Software Developer Jobs in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer salary in England is £53,500 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 145 196 148
Rank change year-on-year +51 -48 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,735 1,691 3,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.01% 1.91% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 2.09% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,354 2,116
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £70,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in England.

Salary trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in England

Software 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 Software 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
North of England +104 382 £49,500 -10.00% 90
South East -44 374 £60,000 +4.35% 94
South West +71 296 £50,000 - 52
London -47 262 £85,000 +9.68% 104
Midlands +65 252 £47,500 -5.00% 84
North West +83 218 £50,000 -9.09% 48
West Midlands +82 169 £50,000 -4.76% 53
East of England +62 160 £50,000 -9.09% 26
Yorkshire +99 126 £48,500 -15.65% 30
East Midlands +11 82 £43,000 -7.53% 31
North East +14 38 £47,500 -9.52% 15
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 946 (54.52%) C#
2 794 (45.76%) .NET
3 603 (34.76%) JavaScript
4 557 (32.10%) Agile
5 480 (27.67%) SQL
6 379 (21.84%) Software Engineering
7 350 (20.17%) Azure
8 342 (19.71%) Degree
8 342 (19.71%) Social Skills
9 340 (19.60%) SQL Server
10 305 (17.58%) Java
11 289 (16.66%) HTML
12 288 (16.60%) Full Stack Development
13 275 (15.85%) DevOps
14 272 (15.68%) AWS
15 266 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
16 265 (15.27%) CSS
17 259 (14.93%) Computer Science
18 258 (14.87%) React
19 254 (14.64%) TypeScript
20 246 (14.18%) Python
21 231 (13.31%) Finance
22 227 (13.08%) .NET Core
23 210 (12.10%) ASP.NET
24 207 (11.93%) MVC
25 203 (11.70%) AngularJS
26 201 (11.59%) Docker
27 200 (11.53%) Microsoft
28 192 (11.07%) .NET Framework
29 188 (10.84%) Git

Software 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 75 (4.32%) Apache
2 63 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (0.98%) CMS
4 10 (0.58%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.46%) Confluence
5 8 (0.46%) IIS
6 7 (0.40%) Mendix
6 7 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Drupal
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.058%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.058%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (0.92%) Simulink
2 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.058%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) BPCS
1 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.40%) Shopify
2 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.12%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.058%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 350 (20.17%) Azure
2 272 (15.68%) AWS
3 134 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (4.84%) GCP
5 71 (4.09%) SaaS
6 64 (3.69%) GitHub
7 63 (3.63%) dbt
8 52 (3.00%) Snowflake
9 48 (2.77%) Serverless
10 28 (1.61%) Power Platform
11 27 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (0.98%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.69%) Pulumi
15 10 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (0.58%) Azure Pipelines
15 10 (0.58%) PaaS
16 9 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.10%) Internet
2 13 (0.75%) Network Security
2 13 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 13 (0.75%) Wireless
3 6 (0.35%) DNS
4 5 (0.29%) 4G
4 5 (0.29%) 5G
4 5 (0.29%) Firewall
5 4 (0.23%) HTTP
5 4 (0.23%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.23%) LAN
5 4 (0.23%) Multicast
5 4 (0.23%) NAS
5 4 (0.23%) VPN
5 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.12%) RS-232
6 2 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (19.60%) SQL Server
2 103 (5.94%) MySQL
3 95 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 64 (3.69%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
5 63 (3.63%) Apache Arrow
5 63 (3.63%) Apache Ignite
5 63 (3.63%) Dremio
6 48 (2.77%) Data Lake
7 46 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (1.73%) Redis
9 24 (1.38%) MongoDB
10 17 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.69%) Power BI
14 10 (0.58%) GIS
15 8 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.46%) SQLite
16 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 188 (10.84%) Git
2 90 (5.19%) Visual Studio
3 39 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.90%) JIRA
5 19 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 19 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (1.04%) NUnit
6 18 (1.04%) Selenium
6 18 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 14 (0.81%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.81%) Maven
9 13 (0.75%) Jasmine
10 11 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.52%) Gradle
11 9 (0.52%) PHPUnit
12 8 (0.46%) CMake
12 8 (0.46%) Moq
12 8 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 342 (19.71%) Social Skills
2 231 (13.31%) Finance
3 78 (4.50%) Banking
4 75 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (3.80%) Front Office
6 65 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 63 (3.63%) Investment Banking
8 50 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 40 (2.31%) Marketing
10 39 (2.25%) Law
11 38 (2.19%) Electronics
12 35 (2.02%) Retail
13 30 (1.73%) Automotive
13 30 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.38%) Tech for Good
15 23 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.15%) Legal
17 19 (1.10%) Games
18 16 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.86%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 794 (45.76%) .NET
2 289 (16.66%) HTML
3 265 (15.27%) CSS
4 258 (14.87%) React
5 227 (13.08%) .NET Core
6 210 (12.10%) ASP.NET
7 203 (11.70%) AngularJS
8 192 (11.07%) .NET Framework
9 128 (7.38%) RESTful
10 118 (6.80%) Entity Framework
11 82 (4.73%) Node.js
12 80 (4.61%) HTML5
13 74 (4.27%) ASP.NET Web API
13 74 (4.27%) Vue
14 73 (4.21%) REST
15 67 (3.86%) Pandas
16 66 (3.80%) Protocol Buffers
17 65 (3.75%) NumPy
18 64 (3.69%) gRPC
18 64 (3.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 62 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 59 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 58 (3.34%) Hedge funds
3 58 (3.34%) Mobile App
4 56 (3.23%) Derivative
4 56 (3.23%) Equities
5 52 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 51 (2.94%) IoT
7 47 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 32 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 31 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.67%) Client/Server
11 28 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
13 24 (1.38%) Cloud Native
14 20 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (0.92%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.69%) Digital Media
16 12 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.26%) Windows
2 121 (6.97%) Linux
3 47 (2.71%) Apple iOS
4 38 (2.19%) Android
5 16 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
6 13 (0.75%) Unix
7 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Mobile
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (32.10%) Agile
2 379 (21.84%) Software Engineering
3 288 (16.60%) Full Stack Development
4 275 (15.85%) DevOps
5 266 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 259 (14.93%) Computer Science
7 207 (11.93%) MVC
8 154 (8.88%) Microservices
9 150 (8.65%) CI/CD
10 134 (7.72%) Mentoring
11 129 (7.44%) TDD
12 116 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
13 109 (6.28%) SDLC
13 109 (6.28%) Unit Testing
14 103 (5.94%) Code Quality
14 103 (5.94%) Test Automation
15 102 (5.88%) Design Patterns
16 100 (5.76%) Clean Code
17 97 (5.59%) Scrum
18 93 (5.36%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 946 (54.52%) C#
2 603 (34.76%) JavaScript
3 480 (27.67%) SQL
4 305 (17.58%) Java
5 254 (14.64%) TypeScript
6 246 (14.18%) Python
7 129 (7.44%) C++
8 111 (6.40%) C
9 90 (5.19%) PHP
10 46 (2.65%) VB.NET
11 37 (2.13%) Go
11 37 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 35 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 29 (1.67%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.44%) Ruby
15 20 (1.15%) VB
16 12 (0.69%) Embedded C
17 11 (0.63%) Rust
18 10 (0.58%) Bicep
19 9 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 342 (19.71%) Degree
2 142 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 29 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 26 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.15%) PhD
8 17 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.23%) CIPD
11 4 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.23%) MCSD
12 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.12%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.12%) HND
14 1 (0.058%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.52%) QA
2 8 (0.46%) GDPR
3 5 (0.29%) SLA
4 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 201 (11.59%) Docker
2 10 (0.58%) Firmware
3 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.058%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 157 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.11%) Terraform
3 13 (0.75%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Kibana
5 7 (0.40%) MIIS
6 5 (0.29%) Grafana
6 5 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.23%) WSUS
8 1 (0.058%) Kiali
8 1 (0.058%) Knative
8 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 200 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.07%) Oracle
3 35 (2.02%) Google
4 25 (1.44%) Xamarin
5 16 (0.92%) Xilinx
6 14 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 12 (0.69%) Facebook
8 9 (0.52%) IBM
8 9 (0.52%) NVIDIA
9 8 (0.46%) F5
10 7 (0.40%) JDA
10 7 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.40%) Quadient
11 6 (0.35%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
11 6 (0.35%) YouTube
12 5 (0.29%) ESRI
12 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus
12 5 (0.29%) Peregrine
12 5 (0.29%) SAP