Development Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 601 731
Rank change year-on-year +16 +130 -180
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 175 149 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 75 78 62
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.32% +25.50% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £72,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.33% -

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 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
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 £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
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 Development Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +87 99 £50,000 -16.67% 28
Midlands -23 38 £50,000 -13.04% 27
West Midlands -18 25 £58,500 +1.74% 15
North of England +43 16 £65,000 -2.29% 14
East Midlands -5 13 £50,000 - 12
Wales -1 8 £50,000 +1.01% 4
Yorkshire +85 7 £65,000 -13.97% 2
North West 0 6 - - 8
South West -26 6 £40,000 -21.55% 13
East of England -2 3 £65,000 - 13
North East -5 3 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland -67 2 - - 6
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (60.00%) Degree
2 82 (46.86%) Electronics
3 78 (44.57%) Manufacturing
3 78 (44.57%) Firmware
4 74 (42.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (42.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 71 (40.57%) EMC
5 71 (40.57%) Project Planning
5 71 (40.57%) Schematic Capture
6 39 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (14.86%) Python
8 25 (14.29%) C++
9 24 (13.71%) DevOps
10 23 (13.14%) Software Engineering
10 23 (13.14%) Git
11 17 (9.71%) Use Case
12 16 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (8.57%) Computer Science
13 15 (8.57%) Azure
13 15 (8.57%) Windows
14 14 (8.00%) C#
14 14 (8.00%) Software Testing
15 13 (7.43%) Linux
16 12 (6.86%) Games
16 12 (6.86%) Physics
17 11 (6.29%) Multithreading
17 11 (6.29%) SDET
17 11 (6.29%) Cross-Platform Development
17 11 (6.29%) Containerisation
17 11 (6.29%) Social Skills

Development Engineer 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 6 (3.43%) Confluence
1 6 (3.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Doxygen
1 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.57%) Azure
2 9 (5.14%) AWS
3 7 (4.00%) GitHub
4 6 (3.43%) IaaS
5 5 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.86%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.71%) Azure AKS
6 3 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.71%) GCP
6 3 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.71%) Route 53
6 3 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.57%) Ethernet
2 7 (4.00%) Modbus
3 5 (2.86%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.29%) Profibus
4 4 (2.29%) RS-232
4 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.71%) Firewall
5 3 (1.71%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.71%) MQTT
5 3 (1.71%) RS-422
5 3 (1.71%) RS-485
6 2 (1.14%) LAN
6 2 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.14%) DB2
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (13.14%) Git
2 10 (5.71%) Subversion
3 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 82 (46.86%) Electronics
2 78 (44.57%) Manufacturing
3 74 (42.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.86%) Games
5 11 (6.29%) Social Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.29%) Finance
7 4 (2.29%) Military
8 3 (1.71%) Automotive
8 3 (1.71%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 10 (5.71%) Unreal Engine
2 9 (5.14%) .NET
3 4 (2.29%) GTK
4 3 (1.71%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.71%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.71%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.71%) Kendo UI
4 3 (1.71%) REST
5 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.14%) CSS
6 1 (0.57%) LAMP
6 1 (0.57%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.57%) Playwright
6 1 (0.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.43%) Analogue Electronics
1 6 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (3.43%) Life Science
2 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.14%) Animation
4 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.57%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.57%) Lidar
5 1 (0.57%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.57%) Windows
2 13 (7.43%) Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (40.57%) Project Planning
1 71 (40.57%) Schematic Capture
2 39 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (13.71%) DevOps
4 23 (13.14%) Software Engineering
5 17 (9.71%) Use Case
6 15 (8.57%) Computer Science
7 14 (8.00%) Software Testing
8 12 (6.86%) Physics
9 11 (6.29%) Containerisation
9 11 (6.29%) Cross-Platform Development
9 11 (6.29%) Multithreading
9 11 (6.29%) SDET
10 10 (5.71%) Agile
10 10 (5.71%) Mathematics
10 10 (5.71%) Test Automation
11 9 (5.14%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (5.14%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.14%) Task Automation
12 7 (4.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.86%) Python
2 25 (14.29%) C++
3 14 (8.00%) C#
4 9 (5.14%) Bash
4 9 (5.14%) C
4 9 (5.14%) MATLAB
4 9 (5.14%) SQL
5 7 (4.00%) Java
6 6 (3.43%) Ruby
7 4 (2.29%) Embedded C++
8 3 (1.71%) Ada
8 3 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (60.00%) Degree
2 16 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.43%) HNC
3 6 (3.43%) HND
4 4 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (2.29%) ISO 13485
2 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 78 (44.57%) Firmware
2 74 (42.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.71%) Docker
4 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (40.57%) EMC
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.71%) Google
3 3 (1.71%) Telerik
4 2 (1.14%) Cisco
4 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (0.57%) Xilinx