Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 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 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,595 8,102 15,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.32% 13.95% 20.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.08% 15.66% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,022 5,848 10,394
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +13 3,030 £52,500 -4.55% 519
South East 0 2,317 £57,500 -4.17% 332
North West +11 1,782 £52,500 -4.55% 328
Midlands +7 1,702 £50,000 -9.09% 381
South West +5 1,459 £50,000 -9.09% 218
West Midlands +12 1,105 £50,000 -9.09% 242
Yorkshire +14 967 £50,000 -4.76% 144
East of England +13 888 £50,000 -13.04% 157
Scotland -21 679 £54,000 -1.82% 113
East Midlands +4 589 £48,000 -12.73% 139
Wales +13 365 £52,500 +15.38% 46
North East +6 281 £51,250 -6.17% 52
Northern Ireland -2 155 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3,918 (36.98%) C#
2 3,832 (36.17%) .NET
3 3,773 (35.61%) JavaScript
4 3,062 (28.90%) Agile
5 2,956 (27.90%) Azure
6 2,653 (25.04%) Full Stack Development
7 2,398 (22.63%) SQL
8 2,328 (21.97%) HTML
9 2,094 (19.76%) CSS
10 1,951 (18.41%) React
11 1,924 (18.16%) Microsoft
12 1,912 (18.05%) SQL Server
13 1,749 (16.51%) AngularJS
14 1,656 (15.63%) Social Skills
15 1,634 (15.42%) AWS
16 1,603 (15.13%) ASP.NET
17 1,585 (14.96%) MVC
18 1,416 (13.36%) DevOps
19 1,398 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
20 1,368 (12.91%) .NET Core
21 1,291 (12.18%) TypeScript
22 1,267 (11.96%) Microservices
23 1,230 (11.61%) Git
24 1,185 (11.18%) PHP
25 1,183 (11.17%) Degree
26 1,125 (10.62%) Software Engineering
27 1,108 (10.46%) Java
28 1,107 (10.45%) .NET Framework
29 1,044 (9.85%) Vue
30 1,001 (9.45%) ASP.NET Web API

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 262 (2.47%) CMS
2 261 (2.46%) WordPress
3 212 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 125 (1.18%) IIS
5 120 (1.13%) Umbraco
6 111 (1.05%) Confluence
7 77 (0.73%) Apache
8 71 (0.67%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.50%) Headless CMS
10 51 (0.48%) nginx
11 48 (0.45%) OpenEdge
12 44 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.41%) Kentico
14 40 (0.38%) Drupal
15 33 (0.31%) OpenStack
16 26 (0.25%) SAS
17 16 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
18 14 (0.13%) Apache Solr
19 13 (0.12%) IBM Domino
20 12 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 94 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.28%) Adobe XD
3 30 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 26 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 22 (0.21%) Simulink
6 17 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.066%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.047%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.047%) Sketch
10 4 (0.038%) Maya
10 4 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.038%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.028%) InDesign
11 3 (0.028%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.019%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.009%) Blender
13 1 (0.009%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 144 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 101 (0.95%) Shopify
3 91 (0.86%) Magento
4 53 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 37 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 34 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
7 32 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 27 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.066%) BPCS
10 6 (0.057%) Maximo
10 6 (0.057%) Sage 200
11 5 (0.047%) Odoo
11 5 (0.047%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.047%) Visualfiles
12 4 (0.038%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.038%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.038%) SAP S/4HANA
12 4 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
12 4 (0.038%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 2,956 (27.90%) Azure
2 1,634 (15.42%) AWS
3 727 (6.86%) Power Platform
4 671 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 464 (4.38%) SaaS
6 384 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
7 377 (3.56%) Serverless
8 282 (2.66%) PowerApps
9 280 (2.64%) GitHub
10 276 (2.61%) Power Automate
11 214 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
12 173 (1.63%) Azure Functions
12 173 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
13 161 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 130 (1.23%) GCP
15 125 (1.18%) Azure API Management
16 117 (1.10%) IBM Cloud
17 116 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
19 72 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 196 (1.85%) Internet
2 61 (0.58%) DNS
3 60 (0.57%) HTTP
4 45 (0.42%) Firewall
5 39 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.34%) SSL
7 27 (0.25%) Intranet
8 26 (0.25%) Wireless
9 19 (0.18%) MQTT
10 16 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
11 15 (0.14%) 5G
12 14 (0.13%) Network Security
13 13 (0.12%) Broadband
13 13 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.10%) VPN
15 10 (0.094%) WAN
16 9 (0.085%) SMTP
17 8 (0.076%) Mobile Broadband
17 8 (0.076%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.076%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,912 (18.05%) SQL Server
2 807 (7.62%) MySQL
3 524 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
4 492 (4.64%) Power BI
5 480 (4.53%) NoSQL
6 438 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 387 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 243 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 212 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 195 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 161 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
12 118 (1.11%) DB2
13 117 (1.10%) Oracle Database
14 109 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 88 (0.83%) Redis
16 85 (0.80%) Power Query
17 79 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
18 69 (0.65%) DynamoDB
19 67 (0.63%) Apache Hive
20 63 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,230 (11.61%) Git
2 416 (3.93%) Visual Studio
3 284 (2.68%) JIRA
4 252 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 159 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 113 (1.07%) GitLab
7 89 (0.84%) Selenium
8 84 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 71 (0.67%) NUnit
10 67 (0.63%) Sourcetree
11 60 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 58 (0.55%) Jasmine
13 57 (0.54%) Bitbucket Server
14 54 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
15 53 (0.50%) webpack
16 51 (0.48%) JUnit
17 45 (0.42%) TeamCity
18 42 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
19 38 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
20 37 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 1,656 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 991 (9.35%) Finance
3 435 (4.11%) Marketing
4 399 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 390 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
