Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 12,748 13,585 29,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.74% 15.40% 21.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.59% 16.83% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,979 10,502 17,890
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,760 80,739 129,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,876 51,417 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -5 3,653 £75,000 -3.23% 1,218
North of England +12 2,907 £52,084 -5.30% 556
South East 0 2,244 £57,500 - 553
North West +11 1,720 £52,500 -4.55% 321
Midlands +10 1,592 £50,000 -9.09% 397
South West +4 1,414 £50,000 -9.09% 232
West Midlands +13 1,036 £50,000 -9.09% 258
Yorkshire +15 925 £50,000 -4.76% 171
East of England +13 879 £50,000 -13.04% 155
East Midlands +4 548 £50,000 -9.09% 138
North East +6 262 £50,000 -9.09% 69
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4,596 (36.05%) JavaScript
2 4,523 (35.48%) C#
3 4,360 (34.20%) .NET
4 3,937 (30.88%) Agile
5 3,691 (28.95%) Azure
6 3,362 (26.37%) Full Stack Development
7 3,088 (24.22%) SQL
8 2,643 (20.73%) HTML
9 2,517 (19.74%) React
10 2,444 (19.17%) AWS
11 2,350 (18.43%) CSS
12 2,269 (17.80%) SQL Server
13 2,249 (17.64%) Microsoft
14 2,107 (16.53%) AngularJS
15 2,089 (16.39%) Social Skills
16 1,868 (14.65%) Finance
17 1,856 (14.56%) TypeScript
18 1,831 (14.36%) ASP.NET
19 1,802 (14.14%) DevOps
20 1,737 (13.63%) MVC
21 1,721 (13.50%) Java
22 1,671 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
23 1,654 (12.97%) Software Engineering
24 1,550 (12.16%) Microservices
25 1,534 (12.03%) .NET Core
26 1,515 (11.88%) Degree
27 1,495 (11.73%) Python
28 1,436 (11.26%) Git
29 1,255 (9.84%) TDD
30 1,248 (9.79%) PHP

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 312 (2.45%) CMS
2 291 (2.28%) Apache
3 275 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 274 (2.15%) WordPress
5 198 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 161 (1.26%) Confluence
7 153 (1.20%) IIS
8 117 (0.92%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.58%) Drupal
10 69 (0.54%) nginx
11 61 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.42%) Headless CMS
13 51 (0.40%) Kentico
14 49 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.31%) OpenStack
16 27 (0.21%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 20 (0.16%) SAS
20 19 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 120 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 29 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 20 (0.16%) Simulink
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.071%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.055%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.039%) InDesign
11 5 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.031%) Maya
12 4 (0.031%) Sketch
12 4 (0.031%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) GNU Octave
13 3 (0.024%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 172 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 113 (0.89%) Shopify
3 94 (0.74%) Magento
4 63 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 46 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 35 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 33 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 29 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.086%) Visualfiles
12 9 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 8 (0.063%) Maximo
14 7 (0.055%) BPCS
14 7 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
15 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.039%) Odoo
16 5 (0.039%) Oracle Financials
16 5 (0.039%) Sage 200
16 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,691 (28.95%) Azure
2 2,444 (19.17%) AWS
3 966 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 821 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
5 542 (4.25%) Serverless
6 527 (4.13%) GCP
7 481 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 478 (3.75%) SaaS
9 370 (2.90%) PowerApps
10 366 (2.87%) GitHub
11 346 (2.71%) Power Automate
12 245 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 230 (1.80%) Azure Functions
14 226 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 225 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 177 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.14%) Azure API Management
18 130 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
19 94 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 86 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (1.64%) Internet
2 63 (0.49%) HTTP
2 63 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 60 (0.47%) DNS
4 43 (0.34%) Firewall
5 36 (0.28%) SSL
6 24 (0.19%) Wireless
7 22 (0.17%) Intranet
7 22 (0.17%) VPN
8 20 (0.16%) Broadband
9 19 (0.15%) Network Security
10 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
11 15 (0.12%) 5G
11 15 (0.12%) Mobile Broadband
12 13 (0.10%) MQTT
12 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.086%) BGP
13 11 (0.086%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.086%) MPLS
14 10 (0.078%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,269 (17.80%) SQL Server
2 887 (6.96%) MySQL
3 727 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 649 (5.09%) Power BI
5 564 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 524 (4.11%) NoSQL
7 513 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 293 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 283 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 246 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 240 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 190 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 183 (1.44%) Apache Ignite
14 168 (1.32%) Redis
15 142 (1.11%) DB2
16 119 (0.93%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.86%) Data Lake
18 89 (0.70%) DynamoDB
19 88 (0.69%) Tableau
20 84 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,436 (11.26%) Git
2 467 (3.66%) Visual Studio
3 419 (3.29%) JIRA
4 225 (1.76%) Jenkins
5 174 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 140 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 135 (1.06%) GitLab
8 108 (0.85%) Selenium
9 107 (0.84%) NUnit
10 98 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 83 (0.65%) Sourcetree
12 81 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 71 (0.56%) JUnit
14 64 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
15 57 (0.45%) Jasmine
16 55 (0.43%) Moq
16 55 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
17 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
17 47 (0.37%) webpack
18 43 (0.34%) gulp
General
1 2,089 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 1,868 (14.65%) Finance
3 541 (4.24%) Front Office
4 537 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 482 (3.78%) Marketing
