"The Web Field" is a pretty big group but if you mean "Front end web" then people with a background in graphic design or content creation (writing/video) are pr

"The Web Field" is a pretty big group but if you mean "Front end web" then people with a background in graphic design or content creation (writing/video) are probably not going to have much formal CS history. There _are_ people who are good at both visual design and computer science, but not as many as designers who learned enough to code what they needed to.