Programmer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Programmer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Programmer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 622 470
Rank change year-on-year +268 -152 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 512 106 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.19% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.22% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 322 53 147
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,162 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £71,652 £68,275
UK median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
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%

Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programmer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
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 Programmer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +128 152 £40,000 -20.00% 41
Midlands +99 145 £35,000 -22.22% 44
North West +81 113 £45,000 - 25
South East +13 90 £45,000 -35.71% 39
West Midlands +58 73 £35,000 -17.65% 25
East Midlands +40 72 £38,000 -30.91% 19
East of England - 69 £45,000 - 16
South West +11 56 £45,000 -18.18% 16
Yorkshire +77 35 £35,000 -33.26% 13
North East - 4 - - 3
Programmer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 97 (18.95%) CAD
2 92 (17.97%) Mentoring
3 91 (17.77%) Software Engineering
4 85 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (15.82%) Creative Thinking
5 81 (15.82%) User Experience
6 78 (15.23%) Machine Learning
6 78 (15.23%) Manufacturing
7 74 (14.45%) Agile
7 74 (14.45%) Data Engineering
7 74 (14.45%) Cyberattack
7 74 (14.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 74 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (10.74%) Aerospace
9 46 (8.98%) Social Skills
10 40 (7.81%) Automotive
11 32 (6.25%) SQL
12 28 (5.47%) RPG
12 28 (5.47%) Windows
13 25 (4.88%) Siemens
13 25 (4.88%) Degree
14 21 (4.10%) SystemVerilog
15 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
16 18 (3.52%) AutoCAD
16 18 (3.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (3.32%) R
18 16 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
18 16 (3.13%) Siemens NX
18 16 (3.13%) MS Visio
18 16 (3.13%) C#

Programmer 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 8 (1.56%) CICS
2 5 (0.98%) SAS
3 1 (0.20%) Mule
Applications
1 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.52%) AutoCAD
3 16 (3.13%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.13%) Siemens NX
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.59%) SPSS
6 2 (0.39%) ALPHACAM
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.39%) Stata
7 1 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.20%) AWS
2 1 (0.20%) Azure
2 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.20%) Azure Functions
2 1 (0.20%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) FTP
2 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.20%) Profibus
2 1 (0.20%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.37%) SQL Server
1 7 (1.37%) UniData
2 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.20%) MySQL
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.95%) Eclipse
2 7 (1.37%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.17%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.20%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) JIRA
4 1 (0.20%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.20%) PVCS
General
1 78 (15.23%) Manufacturing
2 74 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (10.74%) Aerospace
4 46 (8.98%) Social Skills
5 40 (7.81%) Automotive
6 16 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.73%) Marketing
8 11 (2.15%) Finance
8 11 (2.15%) Games
9 10 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.37%) Retail
11 6 (1.17%) Electronics
12 5 (0.98%) Aviation
13 4 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.59%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.39%) Local Government
15 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.20%) Law
16 1 (0.20%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.34%) EDI
2 11 (2.15%) REST
3 10 (1.95%) JSON
3 10 (1.95%) Web Services
3 10 (1.95%) XML
3 10 (1.95%) XSL
4 8 (1.56%) .NET
4 8 (1.56%) HTML
5 7 (1.37%) ASP.NET
6 6 (1.17%) Classic ASP
6 6 (1.17%) HTML5
6 6 (1.17%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (0.98%) EDIFACT
8 4 (0.78%) Unreal Engine
9 3 (0.59%) ISPF
9 3 (0.59%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 2 (0.39%) CSS
11 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET Web API
11 1 (0.20%) OpenGL
11 1 (0.20%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (14.45%) Cyberattack
2 14 (2.73%) IoT
2 14 (2.73%) Robotics
3 11 (2.15%) Mainframe
4 9 (1.76%) AS400
5 7 (1.37%) ARM Cortex
5 7 (1.37%) Verilog
6 6 (1.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.39%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.20%) Animation
8 1 (0.20%) iSeries
8 1 (0.20%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.20%) Oculus
8 1 (0.20%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.20%) SCADA
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.47%) Windows
2 5 (0.98%) Linux
2 5 (0.98%) Unix
3 4 (0.78%) AIX
3 4 (0.78%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (18.95%) CAD
2 92 (17.97%) Mentoring
3 91 (17.77%) Software Engineering
4 85 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (15.82%) Creative Thinking
5 81 (15.82%) User Experience
6 78 (15.23%) Machine Learning
7 74 (14.45%) Agile
7 74 (14.45%) Data Engineering
7 74 (14.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (3.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (2.93%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (2.73%) 3D Modelling
11 13 (2.54%) Mathematics
12 12 (2.34%) Physics
13 11 (2.15%) Computer Science
13 11 (2.15%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (2.15%) SDLC
14 10 (1.95%) Modular Programming
14 10 (1.95%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.25%) SQL
2 28 (5.47%) RPG
3 21 (4.10%) SystemVerilog
4 17 (3.32%) R
5 16 (3.13%) C#
6 14 (2.73%) Python
7 10 (1.95%) Ladder Logic
8 8 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.56%) VB
9 7 (1.37%) Java
9 7 (1.37%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.37%) RPG IV
9 7 (1.37%) Tcl
10 6 (1.17%) VBScript
11 5 (0.98%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.98%) RPG/400
12 3 (0.59%) JCL
12 3 (0.59%) REXX
13 2 (0.39%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (4.88%) Degree
2 5 (0.98%) PhD
2 5 (0.98%) Security Cleared
3 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.39%) GDPR
1 2 (0.39%) QA
2 1 (0.20%) CDISC
2 1 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 3 (0.59%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (0.39%) ACF2
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (0.59%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 25 (4.88%) Siemens
2 13 (2.54%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.95%) Cadence
3 10 (1.95%) Synopsys
4 7 (1.37%) Oracle
5 5 (0.98%) IBM
6 3 (0.59%) Broadcom
6 3 (0.59%) Quadient
6 3 (0.59%) Splunk
7 2 (0.39%) Rockwell
7 2 (0.39%) SAP
8 1 (0.20%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.20%) QinetiQ
8 1 (0.20%) Toshiba