Development Manager
UK

The median Development Manager salary in the UK is £44,100 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 207 385 552
Rank change year-on-year +178 +167 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 1,415 880 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 0.87% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 0.95% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,101 421 629
10th Percentile £35,000 - £49,840
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,100 £60,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% -23.08% +15.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £53,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.49% -23.93% +12.00%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £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%

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Development Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Manager.

Salary trend for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Manager within the UK 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
England +162 1,230 £40,000 -33.33% 286
UK excluding London +91 986 £45,000 -15.49% 211
Work from Home +177 743 £40,000 -38.46% 126
South East +89 368 £40,000 -33.33% 60
London +209 352 £40,000 -51.52% 85
Midlands +93 223 £45,000 -25.00% 36
North of England +74 178 £51,403 +5.88% 53
West Midlands +91 167 £40,060 -33.23% 25
North West +34 95 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Scotland +6 81 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Yorkshire +85 70 £47,500 +26.67% 18
South West -31 58 £50,000 +14.29% 33
East Midlands +14 56 £66,750 +13.62% 11
East of England -2 52 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Wales +37 43 £35,700 +2.00% 1
North East -7 13 £70,000 +47.24% 3
Northern Ireland +25 7 £60,000 - 2

Development Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Development Manager 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 Development Manager in the job title.

1 982 (69.40%) Business Development
2 323 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 317 (22.40%) Salesforce
4 282 (19.93%) Customer Experience
5 278 (19.65%) Client Onboarding
6 206 (14.56%) CRM
7 190 (13.43%) Agile
8 187 (13.22%) Finance
9 185 (13.07%) Marketing
10 152 (10.74%) Decision-Making
11 124 (8.76%) Degree
12 123 (8.69%) Microsoft
13 121 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
14 118 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
15 111 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
16 88 (6.22%) B2B
17 87 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
18 83 (5.87%) Telecoms
19 82 (5.80%) SaaS
20 80 (5.65%) Project Management
21 79 (5.58%) .NET
22 71 (5.02%) Retail
23 69 (4.88%) Software Engineering
24 68 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
25 66 (4.66%) Mentoring
26 64 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
26 64 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 63 (4.45%) Azure
28 61 (4.31%) Manufacturing
28 61 (4.31%) C#

