Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 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 14,489 15,730 34,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.59% 15.52% 22.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.42% 16.96% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12,313 12,110 20,202
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,942 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK

Developer
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +2 12,702 £57,500 -11.54% 2,522
UK excluding London +3 10,113 £52,500 -4.55% 1,661
Work from Home 0 6,279 £57,500 -8.00% 1,606
London -4 3,668 £75,000 -3.23% 993
North of England +12 2,873 £52,084 -5.30% 488
South East 0 2,245 £57,500 - 298
North West +11 1,709 £52,500 -4.55% 296
Midlands +10 1,570 £50,000 -9.09% 357
South West +5 1,410 £50,000 -9.09% 200
West Midlands +12 1,019 £51,000 -7.27% 231
Yorkshire +15 909 £50,000 -4.76% 140
East of England +13 878 £50,000 -13.04% 135
Scotland -24 653 £54,000 -1.82% 119
East Midlands +3 544 £50,000 -9.09% 125
Wales +7 345 £52,500 +16.67% 54
North East +6 255 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Northern Ireland -2 144 £51,500 +3.00% 38
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Developer in the job title.

1 5,063 (34.94%) JavaScript
2 5,003 (34.53%) C#
3 4,787 (33.04%) .NET
4 4,418 (30.49%) Agile
5 4,094 (28.26%) Azure
6 3,618 (24.97%) Full Stack Development
7 3,475 (23.98%) SQL
8 2,906 (20.06%) HTML
9 2,787 (19.24%) AWS
10 2,784 (19.21%) React
11 2,637 (18.20%) CSS
12 2,520 (17.39%) Microsoft
13 2,429 (16.76%) SQL Server
14 2,359 (16.28%) Social Skills
15 2,319 (16.01%) AngularJS
16 2,132 (14.71%) Finance
17 2,084 (14.38%) TypeScript
18 2,051 (14.16%) Java
19 2,032 (14.02%) DevOps
20 1,955 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
21 1,953 (13.48%) ASP.NET
22 1,918 (13.24%) Software Engineering
23 1,839 (12.69%) MVC
24 1,733 (11.96%) Microservices
25 1,698 (11.72%) Python
26 1,689 (11.66%) Degree
27 1,668 (11.51%) .NET Core
28 1,643 (11.34%) Git
29 1,419 (9.79%) TDD
30 1,384 (9.55%) PHP

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 346 (2.39%) CMS
2 340 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 306 (2.11%) WordPress
4 285 (1.97%) Apache
5 186 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 181 (1.25%) Confluence
7 162 (1.12%) IIS
8 135 (0.93%) Umbraco
9 89 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 83 (0.57%) Drupal
11 72 (0.50%) nginx
12 65 (0.45%) OpenEdge
13 53 (0.37%) Headless CMS
13 53 (0.37%) Kentico
14 51 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
15 42 (0.29%) OpenStack
16 31 (0.21%) Mendix
17 29 (0.20%) SAS
17 29 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 24 (0.17%) Appian
Applications
1 123 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 32 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 28 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 26 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.12%) Simulink
8 10 (0.069%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.048%) GNU Octave
9 7 (0.048%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.035%) InDesign
11 5 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.028%) Maya
12 4 (0.028%) Sketch
12 4 (0.028%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.021%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.021%) Blender
Business Applications
1 221 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 112 (0.77%) Shopify
3 95 (0.66%) Magento
4 63 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 34 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 32 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 17 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.076%) Visualfiles
12 10 (0.069%) Maximo
13 9 (0.062%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 9 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (0.048%) BPCS
14 7 (0.048%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.041%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.035%) Odoo
16 5 (0.035%) Oracle Financials
16 5 (0.035%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 4,094 (28.26%) Azure
2 2,787 (19.24%) AWS
3 1,117 (7.71%) Power Platform
4 911 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
5 620 (4.28%) Serverless
6 604 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 596 (4.11%) SaaS
8 560 (3.87%) GCP
9 445 (3.07%) PowerApps
10 424 (2.93%) Power Automate
11 419 (2.89%) GitHub
12 279 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
13 253 (1.75%) Azure Functions
14 252 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 242 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
16 190 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
17 151 (1.04%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.90%) IBM Cloud
19 105 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
