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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 12,677 14,243 28,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.88% 15.39% 21.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.75% 16.82% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,933 10,981 18,393
10th Percentile £35,800 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,995
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.57% +10.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

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 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -3 3,705 £75,000 -6.25% 952
North of England +12 2,815 £52,084 -5.30% 513
South East 0 2,238 £57,500 - 288
North West +11 1,671 £52,084 -5.30% 337
Midlands +11 1,583 £50,000 -9.09% 313
South West +3 1,402 £50,000 -6.58% 191
West Midlands +13 1,009 £52,500 -4.55% 200
Yorkshire +16 897 £50,000 -4.76% 132
East of England +12 875 £50,000 -13.04% 143
East Midlands +7 569 £50,000 -5.66% 111
North East +3 247 £50,000 -9.09% 49
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 4,625 (36.48%) JavaScript
2 4,492 (35.43%) C#
3 4,326 (34.12%) .NET
4 3,893 (30.71%) Agile
5 3,647 (28.77%) Azure
6 3,306 (26.08%) Full Stack Development
7 3,147 (24.82%) SQL
8 2,664 (21.01%) HTML
9 2,527 (19.93%) React
10 2,453 (19.35%) AWS
11 2,365 (18.66%) CSS
12 2,281 (17.99%) SQL Server
13 2,270 (17.91%) Microsoft
14 2,126 (16.77%) AngularJS
15 2,088 (16.47%) Social Skills
16 1,875 (14.79%) Finance
17 1,863 (14.70%) TypeScript
18 1,829 (14.43%) ASP.NET
19 1,806 (14.25%) DevOps
20 1,771 (13.97%) Java
21 1,738 (13.71%) MVC
22 1,669 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
23 1,653 (13.04%) Software Engineering
24 1,560 (12.31%) Degree
25 1,546 (12.20%) Microservices
26 1,539 (12.14%) Python
27 1,528 (12.05%) .NET Core
28 1,444 (11.39%) Git
29 1,274 (10.05%) PHP
30 1,248 (9.84%) 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
1 306 (2.41%) CMS
2 287 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 276 (2.18%) WordPress
4 270 (2.13%) Apache
5 176 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 167 (1.32%) Confluence
7 155 (1.22%) IIS
8 118 (0.93%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.58%) Drupal
10 69 (0.54%) nginx
11 60 (0.47%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.42%) Headless CMS
13 51 (0.40%) Kentico
14 48 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.32%) OpenStack
16 31 (0.24%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 19 (0.15%) SAS
20 18 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 118 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 31 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 14 (0.11%) Simulink
9 13 (0.10%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.055%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.039%) InDesign
12 4 (0.032%) Maya
12 4 (0.032%) Sketch
12 4 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.032%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 180 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 114 (0.90%) Shopify
3 89 (0.70%) Magento
4 65 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 43 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 40 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
8 31 (0.24%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 12 (0.095%) Visualfiles
12 11 (0.087%) Maximo
13 8 (0.063%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 7 (0.055%) BPCS
15 6 (0.047%) BusinessWorks
15 6 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
15 6 (0.047%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.039%) Odoo
16 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,647 (28.77%) Azure
2 2,453 (19.35%) AWS
3 980 (7.73%) Power Platform
4 819 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
5 546 (4.31%) Serverless
6 523 (4.13%) GCP
7 490 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
8 472 (3.72%) SaaS
9 370 (2.92%) GitHub
9 370 (2.92%) PowerApps
10 341 (2.69%) Power Automate
11 247 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
12 230 (1.81%) Azure Functions
13 226 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 225 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
15 175 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
16 143 (1.13%) Azure API Management
17 125 (0.99%) IBM Cloud
18 94 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
19 88 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 205 (1.62%) Internet
2 66 (0.52%) HTTP
3 62 (0.49%) DNS
4 61 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 43 (0.34%) Firewall
6 36 (0.28%) SSL
7 32 (0.25%) WAN
8 29 (0.23%) LAN
9 24 (0.19%) Intranet
9 24 (0.19%) Wireless
10 22 (0.17%) VPN
11 18 (0.14%) Broadband
12 17 (0.13%) Network Security
13 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
14 14 (0.11%) MQTT
15 13 (0.10%) 5G
15 13 (0.10%) Mobile Broadband
15 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.087%) BGP
16 11 (0.087%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,281 (17.99%) SQL Server
2 875 (6.90%) MySQL
3 717 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 650 (5.13%) Power BI
5 558 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 524 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 516 (4.07%) Relational Database
8 308 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 285 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 250 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
11 241 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 200 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 169 (1.33%) Redis
14 159 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
15 137 (1.08%) DB2
16 131 (1.03%) Oracle Database
17 103 (0.81%) Data Lake
18 91 (0.72%) Tableau
19 89 (0.70%) DynamoDB
20 82 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,444 (11.39%) Git
2 468 (3.69%) Visual Studio
3 429 (3.38%) JIRA
4 231 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 187 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 134 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 126 (0.99%) GitLab
8 110 (0.87%) Selenium
9 106 (0.84%) NUnit
10 99 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
11 86 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 82 (0.65%) Sourcetree
13 77 (0.61%) JUnit
14 64 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
15 60 (0.47%) Jasmine
16 53 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
17 52 (0.41%) Maven
17 52 (0.41%) Moq
18 48 (0.38%) webpack
19 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,088 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 1,875 (14.79%) Finance
3 547 (4.31%) Front Office
