Software Developer Jobs in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer salary in England is £53,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 195 147
Rank change year-on-year +52 -48 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,728 1,772 3,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.03% 1.92% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 2.10% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,504 1,389 2,123
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £39,312
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in England

Software 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 Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +110 368 £49,500 -10.00% 114
South East -53 367 £60,000 +9.09% 52
South West +67 291 £50,000 +5.26% 35
Midlands +93 277 £47,500 -5.47% 60
London -51 255 £85,000 +9.68% 74
North West +83 213 £50,000 -9.09% 87
West Midlands +99 169 £50,000 -4.76% 37
East of England +56 157 £50,000 -9.09% 23
Yorkshire +105 118 £47,500 -17.39% 18
East Midlands +30 107 £44,000 -2.76% 23
North East +5 37 £45,000 -14.29% 12
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 937 (54.22%) C#
2 791 (45.78%) .NET
3 617 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 541 (31.31%) Agile
5 507 (29.34%) SQL
6 369 (21.35%) SQL Server
7 364 (21.06%) Degree
8 356 (20.60%) Software Engineering
9 344 (19.91%) Azure
10 336 (19.44%) Social Skills
11 317 (18.34%) HTML
12 296 (17.13%) Java
13 293 (16.96%) Full Stack Development
14 292 (16.90%) CSS
15 284 (16.44%) React
16 265 (15.34%) DevOps
17 263 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
18 261 (15.10%) Python
19 258 (14.93%) Computer Science
20 254 (14.70%) AWS
21 244 (14.12%) TypeScript
22 229 (13.25%) AngularJS
23 219 (12.67%) .NET Core
23 219 (12.67%) Microsoft
24 218 (12.62%) Finance
25 214 (12.38%) ASP.NET
26 211 (12.21%) MVC
27 209 (12.09%) Docker
28 190 (11.00%) .NET Framework
29 188 (10.88%) Git

Software 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 65 (3.76%) Apache
2 53 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (0.87%) CMS
4 9 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.46%) Confluence
5 8 (0.46%) IIS
6 7 (0.41%) Mendix
7 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Drupal
8 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.058%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.69%) Simulink
3 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.058%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) BPCS
1 7 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.41%) Shopify
2 3 (0.17%) Endur
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.12%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 344 (19.91%) Azure
2 254 (14.70%) AWS
3 134 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (4.22%) GCP
5 61 (3.53%) GitHub
6 60 (3.47%) SaaS
7 53 (3.07%) dbt
8 47 (2.72%) Serverless
9 40 (2.31%) Snowflake
10 27 (1.56%) Power Platform
11 26 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (0.98%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.69%) Pulumi
16 10 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.58%) PaaS
17 9 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.56%) LAN
2 23 (1.33%) WAN
3 19 (1.10%) Internet
4 13 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.75%) Wireless
5 10 (0.58%) Network Security
6 6 (0.35%) DNS
7 4 (0.23%) 4G
7 4 (0.23%) 5G
7 4 (0.23%) Firewall
7 4 (0.23%) HTTP
7 4 (0.23%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.23%) Multicast
7 4 (0.23%) NAS
7 4 (0.23%) VPN
7 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.12%) SSL
9 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.058%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (21.35%) SQL Server
2 102 (5.90%) MySQL
3 96 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 67 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 53 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
5 53 (3.07%) Apache Arrow
5 53 (3.07%) Apache Ignite
5 53 (3.07%) Dremio
6 46 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.68%) Redis
9 25 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.69%) Power BI
13 10 (0.58%) GIS
13 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 188 (10.88%) Git
2 87 (5.03%) Visual Studio
3 40 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.97%) JIRA
5 20 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.93%) NUnit
7 16 (0.93%) Selenium
8 14 (0.81%) Maven
8 14 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 12 (0.69%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.58%) Jasmine
12 9 (0.52%) Gradle
12 9 (0.52%) Moq
12 9 (0.52%) PHPUnit
13 8 (0.46%) CMake
13 8 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
14 7 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 336 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 218 (12.62%) Finance