20 101 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 216 (1.49%) Internet
2 75 (0.52%) HTTP
3 64 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 63 (0.43%) DNS
5 43 (0.30%) Firewall
6 41 (0.28%) SSL
7 29 (0.20%) Intranet
8 27 (0.19%) VPN
8 27 (0.19%) Wireless
9 22 (0.15%) Broadband
10 21 (0.14%) MQTT
11 17 (0.12%) Network Security
12 16 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
12 16 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.10%) 5G
14 14 (0.097%) Mobile Broadband
15 12 (0.083%) Bluetooth
16 11 (0.076%) BGP
16 11 (0.076%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.076%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,429 (16.76%) SQL Server
2 973 (6.72%) MySQL
3 847 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 696 (4.80%) Power BI
5 617 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 615 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 578 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 325 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 308 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
10 276 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
11 264 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 202 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 179 (1.24%) Redis
14 171 (1.18%) Apache Ignite
15 167 (1.15%) Oracle Database
16 142 (0.98%) DB2
17 117 (0.81%) DynamoDB
18 112 (0.77%) Data Lake
19 100 (0.69%) Tableau
20 96 (0.66%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1,643 (11.34%) Git
2 490 (3.38%) Visual Studio
3 452 (3.12%) JIRA
4 339 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 196 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 157 (1.08%) GitLab
7 146 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 122 (0.84%) Selenium
9 107 (0.74%) NUnit
10 105 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 82 (0.57%) Sourcetree
12 81 (0.56%) TeamCity
13 79 (0.55%) JUnit
14 69 (0.48%) Jasmine
15 67 (0.46%) webpack
16 65 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
17 64 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
18 59 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
19 56 (0.39%) Maven
19 56 (0.39%) Moq
General
1 2,359 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 2,132 (14.71%) Finance
3 587 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 564 (3.89%) Marketing
5 551 (3.80%) Front Office
6 540 (3.73%) Banking
7 528 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 490 (3.38%) Law
9 428 (2.95%) Retail
10 425 (2.93%) Games
11 403 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 254 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 206 (1.42%) Legal
14 186 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 178 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 164 (1.13%) Tech for Good
17 155 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 142 (0.98%) Advertising
19 114 (0.79%) Back Office
20 113 (0.78%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,787 (33.04%) .NET
2 2,906 (20.06%) HTML
3 2,784 (19.21%) React
4 2,637 (18.20%) CSS
5 2,319 (16.01%) AngularJS
6 1,953 (13.48%) ASP.NET
7 1,668 (11.51%) .NET Core
8 1,338 (9.23%) Node.js
9 1,333 (9.20%) Vue
10 1,321 (9.12%) .NET Framework
11 1,106 (7.63%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1,033 (7.13%) REST
13 1,032 (7.12%) Entity Framework
14 998 (6.89%) ASP.NET MVC
15 965 (6.66%) RESTful
16 933 (6.44%) HTML5
17 805 (5.56%) Web Services
18 777 (5.36%) Laravel
19 753 (5.20%) jQuery
20 549 (3.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 691 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
2 405 (2.80%) Algorithms
2 405 (2.80%) Fixed Income
3 381 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 377 (2.60%) Hedge funds
5 311 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 310 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 303 (2.09%) Equities
8 277 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 269 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 249 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 214 (1.48%) Derivative
12 209 (1.44%) IoT
13 184 (1.27%) Blockchain
14 166 (1.15%) Client/Server
15 149 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
16 138 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
17 133 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
17 133 (0.92%) Management Information System
18 128 (0.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 765 (5.28%) Linux
2 478 (3.30%) Windows
3 404 (2.79%) Android
4 340 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 163 (1.12%) Unix
6 35 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.20%) VMS
8 27 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 22 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 18 (0.12%) CentOS
10 18 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 17 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.035%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.035%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.028%) AIX
