Developer Jobs in the East Midlands

Developer
England > East Midlands

The median Developer salary in the East Midlands is £50,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -50 +3 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 144 543 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.29% 12.28% 13.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.60% 12.99% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 134 477 257
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,699
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +5.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,572 4,181 2,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 94.55% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 3,026 1,331
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the East Midlands

Developer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire -8 53 £47,500 +5.56% 54
Leicestershire -14 35 £55,000 +10.00% 49
Northamptonshire -54 23 £50,000 - 27
Lincolnshire -19 22 £40,000 -20.00% 19
Derbyshire -33 7 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 57 (39.58%) C#
2 54 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 52 (36.11%) .NET
4 49 (34.03%) HTML
5 48 (33.33%) Azure
6 46 (31.94%) SQL
7 44 (30.56%) CSS
8 42 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (28.47%) Agile
10 40 (27.78%) React
11 38 (26.39%) Front End Development
12 35 (24.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (24.31%) Java
13 34 (23.61%) Law
14 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
15 30 (20.83%) Degree
16 28 (19.44%) Power Platform
17 26 (18.06%) SQL Server
18 25 (17.36%) PHP
18 25 (17.36%) Python
18 25 (17.36%) MySQL
18 25 (17.36%) AWS
19 24 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
20 23 (15.97%) E-Commerce
21 22 (15.28%) Git
22 21 (14.58%) Software Engineering
22 21 (14.58%) Power BI
23 19 (13.19%) Microsoft
24 18 (12.50%) MVC
24 18 (12.50%) ASP.NET

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 14 (9.72%) CMS
2 12 (8.33%) WordPress
3 3 (2.08%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.08%) Strapi
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Moqups
2 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.69%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (11.81%) Shopify
2 10 (6.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (4.17%) Magento
4 3 (2.08%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.33%) Azure
2 28 (19.44%) Power Platform
3 25 (17.36%) AWS
4 17 (11.81%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (11.81%) SaaS
5 15 (10.42%) PowerApps
6 14 (9.72%) GitHub
7 13 (9.03%) Power Automate
8 11 (7.64%) Slack
8 11 (7.64%) Zapier
9 7 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (4.86%) Serverless
10 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.17%) BigCommerce
10 6 (4.17%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.08%) Contentful
13 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.39%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.69%) DNS
2 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.06%) SQL Server
2 25 (17.36%) MySQL
3 21 (14.58%) Power BI
4 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.78%) FileMaker
6 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.69%) KDB
9 1 (0.69%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.69%) MS Access
9 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (15.28%) Git
2 12 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 9 (6.25%) Eclipse
3 9 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 9 (6.25%) Jasmine
3 9 (6.25%) JUnit
3 9 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
3 9 (6.25%) Mockito
3 9 (6.25%) Protractor
4 4 (2.78%) JIRA
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.69%) gulp
6 1 (0.69%) NUnit
6 1 (0.69%) Subversion
6 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.69%) Yeoman
General
1 34 (23.61%) Law
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.42%) Finance
4 13 (9.03%) Retail
5 8 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Automotive
7 2 (1.39%) Back Office
7 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Games
7 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.39%) Marketing
7 2 (1.39%) Publishing
7 2 (1.39%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.69%) iGaming
8 1 (0.69%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (36.11%) .NET
2 49 (34.03%) HTML
3 44 (30.56%) CSS
4 40 (27.78%) React
5 18 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 15 (10.42%) AngularJS
7 14 (9.72%) .NET Core
8 13 (9.03%) jQuery
8 13 (9.03%) Laravel
9 12 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 11 (7.64%) RESTful
11 9 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (6.25%) Hibernate
11 9 (6.25%) JPA
11 9 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (6.25%) Web Services
12 7 (4.86%) Node.js
12 7 (4.86%) REST
12 7 (4.86%) Spring
12 7 (4.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.17%) EPoS
2 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.08%) CMDB
4 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.08%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.08%) Robotics
5 2 (1.39%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.39%) FMCG
5 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.69%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.64%) Linux
2 3 (2.08%) Android
2 3 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (28.47%) Agile
3 38 (26.39%) Front End Development
4 35 (24.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (15.97%) E-Commerce
7 21 (14.58%) Software Engineering
8 18 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 18 (12.50%) MVC
8 18 (12.50%) SDLC
8 18 (12.50%) User Experience
9 17 (11.81%) UX Design
9 17 (11.81%) Web Development
10 14 (9.72%) Content Management
10 14 (9.72%) Logistics
10 14 (9.72%) Microservices
10 14 (9.72%) Project Management
11 13 (9.03%) DevOps
11 13 (9.03%) SEO
11 13 (9.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (39.58%) C#
2 54 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 46 (31.94%) SQL
4 35 (24.31%) Java
5 25 (17.36%) PHP
5 25 (17.36%) Python
6 12 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 12 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.17%) Delphi
8 5 (3.47%) C++
9 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.08%) VB
10 2 (1.39%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.39%) Go
10 2 (1.39%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.39%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.39%) X++
10 2 (1.39%) XAML
11 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (20.83%) Degree
2 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.08%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.64%) WooCommerce
3 9 (6.25%) IBM
4 4 (2.78%) Adobe
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle
5 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.69%) Apple
6 1 (0.69%) Google
6 1 (0.69%) Xamarin