Backend Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Backend Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 622 595 562
Rank change year-on-year -27 -33 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 158 133 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.24% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 134 113 163
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% +9.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63,438 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £68,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +39 65 £55,000 -18.52% 10
North West -3 42 £50,000 -25.93% 6
Midlands -23 25 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire +74 22 £57,500 -25.81% 2
East of England -9 19 £42,500 +13.33% 5
West Midlands 0 18 £45,000 - 5
South West -37 18 £47,500 -17.39% 1
South East -56 16 £65,000 - 2
Scotland -59 11 £53,500 -35.54% 2
East Midlands -25 7 £35,000 -9.09% 1
Wales +15 4 £40,000 -
North East -17 1 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Backend Developer
UK

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Backend 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 UK excluding London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 50 (31.65%) C#
2 48 (30.38%) JavaScript
2 48 (30.38%) .NET
2 48 (30.38%) AWS
3 42 (26.58%) Software Engineering
3 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
4 40 (25.32%) Agile
5 38 (24.05%) SQL
6 29 (18.35%) Microservices
7 28 (17.72%) Azure
8 26 (16.46%) CSS
9 25 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (15.19%) Clean Code
10 24 (15.19%) PHP
10 24 (15.19%) HTML
10 24 (15.19%) Degree
10 24 (15.19%) Computer Science
10 24 (15.19%) Node.js
10 24 (15.19%) Docker
11 22 (13.92%) SaaS
11 22 (13.92%) Software Testing
11 22 (13.92%) Python
11 22 (13.92%) CI/CD
12 21 (13.29%) MySQL
12 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
13 20 (12.66%) Front End Development
14 19 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (11.39%) DevOps
15 18 (11.39%) TypeScript
15 18 (11.39%) REST

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (5.06%) WordPress
2 5 (3.16%) Drupal
3 3 (1.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Moodle
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (30.38%) AWS
2 28 (17.72%) Azure
3 22 (13.92%) SaaS
4 17 (10.76%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (10.76%) Serverless
5 11 (6.96%) GitHub
6 9 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (4.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.43%) Azure Functions
7 7 (4.43%) IaaS
7 7 (4.43%) PaaS
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.90%) Firebase
9 3 (1.90%) GCP
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.27%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.43%) HTTP
2 6 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.63%) MQTT
3 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) MySQL
2 16 (10.13%) Relational Database
3 15 (9.49%) DynamoDB
3 15 (9.49%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.23%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.90%) Redis
7 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.27%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.63%) Power BI
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Git
2 8 (5.06%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.16%) Postman
4 4 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.27%) Maven
5 2 (1.27%) Subversion
6 1 (0.63%) Appium
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) JIRA
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Mockito
6 1 (0.63%) Moq
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.63%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.59%) Finance
3 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.06%) Games
4 7 (4.43%) Marketing
5 4 (2.53%) Retail
6 3 (1.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.90%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.27%) Automotive
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Electronics
7 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) iGaming
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (30.38%) .NET
2 26 (16.46%) CSS
3 24 (15.19%) HTML
3 24 (15.19%) Node.js
4 18 (11.39%) REST
5 17 (10.76%) RESTful
6 16 (10.13%) Web Services
7 15 (9.49%) Laravel
8 14 (8.86%) Vue
9 11 (6.96%) Kafka
9 11 (6.96%) React
10 10 (6.33%) OAuth
11 9 (5.70%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.43%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.43%) gRPC
12 7 (4.43%) JSON
13 6 (3.80%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.80%) LAMP
13 6 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (3.80%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.96%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.43%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.90%) IoT
5 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.27%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.58%) Software Engineering
2 40 (25.32%) Agile
3 29 (18.35%) Microservices
4 25 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (15.19%) Clean Code
5 24 (15.19%) Computer Science
6 22 (13.92%) CI/CD
6 22 (13.92%) Software Testing
7 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
8 20 (12.66%) Front End Development
9 18 (11.39%) DevOps
10 17 (10.76%) API Development
11 16 (10.13%) Design Patterns
12 15 (9.49%) OO
13 14 (8.86%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (8.86%) TDD
14 11 (6.96%) Data Protection
14 11 (6.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (5.70%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (31.65%) C#
2 48 (30.38%) JavaScript
3 38 (24.05%) SQL
4 24 (15.19%) PHP
5 22 (13.92%) Python
6 18 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.13%) Java
8 9 (5.70%) Go
9 7 (4.43%) C++
10 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (15.19%) Degree
2 19 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.43%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) GDPR
2 7 (4.43%) HIPAA
3 5 (3.16%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (15.19%) Docker
2 6 (3.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.70%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (3.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.53%) Google
3 3 (1.90%) Oracle
4 2 (1.27%) SAP
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe
5 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.63%) Salesforce