Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 13,136 13,347 29,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.78% 15.42% 21.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.62% 16.86% 22.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,281 10,304 17,879
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,075 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.31% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -5 3,675 £75,000 -6.25% 1,017
North of England +13 3,030 £52,500 -4.55% 517
South East 0 2,317 £57,500 -4.17% 333
North West +11 1,782 £52,500 -4.55% 327
Midlands +7 1,702 £50,000 -9.09% 380
South West +5 1,459 £50,000 -9.09% 219
West Midlands +12 1,105 £50,000 -9.09% 241
Yorkshire +14 967 £50,000 -4.76% 143
East of England +13 888 £50,000 -13.04% 157
East Midlands +4 589 £48,000 -12.73% 139
North East +6 281 £51,250 -6.17% 52
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4,648 (35.38%) JavaScript
2 4,617 (35.15%) C#
3 4,469 (34.02%) .NET
4 3,992 (30.39%) Agile
5 3,750 (28.55%) Azure
6 3,425 (26.07%) Full Stack Development
7 3,093 (23.55%) SQL
8 2,671 (20.33%) HTML
9 2,536 (19.31%) React
10 2,478 (18.86%) AWS
11 2,383 (18.14%) CSS
12 2,291 (17.44%) SQL Server
13 2,255 (17.17%) Microsoft
14 2,129 (16.21%) AngularJS
15 2,093 (15.93%) Social Skills
16 1,890 (14.39%) Finance
17 1,882 (14.33%) TypeScript
18 1,860 (14.16%) ASP.NET
19 1,809 (13.77%) DevOps
20 1,748 (13.31%) MVC
21 1,705 (12.98%) Java
22 1,685 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
23 1,674 (12.74%) Software Engineering
24 1,562 (11.89%) .NET Core
25 1,545 (11.76%) Microservices
26 1,533 (11.67%) Degree
27 1,512 (11.51%) Python
28 1,430 (10.89%) Git
29 1,267 (9.65%) TDD
30 1,263 (9.61%) PHP

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 319 (2.43%) CMS
2 313 (2.38%) Apache
3 276 (2.10%) WordPress
4 275 (2.09%) SharePoint
5 218 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 155 (1.18%) IIS
7 150 (1.14%) Confluence
8 118 (0.90%) Umbraco
9 73 (0.56%) Drupal
10 66 (0.50%) nginx
11 63 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.40%) Headless CMS
13 52 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
14 51 (0.39%) Kentico
15 39 (0.30%) OpenStack
16 25 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.18%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 22 (0.17%) SAS
20 19 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 119 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 22 (0.17%) Simulink
7 18 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.053%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.053%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.038%) InDesign
9 5 (0.038%) Sketch
9 5 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.030%) Maya
10 4 (0.030%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.023%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.023%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.023%) Blender
11 3 (0.023%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 179 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 111 (0.85%) Shopify
3 101 (0.77%) Magento
4 63 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 48 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 34 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
8 34 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 16 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 13 (0.099%) Visualfiles
11 9 (0.069%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.053%) BPCS
13 6 (0.046%) Maximo
13 6 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.038%) Odoo
14 5 (0.038%) Oracle Financials
14 5 (0.038%) Sage 200
14 5 (0.038%) SAP BPC
14 5 (0.038%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,750 (28.55%) Azure
2 2,478 (18.86%) AWS
3 985 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 819 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
5 535 (4.07%) Serverless
6 534 (4.07%) GCP
7 508 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
8 487 (3.71%) SaaS
9 375 (2.85%) PowerApps
10 365 (2.78%) GitHub
11 345 (2.63%) Power Automate
12 270 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
13 227 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
14 225 (1.71%) Azure Functions
15 222 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 176 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.10%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.99%) IBM Cloud
19 98 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
20 91 (0.69%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 209 (1.59%) Internet
2 64 (0.49%) HTTP
3 62 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 60 (0.46%) DNS
5 45 (0.34%) Firewall
6 37 (0.28%) SSL
7 26 (0.20%) Wireless
8 23 (0.18%) Intranet
8 23 (0.18%) VPN
9 20 (0.15%) Broadband
9 20 (0.15%) Network Security
10 16 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
11 15 (0.11%) 5G
11 15 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
12 13 (0.099%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.091%) MQTT
14 11 (0.084%) BGP
14 11 (0.084%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.084%) MPLS
15 10 (0.076%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,291 (17.44%) SQL Server
2 897 (6.83%) MySQL
3 729 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
4 655 (4.99%) Power BI
5 569 (4.33%) MongoDB
6 517 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 506 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 289 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 285 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 242 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 240 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 203 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
13 186 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 170 (1.29%) Redis
15 141 (1.07%) DB2
16 119 (0.91%) Data Lake
17 117 (0.89%) Oracle Database
18 91 (0.69%) Power Query
19 90 (0.69%) DynamoDB
20 89 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,430 (10.89%) Git
2 468 (3.56%) Visual Studio
3 416 (3.17%) JIRA
4 210 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 168 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 144 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 140 (1.07%) GitLab
8 110 (0.84%) NUnit
9 106 (0.81%) Selenium
10 98 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 85 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 85 (0.65%) TeamCity
12 71 (0.54%) JUnit
13 67 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
14 63 (0.48%) Moq
15 55 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
16 54 (0.41%) Jasmine
17 47 (0.36%) webpack
18 46 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
19 43 (0.33%) gulp
General
1 2,093 (15.93%) Social Skills
2 1,890 (14.39%) Finance
3 547 (4.16%) Front Office
4 536 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 500 (3.81%) Marketing
6 483 (3.68%) Banking
7 442 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 399 (3.04%) Retail
