Development Engineer
UK

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK is £52,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 773 799
Rank change year-on-year +61 +26 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 202 228 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 82 143 115
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% +8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £80,000
90th Percentile £68,375 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £63,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.63% +26.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer.

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +72 183 £52,750 -18.85% 107
UK excluding London +9 170 £50,000 -20.63% 105
South East +94 99 £50,000 -16.67% 25
Work from Home +30 39 £55,000 -24.14% 25
Midlands +5 35 £52,500 -8.70% 29
London +86 28 £65,000 -13.33% 9
West Midlands -3 25 £58,500 +1.74% 14
North of England +26 14 £65,000 +4.42% 15
East Midlands -5 10 £51,250 - 15
Wales +5 8 £50,000 +1.01% 4
North West +8 6 - - 7
South West -26 6 £40,000 -21.55% 15
Yorkshire +84 5 £65,000 -13.97% 4
East of England +1 3 £65,000 - 13
North East -3 3 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland -73 2 - - 6

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Development Engineer in the job title.

1 119 (58.91%) Degree
2 82 (40.59%) Electronics
3 78 (38.61%) Manufacturing
4 77 (38.12%) Firmware
5 74 (36.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (36.14%) Embedded Firmware
7 71 (35.15%) Schematic Capture
7 71 (35.15%) EMC
7 71 (35.15%) Project Planning
8 43 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (16.83%) Python
9 34 (16.83%) DevOps
10 29 (14.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (13.86%) Git
11 28 (13.86%) Computer Science
12 26 (12.87%) C++
12 26 (12.87%) Azure
13 25 (12.38%) Agile
14 24 (11.88%) Software Engineering
14 24 (11.88%) C#
15 20 (9.90%) Java
16 17 (8.42%) SQL
16 17 (8.42%) Use Case
16 17 (8.42%) AWS
17 16 (7.92%) Containerisation
18 15 (7.43%) Social Skills
18 15 (7.43%) SDLC
18 15 (7.43%) Windows
19 14 (6.93%) .NET
19 14 (6.93%) Mathematics

Development Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.96%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) CMS
2 6 (2.97%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Doxygen
1 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.87%) Azure
2 17 (8.42%) AWS
3 13 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.47%) GCP
5 7 (3.47%) GitHub
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.97%) IaaS
7 5 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.48%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.48%) Serverless
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.49%) SaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.96%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.47%) Modbus
3 5 (2.48%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.98%) Profibus
4 4 (1.98%) RS-232
4 4 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.49%) Firewall
5 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.49%) MQTT
5 3 (1.49%) RS-422
5 3 (1.49%) RS-485
6 2 (0.99%) LAN
6 2 (0.99%) WAN
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.98%) Big Data
3 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.99%) DB2
5 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (13.86%) Git
2 10 (4.95%) Subversion
3 6 (2.97%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.99%) GitLab
7 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 82 (40.59%) Electronics
2 78 (38.61%) Manufacturing
3 74 (36.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.43%) Social Skills
5 14 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.44%) Finance
7 12 (5.94%) Games
8 4 (1.98%) Military
9 3 (1.49%) Automotive
9 3 (1.49%) Law
9 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Marketing
10 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.93%) .NET
2 12 (5.94%) REST
3 10 (4.95%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 10 (4.95%) Unreal Engine
4 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET
4 8 (3.96%) React
5 6 (2.97%) JSON
5 6 (2.97%) SOAP
5 6 (2.97%) Web Services
5 6 (2.97%) XML
5 6 (2.97%) XSLT
6 4 (1.98%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.98%) GTK
7 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.49%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.49%) Flask
7 3 (1.49%) Kafka
7 3 (1.49%) Kendo UI
7 3 (1.49%) Spring
7 3 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.94%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.97%) Analogue Electronics
2 6 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (2.97%) Life Science
3 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.99%) Animation
4 2 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (0.99%) Kindle
4 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.50%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.50%) Lidar
5 1 (0.50%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.43%) Windows
2 13 (6.44%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.15%) Project Planning
1 71 (35.15%) Schematic Capture
2 43 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (16.83%) DevOps
4 28 (13.86%) Computer Science
5 25 (12.38%) Agile
6 24 (11.88%) Software Engineering
7 17 (8.42%) Use Case
8 16 (7.92%) Containerisation
9 15 (7.43%) SDLC
10 14 (6.93%) Architectural Patterns
10 14 (6.93%) Mathematics
11 13 (6.44%) Mentoring
12 12 (5.94%) Full Stack Development
12 12 (5.94%) Physics
12 12 (5.94%) Software Testing
12 12 (5.94%) Test Automation
13 11 (5.45%) CI/CD
13 11 (5.45%) Cross-Platform Development
13 11 (5.45%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.83%) Python
2 26 (12.87%) C++
3 24 (11.88%) C#
4 20 (9.90%) Java
5 17 (8.42%) SQL
6 10 (4.95%) Bash
6 10 (4.95%) C
6 10 (4.95%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.46%) MATLAB
8 8 (3.96%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.97%) Ruby
9 6 (2.97%) XPath
10 4 (1.98%) Embedded C++
10 4 (1.98%) Go
10 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.49%) Ada
12 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (58.91%) Degree
2 29 (14.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.96%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.97%) HNC
4 6 (2.97%) HND
5 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.98%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.98%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (1.98%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.98%) ISO 13485
1 4 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 77 (38.12%) Firmware
2 73 (36.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (3.96%) Docker
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (35.15%) EMC
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.97%) Google
4 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.49%) Telerik
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco
5 2 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Xilinx