Junior
UK

The median Junior salary in the UK is £30,000 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 228 274 278
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 1,334 1,316 2,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 1.33% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.45% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,099 974 1,744
10th Percentile £22,500 £24,188 £23,000
25th Percentile £24,625 £27,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £56,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £33,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.54% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the UK

Junior
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior.

Salary trend for Junior in the UK

Junior
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior in the UK

Junior
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the UK 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
England +48 1,217 £30,000 -14.29% 458
UK excluding London +64 1,080 £30,000 -9.09% 364
Work from Home +2 403 £35,000 -1.71% 202
South East +42 323 £30,000 -11.76% 95
North of England +90 245 £28,500 -5.00% 65
London -26 236 £37,500 -11.76% 139
Midlands +52 175 £25,500 -32.00% 82
North West +64 158 £27,500 -7.56% 37
South West -2 127 £30,000 -6.98% 58
West Midlands +52 118 £27,000 -32.50% 49
East of England 0 109 £28,250 -13.08% 37
Yorkshire +82 73 £32,500 +0.78% 21
Scotland -16 73 £30,000 -20.00% 21
East Midlands +19 57 £25,000 -28.57% 33
Wales +10 26 £32,500 +8.33% 9
North East -15 14 £27,750 +0.91% 7
Northern Ireland +22 3 £22,000 -42.48% 4

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Junior 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 featuring Junior in the job title.

1 426 (31.93%) Degree
2 333 (24.96%) Social Skills
3 223 (16.72%) Agile
4 216 (16.19%) Microsoft
5 205 (15.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (15.22%) C#
7 196 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 183 (13.72%) Computer Science
9 174 (13.04%) SQL
10 161 (12.07%) Software Engineering
11 153 (11.47%) Azure
12 152 (11.39%) Finance
13 150 (11.24%) JavaScript
14 140 (10.49%) Python
15 139 (10.42%) .NET
16 117 (8.77%) Windows
17 116 (8.70%) Mentoring
18 106 (7.95%) Firmware
19 104 (7.80%) Linux
19 104 (7.80%) Manufacturing
20 99 (7.42%) Electronics
21 98 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
22 97 (7.27%) Java
22 97 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
22 97 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
23 94 (7.05%) DevOps
24 90 (6.75%) HTML
25 89 (6.67%) SQL Server
26 88 (6.60%) Customer Service
27 87 (6.52%) CSS

