Software Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 151 81
Rank change year-on-year +44 -70 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,907 1,311 2,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.42% 2.35% 3.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 2.65% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,693 1,085 1,599
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,324 £30,363
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 -27 458 £60,000 +4.35% 73
North of England +105 434 £49,750 -9.55% 113
South West +67 325 £50,000 +2.56% 41
Midlands +66 284 £45,000 -14.29% 86
North West +90 228 £50,000 -9.09% 53
West Midlands +73 186 £47,500 -9.52% 55
East of England +46 168 £50,000 -9.09% 24
Yorkshire +101 155 £47,500 -13.64% 42
Scotland -16 132 £52,500 +16.67% 28
East Midlands +12 97 £42,750 -18.57% 31
Northern Ireland -6 67 £50,000 +25.00% 7
North East +12 51 £50,000 -4.76% 21
Wales +5 39 £35,000 -20.45% 9
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 1,013 (53.12%) C#
2 868 (45.52%) .NET
3 514 (26.95%) JavaScript
4 472 (24.75%) Agile
5 461 (24.17%) SQL
6 373 (19.56%) Azure
7 372 (19.51%) Software Engineering
8 341 (17.88%) SQL Server
9 329 (17.25%) Social Skills
10 317 (16.62%) Degree
11 293 (15.36%) Full Stack Development
12 274 (14.37%) .NET Core
13 273 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
14 267 (14.00%) DevOps
15 266 (13.95%) React
16 264 (13.84%) HTML
17 245 (12.85%) Computer Science
18 244 (12.79%) CSS
19 219 (11.48%) MVC
20 217 (11.38%) ASP.NET
21 216 (11.33%) Java
22 213 (11.17%) .NET Framework
23 206 (10.80%) AngularJS
24 204 (10.70%) AWS
24 204 (10.70%) Microsoft
25 190 (9.96%) Python
26 181 (9.49%) TypeScript
27 179 (9.39%) Docker
28 172 (9.02%) Finance
29 160 (8.39%) Git

Software 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 23 (1.21%) CMS
2 10 (0.52%) Mendix
2 10 (0.52%) Umbraco
3 8 (0.42%) Apache
3 8 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.31%) Confluence
5 6 (0.31%) IIS
5 6 (0.31%) WordPress
6 5 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.21%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.052%) JBoss
10 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (1.05%) Simulink
2 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.052%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) BPCS
2 7 (0.37%) Shopify
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.10%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 373 (19.56%) Azure
2 204 (10.70%) AWS
3 127 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (5.93%) SaaS
5 54 (2.83%) GitHub
6 41 (2.15%) Serverless
7 31 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (1.47%) Power Platform
9 18 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (0.94%) GCP
10 17 (0.89%) PowerApps
11 14 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (0.58%) Amazon S3
13 10 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (0.52%) PaaS
14 8 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (0.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (0.37%) Pulumi
16 6 (0.31%) Azure Storage
17 5 (0.26%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.94%) Internet
2 17 (0.89%) Wireless
3 14 (0.73%) Network Security
4 9 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.31%) DNS
5 6 (0.31%) Firewall
6 5 (0.26%) 4G
6 5 (0.26%) 5G
7 4 (0.21%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.21%) LAN
7 4 (0.21%) NAS
7 4 (0.21%) VPN
7 4 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.10%) HTTP
8 2 (0.10%) RS-232
8 2 (0.10%) SSL
9 1 (0.052%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.052%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (17.88%) SQL Server
2 109 (5.72%) MySQL
3 97 (5.09%) NoSQL
4 53 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 52 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (1.52%) Redis
7 28 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 18 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (0.73%) Power BI
11 11 (0.58%) GIS
12 9 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (0.42%) SQLite
14 6 (0.31%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.21%) Couchbase
16 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 160 (8.39%) Git
2 98 (5.14%) Visual Studio
3 26 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.36%) JIRA
4 19 (1.00%) NUnit
4 19 (1.00%) Selenium
4 19 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.94%) TeamCity
6 17 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 17 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
7 14 (0.73%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.52%) Maven
9 10 (0.52%) PHPUnit
10 9 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.42%) Gradle
11 8 (0.42%) Moq
11 8 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 329 (17.25%) Social Skills
2 172 (9.02%) Finance
3 69 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.20%) Public Sector
