Developer Jobs in Essex

Developer
East of England > Essex

The median Developer salary in Essex is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 168 122 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 19.18% 14.61% 18.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.29% 18.35% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 149 86 94
10th Percentile £32,400 - £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £68,600
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 828 665 949
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 79.64% 92.32%
Number of salaries quoted 677 371 456
10th Percentile £25,759 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Essex

Developer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Developer in Essex

Developer
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Essex over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Essex

Developer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 18 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
Colchester +9 36 £45,000 -12.20% 5
Chelmsford +14 34 £62,500 +31.58% 5
Harlow - 21 £32,500 -
Saffron Walden - 18 £42,500 - 1
Brentwood -7 10 £45,000 +12.50%
Wickford +2 9 £72,500 +3.57%
Billericay +1 7 £71,500 +10.00% 3
Witham 0 6 £62,500 -1.96%
Basildon -10 4 £100,000 - 1
Southend-on-Sea +19 3 £30,000 -
Grays - 3 £62,500 -
Rochford - 1 £22,500 -
Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Essex region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 87 (51.79%) C#
2 80 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 74 (44.05%) HTML
4 73 (43.45%) CSS
5 71 (42.26%) .NET
6 69 (41.07%) Full Stack Development
7 53 (31.55%) MVC
8 50 (29.76%) SQL
9 47 (27.98%) SQL Server
10 41 (24.40%) Microsoft
11 39 (23.21%) ASP.NET
11 39 (23.21%) Agile
12 38 (22.62%) Web Development
12 38 (22.62%) Azure
13 37 (22.02%) PHP
14 34 (20.24%) .NET Framework
14 34 (20.24%) .NET Core
15 30 (17.86%) React
15 30 (17.86%) Social Skills
16 28 (16.67%) E-Commerce
17 27 (16.07%) TDD
18 26 (15.48%) HTML5
19 25 (14.88%) Entity Framework
20 24 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
20 24 (14.29%) Retail
20 24 (14.29%) Web Services
21 23 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
22 22 (13.10%) Git
22 22 (13.10%) AWS
22 22 (13.10%) Problem-Solving

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 15 (8.93%) CMS
2 7 (4.17%) Drupal
3 6 (3.57%) nginx
3 6 (3.57%) WordPress
4 3 (1.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.60%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (5.95%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (5.36%) Magento
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.62%) Azure
2 22 (13.10%) AWS
3 20 (11.90%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.74%) SaaS
5 5 (2.98%) Power Automate
5 5 (2.98%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.79%) AWS KMS
7 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.79%) Loggly
7 3 (1.79%) Rackspace Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) DNS
1 6 (3.57%) Hyperconnected
1 6 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (27.98%) SQL Server
2 20 (11.90%) Power BI
3 11 (6.55%) MS Access
3 11 (6.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (6.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (6.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.57%) Big Data
6 5 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.79%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (13.10%) Git
2 13 (7.74%) Visual Studio
2 13 (7.74%) webpack
3 7 (4.17%) gulp
4 6 (3.57%) GitLab
5 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 30 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.29%) Retail
3 16 (9.52%) Marketing
4 14 (8.33%) Banking
5 11 (6.55%) Back Office
6 10 (5.95%) Retail Banking
7 7 (4.17%) Finance
8 4 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
10 2 (1.19%) Front Office
10 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (44.05%) HTML
2 73 (43.45%) CSS
3 71 (42.26%) .NET
4 39 (23.21%) ASP.NET
5 34 (20.24%) .NET Core
5 34 (20.24%) .NET Framework
6 30 (17.86%) React
7 26 (15.48%) HTML5
8 25 (14.88%) Entity Framework
9 24 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
9 24 (14.29%) Web Services
10 21 (12.50%) Vue
11 20 (11.90%) REST
12 19 (11.31%) ASP.NET MVC
12 19 (11.31%) jQuery
12 19 (11.31%) Node.js
13 18 (10.71%) AngularJS
13 18 (10.71%) Symfony
14 17 (10.12%) CSS3
15 16 (9.52%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.76%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.57%) Alpine Linux
1 6 (3.57%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (41.07%) Full Stack Development
2 53 (31.55%) MVC
3 39 (23.21%) Agile
4 38 (22.62%) Web Development
5 28 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 27 (16.07%) TDD
7 23 (13.69%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 18 (10.71%) DevOps
11 15 (8.93%) ERP
11 15 (8.93%) OOP
12 14 (8.33%) BDD
13 12 (7.14%) Fintech
13 12 (7.14%) Scrum
14 10 (5.95%) Computer Science
14 10 (5.95%) Microservices
14 10 (5.95%) User Experience
15 9 (5.36%) Kanban
15 9 (5.36%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 87 (51.79%) C#
2 80 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 50 (29.76%) SQL
4 37 (22.02%) PHP
5 19 (11.31%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.95%) Python
7 9 (5.36%) Java
8 6 (3.57%) Rust
9 5 (2.98%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.19%) VBA
12 1 (0.60%) Swift
12 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (7.14%) Degree
2 11 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.79%) QA
2 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.79%) Ansible
2 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.79%) New Relic
2 3 (1.79%) Rackspace
2 3 (1.79%) SolarWinds
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle
3 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe
4 1 (0.60%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.60%) Remedy
4 1 (0.60%) Xamarin