Graduate Developer
UK

The median Graduate Developer salary in the UK is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 816 856 883
Rank change year-on-year +40 +27 -295
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate Developer 95 112 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 92 76 286
10th Percentile £24,000 £23,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £25,188 £26,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £41,563 £36,250 £40,000
90th Percentile £52,250 £49,375 £50,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000

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 96,558 89,715 157,967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,983 56,849 84,574
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Graduate Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Graduate Developer in the UK

Graduate Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Graduate Developer.

Salary trend for Graduate Developer in the UK

Graduate Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate Developer over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Graduate Developer in the UK

Graduate Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +41 92 £30,000 -0.83% 17
UK excluding London +10 77 £30,000 - 15
South East +9 39 £30,000 -0.83% 5
Work from Home +64 37 £35,000 +16.67% 13
London +82 17 £47,500 +5.56% 7
North of England +52 17 £40,000 +60.00% 5
North West - 16 £40,000 - 2
Midlands -4 11 £24,000 -11.11% 1
East Midlands -11 8 £24,000 -12.73% 1
East of England +18 6 £35,000 -22.22% 1
West Midlands +12 3 £35,000 +29.63%
South West -27 2 £27,500 - 1
Scotland -59 2 £26,000 -7.96% 2
Yorkshire +70 1 £26,500 - 2

Graduate Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 May 2024, Graduate 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 Graduate Developer in the job title.

1 79 (83.16%) Degree
2 54 (56.84%) Computer Science
3 45 (47.37%) JavaScript
4 43 (45.26%) C#
5 36 (37.89%) .NET
6 33 (34.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (31.58%) SQL
8 29 (30.53%) Python
9 23 (24.21%) Agile
9 23 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (23.16%) ERP
11 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
11 21 (22.11%) SQL Server
11 21 (22.11%) Manufacturing
11 21 (22.11%) Social Skills
11 21 (22.11%) .NET Core
12 20 (21.05%) Finance
12 20 (21.05%) ASP.NET
12 20 (21.05%) HTML
13 19 (20.00%) Java
13 19 (20.00%) MVC
14 18 (18.95%) CSS
14 18 (18.95%) ASP.NET MVC
15 17 (17.89%) AngularJS
16 15 (15.79%) React
17 13 (13.68%) Azure
17 13 (13.68%) Full Stack Development
18 12 (12.63%) .NET Framework
19 11 (11.58%) TDD
19 11 (11.58%) OOP

Graduate 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 3 (3.16%) WordPress
2 2 (2.11%) CMS
2 2 (2.11%) Drupal
3 1 (1.05%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.68%) Azure
2 9 (9.47%) AWS
3 2 (2.11%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (2.11%) CloudFront
4 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.05%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (1.05%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Git
1 3 (3.16%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.11%) Hudson
2 2 (2.11%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) JUnit
2 2 (2.11%) Mockito
3 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (22.11%) Manufacturing
1 21 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.05%) Finance
3 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Games
5 5 (5.26%) Marketing
5 5 (5.26%) Retail
6 4 (4.21%) Automotive
6 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Electronics
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.89%) .NET
2 21 (22.11%) .NET Core
3 20 (21.05%) ASP.NET
3 20 (21.05%) HTML
4 18 (18.95%) ASP.NET MVC
4 18 (18.95%) CSS
5 17 (17.89%) AngularJS
6 15 (15.79%) React
7 12 (12.63%) .NET Framework
8 8 (8.42%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (7.37%) Entity Framework
10 6 (6.32%) HTML5
11 4 (4.21%) J2EE
11 4 (4.21%) Node.js
11 4 (4.21%) Vue
12 3 (3.16%) Blazor
12 3 (3.16%) CSS3
12 3 (3.16%) Laravel
12 3 (3.16%) RESTful
12 3 (3.16%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.32%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.32%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.32%) IoT
3 4 (4.21%) Blog
3 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.21%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (3.16%) Tandem
5 2 (2.11%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Android
2 5 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) Computer Science
2 23 (24.21%) Agile
2 23 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (23.16%) ERP
4 19 (20.00%) MVC
5 13 (13.68%) Full Stack Development
6 11 (11.58%) BDD
6 11 (11.58%) OOP
6 11 (11.58%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (11.58%) TDD
7 10 (10.53%) Business Analysis
7 10 (10.53%) CRM
7 10 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
8 9 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (9.47%) Customer Service
8 9 (9.47%) Multithreading
8 9 (9.47%) Software Engineering
9 8 (8.42%) Microservices
10 6 (6.32%) SDLC
11 5 (5.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.37%) JavaScript
2 43 (45.26%) C#
3 30 (31.58%) SQL
4 29 (30.53%) Python
5 19 (20.00%) Java
6 5 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.21%) PHP
8 3 (3.16%) Ruby
9 2 (2.11%) C
10 1 (1.05%) C++
10 1 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (83.16%) Degree
2 33 (34.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.21%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.11%) PhD
4 2 (2.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Google
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) Peregrine
4 2 (2.11%) Twitter
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe
5 1 (1.05%) F5