Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 12,861 13,482 29,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.72% 15.39% 21.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.56% 16.82% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,073 10,415 17,875
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.63%

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 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £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%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in England

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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London -5 3,648 £75,000 -3.23% 972
North of England +12 2,946 £52,084 -5.30% 509
South East 0 2,266 £57,500 -0.86% 348
North West +11 1,740 £52,500 -4.55% 306
Midlands +9 1,631 £50,000 -9.09% 378
South West +5 1,430 £50,000 -9.09% 208
West Midlands +13 1,063 £50,000 -9.09% 241
Yorkshire +14 936 £50,000 -4.76% 153
East of England +14 880 £50,000 -13.04% 139
East Midlands +4 560 £50,000 -9.09% 137
North East +6 270 £52,500 -4.55% 56
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4,609 (35.84%) JavaScript
2 4,566 (35.50%) C#
3 4,410 (34.29%) .NET
4 3,967 (30.85%) Agile
5 3,716 (28.89%) Azure
6 3,381 (26.29%) Full Stack Development
7 3,092 (24.04%) SQL
8 2,658 (20.67%) HTML
9 2,525 (19.63%) React
10 2,455 (19.09%) AWS
11 2,370 (18.43%) CSS
12 2,285 (17.77%) SQL Server
13 2,247 (17.47%) Microsoft
14 2,112 (16.42%) AngularJS
15 2,071 (16.10%) Social Skills
16 1,879 (14.61%) Finance
17 1,878 (14.60%) TypeScript
18 1,845 (14.35%) ASP.NET
19 1,800 (14.00%) DevOps
20 1,742 (13.54%) MVC
21 1,700 (13.22%) Java
22 1,669 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
23 1,655 (12.87%) Software Engineering
24 1,553 (12.08%) Microservices
25 1,540 (11.97%) .NET Core
26 1,523 (11.84%) Degree
27 1,500 (11.66%) Python
28 1,433 (11.14%) Git
29 1,255 (9.76%) TDD
30 1,245 (9.68%) PHP

