Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 14,359 16,304 34,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.65% 15.58% 22.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.48% 17.01% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,206 12,495 20,697
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £98,750
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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 12,611 £57,500 -11.54% 2,425
UK excluding London +3 9,991 £52,500 -4.55% 1,639
Work from Home 0 6,269 £57,500 -8.00% 1,505
London -3 3,672 £75,000 -6.25% 916
North of England +12 2,808 £52,084 -5.30% 526
South East 0 2,224 £57,500 - 304
North West +11 1,672 £52,084 -5.30% 341
Midlands +12 1,578 £50,000 -9.09% 301
South West +4 1,394 £50,000 -6.56% 187
West Midlands +13 1,002 £50,000 -9.09% 194
Yorkshire +15 890 £50,000 -4.76% 143
East of England +12 875 £50,000 -13.04% 146
Scotland -25 644 £53,500 -2.73% 118
East Midlands +6 571 £50,000 -5.66% 107
Wales +7 333 £52,500 +15.38% 67
North East +4 246 £50,000 -9.09% 48
Northern Ireland -2 144 £55,000 +10.00% 25
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 27 April 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 5,071 (35.32%) JavaScript
2 4,947 (34.45%) C#
3 4,727 (32.92%) .NET
4 4,344 (30.25%) Agile
5 4,024 (28.02%) Azure
6 3,559 (24.79%) Full Stack Development
7 3,508 (24.43%) SQL
8 2,903 (20.22%) HTML
9 2,787 (19.41%) React
10 2,783 (19.38%) AWS
11 2,630 (18.32%) CSS
12 2,524 (17.58%) Microsoft
13 2,444 (17.02%) SQL Server
14 2,362 (16.45%) Social Skills
15 2,341 (16.30%) AngularJS
16 2,117 (14.74%) Finance
17 2,070 (14.42%) TypeScript
18 2,065 (14.38%) Java
19 2,024 (14.10%) DevOps
20 1,944 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
21 1,943 (13.53%) ASP.NET
22 1,891 (13.17%) Software Engineering
23 1,830 (12.74%) MVC
24 1,725 (12.01%) Microservices
25 1,715 (11.94%) Python
26 1,711 (11.92%) Degree
27 1,656 (11.53%) .NET Core
28 1,641 (11.43%) Git
29 1,409 (9.81%) TDD
30 1,400 (9.75%) 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
1 345 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 344 (2.40%) CMS
3 303 (2.11%) WordPress
4 257 (1.79%) Apache
5 182 (1.27%) Confluence
6 164 (1.14%) IIS
7 161 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
8 135 (0.94%) Umbraco
9 89 (0.62%) Apache Spark
10 82 (0.57%) Drupal
11 71 (0.49%) nginx
12 64 (0.45%) 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 (0.22%) Mendix
17 31 (0.22%) Tomcat
18 28 (0.19%) SAS
19 24 (0.17%) Appian
Applications
1 122 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 33 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 28 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 26 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 15 (0.10%) InfoPath
9 14 (0.097%) Simulink
10 7 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.049%) GNU Octave
10 7 (0.049%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.035%) InDesign
12 4 (0.028%) Maya
12 4 (0.028%) Sketch
12 4 (0.028%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.028%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.021%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.021%) Blender
Business Applications
1 223 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 114 (0.79%) Shopify
3 92 (0.64%) Magento
4 65 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
5 43 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 39 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 30 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 17 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 13 (0.091%) Visualfiles
12 11 (0.077%) Maximo
13 9 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (0.056%) IBM Planning Analytics
15 7 (0.049%) BPCS
15 7 (0.049%) Sage 200
16 6 (0.042%) BusinessWorks
16 6 (0.042%) SAP ERP
17 5 (0.035%) Endur
17 5 (0.035%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 4,024 (28.02%) Azure
2 2,783 (19.38%) AWS
3 1,122 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 901 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
5 622 (4.33%) Serverless
6 605 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 582 (4.05%) SaaS
8 547 (3.81%) GCP
9 438 (3.05%) PowerApps
10 427 (2.97%) GitHub
11 416 (2.90%) Power Automate
12 278 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 249 (1.73%) Azure Functions
14 248 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 240 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
16 193 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
17 146 (1.02%) Azure API Management
18 122 (0.85%) IBM Cloud
19 109 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
20 102 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 210 (1.46%) Internet
2 77 (0.54%) HTTP
3 63 (0.44%) DNS
4 59 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 43 (0.30%) Firewall
6 41 (0.29%) SSL
7 32 (0.22%) 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 16 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
13 16 (0.11%) Network Security
13 16 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.091%) 5G
14 13 (0.091%) Bluetooth
14 13 (0.091%) Mobile Broadband
15 11 (0.077%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,444 (17.02%) SQL Server
2 959 (6.68%) MySQL
3 834 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 698 (4.86%) Power BI
5 611 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 610 (4.25%) MongoDB
7 580 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 342 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 309 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 274 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 267 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 213 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 183 (1.27%) Oracle Database
14 179 (1.25%) Redis
15 144 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
16 134 (0.93%) DB2
17 118 (0.82%) DynamoDB
18 110 (0.77%) Oracle Database 11g
19 105 (0.73%) Data Lake
20 97 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,641 (11.43%) Git
2 492 (3.43%) Visual Studio
3 456 (3.18%) JIRA
4 346 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 199 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 154 (1.07%) GitLab
7 134 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 123 (0.86%) Selenium
9 109 (0.76%) NUnit
9 109 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 86 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 82 (0.57%) JUnit
11 82 (0.57%) Sourcetree
12 73 (0.51%) Jasmine
13 64 (0.45%) Maven
13 64 (0.45%) webpack
14 63 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
14 63 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 59 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
16 57 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 2,362 (16.45%) Social Skills
2 2,117 (14.74%) Finance
3 590 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 560 (3.90%) Marketing
5 539 (3.75%) Front Office
6 522 (3.64%) Banking
