Web Developer Resume
Skills & ATS Keywords

Plan for 32 to 46 concrete web tools, CMS modules, browser APIs, and hosting primitives, sorted across 7 to 8 named rows. Below 22 entries the page reads as a brochure rather than a working web engineer; above 50 it starts feeling like a tag cloud of every blog post you bookmarked. Every entry has to surface inside at least one bullet on a real website you launched or maintained.

Anchor it directly beneath the Profile Summary, ahead of Work Experience. Parsers favour the top portion of the document and recruiters skim downward. Burying the row near the bottom hides the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, and Shopify cues a Web Developer screen is actively hunting for. Hold it to 7 or 8 labelled rows (Fundamentals, CSS Tooling, CMS, Frameworks, Accessibility and SEO, Performance, E-commerce, Hosting), not a single comma-strung line.

Read the job description twice. Pull the 10 to 15 web tools, CMS platforms, hosting providers, and accessibility or SEO standards it specifically names. Place that list next to your Skills row and your bullets. Wherever the posting calls out a web tool that is honestly part of your history but missing from the page, add it: once in the Skills row, once in a bullet that proves the site shipped on it. Close with the ATS Checker so you can confirm the parser picked up each one.

A Front-End Developer resume points at framework depth: React or Vue, design-system tokens, hydration, bundler internals, app-shell architecture. A Web Developer resume points at finished websites with traffic and accessibility behind them: HTML and CSS fundamentals, a CMS backbone (WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, Webflow), Core Web Vitals on the live site, WCAG audits closed, hosting and DNS owned, deployment pipelines wired to a real domain. If the page reads as React feature work with web sprinkled on top, a Web Developer hiring manager will pass on it; lead with sites launched, CMS depth, Lighthouse numbers, and the brand or agency context.

Helpful, not mandatory. About half of 2026 Web Developer postings still name React (or Vue, Svelte, or Astro) somewhere in the description, usually as one option among many. A Web Developer resume that names vanilla JavaScript, Alpine.js or Stimulus, plus comfort dropping React islands into an Astro or WordPress site, reads stronger than one that fakes a deep React stack. Be honest: if you shipped a Next.js marketing site, name it; if you have only sprinkled React into a CMS theme, say that and put more weight on the CMS and Web Vitals rows instead.

For most Web Developer roles in 2026, CMS depth wins. Roughly two thirds of US Web Developer postings explicitly name WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Drupal, or a headless option (Contentful, Sanity, Storyblok); only a minority require a specific JS framework at depth. If your background sits on WordPress themes, ACF, Gutenberg blocks, WooCommerce, or Shopify Liquid plus Functions, lead with that on the page. Save the framework row for what you actually shipped (Astro for static, Next.js in SSG or ISR mode, a sprinkle of Vue or Alpine). Agencies and in-house marketing teams hire on CMS first, JS framework second.

Five numbers carry the most weight on a Web Developer resume: number of sites launched or maintained, monthly traffic served (or merchant or page count), Core Web Vitals before-and-after on LCP, INP, and CLS, WCAG audit findings closed or AA conformance on a page count, and conversion or e-commerce lift on a real funnel. A bullet that names the CMS (WordPress, Shopify), the framework or builder (Astro, Eleventy, Gutenberg), the metric, and the user-facing scope clears the parser and the hiring manager scan. Vague “improved website performance” lines clear neither.