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 10 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
10 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 12,692 13,799 29,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.78% 15.34% 21.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.64% 16.77% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10,952 10,657 18,049
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £61,040
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.49% +10.98%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £83,125
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% +12.99%

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 81,130 82,270 127,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,549 52,263 74,733
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,857 £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 10 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 10 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 -4 3,666 £75,000 -3.23% 943
North of England +12 2,868 £52,084 -5.30% 463
South East 0 2,245 £57,500 - 284
North West +10 1,706 £52,500 -4.55% 293
Midlands +10 1,568 £50,000 -9.09% 337
South West +3 1,409 £50,000 -9.09% 199
West Midlands +12 1,019 £51,000 -7.27% 215
Yorkshire +15 907 £50,000 -4.76% 127
East of England +13 878 £50,000 -13.04% 137
East Midlands +5 542 £50,000 -9.09% 121
North East +6 255 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 4,591 (36.17%) JavaScript
2 4,511 (35.54%) C#
3 4,342 (34.21%) .NET
4 3,929 (30.96%) Agile
5 3,676 (28.96%) Azure
6 3,328 (26.22%) Full Stack Development
7 3,096 (24.39%) SQL
8 2,645 (20.84%) HTML
9 2,505 (19.74%) React
10 2,436 (19.19%) AWS
11 2,351 (18.52%) CSS
12 2,258 (17.79%) SQL Server
12 2,258 (17.79%) Microsoft
13 2,099 (16.54%) AngularJS
14 2,081 (16.40%) Social Skills
15 1,864 (14.69%) Finance
16 1,856 (14.62%) TypeScript
17 1,828 (14.40%) ASP.NET
18 1,800 (14.18%) DevOps
19 1,745 (13.75%) Java
20 1,739 (13.70%) MVC
21 1,664 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
22 1,659 (13.07%) Software Engineering
23 1,546 (12.18%) Microservices
24 1,532 (12.07%) .NET Core
25 1,527 (12.03%) Degree
26 1,501 (11.83%) Python
27 1,440 (11.35%) Git
28 1,252 (9.86%) TDD
29 1,246 (9.82%) 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
1 307 (2.42%) CMS
2 282 (2.22%) Apache
3 281 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 276 (2.17%) WordPress
5 186 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 167 (1.32%) Confluence
7 154 (1.21%) IIS
8 119 (0.94%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.58%) Drupal
10 69 (0.54%) nginx
11 61 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.42%) Headless CMS
13 52 (0.41%) Kentico
14 49 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.32%) OpenStack
16 29 (0.23%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 20 (0.16%) SAS
20 18 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 119 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.14%) Simulink
8 10 (0.079%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.055%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.039%) InDesign
11 5 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.032%) Maya
12 4 (0.032%) Sketch
12 4 (0.032%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 175 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 112 (0.88%) Shopify
3 93 (0.73%) Magento
4 63 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 34 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 32 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.087%) Visualfiles
12 10 (0.079%) Maximo
13 9 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 7 (0.055%) BPCS
14 7 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
15 6 (0.047%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.039%) Odoo
16 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
16 5 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,676 (28.96%) Azure
2 2,436 (19.19%) AWS
3 970 (7.64%) Power Platform
4 821 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 542 (4.27%) Serverless
6 517 (4.07%) GCP
7 482 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
8 478 (3.77%) SaaS
9 372 (2.93%) PowerApps
10 365 (2.88%) GitHub
11 345 (2.72%) Power Automate
12 248 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
13 230 (1.81%) Azure Functions
14 225 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 224 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 174 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.14%) Azure API Management
18 130 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
19 93 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
20 87 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 208 (1.64%) Internet
2 64 (0.50%) HTTP
2 64 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 61 (0.48%) DNS
4 43 (0.34%) Firewall
5 36 (0.28%) SSL
6 24 (0.19%) Wireless
7 23 (0.18%) Intranet
8 22 (0.17%) VPN
9 19 (0.15%) Broadband
10 17 (0.13%) Network Security
11 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.12%) 5G
13 14 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.10%) MQTT
14 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.087%) BGP
15 11 (0.087%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.087%) MPLS
16 10 (0.079%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,258 (17.79%) SQL Server
2 884 (6.97%) MySQL
3 723 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 645 (5.08%) Power BI
5 567 (4.47%) MongoDB
6 525 (4.14%) NoSQL
7 514 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 293 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 285 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 249 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
11 238 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 191 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 171 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
14 168 (1.32%) Redis
15 142 (1.12%) DB2
16 122 (0.96%) Oracle Database
17 106 (0.84%) Data Lake
18 95 (0.75%) Tableau
19 87 (0.69%) DynamoDB
20 82 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,440 (11.35%) Git
2 467 (3.68%) Visual Studio
3 424 (3.34%) JIRA
4 225 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 185 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 141 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 129 (1.02%) GitLab
8 108 (0.85%) Selenium
9 103 (0.81%) NUnit
10 98 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 82 (0.65%) Sourcetree
12 81 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 75 (0.59%) JUnit
14 64 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
15 57 (0.45%) Jasmine
16 54 (0.43%) Moq
