Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,909 7,986 15,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.36% 14.12% 20.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.12% 15.89% 21.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9,240 5,782 10,303
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,173 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.12% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +12 3,130 £52,084 -5.30% 491
South East 0 2,383 £57,500 -4.17% 320
North West +12 1,841 £52,500 -4.55% 304
Midlands +6 1,783 £50,000 -9.09% 338
South West +5 1,490 £50,000 -9.09% 198
West Midlands +11 1,153 £50,000 -9.09% 214
Yorkshire +14 995 £50,000 -4.76% 136
East of England +12 903 £50,000 -11.11% 142
Scotland -18 687 £54,000 -1.82% 113
East Midlands +4 622 £48,500 -11.82% 122
Wales +11 375 £52,500 +16.02% 36
North East +5 294 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Northern Ireland -1 157 £51,500 +3.00% 20
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 2 £36,000 -
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3,980 (36.48%) C#
2 3,914 (35.88%) .NET
3 3,808 (34.91%) JavaScript
4 3,097 (28.39%) Agile
5 2,986 (27.37%) Azure
6 2,720 (24.93%) Full Stack Development
7 2,430 (22.28%) SQL
8 2,349 (21.53%) HTML
9 2,109 (19.33%) CSS
10 1,978 (18.13%) React
11 1,936 (17.75%) Microsoft
12 1,930 (17.69%) SQL Server
13 1,763 (16.16%) AngularJS
14 1,672 (15.33%) Social Skills
15 1,660 (15.22%) AWS
16 1,621 (14.86%) ASP.NET
17 1,589 (14.57%) MVC
18 1,426 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
19 1,417 (12.99%) DevOps
20 1,380 (12.65%) .NET Core
21 1,295 (11.87%) TypeScript
22 1,277 (11.71%) Microservices
23 1,232 (11.29%) Git
24 1,213 (11.12%) PHP
25 1,175 (10.77%) Degree
26 1,134 (10.40%) Software Engineering
27 1,120 (10.27%) Java
28 1,112 (10.19%) .NET Framework
29 1,055 (9.67%) Vue
30 1,017 (9.32%) ASP.NET Web API

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 267 (2.45%) WordPress
2 265 (2.43%) CMS
3 214 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 126 (1.16%) IIS
5 121 (1.11%) Umbraco
6 108 (0.99%) Confluence
7 77 (0.71%) Apache
8 69 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.49%) Headless CMS
10 51 (0.47%) nginx
11 49 (0.45%) OpenEdge
12 44 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.39%) Kentico
14 42 (0.39%) Drupal
15 30 (0.28%) OpenStack
16 27 (0.25%) SAS
17 17 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
18 14 (0.13%) Apache Solr
18 14 (0.13%) IBM Domino
19 12 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 97 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.28%) Adobe XD
3 30 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 26 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 22 (0.20%) Simulink
6 16 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.064%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.046%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.046%) Sketch
10 4 (0.037%) Maya
10 4 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.037%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.028%) InDesign
11 3 (0.028%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.018%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.009%) Blender
13 1 (0.009%) Revit
Business Applications
1 147 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 103 (0.94%) Shopify
3 95 (0.87%) Magento
4 53 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 39 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
6 36 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
7 32 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 27 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.064%) BPCS
9 7 (0.064%) Visualfiles
10 6 (0.055%) Maximo
10 6 (0.055%) Sage 200
11 5 (0.046%) Odoo
11 5 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (0.037%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.037%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 4 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
12 4 (0.037%) SDL Web 8
12 4 (0.037%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 2,986 (27.37%) Azure
2 1,660 (15.22%) AWS
3 736 (6.75%) Power Platform
4 669 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
5 484 (4.44%) SaaS
6 395 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
7 373 (3.42%) Serverless
8 287 (2.63%) PowerApps
9 281 (2.58%) GitHub
10 279 (2.56%) Power Automate
11 216 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
12 172 (1.58%) Azure Functions
12 172 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
13 163 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 136 (1.25%) GCP
15 124 (1.14%) Azure API Management
16 117 (1.07%) IBM Cloud
17 115 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
19 72 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 197 (1.81%) Internet
2 61 (0.56%) DNS
3 60 (0.55%) HTTP
4 47 (0.43%) Firewall
5 40 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.34%) SSL
7 27 (0.25%) Intranet
8 26 (0.24%) Wireless
9 19 (0.17%) MQTT
10 16 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
10 16 (0.15%) Network Security
11 15 (0.14%) 5G
12 13 (0.12%) Broadband
12 13 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.11%) VPN
14 10 (0.092%) WAN
15 9 (0.083%) SMTP
16 8 (0.073%) Mobile Broadband
16 8 (0.073%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.073%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,930 (17.69%) SQL Server
2 820 (7.52%) MySQL
3 525 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 493 (4.52%) Power BI
5 469 (4.30%) NoSQL
6 439 (4.02%) MongoDB
7 390 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 243 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
9 211 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 200 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 165 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
12 118 (1.08%) DB2
12 118 (1.08%) Oracle Database
13 112 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 88 (0.81%) Redis
15 85 (0.78%) Power Query
16 79 (0.72%) Oracle Database 11g
17 71 (0.65%) DynamoDB
18 65 (0.60%) Apache Hive
19 62 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,232 (11.29%) Git
2 412 (3.78%) Visual Studio
3 278 (2.55%) JIRA
4 246 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 156 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 114 (1.05%) GitLab
7 90 (0.83%) Selenium
8 85 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 71 (0.65%) NUnit
10 67 (0.61%) Sourcetree
11 58 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 56 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
12 56 (0.51%) Jasmine
13 53 (0.49%) JUnit
13 53 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
13 53 (0.49%) webpack
14 45 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 42 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
16 37 (0.34%) gulp
16 37 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,672 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 1,003 (9.19%) Finance
3 444 (4.07%) Marketing
4 402 (3.69%) Public Sector
5 400 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 390 (3.58%) Law
7 361 (3.31%) Retail
8 322 (2.95%) Games
9 258 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 251 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 148 (1.36%) Legal
12 146 (1.34%) Banking
13 133 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 131 (1.20%) Tech for Good
15 116 (1.06%) Advertising
16 109 (1.00%) Telecoms
17 101 (0.93%) Automotive
18 88 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 83 (0.76%) Aerospace
20 80 (0.73%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,914 (35.88%) .NET
2 2,349 (21.53%) HTML
3 2,109 (19.33%) CSS
4 1,978 (18.13%) React
5 1,763 (16.16%) AngularJS
6 1,621 (14.86%) ASP.NET
7 1,380 (12.65%) .NET Core
8 1,112 (10.19%) .NET Framework
9 1,055 (9.67%) Vue
10 1,017 (9.32%) ASP.NET Web API
11 959 (8.79%) Node.js
12 913 (8.37%) Entity Framework
13 847 (7.76%) ASP.NET MVC
14 766 (7.02%) HTML5
15 737 (6.76%) RESTful
16 730 (6.69%) REST
17 687 (6.30%) Laravel
18 603 (5.53%) jQuery
19 576 (5.28%) Web Services
20 466 (4.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 470 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
2 332 (3.04%) Mobile App
3 310 (2.84%) Algorithms
4 193 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
5 192 (1.76%) Data Structures
6 190 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 179 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 150 (1.38%) IoT
9 129 (1.18%) Blockchain
10 128 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 117 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 105 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
13 91 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 82 (0.75%) Social Media
15 80 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
16 73 (0.67%) Client/Server
17 69 (0.63%) Cloud Native
18 64 (0.59%) NHS
19 59 (0.54%) Onboarding
20 58 (0.53%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 595 (5.45%) Linux
2 406 (3.72%) Windows
3 361 (3.31%) Android
4 281 (2.58%) Apple iOS
5 115 (1.05%) Unix
6 35 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 25 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 22 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 22 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 21 (0.19%) VMS
10 10 (0.092%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.055%) Alpine Linux
