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 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 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,704 8,077 15,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.36% 13.92% 20.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.12% 15.63% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,090 5,821 10,350
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 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.55% +11.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
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
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 70,794 51,688 70,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 89.09% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49,908 29,605 42,636
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 £66,348
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 29 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 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
North of England +13 3,058 £52,084 -5.30% 514
South East 0 2,340 £57,500 -4.17% 322
North West +12 1,796 £52,500 -4.55% 323
Midlands +7 1,734 £50,000 -9.09% 376
South West +5 1,468 £50,000 -9.09% 212
West Midlands +12 1,121 £50,000 -9.09% 237
Yorkshire +14 977 £50,000 -4.76% 142
East of England +13 892 £50,000 -13.04% 150
Scotland -21 685 £54,000 -1.82% 113
East Midlands +4 605 £50,000 -9.09% 139
Wales +12 370 £52,500 +15.38% 45
North East +6 285 £52,500 -4.55% 54
Northern Ireland -2 156 £55,000 +10.00% 31
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 2 £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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3,943 (36.84%) C#
2 3,862 (36.08%) .NET
3 3,794 (35.44%) JavaScript
4 3,073 (28.71%) Agile
5 2,971 (27.76%) Azure
6 2,679 (25.03%) Full Stack Development
7 2,413 (22.54%) SQL
8 2,340 (21.86%) HTML
9 2,104 (19.66%) CSS
10 1,968 (18.39%) React
11 1,928 (18.01%) Microsoft
12 1,919 (17.93%) SQL Server
13 1,757 (16.41%) AngularJS
14 1,665 (15.55%) Social Skills
15 1,647 (15.39%) AWS
16 1,605 (14.99%) ASP.NET
17 1,587 (14.83%) MVC
18 1,420 (13.27%) DevOps
19 1,408 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
20 1,375 (12.85%) .NET Core
21 1,297 (12.12%) TypeScript
22 1,268 (11.85%) Microservices
23 1,236 (11.55%) Git
24 1,200 (11.21%) PHP
25 1,183 (11.05%) Degree
26 1,132 (10.58%) Software Engineering
27 1,115 (10.42%) Java
28 1,108 (10.35%) .NET Framework
29 1,052 (9.83%) Vue
30 1,007 (9.41%) 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
1 264 (2.47%) WordPress
2 263 (2.46%) CMS
3 212 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 125 (1.17%) IIS
5 119 (1.11%) Umbraco
6 110 (1.03%) Confluence
7 77 (0.72%) Apache
8 71 (0.66%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.50%) Headless CMS
10 51 (0.48%) nginx
11 48 (0.45%) OpenEdge
12 44 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.40%) Kentico
14 42 (0.39%) Drupal
15 31 (0.29%) OpenStack
16 26 (0.24%) 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 96 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.28%) Adobe XD
3 30 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 26 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
5 22 (0.21%) Simulink
6 17 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.065%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.047%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.047%) Sketch
10 4 (0.037%) Maya
10 4 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.037%) 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%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 145 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 100 (0.93%) Shopify
3 92 (0.86%) Magento
4 53 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 37 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 35 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
7 32 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 27 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.065%) BPCS
10 6 (0.056%) Maximo
10 6 (0.056%) Sage 200
11 5 (0.047%) Odoo
11 5 (0.047%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.047%) Visualfiles
12 4 (0.037%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.037%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 4 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.037%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.037%) SDL Web 8
12 4 (0.037%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 2,971 (27.76%) Azure
2 1,647 (15.39%) AWS
3 732 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 670 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
5 475 (4.44%) SaaS
6 388 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
7 374 (3.49%) Serverless
8 285 (2.66%) PowerApps
9 283 (2.64%) GitHub
10 278 (2.60%) Power Automate
11 215 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
12 173 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 172 (1.61%) Azure Functions
14 162 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 132 (1.23%) GCP
16 125 (1.17%) Azure API Management
17 117 (1.09%) IBM Cloud
18 115 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
19 75 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
20 71 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 197 (1.84%) Internet
2 61 (0.57%) DNS
3 60 (0.56%) HTTP
4 45 (0.42%) Firewall
5 39 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 37 (0.35%) SSL
7 27 (0.25%) Intranet
8 26 (0.24%) 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 12 (0.11%) VPN
15 10 (0.093%) WAN
16 9 (0.084%) SMTP
17 8 (0.075%) Mobile Broadband
17 8 (0.075%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.075%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,919 (17.93%) SQL Server
2 814 (7.60%) MySQL
3 525 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 494 (4.62%) Power BI
5 477 (4.46%) NoSQL
6 438 (4.09%) MongoDB
7 388 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 243 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 212 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 199 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 162 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
12 118 (1.10%) DB2
12 118 (1.10%) Oracle Database
13 111 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 87 (0.81%) Redis
15 86 (0.80%) Power Query
16 79 (0.74%) Oracle Database 11g
17 69 (0.64%) DynamoDB
18 67 (0.63%) Apache Hive
19 64 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,236 (11.55%) Git
2 416 (3.89%) Visual Studio
3 282 (2.63%) JIRA
4 247 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 159 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 114 (1.07%) GitLab
7 90 (0.84%) Selenium
8 84 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 71 (0.66%) NUnit
10 67 (0.63%) Sourcetree
11 60 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 58 (0.54%) Jasmine
13 57 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
14 55 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
15 53 (0.50%) webpack
16 52 (0.49%) JUnit
