Grows with AI

Web developers

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.

AI Resistance Index 6 of 99

Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 6% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +3.8% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision.

AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.

Median pay (2025): $92,650
Job growth to 2035: +3.8%
Openings a year: 5,300
People doing it (2025): 87,400
Usual route in: Bachelor's degree

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Where people already use AI for this work

Design computer or information systems or applications
Process digital or online data
Advise others on the design or use of technologies

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Implement security measures for computer or information systems
Design databases
Communicate with others about business strategies

What the work looks like

Write supporting code for Web applications or Web sites.
Design, build, or maintain Web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.
Back up files from Web sites to local directories for instant recovery in case of problems.
Select programming languages, design tools, or applications.
Evaluate code to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

Fewer of these jobs, as low- and no-code tools, along with artificial intelligence (AI), increasingly automate web development and increasingly allow other workers to complete web development tasks.

Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook

Software developersGrows with AI, Index 18, +10.2%
Web and digital interface designersGrows with AI, Index 17, +6.0%
StatisticiansGrows with AI, Index 20, +11.0%
Computer and information research scientistsGrows with AI, Index 41, +21.8%

Also known as: Web Architect, Web Design Specialist, Web Developer, Webmaster, Technology Applications Engineer.

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.