Developer Jobs in the East of England

Developer
England > East of England

The median Developer salary in the East of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -39 +13 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 220 876 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.49% 14.32% 11.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.08% 15.24% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 187 782 405
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £66,209 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,109 5,748 4,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 93.94% 84.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,541 4,388 2,227
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,338 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,050
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the East of England

Developer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cambridgeshire -4 58 £47,500 -13.64% 105
Suffolk -21 46 £66,212 +47.14% 15
Hertfordshire -36 46 £55,000 -4.35% 55
Essex -20 33 £45,000 -13.04% 60
Bedfordshire -31 21 £50,000 +11.11% 19
Norfolk -35 16 £38,500 -9.41% 13
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 115 (52.27%) C#
2 98 (44.55%) JavaScript
3 91 (41.36%) .NET
4 85 (38.64%) SQL
4 85 (38.64%) C++
5 83 (37.73%) Degree
6 71 (32.27%) HTML
6 71 (32.27%) Python
7 65 (29.55%) Agile
8 63 (28.64%) Azure
9 50 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
10 47 (21.36%) SQL Server
11 46 (20.91%) PayPal
11 46 (20.91%) Chatbot
11 46 (20.91%) Conversational UI
12 45 (20.45%) Java
13 43 (19.55%) Social Skills
14 42 (19.09%) MVC
14 42 (19.09%) CSS
14 42 (19.09%) Web Development
15 41 (18.64%) Code Quality
16 40 (18.18%) PHP
17 36 (16.36%) Computer Science
17 36 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
18 35 (15.91%) Software Engineering
18 35 (15.91%) ASP.NET
19 34 (15.45%) Microsoft
19 34 (15.45%) Docker
20 32 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
20 32 (14.55%) OOP

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 11 (5.00%) WordPress
2 4 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.91%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 46 (20.91%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.64%) Azure
2 30 (13.64%) AWS
3 19 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (4.09%) GitHub
6 7 (3.18%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.73%) SaaS
8 3 (1.36%) Boomi
8 3 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.36%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.36%) Serverless
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (0.91%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.91%) GCP
10 1 (0.45%) Figma
10 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.45%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) LTE
1 1 (0.45%) RTP
1 1 (0.45%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.36%) SQL Server
2 30 (13.64%) MySQL
3 20 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.09%) MariaDB
6 7 (3.18%) Redis
7 6 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.27%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.27%) Power BI
8 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.91%) OLTP
10 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (13.18%) Git
2 11 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.27%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.82%) JIRA
4 4 (1.82%) Maven
4 4 (1.82%) webpack
5 3 (1.36%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.36%) Gradle
5 3 (1.36%) Subversion
5 3 (1.36%) Vite
6 2 (0.91%) git-flow
6 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.45%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) gulp
7 1 (0.45%) NUnit
7 1 (0.45%) Qt Creator
7 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.09%) Finance
4 18 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (7.27%) Retail
6 8 (3.64%) Automotive
7 6 (2.73%) Marketing
8 5 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Games
10 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (41.36%) .NET
2 71 (32.27%) HTML
3 42 (19.09%) CSS
4 35 (15.91%) ASP.NET
5 28 (12.73%) .NET Framework
6 26 (11.82%) Node.js
7 24 (10.91%) React
8 21 (9.55%) jQuery
8 21 (9.55%) Vue
9 20 (9.09%) Entity Framework
9 20 (9.09%) REST
10 18 (8.18%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (7.73%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.73%) Web Services
12 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (6.82%) Pandas
13 13 (5.91%) .NET Core
13 13 (5.91%) HTML5
14 12 (5.45%) LINQ
15 10 (4.55%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Cyberattack
2 14 (6.36%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (5.91%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.82%) AS400
6 4 (1.82%) iSeries
7 3 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.91%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.91%) Online Games
9 1 (0.45%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.64%) Android
2 26 (11.82%) Linux
3 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.27%) Windows
5 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.55%) Agile
2 50 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
3 46 (20.91%) Conversational UI
4 42 (19.09%) MVC
4 42 (19.09%) Web Development
5 41 (18.64%) Code Quality
6 36 (16.36%) Computer Science
6 36 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (15.91%) Software Engineering
8 32 (14.55%) OOP
8 32 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (14.09%) OO
10 27 (12.27%) CI/CD
11 25 (11.36%) DevOps
12 24 (10.91%) Android Development
13 23 (10.45%) Design Patterns
13 23 (10.45%) E-Commerce
13 23 (10.45%) Mathematics
14 20 (9.09%) Microservices
15 19 (8.64%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.27%) C#
2 98 (44.55%) JavaScript
3 85 (38.64%) C++
3 85 (38.64%) SQL
4 71 (32.27%) Python
5 45 (20.45%) Java
6 40 (18.18%) PHP
7 16 (7.27%) Rust
7 16 (7.27%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.82%) Go
9 14 (6.36%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.18%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.82%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.82%) RPG
11 4 (1.82%) RPG IV
12 3 (1.36%) C
12 3 (1.36%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.91%) Ruby
14 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge ABL
Qualifications
1 83 (37.73%) Degree
2 28 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.82%) DV Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.45%) PhD
5 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (0.91%) GDPR
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (15.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.73%) Terraform
3 15 (6.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 46 (20.91%) PayPal
2 34 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.55%) Oracle
4 5 (2.27%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.36%) Adobe
6 2 (0.91%) ANSYS
6 2 (0.91%) Google
6 2 (0.91%) Quadient
7 1 (0.45%) Dell
7 1 (0.45%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.45%) Telerik
7 1 (0.45%) Toshiba
7 1 (0.45%) WooCommerce