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 29 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
29 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 13,251 13,308 29,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.81% 15.40% 21.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.64% 16.85% 22.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,350 10,274 17,775
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £110,700 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.08% +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 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £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 29 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 29 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 3,694 £75,000 -5.66% 978
North of England +13 3,058 £52,084 -5.30% 499
South East 0 2,340 £57,500 -4.17% 326
North West +12 1,796 £52,500 -4.55% 312
Midlands +7 1,734 £50,000 -9.09% 362
South West +5 1,468 £50,000 -9.09% 207
West Midlands +12 1,121 £50,000 -9.09% 225
Yorkshire +14 977 £50,000 -4.76% 140
East of England +13 892 £50,000 -13.04% 151
East Midlands +4 605 £50,000 -9.09% 137
North East +6 285 £52,500 -4.55% 52
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 4,670 (35.24%) JavaScript
2 4,643 (35.04%) C#
3 4,499 (33.95%) .NET
4 4,001 (30.19%) Agile
5 3,764 (28.41%) Azure
6 3,453 (26.06%) Full Stack Development
7 3,108 (23.45%) SQL
8 2,686 (20.27%) HTML
9 2,554 (19.27%) React
10 2,493 (18.81%) AWS
11 2,395 (18.07%) CSS
12 2,299 (17.35%) SQL Server
13 2,258 (17.04%) Microsoft
14 2,135 (16.11%) AngularJS
15 2,098 (15.83%) Social Skills
16 1,899 (14.33%) Finance
17 1,887 (14.24%) TypeScript
18 1,864 (14.07%) ASP.NET
19 1,814 (13.69%) DevOps
20 1,752 (13.22%) MVC
21 1,717 (12.96%) Java
22 1,694 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
23 1,684 (12.71%) Software Engineering
24 1,568 (11.83%) .NET Core
25 1,550 (11.70%) Microservices
26 1,532 (11.56%) Degree
27 1,512 (11.41%) Python
28 1,439 (10.86%) Git
29 1,279 (9.65%) PHP
30 1,268 (9.57%) TDD

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
1 320 (2.41%) CMS
2 312 (2.35%) Apache
3 279 (2.11%) WordPress
4 274 (2.07%) SharePoint
5 217 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 155 (1.17%) IIS
7 149 (1.12%) Confluence
8 117 (0.88%) Umbraco
9 75 (0.57%) Drupal
10 66 (0.50%) nginx
11 63 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.40%) Headless CMS
13 52 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
14 51 (0.38%) Kentico
15 37 (0.28%) OpenStack
16 25 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.18%) Appian
17 24 (0.18%) Mendix
18 22 (0.17%) SAS
19 19 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 119 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.17%) 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
1 180 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 110 (0.83%) Shopify
3 102 (0.77%) Magento
4 63 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 49 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 35 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
8 35 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
9 16 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 13 (0.098%) Visualfiles
11 10 (0.075%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.053%) BPCS
13 6 (0.045%) Maximo
13 6 (0.045%) 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 3,764 (28.41%) Azure
2 2,493 (18.81%) AWS
3 989 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 821 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
5 533 (4.02%) Serverless
6 532 (4.01%) GCP
7 515 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
8 500 (3.77%) SaaS
9 379 (2.86%) PowerApps
10 367 (2.77%) GitHub
11 349 (2.63%) Power Automate
12 271 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
13 229 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
14 225 (1.70%) Azure Functions
15 222 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 175 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.09%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.98%) IBM Cloud
19 98 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 90 (0.68%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 210 (1.58%) Internet
2 64 (0.48%) HTTP
3 62 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 60 (0.45%) DNS
5 45 (0.34%) Firewall
6 38 (0.29%) SSL
7 26 (0.20%) Wireless
8 24 (0.18%) VPN
9 23 (0.17%) Intranet
10 20 (0.15%) Broadband
10 20 (0.15%) Network Security
11 16 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.11%) 5G
12 15 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
13 13 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.091%) MQTT
15 11 (0.083%) BGP
15 11 (0.083%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.083%) MPLS
16 10 (0.075%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,299 (17.35%) SQL Server
2 907 (6.84%) MySQL
3 729 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 655 (4.94%) Power BI
5 569 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 514 (3.88%) NoSQL
7 505 (3.81%) Relational Database
8 290 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 285 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 242 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 240 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 202 (1.52%) Apache Ignite
13 188 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 169 (1.28%) Redis
15 141 (1.06%) DB2
16 119 (0.90%) Data Lake
17 116 (0.88%) Oracle Database
18 91 (0.69%) Power Query
19 90 (0.68%) DynamoDB
20 88 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,439 (10.86%) Git
2 468 (3.53%) Visual Studio
3 415 (3.13%) JIRA
4 206 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 169 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 144 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 141 (1.06%) GitLab
8 111 (0.84%) NUnit
9 107 (0.81%) Selenium
10 98 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 86 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 86 (0.65%) TeamCity
12 72 (0.54%) JUnit
13 67 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
14 64 (0.48%) Moq
15 56 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
16 54 (0.41%) Jasmine
17 48 (0.36%) webpack
18 46 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
19 43 (0.32%) gulp
General
1 2,098 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 1,899 (14.33%) Finance
3 547 (4.13%) Front Office
4 538 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
5 504 (3.80%) Marketing
6 481 (3.63%) Banking
7 445 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 400 (3.02%) Retail
