000 -9.86% 16
Midlands +40 80 £42,500 -9.57% 23
East of England +26 53 £40,000 - 8
South West +13 52 £38,750 - 8
West Midlands +41 50 £42,500 -19.05% 12
North West +25 47 £45,000 - 7
London +34 45 £65,000 - 20
South East -68 44 £43,750 -2.78% 18
Yorkshire +110 38 £37,500 -13.79% 7
East Midlands -1 30 £43,000 +23.43% 11
Wales +18 16 £52,500 +35.50% 5
Northern Ireland +24 7 £45,000 - 2
North East -21 7 £35,000 -17.65% 2
Scotland -74 6 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 371 (90.49%) Web Development
2 268 (65.37%) JavaScript
3 225 (54.88%) CSS
4 224 (54.63%) HTML
5 167 (40.73%) PHP
6 124 (30.24%) .NET
7 99 (24.15%) MySQL
8 91 (22.20%) C#
8 91 (22.20%) Full Stack Development
9 81 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (19.76%) Git
10 80 (19.51%) Social Skills
11 78 (19.02%) Marketing
12 75 (18.29%) Laravel
13 72 (17.56%) WordPress
13 72 (17.56%) CMS
14 69 (16.83%) SQL
14 69 (16.83%) E-Commerce
14 69 (16.83%) jQuery
15 68 (16.59%) MVC
15 68 (16.59%) Vue
16 67 (16.34%) React
16 67 (16.34%) AngularJS
17 57 (13.90%) Front End Development
18 51 (12.44%) User Experience
19 50 (12.20%) .NET Core
19 50 (12.20%) Agile
19 50 (12.20%) ASP.NET
19 50 (12.20%) Azure
20 45 (10.98%) 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 (17.56%) CMS
1 72 (17.56%) WordPress
2 18 (4.39%) Apache
2 18 (4.39%) Umbraco
3 11 (2.68%) Headless CMS
4 9 (2.20%) IIS
4 9 (2.20%) nginx
5 8 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.98%) Drupal
6 4 (0.98%) Kentico
6 4 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
Applications
1 9 (2.20%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.24%) InDesign
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (3.41%) Shopify
2 12 (2.93%) Magento
3 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.73%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.49%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.49%) OpenCart
5 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.20%) Azure
2 38 (9.27%) AWS
3 23 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.95%) GitHub
6 5 (1.22%) Figma
6 5 (1.22%) SaaS
7 4 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.98%) npm
8 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (0.73%) 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 (0.24%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.68%) DNS
2 10 (2.44%) SSL
3 7 (1.71%) Firewall
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.98%) MQTT
6 2 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (24.15%) MySQL
2 45 (10.98%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.93%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.98%) Redis
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.49%) phpMyAdmin
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 81 (19.76%) Git
2 14 (3.41%) JIRA
3 12 (2.93%) Subversion
4 8 (1.95%) Selenium
5 7 (1.71%) gulp
6 6 (1.46%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.46%) JMeter
6 6 (1.46%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.46%) webpack
7 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.98%) Storybook
8 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.49%) git-flow
9 2 (0.49%) Mocha
9 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.24%) Moq
10 1 (0.24%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.24%) NUnit
10 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.02%) Marketing
3 18 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.90%) Retail
5 11 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.20%) Law
7 7 (1.71%) Finance
7 7 (1.71%) Games
8 5 (1.22%) iGaming
9 3 (0.73%) Back Office
9 3 (0.73%) Legal
9 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.49%) Automotive
10 2 (0.49%) Banking
10 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Electronics
11 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.24%) Local Government
11 1 (0.24%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (54.88%) CSS
2 224 (54.63%) HTML
3 124 (30.24%) .NET
4 75 (18.29%) Laravel
5 69 (16.83%) jQuery
6 68 (16.59%) Vue
7 67 (16.34%) AngularJS
7 67 (16.34%) React
8 50 (12.20%) .NET Core
8 50 (12.20%) ASP.NET
9 41 (10.00%) LAMP
10 35 (8.54%) Sass
11 34 (8.29%) HTML5
12 32 (7.80%) Node.js
13 28 (6.83%) .NET Framework
14 24 (5.85%) CSS3
15 22 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
16 21 (5.12%) REST
17 20 (4.88%) Entity Framework
18 16 (3.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.41%) Mobile App
2 12 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.71%) Animation
4 7 (1.71%) Video Editing
5 6 (1.46%) Graphic Design
5 6 (1.46%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.22%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.22%) IoT
6 5 (1.22%) Social Media
7 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.98%) Life Science
8 3 (0.73%) Arduino
8 3 (0.73%) BBC
8 3 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.73%) Photography
8 3 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.78%) Linux
2 12 (2.93%) Windows
3 3 (0.73%) VMS
3 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (90.49%) Web Development
2 91 (22.20%) Full Stack Development
3 81 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (16.83%) E-Commerce
5 68 (16.59%) MVC
6 57 (13.90%) Front End Development
7 51 (12.44%) User Experience
8 50 (12.20%) Agile
9 44 (10.73%) DevOps
10 38 (9.27%) OOP
11 30 (7.32%) SEO
12 29 (7.07%) Performance Optimisation
13 28 (6.83%) CRM
14 27 (6.59%) Computer Science
15 24 (5.85%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (5.85%) Mentoring
16 23 (5.61%) OO
17 22 (5.37%) Content Management
17 22 (5.37%) Software Engineering
17 22 (5.37%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 268 (65.37%) JavaScript
2 167 (40.73%) PHP
3 91 (22.20%) C#
4 69 (16.83%) SQL
5 31 (7.56%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.90%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.17%) Python
8 10 (2.44%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.71%) Java
9 7 (1.71%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.49%) VB
10 2 (0.49%) XPath
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (9.02%) Degree
2 16 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.49%) HND
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.88%) QA
2 18 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (7.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.46%) Rancher
3 4 (0.98%) Terraform
4 2 (0.49%) cPanel
5 1 (0.24%) Plesk
Vendors
1 35 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.39%) Adobe
3 12 (2.93%) WooCommerce
4 9 (2.20%) Google
5 5 (1.22%) Sitecore
6 4 (0.98%) SAP
7 3 (0.73%) Hotjar
7 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.73%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.24%) New Relic
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce