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 20 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
20 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 12,738 13,645 29,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.73% 15.42% 21.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.57% 16.85% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,964 10,561 18,019
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,057 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
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% +11.11%

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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -5 3,643 £75,000 -3.23% 1,316
North of England +12 2,906 £52,084 -5.30% 590
South East 0 2,248 £57,500 - 604
North West +11 1,720 £52,500 -4.55% 341
Midlands +9 1,591 £50,000 -9.09% 427
South West +4 1,415 £50,000 -9.09% 233
West Midlands +13 1,036 £50,000 -9.09% 286
Yorkshire +14 924 £50,000 -4.76% 184
East of England +13 879 £50,000 -13.04% 162
East Midlands +2 547 £50,000 -9.09% 140
North East +6 262 £50,000 -9.09% 70
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 4,603 (36.14%) JavaScript
2 4,524 (35.52%) C#
3 4,365 (34.27%) .NET
4 3,947 (30.99%) Agile
5 3,692 (28.98%) Azure
6 3,365 (26.42%) Full Stack Development
7 3,075 (24.14%) SQL
8 2,650 (20.80%) HTML
9 2,518 (19.77%) React
10 2,446 (19.20%) AWS
11 2,359 (18.52%) CSS
12 2,273 (17.84%) SQL Server
13 2,246 (17.63%) Microsoft
14 2,104 (16.52%) AngularJS
15 2,076 (16.30%) Social Skills
16 1,867 (14.66%) TypeScript
16 1,867 (14.66%) Finance
17 1,837 (14.42%) ASP.NET
18 1,804 (14.16%) DevOps
19 1,744 (13.69%) MVC
20 1,712 (13.44%) Java
21 1,672 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
22 1,657 (13.01%) Software Engineering
23 1,546 (12.14%) Microservices
24 1,536 (12.06%) .NET Core
25 1,514 (11.89%) Degree
26 1,500 (11.78%) Python
27 1,443 (11.33%) Git
28 1,254 (9.84%) TDD
29 1,250 (9.81%) 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
1 316 (2.48%) CMS
2 298 (2.34%) Apache
3 276 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 274 (2.15%) WordPress
5 206 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
6 159 (1.25%) Confluence
7 153 (1.20%) IIS
8 117 (0.92%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.58%) Drupal
10 68 (0.53%) nginx
11 61 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.42%) Headless CMS
13 51 (0.40%) Kentico
14 49 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.32%) OpenStack
16 27 (0.21%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 20 (0.16%) SAS
20 19 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 118 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.34%) Photoshop
4 29 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 20 (0.16%) Simulink
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.063%) 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 (0.031%) Maya
12 4 (0.031%) Sketch
12 4 (0.031%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) GNU Octave
13 3 (0.024%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 172 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 113 (0.89%) Shopify
3 94 (0.74%) Magento
4 63 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 46 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 40 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 35 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 33 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
8 33 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
10 11 (0.086%) Visualfiles
11 9 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 8 (0.063%) Maximo
13 7 (0.055%) BPCS
14 6 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
15 5 (0.039%) Odoo
15 5 (0.039%) Oracle Financials
15 5 (0.039%) Sage 200
15 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,692 (28.98%) Azure
2 2,446 (19.20%) AWS
3 964 (7.57%) Power Platform
4 817 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 541 (4.25%) Serverless
6 532 (4.18%) GCP
7 481 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
8 477 (3.74%) SaaS
9 370 (2.90%) PowerApps
10 365 (2.87%) GitHub
11 345 (2.71%) Power Automate
12 245 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 229 (1.80%) Azure Functions
14 225 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 224 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 178 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.14%) Azure API Management
18 130 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
19 94 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 87 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (1.64%) Internet
2 63 (0.49%) HTTP
2 63 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 60 (0.47%) DNS
4 44 (0.35%) Firewall
5 36 (0.28%) SSL
6 24 (0.19%) Wireless
7 22 (0.17%) Intranet
7 22 (0.17%) VPN
8 20 (0.16%) Broadband
9 19 (0.15%) Network Security
10 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
11 15 (0.12%) 5G
11 15 (0.12%) Mobile Broadband
12 13 (0.10%) MQTT
12 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.086%) BGP
13 11 (0.086%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.086%) MPLS
14 10 (0.079%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,273 (17.84%) SQL Server
2 888 (6.97%) MySQL
3 729 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
4 647 (5.08%) Power BI
5 565 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 522 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 511 (4.01%) Relational Database
8 290 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 283 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 245 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
11 239 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 191 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
13 189 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 167 (1.31%) Redis
15 142 (1.11%) DB2
16 119 (0.93%) Oracle Database
17 114 (0.89%) Data Lake
18 89 (0.70%) DynamoDB
19 86 (0.68%) Tableau
20 84 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,443 (11.33%) Git
2 466 (3.66%) Visual Studio
3 422 (3.31%) JIRA
4 223 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 172 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 145 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 139 (1.09%) GitLab
8 110 (0.86%) NUnit
9 109 (0.86%) Selenium
10 98 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 85 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 84 (0.66%) Sourcetree
13 71 (0.56%) JUnit
14 65 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
15 59 (0.46%) Moq
16 56 (0.44%) Jasmine
17 55 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
18 48 (0.38%) webpack