9 384 (2.90%) Law
10 356 (2.69%) Games
11 238 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 218 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 180 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 171 (1.29%) Legal
15 155 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 149 (1.12%) Tech for Good
17 136 (1.03%) Advertising
18 129 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 118 (0.89%) Automotive
20 113 (0.85%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,499 (33.95%) .NET
2 2,686 (20.27%) HTML
3 2,554 (19.27%) React
4 2,395 (18.07%) CSS
5 2,135 (16.11%) AngularJS
6 1,864 (14.07%) ASP.NET
7 1,568 (11.83%) .NET Core
8 1,258 (9.49%) Vue
9 1,217 (9.18%) .NET Framework
10 1,181 (8.91%) Node.js
11 1,060 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 974 (7.35%) Entity Framework
13 950 (7.17%) ASP.NET MVC
14 910 (6.87%) REST
15 897 (6.77%) RESTful
16 878 (6.63%) HTML5
17 734 (5.54%) Web Services
18 714 (5.39%) Laravel
19 712 (5.37%) jQuery
20 519 (3.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 603 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 413 (3.12%) Fixed Income
3 389 (2.94%) Hedge funds
4 341 (2.57%) Mobile App
5 320 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 311 (2.35%) Equities
7 301 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 278 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 237 (1.79%) Product Ownership
10 228 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 225 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 215 (1.62%) Derivative
13 185 (1.40%) IoT
14 177 (1.34%) Blockchain
15 161 (1.22%) Client/Server
16 144 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
18 130 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
19 114 (0.86%) Cloud Native
20 112 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 729 (5.50%) Linux
2 463 (3.49%) Windows
3 380 (2.87%) Android
4 319 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 89 (0.67%) Unix
6 34 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.21%) VMS
8 24 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 23 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (0.13%) CentOS
11 16 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.060%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.045%) 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 4,001 (30.19%) Agile
2 3,453 (26.06%) Full Stack Development
3 1,814 (13.69%) DevOps
4 1,752 (13.22%) MVC
5 1,694 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
6 1,684 (12.71%) Software Engineering
7 1,550 (11.70%) Microservices
8 1,268 (9.57%) TDD
9 1,100 (8.30%) Computer Science
10 1,043 (7.87%) Web Development
11 1,018 (7.68%) Scrum
12 951 (7.18%) CI/CD
13 930 (7.02%) User Experience
14 842 (6.35%) Front End Development
15 815 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
16 795 (6.00%) Mentoring
17 756 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
18 717 (5.41%) Design Patterns
19 654 (4.94%) Unit Testing
20 652 (4.92%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4,670 (35.24%) JavaScript
2 4,643 (35.04%) C#
3 3,108 (23.45%) SQL
4 1,887 (14.24%) TypeScript
5 1,717 (12.96%) Java
6 1,512 (11.41%) Python
7 1,279 (9.65%) PHP
8 473 (3.57%) C++
9 404 (3.05%) T-SQL
10 248 (1.87%) C
11 230 (1.74%) Kotlin
12 208 (1.57%) VB.NET
13 172 (1.30%) Go
14 155 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 152 (1.15%) PowerShell
16 119 (0.90%) Ruby
17 114 (0.86%) VB
18 107 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 107 (0.81%) Scala
19 77 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,532 (11.56%) Degree
2 624 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 600 (4.53%) Security Cleared
4 441 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 142 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 102 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (0.58%) DBS Check
8 61 (0.46%) PhD
9 60 (0.45%) DV Cleared
10 55 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 47 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 30 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.083%) Postgraduate
16 10 (0.075%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.075%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.075%) HND
17 6 (0.045%) CIPD
17 6 (0.045%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 425 (3.21%) QA
2 109 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.51%) GDPR
4 52 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 49 (0.37%) WCAG
6 20 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 14 (0.11%) SLA
8 12 (0.091%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.068%) MiFID
11 6 (0.045%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.023%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.023%) EMIR
12 3 (0.023%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.023%) PMO
13 2 (0.015%) GRC
13 2 (0.015%) HL7
13 2 (0.015%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.015%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,031 (7.78%) Docker
2 38 (0.29%) Firmware
3 33 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 28 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.060%) HDFS
9 6 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.045%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.023%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.015%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.008%) Ceph
12 1 (0.008%) GridGain
12 1 (0.008%) KVM
12 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 703 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 249 (1.88%) Terraform
3 89 (0.67%) Ansible
4 27 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.19%) Grafana
6 21 (0.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.075%) MIIS
8 10 (0.075%) Rancher
9 7 (0.053%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.045%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.045%) cPanel
10 6 (0.045%) 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 2,258 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 399 (3.01%) Oracle
3 386 (2.91%) Google
4 179 (1.35%) IBM
5 153 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 143 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 134 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 124 (0.94%) Facebook
9 119 (0.90%) Adobe
10 97 (0.73%) Xamarin
11 70 (0.53%) SAP
12 69 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 59 (0.45%) Apple
14 50 (0.38%) MuleSoft
15 48 (0.36%) Progress
16 46 (0.35%) WooCommerce
17 45 (0.34%) Databricks
18 43 (0.32%) YouTube
19 40 (0.30%) Optimizely
20 38 (0.29%) Bloomberg