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
1 316 (2.46%) CMS
2 304 (2.36%) Apache
3 274 (2.13%) WordPress
4 272 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 210 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
6 155 (1.21%) IIS
7 150 (1.17%) Confluence
8 119 (0.93%) Umbraco
9 72 (0.56%) Drupal
10 66 (0.51%) nginx
11 62 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.41%) Headless CMS
13 51 (0.40%) Kentico
14 50 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.31%) OpenStack
16 26 (0.20%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 21 (0.16%) SAS
20 20 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 118 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Simulink
7 18 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.062%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.054%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.039%) InDesign
11 5 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.031%) Maya
12 4 (0.031%) Sketch
12 4 (0.031%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.023%) Blender
13 3 (0.023%) GNU Octave
13 3 (0.023%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.023%) Trello
Business Applications
1 173 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 113 (0.88%) Shopify
3 97 (0.75%) Magento
4 63 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 47 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 40 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
8 34 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 33 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 12 (0.093%) Visualfiles
12 9 (0.070%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 7 (0.054%) BPCS
14 6 (0.047%) Maximo
14 6 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
15 5 (0.039%) Odoo
15 5 (0.039%) Oracle Financials
15 5 (0.039%) Sage 200
15 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,716 (28.89%) Azure
2 2,455 (19.09%) AWS
3 966 (7.51%) Power Platform
4 815 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
5 538 (4.18%) Serverless
6 530 (4.12%) GCP
7 489 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
8 481 (3.74%) SaaS
9 369 (2.87%) PowerApps
10 364 (2.83%) GitHub
11 343 (2.67%) Power Automate
12 243 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
13 227 (1.77%) Azure Functions
14 226 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 221 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 176 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.13%) Azure API Management
18 130 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
19 97 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
20 86 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (1.60%) Internet
2 64 (0.50%) HTTP
3 62 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 60 (0.47%) DNS
5 44 (0.34%) Firewall
6 37 (0.29%) SSL
7 25 (0.19%) Wireless
8 23 (0.18%) VPN
9 22 (0.17%) Intranet
10 20 (0.16%) Broadband
11 19 (0.15%) Network Security
12 16 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.12%) 5G
13 15 (0.12%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.10%) MQTT
14 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.086%) BGP
15 11 (0.086%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.086%) MPLS
16 10 (0.078%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,285 (17.77%) SQL Server
2 886 (6.89%) MySQL
3 726 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
4 648 (5.04%) Power BI
5 565 (4.39%) MongoDB
6 523 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 509 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 294 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 284 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
10 243 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
11 240 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 195 (1.52%) Apache Ignite
13 189 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 169 (1.31%) Redis
15 141 (1.10%) DB2
16 119 (0.93%) Oracle Database
17 116 (0.90%) Data Lake
18 88 (0.68%) DynamoDB
19 85 (0.66%) Tableau
20 84 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,433 (11.14%) Git
2 467 (3.63%) Visual Studio
3 413 (3.21%) JIRA
4 214 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 171 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 145 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 138 (1.07%) GitLab
8 110 (0.86%) NUnit
9 106 (0.82%) Selenium
10 96 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 84 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 84 (0.65%) TeamCity
12 71 (0.55%) JUnit
13 66 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
14 59 (0.46%) Moq
15 56 (0.44%) Jasmine
16 54 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
17 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
17 47 (0.37%) webpack
18 43 (0.33%) gulp
General
1 2,071 (16.10%) Social Skills
2 1,879 (14.61%) Finance
3 540 (4.20%) Front Office
4 539 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 486 (3.78%) Marketing
6 482 (3.75%) Banking
7 440 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 397 (3.09%) Retail
9 373 (2.90%) Law
10 350 (2.72%) Games
11 233 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 213 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 177 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 160 (1.24%) Legal
14 160 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 142 (1.10%) Tech for Good
16 133 (1.03%) Advertising
17 124 (0.96%) Telecoms
18 118 (0.92%) Automotive
19 112 (0.87%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,410 (34.29%) .NET
2 2,658 (20.67%) HTML
3 2,525 (19.63%) React
4 2,370 (18.43%) CSS
5 2,112 (16.42%) AngularJS
6 1,845 (14.35%) ASP.NET
7 1,540 (11.97%) .NET Core
8 1,239 (9.63%) Vue
9 1,208 (9.39%) .NET Framework
10 1,178 (9.16%) Node.js
11 1,046 (8.13%) ASP.NET Web API
12 964 (7.50%) Entity Framework
13 947 (7.36%) ASP.NET MVC
14 918 (7.14%) REST
15 879 (6.83%) RESTful
16 870 (6.76%) HTML5
17 727 (5.65%) Web Services
18 698 (5.43%) jQuery
19 695 (5.40%) Laravel
20 515 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 596 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
2 408 (3.17%) Fixed Income
3 381 (2.96%) Hedge funds
4 333 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 309 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 308 (2.39%) Equities
7 298 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 279 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 237 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 225 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 224 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 212 (1.65%) Derivative
13 182 (1.42%) IoT
14 177 (1.38%) Blockchain
15 160 (1.24%) Client/Server
16 145 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
18 125 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
19 114 (0.89%) Cloud Native
20 110 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 721 (5.61%) Linux
2 463 (3.60%) Windows
3 374 (2.91%) Android
4 313 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 89 (0.69%) Unix
6 34 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.22%) VMS
8 23 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (0.13%) CentOS
11 16 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.070%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.031%) AIX
16 4 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.031%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,967 (30.85%) Agile
2 3,381 (26.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1,800 (14.00%) DevOps
4 1,742 (13.54%) MVC
5 1,669 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
6 1,655 (12.87%) Software Engineering
7 1,553 (12.08%) Microservices
8 1,255 (9.76%) TDD
9 1,088 (8.46%) Computer Science
10 1,027 (7.99%) Web Development
11 1,015 (7.89%) Scrum
12 940 (7.31%) CI/CD
13 918 (7.14%) User Experience
14 832 (6.47%) Front End Development
15 811 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
16 786 (6.11%) Mentoring
17 751 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence
18 712 (5.54%) Design Patterns
19 644 (5.01%) OO
20 642 (4.99%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,609 (35.84%) JavaScript
2 4,566 (35.50%) C#
3 3,092 (24.04%) SQL
4 1,878 (14.60%) TypeScript
5 1,700 (13.22%) Java
6 1,500 (11.66%) Python
7 1,245 (9.68%) PHP
8 466 (3.62%) C++
9 406 (3.16%) T-SQL
10 246 (1.91%) C
11 230 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 205 (1.59%) VB.NET
13 170 (1.32%) Go
14 158 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 150 (1.17%) PowerShell
16 115 (0.89%) Ruby
17 113 (0.88%) VB
18 105 (0.82%) Scala
19 104 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 75 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,523 (11.84%) Degree
2 617 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 591 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 436 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 140 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 105 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 60 (0.47%) PhD
9 56 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 53 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 48 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
14 18 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.086%) Postgraduate
16 10 (0.078%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.078%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.078%) HND
17 6 (0.047%) CIPD
17 6 (0.047%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (3.34%) QA
2 110 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.53%) GDPR
4 55 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 51 (0.40%) WCAG
6 20 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 14 (0.11%) SLA
9 12 (0.093%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.062%) MiFID
12 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.023%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.023%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.023%) PMO
13 3 (0.023%) WAI
14 2 (0.016%) GRC
14 2 (0.016%) HL7
14 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,042 (8.10%) Docker
2 38 (0.30%) Firmware
3 34 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 31 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.070%) HDFS
6 9 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.023%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
10 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.008%) Ceph
10 1 (0.008%) GridGain
10 1 (0.008%) KVM
10 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 713 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 251 (1.95%) Terraform
3 93 (0.72%) Ansible
4 26 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.19%) Grafana
6 21 (0.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.078%) MIIS
8 10 (0.078%) Rancher
9 7 (0.054%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.047%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.047%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.039%) cPanel
11 5 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.031%) Puppet
12 4 (0.031%) WSUS
13 3 (0.023%) Control-M
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
14 2 (0.016%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,247 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 399 (3.10%) Oracle
3 383 (2.98%) Google
4 182 (1.42%) IBM
5 150 (1.17%) Salesforce
6 134 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 133 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 123 (0.96%) Facebook
9 115 (0.89%) Adobe
10 97 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 71 (0.55%) SAP
12 67 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 59 (0.46%) Apple
14 49 (0.38%) MuleSoft
15 46 (0.36%) Databricks
15 46 (0.36%) Progress
16 45 (0.35%) WooCommerce
17 43 (0.33%) YouTube
18 40 (0.31%) Bloomberg
18 40 (0.31%) Optimizely