Development Manager Jobs

Development Manager
UK

The median Development Manager salary in the UK is £45,000 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 189 369 562
Rank change year-on-year +180 +193 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 1,564 821 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 0.87% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.95% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 405 603
10th Percentile £35,000 - £49,200
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,847 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% -21.43% +12.00%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Manager.

Salary trend for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Manager within the UK 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
England +175 1,350 £45,000 -25.00% 402
UK excluding London +128 1,088 £49,847 -9.37% 287
Work from Home +162 709 £40,000 -38.46% 129
London +249 386 £40,000 -50.00% 114
South East +78 364 £45,000 -25.00% 89
Midlands +131 283 £46,250 -21.28% 46
North of England +81 206 £55,000 +22.16% 84
West Midlands +105 193 £40,060 -30.33% 26
North West +48 118 £55,000 -4.35% 52
East Midlands +43 90 £68,500 +14.17% 20
Scotland +9 90 £65,000 +52.94% 17
Yorkshire +64 74 £50,000 +33.33% 26
East of England -22 56 £60,000 +6.67% 18
South West -31 56 £50,000 +33.33% 32
Wales +45 45 £35,700 +2.00% 4
North East -10 14 £70,000 +47.24% 8
Northern Ireland +29 12 £60,000 - 4

Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Development Manager 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 Development Manager in the job title.

1 1,090 (69.69%) Business Development
2 363 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 288 (18.41%) Finance
4 262 (16.75%) Marketing
5 257 (16.43%) Salesforce
6 255 (16.30%) Agile
7 229 (14.64%) Microsoft
8 223 (14.26%) Microsoft Office
8 223 (14.26%) Customer Experience
9 222 (14.19%) Client Onboarding
10 220 (14.07%) Microsoft Excel
11 206 (13.17%) CRM
12 203 (12.98%) Decision-Making
13 173 (11.06%) Retail
14 154 (9.85%) Logistics
15 132 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
16 127 (8.12%) Degree
17 120 (7.67%) Problem-Solving
18 108 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
19 97 (6.20%) Facilities Management
20 88 (5.63%) .NET
20 88 (5.63%) Telecoms
21 87 (5.56%) B2B
22 85 (5.43%) SaaS
22 85 (5.43%) Commercial Awareness
23 80 (5.12%) Customer Requirements
23 80 (5.12%) CAD
24 76 (4.86%) Financial Modelling
25 74 (4.73%) Data Management
25 74 (4.73%) Contract Negotiation

