Web Developers

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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
53%
(Moderate Risk)
POLLING
73%
(High Risk, Based on 2,286 votes)
Average: 63%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
9.0%
by year 2033
WAGES
$84,960
or $40.84 per hour
Volume
85,350
as of 2023
SUMMARY
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JOB SCORE
5.2/10
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We rate jobs using four factors. These are:

- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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Calculated automation risk

53% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Originality

User poll

73% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted that it's probable this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 53% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Web Developers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (quarterly)

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Very fast growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Web Developers' job openings is expected to rise 9.0% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Web Developers' was $84,960, or $41 per hour

'Web Developers' were paid 76.8% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Moderate range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 85,350 people employed as 'Web Developers' within the United States.

This represents around 0.06% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 1 thousand people are employed as 'Web Developers'.

Job description

Develop and implement websites, web applications, application databases, and interactive web interfaces. Evaluate code to ensure that it is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers and devices. Optimize website performance, scalability, and server-side code and processes. May develop website infrastructure and integrate websites with other computer applications.

SOC Code: 15-1254.00

Comments (75)

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Jim C.
19 Sep 2025 02:37
The open web is dying. WIthout paywalls, you have AI scrapers and Google harvesting your content and presenting inside their own search results. You don't get organic traffic so your site won't get ad revenue. Thus, web developer demand can't go up. Outside of subscription content, there is very little money to be made. The amount of content theft is insane.
Andreas Arnfinn Andestad (Highly likely)
16 Nov 2025 11:54
AI development is focused on coding, and web development doesn't require much originality.
Krunalbhai prajapati (Highly likely)
02 Nov 2025 14:49
As AI is doing everything by itself without taking a rest and gives more accurate results than humans.
Марина (Highly likely)
22 Oct 2025 05:06
As AI and neural networks improve each year, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between a human and AI in some cases.
Senior programmer
19 Sep 2024 16:01
This job will be accessible only to passionate programming guys in the future. They learn coding stuff all the time for their entire life. If you want to learn once and then use it for decades, learn something else.
Guest
31 Oct 2024 18:27
And they will eat passion for dinner right?
User
30 Jan 2025 11:12
passion fruit
Sidra (Highly likely)
05 Aug 2025 07:43
because as of now by 2025 already their are many ai tools that generates websites in minutes
Nandan (Highly likely)
22 Jul 2025 08:44
Web Dev is easy automatable job, LLMs already give easy front end code
Egon (Highly likely)
24 Mar 2024 16:58
The recent advancements seen in the use of ChatGPT, Devin and GitHub Copilot are all hinting that the jobs of beginners and moderately skilled Web-developers are highly likely to be taken by AI and its subsequent technologies.
Marc J.
05 Feb 2026 04:19
Getting much worse. Remix framework was actually rewritten / dumbed down so AI can generate more code and the creators said the framework revision itself was heavily AI assisted. This could be an omen for other frameworks. Boilerplate and complexity help job security and scare away new learners.
Dan (Highly likely)
23 Jan 2024 21:48
We already have tools to transform Figma designs into semi-working code (with React/Angular/Vue, tailwind, etc).
Even though these are not fully functional at the moment, to think we will stagnate on this for 20 years seems absurd to me. At the very least the job will transform into 90% AI-generated code, and 10% human guidance and adjustments
Ninjamokama_3
27 Oct 2023 08:32
Web Developers are the fast food workers of the programming industry. ofc they'll be replaced
NMS (Moderate)
22 Dec 2022 17:42
Any profession where the output is freely available and scrapable is at risk. Obviously certain companies will always be doing something boundary pushing with web development, but the vast majority of sites can be automated
Gundauna Lnad (Highly likely)
31 Jan 2026 16:57
Very high risk of automation already, no innovation except design which can anyways be done at an exponential rate by ai themselves.
Vlad G. (No chance)
05 Dec 2024 03:16
Because brands would always need "unique" interfaces and AI kind of tends to repetition of existing experience. So, to invent new innovative UI solutions we still would need some human-beings that provide better solutions for other humans. Of course, AI would help us with such tasks, but not entirely replace us.
Andreas Arnfinn Andestad
16 Nov 2025 12:03
Human beings being artists and designers, not web developers (as they are today)
Sean (Highly likely)
17 Feb 2024 13:18
AI is already able to generate code, in particular code that solves common and simple issues that already have solutions online as part of the AI's database. Currently the AI's code generation ability is not good enough to replace the developer but that will likely change in the next years as web development frameworks compete to integrate AI.

The integration of AI into these frameworks will allow it to generate and test much more complicate code effectively, allowing web designers to interatct with the framework on their own to get the code they need without any need for a developer, as the technical skill required to interact with such a framework will become much shallower.
Anonymous
16 Feb 2024 01:05
Front-end developers who only know how to utilize frameworks, (I will call them frameworkers) will be replaced by AI.

There are already front-ends built by AI that have been trained on frameworks. Front-end developers must upskill by learning actual low level programming to further develop their frameworks, or transition into a back-end role, which will require actual programming skills. Front-end developers who do know how to program will be alright.

Frameworking is in no way similar to software engineering, ie engineering frameworks, or back-end data pipes. Software engineers will not be replaced as they are the ones creating such frameworks for frameworkers and AI alike.
The guy
24 May 2024 21:23
As a front-end developer who pretty much only uses frameworks... I have never felt more insulted by her words with such truth! And just for that, I'm going back-end, just because of the spite I feel for you.
Giulia (Moderate)
14 Dec 2023 10:04
AIs like ChatGPT can already produce a simple example of a website (I tested front-end side only).

I believe that, when building a web platform, the requirements analysis and the infrastructure design will still be done by humans for a very long time since they require advanced communication skills to fully understand the client's requests and their implications. However, the actual coding part can, more or less easily, be automated since, once the requirements have been specified, it doesn't require skills other than an advanced knowledge of the needed programming languages and tools and a certain degree of logic abilities, all of which can be achieved by AIs.

Therefore, I find it likely that at least this part of web development will be automated in the future.
اسماءء محمد (Low)
02 Dec 2023 06:36
In my opinion, the code we write requires good thought, development, and a lot of thinking to be done. It's not good for artificial intelligence to create a fully interactive site.
Manav jain (Moderate)
04 Sep 2023 16:48
It is possible that AI will replace this web developer jobs and as per my knowledge it will take around 5-6. years to make it real because the work done by web developer like web design, fix glitches and other can be easily done by an AI as the technology is growing day by day just like nowadays there are some app or website which will make anything that you will tell them and AI can also know coding and algorithms used in web developement for different languages
Shreyas (Moderate)
03 Sep 2023 10:04
Development can't be animated completely but today it's easy to develop web due to ai tools and source found in internet which make the wages here comparatively low and once development phase is over job security is an issue
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