Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,224 2,544 4,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.40% 16.87% 22.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.27% 18.62% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,892 1,954 3,288
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,438 £45,375 £43,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year - +4.36% +4.95%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley -3 888 £60,000 - 96
Hampshire -5 489 £60,000 +14.29% 59
Berkshire -2 449 £65,000 +4.00% 45
Surrey -3 283 £55,000 -8.33% 48
Buckinghamshire 0 237 £55,000 - 29
Kent +6 233 £55,000 - 33
Oxfordshire +3 202 £57,500 -4.17% 22
East Sussex -3 154 £57,500 +4.55% 20
West Sussex +11 99 £55,000 -5.98% 19
Sussex +4 54 £50,000 -23.08% 5
Middlesex -39 5 £44,000 -48.24%
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,023 (46.00%) JavaScript
2 1,007 (45.28%) .NET
3 999 (44.92%) C#
4 822 (36.96%) Agile
5 808 (36.33%) Azure
6 641 (28.82%) Full Stack Development
7 618 (27.79%) HTML
8 616 (27.70%) SQL
9 560 (25.18%) CSS
10 557 (25.04%) React
11 544 (24.46%) SQL Server
12 493 (22.17%) AngularJS
13 481 (21.63%) ASP.NET
14 475 (21.36%) MVC
15 434 (19.51%) Microsoft
16 398 (17.90%) Microservices
17 396 (17.81%) DevOps
18 393 (17.67%) AWS
19 370 (16.64%) .NET Core
20 354 (15.92%) Social Skills
21 346 (15.56%) Git
22 342 (15.38%) TypeScript
23 338 (15.20%) Java
24 330 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
25 329 (14.79%) Degree
26 314 (14.12%) Docker
27 302 (13.58%) TDD
28 290 (13.04%) Computer Science
29 286 (12.86%) .NET Framework
30 281 (12.63%) HTML5

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 69 (3.10%) CMS
2 46 (2.07%) IIS
3 44 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 32 (1.44%) Umbraco
6 27 (1.21%) Apache
7 25 (1.12%) Kentico
8 24 (1.08%) Headless CMS
9 20 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
9 20 (0.90%) WordPress
10 18 (0.81%) nginx
11 12 (0.54%) Drupal
11 12 (0.54%) JBoss
12 11 (0.49%) IBM Domino
13 10 (0.45%) Confluence
13 10 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
14 9 (0.40%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
16 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.18%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 28 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.45%) Simulink
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.045%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.045%) InDesign
6 1 (0.045%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.35%) Siebel CRM
3 18 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.31%) Magento
6 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.22%) Odoo
7 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
7 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.13%) Shopify
9 2 (0.090%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.090%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.090%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 808 (36.33%) Azure
2 393 (17.67%) AWS
3 211 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (7.28%) Serverless
5 113 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 102 (4.59%) SaaS
7 85 (3.82%) Azure Functions
8 83 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 76 (3.42%) GitHub
11 74 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 71 (3.19%) Azure API Management
13 68 (3.06%) IBM Cloud
14 55 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
17 31 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
18 29 (1.30%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.21%) PaaS
20 23 (1.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.70%) Internet
2 28 (1.26%) HTTP
3 19 (0.85%) DNS
4 15 (0.67%) SSL
5 14 (0.63%) Firewall
6 9 (0.40%) Network Security
6 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.36%) VPN
8 7 (0.31%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.22%) Intranet
10 4 (0.18%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.18%) LAN
10 4 (0.18%) MQTT
10 4 (0.18%) NAS
10 4 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.090%) Wireless
12 1 (0.045%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 544 (24.46%) SQL Server
2 215 (9.67%) NoSQL
3 192 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
4 182 (8.18%) Relational Database
5 173 (7.78%) MongoDB
6 162 (7.28%) MySQL
7 92 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
8 72 (3.24%) Power BI
9 68 (3.06%) DB2
10 59 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (1.35%) Oracle BI EE
11 30 (1.35%) Siebel EIM
12 27 (1.21%) Redis
13 26 (1.17%) Power Query
13 26 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (1.03%) Data Lake
15 20 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
16 19 (0.85%) MariaDB
16 19 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 19 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 346 (15.56%) Git
2 101 (4.54%) Visual Studio
3 89 (4.00%) JIRA
4 83 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 51 (2.29%) Selenium
6 40 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.75%) NUnit
8 31 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 30 (1.35%) JUnit
