Development Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 587 717
Rank change year-on-year -15 +130 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 178 141 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.29% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 80 77 75
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,725 £30,490
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,909 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £61,438 £71,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £86,150
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
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%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
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 Development Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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% 20
West Midlands -20 28 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East Midlands -19 14 £47,500 - 10
North of England +1 12 £65,000 -2.29% 19
Wales +7 10 £50,000 +1.01% 11
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
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East - 3 - - 4
Scotland -76 2 - - 4
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 UK excluding London region featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 101 (56.74%) Degree
2 83 (46.63%) Electronics
3 80 (44.94%) Firmware
4 77 (43.26%) Manufacturing
5 74 (41.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (41.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 71 (39.89%) EMC
6 71 (39.89%) Project Planning
6 71 (39.89%) Schematic Capture
7 39 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (15.73%) Python
9 26 (14.61%) C++
9 26 (14.61%) Software Engineering
9 26 (14.61%) DevOps
10 23 (12.92%) Git
11 20 (11.24%) C#
12 18 (10.11%) Software Testing
13 17 (9.55%) Use Case
13 17 (9.55%) Azure
14 16 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (8.43%) Windows
16 14 (7.87%) Agile
16 14 (7.87%) Computer Science
17 13 (7.30%) Linux
17 13 (7.30%) SDET
17 13 (7.30%) Containerisation
18 12 (6.74%) Social Skills
18 12 (6.74%) Games
18 12 (6.74%) Physics
18 12 (6.74%) Test Automation

Development Engineer 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 6 (3.37%) Confluence
1 6 (3.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Simulink
2 1 (0.56%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.55%) Azure
2 9 (5.06%) AWS
3 7 (3.93%) GitHub
4 6 (3.37%) IaaS
5 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.81%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.81%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
6 3 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.69%) GCP
6 3 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.69%) Route 53
6 3 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.06%) Ethernet
1 9 (5.06%) Modbus
2 7 (3.93%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.25%) Profibus
3 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.69%) Firewall
4 3 (1.69%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.69%) MQTT
4 3 (1.69%) RS-232
4 3 (1.69%) RS-422
4 3 (1.69%) RS-485
5 2 (1.12%) LAN
5 2 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.12%) DB2
4 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (12.92%) Git
2 10 (5.62%) Subversion
3 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.12%) LoadUI
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 83 (46.63%) Electronics
2 77 (43.26%) Manufacturing
3 74 (41.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.74%) Games
4 12 (6.74%) Social Skills
5 6 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.37%) Automotive
6 4 (2.25%) Finance
6 4 (2.25%) Military
7 3 (1.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.62%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 10 (5.62%) Unreal Engine
2 8 (4.49%) .NET
3 5 (2.81%) Gherkin
4 4 (2.25%) GTK
5 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.69%) Kendo UI
5 3 (1.69%) Playwright
5 3 (1.69%) REST
6 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.12%) CSS
7 1 (0.56%) LAMP
7 1 (0.56%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.37%) Analogue Electronics
1 6 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.37%) Life Science
1 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
2 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
2 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.12%) Animation
3 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.56%) 3D Printing
4 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.43%) Windows
2 13 (7.30%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Unix
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.89%) Project Planning
1 71 (39.89%) Schematic Capture
2 39 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (14.61%) DevOps
3 26 (14.61%) Software Engineering
4 18 (10.11%) Software Testing
5 17 (9.55%) Use Case
6 14 (7.87%) Agile
6 14 (7.87%) Computer Science
7 13 (7.30%) Containerisation
7 13 (7.30%) SDET
8 12 (6.74%) Physics
8 12 (6.74%) Test Automation
9 11 (6.18%) Cross-Platform Development
9 11 (6.18%) Multithreading
10 10 (5.62%) Mathematics
11 9 (5.06%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (5.06%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.06%) Task Automation
12 8 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.73%) Python
2 26 (14.61%) C++
3 20 (11.24%) C#
4 11 (6.18%) SQL
5 10 (5.62%) C
5 10 (5.62%) MATLAB
6 9 (5.06%) Bash
7 8 (4.49%) Java
8 6 (3.37%) Ruby
9 4 (2.25%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.69%) Ada
10 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.12%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (56.74%) Degree
2 16 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (2.25%) ISO 13485
2 3 (1.69%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) MISRA
System Software
1 80 (44.94%) Firmware
2 74 (41.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (2.81%) Docker
4 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (39.89%) EMC
2 6 (3.37%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.69%) Google
3 3 (1.69%) Telerik
4 2 (1.12%) Cisco
4 2 (1.12%) IBM
4 2 (1.12%) Rockwell
4 2 (1.12%) Siemens
4 2 (1.12%) Xilinx