Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 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 7 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,093 8,421 14,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.23% 14.00% 20.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.02% 15.70% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,609 6,088 10,484
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

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 Developer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +12 2,867 £52,084 -5.30% 462
South East 0 2,245 £57,500 - 278
North West +11 1,704 £52,500 -4.55% 288
Midlands +9 1,570 £50,000 -9.09% 335
South West +4 1,405 £50,000 -9.09% 195
West Midlands +13 1,021 £51,000 -7.27% 209
Yorkshire +15 907 £50,000 -4.76% 131
East of England +12 877 £50,000 -13.04% 140
Scotland -26 649 £54,000 -1.82% 124
East Midlands +4 542 £50,000 -9.09% 125
Wales +7 342 £52,500 +16.67% 56
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Northern Ireland -2 143 £51,500 +3.00% 38
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1
Developer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3,806 (37.71%) C#
2 3,726 (36.92%) JavaScript
3 3,685 (36.51%) .NET
4 3,001 (29.73%) Agile
5 2,857 (28.31%) Azure
6 2,543 (25.20%) Full Stack Development
7 2,391 (23.69%) SQL
8 2,315 (22.94%) HTML
9 2,077 (20.58%) CSS
10 1,926 (19.08%) React
11 1,915 (18.97%) Microsoft
12 1,887 (18.70%) SQL Server
13 1,700 (16.84%) AngularJS
14 1,633 (16.18%) Social Skills
15 1,591 (15.76%) AWS
16 1,587 (15.72%) MVC
17 1,580 (15.65%) ASP.NET
18 1,384 (13.71%) DevOps
19 1,367 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
20 1,330 (13.18%) .NET Core
21 1,279 (12.67%) TypeScript
22 1,253 (12.41%) Git
23 1,248 (12.37%) Microservices
24 1,183 (11.72%) Degree
25 1,164 (11.53%) PHP
26 1,119 (11.09%) Software Engineering
27 1,109 (10.99%) Java
28 1,068 (10.58%) .NET Framework
29 1,019 (10.10%) Vue
30 972 (9.63%) Finance

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
1 257 (2.55%) CMS
1 257 (2.55%) WordPress
2 220 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 134 (1.33%) Confluence
4 125 (1.24%) IIS
5 122 (1.21%) Umbraco
6 80 (0.79%) Apache
7 73 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 53 (0.53%) Headless CMS
9 52 (0.52%) nginx
10 47 (0.47%) OpenEdge
11 44 (0.44%) Kentico
12 42 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
13 40 (0.40%) Drupal
14 35 (0.35%) OpenStack
15 24 (0.24%) SAS
16 14 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 13 (0.13%) Apache Solr
17 13 (0.13%) JBoss
18 12 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 91 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 30 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 25 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 19 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 18 (0.18%) Simulink
7 14 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.099%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.050%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.040%) Maya
11 4 (0.040%) Sketch
11 4 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.030%) InDesign
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.010%) Blender
14 1 (0.010%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 137 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 103 (1.02%) Shopify
3 83 (0.82%) Magento
4 53 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 37 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
6 32 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 32 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
7 25 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 10 (0.099%) Maximo
9 7 (0.069%) BPCS
9 7 (0.069%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.050%) Odoo
10 5 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.050%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.040%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
11 4 (0.040%) Sonata
11 4 (0.040%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,857 (28.31%) Azure
2 1,591 (15.76%) AWS
3 707 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 665 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 453 (4.49%) SaaS
6 386 (3.82%) Serverless
7 357 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
8 279 (2.76%) PowerApps
9 277 (2.74%) GitHub
10 274 (2.71%) Power Automate
11 187 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
12 175 (1.73%) Azure Functions
13 174 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 161 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
15 125 (1.24%) Azure API Management
16 123 (1.22%) GCP
17 120 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
18 117 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
19 75 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
19 75 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 195 (1.93%) Internet
2 62 (0.61%) DNS
2 62 (0.61%) HTTP
3 43 (0.43%) Firewall
4 40 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 35 (0.35%) SSL
6 28 (0.28%) Intranet
7 24 (0.24%) Wireless
8 20 (0.20%) MQTT
9 16 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
10 14 (0.14%) 5G
11 13 (0.13%) Broadband
11 13 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.11%) Network Security
13 10 (0.099%) VPN
13 10 (0.099%) WAN
14 9 (0.089%) SMTP
15 8 (0.079%) Mobile Broadband
15 8 (0.079%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.079%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,887 (18.70%) SQL Server
2 791 (7.84%) MySQL
3 525 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
4 480 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 480 (4.76%) Power BI
5 431 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 392 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 244 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
8 210 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 204 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 166 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 119 (1.18%) DB2
12 118 (1.17%) Oracle Database
13 116 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 86 (0.85%) Redis
15 79 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
15 79 (0.78%) Power Query
16 78 (0.77%) Tableau
17 71 (0.70%) DynamoDB
18 69 (0.68%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 1,253 (12.41%) Git
2 421 (4.17%) Visual Studio
3 306 (3.03%) JIRA
4 265 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 176 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 109 (1.08%) GitLab
7 87 (0.86%) Selenium
8 85 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
9 68 (0.67%) NUnit
10 67 (0.66%) Sourcetree
11 63 (0.62%) Cypress.io
12 59 (0.58%) Jasmine
13 58 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
14 54 (0.54%) JUnit
14 54 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
15 52 (0.52%) webpack
16 47 (0.47%) TeamCity
17 41 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
18 40 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
19 36 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 1,633 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 972 (9.63%) Finance
