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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 13,916 12,733 30,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.77% 15.40% 21.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.62% 16.89% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,789 9,990 17,654
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,318 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.36% +8.33% +9.09%

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 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -4 3,790 £75,000 -4.76% 857
North of England +12 3,255 £52,500 -4.55% 536
South East 0 2,472 £57,500 -4.17% 322
North West +11 1,919 £52,500 -4.55% 325
Midlands +6 1,887 £50,000 -9.09% 342
South West +4 1,522 £50,000 -9.09% 191
West Midlands +11 1,207 £50,000 -9.09% 208
Yorkshire +14 1,025 £50,000 -4.76% 150
East of England +13 926 £50,000 -13.04% 147
East Midlands +3 672 £50,000 -9.09% 134
North East +4 311 £50,000 -9.09% 66
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 4,788 (34.41%) JavaScript
2 4,776 (34.32%) C#
3 4,661 (33.49%) .NET
4 4,083 (29.34%) Agile
5 3,834 (27.55%) Azure
6 3,580 (25.73%) Full Stack Development
7 3,162 (22.72%) SQL
8 2,754 (19.79%) HTML
9 2,617 (18.81%) React
10 2,542 (18.27%) AWS
11 2,456 (17.65%) CSS
12 2,352 (16.90%) SQL Server
13 2,264 (16.27%) Microsoft
14 2,181 (15.67%) AngularJS
15 2,120 (15.23%) Social Skills
16 1,947 (13.99%) Finance
17 1,915 (13.76%) TypeScript
18 1,905 (13.69%) ASP.NET
19 1,806 (12.98%) DevOps
20 1,766 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
20 1,766 (12.69%) MVC
21 1,729 (12.42%) Java
22 1,713 (12.31%) Software Engineering
23 1,598 (11.48%) .NET Core
24 1,567 (11.26%) Microservices
25 1,565 (11.25%) Python
26 1,538 (11.05%) Degree
27 1,447 (10.40%) Git
28 1,337 (9.61%) PHP
29 1,291 (9.28%) Vue

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
1 330 (2.37%) Apache
1 330 (2.37%) CMS
2 291 (2.09%) WordPress
3 268 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 232 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 158 (1.14%) IIS
6 134 (0.96%) Confluence
7 120 (0.86%) Umbraco
8 75 (0.54%) Drupal
9 67 (0.48%) nginx
10 65 (0.47%) OpenEdge
11 54 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
12 53 (0.38%) Headless CMS
13 51 (0.37%) Kentico
14 33 (0.24%) OpenStack
15 29 (0.21%) Appian
16 24 (0.17%) Mendix
16 24 (0.17%) Tomcat
17 23 (0.17%) SAS
18 19 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 119 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 24 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 24 (0.17%) Simulink
6 18 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.050%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.050%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.036%) InDesign
10 5 (0.036%) Sketch
10 5 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.029%) Maya
11 4 (0.029%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.029%) Trello
12 3 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.022%) GNU Octave
12 3 (0.022%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 191 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 120 (0.86%) Shopify
3 111 (0.80%) Magento
4 63 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
5 49 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 37 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
8 36 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
8 36 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 20 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 16 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
11 12 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.050%) BPCS
13 6 (0.043%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.036%) Maximo
14 5 (0.036%) Odoo
14 5 (0.036%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.036%) Sage 200
14 5 (0.036%) SAP BPC
14 5 (0.036%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,834 (27.55%) Azure
2 2,542 (18.27%) AWS
3 996 (7.16%) Power Platform
4 820 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
5 545 (3.92%) GCP
6 540 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
7 535 (3.84%) SaaS
8 529 (3.80%) Serverless
9 381 (2.74%) PowerApps
10 367 (2.64%) GitHub
11 350 (2.52%) Power Automate
12 277 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
13 229 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 226 (1.62%) Azure Functions
15 220 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 172 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
17 142 (1.02%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.93%) IBM Cloud
19 102 (0.73%) dbt
20 97 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 210 (1.51%) Internet
2 65 (0.47%) HTTP
3 63 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 60 (0.43%) DNS
5 49 (0.35%) Firewall
6 39 (0.28%) SSL
7 27 (0.19%) VPN
8 26 (0.19%) Wireless
9 24 (0.17%) Network Security
10 23 (0.17%) Intranet
11 20 (0.14%) Broadband
12 16 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.11%) 5G
13 15 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.093%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.086%) MQTT
16 11 (0.079%) BGP
16 11 (0.079%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.079%) MPLS
17 10 (0.072%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,352 (16.90%) SQL Server
2 931 (6.69%) MySQL
3 736 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 653 (4.69%) Power BI
5 573 (4.12%) MongoDB
6 517 (3.72%) Relational Database
7 505 (3.63%) NoSQL
8 291 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 287 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
10 241 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 240 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 216 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
13 185 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 165 (1.19%) Redis
15 141 (1.01%) DB2
16 128 (0.92%) Data Lake
17 115 (0.83%) Oracle Database
18 99 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
19 97 (0.70%) Dremio
20 96 (0.69%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 1,447 (10.40%) Git
2 451 (3.24%) Visual Studio
3 404 (2.90%) JIRA
4 204 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 157 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 147 (1.06%) GitLab
7 142 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 114 (0.82%) NUnit
9 109 (0.78%) Selenium
10 102 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
11 88 (0.63%) TeamCity
12 86 (0.62%) Sourcetree
13 72 (0.52%) JUnit
14 68 (0.49%) Moq
14 68 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
15 53 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
16 52 (0.37%) Jasmine
16 52 (0.37%) webpack
17 45 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
18 44 (0.32%) gulp
General
1 2,120 (15.23%) Social Skills
2 1,947 (13.99%) Finance
3 553 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
4 550 (3.95%) Front Office
5 529 (3.80%) Marketing
6 486 (3.49%) Banking
7 446 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 423 (3.04%) Retail
9 386 (2.77%) Law
10 360 (2.59%) Games
