Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 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 7 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,101 8,452 14,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.24% 14.03% 20.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.02% 15.73% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,606 6,100 10,546
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +12.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK excluding London 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 +12 2,872 £52,084 -5.30% 485
South East 0 2,239 £57,500 - 298
North West +11 1,706 £52,500 -4.55% 299
Midlands +9 1,572 £50,000 -9.09% 354
South West +3 1,406 £50,000 -9.09% 205
West Midlands +13 1,019 £52,500 -4.55% 218
Yorkshire +15 910 £50,000 -4.76% 143
East of England +12 877 £50,000 -13.04% 147
Scotland -23 651 £54,000 -1.82% 142
East Midlands +5 546 £50,000 -9.09% 135
Wales +7 343 £52,500 +16.67% 60
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Northern Ireland -2 146 £53,250 +6.50% 39
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3,805 (37.67%) C#
2 3,730 (36.93%) JavaScript
3 3,688 (36.51%) .NET
4 3,000 (29.70%) Agile
5 2,861 (28.32%) Azure
6 2,547 (25.22%) Full Stack Development
7 2,408 (23.84%) SQL
8 2,315 (22.92%) HTML
9 2,076 (20.55%) CSS
10 1,932 (19.13%) React
11 1,913 (18.94%) Microsoft
12 1,894 (18.75%) SQL Server
13 1,706 (16.89%) AngularJS
14 1,633 (16.17%) Social Skills
15 1,606 (15.90%) AWS
16 1,588 (15.72%) MVC
17 1,582 (15.66%) ASP.NET
18 1,382 (13.68%) DevOps
19 1,368 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
20 1,329 (13.16%) .NET Core
21 1,282 (12.69%) TypeScript
22 1,253 (12.40%) Git
23 1,251 (12.38%) Microservices
24 1,178 (11.66%) Degree
25 1,162 (11.50%) PHP
26 1,115 (11.04%) Software Engineering
27 1,110 (10.99%) Java
28 1,067 (10.56%) .NET Framework
29 1,018 (10.08%) Vue
30 972 (9.62%) Finance

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 257 (2.54%) WordPress
2 256 (2.53%) CMS
3 217 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 134 (1.33%) Confluence
5 124 (1.23%) IIS
6 121 (1.20%) Umbraco
7 80 (0.79%) Apache
8 73 (0.72%) Apache Spark
9 52 (0.51%) Headless CMS
9 52 (0.51%) nginx
10 47 (0.47%) OpenEdge
11 43 (0.43%) Kentico
12 41 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
13 40 (0.40%) Drupal
14 35 (0.35%) OpenStack
15 24 (0.24%) SAS
16 14 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 13 (0.13%) Apache Solr
17 13 (0.13%) JBoss
18 12 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 91 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 30 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 25 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 19 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.16%) Simulink
7 14 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.099%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.050%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.040%) Maya
11 4 (0.040%) Sketch
11 4 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.030%) InDesign
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.010%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 137 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 104 (1.03%) Shopify
3 83 (0.82%) Magento
4 53 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 37 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
6 32 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 32 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
7 26 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
8 10 (0.099%) Maximo
9 7 (0.069%) BPCS
9 7 (0.069%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.050%) Odoo
10 5 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.050%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.040%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
11 4 (0.040%) Sonata
11 4 (0.040%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,861 (28.32%) Azure
2 1,606 (15.90%) AWS
3 709 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 666 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 450 (4.46%) SaaS
6 387 (3.83%) Serverless
7 357 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 278 (2.75%) PowerApps
9 277 (2.74%) GitHub
10 273 (2.70%) Power Automate
11 185 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
12 175 (1.73%) Azure Functions
13 174 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 161 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 125 (1.24%) Azure API Management
16 124 (1.23%) GCP
17 120 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
18 117 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
19 75 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
19 75 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 195 (1.93%) Internet
2 63 (0.62%) HTTP
3 62 (0.61%) DNS
4 43 (0.43%) Firewall
5 40 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.35%) SSL
7 28 (0.28%) Intranet
8 24 (0.24%) Wireless
9 21 (0.21%) MQTT
10 16 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
11 14 (0.14%) 5G
12 13 (0.13%) Broadband
12 13 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.099%) Network Security
13 10 (0.099%) VPN
13 10 (0.099%) WAN
14 9 (0.089%) SMTP
15 8 (0.079%) Mobile Broadband
15 8 (0.079%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.079%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,894 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 790 (7.82%) MySQL
3 537 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 484 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 481 (4.76%) Power BI
6 432 (4.28%) MongoDB
7 394 (3.90%) Relational Database
8 244 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 213 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 209 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 167 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
12 131 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 120 (1.19%) DB2
14 118 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 91 (0.90%) Oracle Database 11g
16 86 (0.85%) Redis
17 78 (0.77%) Power Query
17 78 (0.77%) Tableau
18 71 (0.70%) DynamoDB
19 69 (0.68%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 1,253 (12.40%) Git
2 422 (4.18%) Visual Studio
3 306 (3.03%) JIRA
4 267 (2.64%) Jenkins
5 176 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 110 (1.09%) GitLab
7 86 (0.85%) Selenium
7 86 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
8 67 (0.66%) NUnit
8 67 (0.66%) Sourcetree
9 64 (0.63%) Cypress.io
10 60 (0.59%) Jasmine
11 58 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 55 (0.54%) JUnit
13 53 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
14 52 (0.51%) webpack
15 47 (0.47%) TeamCity
16 41 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
17 40 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
18 36 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 1,633 (16.17%) Social Skills
2 972 (9.62%) Finance
3 414 (4.10%) Marketing
4 392 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 386 (3.82%) Law