15 4 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.014%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,418 (30.49%) Agile
2 3,618 (24.97%) Full Stack Development
3 2,032 (14.02%) DevOps
4 1,955 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
5 1,918 (13.24%) Software Engineering
6 1,839 (12.69%) MVC
7 1,733 (11.96%) Microservices
8 1,419 (9.79%) TDD
9 1,195 (8.25%) Computer Science
10 1,162 (8.02%) CI/CD
11 1,156 (7.98%) Scrum
12 1,132 (7.81%) Web Development
13 1,028 (7.10%) Front End Development
14 1,001 (6.91%) User Experience
15 941 (6.49%) Mentoring
16 915 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence
17 911 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
18 786 (5.42%) Design Patterns
19 746 (5.15%) Unit Testing
20 693 (4.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5,063 (34.94%) JavaScript
2 5,003 (34.53%) C#
3 3,475 (23.98%) SQL
4 2,084 (14.38%) TypeScript
5 2,051 (14.16%) Java
6 1,698 (11.72%) Python
7 1,384 (9.55%) PHP
8 536 (3.70%) C++
9 440 (3.04%) T-SQL
10 286 (1.97%) C
11 279 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 257 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 208 (1.44%) VB.NET
14 207 (1.43%) Go
15 176 (1.21%) PowerShell
16 161 (1.11%) Ruby
17 132 (0.91%) Scala
18 118 (0.81%) VB
19 113 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 86 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,689 (11.66%) Degree
2 707 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 679 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 542 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 146 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 145 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 82 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 80 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 61 (0.42%) PhD
10 55 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 54 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 52 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 39 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
14 22 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.12%) Postgraduate
16 14 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.076%) HND
19 7 (0.048%) Numerate Degree
20 6 (0.041%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 521 (3.60%) QA
2 155 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.47%) GDPR
4 61 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 57 (0.39%) WCAG
6 26 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.10%) SLA
9 12 (0.083%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.083%) WAI
10 11 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.048%) MiFID
12 6 (0.041%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.035%) GRC
14 3 (0.021%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.021%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.021%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.021%) PMO
15 2 (0.014%) EMIR
15 2 (0.014%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1,174 (8.10%) Docker
2 66 (0.46%) HDFS
3 54 (0.37%) Firmware
4 46 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 34 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 31 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.021%) Varnish
10 3 (0.021%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.014%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.007%) GridGain
12 1 (0.007%) OpenSIPS
12 1 (0.007%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 786 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 325 (2.24%) Terraform
3 108 (0.75%) Ansible
4 26 (0.18%) Grafana
4 26 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (0.15%) Kibana
6 15 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.069%) Rancher
8 9 (0.062%) MIIS
9 7 (0.048%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.041%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.041%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.035%) cPanel
11 5 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.028%) Puppet
12 4 (0.028%) WSUS
13 3 (0.021%) Control-M
13 3 (0.021%) Galera Cluster
14 2 (0.014%) Consul
14 2 (0.014%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,520 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 518 (3.58%) Oracle
3 398 (2.75%) Google
4 192 (1.33%) IBM
5 165 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 146 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 133 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 128 (0.88%) Facebook
9 120 (0.83%) Adobe
10 110 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 100 (0.69%) Databricks
12 81 (0.56%) SAP
13 70 (0.48%) Sitecore
14 67 (0.46%) Apple
15 65 (0.45%) Informatica
16 57 (0.39%) Cloudera
17 53 (0.37%) WooCommerce
18 48 (0.33%) MuleSoft
19 47 (0.32%) Progress
20 46 (0.32%) Optimizely