4 536 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 475 (3.75%) Banking
6 469 (3.70%) Marketing
7 428 (3.38%) Public Sector
8 401 (3.16%) Retail
9 380 (3.00%) Law
10 354 (2.79%) Games
11 236 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 211 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 183 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 176 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 160 (1.26%) Legal
16 140 (1.10%) Tech for Good
17 130 (1.03%) Advertising
18 117 (0.92%) Telecoms
19 113 (0.89%) Automotive
20 107 (0.84%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,326 (34.12%) .NET
2 2,664 (21.01%) HTML
3 2,527 (19.93%) React
4 2,365 (18.66%) CSS
5 2,126 (16.77%) AngularJS
6 1,829 (14.43%) ASP.NET
7 1,528 (12.05%) .NET Core
8 1,228 (9.69%) Vue
9 1,190 (9.39%) Node.js
10 1,178 (9.29%) .NET Framework
11 1,000 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
12 934 (7.37%) ASP.NET MVC
13 928 (7.32%) REST
14 924 (7.29%) Entity Framework
15 892 (7.04%) HTML5
16 869 (6.85%) RESTful
17 717 (5.66%) Web Services
18 693 (5.47%) Laravel
19 687 (5.42%) jQuery
20 502 (3.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 596 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
2 407 (3.21%) Fixed Income
3 371 (2.93%) Hedge funds
4 333 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 312 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 303 (2.39%) Equities
7 300 (2.37%) Algorithms
8 274 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 244 (1.92%) Product Ownership
10 227 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 224 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 219 (1.73%) Derivative
13 180 (1.42%) IoT
14 162 (1.28%) Blockchain
15 157 (1.24%) Client/Server
16 143 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 128 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
18 118 (0.93%) Management Information System
19 116 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
20 115 (0.91%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 716 (5.65%) Linux
2 447 (3.53%) Windows
3 362 (2.86%) Android
4 314 (2.48%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.21%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.14%) CentOS
10 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 14 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.079%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.032%) AIX
16 4 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,893 (30.71%) Agile
2 3,306 (26.08%) Full Stack Development
3 1,806 (14.25%) DevOps
4 1,738 (13.71%) MVC
5 1,669 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
6 1,653 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 1,546 (12.20%) Microservices
8 1,248 (9.84%) TDD
9 1,082 (8.54%) Computer Science
10 1,052 (8.30%) Web Development
11 1,025 (8.09%) Scrum
12 942 (7.43%) CI/CD
13 916 (7.23%) User Experience
14 850 (6.71%) Front End Development
15 822 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
16 800 (6.31%) Mentoring
17 729 (5.75%) Design Patterns
18 705 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
19 635 (5.01%) OO
20 630 (4.97%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,625 (36.48%) JavaScript
2 4,492 (35.43%) C#
3 3,147 (24.82%) SQL
4 1,863 (14.70%) TypeScript
5 1,771 (13.97%) Java
6 1,539 (12.14%) Python
7 1,274 (10.05%) PHP
8 467 (3.68%) C++
9 416 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 235 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 229 (1.81%) C
12 203 (1.60%) VB.NET
13 171 (1.35%) PL/SQL
14 164 (1.29%) Go
15 159 (1.25%) PowerShell
16 136 (1.07%) VB
17 117 (0.92%) Ruby
18 110 (0.87%) Scala
19 100 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 78 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,560 (12.31%) Degree
2 622 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 593 (4.68%) Security Cleared
4 439 (3.46%) SC Cleared
5 134 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 123 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 58 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (0.44%) PhD
10 53 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 50 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 48 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 39 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
14 20 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.095%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.087%) HND
17 11 (0.087%) Postgraduate
18 6 (0.047%) Numerate Degree
19 4 (0.032%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 458 (3.61%) QA
2 109 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.54%) GDPR
4 54 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 54 (0.43%) WCAG
5 29 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 21 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.11%) SLA
8 12 (0.095%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.039%) MiFID
12 4 (0.032%) WAI
13 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.024%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.024%) PMO
14 2 (0.016%) GRC
14 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,089 (8.59%) Docker
2 41 (0.32%) Firmware
3 35 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.079%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.016%) OpenSIPS
10 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.008%) GridGain
11 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 730 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 251 (1.98%) Terraform
3 88 (0.69%) Ansible
4 26 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (0.18%) Grafana
6 18 (0.14%) Kibana
7 15 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.079%) Rancher
9 9 (0.071%) MIIS
10 7 (0.055%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.047%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.047%) cPanel
11 6 (0.047%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.039%) Control-M
12 5 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.039%) Puppet
13 4 (0.032%) WSUS
14 2 (0.016%) Consul
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,270 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 408 (3.22%) Oracle
3 369 (2.91%) Google
4 185 (1.46%) IBM
5 145 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 128 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 121 (0.95%) Facebook
8 120 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 114 (0.90%) Adobe
10 97 (0.77%) Xamarin
11 65 (0.51%) Sitecore
12 64 (0.50%) SAP
13 60 (0.47%) Apple
14 48 (0.38%) Progress
15 45 (0.35%) MuleSoft
15 45 (0.35%) WooCommerce
16 44 (0.35%) Databricks
17 43 (0.34%) WSO2
18 41 (0.32%) Bloomberg
18 41 (0.32%) YouTube