Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 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 14,434 16,135 34,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.64% 15.55% 22.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.47% 16.99% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,253 12,382 20,661
10th Percentile £35,158 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,250 £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 £72,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 3 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 3 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 12,683 £57,500 -11.54% 2,422
UK excluding London +3 10,055 £52,500 -4.55% 1,643
Work from Home -1 6,268 £57,500 -8.00% 1,500
London -3 3,681 £75,000 -3.85% 916
North of England +12 2,833 £52,084 -5.30% 464
South East 0 2,243 £57,500 - 302
North West +11 1,678 £52,292 -4.92% 296
Midlands +11 1,588 £50,000 -9.09% 334
South West +3 1,404 £50,000 -8.90% 197
West Midlands +13 1,012 £52,500 -4.55% 209
Yorkshire +15 905 £50,000 -4.76% 124
East of England +12 873 £50,000 -13.04% 148
Scotland -25 643 £53,000 -3.64% 130
East Midlands +7 571 £50,000 -9.09% 124
Wales +7 336 £52,500 +16.67% 59
North East +5 250 £50,000 -9.09% 47
Northern Ireland -3 144 £55,000 +10.00% 32
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 3 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 5,074 (35.15%) JavaScript
2 4,976 (34.47%) C#
3 4,757 (32.96%) .NET
4 4,381 (30.35%) Agile
5 4,052 (28.07%) Azure
6 3,598 (24.93%) Full Stack Development
7 3,531 (24.46%) SQL
8 2,924 (20.26%) HTML
9 2,803 (19.42%) React
10 2,789 (19.32%) AWS
11 2,656 (18.40%) CSS
12 2,538 (17.58%) Microsoft
13 2,452 (16.99%) SQL Server
14 2,367 (16.40%) Social Skills
15 2,333 (16.16%) AngularJS
16 2,124 (14.72%) Finance
17 2,070 (14.34%) TypeScript
18 2,058 (14.26%) Java
19 2,029 (14.06%) DevOps
20 1,954 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
21 1,951 (13.52%) ASP.NET
22 1,896 (13.14%) Software Engineering
23 1,838 (12.73%) MVC
24 1,731 (11.99%) Microservices
25 1,721 (11.92%) Degree
26 1,720 (11.92%) Python
27 1,658 (11.49%) .NET Core
28 1,647 (11.41%) Git
29 1,416 (9.81%) TDD
30 1,413 (9.79%) 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
1 344 (2.38%) CMS
2 342 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 308 (2.13%) WordPress
4 266 (1.84%) Apache
5 185 (1.28%) Confluence
6 167 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 162 (1.12%) IIS
8 133 (0.92%) Umbraco
9 89 (0.62%) Apache Spark
10 82 (0.57%) Drupal
11 72 (0.50%) nginx
12 64 (0.44%) OpenEdge
13 53 (0.37%) Headless CMS
14 52 (0.36%) Kentico
15 50 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
16 42 (0.29%) OpenStack
17 31 (0.21%) Mendix
18 30 (0.21%) Tomcat
19 28 (0.19%) SAS
20 24 (0.17%) Appian
Applications
1 124 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 32 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 28 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 26 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 16 (0.11%) Simulink
9 13 (0.090%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.048%) GNU Octave
10 7 (0.048%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.035%) InDesign
12 5 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.028%) Maya
13 4 (0.028%) Sketch
13 4 (0.028%) Stateflow
14 3 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.021%) Blender
14 3 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 221 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 113 (0.78%) Shopify
3 93 (0.64%) Magento
4 64 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
5 43 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 39 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
7 35 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 31 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 17 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 12 (0.083%) Visualfiles
12 11 (0.076%) Maximo
13 9 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
15 7 (0.048%) BPCS
15 7 (0.048%) Sage 200
16 6 (0.042%) SAP ERP
16 6 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
17 5 (0.035%) BusinessWorks
17 5 (0.035%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 4,052 (28.07%) Azure
2 2,789 (19.32%) AWS
3 1,126 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 910 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
5 629 (4.36%) Serverless
6 606 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
7 591 (4.09%) SaaS
8 546 (3.78%) GCP
9 444 (3.08%) PowerApps
10 423 (2.93%) GitHub
11 422 (2.92%) Power Automate
12 280 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 256 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