5 390 (3.68%) Law
6 356 (3.36%) Retail
7 319 (3.01%) Games
8 258 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 244 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 150 (1.42%) Banking
11 139 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 136 (1.28%) Legal
13 126 (1.19%) Tech for Good
14 114 (1.08%) Advertising
15 107 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 99 (0.93%) Automotive
17 86 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 79 (0.75%) Aerospace
18 79 (0.75%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,832 (36.17%) .NET
2 2,328 (21.97%) HTML
3 2,094 (19.76%) CSS
4 1,951 (18.41%) React
5 1,749 (16.51%) AngularJS
6 1,603 (15.13%) ASP.NET
7 1,368 (12.91%) .NET Core
8 1,107 (10.45%) .NET Framework
9 1,044 (9.85%) Vue
10 1,001 (9.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 960 (9.06%) Node.js
12 910 (8.59%) Entity Framework
13 847 (7.99%) ASP.NET MVC
14 761 (7.18%) HTML5
15 729 (6.88%) REST
16 728 (6.87%) RESTful
17 675 (6.37%) Laravel
18 598 (5.64%) jQuery
19 572 (5.40%) Web Services
20 463 (4.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 461 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 322 (3.04%) Mobile App
3 307 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 192 (1.81%) Data Structures
5 190 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 189 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 173 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 148 (1.40%) IoT
9 129 (1.22%) Blockchain
10 126 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 117 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 108 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
13 92 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 80 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
15 77 (0.73%) Social Media
16 73 (0.69%) Client/Server
17 69 (0.65%) Cloud Native
18 62 (0.59%) NHS
19 57 (0.54%) Social Network
20 55 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 585 (5.52%) Linux
2 404 (3.81%) Windows
3 349 (3.29%) Android
4 278 (2.62%) Apple iOS
5 115 (1.09%) Unix
6 35 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
7 22 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 21 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.20%) VMS
9 9 (0.085%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.057%) Alpine Linux
11 5 (0.047%) Windows Mobile
12 4 (0.038%) AIX
12 4 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.019%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,062 (28.90%) Agile
2 2,653 (25.04%) Full Stack Development
3 1,585 (14.96%) MVC
4 1,416 (13.36%) DevOps
5 1,398 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
6 1,267 (11.96%) Microservices
7 1,125 (10.62%) Software Engineering
8 990 (9.34%) Web Development
9 969 (9.15%) TDD
10 838 (7.91%) Scrum
11 799 (7.54%) User Experience
12 792 (7.48%) CI/CD
13 778 (7.34%) Computer Science
14 749 (7.07%) Front End Development
15 650 (6.13%) Artificial Intelligence
16 623 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
17 610 (5.76%) Mentoring
18 609 (5.75%) Design Patterns
19 526 (4.96%) Unit Testing
20 519 (4.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3,918 (36.98%) C#
2 3,773 (35.61%) JavaScript
3 2,398 (22.63%) SQL
4 1,291 (12.18%) TypeScript
5 1,185 (11.18%) PHP
6 1,108 (10.46%) Java
7 806 (7.61%) Python
8 392 (3.70%) C++
9 297 (2.80%) T-SQL
10 240 (2.27%) C
11 196 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 189 (1.78%) PL/SQL
13 126 (1.19%) Go
14 116 (1.09%) VB
15 107 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 103 (0.97%) PowerShell
17 93 (0.88%) Ruby
18 72 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 70 (0.66%) Swift
20 47 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,183 (11.17%) Degree
2 527 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 494 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 391 (3.69%) SC Cleared
5 92 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 81 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 71 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 59 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 47 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 44 (0.42%) PhD
11 40 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 37 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 30 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 11 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.094%) HND
16 7 (0.066%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.066%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.057%) CIPD
18 4 (0.038%) Numerate Degree
19 3 (0.028%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (3.27%) QA
2 91 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 56 (0.53%) GDPR
4 42 (0.40%) WCAG
5 34 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.11%) SLA
8 10 (0.094%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.076%) WAI
10 5 (0.047%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.028%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.028%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.019%) GRC
12 2 (0.019%) HL7
12 2 (0.019%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.009%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.009%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.009%) ITGC
13 1 (0.009%) NIST
System Software
1 766 (7.23%) Docker
2 55 (0.52%) HDFS
3 47 (0.44%) Firmware
4 29 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 26 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.18%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.028%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.019%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.009%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.009%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 480 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 223 (2.10%) Terraform
3 78 (0.74%) Ansible
4 19 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.094%) Rancher
6 9 (0.085%) MIIS
7 7 (0.066%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.047%) cPanel
8 5 (0.047%) Grafana
8 5 (0.047%) HP Quality Center
9 4 (0.038%) Puppet
9 4 (0.038%) WSUS
10 3 (0.028%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.028%) SCOM
11 2 (0.019%) Plesk
12 1 (0.009%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.009%) Istio
12 1 (0.009%) Nagios
12 1 (0.009%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,924 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 360 (3.40%) Oracle
3 252 (2.38%) Google
4 157 (1.48%) IBM
5 120 (1.13%) Facebook
5 120 (1.13%) Red Hat
6 114 (1.08%) Xamarin
7 87 (0.82%) Adobe
8 83 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 83 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 79 (0.75%) Databricks
10 64 (0.60%) Informatica
11 61 (0.58%) SAP
12 60 (0.57%) Sitecore
13 57 (0.54%) Apple
14 55 (0.52%) Cloudera
15 47 (0.44%) WooCommerce
16 40 (0.38%) Optimizely
17 36 (0.34%) YouTube
18 34 (0.32%) Siebel