13 5 (0.046%) Windows Mobile
14 4 (0.037%) AIX
14 4 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.018%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,097 (28.39%) Agile
2 2,720 (24.93%) Full Stack Development
3 1,589 (14.57%) MVC
4 1,426 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
5 1,417 (12.99%) DevOps
6 1,277 (11.71%) Microservices
7 1,134 (10.40%) Software Engineering
8 1,000 (9.17%) Web Development
9 970 (8.89%) TDD
10 837 (7.67%) Scrum
11 813 (7.45%) User Experience
12 798 (7.32%) CI/CD
13 780 (7.15%) Computer Science
14 753 (6.90%) Front End Development
15 653 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence
16 632 (5.79%) Mentoring
17 629 (5.77%) Business Intelligence
18 611 (5.60%) Design Patterns
19 531 (4.87%) Unit Testing
20 523 (4.79%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3,980 (36.48%) C#
2 3,808 (34.91%) JavaScript
3 2,430 (22.28%) SQL
4 1,295 (11.87%) TypeScript
5 1,213 (11.12%) PHP
6 1,120 (10.27%) Java
7 822 (7.54%) Python
8 403 (3.69%) C++
9 298 (2.73%) T-SQL
10 243 (2.23%) C
11 205 (1.88%) VB.NET
12 194 (1.78%) PL/SQL
13 133 (1.22%) Go
14 118 (1.08%) VB
15 111 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 105 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 94 (0.86%) Ruby
18 72 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 71 (0.65%) Swift
20 52 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,175 (10.77%) Degree
2 532 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 497 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 391 (3.58%) SC Cleared
5 90 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 81 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 71 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 59 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 51 (0.47%) DV Cleared
10 44 (0.40%) PhD
11 38 (0.35%) AWS Certification
12 36 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 30 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 11 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.092%) HND
16 7 (0.064%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.064%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.055%) CIPD
18 4 (0.037%) Numerate Degree
19 3 (0.028%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (3.21%) QA
2 90 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 57 (0.52%) GDPR
4 40 (0.37%) WCAG
5 35 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 12 (0.11%) SLA
7 10 (0.092%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.092%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.064%) WAI
9 5 (0.046%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.028%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.028%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.018%) GRC
11 2 (0.018%) HL7
11 2 (0.018%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.009%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.009%) ITGC
12 1 (0.009%) NIST
12 1 (0.009%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 761 (6.98%) Docker
2 54 (0.50%) HDFS
3 49 (0.45%) Firmware
4 30 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 22 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.18%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.028%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.018%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.009%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.009%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 474 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 221 (2.03%) Terraform
3 74 (0.68%) Ansible
4 20 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.092%) Rancher
6 9 (0.083%) MIIS
7 8 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.064%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.046%) cPanel
9 5 (0.046%) Grafana
9 5 (0.046%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (0.037%) Puppet
10 4 (0.037%) SCOM
10 4 (0.037%) WSUS
11 3 (0.028%) Galera Cluster
12 2 (0.018%) Plesk
13 1 (0.009%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.009%) Istio
13 1 (0.009%) Nagios
13 1 (0.009%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,936 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 367 (3.36%) Oracle
3 253 (2.32%) Google
4 157 (1.44%) IBM
5 120 (1.10%) Facebook
5 120 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 114 (1.05%) Xamarin
7 93 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 87 (0.80%) Adobe
9 85 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 77 (0.71%) Databricks
11 63 (0.58%) Informatica
11 63 (0.58%) SAP
12 60 (0.55%) Sitecore
13 57 (0.52%) Apple
14 54 (0.50%) Cloudera
15 48 (0.44%) WooCommerce
16 40 (0.37%) Optimizely
17 36 (0.33%) Siebel
17 36 (0.33%) YouTube