9 383 (2.92%) Law
10 355 (2.70%) Games
11 236 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 218 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 181 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 167 (1.27%) Legal
15 158 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
16 147 (1.12%) Tech for Good
17 134 (1.02%) Advertising
18 127 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 116 (0.88%) Automotive
20 112 (0.85%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,469 (34.02%) .NET
2 2,671 (20.33%) HTML
3 2,536 (19.31%) React
4 2,383 (18.14%) CSS
5 2,129 (16.21%) AngularJS
6 1,860 (14.16%) ASP.NET
7 1,562 (11.89%) .NET Core
8 1,250 (9.52%) Vue
9 1,214 (9.24%) .NET Framework
10 1,180 (8.98%) Node.js
11 1,054 (8.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 972 (7.40%) Entity Framework
13 949 (7.22%) ASP.NET MVC
14 912 (6.94%) REST
15 893 (6.80%) RESTful
16 875 (6.66%) HTML5
17 732 (5.57%) Web Services
18 705 (5.37%) jQuery
19 703 (5.35%) Laravel
20 517 (3.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 597 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
2 413 (3.14%) Fixed Income
3 388 (2.95%) Hedge funds
4 334 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 317 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 311 (2.37%) Equities
7 301 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 277 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 236 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 227 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 224 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 214 (1.63%) Derivative
13 185 (1.41%) IoT
14 177 (1.35%) Blockchain
15 161 (1.23%) Client/Server
16 144 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
18 128 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
19 113 (0.86%) Cloud Native
20 111 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 725 (5.52%) Linux
2 463 (3.52%) Windows
3 374 (2.85%) Android
4 315 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.69%) Unix
6 34 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.21%) VMS
8 23 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 22 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (0.13%) CentOS
11 16 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.061%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.038%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.038%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.030%) AIX
16 4 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.030%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.015%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,992 (30.39%) Agile
2 3,425 (26.07%) Full Stack Development
3 1,809 (13.77%) DevOps
4 1,748 (13.31%) MVC
5 1,685 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
6 1,674 (12.74%) Software Engineering
7 1,545 (11.76%) Microservices
8 1,267 (9.65%) TDD
9 1,099 (8.37%) Computer Science
10 1,040 (7.92%) Web Development
11 1,016 (7.73%) Scrum
12 946 (7.20%) CI/CD
13 926 (7.05%) User Experience
14 836 (6.36%) Front End Development
15 814 (6.20%) Business Intelligence
16 782 (5.95%) Mentoring
17 750 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
18 716 (5.45%) Design Patterns
19 651 (4.96%) Unit Testing
20 647 (4.93%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4,648 (35.38%) JavaScript
2 4,617 (35.15%) C#
3 3,093 (23.55%) SQL
4 1,882 (14.33%) TypeScript
5 1,705 (12.98%) Java
6 1,512 (11.51%) Python
7 1,263 (9.61%) PHP
8 469 (3.57%) C++
9 402 (3.06%) T-SQL
10 247 (1.88%) C
11 227 (1.73%) Kotlin
12 208 (1.58%) VB.NET
13 171 (1.30%) Go
14 154 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 151 (1.15%) PowerShell
16 119 (0.91%) Ruby
17 114 (0.87%) VB
18 109 (0.83%) Scala
19 108 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 76 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,533 (11.67%) Degree
2 623 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 595 (4.53%) Security Cleared
4 439 (3.34%) SC Cleared
5 143 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 102 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 61 (0.46%) PhD
9 58 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 56 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 47 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 30 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.084%) Postgraduate
16 10 (0.076%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.076%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.076%) HND
17 6 (0.046%) CIPD
17 6 (0.046%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 424 (3.23%) QA
2 109 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.52%) GDPR
4 52 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 49 (0.37%) WCAG
6 20 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 14 (0.11%) SLA
9 12 (0.091%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.061%) MiFID
12 6 (0.046%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.023%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.023%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.023%) PMO
14 2 (0.015%) EMIR
14 2 (0.015%) GRC
14 2 (0.015%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.015%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.015%) WAI
System Software
1 1,029 (7.83%) Docker
2 37 (0.28%) Firmware
3 33 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.061%) HDFS
8 6 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.023%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.015%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.008%) Ceph
11 1 (0.008%) GridGain
11 1 (0.008%) KVM
11 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 702 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 251 (1.91%) Terraform
3 91 (0.69%) Ansible
4 26 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.19%) Grafana
6 21 (0.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.076%) MIIS
8 10 (0.076%) Rancher
9 7 (0.053%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.046%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.046%) cPanel
10 6 (0.046%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.038%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.030%) Puppet
12 4 (0.030%) WSUS
13 3 (0.023%) Control-M
13 3 (0.023%) SCOM
14 2 (0.015%) Nagios
14 2 (0.015%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2,255 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 398 (3.03%) Oracle
3 386 (2.94%) Google
4 179 (1.36%) IBM
5 150 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 140 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 134 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 124 (0.94%) Facebook
9 118 (0.90%) Adobe
10 98 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 70 (0.53%) SAP
12 69 (0.53%) Sitecore
13 59 (0.45%) Apple
14 49 (0.37%) MuleSoft
15 48 (0.37%) Progress
16 46 (0.35%) Databricks
16 46 (0.35%) WooCommerce
17 43 (0.33%) YouTube
18 40 (0.30%) Optimizely
19 39 (0.30%) WSO2