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Web Design and Development Professionals

Jobholders in this unit group design, develop and maintain websites to meet a client’s specified requirements.

Average Salary

£31,644

New workers start around £15,542. Normal pay is £31,644 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £70,779.

Jobs

51,515

The number of jobs in the career for the current year.

Daily Tasks

  • Activates the 'live' website.

  • Tests website interaction and performance prior to going 'live'.

  • Writes and publishes content for the website.

  • Establishes methods to ensure appropriate website security and recovery.

  • Designs and develops web interfaces for relational database systems.

  • Develops the website and applications.

  • Designs web pages including graphics, animation and functionality to maximise visual effectiveness and facilitate appropriate access.

  • Presents design options to the client.

  • Liaises with internal/external client in order to define the requirements for the website.

Hard skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

  • JavaScript (Programming Language)

  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

  • Front End (Software Engineering)

  • PHP (Scripting Language)

Soft skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

  • Communications

  • Innovation

  • Marketing

  • Management

  • Detail Oriented

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.