Web Developer
UK

The median Web Developer salary in the UK is £44,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 575 526
Rank change year-on-year +49 -49 -208
Permanent jobs requiring a Web Developer 411 447 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.45% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.49% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 362 361 553
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,621 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +9.29% +14.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £69,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +1.42%

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +71 368 £42,750 -14.50% 100
UK excluding London +20 353 £42,500 -5.56% 98
Work from Home +2 153 £45,000 -14.29% 42
North of England +82 93 £40,000 -11.11% 15
Midlands +48 80 £42,500 -9.57% 22
East of England +12 53 £40,000 - 10
South West +9 53 £37,500 -6.25% 8
West Midlands +54 50 £42,500 -20.93% 12
North West +28 47 £45,000 - 7
South East -68 46 £42,500 -5.56% 25
London +25 43 £65,000 - 24
Yorkshire +105 39 £37,500 -23.86% 7
East Midlands +7 30 £43,000 +23.43% 10
Wales +19 16 £52,500 +35.50% 7
Northern Ireland +23 7 £45,000 - 4
North East -21 7 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Scotland -76 6 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (90.27%) Web Development
2 268 (65.21%) JavaScript
3 224 (54.50%) HTML
3 224 (54.50%) CSS
4 169 (41.12%) PHP
5 124 (30.17%) .NET
6 101 (24.57%) MySQL
7 91 (22.14%) C#
8 89 (21.65%) Full Stack Development
9 82 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (19.71%) Git
11 80 (19.46%) Social Skills
12 79 (19.22%) Marketing
13 76 (18.49%) Laravel
14 72 (17.52%) WordPress
15 71 (17.27%) jQuery
15 71 (17.27%) CMS
16 70 (17.03%) SQL
17 68 (16.55%) Vue
18 67 (16.30%) AngularJS
18 67 (16.30%) React
18 67 (16.30%) MVC
19 66 (16.06%) E-Commerce
20 56 (13.63%) Front End Development
21 53 (12.90%) User Experience
22 51 (12.41%) Agile
23 48 (11.68%) ASP.NET
23 48 (11.68%) Azure
24 47 (11.44%) .NET Core
25 45 (10.95%) 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 (17.52%) WordPress
2 71 (17.27%) CMS
3 18 (4.38%) Apache
4 17 (4.14%) Umbraco
5 11 (2.68%) Headless CMS
6 9 (2.19%) IIS
6 9 (2.19%) nginx
7 7 (1.70%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.97%) Drupal
9 3 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.49%) Kentico
11 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
Applications
1 9 (2.19%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.46%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.97%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 14 (3.41%) Shopify
2 13 (3.16%) Magento
3 4 (0.97%) 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 48 (11.68%) Azure
2 38 (9.25%) AWS
3 23 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.95%) GitHub
6 5 (1.22%) Figma
6 5 (1.22%) SaaS
7 4 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.97%) 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%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.49%) Kontent
9 2 (0.49%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.49%) Serverless
10 1 (0.24%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.68%) DNS
2 10 (2.43%) SSL
3 7 (1.70%) Firewall
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.97%) MQTT
6 2 (0.49%) Intranet
7 1 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (24.57%) MySQL
2 45 (10.95%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.92%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.97%) Redis
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.49%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.49%) Power BI
8 2 (0.49%) Power Query
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.24%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 81 (19.71%) Git
2 14 (3.41%) JIRA
3 12 (2.92%) Subversion
4 8 (1.95%) Selenium
5 7 (1.70%) gulp
6 6 (1.46%) JMeter
6 6 (1.46%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.97%) Storybook
8 4 (0.97%) webpack
9 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.49%) git-flow
10 2 (0.49%) Mocha
10 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.24%) GitLab
11 1 (0.24%) Moq
11 1 (0.24%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.24%) PHPUnit
General
1 80 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.22%) Marketing
3 19 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.89%) Retail
5 11 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.19%) Law
7 7 (1.70%) Finance
8 6 (1.46%) Games
9 5 (1.22%) iGaming
10 3 (0.73%) Back Office
10 3 (0.73%) Legal
10 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.49%) Automotive
11 2 (0.49%) Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Electronics
12 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.24%) Local Government
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (54.50%) CSS
1 224 (54.50%) HTML
2 124 (30.17%) .NET
3 76 (18.49%) Laravel
4 71 (17.27%) jQuery
5 68 (16.55%) Vue
6 67 (16.30%) AngularJS
6 67 (16.30%) React
7 48 (11.68%) ASP.NET
8 47 (11.44%) .NET Core
9 41 (9.98%) LAMP
10 35 (8.52%) Sass
11 34 (8.27%) HTML5
12 32 (7.79%) Node.js
13 29 (7.06%) .NET Framework
14 24 (5.84%) CSS3
15 22 (5.35%) REST
16 21 (5.11%) ASP.NET MVC
17 20 (4.87%) Entity Framework
18 16 (3.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.41%) Mobile App
2 13 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.70%) Animation
4 7 (1.70%) 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 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.97%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.97%) Life Science
8 3 (0.73%) Arduino
8 3 (0.73%) BBC
8 3 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.73%) Photography
8 3 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.76%) Linux
2 12 (2.92%) Windows
3 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.49%) VMS
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (90.27%) Web Development
2 89 (21.65%) Full Stack Development
3 82 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (16.30%) MVC
5 66 (16.06%) E-Commerce
6 56 (13.63%) Front End Development
7 53 (12.90%) User Experience
8 51 (12.41%) Agile
9 43 (10.46%) DevOps
10 38 (9.25%) OOP
11 30 (7.30%) SEO
12 28 (6.81%) CRM
12 28 (6.81%) Performance Optimisation
13 27 (6.57%) Computer Science
14 24 (5.84%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (5.60%) Mentoring
15 23 (5.60%) OO
16 22 (5.35%) Content Management
16 22 (5.35%) Software Engineering
16 22 (5.35%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 268 (65.21%) JavaScript
2 169 (41.12%) PHP
3 91 (22.14%) C#
4 70 (17.03%) SQL
5 30 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.14%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.16%) Python
8 10 (2.43%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.70%) Java
9 7 (1.70%) 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
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (9.00%) Degree
2 16 (3.89%) 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 (4.87%) QA
2 19 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (7.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.46%) Rancher
3 4 (0.97%) Terraform
4 2 (0.49%) cPanel
5 1 (0.24%) Plesk
Vendors
1 34 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.38%) Adobe
3 12 (2.92%) WooCommerce
4 10 (2.43%) Google
5 4 (0.97%) SAP
5 4 (0.97%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.73%) Hotjar
6 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
6 3 (0.73%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.24%) New Relic
7 1 (0.24%) Salesforce