Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East 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 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,244 2,399 4,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.29% 16.79% 21.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.13% 18.60% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 1,866 3,190
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year - +4.36% +4.95%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,877 12,901 19,221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.30% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,357 8,146 12,405
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East 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
Thames Valley -3 863 £60,000 -4.00% 105
Hampshire -4 515 £60,000 +9.09% 82
Berkshire -1 441 £65,000 - 42
Surrey -2 292 £55,000 -8.33% 51
Kent +8 244 £55,000 - 31
Buckinghamshire +1 226 £55,000 -3.93% 37
Oxfordshire +3 196 £57,500 -8.00% 26
East Sussex -3 146 £55,000 - 16
West Sussex +9 102 £55,000 -5.98% 10
Sussex +3 55 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Middlesex -37 5 £44,000 -45.00% 1
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,022 (45.54%) .NET
2 1,010 (45.01%) JavaScript
3 1,003 (44.70%) C#
4 840 (37.43%) Agile
5 822 (36.63%) Azure
6 657 (29.28%) Full Stack Development
7 625 (27.85%) HTML
8 618 (27.54%) SQL
9 569 (25.36%) CSS
10 550 (24.51%) React
11 547 (24.38%) SQL Server
12 492 (21.93%) ASP.NET
13 491 (21.88%) AngularJS
14 483 (21.52%) MVC
15 424 (18.89%) Microsoft
16 408 (18.18%) DevOps
17 406 (18.09%) Microservices
18 391 (17.42%) AWS
19 375 (16.71%) .NET Core
20 369 (16.44%) Social Skills
21 351 (15.64%) Git
22 342 (15.24%) Java
23 341 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
24 329 (14.66%) TypeScript
25 325 (14.48%) Degree
26 312 (13.90%) TDD
27 309 (13.77%) Docker
28 294 (13.10%) .NET Framework
29 289 (12.88%) Computer Science
30 281 (12.52%) Vue

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 70 (3.12%) CMS
2 43 (1.92%) IIS
3 39 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 30 (1.34%) Umbraco
6 25 (1.11%) Apache
6 25 (1.11%) Kentico
7 24 (1.07%) Headless CMS
8 21 (0.94%) WordPress
9 20 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
10 18 (0.80%) nginx
11 12 (0.53%) Confluence
11 12 (0.53%) Drupal
11 12 (0.53%) IBM Domino
12 10 (0.45%) JBoss
13 9 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
15 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.18%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.71%) Simulink
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.045%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.045%) InDesign
7 1 (0.045%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 41 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.47%) Siebel CRM
3 17 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.31%) Magento
6 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.22%) Odoo
7 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
7 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
8 2 (0.089%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.089%) nopCommerce
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.089%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.089%) Shopify
9 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 822 (36.63%) Azure
2 391 (17.42%) AWS
3 218 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (7.35%) Serverless
5 111 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 105 (4.68%) SaaS
7 91 (4.06%) Azure Functions
8 86 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 80 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 77 (3.43%) Azure API Management
10 77 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
11 76 (3.39%) GitHub
12 74 (3.30%) IBM Cloud
13 54 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
14 50 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.38%) Power Automate
17 28 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (1.16%) PaaS
19 25 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.58%) Internet
2 24 (1.07%) HTTP
3 19 (0.85%) DNS
4 15 (0.67%) SSL
5 14 (0.62%) Firewall
6 13 (0.58%) Network Security
7 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.36%) VPN
9 7 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
11 4 (0.18%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.18%) LAN
11 4 (0.18%) MQTT
11 4 (0.18%) NAS
11 4 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.13%) Intranet
13 2 (0.089%) Wireless
14 1 (0.045%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 547 (24.38%) SQL Server
2 224 (9.98%) NoSQL
3 199 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (8.20%) Relational Database
5 181 (8.07%) MongoDB
6 161 (7.17%) MySQL
7 92 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
8 78 (3.48%) Power BI
9 74 (3.30%) DB2
10 58 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
11 33 (1.47%) Siebel EIM
12 29 (1.29%) Power Query
13 28 (1.25%) Redis
14 25 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 23 (1.02%) Data Lake
15 23 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 20 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (0.71%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 351 (15.64%) Git
2 103 (4.59%) Visual Studio
3 90 (4.01%) JIRA
4 81 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 54 (2.41%) Selenium
6 42 (1.87%) NUnit
