The Datum Report

Occupation 2141 · Professional occupations

Web design professionals

Web design professionals design, develop and maintain websites and web and mobile applications to meet a client’s specified requirements.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess a degree or equivalent qualification, although entry with other academic qualifications and/or significant relevant experience is possible. There is a variety of relevant vocational, professional and postgraduate qualifications available.

What the work involves

Also called

Desktop publisher · User interface designer · UX designer · Web designer · Web producer

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 28,000.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 29,300.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 30,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 500.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 1,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 31,200.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2141 : Web design professionals None None 2026-03 1,200.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

RegionMeasureHoursValuePeriod
East 2141 : Web design professionals None 3,100.00 2026-03
East Midlands 2141 : Web design professionals None 2,500.00 2026-03
London 2141 : Web design professionals None 6,200.00 2026-03
North East 2141 : Web design professionals None 2,400.00 2026-03
North West 2141 : Web design professionals None 2,200.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 2141 : Web design professionals None 500.00 2026-03
Scotland 2141 : Web design professionals None 1,400.00 2026-03
South East 2141 : Web design professionals None 4,700.00 2026-03
South West 2141 : Web design professionals None 2,300.00 2026-03
Wales 2141 : Web design professionals None 1,200.00 2026-03
West Midlands 2141 : Web design professionals None 3,200.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 2141 : Web design professionals None 1,600.00 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for web design professionals vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 12 of 12 cells on this page. The rest are withheld by ONS, and are shown as withheld with the reason, rather than left out.

Where do these pay figures come from?

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, published by the Office for National Statistics. Figures are shown exactly as ONS publishes them — we do not adjust, model or fill them in, and every number on this page carries the series and period it came from.

Classified alongside this

Graphic and multimedia designers