7 516 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 494 (3.44%) Law
9 437 (3.04%) Retail
10 422 (2.94%) Games
11 400 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 257 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 208 (1.45%) Legal
14 185 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 184 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 160 (1.11%) Tech for Good
17 149 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 137 (0.95%) Advertising
19 112 (0.78%) Automotive
20 109 (0.76%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,727 (32.92%) .NET
2 2,903 (20.22%) HTML
3 2,787 (19.41%) React
4 2,630 (18.32%) CSS
5 2,341 (16.30%) AngularJS
6 1,943 (13.53%) ASP.NET
7 1,656 (11.53%) .NET Core
8 1,346 (9.37%) Node.js
9 1,335 (9.30%) Vue
10 1,291 (8.99%) .NET Framework
11 1,078 (7.51%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1,023 (7.12%) REST
13 1,002 (6.98%) Entity Framework
14 987 (6.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 961 (6.69%) RESTful
16 949 (6.61%) HTML5
17 787 (5.48%) Web Services
18 774 (5.39%) Laravel
19 742 (5.17%) jQuery
20 537 (3.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 690 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
2 394 (2.74%) Algorithms
3 392 (2.73%) Fixed Income
4 380 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 355 (2.47%) Hedge funds
6 310 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 302 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 289 (2.01%) Equities
9 278 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 269 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 251 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 216 (1.50%) Derivative
13 199 (1.39%) IoT
14 163 (1.14%) Blockchain
15 161 (1.12%) Client/Server
16 151 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
17 139 (0.97%) Management Information System
18 136 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
19 129 (0.90%) Cloud Native
20 125 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 750 (5.22%) Linux
2 459 (3.20%) Windows
3 394 (2.74%) Android
4 336 (2.34%) Apple iOS
5 162 (1.13%) Unix
6 35 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.19%) VMS
8 27 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 22 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 20 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 18 (0.13%) CentOS
12 14 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
13 12 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.035%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.035%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.028%) AIX
16 4 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.014%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,344 (30.25%) Agile
2 3,559 (24.79%) Full Stack Development
3 2,024 (14.10%) DevOps
4 1,944 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
5 1,891 (13.17%) Software Engineering
6 1,830 (12.74%) MVC
7 1,725 (12.01%) Microservices
8 1,409 (9.81%) TDD
9 1,185 (8.25%) Computer Science
10 1,165 (8.11%) CI/CD
11 1,160 (8.08%) Scrum
12 1,141 (7.95%) Web Development
13 1,043 (7.26%) Front End Development
14 1,006 (7.01%) User Experience
15 935 (6.51%) Mentoring
16 911 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
17 868 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence
18 781 (5.44%) Design Patterns
19 740 (5.15%) Unit Testing
20 693 (4.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5,071 (35.32%) JavaScript
2 4,947 (34.45%) C#
3 3,508 (24.43%) SQL
4 2,070 (14.42%) TypeScript
5 2,065 (14.38%) Java
6 1,715 (11.94%) Python
7 1,400 (9.75%) PHP
8 528 (3.68%) C++
9 453 (3.15%) T-SQL
10 295 (2.05%) PL/SQL
11 272 (1.89%) C
12 257 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 205 (1.43%) Go
14 203 (1.41%) VB.NET
15 178 (1.24%) PowerShell
16 162 (1.13%) Ruby
17 137 (0.95%) VB
18 132 (0.92%) Scala
19 110 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 88 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,711 (11.92%) Degree
2 689 (4.80%) Security Cleared
3 681 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 531 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 151 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 142 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 82 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 61 (0.42%) PhD
10 55 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 52 (0.36%) AWS Certification
12 49 (0.34%) DV Cleared
13 39 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
14 23 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.12%) Postgraduate
16 15 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.097%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.077%) HND
19 7 (0.049%) Numerate Degree
20 5 (0.035%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (3.73%) QA
2 154 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.47%) GDPR
4 63 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 59 (0.41%) WCAG
6 29 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.10%) SLA
9 13 (0.091%) WAI
10 12 (0.084%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.042%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.035%) GRC
14 4 (0.028%) MiFID
15 3 (0.021%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.021%) ISO 13485
15 3 (0.021%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.021%) PMO
16 2 (0.014%) IEC 62304
16 2 (0.014%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,198 (8.34%) Docker
2 66 (0.46%) HDFS
3 55 (0.38%) Firmware
4 45 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 34 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 31 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.042%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.021%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.014%) OpenSIPS
11 2 (0.014%) Varnish
11 2 (0.014%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.007%) GridGain
12 1 (0.007%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 793 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 320 (2.23%) Terraform
3 95 (0.66%) Ansible
4 27 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (0.15%) Grafana
6 20 (0.14%) Kibana
7 14 (0.097%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.070%) Rancher
9 9 (0.063%) MIIS
10 7 (0.049%) 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%) Consul
15 2 (0.014%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,524 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 525 (3.66%) Oracle
3 377 (2.63%) Google
4 189 (1.32%) IBM
5 163 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 138 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 127 (0.88%) Facebook
8 125 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 122 (0.85%) Adobe
10 107 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 100 (0.70%) Databricks
12 80 (0.56%) SAP
13 69 (0.48%) Sitecore
14 66 (0.46%) Apple
15 65 (0.45%) Informatica
16 57 (0.40%) Cloudera
17 54 (0.38%) WooCommerce
18 48 (0.33%) Progress
19 44 (0.31%) MuleSoft
19 44 (0.31%) WSO2