14 254 (1.76%) Azure Functions
15 244 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 193 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
17 153 (1.06%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.90%) IBM Cloud
19 109 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
20 104 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 213 (1.48%) Internet
2 77 (0.53%) HTTP
3 64 (0.44%) DNS
4 62 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 43 (0.30%) Firewall
6 41 (0.28%) SSL
7 33 (0.23%) WAN
8 30 (0.21%) Intranet
9 29 (0.20%) LAN
10 27 (0.19%) VPN
10 27 (0.19%) Wireless
11 23 (0.16%) MQTT
12 21 (0.15%) Broadband
13 17 (0.12%) Network Security
14 16 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
14 16 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.097%) 5G
16 13 (0.090%) Bluetooth
16 13 (0.090%) Mobile Broadband
17 11 (0.076%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,452 (16.99%) SQL Server
2 967 (6.70%) MySQL
3 855 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 705 (4.88%) Power BI
5 625 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 616 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 587 (4.07%) Relational Database
8 341 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 309 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
10 279 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 264 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 213 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 182 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 178 (1.23%) Redis
15 152 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
16 143 (0.99%) DB2
17 120 (0.83%) DynamoDB
18 110 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
19 109 (0.76%) Data Lake
20 100 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,647 (11.41%) Git
2 495 (3.43%) Visual Studio
3 458 (3.17%) JIRA
4 345 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 200 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 156 (1.08%) GitLab
7 141 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 125 (0.87%) Selenium
9 110 (0.76%) NUnit
10 106 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
11 84 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 82 (0.57%) JUnit
12 82 (0.57%) Sourcetree
13 71 (0.49%) Jasmine
14 66 (0.46%) webpack
15 65 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
16 64 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
17 60 (0.42%) Maven
18 59 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
19 57 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 2,367 (16.40%) Social Skills
2 2,124 (14.72%) Finance
3 588 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
4 562 (3.89%) Marketing
5 537 (3.72%) Front Office
6 533 (3.69%) Banking
7 530 (3.67%) Public Sector
8 496 (3.44%) Law
9 434 (3.01%) Retail
10 413 (2.86%) Games
11 401 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 256 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 210 (1.45%) Legal
14 184 (1.27%) Investment Banking
14 184 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 163 (1.13%) Tech for Good
16 153 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 138 (0.96%) Advertising
18 114 (0.79%) Automotive
19 112 (0.78%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,757 (32.96%) .NET
2 2,924 (20.26%) HTML
3 2,803 (19.42%) React
4 2,656 (18.40%) CSS
5 2,333 (16.16%) AngularJS
6 1,951 (13.52%) ASP.NET
7 1,658 (11.49%) .NET Core
8 1,359 (9.42%) Node.js
9 1,331 (9.22%) Vue
10 1,305 (9.04%) .NET Framework
11 1,086 (7.52%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1,038 (7.19%) REST
13 1,017 (7.05%) Entity Framework
14 989 (6.85%) ASP.NET MVC
15 959 (6.64%) RESTful
16 948 (6.57%) HTML5
17 804 (5.57%) Web Services
18 781 (5.41%) Laravel
19 750 (5.20%) jQuery
20 545 (3.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 688 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
2 402 (2.79%) Algorithms
3 393 (2.72%) Fixed Income
4 381 (2.64%) Mobile App
5 365 (2.53%) Hedge funds
6 310 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 304 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 293 (2.03%) Equities
9 281 (1.95%) Product Ownership
10 269 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 248 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 213 (1.48%) Derivative
13 198 (1.37%) IoT
14 172 (1.19%) Blockchain
15 163 (1.13%) Client/Server
16 149 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
17 136 (0.94%) Management Information System
18 135 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
19 133 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