Development Manager 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 21 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (0.70%) CMS
3 9 (0.58%) WordPress
4 7 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.38%) Apache
5 6 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.38%) nginx
5 6 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.26%) Confluence
6 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.19%) Drupal
7 3 (0.19%) SAS
8 2 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 2 (0.13%) Liferay
8 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.064%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 223 (14.26%) Microsoft Office
2 220 (14.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (2.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 21 (1.34%) Endur
3 16 (1.02%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.19%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 2 (0.13%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.064%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 85 (5.43%) SaaS
2 68 (4.35%) Azure
3 36 (2.30%) AWS
4 22 (1.41%) Power Platform
5 20 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.64%) GCP
7 7 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (0.45%) IBM Cloud
8 6 (0.38%) Asana
8 6 (0.38%) dbt
8 6 (0.38%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.26%) PaaS
10 3 (0.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.19%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.19%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.13%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.13%) npm
11 2 (0.13%) Serverless
11 2 (0.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.60%) VoIP
2 18 (1.15%) Unified Communications
3 16 (1.02%) Broadband
4 9 (0.58%) Network Security
5 8 (0.51%) Firewall
6 6 (0.38%) Internet
6 6 (0.38%) WAN
7 5 (0.32%) DNS
7 5 (0.32%) SSL
8 4 (0.26%) NaaS
8 4 (0.26%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.19%) FTP
9 3 (0.19%) HTTP
9 3 (0.19%) MPLS
9 3 (0.19%) MQTT
9 3 (0.19%) VPN
10 2 (0.13%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.13%) VPLS
10 2 (0.13%) WinSCP
11 1 (0.064%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.47%) Relational Database
3 21 (1.34%) RDBMS
4 14 (0.90%) MySQL
5 11 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.58%) OLAP
6 9 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.51%) Power BI
8 6 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.38%) Dremio
8 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.26%) GIS
10 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.13%) DB2
10 2 (0.13%) DTS
10 2 (0.13%) MS Access
10 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (0.90%) JIRA
2 10 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.32%) Git
4 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.13%) Bower
5 2 (0.13%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.13%) gulp
5 2 (0.13%) Moq
5 2 (0.13%) Selenium
5 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.064%) Postman
General
1 363 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 288 (18.41%) Finance
3 262 (16.75%) Marketing
4 173 (11.06%) Retail
5 132 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 66 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
8 65 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (4.16%) Legal
9 58 (3.71%) Manufacturing
10 47 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 33 (2.11%) Local Government
12 29 (1.85%) Games
13 22 (1.41%) Automotive
13 22 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.09%) Law
16 16 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
18 9 (0.58%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.63%) .NET
2 17 (1.09%) React
3 13 (0.83%) ASP.NET
3 13 (0.83%) HTML
4 11 (0.70%) CSS
5 8 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (0.51%) Node.js
5 8 (0.51%) Redux
6 7 (0.45%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.38%) gRPC
7 6 (0.38%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (0.32%) Ajax
8 5 (0.32%) LAMP
9 4 (0.26%) jQuery
9 4 (0.26%) Laravel
9 4 (0.26%) REST
9 4 (0.26%) Web Services
10 3 (0.19%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.19%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (3.20%) Driving Licence
3 46 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 27 (1.73%) Social Media
5 26 (1.66%) Life Science
6 22 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.34%) Product Ownership
7 21 (1.34%) Swaptions
8 15 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (0.64%) Biopharmaceutical
9 10 (0.64%) FMCG
10 9 (0.58%) e-Learning
10 9 (0.58%) NHS
11 8 (0.51%) CCTV
11 8 (0.51%) Data Centre
11 8 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (0.51%) Learning Management System
12 7 (0.45%) 3D Graphics
12 7 (0.45%) IoT
12 7 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.77%) Windows
2 10 (0.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.064%) Android
3 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.064%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,090 (69.69%) Business Development
2 255 (16.30%) Agile
3 223 (14.26%) Customer Experience
4 222 (14.19%) Client Onboarding
5 206 (13.17%) CRM
6 203 (12.98%) Decision-Making
7 154 (9.85%) Logistics
8 120 (7.67%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (6.20%) Facilities Management
10 87 (5.56%) B2B
11 85 (5.43%) Commercial Awareness
12 80 (5.12%) CAD
12 80 (5.12%) Customer Requirements
13 76 (4.86%) Financial Modelling
14 74 (4.73%) Contract Negotiation
14 74 (4.73%) Data Management
15 73 (4.67%) Software Engineering
16 72 (4.60%) Project Management
17 65 (4.16%) Mentoring
18 60 (3.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 66 (4.22%) C#
2 45 (2.88%) SQL
3 43 (2.75%) Java
4 26 (1.66%) PHP
5 25 (1.60%) Python
6 23 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.47%) VB
7 16 (1.02%) C
8 13 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 13 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.38%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.26%) C++
11 3 (0.19%) R
11 3 (0.19%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.13%) Go
12 2 (0.13%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.13%) XAML
13 1 (0.064%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.064%) RPG
Qualifications
1 127 (8.12%) Degree
2 18 (1.15%) DBS Check
2 18 (1.15%) PhD
3 17 (1.09%) Master's Degree
4 14 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (0.77%) MBA
5 12 (0.77%) Security Cleared
6 10 (0.64%) CFA
6 10 (0.64%) CIMA
6 10 (0.64%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.45%) CIPD
7 7 (0.45%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.19%) ACCA
8 3 (0.19%) HNC
8 3 (0.19%) HND
8 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.064%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.26%) SLA
2 23 (1.47%) QA
3 9 (0.58%) GDPR
4 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.38%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.32%) NCSC
6 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.064%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.064%) IFRS
8 1 (0.064%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.064%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 13 (0.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.32%) Firmware
3 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.064%) PaperCut
3 1 (0.064%) Plesk
3 1 (0.064%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 257 (16.43%) Salesforce
2 229 (14.64%) Microsoft
3 58 (3.71%) SAP
4 31 (1.98%) YouTube
5 21 (1.34%) OpenLink
5 21 (1.34%) Oracle
5 21 (1.34%) Sybase
5 21 (1.34%) TIBCO
6 18 (1.15%) NetApp
7 15 (0.96%) Sage
8 12 (0.77%) IBM
9 10 (0.64%) Intel
10 9 (0.58%) IFS
11 8 (0.51%) Cisco
12 6 (0.38%) BT
12 6 (0.38%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.32%) ATG
13 5 (0.32%) Google
13 5 (0.32%) VMware
14 4 (0.26%) HP