Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 14,460 15,594 35,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 15.54% 22.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.43% 16.98% 22.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,284 11,998 20,390
10th Percentile £35,288 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,717 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK

Developer
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +2 12,673 £57,500 -11.54% 2,592
UK excluding London +3 10,099 £52,500 -4.55% 1,729
Work from Home 0 6,257 £57,500 -8.00% 1,675
London -4 3,653 £75,000 -3.23% 1,001
North of England +12 2,878 £52,084 -5.30% 523
South East 0 2,234 £57,500 - 309
North West +11 1,708 £52,500 -4.55% 316
Midlands +10 1,568 £50,000 -9.09% 356
South West +4 1,409 £50,000 -9.09% 214
West Midlands +13 1,019 £51,000 -7.27% 225
Yorkshire +16 914 £50,000 -4.76% 146
East of England +13 873 £50,000 -13.04% 143
Scotland -24 651 £54,000 -1.82% 119
East Midlands +3 542 £50,000 -9.09% 130
Wales +7 345 £52,500 +16.02% 57
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Northern Ireland -2 145 £51,000 +2.00% 39
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Developer in the job title.

1 5,058 (34.98%) JavaScript
2 4,983 (34.46%) C#
3 4,768 (32.97%) .NET
4 4,413 (30.52%) Agile
5 4,082 (28.23%) Azure
6 3,615 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
7 3,454 (23.89%) SQL
8 2,902 (20.07%) HTML
9 2,794 (19.32%) AWS
10 2,781 (19.23%) React
11 2,631 (18.20%) CSS
12 2,506 (17.33%) Microsoft
13 2,419 (16.73%) SQL Server
14 2,359 (16.31%) Social Skills
15 2,315 (16.01%) AngularJS
16 2,135 (14.76%) Finance
17 2,086 (14.43%) TypeScript
18 2,044 (14.14%) Java
19 2,021 (13.98%) DevOps
20 1,951 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
21 1,945 (13.45%) ASP.NET
22 1,917 (13.26%) Software Engineering
23 1,834 (12.68%) MVC
24 1,731 (11.97%) Microservices
25 1,703 (11.78%) Python
26 1,681 (11.63%) Degree
27 1,659 (11.47%) .NET Core
28 1,640 (11.34%) Git
29 1,414 (9.78%) TDD
30 1,387 (9.59%) PHP

