Junior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £30,000 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 529 517 463
Rank change year-on-year -12 -54 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 260 218 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.39% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.44% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 231 160 402
10th Percentile £22,750 £25,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,625 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £33,750 £38,868 £39,500
90th Percentile £42,500 £43,875 £48,500
UK median annual salary £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%

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%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior 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 +34 65 £29,000 -10.77% 16
Midlands -1 64 £27,500 -21.43% 14
South East -34 55 £32,500 -4.41% 7
West Midlands +13 42 £27,500 -38.89% 5
North West +1 41 £29,000 -22.67% 12
East of England -17 34 £30,000 +3.45% 3
South West -35 25 £27,750 -22.92% 10
Yorkshire +67 24 £28,750 -8.73% 4
East Midlands -16 22 £27,500 -3.51% 9
Scotland -66 12 £30,000 -20.00% 4
Wales +4 5 £42,500 +41.67% 2
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 128 (49.23%) C#
2 98 (37.69%) JavaScript
3 90 (34.62%) .NET
4 84 (32.31%) SQL
5 83 (31.92%) Degree
6 67 (25.77%) HTML
7 65 (25.00%) CSS
8 64 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (23.85%) Social Skills
9 62 (23.85%) Computer Science
10 54 (20.77%) SQL Server
11 52 (20.00%) PHP
12 50 (19.23%) Agile
13 45 (17.31%) Java
14 43 (16.54%) Web Development
15 40 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
16 39 (15.00%) React
16 39 (15.00%) Azure
17 38 (14.62%) Computer Science Degree
18 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
19 33 (12.69%) Finance
20 29 (11.15%) Git
21 27 (10.38%) Docker
22 26 (10.00%) TDD
22 26 (10.00%) Marketing
22 26 (10.00%) AWS
23 25 (9.62%) .NET Framework
23 25 (9.62%) Software Engineering
23 25 (9.62%) DevOps
23 25 (9.62%) Mentoring

Junior 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 21 (8.08%) WordPress
2 12 (4.62%) CMS
3 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.15%) IIS
4 3 (1.15%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.46%) Photoshop
3 6 (2.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.15%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Magento
1 8 (3.08%) Shopify
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.00%) Azure
2 26 (10.00%) AWS
3 24 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.15%) SaaS
6 8 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.92%) GitHub
9 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.15%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.15%) Sage Pay
10 2 (0.77%) Figma
10 2 (0.77%) GCP
11 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.38%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (20.77%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.23%) Power BI
3 23 (8.85%) MySQL
4 18 (6.92%) MS Access
5 11 (4.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (4.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (3.46%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.15%) EDRMS
9 3 (1.15%) Redis
10 2 (0.77%) FileMaker
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (11.15%) Git
2 16 (6.15%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.31%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (1.54%) Gradle
6 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.15%) GitLab
7 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.77%) git-flow
8 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.77%) webpack
9 1 (0.38%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 62 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.69%) Finance
3 26 (10.00%) Marketing
4 22 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (7.69%) Law
6 16 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.23%) Back Office
8 8 (3.08%) Games
8 8 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.69%) Automotive
10 6 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.92%) Retail
12 4 (1.54%) Electronics
13 2 (0.77%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.38%) Billing
14 1 (0.38%) Legal
14 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (34.62%) .NET
2 67 (25.77%) HTML
3 65 (25.00%) CSS
4 39 (15.00%) React
5 25 (9.62%) .NET Framework
6 22 (8.46%) Laravel
6 22 (8.46%) Vue
7 18 (6.92%) AngularJS
7 18 (6.92%) ASP.NET
8 16 (6.15%) .NET Core
9 15 (5.77%) ASP.NET Web API
10 13 (5.00%) Web Services
11 11 (4.23%) React Native
11 11 (4.23%) Sass
12 10 (3.85%) Ajax
12 10 (3.85%) HTML5
12 10 (3.85%) jQuery
12 10 (3.85%) Node.js
12 10 (3.85%) REST
13 8 (3.08%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.31%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.31%) Graphic Design
4 5 (1.92%) Social Media
5 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.15%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.77%) e-Health
7 2 (0.77%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.77%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) AS400
8 1 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.38%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.85%) Computer Science
3 50 (19.23%) Agile
4 43 (16.54%) Web Development
5 40 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
6 26 (10.00%) TDD
7 25 (9.62%) DevOps
7 25 (9.62%) Mentoring
7 25 (9.62%) Software Engineering
8 23 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (6.92%) Scrum
10 17 (6.54%) User Experience
11 16 (6.15%) MVC
12 15 (5.77%) CI/CD
12 15 (5.77%) ERP
12 15 (5.77%) OOP
13 14 (5.38%) Microservices
14 13 (5.00%) SDLC
15 12 (4.62%) Front End Development
15 12 (4.62%) OO
Programming Languages
1 128 (49.23%) C#
2 98 (37.69%) JavaScript
3 84 (32.31%) SQL
4 52 (20.00%) PHP
5 45 (17.31%) Java
6 21 (8.08%) C++
6 21 (8.08%) Python
7 15 (5.77%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.85%) Go
9 9 (3.46%) C
10 7 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.92%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.54%) Bash
12 4 (1.54%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.77%) Rust
14 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.38%) RPG
14 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 83 (31.92%) Degree
2 38 (14.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.31%) HND
4 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.92%) QA
2 4 (1.54%) GDPR
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (10.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.62%) Adobe
2 12 (4.62%) F5
3 10 (3.85%) Oracle
4 8 (3.08%) YouTube
5 4 (1.54%) Google
6 3 (1.15%) SAP
6 3 (1.15%) Zend
7 2 (0.77%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.38%) IBM
8 1 (0.38%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow