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 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 12,693 13,846 29,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.80% 15.34% 21.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.66% 16.77% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,962 10,691 18,069
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +12.99%

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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £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 May 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 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
London -3 3,670 £75,000 -4.46% 866
North of England +12 2,867 £52,084 -5.30% 462
South East 0 2,245 £57,500 - 279
North West +11 1,704 £52,500 -4.55% 290
Midlands +9 1,570 £50,000 -9.09% 334
South West +4 1,405 £50,000 -9.09% 192
West Midlands +13 1,021 £51,000 -7.27% 209
Yorkshire +15 907 £50,000 -4.76% 130
East of England +12 877 £50,000 -13.04% 141
East Midlands +4 542 £50,000 -9.09% 124
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 45
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4,595 (36.20%) JavaScript
2 4,513 (35.56%) C#
3 4,342 (34.21%) .NET
4 3,921 (30.89%) Agile
5 3,672 (28.93%) Azure
6 3,325 (26.20%) Full Stack Development
7 3,094 (24.38%) SQL
8 2,650 (20.88%) HTML
9 2,504 (19.73%) React
10 2,437 (19.20%) AWS
11 2,357 (18.57%) CSS
12 2,260 (17.81%) Microsoft
13 2,258 (17.79%) SQL Server
14 2,098 (16.53%) AngularJS
15 2,081 (16.39%) Social Skills
16 1,864 (14.69%) Finance
17 1,856 (14.62%) TypeScript
18 1,827 (14.39%) ASP.NET
19 1,795 (14.14%) DevOps
20 1,745 (13.75%) Java
21 1,738 (13.69%) MVC
22 1,662 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
23 1,659 (13.07%) Software Engineering
24 1,550 (12.21%) Microservices
25 1,530 (12.05%) .NET Core
26 1,526 (12.02%) Degree
27 1,502 (11.83%) Python
28 1,438 (11.33%) Git
29 1,251 (9.86%) TDD
29 1,251 (9.86%) PHP

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
1 309 (2.43%) CMS
2 284 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 282 (2.22%) Apache
4 278 (2.19%) WordPress
5 186 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 168 (1.32%) Confluence
7 155 (1.22%) IIS
8 118 (0.93%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.58%) Drupal
10 69 (0.54%) nginx
11 62 (0.49%) OpenEdge
12 54 (0.43%) Headless CMS
13 52 (0.41%) Kentico
14 49 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.32%) OpenStack
16 29 (0.23%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 19 (0.15%) SAS
20 18 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 120 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.14%) Simulink
8 10 (0.079%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.055%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.039%) InDesign
11 5 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.032%) Maya
12 4 (0.032%) Sketch
12 4 (0.032%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 175 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 112 (0.88%) Shopify
3 93 (0.73%) Magento
4 63 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 40 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 34 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 32 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.087%) Visualfiles
12 10 (0.079%) Maximo
13 9 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 7 (0.055%) BPCS
14 7 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
15 6 (0.047%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.039%) Odoo
16 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
16 5 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,672 (28.93%) Azure
2 2,437 (19.20%) AWS
3 973 (7.67%) Power Platform
4 821 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 543 (4.28%) Serverless
6 517 (4.07%) GCP
7 484 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
8 477 (3.76%) SaaS
9 374 (2.95%) PowerApps
10 365 (2.88%) GitHub
11 346 (2.73%) Power Automate
12 249 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
13 230 (1.81%) Azure Functions
14 228 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 225 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 174 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
17 146 (1.15%) Azure API Management
18 130 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
19 95 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
20 87 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (1.65%) Internet
2 64 (0.50%) HTTP
2 64 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 62 (0.49%) DNS
4 43 (0.34%) Firewall
5 36 (0.28%) SSL
6 24 (0.19%) Intranet
6 24 (0.19%) Wireless
7 22 (0.17%) VPN
8 19 (0.15%) Broadband
9 17 (0.13%) Network Security
10 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
11 14 (0.11%) 5G
11 14 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
12 13 (0.10%) MQTT
12 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.087%) BGP
13 11 (0.087%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.087%) MPLS
14 10 (0.079%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,258 (17.79%) SQL Server
2 882 (6.95%) MySQL
3 720 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 646 (5.09%) Power BI
5 564 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 523 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 513 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 295 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 284 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
10 249 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
11 238 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 194 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 171 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
14 167 (1.32%) Redis
15 142 (1.12%) DB2
16 122 (0.96%) Oracle Database
17 107 (0.84%) Data Lake
18 95 (0.75%) Tableau
19 87 (0.69%) DynamoDB
20 83 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,438 (11.33%) Git
2 468 (3.69%) Visual Studio
3 425 (3.35%) JIRA
4 224 (1.76%) Jenkins
5 186 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 140 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 129 (1.02%) GitLab
8 109 (0.86%) Selenium
9 104 (0.82%) NUnit
10 98 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 82 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 82 (0.65%) TeamCity
12 75 (0.59%) JUnit
13 65 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
14 57 (0.45%) Jasmine
15 54 (0.43%) Moq
15 54 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
16 49 (0.39%) webpack
17 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