10 29 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 25 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (1.08%) Ant
13 20 (0.90%) GitLab
14 18 (0.81%) Bitbucket
15 17 (0.76%) Postman
16 14 (0.63%) TeamCity
17 12 (0.54%) Jasmine
17 12 (0.54%) Maven
18 11 (0.49%) Vite
19 10 (0.45%) MorphX
General
1 354 (15.92%) Social Skills
2 237 (10.66%) Finance
3 151 (6.79%) Public Sector
4 86 (3.87%) Marketing
5 75 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (2.83%) Retail
7 49 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 43 (1.93%) Law
10 36 (1.62%) Games
11 35 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 26 (1.17%) Advertising
12 26 (1.17%) Tech for Good
13 23 (1.03%) Back Office
14 21 (0.94%) Electronics
15 19 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (0.76%) Banking
17 13 (0.58%) Aviation
17 13 (0.58%) Multimedia
18 12 (0.54%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,007 (45.28%) .NET
2 618 (27.79%) HTML
3 560 (25.18%) CSS
4 557 (25.04%) React
5 493 (22.17%) AngularJS
6 481 (21.63%) ASP.NET
7 370 (16.64%) .NET Core
8 286 (12.86%) .NET Framework
9 281 (12.63%) HTML5
10 277 (12.46%) Vue
11 257 (11.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 256 (11.51%) Entity Framework
13 253 (11.38%) ASP.NET Web API
14 249 (11.20%) Node.js
15 235 (10.57%) REST
16 208 (9.35%) Web Services
17 188 (8.45%) jQuery
18 179 (8.05%) CSS3
19 173 (7.78%) RESTful
20 157 (7.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.17%) Algorithms
2 106 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
3 74 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 69 (3.10%) Blockchain
5 68 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 66 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.26%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.90%) Social Media
14 19 (0.85%) Mainframe
15 15 (0.67%) e-Learning
16 14 (0.63%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.63%) Digital Media
17 13 (0.58%) BBC
17 13 (0.58%) IoT
17 13 (0.58%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 178 (8.00%) Linux
2 145 (6.52%) Windows
3 100 (4.50%) Android
4 83 (3.73%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.31%) Unix
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.090%) AIX
9 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (36.96%) Agile
2 641 (28.82%) Full Stack Development
3 475 (21.36%) MVC
4 398 (17.90%) Microservices
5 396 (17.81%) DevOps
6 330 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (13.58%) TDD
8 290 (13.04%) Computer Science
9 250 (11.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 219 (9.85%) Web Development
11 209 (9.40%) Scrum
12 197 (8.86%) CI/CD
13 189 (8.50%) Software Engineering
14 183 (8.23%) User Experience
15 182 (8.18%) BDD
16 170 (7.64%) Design Patterns
17 155 (6.97%) OO
17 155 (6.97%) OOP
18 152 (6.83%) Front End Development
19 140 (6.29%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,023 (46.00%) JavaScript
2 999 (44.92%) C#
3 616 (27.70%) SQL
4 342 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 338 (15.20%) Java
6 260 (11.69%) Python
7 211 (9.49%) PHP
8 129 (5.80%) C++
9 63 (2.83%) C
10 61 (2.74%) Go
11 52 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 24 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.85%) COBOL
15 16 (0.72%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.40%) Bicep
18 9 (0.40%) Ruby
18 9 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 329 (14.79%) Degree
2 207 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 167 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 125 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 39 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
6 33 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.81%) PhD
11 16 (0.72%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.13%) MBA
13 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.045%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.045%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.045%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.045%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.60%) QA
2 36 (1.62%) WCAG
3 21 (0.94%) GDPR
4 20 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.090%) GRC
9 2 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.045%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 314 (14.12%) Docker
2 27 (1.21%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 217 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.34%) Terraform
3 48 (2.16%) Ansible
4 8 (0.36%) MIIS
5 6 (0.27%) Kibana
6 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.18%) WSUS
8 3 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.045%) Grafana
Vendors
1 434 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 95 (4.27%) Oracle
3 79 (3.55%) IBM
4 69 (3.10%) Red Hat
5 48 (2.16%) Google
6 35 (1.57%) WSO2
7 31 (1.39%) Facebook
8 30 (1.35%) Siebel
9 26 (1.17%) SAP
10 22 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.94%) Xamarin
12 20 (0.90%) Sitecore
13 19 (0.85%) Optimizely
13 19 (0.85%) Unisys
14 13 (0.58%) Adobe
14 13 (0.58%) Apple
14 13 (0.58%) Sony
14 13 (0.58%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.54%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.45%) Xilinx