Application Development Manager Jobs

Applications Development Manager
UK

The median Applications Development Manager salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 707 879 863
Rank change year-on-year +172 -16 +377
Permanent jobs requiring an Application Development Manager 28 20 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.019% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.020% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 28 20 27
10th Percentile - £58,000 £49,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £69,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £72,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% +19.70% -3.86%
75th Percentile £106,250 £74,063 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,000 £76,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £55,250
% change year-on-year +10.34% +31.22% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 53,806 98,156 78,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 94.80% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 29,744 68,646 53,875
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £44,109
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.00%

Application Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Application Development Manager in the UK

Application Development Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Application Development Manager.

Salary trend for Application Development Manager in the UK

Application Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Application Development Manager over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Application Development Manager in the UK

Application Development Manager
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Development Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. 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 +158 28 £95,000 +31.03% 10
London - 15 £101,000 - 3
Work from Home +94 12 £67,500 -6.90% 10
UK excluding London +142 6 £80,000 +10.34% 7
North of England +44 4 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire +43 3 £80,000 +14.29% 1
South East +62 1 £40,000 -44.83% 1
North West - 1 £105,000 - 5
East of England - 1 £90,000 -

Application Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Application Development Manager 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 Application Development Manager in the job title.

1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 23 (82.14%) .NET
2 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 23 (82.14%) DevOps
3 21 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (60.71%) Finance
4 17 (60.71%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (57.14%) CRM
5 16 (57.14%) Resource Management
6 15 (53.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 15 (53.57%) Siebel
6 15 (53.57%) Data Management
6 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
7 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (50.00%) Cost Management
7 14 (50.00%) Case Management
7 14 (50.00%) Scrum
7 14 (50.00%) Back Office
7 14 (50.00%) .NET Framework
7 14 (50.00%) Data Integration
7 14 (50.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (35.71%) Mentoring
9 9 (32.14%) Coaching
9 9 (32.14%) Service Delivery
10 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
10 8 (28.57%) Web Development
11 7 (25.00%) Stress Testing
11 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
11 7 (25.00%) Integration Testing
11 7 (25.00%) System Testing

Application Development Manager 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 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 15 (53.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 21 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (60.71%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 14 (50.00%) Back Office
3 7 (25.00%) Tech for Good
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (82.14%) .NET
2 14 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Blazor
3 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) HTML5
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 23 (82.14%) DevOps
3 16 (57.14%) CRM
3 16 (57.14%) Resource Management
4 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
4 15 (53.57%) Data Management
5 14 (50.00%) Case Management
5 14 (50.00%) Cost Management
5 14 (50.00%) Data Integration
5 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (50.00%) Scrum
5 14 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 10 (35.71%) Mentoring
7 9 (32.14%) Coaching
7 9 (32.14%) Service Delivery
8 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 8 (28.57%) Web Development
9 7 (25.00%) Integration Testing
9 7 (25.00%) Stress Testing
9 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) COBOL
2 1 (3.57%) C#
2 1 (3.57%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Siebel
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce