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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 188 148
Rank change year-on-year +45 -40 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,702 1,731 3,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.98% 1.91% 2.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 2.09% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,501 1,361 2,109
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £96,250 £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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £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 £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 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 8 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 +113 370 £49,500 -10.00% 70
South East -53 366 £60,000 +9.09% 58
South West +68 291 £50,000 +5.26% 50
London -50 254 £85,000 +9.68% 68
Midlands +78 252 £47,500 -5.00% 61
North West +91 214 £50,000 -9.09% 43
West Midlands +83 167 £50,000 -4.76% 36
East of England +57 156 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Yorkshire +100 120 £49,500 -13.91% 17
East Midlands +14 84 £45,000 -0.55% 25
North East +10 36 £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 8 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.

1 936 (54.99%) C#
2 789 (46.36%) .NET
3 593 (34.84%) JavaScript
4 543 (31.90%) Agile
5 481 (28.26%) SQL
6 359 (21.09%) Software Engineering
7 346 (20.33%) Azure
8 342 (20.09%) SQL Server
9 337 (19.80%) Degree
10 333 (19.57%) Social Skills
11 295 (17.33%) Java
12 291 (17.10%) HTML
13 274 (16.10%) Full Stack Development
14 267 (15.69%) DevOps
15 266 (15.63%) CSS
16 260 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
17 259 (15.22%) AWS
18 258 (15.16%) React
19 254 (14.92%) Computer Science
20 245 (14.39%) TypeScript
21 238 (13.98%) Python
22 219 (12.87%) Finance
22 219 (12.87%) .NET Core
23 210 (12.34%) ASP.NET
24 207 (12.16%) MVC
25 205 (12.04%) Docker
26 200 (11.75%) AngularJS
27 195 (11.46%) Microsoft
28 190 (11.16%) .NET Framework
29 186 (10.93%) 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 68 (4.00%) Apache
2 55 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (0.94%) CMS
4 9 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.47%) Confluence
5 8 (0.47%) 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 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.71%) Simulink
3 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) BPCS
1 7 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.41%) Shopify
2 3 (0.18%) Endur
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.12%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 346 (20.33%) Azure
2 259 (15.22%) AWS
3 134 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (4.41%) GCP
5 64 (3.76%) SaaS
6 62 (3.64%) GitHub
7 55 (3.23%) dbt
8 47 (2.76%) Serverless
9 44 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 28 (1.65%) Power Platform
11 26 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (1.00%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.71%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.71%) PaaS
15 12 (0.71%) Pulumi
16 10 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.59%) Azure Pipelines
17 9 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.12%) Internet
2 13 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 13 (0.76%) Wireless
3 10 (0.59%) Network Security
4 6 (0.35%) DNS
5 4 (0.24%) 4G
5 4 (0.24%) 5G
5 4 (0.24%) Firewall
5 4 (0.24%) HTTP
5 4 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.24%) LAN
5 4 (0.24%) Multicast
5 4 (0.24%) NAS
5 4 (0.24%) VPN
5 4 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.12%) RS-232
6 2 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.059%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.059%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (20.09%) SQL Server
2 101 (5.93%) MySQL
3 96 (5.64%) NoSQL
4 67 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 55 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
5 55 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
5 55 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
5 55 (3.23%) Dremio
6 46 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.70%) Redis
9 24 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.94%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.71%) Power BI
13 10 (0.59%) GIS
13 10 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.47%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 186 (10.93%) Git
2 87 (5.11%) Visual Studio
3 38 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.06%) JIRA
5 20 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 18 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.94%) NUnit
8 16 (0.94%) Selenium
9 14 (0.82%) Maven
10 13 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
11 11 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 10 (0.59%) Jasmine
13 9 (0.53%) Gradle
13 9 (0.53%) Moq
13 9 (0.53%) PHPUnit