3 70 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (3.99%) Banking
5 64 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.53%) Front Office
7 54 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 48 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.26%) Electronics
10 37 (2.14%) Retail
11 36 (2.08%) Law
11 36 (2.08%) Marketing
12 30 (1.74%) Automotive
12 30 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.33%) Tech for Good
13 23 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.27%) Games
15 20 (1.16%) Legal
16 16 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.87%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 791 (45.78%) .NET
2 317 (18.34%) HTML
3 292 (16.90%) CSS
4 284 (16.44%) React
5 229 (13.25%) AngularJS
6 219 (12.67%) .NET Core
7 214 (12.38%) ASP.NET
8 190 (11.00%) .NET Framework
9 124 (7.18%) RESTful
10 115 (6.66%) Entity Framework
11 104 (6.02%) Node.js
12 100 (5.79%) HTML5
13 74 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
13 74 (4.28%) REST
14 73 (4.22%) Vue
15 66 (3.82%) ASP.NET MVC
16 63 (3.65%) WPF
16 63 (3.65%) XML
17 57 (3.30%) Pandas
18 56 (3.24%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 62 (3.59%) Mobile App
2 52 (3.01%) IoT
3 51 (2.95%) Fixed Income
4 50 (2.89%) Algorithms
5 48 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 47 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (2.72%) Hedge funds
7 45 (2.60%) Equities
8 44 (2.55%) Derivative
9 33 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.79%) Product Ownership
11 30 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.68%) Client/Server
13 28 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
15 23 (1.33%) Cloud Native
16 18 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.04%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.69%) Blockchain
17 12 (0.69%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 122 (7.06%) Windows
2 114 (6.60%) Linux
3 50 (2.89%) Apple iOS
4 40 (2.31%) Android
5 13 (0.75%) Unix
6 12 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Mobile
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) VMS
11 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (31.31%) Agile
2 356 (20.60%) Software Engineering
3 293 (16.96%) Full Stack Development
4 265 (15.34%) DevOps
5 263 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 258 (14.93%) Computer Science
7 211 (12.21%) MVC
8 148 (8.56%) Microservices
9 144 (8.33%) CI/CD
10 135 (7.81%) Mentoring
11 120 (6.94%) TDD
12 110 (6.37%) Artificial Intelligence
13 105 (6.08%) SDLC
13 105 (6.08%) Unit Testing
14 103 (5.96%) Clean Code
14 103 (5.96%) Design Patterns
15 102 (5.90%) Test Automation
16 99 (5.73%) Code Quality
17 98 (5.67%) Web Development
18 95 (5.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 937 (54.22%) C#
2 617 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 507 (29.34%) SQL
4 296 (17.13%) Java
5 261 (15.10%) Python
6 244 (14.12%) TypeScript
7 124 (7.18%) C++
8 112 (6.48%) PHP
9 107 (6.19%) C
10 45 (2.60%) VB
11 44 (2.55%) VB.NET
12 37 (2.14%) T-SQL
13 35 (2.03%) Go
13 35 (2.03%) Kotlin
14 30 (1.74%) PowerShell
15 26 (1.50%) Ruby
16 23 (1.33%) JSX
17 12 (0.69%) Embedded C
18 11 (0.64%) Rust
18 11 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 364 (21.06%) Degree
2 144 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (4.34%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 25 (1.45%) SC Cleared
6 23 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.16%) PhD
8 16 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.23%) CIPD
12 4 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.23%) MCSD
13 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.12%) HND
15 1 (0.058%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.058%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.65%) QA
2 8 (0.46%) GDPR
3 5 (0.29%) SLA
4 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 209 (12.09%) Docker
2 13 (0.75%) Firmware
3 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.95%) Terraform
3 12 (0.69%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Kibana
5 7 (0.41%) MIIS
6 6 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.23%) WSUS
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Kiali
Vendors
1 219 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.08%) Oracle
3 35 (2.03%) Google
4 25 (1.45%) Xamarin
5 14 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 12 (0.69%) Facebook
6 12 (0.69%) Xilinx
7 9 (0.52%) IBM
7 9 (0.52%) NVIDIA
8 8 (0.46%) F5
9 7 (0.41%) JDA
9 7 (0.41%) Quadient
10 6 (0.35%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.35%) VMware
10 6 (0.35%) YouTube
11 5 (0.29%) ESRI
11 5 (0.29%) HP
11 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus
11 5 (0.29%) Peregrine
11 5 (0.29%) SAP