Development Engineer Jobs in England

Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Engineer salary in England is £52,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 682 719 824
Rank change year-on-year +37 +105 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 182 175 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 83 120 123
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,725 £35,325
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £80,000
90th Percentile - £91,375 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,168
% change year-on-year -23.08% +17.82% -8.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £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%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +52 100 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Midlands -37 42 £50,000 -13.04% 21
West Midlands -20 28 £50,000 -13.04% 11
London +63 21 £53,000 -29.33% 11
East Midlands -19 14 £47,500 - 10
North of England +1 12 £65,000 -2.29% 19
Yorkshire +65 9 £65,000 -13.97% 3
South West -44 6 £40,000 -20.39% 13
East of England -27 3 £65,000 - 17
North East - 3 - - 4
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (57.69%) Degree
2 77 (42.31%) Electronics
2 77 (42.31%) Manufacturing
3 74 (40.66%) Firmware
3 74 (40.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 71 (39.01%) Schematic Capture
4 71 (39.01%) EMC
4 71 (39.01%) Project Planning
4 71 (39.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (18.68%) DevOps
6 33 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.48%) Python
8 25 (13.74%) C#
8 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
8 25 (13.74%) Git
9 24 (13.19%) Azure
9 24 (13.19%) Agile
10 23 (12.64%) C++
11 21 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (10.44%) SQL
12 19 (10.44%) Computer Science
13 17 (9.34%) Use Case
14 16 (8.79%) Software Testing
15 15 (8.24%) Java
16 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (7.69%) .NET
16 14 (7.69%) Mathematics
16 14 (7.69%) Test Automation
17 13 (7.14%) AWS
17 13 (7.14%) SQL Server

Development Engineer 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 7 (3.85%) Confluence
2 6 (3.30%) CMS
2 6 (3.30%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.55%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Simulink
2 1 (0.55%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.19%) Azure
2 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.14%) AWS
4 7 (3.85%) GitHub
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.30%) IaaS
6 5 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.75%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.75%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.75%) Serverless
7 4 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.10%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.10%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.10%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.85%) Modbus
2 5 (2.75%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.65%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.65%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.65%) MQTT
4 3 (1.65%) RS-232
4 3 (1.65%) RS-422
4 3 (1.65%) RS-485
5 2 (1.10%) LAN
5 2 (1.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.20%) Big Data
3 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.10%) DB2
3 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (13.74%) Git
2 10 (5.49%) Subversion
3 9 (4.95%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.10%) GitLab
5 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.10%) LoadUI
6 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 77 (42.31%) Electronics
1 77 (42.31%) Manufacturing
2 71 (39.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (6.59%) Finance
3 12 (6.59%) Games
4 10 (5.49%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.30%) Automotive
7 4 (2.20%) Military
8 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.69%) .NET
2 10 (5.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 10 (5.49%) Unreal Engine
3 9 (4.95%) REST
4 8 (4.40%) ASP.NET
5 7 (3.85%) React
6 6 (3.30%) JSON
6 6 (3.30%) SOAP
6 6 (3.30%) Web Services
6 6 (3.30%) XML
6 6 (3.30%) XSLT
7 5 (2.75%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.75%) Gherkin
8 4 (2.20%) GTK
9 3 (1.65%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.65%) Kendo UI
9 3 (1.65%) Playwright
10 2 (1.10%) Kafka
10 2 (1.10%) Spring
10 2 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.30%) Analogue Electronics
2 6 (3.30%) Life Science
2 6 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.65%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.10%) Animation
4 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.55%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Windows
2 10 (5.49%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.01%) Project Planning
1 71 (39.01%) Schematic Capture
2 34 (18.68%) DevOps
3 33 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
5 24 (13.19%) Agile
6 19 (10.44%) Computer Science
7 17 (9.34%) Use Case
8 16 (8.79%) Software Testing
9 14 (7.69%) Mathematics
9 14 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 13 (7.14%) SDET
11 12 (6.59%) Containerisation
11 12 (6.59%) Physics
12 11 (6.04%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.04%) Cross-Platform Development
12 11 (6.04%) Multithreading
13 10 (5.49%) Full Stack Development
14 9 (4.95%) Task Automation
15 8 (4.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.48%) Python
2 25 (13.74%) C#
3 23 (12.64%) C++
4 19 (10.44%) SQL
5 15 (8.24%) Java
6 10 (5.49%) MATLAB
7 9 (4.95%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.85%) Bash
10 6 (3.30%) Ruby
10 6 (3.30%) XPath
11 5 (2.75%) C
12 4 (2.20%) Go
12 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.65%) Ada
14 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 105 (57.69%) Degree
2 21 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.75%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (40.66%) Embedded Firmware
1 74 (40.66%) Firmware
2 6 (3.30%) Docker
3 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (39.01%) EMC
2 8 (4.40%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.65%) Telerik
4 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.10%) Cisco
4 2 (1.10%) IBM
4 2 (1.10%) Xilinx