5 54 (2.83%) Manufacturing
6 52 (2.73%) Marketing
7 46 (2.41%) Law
8 42 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.73%) Retail
10 31 (1.63%) Electronics
11 22 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.10%) Automotive
12 21 (1.10%) Tech for Good
13 18 (0.94%) Games
14 16 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.79%) Aviation
15 15 (0.79%) Banking
15 15 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.73%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 868 (45.52%) .NET
2 274 (14.37%) .NET Core
3 266 (13.95%) React
4 264 (13.84%) HTML
5 244 (12.79%) CSS
6 217 (11.38%) ASP.NET
7 213 (11.17%) .NET Framework
8 206 (10.80%) AngularJS
9 136 (7.13%) Entity Framework
10 101 (5.30%) RESTful
11 81 (4.25%) ASP.NET Web API
11 81 (4.25%) Node.js
12 78 (4.09%) Vue
13 74 (3.88%) REST
14 65 (3.41%) ASP.NET MVC
15 64 (3.36%) HTML5
16 56 (2.94%) Blazor
17 54 (2.83%) Laravel
17 54 (2.83%) Web Services
18 50 (2.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (3.46%) Algorithms
2 56 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 50 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
4 39 (2.05%) IoT
5 34 (1.78%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (1.26%) Client/Server
8 22 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
10 18 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 16 (0.84%) Cloud Native
12 15 (0.79%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.63%) Digital Media
13 12 (0.63%) Management Information System
13 12 (0.63%) Public Cloud
14 11 (0.58%) Blog
14 11 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (0.52%) CUDA
15 10 (0.52%) NHS
15 10 (0.52%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 116 (6.08%) Linux
2 92 (4.82%) Windows
3 35 (1.84%) Apple iOS
4 33 (1.73%) Android
5 20 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
6 16 (0.84%) Unix
7 5 (0.26%) Windows Mobile
7 5 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.16%) VMS
10 2 (0.10%) AIX
11 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (24.75%) Agile
2 372 (19.51%) Software Engineering
3 293 (15.36%) Full Stack Development
4 273 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
5 267 (14.00%) DevOps
6 245 (12.85%) Computer Science
7 219 (11.48%) MVC
8 149 (7.81%) CI/CD
9 140 (7.34%) Mentoring
10 139 (7.29%) Microservices
11 132 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence
12 131 (6.87%) SDLC
13 103 (5.40%) Unit Testing
14 102 (5.35%) Design Patterns
15 98 (5.14%) TDD
16 97 (5.09%) Test Automation
17 95 (4.98%) Scrum
18 93 (4.88%) Code Quality
19 90 (4.72%) Front End Development
19 90 (4.72%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (53.12%) C#
2 514 (26.95%) JavaScript
3 461 (24.17%) SQL
4 216 (11.33%) Java
5 190 (9.96%) Python
6 181 (9.49%) TypeScript
7 141 (7.39%) C++
8 121 (6.35%) C
9 97 (5.09%) PHP
10 53 (2.78%) VB.NET
11 35 (1.84%) Ruby
12 31 (1.63%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.42%) PowerShell
14 23 (1.21%) Go
15 20 (1.05%) VB
16 12 (0.63%) Embedded C
17 10 (0.52%) Bicep
17 10 (0.52%) Perl
17 10 (0.52%) XAML
18 9 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 317 (16.62%) Degree
2 142 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (5.09%) Security Cleared
4 41 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 29 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 26 (1.36%) SC Cleared
7 19 (1.00%) PhD
8 14 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.21%) CIPD
11 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.16%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.16%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.10%) HND
13 2 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.052%) MCSA
14 1 (0.052%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.57%) QA
2 8 (0.42%) GDPR
3 5 (0.26%) SLA
4 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.16%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.052%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.052%) MISRA
7 1 (0.052%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.052%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (9.39%) Docker
2 13 (0.68%) Firmware
3 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.47%) Terraform
3 12 (0.63%) Ansible
4 9 (0.47%) Kibana
5 7 (0.37%) MIIS
6 5 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.21%) WSUS
8 2 (0.10%) Grafana
9 1 (0.052%) Kiali
Vendors
1 204 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.63%) Google
3 29 (1.52%) Oracle
4 25 (1.31%) Xamarin
5 20 (1.05%) Xilinx
6 12 (0.63%) Facebook
7 10 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 9 (0.47%) IBM
8 9 (0.47%) NVIDIA
9 7 (0.37%) JDA
9 7 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.31%) Autodesk
10 6 (0.31%) F5
10 6 (0.31%) VMware
11 5 (0.26%) ESRI
11 5 (0.26%) HP
11 5 (0.26%) Micro Focus
11 5 (0.26%) New Relic
11 5 (0.26%) Twitter
12 4 (0.21%) YouTube