11 250 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 226 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 191 (1.37%) Legal
14 189 (1.36%) Investment Banking
15 163 (1.17%) Tech for Good
16 143 (1.03%) Advertising
17 136 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
18 134 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 117 (0.84%) Automotive
20 116 (0.83%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,661 (33.49%) .NET
2 2,754 (19.79%) HTML
3 2,617 (18.81%) React
4 2,456 (17.65%) CSS
5 2,181 (15.67%) AngularJS
6 1,905 (13.69%) ASP.NET
7 1,598 (11.48%) .NET Core
8 1,291 (9.28%) Vue
9 1,240 (8.91%) .NET Framework
10 1,186 (8.52%) Node.js
11 1,097 (7.88%) ASP.NET Web API
12 995 (7.15%) Entity Framework
13 954 (6.86%) ASP.NET MVC
14 919 (6.60%) RESTful
15 911 (6.55%) REST
16 886 (6.37%) HTML5
17 743 (5.34%) Web Services
18 737 (5.30%) Laravel
19 717 (5.15%) jQuery
20 524 (3.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 622 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
2 418 (3.00%) Fixed Income
3 399 (2.87%) Hedge funds
4 363 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 328 (2.36%) Algorithms
6 319 (2.29%) Equities
7 311 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 273 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 245 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 236 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 224 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 220 (1.58%) Derivative
13 197 (1.42%) IoT
14 187 (1.34%) Blockchain
15 162 (1.16%) Client/Server
16 138 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
17 135 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
18 133 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
19 117 (0.84%) Cloud Native
20 109 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 744 (5.35%) Linux
2 470 (3.38%) Windows
3 397 (2.85%) Android
4 328 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.65%) Unix
6 35 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
7 29 (0.21%) VMS
8 26 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.12%) CentOS
10 16 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.057%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.036%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.036%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.029%) AIX
15 4 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.029%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.014%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,083 (29.34%) Agile
2 3,580 (25.73%) Full Stack Development
3 1,806 (12.98%) DevOps
4 1,766 (12.69%) MVC
4 1,766 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1,713 (12.31%) Software Engineering
6 1,567 (11.26%) Microservices
7 1,281 (9.21%) TDD
8 1,121 (8.06%) Computer Science
9 1,090 (7.83%) Web Development
10 1,017 (7.31%) Scrum
11 960 (6.90%) User Experience
12 955 (6.86%) CI/CD
13 878 (6.31%) Front End Development
14 804 (5.78%) Mentoring
15 803 (5.77%) Business Intelligence
16 775 (5.57%) Artificial Intelligence
17 706 (5.07%) Design Patterns
18 675 (4.85%) OO
19 670 (4.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,788 (34.41%) JavaScript
2 4,776 (34.32%) C#
3 3,162 (22.72%) SQL
4 1,915 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 1,729 (12.42%) Java
6 1,565 (11.25%) Python
7 1,337 (9.61%) PHP
8 495 (3.56%) C++
9 406 (2.92%) T-SQL
10 253 (1.82%) C
11 236 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 220 (1.58%) VB.NET
13 188 (1.35%) Go
14 157 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 155 (1.11%) PowerShell
16 121 (0.87%) Ruby
17 116 (0.83%) VB
18 114 (0.82%) Scala
19 107 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 80 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,538 (11.05%) Degree
2 642 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 600 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 433 (3.11%) SC Cleared
5 150 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 87 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 78 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 68 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 61 (0.44%) PhD
10 58 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 41 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.079%) Postgraduate
16 10 (0.072%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.072%) HND
17 7 (0.050%) Numerate Degree
18 6 (0.043%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (3.10%) QA
2 112 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 71 (0.51%) GDPR
4 52 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 47 (0.34%) WCAG
6 19 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.093%) SLA
8 12 (0.086%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.086%) MiFID
9 10 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.043%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.029%) EMIR
12 3 (0.022%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.022%) GRC
12 3 (0.022%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.022%) PMO
12 3 (0.022%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.014%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.014%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.014%) WAI
System Software
1 1,016 (7.30%) Docker
2 41 (0.29%) Firmware
3 35 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 26 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 23 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.050%) HDFS
9 6 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.022%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.014%) KVM
11 2 (0.014%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.007%) Ceph
12 1 (0.007%) GridGain
12 1 (0.007%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.007%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 693 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 245 (1.76%) Terraform
3 83 (0.60%) Ansible
4 28 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.18%) Grafana
6 22 (0.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.072%) MIIS
8 10 (0.072%) Rancher
9 7 (0.050%) cPanel
9 7 (0.050%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.043%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.043%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.036%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (0.036%) SCOM
12 4 (0.029%) Control-M
12 4 (0.029%) Puppet
12 4 (0.029%) WSUS
13 3 (0.022%) Packer
13 3 (0.022%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2,264 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 404 (2.90%) Oracle
3 384 (2.76%) Google
4 176 (1.26%) IBM
5 161 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 154 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 135 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 124 (0.89%) Adobe
9 123 (0.88%) Facebook
10 102 (0.73%) Xamarin
11 71 (0.51%) Sitecore
12 70 (0.50%) SAP
13 59 (0.42%) Apple
14 50 (0.36%) MuleSoft
15 48 (0.34%) Progress
15 48 (0.34%) WooCommerce
16 43 (0.31%) Bloomberg
16 43 (0.31%) Databricks
16 43 (0.31%) F5
16 43 (0.31%) YouTube