Technical Developer
UK

The median Technical Developer salary in the UK is £67,500 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 850 923 1042
Rank change year-on-year +73 +119 -188
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Developer 61 76 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.073% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.080% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 42 72 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +3.85%

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%

Technical Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Developer 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 +75 60 £70,000 - 11
UK excluding London -33 37 £60,000 -14.29% 6
London +132 23 £90,000 - 5
South East +26 20 £67,500 -20.59% 3
Work from Home +75 18 £80,000 +18.52% 3
North West +6 14 £50,000 -39.39% 1
North of England +6 14 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Midlands +17 3 £55,000 -4.35% 1
West Midlands +16 3 £55,000 -4.35%

Technical Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Technical 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 featuring Technical Developer in the job title.

1 21 (34.43%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) Design Patterns
3 15 (24.59%) SQL
4 14 (22.95%) Computer Science
4 14 (22.95%) Mentoring
4 14 (22.95%) Microservices
5 12 (19.67%) C#
5 12 (19.67%) Java
5 12 (19.67%) Agile
5 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.03%) Client/Server
7 10 (16.39%) OOP
7 10 (16.39%) AWS
8 9 (14.75%) QA
8 9 (14.75%) Analytics
8 9 (14.75%) Python
8 9 (14.75%) .NET
8 9 (14.75%) Finance
8 9 (14.75%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (14.75%) IoT
9 8 (13.11%) People Management
9 8 (13.11%) SonarQube
9 8 (13.11%) Spring Boot
9 8 (13.11%) SDLC
9 8 (13.11%) Serverless
9 8 (13.11%) Product Ownership
9 8 (13.11%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (13.11%) Spring
9 8 (13.11%) J2EE

Technical Developer 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 (13.11%) Apache Pig
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.64%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.64%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.64%) HFM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 21 (34.43%) Azure
2 10 (16.39%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) GitHub
3 8 (13.11%) Serverless
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.20%) PaaS
6 4 (6.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) IaaS
8 1 (1.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.64%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) OCI
8 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Apache Hive
1 8 (13.11%) Big Data
1 8 (13.11%) Hadoop
2 7 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (9.84%) MySQL
3 6 (9.84%) Power BI
4 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Checkstyle
1 8 (13.11%) Git
1 8 (13.11%) JUnit
1 8 (13.11%) SonarQube
2 6 (9.84%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (14.75%) Finance
2 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Law
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) .NET
2 8 (13.11%) CSS
2 8 (13.11%) HTML
2 8 (13.11%) J2EE
2 8 (13.11%) Spring
2 8 (13.11%) Spring Boot
3 7 (11.48%) HTML5
4 6 (9.84%) Doctrine
4 6 (9.84%) jQuery
4 6 (9.84%) Laravel
4 6 (9.84%) Symfony
4 6 (9.84%) Vue
5 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.92%) React
7 2 (3.28%) REST
8 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.64%) CSS3
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.64%) Sass
8 1 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Client/Server
2 9 (14.75%) IoT
3 8 (13.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (13.11%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.92%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.28%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
1 6 (9.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Design Patterns
2 14 (22.95%) Computer Science
2 14 (22.95%) Mentoring
2 14 (22.95%) Microservices
3 12 (19.67%) Agile
3 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.39%) OOP
5 9 (14.75%) Analytics
5 9 (14.75%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (13.11%) MapReduce
6 8 (13.11%) OO
6 8 (13.11%) OOD
6 8 (13.11%) Open Source
6 8 (13.11%) People Management
6 8 (13.11%) SDLC
6 8 (13.11%) Static Code Analysis
7 6 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (9.84%) ETL
7 6 (9.84%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) C#
2 12 (19.67%) Java
3 9 (14.75%) Python
4 6 (9.84%) PHP
4 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.84%) Scala
5 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.20%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Databricks
3 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.64%) Salesforce