16 54 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
17 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
17 47 (0.37%) webpack
18 45 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 2,081 (16.40%) Social Skills
2 1,864 (14.69%) Finance
3 545 (4.29%) Front Office
4 531 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
5 475 (3.74%) Banking
6 471 (3.71%) Marketing
7 438 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 391 (3.08%) Retail
9 373 (2.94%) Law
10 358 (2.82%) Games
11 234 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 212 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 179 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 171 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 154 (1.21%) Legal
16 142 (1.12%) Tech for Good
17 134 (1.06%) Advertising
18 122 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 112 (0.88%) Automotive
20 108 (0.85%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,342 (34.21%) .NET
2 2,645 (20.84%) HTML
3 2,505 (19.74%) React
4 2,351 (18.52%) CSS
5 2,099 (16.54%) AngularJS
6 1,828 (14.40%) ASP.NET
7 1,532 (12.07%) .NET Core
8 1,227 (9.67%) Vue
9 1,190 (9.38%) .NET Framework
10 1,179 (9.29%) Node.js
11 1,020 (8.04%) ASP.NET Web API
12 941 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
12 941 (7.41%) Entity Framework
13 929 (7.32%) REST
14 871 (6.86%) HTML5
15 870 (6.85%) RESTful
16 726 (5.72%) Web Services
17 693 (5.46%) Laravel
18 692 (5.45%) jQuery
19 509 (4.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 600 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
2 405 (3.19%) Fixed Income
3 377 (2.97%) Hedge funds
4 329 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 309 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 303 (2.39%) Equities
7 302 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 281 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 239 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 227 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 224 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 214 (1.69%) Derivative
13 184 (1.45%) IoT
14 172 (1.36%) Blockchain
15 160 (1.26%) Client/Server
16 141 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
18 119 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
19 113 (0.89%) Cloud Native
20 112 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 728 (5.74%) Linux
2 459 (3.62%) Windows
3 367 (2.89%) Android
4 314 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.22%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.14%) CentOS
9 18 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
10 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.032%) AIX
15 4 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,929 (30.96%) Agile
2 3,328 (26.22%) Full Stack Development
3 1,800 (14.18%) DevOps
4 1,739 (13.70%) MVC
5 1,664 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1,659 (13.07%) Software Engineering
7 1,546 (12.18%) Microservices
8 1,252 (9.86%) TDD
9 1,083 (8.53%) Computer Science
10 1,031 (8.12%) Web Development
11 1,027 (8.09%) Scrum
12 925 (7.29%) CI/CD
13 913 (7.19%) User Experience
14 833 (6.56%) Front End Development
15 819 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
16 798 (6.29%) Mentoring
17 729 (5.74%) Artificial Intelligence
17 729 (5.74%) Design Patterns
18 639 (5.03%) OO
19 634 (5.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,591 (36.17%) JavaScript
2 4,511 (35.54%) C#
3 3,096 (24.39%) SQL
4 1,856 (14.62%) TypeScript
5 1,745 (13.75%) Java
6 1,501 (11.83%) Python
7 1,246 (9.82%) PHP
8 468 (3.69%) C++
9 398 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 240 (1.89%) C
11 235 (1.85%) Kotlin
12 204 (1.61%) VB.NET
13 168 (1.32%) Go
14 162 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 155 (1.22%) PowerShell
16 117 (0.92%) Ruby
17 116 (0.91%) VB
18 110 (0.87%) Scala
19 102 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 77 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,527 (12.03%) Degree
2 616 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 608 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 451 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 136 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 121 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 57 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (0.44%) PhD
10 53 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 51 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 50 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 39 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.087%) HND
16 11 (0.087%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.047%) Numerate Degree
18 4 (0.032%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 438 (3.45%) QA
2 110 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.54%) GDPR
4 52 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 52 (0.41%) WCAG
5 28 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 21 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.11%) SLA
8 12 (0.095%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.055%) MiFID
11 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.024%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.024%) PMO
12 3 (0.024%) WAI
13 2 (0.016%) EMIR
13 2 (0.016%) GRC
13 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,063 (8.38%) Docker
2 40 (0.32%) Firmware
3 36 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.079%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.008%) GridGain
11 1 (0.008%) OpenSIPS
11 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 722 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 252 (1.99%) Terraform
3 96 (0.76%) Ansible
4 25 (0.20%) Grafana
4 25 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.16%) Kibana
6 15 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.079%) Rancher
8 9 (0.071%) MIIS
9 7 (0.055%) 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 (0.032%) Puppet
12 4 (0.032%) WSUS
13 3 (0.024%) Control-M
14 2 (0.016%) Consul
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,258 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 403 (3.18%) Oracle
3 375 (2.95%) Google
4 187 (1.47%) IBM
5 147 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 133 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 125 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 122 (0.96%) Facebook
9 113 (0.89%) Adobe
10 96 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 66 (0.52%) SAP
11 66 (0.52%) Sitecore
12 60 (0.47%) Apple
13 48 (0.38%) MuleSoft
14 47 (0.37%) Progress
15 45 (0.35%) WooCommerce
16 44 (0.35%) Databricks
17 42 (0.33%) Bloomberg
17 42 (0.33%) WSO2
17 42 (0.33%) YouTube