Development Manager 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 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (0.78%) CMS
3 9 (0.64%) WordPress
4 8 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.42%) Apache
5 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.42%) nginx
5 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.28%) Confluence
6 4 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Drupal
7 3 (0.21%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Liferay
8 2 (0.14%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 121 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
2 118 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.14%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (3.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 20 (1.41%) Endur
3 17 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 2 (0.14%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.071%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 82 (5.80%) SaaS
2 63 (4.45%) Azure
3 32 (2.26%) AWS
4 20 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (1.41%) Power Platform
5 10 (0.71%) GCP
6 7 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (0.49%) IBM Cloud
6 7 (0.49%) PowerApps
7 6 (0.42%) Asana
7 6 (0.42%) dbt
8 4 (0.28%) PaaS
9 3 (0.21%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.21%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.21%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.14%) npm
10 2 (0.14%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.071%) GitHub
11 1 (0.071%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.48%) VoIP
2 18 (1.27%) Unified Communications
3 16 (1.13%) Broadband
4 9 (0.64%) Network Security
5 8 (0.57%) Firewall
6 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 5 (0.35%) SSL
6 5 (0.35%) WAN
7 4 (0.28%) NaaS
8 3 (0.21%) FTP
8 3 (0.21%) HTTP
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) MQTT
8 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.21%) VPN
9 2 (0.14%) Internet
9 2 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.14%) VPLS
9 2 (0.14%) WinSCP
10 1 (0.071%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.55%) Relational Database
3 20 (1.41%) RDBMS
4 14 (0.99%) MySQL
5 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.64%) OLAP
6 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.57%) Power BI
8 6 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.42%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.42%) Dremio
8 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.28%) GIS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.14%) DB2
10 2 (0.14%) DTS
10 2 (0.14%) MS Access
10 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (0.99%) JIRA
2 12 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.35%) Git
4 2 (0.14%) Bower
4 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.14%) gulp
4 2 (0.14%) Moq
4 2 (0.14%) Selenium
4 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 323 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 187 (13.22%) Finance
3 185 (13.07%) Marketing
4 83 (5.87%) Telecoms
5 71 (5.02%) Retail
6 68 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
7 64 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
7 64 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (4.31%) Manufacturing
9 49 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 48 (3.39%) Legal
11 33 (2.33%) Local Government
12 31 (2.19%) Games
13 22 (1.55%) Automotive
14 21 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.85%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
18 9 (0.64%) Law
19 8 (0.57%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.58%) .NET
2 15 (1.06%) HTML
3 14 (0.99%) React
4 11 (0.78%) CSS
5 9 (0.64%) ASP.NET
6 8 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (0.57%) Node.js
6 8 (0.57%) Redux
7 7 (0.49%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.42%) gRPC
8 6 (0.42%) LAMP
8 6 (0.42%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (0.35%) Ajax
9 5 (0.35%) Laravel
9 5 (0.35%) Web Services
10 4 (0.28%) jQuery
10 4 (0.28%) Vue
11 3 (0.21%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.21%) REST
11 3 (0.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (3.39%) Driving Licence
2 48 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 27 (1.91%) Social Media
4 22 (1.55%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.41%) Life Science
6 20 (1.41%) Swaptions
7 15 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (0.85%) Biopharmaceutical
9 10 (0.71%) FMCG
10 9 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 9 (0.64%) e-Learning
10 9 (0.64%) NHS
11 8 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (0.57%) Learning Management System
11 8 (0.57%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.49%) 3D Graphics
12 7 (0.49%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.71%) Linux
2 7 (0.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 982 (69.40%) Business Development
2 282 (19.93%) Customer Experience
3 278 (19.65%) Client Onboarding
4 206 (14.56%) CRM
5 190 (13.43%) Agile
6 152 (10.74%) Decision-Making
7 111 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (6.22%) B2B
9 80 (5.65%) Project Management
10 69 (4.88%) Software Engineering
11 66 (4.66%) Mentoring
12 60 (4.24%) Value Proposition
13 58 (4.10%) SDLC
14 54 (3.82%) Logistics
15 52 (3.67%) Business Strategy
16 50 (3.53%) DevOps
16 50 (3.53%) People Management
16 50 (3.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (3.32%) Active Listening
18 46 (3.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (4.31%) C#
2 45 (3.18%) SQL
3 43 (3.04%) Java
4 27 (1.91%) PHP
5 23 (1.63%) Python
6 22 (1.55%) VB
7 21 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.06%) C
8 15 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 14 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.42%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.35%) C++
12 3 (0.21%) R
12 3 (0.21%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.14%) Go
13 2 (0.14%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.14%) XAML
14 1 (0.071%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 124 (8.76%) Degree
2 19 (1.34%) Master's Degree
3 18 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 15 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (0.99%) Security Cleared
6 12 (0.85%) MBA
6 12 (0.85%) PhD
6 12 (0.85%) SC Cleared
7 10 (0.71%) CFA
7 10 (0.71%) CIMA
8 7 (0.49%) CIPD
8 7 (0.49%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.21%) HNC
9 3 (0.21%) HND
9 3 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.071%) MCAD
11 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.071%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.75%) SLA
2 25 (1.77%) QA
3 8 (0.57%) GDPR
4 6 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.42%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.35%) NCSC
6 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.071%) IFRS
8 1 (0.071%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 13 (0.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.35%) Firmware
3 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.85%) Ansible
3 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.071%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.071%) Plesk
4 1 (0.071%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 317 (22.40%) Salesforce
2 123 (8.69%) Microsoft
3 60 (4.24%) SAP
4 20 (1.41%) OpenLink
4 20 (1.41%) Oracle
4 20 (1.41%) Sybase
4 20 (1.41%) TIBCO
5 18 (1.27%) YouTube
6 15 (1.06%) NetApp
6 15 (1.06%) Sage
7 11 (0.78%) IBM
8 9 (0.64%) IFS
9 8 (0.57%) Cisco
10 6 (0.42%) BT
10 6 (0.42%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.35%) ATG
11 5 (0.35%) Google
12 4 (0.28%) Dell
12 4 (0.28%) HP
12 4 (0.28%) Sophos