17 45 (0.42%) TeamCity
18 41 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
19 38 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
20 37 (0.35%) gulp
General
1 1,665 (15.55%) Social Skills
2 999 (9.33%) Finance
3 438 (4.09%) Marketing
4 402 (3.76%) Public Sector
5 394 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 393 (3.67%) Law
7 357 (3.34%) Retail
8 320 (2.99%) Games
9 259 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 246 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 149 (1.39%) Banking
12 140 (1.31%) Legal
13 137 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 128 (1.20%) Tech for Good
15 115 (1.07%) Advertising
16 109 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 101 (0.94%) Automotive
18 89 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
19 80 (0.75%) Aerospace
19 80 (0.75%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,862 (36.08%) .NET
2 2,340 (21.86%) HTML
3 2,104 (19.66%) CSS
4 1,968 (18.39%) React
5 1,757 (16.41%) AngularJS
6 1,605 (14.99%) ASP.NET
7 1,375 (12.85%) .NET Core
8 1,108 (10.35%) .NET Framework
9 1,052 (9.83%) Vue
10 1,007 (9.41%) ASP.NET Web API
11 963 (9.00%) Node.js
12 911 (8.51%) Entity Framework
13 846 (7.90%) ASP.NET MVC
14 765 (7.15%) HTML5
15 734 (6.86%) RESTful
16 724 (6.76%) REST
17 684 (6.39%) Laravel
18 604 (5.64%) jQuery
19 573 (5.35%) Web Services
20 465 (4.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 466 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 328 (3.06%) Mobile App
3 309 (2.89%) Algorithms
4 193 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 190 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
5 190 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 174 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 149 (1.39%) IoT
8 129 (1.21%) Blockchain
9 127 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 117 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 107 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
12 93 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 80 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
14 78 (0.73%) Social Media
15 73 (0.68%) Client/Server
16 69 (0.64%) Cloud Native
17 64 (0.60%) NHS
18 57 (0.53%) Social Network
19 55 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 590 (5.51%) Linux
2 404 (3.77%) Windows
3 353 (3.30%) Android
4 280 (2.62%) Apple iOS
5 115 (1.07%) Unix
6 35 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
8 22 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 22 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 21 (0.20%) VMS
10 9 (0.084%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.047%) Windows Mobile
13 4 (0.037%) AIX
13 4 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.019%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,073 (28.71%) Agile
2 2,679 (25.03%) Full Stack Development
3 1,587 (14.83%) MVC
4 1,420 (13.27%) DevOps
5 1,408 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
6 1,268 (11.85%) Microservices
7 1,132 (10.58%) Software Engineering
8 994 (9.29%) Web Development
9 966 (9.02%) TDD
10 837 (7.82%) Scrum
11 804 (7.51%) User Experience
12 799 (7.46%) CI/CD
13 781 (7.30%) Computer Science
14 753 (7.03%) Front End Development
15 654 (6.11%) Artificial Intelligence
16 626 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
17 621 (5.80%) Mentoring
18 609 (5.69%) Design Patterns
19 528 (4.93%) Unit Testing
20 520 (4.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3,943 (36.84%) C#
2 3,794 (35.44%) JavaScript
3 2,413 (22.54%) SQL
4 1,297 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 1,200 (11.21%) PHP
6 1,115 (10.42%) Java
7 810 (7.57%) Python
8 395 (3.69%) C++
9 299 (2.79%) T-SQL
10 240 (2.24%) C
11 196 (1.83%) VB.NET
12 193 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 127 (1.19%) Go
14 116 (1.08%) VB
15 109 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 103 (0.96%) PowerShell
17 93 (0.87%) Ruby
18 72 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 71 (0.66%) Swift
20 47 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,183 (11.05%) Degree
2 531 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 498 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 392 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 92 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 81 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 71 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 58 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 49 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 44 (0.41%) PhD
11 40 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 37 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 30 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
14 11 (0.10%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.093%) HND
16 7 (0.065%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.065%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.056%) CIPD
18 4 (0.037%) Numerate Degree
19 3 (0.028%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (3.24%) QA
2 91 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 56 (0.52%) GDPR
4 42 (0.39%) WCAG
5 35 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.11%) SLA
8 10 (0.093%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.075%) 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
1 767 (7.17%) Docker
2 55 (0.51%) HDFS
3 48 (0.45%) Firmware
4 30 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 24 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.18%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.028%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.019%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.009%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.009%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 480 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 221 (2.06%) Terraform
3 76 (0.71%) Ansible
4 19 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.093%) Rancher
6 9 (0.084%) MIIS
7 8 (0.075%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.065%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.047%) cPanel
9 5 (0.047%) Grafana
9 5 (0.047%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (0.037%) Puppet
10 4 (0.037%) WSUS
11 3 (0.028%) Galera Cluster
11 3 (0.028%) SCOM
12 2 (0.019%) Plesk
13 1 (0.009%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.009%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.009%) Oozie
13 1 (0.009%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,928 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 364 (3.40%) Oracle
3 252 (2.35%) Google
4 157 (1.47%) IBM
5 120 (1.12%) Facebook
5 120 (1.12%) Red Hat
6 113 (1.06%) Xamarin
7 87 (0.81%) Adobe
8 86 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 84 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 78 (0.73%) Databricks
11 64 (0.60%) Informatica
12 61 (0.57%) SAP
13 60 (0.56%) Sitecore
14 57 (0.53%) Apple
15 55 (0.51%) Cloudera
16 47 (0.44%) WooCommerce
17 40 (0.37%) Optimizely
18 36 (0.34%) YouTube
19 35 (0.33%) Siebel