20 131 (0.91%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 763 (5.29%) Linux
2 473 (3.28%) Windows
3 403 (2.79%) Android
4 341 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 162 (1.12%) Unix
6 35 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.19%) VMS
8 27 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 21 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 18 (0.12%) CentOS
10 18 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.042%) 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 4,381 (30.35%) Agile
2 3,598 (24.93%) Full Stack Development
3 2,029 (14.06%) DevOps
4 1,954 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
5 1,896 (13.14%) Software Engineering
6 1,838 (12.73%) MVC
7 1,731 (11.99%) Microservices
8 1,416 (9.81%) TDD
9 1,192 (8.26%) Computer Science
10 1,176 (8.15%) CI/CD
11 1,160 (8.04%) Scrum
12 1,157 (8.02%) Web Development
13 1,043 (7.23%) Front End Development
14 1,005 (6.96%) User Experience
15 940 (6.51%) Mentoring
16 921 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
17 899 (6.23%) Artificial Intelligence
18 795 (5.51%) Design Patterns
19 742 (5.14%) Unit Testing
20 697 (4.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5,074 (35.15%) JavaScript
2 4,976 (34.47%) C#
3 3,531 (24.46%) SQL
4 2,070 (14.34%) TypeScript
5 2,058 (14.26%) Java
6 1,720 (11.92%) Python
7 1,413 (9.79%) PHP
8 536 (3.71%) C++
9 453 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 294 (2.04%) PL/SQL
11 281 (1.95%) C
12 257 (1.78%) Kotlin
13 208 (1.44%) VB.NET
14 206 (1.43%) Go
15 179 (1.24%) PowerShell
16 160 (1.11%) Ruby
17 142 (0.98%) VB
18 129 (0.89%) Scala
19 112 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 87 (0.60%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,721 (11.92%) Degree
2 702 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 678 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 538 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 151 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 144 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 81 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 61 (0.42%) PhD
10 55 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 53 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 52 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 39 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
14 23 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (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 5 (0.035%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (3.66%) QA
2 154 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.47%) GDPR
4 63 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 60 (0.42%) WCAG
6 29 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.10%) SLA
9 13 (0.090%) WAI
10 12 (0.083%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.042%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.035%) GRC
13 5 (0.035%) MiFID
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%) HL7
15 2 (0.014%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1,195 (8.28%) Docker
2 66 (0.46%) HDFS
3 57 (0.39%) Firmware
4 45 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 36 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 31 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.042%) 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
1 788 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 317 (2.20%) Terraform
3 95 (0.66%) Ansible
4 26 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.17%) Grafana
6 21 (0.15%) Kibana
7 14 (0.097%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.069%) Rancher
9 9 (0.062%) MIIS
10 7 (0.048%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.042%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.042%) cPanel
11 6 (0.042%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.035%) Control-M
12 5 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.035%) Puppet
13 4 (0.028%) WSUS
14 3 (0.021%) Galera Cluster
15 2 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.014%) Consul
Vendors
1 2,538 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 531 (3.68%) Oracle
3 389 (2.70%) Google
4 195 (1.35%) IBM
5 165 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 143 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 133 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 127 (0.88%) Facebook
9 119 (0.82%) Adobe
10 107 (0.74%) Xamarin
11 100 (0.69%) Databricks
12 82 (0.57%) SAP
13 69 (0.48%) Sitecore
14 67 (0.46%) Apple
15 65 (0.45%) Informatica
16 57 (0.39%) Cloudera
17 54 (0.37%) WooCommerce
18 48 (0.33%) Progress
19 46 (0.32%) MuleSoft
20 44 (0.30%) Optimizely