3 415 (4.11%) Marketing
4 392 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 386 (3.82%) Law
6 376 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 351 (3.48%) Retail
8 319 (3.16%) Games
9 267 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 241 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 156 (1.55%) Banking
12 153 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 126 (1.25%) Legal
14 119 (1.18%) Tech for Good
15 113 (1.12%) Advertising
16 102 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 96 (0.95%) Automotive
18 83 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 80 (0.79%) Electronics
20 76 (0.75%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,685 (36.51%) .NET
2 2,315 (22.94%) HTML
3 2,077 (20.58%) CSS
4 1,926 (19.08%) React
5 1,700 (16.84%) AngularJS
6 1,580 (15.65%) ASP.NET
7 1,330 (13.18%) .NET Core
8 1,068 (10.58%) .NET Framework
9 1,019 (10.10%) Vue
10 960 (9.51%) Node.js
11 959 (9.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 881 (8.73%) Entity Framework
13 844 (8.36%) ASP.NET MVC
14 754 (7.47%) HTML5
15 745 (7.38%) REST
16 717 (7.10%) RESTful
17 665 (6.59%) Laravel
18 597 (5.91%) jQuery
19 574 (5.69%) Web Services
20 457 (4.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 461 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
2 311 (3.08%) Mobile App
3 301 (2.98%) Algorithms
4 191 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 190 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
6 186 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 168 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 147 (1.46%) IoT
9 129 (1.28%) Blockchain
10 122 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
11 119 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 117 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
13 96 (0.95%) Management Information System
14 79 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
15 74 (0.73%) Cloud Native
16 72 (0.71%) Client/Server
16 72 (0.71%) Social Media
17 56 (0.55%) NHS
17 56 (0.55%) Onboarding
18 53 (0.53%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 584 (5.79%) Linux
2 400 (3.96%) Windows
3 339 (3.36%) Android
4 273 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 116 (1.15%) Unix
6 35 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 21 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.20%) VMS
10 18 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.099%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.059%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.050%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.040%) AIX
15 4 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.020%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,001 (29.73%) Agile
2 2,543 (25.20%) Full Stack Development
3 1,587 (15.72%) MVC
4 1,384 (13.71%) DevOps
5 1,367 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
6 1,248 (12.37%) Microservices
7 1,119 (11.09%) Software Engineering
8 967 (9.58%) Web Development
9 958 (9.49%) TDD
10 853 (8.45%) Scrum
11 789 (7.82%) User Experience
12 767 (7.60%) CI/CD
13 754 (7.47%) Computer Science
14 737 (7.30%) Front End Development
15 637 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence
16 627 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
17 618 (6.12%) Design Patterns
18 611 (6.05%) Mentoring
19 509 (5.04%) OO
20 507 (5.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,806 (37.71%) C#
2 3,726 (36.92%) JavaScript
3 2,391 (23.69%) SQL
4 1,279 (12.67%) TypeScript
5 1,164 (11.53%) PHP
6 1,109 (10.99%) Java
7 809 (8.02%) Python
8 386 (3.82%) C++
9 298 (2.95%) T-SQL
10 237 (2.35%) C
11 194 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 191 (1.89%) VB.NET
13 124 (1.23%) Go
14 115 (1.14%) VB
15 108 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 104 (1.03%) PowerShell
17 89 (0.88%) Ruby
18 68 (0.67%) Swift
19 64 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 48 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,183 (11.72%) Degree
2 547 (5.42%) Security Cleared
3 475 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 410 (4.06%) SC Cleared
5 111 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 67 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 60 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (0.43%) PhD
10 42 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 42 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 39 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
12 37 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.099%) HND
15 8 (0.079%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.069%) AWS Certified Developer
17 4 (0.040%) CIPD
18 3 (0.030%) ISTQB
18 3 (0.030%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (3.44%) QA
2 91 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 57 (0.56%) GDPR
4 44 (0.44%) WCAG
5 32 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.12%) SLA
8 10 (0.099%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.099%) WAI
9 5 (0.050%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.030%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.030%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.020%) GRC
11 2 (0.020%) HL7
11 2 (0.020%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.010%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.010%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.010%) ITGC
12 1 (0.010%) NIST
System Software
1 781 (7.74%) Docker
2 56 (0.55%) HDFS
3 50 (0.50%) Firmware
4 32 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 27 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.20%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.030%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.020%) Varnish
11 2 (0.020%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.010%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 480 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 215 (2.13%) Terraform
3 75 (0.74%) Ansible
4 18 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.099%) Rancher
6 8 (0.079%) MIIS
7 7 (0.069%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.050%) Grafana
9 5 (0.050%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (0.040%) cPanel
10 4 (0.040%) Puppet
10 4 (0.040%) WSUS
11 3 (0.030%) Galera Cluster
12 1 (0.010%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.010%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.010%) Istio
12 1 (0.010%) Kiali
12 1 (0.010%) Oozie
12 1 (0.010%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,915 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 349 (3.46%) Oracle
3 244 (2.42%) Google
4 161 (1.60%) IBM
5 119 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 118 (1.17%) Facebook
7 108 (1.07%) Xamarin
8 83 (0.82%) Adobe
8 83 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 82 (0.81%) Databricks
10 72 (0.71%) ServiceNow
11 65 (0.64%) Informatica
12 58 (0.57%) SAP
12 58 (0.57%) Sitecore
13 56 (0.55%) Apple
13 56 (0.55%) Cloudera
14 47 (0.47%) WooCommerce
15 40 (0.40%) Optimizely
16 35 (0.35%) WSO2
16 35 (0.35%) YouTube