6 480 (3.77%) Banking
7 441 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 395 (3.10%) Retail
9 374 (2.93%) Law
10 353 (2.77%) Games
11 232 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 211 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 179 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 163 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 156 (1.22%) Legal
16 140 (1.10%) Tech for Good
17 134 (1.05%) Advertising
18 125 (0.98%) Telecoms
19 115 (0.90%) Automotive
20 109 (0.86%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,360 (34.20%) .NET
2 2,643 (20.73%) HTML
3 2,517 (19.74%) React
4 2,350 (18.43%) CSS
5 2,107 (16.53%) AngularJS
6 1,831 (14.36%) ASP.NET
7 1,534 (12.03%) .NET Core
8 1,234 (9.68%) Vue
9 1,195 (9.37%) .NET Framework
10 1,179 (9.25%) Node.js
11 1,035 (8.12%) ASP.NET Web API
12 954 (7.48%) Entity Framework
13 940 (7.37%) ASP.NET MVC
14 921 (7.22%) REST
15 877 (6.88%) RESTful
16 868 (6.81%) HTML5
17 724 (5.68%) Web Services
18 698 (5.48%) Laravel
19 695 (5.45%) jQuery
20 511 (4.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 601 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
2 407 (3.19%) Fixed Income
3 380 (2.98%) Hedge funds
4 331 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 306 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 306 (2.40%) Equities
6 301 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 278 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 239 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 226 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 224 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 213 (1.67%) Derivative
12 184 (1.44%) IoT
13 175 (1.37%) Blockchain
14 160 (1.26%) Client/Server
15 143 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
16 133 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 122 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
18 114 (0.89%) Cloud Native
19 111 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 730 (5.73%) Linux
2 461 (3.62%) Windows
3 372 (2.92%) Android
4 314 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 91 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.21%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 18 (0.14%) CentOS
11 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.071%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.031%) AIX
16 4 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.031%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,937 (30.88%) Agile
2 3,362 (26.37%) Full Stack Development
3 1,802 (14.14%) DevOps
4 1,737 (13.63%) MVC
5 1,671 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1,654 (12.97%) Software Engineering
7 1,550 (12.16%) Microservices
8 1,255 (9.84%) TDD
9 1,080 (8.47%) Computer Science
10 1,031 (8.09%) Web Development
11 1,018 (7.99%) Scrum
12 932 (7.31%) CI/CD
13 920 (7.22%) User Experience
14 828 (6.50%) Front End Development
15 816 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
16 795 (6.24%) Mentoring
17 734 (5.76%) Artificial Intelligence
18 723 (5.67%) Design Patterns
19 642 (5.04%) OO
20 638 (5.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,596 (36.05%) JavaScript
2 4,523 (35.48%) C#
3 3,088 (24.22%) SQL
4 1,856 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 1,721 (13.50%) Java
6 1,495 (11.73%) Python
7 1,248 (9.79%) PHP
8 470 (3.69%) C++
9 398 (3.12%) T-SQL
10 244 (1.91%) C
11 233 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 205 (1.61%) VB.NET
13 170 (1.33%) Go
14 158 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 152 (1.19%) PowerShell
16 115 (0.90%) VB
17 113 (0.89%) Ruby
18 107 (0.84%) Scala
19 105 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 75 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,515 (11.88%) Degree
2 614 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 599 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 444 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 138 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 110 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 58 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (0.45%) PhD
10 54 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 52 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 48 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 36 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 18 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.086%) HND
15 11 (0.086%) Postgraduate
16 10 (0.078%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.078%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.047%) CIPD
18 5 (0.039%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (3.42%) QA
2 109 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.53%) GDPR
4 54 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 49 (0.38%) WCAG
6 21 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 14 (0.11%) SLA
9 12 (0.094%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.055%) MiFID
12 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.024%) PMO
13 3 (0.024%) WAI
14 2 (0.016%) EMIR
14 2 (0.016%) GRC
14 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,049 (8.23%) Docker
2 39 (0.31%) Firmware
3 35 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.078%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.008%) Ceph
12 1 (0.008%) GridGain
12 1 (0.008%) OpenSIPS
12 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 714 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 251 (1.97%) Terraform
3 94 (0.74%) Ansible
4 25 (0.20%) Grafana
4 25 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.16%) Kibana
6 15 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.078%) Rancher
8 9 (0.071%) MIIS
9 7 (0.055%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.047%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.047%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.039%) cPanel
11 5 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.031%) Puppet
12 4 (0.031%) WSUS
13 3 (0.024%) Control-M
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
14 2 (0.016%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,249 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 400 (3.14%) Oracle
3 381 (2.99%) Google
4 185 (1.45%) IBM
5 147 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 133 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 128 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 123 (0.96%) Facebook
9 112 (0.88%) Adobe
10 96 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 68 (0.53%) SAP
12 66 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 60 (0.47%) Apple
14 49 (0.38%) MuleSoft
15 46 (0.36%) Progress
16 45 (0.35%) Databricks
16 45 (0.35%) WooCommerce
17 43 (0.34%) YouTube
18 42 (0.33%) Bloomberg
19 40 (0.31%) WSO2