Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,249 2,377 4,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.29% 16.74% 21.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.14% 18.54% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 1,845 3,204
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,907 12,822 19,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 90.29% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,366 8,083 12,385
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Thames Valley -3 868 £60,000 -4.00% 107
Hampshire -4 517 £60,000 +9.09% 71
Berkshire -2 445 £65,000 - 41
Surrey -1 293 £55,000 -8.33% 51
Kent +7 244 £55,000 - 34
Buckinghamshire +2 227 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Oxfordshire +2 196 £56,250 -11.76% 32
East Sussex -4 141 £54,000 -1.82% 27
West Sussex +9 103 £55,000 -5.98% 12
Sussex +3 56 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Middlesex -37 5 £44,000 -45.00% 1
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 22 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,028 (45.71%) .NET
2 1,011 (44.95%) JavaScript
3 1,010 (44.91%) C#
4 849 (37.75%) Agile
5 828 (36.82%) Azure
6 658 (29.26%) Full Stack Development
7 626 (27.83%) HTML
8 615 (27.35%) SQL
9 571 (25.39%) CSS
10 551 (24.50%) React
11 548 (24.37%) SQL Server
12 492 (21.88%) ASP.NET
12 492 (21.88%) AngularJS
13 485 (21.57%) MVC
14 425 (18.90%) Microsoft
15 408 (18.14%) DevOps
15 408 (18.14%) Microservices
16 391 (17.39%) AWS
17 375 (16.67%) .NET Core
18 367 (16.32%) Social Skills
19 352 (15.65%) Git
20 341 (15.16%) Java
21 339 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
22 333 (14.81%) TypeScript
23 328 (14.58%) Degree
24 316 (14.05%) TDD
25 312 (13.87%) Docker
26 296 (13.16%) .NET Framework
27 290 (12.89%) Computer Science
28 281 (12.49%) HTML5

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 69 (3.07%) CMS
2 43 (1.91%) IIS
3 40 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.51%) OpenStack
5 30 (1.33%) Umbraco
6 25 (1.11%) Apache
6 25 (1.11%) Kentico
7 24 (1.07%) Headless CMS
8 20 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
8 20 (0.89%) WordPress
9 18 (0.80%) nginx
10 13 (0.58%) IBM Domino
11 12 (0.53%) Drupal
12 11 (0.49%) Confluence
12 11 (0.49%) JBoss
13 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
14 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.18%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.71%) Simulink
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.044%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.044%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.044%) InDesign
7 1 (0.044%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 42 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.47%) Siebel CRM
3 17 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.31%) Magento
6 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.22%) Odoo
7 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
7 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
8 2 (0.089%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.089%) nopCommerce
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.089%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.089%) Shopify
9 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 828 (36.82%) Azure
2 391 (17.39%) AWS
3 219 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (7.34%) Serverless
5 112 (4.98%) Power Platform
6 106 (4.71%) SaaS
7 91 (4.05%) Azure Functions
8 87 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 80 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 78 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
11 77 (3.42%) Azure API Management
11 77 (3.42%) GitHub
12 74 (3.29%) IBM Cloud
13 54 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
14 50 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
15 41 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.38%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (1.16%) PaaS
19 25 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.53%) Internet
2 24 (1.07%) HTTP
3 19 (0.84%) DNS
4 15 (0.67%) SSL
5 14 (0.62%) Firewall
6 13 (0.58%) Network Security
7 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.36%) VPN
9 7 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
11 4 (0.18%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.18%) LAN
11 4 (0.18%) MQTT
11 4 (0.18%) NAS
11 4 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.13%) Intranet
13 2 (0.089%) Wireless
14 1 (0.044%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 548 (24.37%) SQL Server
2 228 (10.14%) NoSQL
3 198 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (8.14%) Relational Database
5 181 (8.05%) MongoDB
6 157 (6.98%) MySQL
7 92 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
8 78 (3.47%) Power BI
9 74 (3.29%) DB2
10 58 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
11 33 (1.47%) Siebel EIM
12 29 (1.29%) Power Query
12 29 (1.29%) Redis
13 26 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 23 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 16 (0.71%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.62%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 352 (15.65%) Git
2 104 (4.62%) Visual Studio
3 89 (3.96%) JIRA
4 82 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 56 (2.49%) Selenium
6 42 (1.87%) NUnit
7 38 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 35 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 31 (1.38%) JUnit
