Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East 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 7 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,317 2,350 4,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.31% 16.67% 21.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.15% 18.49% 22.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,955 1,825 3,185
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,379 12,711 19,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.19% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 11,667 8,030 12,417
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East 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
Thames Valley -3 874 £60,000 -7.69% 100
Hampshire -4 556 £60,000 +9.09% 73
Berkshire -2 446 £65,000 - 35
Surrey 0 305 £55,000 -8.33% 46
Kent +7 250 £55,000 - 31
Buckinghamshire 0 228 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Oxfordshire 0 200 £55,000 -15.38% 32
East Sussex -4 147 £55,000 - 36
West Sussex +11 102 £55,000 -5.98% 12
Sussex +3 56 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Middlesex -37 5 £44,000 -43.23% 2
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,048 (45.23%) .NET
2 1,028 (44.37%) C#
3 1,010 (43.59%) JavaScript
4 860 (37.12%) Agile
5 843 (36.38%) Azure
6 668 (28.83%) Full Stack Development
7 628 (27.10%) HTML
8 616 (26.59%) SQL
9 577 (24.90%) CSS
10 552 (23.82%) SQL Server
11 551 (23.78%) React
12 497 (21.45%) AngularJS
13 496 (21.41%) ASP.NET
14 483 (20.85%) MVC
15 428 (18.47%) Microsoft
16 410 (17.70%) DevOps
17 407 (17.57%) Microservices
18 397 (17.13%) AWS
19 387 (16.70%) .NET Core
20 372 (16.06%) Social Skills
21 352 (15.19%) Git
22 351 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
23 338 (14.59%) Java
24 333 (14.37%) Degree
25 330 (14.24%) TypeScript
26 316 (13.64%) TDD
27 304 (13.12%) Docker
28 298 (12.86%) .NET Framework
29 295 (12.73%) Computer Science
30 281 (12.13%) Vue

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 70 (3.02%) CMS
2 43 (1.86%) IIS
3 41 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 33 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 29 (1.25%) Umbraco
6 25 (1.08%) Apache
6 25 (1.08%) Kentico
7 24 (1.04%) Headless CMS
8 21 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
9 20 (0.86%) WordPress
10 18 (0.78%) nginx
11 13 (0.56%) IBM Domino
12 12 (0.52%) Drupal
13 11 (0.47%) JBoss
14 10 (0.43%) Confluence
15 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
15 9 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
16 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.78%) Simulink
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.26%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.043%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.043%) InDesign
6 1 (0.043%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 43 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.47%) Siebel CRM
3 17 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.35%) Magento
5 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.22%) Odoo
6 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
6 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.086%) nopCommerce
7 2 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.086%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.086%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.086%) Shopify
8 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 843 (36.38%) Azure
2 397 (17.13%) AWS
3 218 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (7.03%) Serverless
5 118 (5.09%) Power Platform
6 107 (4.62%) SaaS
7 91 (3.93%) Azure Functions
8 86 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 79 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 78 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
11 77 (3.32%) Azure API Management
11 77 (3.32%) GitHub
12 74 (3.19%) IBM Cloud
13 52 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.34%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (1.12%) GCP
19 25 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.46%) Internet
2 24 (1.04%) HTTP
3 19 (0.82%) DNS
4 15 (0.65%) SSL
5 14 (0.60%) Firewall
5 14 (0.60%) Network Security
6 9 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.35%) VPN
8 7 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
10 4 (0.17%) Intranet
10 4 (0.17%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.17%) LAN
10 4 (0.17%) MQTT
10 4 (0.17%) NAS
10 4 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.17%) Wireless
11 1 (0.043%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 552 (23.82%) SQL Server
2 223 (9.62%) NoSQL
3 196 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
4 182 (7.85%) MongoDB
5 180 (7.77%) Relational Database
6 159 (6.86%) MySQL
7 92 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
8 83 (3.58%) Power BI
9 74 (3.19%) DB2
10 58 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
11 34 (1.47%) Siebel EIM
12 33 (1.42%) Power Query
13 29 (1.25%) Redis
14 25 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 23 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 21 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.65%) MariaDB
17 15 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 352 (15.19%) Git
2 105 (4.53%) Visual Studio
3 88 (3.80%) JIRA
4 79 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 56 (2.42%) Selenium
6 43 (1.86%) NUnit
7 36 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 35 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
9 31 (1.34%) JUnit
9 31 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
10 28 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
11 23 (0.99%) Ant
11 23 (0.99%) GitLab
12 19 (0.82%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.60%) Jasmine
14 13 (0.56%) Postman
14 13 (0.56%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.43%) MorphX
16 9 (0.39%) Maven
16 9 (0.39%) MSBuild
General
1 372 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 251 (10.83%) Finance
3 156 (6.73%) Public Sector
4 92 (3.97%) Marketing
5 71 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (2.76%) Retail
7 55 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 46 (1.99%) Law
9 42 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 39 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 34 (1.47%) Games
12 26 (1.12%) Advertising
12 26 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 25 (1.08%) Back Office
14 21 (0.91%) Electronics
14 21 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.78%) Multimedia
16 15 (0.65%) Banking
17 12 (0.52%) Military
18 11 (0.47%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,048 (45.23%) .NET
2 628 (27.10%) HTML
3 577 (24.90%) CSS
4 551 (23.78%) React
5 497 (21.45%) AngularJS
6 496 (21.41%) ASP.NET
7 387 (16.70%) .NET Core
8 298 (12.86%) .NET Framework
9 281 (12.13%) Vue
10 280 (12.08%) HTML5
11 278 (12.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 271 (11.70%) Entity Framework
13 262 (11.31%) ASP.NET MVC
14 251 (10.83%) Node.js
15 240 (10.36%) REST
16 222 (9.58%) Web Services
17 185 (7.98%) CSS3
17 185 (7.98%) jQuery
18 174 (7.51%) RESTful
19 161 (6.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.35%) Algorithms
2 111 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
3 80 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 76 (3.28%) Blockchain
5 74 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 70 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 41 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.34%) Product Ownership
12 23 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 21 (0.91%) Social Media
14 20 (0.86%) e-Learning
15 15 (0.65%) Cloud Native
15 15 (0.65%) Mainframe
15 15 (0.65%) NHS
16 14 (0.60%) Digital Media
17 13 (0.56%) BBC
17 13 (0.56%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 190 (8.20%) Linux
2 149 (6.43%) Windows
3 106 (4.57%) Android
4 87 (3.75%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.26%) Unix
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.086%) AIX
9 2 (0.086%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.043%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (37.12%) Agile
2 668 (28.83%) Full Stack Development
3 483 (20.85%) MVC
4 410 (17.70%) DevOps
5 407 (17.57%) Microservices
6 351 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (13.64%) TDD
8 295 (12.73%) Computer Science
9 266 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 233 (10.06%) Web Development
11 214 (9.24%) CI/CD
12 204 (8.80%) Scrum
12 204 (8.80%) Software Engineering
13 184 (7.94%) User Experience
14 182 (7.85%) Design Patterns
15 180 (7.77%) BDD
16 162 (6.99%) OO
17 159 (6.86%) OOP
18 151 (6.52%) Front End Development
19 140 (6.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (44.37%) C#
2 1,010 (43.59%) JavaScript
3 616 (26.59%) SQL
4 338 (14.59%) Java
5 330 (14.24%) TypeScript
6 261 (11.26%) Python
7 205 (8.85%) PHP
8 133 (5.74%) C++
9 73 (3.15%) C
10 70 (3.02%) Go
11 53 (2.29%) T-SQL
12 36 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 26 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 16 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 15 (0.65%) COBOL
16 11 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.39%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.39%) Scala
18 7 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 333 (14.37%) Degree
2 209 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 175 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 124 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 33 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 30 (1.29%) CTC Cleared
6 30 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 20 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.82%) PhD
10 15 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.13%) MBA
12 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.086%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.086%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.043%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.043%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.043%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.45%) QA
2 33 (1.42%) WCAG
3 21 (0.91%) GDPR
4 20 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.086%) GRC
9 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.043%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 304 (13.12%) Docker
2 26 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.39%) Firmware
4 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.17%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 212 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.11%) Terraform
3 46 (1.99%) Ansible
4 9 (0.39%) MIIS
5 7 (0.30%) Kibana
6 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.17%) WSUS
8 3 (0.13%) Puppet
9 2 (0.086%) Grafana
10 1 (0.043%) cPanel
10 1 (0.043%) Plesk
Vendors
1 428 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.14%) Oracle
3 83 (3.58%) IBM
4 76 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 58 (2.50%) Google
6 34 (1.47%) Siebel
7 33 (1.42%) WSO2
8 31 (1.34%) Facebook
9 26 (1.12%) SAP
10 24 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.91%) Optimizely
11 21 (0.91%) Sitecore
11 21 (0.91%) Xamarin
12 18 (0.78%) Xilinx
13 15 (0.65%) Unisys
14 14 (0.60%) Adobe
14 14 (0.60%) Apple
15 13 (0.56%) Sony
15 13 (0.56%) Yahoo!
16 10 (0.43%) HP