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
1 348 (2.41%) CMS
2 336 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 305 (2.11%) WordPress
4 296 (2.05%) Apache
5 198 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 179 (1.24%) Confluence
7 163 (1.13%) IIS
8 135 (0.93%) Umbraco
9 89 (0.62%) Apache Spark
10 83 (0.57%) Drupal
11 73 (0.50%) nginx
12 65 (0.45%) OpenEdge
13 53 (0.37%) Headless CMS
13 53 (0.37%) Kentico
14 51 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.28%) OpenStack
16 31 (0.21%) Mendix
17 29 (0.20%) SAS
18 28 (0.19%) Tomcat
19 24 (0.17%) Appian
Applications
1 122 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 32 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 28 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 26 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.12%) Simulink
8 9 (0.062%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.048%) GNU Octave
9 7 (0.048%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.035%) InDesign
11 5 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.028%) Maya
12 4 (0.028%) Sketch
12 4 (0.028%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.021%) Blender
13 3 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 218 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 112 (0.77%) Shopify
3 96 (0.66%) Magento
4 63 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 34 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 32 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 17 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.076%) Visualfiles
12 9 (0.062%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 9 (0.062%) Maximo
12 9 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
13 7 (0.048%) BPCS
14 6 (0.041%) Sage 200
14 6 (0.041%) SAP ERP
15 5 (0.035%) Odoo
15 5 (0.035%) SAP BPC
15 5 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4,082 (28.23%) Azure
2 2,794 (19.32%) AWS
3 1,111 (7.68%) Power Platform
4 903 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
5 616 (4.26%) Serverless
6 601 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
7 591 (4.09%) SaaS
8 572 (3.96%) GCP
9 443 (3.06%) PowerApps
10 423 (2.93%) Power Automate
11 418 (2.89%) GitHub
12 277 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 252 (1.74%) Azure Functions
14 251 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 241 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
16 189 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
17 151 (1.04%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.90%) IBM Cloud
19 107 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
20 99 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 214 (1.48%) Internet
2 74 (0.51%) HTTP
3 64 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 63 (0.44%) DNS
5 43 (0.30%) Firewall
6 41 (0.28%) SSL
7 29 (0.20%) Intranet
8 27 (0.19%) VPN
8 27 (0.19%) Wireless
9 22 (0.15%) Broadband
10 21 (0.15%) MQTT
11 17 (0.12%) Network Security
12 16 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
12 16 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.10%) 5G
14 14 (0.097%) Mobile Broadband
15 11 (0.076%) BGP
15 11 (0.076%) Bluetooth
15 11 (0.076%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.076%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,419 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 976 (6.75%) MySQL
3 849 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
4 694 (4.80%) Power BI
5 615 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 612 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 575 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 325 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 308 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
10 272 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
11 264 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 200 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 183 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
14 178 (1.23%) Redis
15 164 (1.13%) Oracle Database
16 142 (0.98%) DB2
17 116 (0.80%) Data Lake
18 115 (0.80%) DynamoDB
19 97 (0.67%) Tableau
20 96 (0.66%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1,640 (11.34%) Git
2 489 (3.38%) Visual Studio
3 449 (3.11%) JIRA
4 336 (2.32%) Jenkins
5 193 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 157 (1.09%) GitLab
7 147 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 121 (0.84%) Selenium
9 107 (0.74%) NUnit
10 103 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 82 (0.57%) Sourcetree
12 80 (0.55%) TeamCity
13 76 (0.53%) JUnit
14 68 (0.47%) Jasmine
14 68 (0.47%) webpack
15 65 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
16 64 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
17 58 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
18 55 (0.38%) Moq
18 55 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,359 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 2,135 (14.76%) Finance
3 587 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
4 567 (3.92%) Marketing
5 557 (3.85%) Front Office
6 548 (3.79%) Banking
7 527 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 490 (3.39%) Law
9 428 (2.96%) Retail
10 423 (2.93%) Games
11 402 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 253 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 206 (1.42%) Legal
14 190 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 176 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 164 (1.13%) Tech for Good
17 158 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 142 (0.98%) Advertising
19 115 (0.80%) Back Office
20 114 (0.79%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,768 (32.97%) .NET
2 2,902 (20.07%) HTML
3 2,781 (19.23%) React
4 2,631 (18.20%) CSS
5 2,315 (16.01%) AngularJS
6 1,945 (13.45%) ASP.NET
7 1,659 (11.47%) .NET Core
8 1,335 (9.23%) Node.js
9 1,333 (9.22%) Vue
10 1,314 (9.09%) .NET Framework
11 1,105 (7.64%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1,031 (7.13%) Entity Framework
13 1,028 (7.11%) REST
14 993 (6.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 963 (6.66%) RESTful
16 931 (6.44%) HTML5
17 798 (5.52%) Web Services
18 779 (5.39%) Laravel
19 755 (5.22%) jQuery
20 550 (3.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 687 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
2 413 (2.86%) Fixed Income
3 404 (2.79%) Algorithms
4 383 (2.65%) Hedge funds
5 381 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 313 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 311 (2.15%) Equities
8 310 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 277 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 269 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 247 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 216 (1.49%) Derivative
13 208 (1.44%) IoT
14 185 (1.28%) Blockchain
15 166 (1.15%) Client/Server
16 149 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
17 139 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
18 133 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
19 132 (0.91%) Management Information System
20 127 (0.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 763 (5.28%) Linux
2 478 (3.31%) Windows
3 405 (2.80%) Android
4 341 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 163 (1.13%) Unix
6 35 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.19%) VMS
8 27 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 22 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 18 (0.12%) CentOS
10 18 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 17 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.035%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.035%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.028%) AIX
15 4 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.014%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,413 (30.52%) Agile
2 3,615 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2,021 (13.98%) DevOps
4 1,951 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
5 1,917 (13.26%) Software Engineering
6 1,834 (12.68%) MVC
7 1,731 (11.97%) Microservices
8 1,414 (9.78%) TDD
9 1,190 (8.23%) Computer Science
10 1,155 (7.99%) CI/CD
11 1,148 (7.94%) Scrum
12 1,131 (7.82%) Web Development
13 1,025 (7.09%) Front End Development
14 1,005 (6.95%) User Experience
15 938 (6.49%) Mentoring
16 920 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence
17 906 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
18 779 (5.39%) Design Patterns
19 744 (5.15%) Unit Testing
20 689 (4.76%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5,058 (34.98%) JavaScript
2 4,983 (34.46%) C#
3 3,454 (23.89%) SQL
4 2,086 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 2,044 (14.14%) Java
6 1,703 (11.78%) Python
7 1,387 (9.59%) PHP
8 534 (3.69%) C++
9 439 (3.04%) T-SQL
10 285 (1.97%) C
11 276 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 255 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 210 (1.45%) Go
14 209 (1.45%) VB.NET
15 175 (1.21%) PowerShell
16 160 (1.11%) Ruby
17 132 (0.91%) Scala
18 117 (0.81%) VB
19 111 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 85 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,681 (11.63%) Degree
2 702 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 675 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 537 (3.71%) SC Cleared
5 145 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 144 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 82 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 80 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 61 (0.42%) PhD
10 56 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 54 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 52 (0.36%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
14 22 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.12%) Postgraduate
16 14 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
18 11 (0.076%) HND
19 7 (0.048%) Numerate Degree
20 6 (0.041%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (3.59%) QA
2 154 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.47%) GDPR
4 63 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 56 (0.39%) WCAG
6 24 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.10%) SLA
9 12 (0.083%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.083%) WAI
10 11 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.048%) MiFID
12 6 (0.041%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.035%) GRC
14 3 (0.021%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.021%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.021%) PMO
15 2 (0.014%) EMIR
15 2 (0.014%) HL7
15 2 (0.014%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1,171 (8.10%) Docker
2 66 (0.46%) HDFS
3 53 (0.37%) Firmware
4 45 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 33 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 31 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.021%) Varnish
10 3 (0.021%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.014%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.007%) GridGain
12 1 (0.007%) OpenSIPS
12 1 (0.007%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 782 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 325 (2.25%) Terraform
3 106 (0.73%) Ansible
4 26 (0.18%) Grafana
4 26 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (0.15%) Kibana
6 15 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.069%) Rancher
8 9 (0.062%) MIIS
9 7 (0.048%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.041%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.041%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.035%) cPanel
11 5 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.028%) Puppet
12 4 (0.028%) WSUS
13 3 (0.021%) Control-M
13 3 (0.021%) Galera Cluster
14 2 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.014%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,506 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 513 (3.55%) Oracle
3 405 (2.80%) Google
4 191 (1.32%) IBM
5 163 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 146 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 133 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 128 (0.89%) Facebook
9 119 (0.82%) Adobe
10 110 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 99 (0.68%) Databricks
12 83 (0.57%) SAP
13 70 (0.48%) Sitecore
14 68 (0.47%) Apple
15 65 (0.45%) Informatica
16 57 (0.39%) Cloudera
17 53 (0.37%) WooCommerce
18 49 (0.34%) MuleSoft
19 47 (0.33%) Progress
20 46 (0.32%) Optimizely