10 29 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
11 28 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 23 (1.02%) Ant
13 22 (0.98%) GitLab
14 19 (0.84%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.62%) Postman
16 13 (0.58%) Jasmine
16 13 (0.58%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.44%) MorphX
18 9 (0.40%) Maven
19 8 (0.36%) JMeter
General
1 367 (16.32%) Social Skills
2 245 (10.89%) Finance
3 156 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 90 (4.00%) Marketing
5 71 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (2.80%) Retail
7 54 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.00%) Law
9 41 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 38 (1.69%) Aerospace
11 34 (1.51%) Games
12 26 (1.16%) Advertising
12 26 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 25 (1.11%) Back Office
14 21 (0.93%) Electronics
15 20 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (0.76%) Multimedia
17 16 (0.71%) Banking
18 12 (0.53%) Military
19 11 (0.49%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,028 (45.71%) .NET
2 626 (27.83%) HTML
3 571 (25.39%) CSS
4 551 (24.50%) React
5 492 (21.88%) AngularJS
5 492 (21.88%) ASP.NET
6 375 (16.67%) .NET Core
7 296 (13.16%) .NET Framework
8 281 (12.49%) HTML5
9 279 (12.41%) Vue
10 270 (12.01%) ASP.NET Web API
11 268 (11.92%) Entity Framework
12 262 (11.65%) ASP.NET MVC
13 253 (11.25%) Node.js
14 245 (10.89%) REST
15 223 (9.92%) Web Services
16 187 (8.31%) jQuery
17 185 (8.23%) CSS3
18 170 (7.56%) RESTful
19 162 (7.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 120 (5.34%) Algorithms
2 108 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
3 80 (3.56%) Data Structures
4 76 (3.38%) Blockchain
5 74 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 70 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 41 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.02%) Management Information System
13 21 (0.93%) Social Media
14 20 (0.89%) e-Learning
15 17 (0.76%) Mainframe
16 15 (0.67%) Cloud Native
17 14 (0.62%) Digital Media
18 13 (0.58%) BBC
18 13 (0.58%) iPhone
18 13 (0.58%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 187 (8.31%) Linux
2 150 (6.67%) Windows
3 106 (4.71%) Android
4 88 (3.91%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.27%) Unix
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.089%) AIX
9 2 (0.089%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (37.75%) Agile
2 658 (29.26%) Full Stack Development
3 485 (21.57%) MVC
4 408 (18.14%) DevOps
4 408 (18.14%) Microservices
5 339 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
6 316 (14.05%) TDD
7 290 (12.89%) Computer Science
8 264 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence
9 228 (10.14%) Web Development
10 211 (9.38%) CI/CD
11 208 (9.25%) Scrum
12 198 (8.80%) Software Engineering
13 182 (8.09%) BDD
14 180 (8.00%) Design Patterns
14 180 (8.00%) User Experience
15 161 (7.16%) OO
16 160 (7.11%) OOP
17 146 (6.49%) Front End Development
18 141 (6.27%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (44.95%) JavaScript
2 1,010 (44.91%) C#
3 615 (27.35%) SQL
4 341 (15.16%) Java
5 333 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 259 (11.52%) Python
7 204 (9.07%) PHP
8 131 (5.82%) C++
9 71 (3.16%) C
10 70 (3.11%) Go
11 54 (2.40%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 26 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.76%) COBOL
15 13 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.58%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.40%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.40%) Scala
18 7 (0.31%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 328 (14.58%) Degree
2 211 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 173 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 34 (1.51%) CTC Cleared
6 32 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 21 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.80%) PhD
11 16 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.13%) MBA
13 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.044%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.044%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.044%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.044%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.044%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.56%) QA
2 35 (1.56%) WCAG
3 21 (0.93%) GDPR
4 19 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.089%) GRC
9 2 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.044%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 312 (13.87%) Docker
2 27 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 219 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.22%) Terraform
3 48 (2.13%) Ansible
4 9 (0.40%) MIIS
5 7 (0.31%) Kibana
6 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.18%) WSUS
8 3 (0.13%) Puppet
9 2 (0.089%) Grafana
Vendors
1 425 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.27%) Oracle
3 83 (3.69%) IBM
4 76 (3.38%) Red Hat
5 55 (2.45%) Google
6 34 (1.51%) WSO2
7 33 (1.47%) Siebel
8 31 (1.38%) Facebook
9 26 (1.16%) SAP
10 24 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.93%) Optimizely
11 21 (0.93%) Xamarin
12 20 (0.89%) Sitecore
13 17 (0.76%) Unisys
14 16 (0.71%) Xilinx
15 14 (0.62%) Apple
16 13 (0.58%) Adobe
16 13 (0.58%) Sony
16 13 (0.58%) Yahoo!
17 10 (0.44%) HP