18 45 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 2,081 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 1,864 (14.69%) Finance
3 546 (4.30%) Front Office
4 529 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 476 (3.75%) Banking
6 471 (3.71%) Marketing
7 435 (3.43%) Public Sector
8 391 (3.08%) Retail
9 375 (2.95%) Law
10 360 (2.84%) Games
11 235 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 210 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 180 (1.42%) Investment Banking
14 173 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 154 (1.21%) Legal
16 141 (1.11%) Tech for Good
17 133 (1.05%) Advertising
18 121 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 111 (0.87%) Automotive
20 107 (0.84%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,342 (34.21%) .NET
2 2,650 (20.88%) HTML
3 2,504 (19.73%) React
4 2,357 (18.57%) CSS
5 2,098 (16.53%) AngularJS
6 1,827 (14.39%) ASP.NET
7 1,530 (12.05%) .NET Core
8 1,226 (9.66%) Vue
9 1,187 (9.35%) .NET Framework
10 1,179 (9.29%) Node.js
11 1,021 (8.04%) ASP.NET Web API
12 939 (7.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 939 (7.40%) Entity Framework
13 931 (7.33%) REST
14 873 (6.88%) HTML5
15 871 (6.86%) RESTful
16 724 (5.70%) Web Services
17 695 (5.48%) Laravel
18 692 (5.45%) jQuery
19 508 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 601 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
2 407 (3.21%) Fixed Income
3 378 (2.98%) Hedge funds
4 329 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 306 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 303 (2.39%) Equities
7 302 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 281 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 238 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 227 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 223 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 214 (1.69%) Derivative
13 182 (1.43%) IoT
14 172 (1.36%) Blockchain
15 160 (1.26%) Client/Server
16 141 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
18 119 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
19 114 (0.90%) Cloud Native
20 113 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 728 (5.74%) Linux
2 458 (3.61%) Windows
3 367 (2.89%) Android
4 314 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.22%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.14%) CentOS
9 18 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
10 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.032%) AIX
15 4 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,921 (30.89%) Agile
2 3,325 (26.20%) Full Stack Development
3 1,795 (14.14%) DevOps
4 1,738 (13.69%) MVC
5 1,662 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1,659 (13.07%) Software Engineering
7 1,550 (12.21%) Microservices
8 1,251 (9.86%) TDD
9 1,080 (8.51%) Computer Science
10 1,032 (8.13%) Web Development
11 1,027 (8.09%) Scrum
12 927 (7.30%) CI/CD
13 914 (7.20%) User Experience
14 836 (6.59%) Front End Development
15 820 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
16 799 (6.29%) Mentoring
17 729 (5.74%) Design Patterns
18 724 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence
19 639 (5.03%) OO
20 625 (4.92%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,595 (36.20%) JavaScript
2 4,513 (35.56%) C#
3 3,094 (24.38%) SQL
4 1,856 (14.62%) TypeScript
5 1,745 (13.75%) Java
6 1,502 (11.83%) Python
7 1,251 (9.86%) PHP
8 467 (3.68%) C++
9 398 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 240 (1.89%) C
11 235 (1.85%) Kotlin
12 204 (1.61%) VB.NET
13 168 (1.32%) Go
14 162 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 156 (1.23%) PowerShell
16 117 (0.92%) Ruby
17 116 (0.91%) VB
18 109 (0.86%) Scala
19 101 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 77 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,526 (12.02%) Degree
2 612 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 610 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 453 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 135 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 122 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 57 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (0.44%) PhD
10 53 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 51 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 50 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 39 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
14 20 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.087%) HND
16 11 (0.087%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.047%) Numerate Degree
18 4 (0.032%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 438 (3.45%) QA
2 111 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 69 (0.54%) GDPR
4 52 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 52 (0.41%) WCAG
5 29 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 21 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.11%) SLA
8 12 (0.095%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.047%) MiFID
11 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
11 3 (0.024%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.024%) PMO
11 3 (0.024%) WAI
12 2 (0.016%) GRC
12 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,065 (8.39%) Docker
2 40 (0.32%) Firmware
3 35 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.079%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.008%) GridGain
11 1 (0.008%) OpenSIPS
11 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 716 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 246 (1.94%) Terraform
3 90 (0.71%) Ansible
4 25 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.19%) Grafana
6 19 (0.15%) Kibana
7 15 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.079%) Rancher
9 9 (0.071%) MIIS
10 7 (0.055%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.047%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.047%) cPanel
11 6 (0.047%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.032%) Control-M
13 4 (0.032%) Puppet
13 4 (0.032%) WSUS
14 2 (0.016%) Consul
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,260 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 404 (3.18%) Oracle
3 375 (2.95%) Google
4 187 (1.47%) IBM
5 147 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 133 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 124 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 122 (0.96%) Facebook
9 113 (0.89%) Adobe
10 96 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 66 (0.52%) SAP
11 66 (0.52%) Sitecore
12 60 (0.47%) Apple
13 48 (0.38%) MuleSoft
13 48 (0.38%) Progress
14 45 (0.35%) Databricks
14 45 (0.35%) WooCommerce
15 42 (0.33%) Bloomberg
15 42 (0.33%) WSO2
15 42 (0.33%) YouTube