19 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
20 43 (0.34%) gulp
General
1 2,076 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 1,867 (14.66%) Finance
3 543 (4.26%) Front Office
4 536 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 486 (3.82%) Marketing
6 481 (3.78%) Banking
7 441 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 394 (3.09%) Retail
9 374 (2.94%) Law
10 350 (2.75%) Games
11 232 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 210 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 177 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 160 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 156 (1.22%) Legal
16 143 (1.12%) Tech for Good
17 134 (1.05%) Advertising
18 125 (0.98%) Telecoms
19 117 (0.92%) Automotive
20 109 (0.86%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,365 (34.27%) .NET
2 2,650 (20.80%) HTML
3 2,518 (19.77%) React
4 2,359 (18.52%) CSS
5 2,104 (16.52%) AngularJS
6 1,837 (14.42%) ASP.NET
7 1,536 (12.06%) .NET Core
8 1,233 (9.68%) Vue
9 1,200 (9.42%) .NET Framework
10 1,175 (9.22%) Node.js
11 1,033 (8.11%) ASP.NET Web API
12 957 (7.51%) Entity Framework
13 947 (7.43%) ASP.NET MVC
14 920 (7.22%) REST
15 883 (6.93%) RESTful
16 870 (6.83%) HTML5
17 726 (5.70%) Web Services
18 701 (5.50%) jQuery
19 698 (5.48%) Laravel
20 512 (4.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 598 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
2 410 (3.22%) Fixed Income
3 384 (3.01%) Hedge funds
4 331 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 311 (2.44%) Equities
6 306 (2.40%) Algorithms
7 301 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 278 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 238 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 225 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 222 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 215 (1.69%) Derivative
13 183 (1.44%) IoT
14 175 (1.37%) Blockchain
15 159 (1.25%) Client/Server
16 143 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 123 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
19 115 (0.90%) Cloud Native
20 111 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 726 (5.70%) Linux
2 461 (3.62%) Windows
3 371 (2.91%) Android
4 314 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.21%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 18 (0.14%) CentOS
11 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.071%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.031%) AIX
16 4 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.031%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,947 (30.99%) Agile
2 3,365 (26.42%) Full Stack Development
3 1,804 (14.16%) DevOps
4 1,744 (13.69%) MVC
5 1,672 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
6 1,657 (13.01%) Software Engineering
7 1,546 (12.14%) Microservices
8 1,254 (9.84%) TDD
9 1,080 (8.48%) Computer Science
10 1,030 (8.09%) Web Development
11 1,013 (7.95%) Scrum
12 929 (7.29%) CI/CD
13 922 (7.24%) User Experience
14 826 (6.48%) Front End Development
15 814 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
16 788 (6.19%) Mentoring
17 742 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence
18 716 (5.62%) Design Patterns
19 641 (5.03%) OO
20 640 (5.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,603 (36.14%) JavaScript
2 4,524 (35.52%) C#
3 3,075 (24.14%) SQL
4 1,867 (14.66%) TypeScript
5 1,712 (13.44%) Java
6 1,500 (11.78%) Python
7 1,250 (9.81%) PHP
8 469 (3.68%) C++
9 401 (3.15%) T-SQL
10 244 (1.92%) C
11 233 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 205 (1.61%) VB.NET
13 170 (1.33%) Go
14 157 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 151 (1.19%) PowerShell
16 114 (0.89%) Ruby
16 114 (0.89%) VB
17 106 (0.83%) Scala
18 104 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 75 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,514 (11.89%) Degree
2 612 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 599 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 443 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 137 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 108 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 59 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (0.45%) PhD
10 54 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 52 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 48 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 36 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 18 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.086%) HND
15 11 (0.086%) Postgraduate
16 10 (0.079%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.079%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.047%) CIPD
18 5 (0.039%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (3.38%) QA
2 108 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.53%) GDPR
4 54 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 51 (0.40%) WCAG
6 21 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 14 (0.11%) SLA
9 12 (0.094%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.055%) MiFID
12 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.024%) PMO
13 3 (0.024%) WAI
14 2 (0.016%) EMIR
14 2 (0.016%) GRC
14 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,049 (8.24%) Docker
2 39 (0.31%) Firmware
3 35 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.071%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.008%) Ceph
12 1 (0.008%) GridGain
12 1 (0.008%) OpenSIPS
12 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 717 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 250 (1.96%) Terraform
3 94 (0.74%) Ansible
4 25 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.19%) Grafana
6 20 (0.16%) 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%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.039%) cPanel
12 5 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.031%) Puppet
13 4 (0.031%) WSUS
14 3 (0.024%) Control-M
15 2 (0.016%) Nagios
15 2 (0.016%) Packer
15 2 (0.016%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,246 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 399 (3.13%) Oracle
3 385 (3.02%) Google
4 184 (1.44%) IBM
5 148 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 133 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 128 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 123 (0.97%) Facebook
9 112 (0.88%) Adobe
10 96 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 68 (0.53%) SAP
12 66 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 60 (0.47%) Apple
14 49 (0.38%) MuleSoft
15 46 (0.36%) Progress
16 45 (0.35%) Databricks
16 45 (0.35%) WooCommerce
17 43 (0.34%) YouTube
18 42 (0.33%) Bloomberg
19 41 (0.32%) WSO2