7 36 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 35 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 30 (1.34%) JUnit
10 29 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 26 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (1.07%) Ant
13 22 (0.98%) GitLab
14 19 (0.85%) Bitbucket
15 17 (0.76%) Postman
16 13 (0.58%) Jasmine
17 12 (0.53%) TeamCity
18 10 (0.45%) Maven
18 10 (0.45%) MorphX
19 8 (0.36%) MSBuild
General
1 369 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 243 (10.83%) Finance
3 157 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 90 (4.01%) Marketing
5 72 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (2.81%) Retail
7 54 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.01%) Law
9 41 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 38 (1.69%) Aerospace
11 34 (1.52%) Games
12 27 (1.20%) Advertising
13 26 (1.16%) Tech for Good
14 25 (1.11%) Back Office
15 21 (0.94%) Electronics
16 20 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.76%) Multimedia
18 16 (0.71%) Banking
19 12 (0.53%) Military
20 11 (0.49%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,022 (45.54%) .NET
2 625 (27.85%) HTML
3 569 (25.36%) CSS
4 550 (24.51%) React
5 492 (21.93%) ASP.NET
6 491 (21.88%) AngularJS
7 375 (16.71%) .NET Core
8 294 (13.10%) .NET Framework
9 281 (12.52%) Vue
10 279 (12.43%) HTML5
11 269 (11.99%) ASP.NET Web API
12 268 (11.94%) Entity Framework
13 261 (11.63%) ASP.NET MVC
14 254 (11.32%) Node.js
15 248 (11.05%) REST
16 223 (9.94%) Web Services
17 188 (8.38%) jQuery
18 181 (8.07%) CSS3
19 171 (7.62%) RESTful
20 162 (7.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 120 (5.35%) Algorithms
2 108 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
3 80 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 76 (3.39%) Blockchain
5 74 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 71 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
9 41 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.34%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.02%) Management Information System
13 21 (0.94%) Social Media
14 19 (0.85%) e-Learning
14 19 (0.85%) Mainframe
15 15 (0.67%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.62%) Digital Media
17 13 (0.58%) IoT
17 13 (0.58%) iPhone
17 13 (0.58%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 190 (8.47%) Linux
2 151 (6.73%) Windows
3 105 (4.68%) Android
4 88 (3.92%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.31%) Unix
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.089%) AIX
9 2 (0.089%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (37.43%) Agile
2 657 (29.28%) Full Stack Development
3 483 (21.52%) MVC
4 408 (18.18%) DevOps
5 406 (18.09%) Microservices
6 341 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
7 312 (13.90%) TDD
8 289 (12.88%) Computer Science
9 260 (11.59%) Artificial Intelligence
10 231 (10.29%) Web Development
11 207 (9.22%) Scrum
12 205 (9.14%) CI/CD
13 199 (8.87%) Software Engineering
14 186 (8.29%) User Experience
15 181 (8.07%) BDD
15 181 (8.07%) Design Patterns
16 163 (7.26%) OO
17 162 (7.22%) OOP
18 146 (6.51%) Front End Development
19 141 (6.28%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (45.01%) JavaScript
2 1,003 (44.70%) C#
3 618 (27.54%) SQL
4 342 (15.24%) Java
5 329 (14.66%) TypeScript
6 260 (11.59%) Python
7 205 (9.14%) PHP
8 132 (5.88%) C++
9 70 (3.12%) C
10 69 (3.07%) Go
11 53 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 36 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 25 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.85%) COBOL
15 15 (0.67%) VB.NET
16 13 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.40%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.40%) Scala
19 7 (0.31%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 325 (14.48%) Degree
2 214 (9.54%) Security Cleared
3 171 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 129 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 36 (1.60%) CTC Cleared
6 33 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.80%) PhD
11 16 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.13%) MBA
13 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.045%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.045%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.045%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.045%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.045%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (3.52%) QA
2 33 (1.47%) WCAG
3 21 (0.94%) GDPR
4 19 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.089%) GRC
9 2 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.045%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 309 (13.77%) Docker
2 27 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.18%) Terraform
3 48 (2.14%) Ansible
4 8 (0.36%) MIIS
5 6 (0.27%) Kibana
6 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.18%) WSUS
8 3 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.045%) Grafana
Vendors
1 424 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 94 (4.19%) Oracle
3 83 (3.70%) IBM
4 75 (3.34%) Red Hat
5 55 (2.45%) Google
6 34 (1.52%) WSO2
7 33 (1.47%) Siebel
8 31 (1.38%) Facebook
9 26 (1.16%) SAP
10 24 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.94%) Optimizely
11 21 (0.94%) Xamarin
12 20 (0.89%) Sitecore
13 19 (0.85%) Unisys
14 16 (0.71%) Xilinx
15 14 (0.62%) Apple
16 13 (0.58%) Adobe
16 13 (0.58%) Sony
16 13 (0.58%) Yahoo!
17 12 (0.53%) ServiceNow