14 8 (0.47%) CMake
14 8 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 333 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 219 (12.87%) Finance
3 72 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (4.17%) Banking
5 64 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.64%) Front Office
7 56 (3.29%) Investment Banking
8 49 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.29%) Electronics
10 37 (2.17%) Marketing
11 36 (2.12%) Law
11 36 (2.12%) Retail
12 30 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (1.65%) Automotive
14 23 (1.35%) Tech for Good
15 22 (1.29%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.23%) Games
17 20 (1.18%) Legal
18 16 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (46.36%) .NET
2 291 (17.10%) HTML
3 266 (15.63%) CSS
4 258 (15.16%) React
5 219 (12.87%) .NET Core
6 210 (12.34%) ASP.NET
7 200 (11.75%) AngularJS
8 190 (11.16%) .NET Framework
9 125 (7.34%) RESTful
10 114 (6.70%) Entity Framework
11 81 (4.76%) Node.js
12 77 (4.52%) HTML5
13 75 (4.41%) REST
14 72 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
15 71 (4.17%) Vue
16 63 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
16 63 (3.70%) WPF
17 59 (3.47%) Pandas
18 58 (3.41%) Protocol Buffers
19 57 (3.35%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 59 (3.47%) Mobile App
2 55 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 52 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 51 (3.00%) Hedge funds
5 50 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 50 (2.94%) IoT
6 49 (2.88%) Equities
7 48 (2.82%) Derivative
8 46 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 32 (1.88%) Product Ownership
11 30 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.70%) Client/Server
12 29 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
14 24 (1.41%) Cloud Native
15 18 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.71%) Blockchain
16 12 (0.71%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 124 (7.29%) Windows
2 117 (6.87%) Linux
3 48 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 39 (2.29%) Android
5 13 (0.76%) Unix
6 12 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Mobile
9 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.18%) VMS
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (31.90%) Agile
2 359 (21.09%) Software Engineering
3 274 (16.10%) Full Stack Development
4 267 (15.69%) DevOps
5 260 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
6 254 (14.92%) Computer Science
7 207 (12.16%) MVC
8 151 (8.87%) Microservices
9 143 (8.40%) CI/CD
10 135 (7.93%) Mentoring
11 122 (7.17%) TDD
12 112 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 110 (6.46%) SDLC
14 106 (6.23%) Unit Testing
15 103 (6.05%) Test Automation
16 101 (5.93%) Design Patterns
17 99 (5.82%) Clean Code
17 99 (5.82%) Code Quality
18 95 (5.58%) Scrum
19 87 (5.11%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 936 (54.99%) C#
2 593 (34.84%) JavaScript
3 481 (28.26%) SQL
4 295 (17.33%) Java
5 245 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 238 (13.98%) Python
7 122 (7.17%) C++
8 107 (6.29%) C
9 88 (5.17%) PHP
10 44 (2.59%) VB.NET
11 36 (2.12%) Go
11 36 (2.12%) Kotlin
12 35 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 30 (1.76%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.47%) Ruby
15 22 (1.29%) VB
16 12 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 11 (0.65%) Rust
18 10 (0.59%) Bicep
19 9 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 337 (19.80%) Degree
2 141 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 26 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 23 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.18%) PhD
8 16 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.24%) CIPD
12 4 (0.24%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.24%) MCSD
13 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.12%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.12%) HND
15 1 (0.059%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.64%) QA
2 8 (0.47%) GDPR
3 5 (0.29%) SLA
4 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.059%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 205 (12.04%) Docker
2 12 (0.71%) Firmware
3 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 52 (3.06%) Terraform
3 13 (0.76%) Ansible
4 8 (0.47%) Kibana
5 7 (0.41%) MIIS
6 6 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.24%) WSUS
9 1 (0.059%) Kiali
9 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.12%) Oracle
3 34 (2.00%) Google
4 25 (1.47%) Xamarin
5 14 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 12 (0.71%) Facebook
6 12 (0.71%) Xilinx
7 9 (0.53%) IBM
7 9 (0.53%) NVIDIA
8 8 (0.47%) F5
9 7 (0.41%) JDA
9 7 (0.41%) Quadient
10 6 (0.35%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.35%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.35%) VMware
10 6 (0.35%) YouTube
11 5 (0.29%) Databricks
11 5 (0.29%) ESRI
11 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus
11 5 (0.29%) New Relic