6 376 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 358 (3.54%) Retail
8 319 (3.16%) Games
9 268 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 241 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 156 (1.54%) Banking
12 153 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 128 (1.27%) Legal
14 119 (1.18%) Tech for Good
15 113 (1.12%) Advertising
16 102 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 96 (0.95%) Automotive
18 83 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 80 (0.79%) Electronics
20 76 (0.75%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,688 (36.51%) .NET
2 2,315 (22.92%) HTML
3 2,076 (20.55%) CSS
4 1,932 (19.13%) React
5 1,706 (16.89%) AngularJS
6 1,582 (15.66%) ASP.NET
7 1,329 (13.16%) .NET Core
8 1,067 (10.56%) .NET Framework
9 1,018 (10.08%) Vue
10 964 (9.54%) Node.js
11 960 (9.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 881 (8.72%) Entity Framework
13 845 (8.37%) ASP.NET MVC
14 756 (7.48%) HTML5
15 746 (7.39%) REST
16 716 (7.09%) RESTful
17 662 (6.55%) Laravel
18 598 (5.92%) jQuery
19 576 (5.70%) Web Services
20 458 (4.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 462 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
2 311 (3.08%) Mobile App
3 301 (2.98%) Algorithms
4 191 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 190 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
6 185 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 169 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 147 (1.46%) IoT
9 129 (1.28%) Blockchain
10 122 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
11 118 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 117 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
13 96 (0.95%) Management Information System
14 79 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
15 73 (0.72%) Cloud Native
16 72 (0.71%) Client/Server
16 72 (0.71%) Social Media
17 56 (0.55%) NHS
17 56 (0.55%) Onboarding
18 53 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 582 (5.76%) Linux
2 401 (3.97%) Windows
3 338 (3.35%) Android
4 274 (2.71%) Apple iOS
5 115 (1.14%) Unix
6 35 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 21 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.20%) VMS
10 16 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.099%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.059%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.050%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.040%) AIX
15 4 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.020%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,000 (29.70%) Agile
2 2,547 (25.22%) Full Stack Development
3 1,588 (15.72%) MVC
4 1,382 (13.68%) DevOps
5 1,368 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
6 1,251 (12.38%) Microservices
7 1,115 (11.04%) Software Engineering
8 966 (9.56%) Web Development
9 959 (9.49%) TDD
10 857 (8.48%) Scrum
11 790 (7.82%) User Experience
12 770 (7.62%) CI/CD
13 750 (7.43%) Computer Science
14 739 (7.32%) Front End Development
15 647 (6.41%) Artificial Intelligence
16 629 (6.23%) Business Intelligence
17 617 (6.11%) Design Patterns
18 611 (6.05%) Mentoring
19 519 (5.14%) Unit Testing
20 510 (5.05%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3,805 (37.67%) C#
2 3,730 (36.93%) JavaScript
3 2,408 (23.84%) SQL
4 1,282 (12.69%) TypeScript
5 1,162 (11.50%) PHP
6 1,110 (10.99%) Java
7 809 (8.01%) Python
8 384 (3.80%) C++
9 299 (2.96%) T-SQL
10 234 (2.32%) C
11 205 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 191 (1.89%) VB.NET
13 123 (1.22%) Go
14 115 (1.14%) VB
15 108 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 104 (1.03%) PowerShell
17 89 (0.88%) Ruby
18 68 (0.67%) Swift
19 64 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 47 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,178 (11.66%) Degree
2 543 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 473 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 408 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 111 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 67 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 60 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (0.43%) PhD
10 42 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 40 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 39 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
13 37 (0.37%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.099%) HND
16 8 (0.079%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.069%) AWS Certified Developer
18 4 (0.040%) CIPD
19 3 (0.030%) ISTQB
19 3 (0.030%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (3.44%) QA
2 91 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 57 (0.56%) GDPR
4 44 (0.44%) WCAG
5 33 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.12%) SLA
8 10 (0.099%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.099%) WAI
9 5 (0.050%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.030%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.030%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.020%) GRC
11 2 (0.020%) HL7
11 2 (0.020%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.010%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.010%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.010%) ITGC
12 1 (0.010%) NIST
System Software
1 785 (7.77%) Docker
2 56 (0.55%) HDFS
3 51 (0.50%) Firmware
4 33 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 27 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.20%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.030%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.020%) Varnish
11 2 (0.020%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.010%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 478 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 215 (2.13%) Terraform
3 74 (0.73%) Ansible
4 18 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.099%) Rancher
6 8 (0.079%) MIIS
7 7 (0.069%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.050%) Grafana
9 5 (0.050%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (0.050%) Puppet
10 4 (0.040%) cPanel
10 4 (0.040%) WSUS
11 3 (0.030%) Galera Cluster
12 1 (0.010%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.010%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.010%) Istio
12 1 (0.010%) Kiali
12 1 (0.010%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.010%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,913 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 361 (3.57%) Oracle
3 243 (2.41%) Google
4 163 (1.61%) IBM
5 119 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 118 (1.17%) Facebook
7 108 (1.07%) Xamarin
8 84 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 83 (0.82%) Adobe
10 82 (0.81%) Databricks
11 72 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 65 (0.64%) Informatica
13 58 (0.57%) SAP
14 57 (0.56%) Sitecore
15 56 (0.55%) Apple
15 56 (0.55%) Cloudera
16 47 (0.47%) WooCommerce
17 39 (0.39%) Optimizely
18 35 (0.35%) WSO2
18 35 (0.35%) YouTube