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 40 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.95%) WordPress
4 16 (1.20%) CMS
5 10 (0.75%) Confluence
6 8 (0.60%) IIS
7 5 (0.37%) nginx
8 4 (0.30%) Apache
8 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Resin
10 2 (0.15%) Site Server
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.075%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.075%) Drupal
11 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.075%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.075%) JBoss
11 1 (0.075%) SAS
Applications
1 58 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.65%) Photoshop
4 21 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 17 (1.27%) InDesign
6 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.67%) Trello
9 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.30%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.22%) Sketch
12 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.075%) CorelDRAW
13 1 (0.075%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.075%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Magento
1 9 (0.67%) Shopify
2 3 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.075%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 153 (11.47%) Azure
2 97 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (6.37%) AWS
4 56 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 44 (3.30%) SaaS
6 31 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 18 (1.35%) GCP
9 17 (1.27%) GitHub
10 13 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (0.90%) PowerApps
12 10 (0.75%) Figma
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.60%) OneDrive
15 7 (0.52%) Google Workspace
15 7 (0.52%) Serverless
16 6 (0.45%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.30%) Wireless
2 37 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (2.55%) Firewall
4 18 (1.35%) Internet
5 13 (0.97%) Unified Communications
6 10 (0.75%) HTTP
6 10 (0.75%) Network Security
7 9 (0.67%) DNS
7 9 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.60%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.37%) VPN
11 4 (0.30%) Broadband
11 4 (0.30%) FTP
11 4 (0.30%) RS-232
11 4 (0.30%) WAN
12 3 (0.22%) DHCP
12 3 (0.22%) Modbus
13 2 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 45 (3.37%) Power BI
3 36 (2.70%) MySQL
4 23 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 19 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (1.05%) MS Access
7 14 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.90%) Big Data
8 12 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (0.82%) Redis
10 10 (0.75%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.45%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.45%) Metadata
11 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.37%) GIS
13 4 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 73 (5.47%) Git
2 32 (2.40%) JIRA
3 27 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 8 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.45%) GitLab
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
6 6 (0.45%) Selenium
7 5 (0.37%) Gradle
8 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.15%) git-flow
10 2 (0.15%) Maven
10 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 2 (0.15%) webpack
11 1 (0.075%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.075%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Forms
General
1 333 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 205 (15.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 152 (11.39%) Finance
4 104 (7.80%) Manufacturing
5 99 (7.42%) Electronics
6 97 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 79 (5.92%) Public Sector
8 68 (5.10%) Marketing
9 43 (3.22%) Law
10 40 (3.00%) Retail
11 37 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.62%) Legal
13 21 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.42%) Games
15 18 (1.35%) Aerospace
16 17 (1.27%) Back Office
17 13 (0.97%) Advertising
18 12 (0.90%) Banking
19 10 (0.75%) Billing
20 9 (0.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (10.42%) .NET
2 90 (6.75%) HTML
3 87 (6.52%) CSS
4 64 (4.80%) React
5 44 (3.30%) Laravel
6 40 (3.00%) .NET Framework
7 35 (2.62%) AngularJS
8 32 (2.40%) ASP.NET
9 30 (2.25%) JSON
9 30 (2.25%) Vue
10 25 (1.87%) Web Services
11 24 (1.80%) REST
12 19 (1.42%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (1.35%) .NET Core
14 17 (1.27%) Entity Framework
15 16 (1.20%) HTML5
15 16 (1.20%) Node.js
15 16 (1.20%) Spring
16 15 (1.12%) Doctrine
16 15 (1.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.57%) Driving Licence
2 58 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (1.87%) Mobile App
5 24 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 23 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 23 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
7 21 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 19 (1.42%) Graphic Design
8 19 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
10 16 (1.20%) Social Media
11 15 (1.12%) FPGA
12 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 11 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 117 (8.77%) Windows
2 104 (7.80%) Linux
3 33 (2.47%) Windows 10
4 18 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.20%) Unix
6 9 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.37%) Debian
9 4 (0.30%) Android
9 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.22%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.15%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) OS/2
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.075%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (16.72%) Agile
2 196 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
3 183 (13.72%) Computer Science
4 161 (12.07%) Software Engineering
5 116 (8.70%) Mentoring
6 94 (7.05%) DevOps
7 88 (6.60%) Customer Service
8 86 (6.45%) Project Management
9 77 (5.77%) Project Planning
10 76 (5.70%) Coaching
11 73 (5.47%) Schematic Capture
12 64 (4.80%) Business Intelligence
13 63 (4.72%) Mathematics
14 59 (4.42%) Full Stack Development
15 57 (4.27%) TDD
16 49 (3.67%) Web Development
17 47 (3.52%) Physics
18 46 (3.45%) Collaborative Working
18 46 (3.45%) Decision-Making
18 46 (3.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 203 (15.22%) C#
2 174 (13.04%) SQL
3 150 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 140 (10.49%) Python
5 97 (7.27%) Java
6 77 (5.77%) PHP
7 71 (5.32%) C
8 56 (4.20%) C++
9 31 (2.32%) Embedded C
10 24 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.35%) Bash
12 17 (1.27%) Go
13 15 (1.12%) Fortran
14 8 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.60%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.60%) R
14 8 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.45%) VB
17 5 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 426 (31.93%) Degree
2 98 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (3.97%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.32%) Master's Degree
5 27 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (1.57%) SC Cleared
7 18 (1.35%) CCNA
7 18 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (1.27%) PhD
9 15 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.52%) HND
13 6 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.37%) OSCP
15 4 (0.30%) CEH
15 4 (0.30%) CISM
15 4 (0.30%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (2.40%) QA
2 27 (2.02%) SLA
3 19 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 18 (1.35%) GDPR
5 10 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.67%) PMO
7 7 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.45%) GMP
9 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.30%) NCSC
10 4 (0.30%) PSD2
11 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.15%) NIST
13 1 (0.075%) IEC 61131
13 1 (0.075%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.075%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.075%) MISRA
System Software
1 106 (7.95%) Firmware
2 84 (6.30%) Docker
3 80 (6.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 59 (4.42%) Active Directory
5 19 (1.42%) KVM
6 9 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) NFS
8 2 (0.15%) Varnish
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (1.35%) Terraform
4 13 (0.97%) Cisco CUCM
4 13 (0.97%) ServiceCenter
5 8 (0.60%) Ansible
6 6 (0.45%) Puppet
7 4 (0.30%) PaperCut
7 4 (0.30%) SCCM
8 3 (0.22%) SCOM
8 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.075%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.075%) Grafana
10 1 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.075%) Nagios
10 1 (0.075%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.075%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 216 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.40%) EMC
3 49 (3.67%) YouTube
4 32 (2.40%) Adobe
5 29 (2.17%) Google
6 28 (2.10%) Cisco
7 26 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.42%) Dell
9 15 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 15 (1.12%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.12%) VMware
10 13 (0.97%) Aruba
10 13 (0.97%) HP
10 13 (0.97%) Meraki
10 13 (0.97%) Oracle
11 12 (0.90%) Progress
12 10 (0.75%) F5
12 10 (0.75%) SAP
13 7 (0.52%) Sage
14 6 (0.45%) Red Hat