Backend Developer Jobs in England

Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Backend Developer salary in England is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 600 442
Rank change year-on-year -2 -158 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 215 372 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.39% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.43% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 189 312 370
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +5.88% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,712 £75,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,162 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% +4.86% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
London +6 82 £85,000 +9.68% 48
North of England +67 54 £55,000 -18.52% 13
North West +17 32 £52,500 -22.22% 8
Yorkshire +108 21 £57,500 -25.81% 3
South East -14 21 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Midlands +22 18 £45,000 - 5
East of England +31 17 £45,000 +20.00% 3
South West -5 17 £47,500 -17.39%
West Midlands +38 13 £46,250 +2.78% 3
East Midlands -13 5 £35,000 -9.09% 1
North East -5 1 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Backend Developer
UK

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Backend 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 England region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 71 (33.02%) AWS
2 62 (28.84%) .NET
3 61 (28.37%) JavaScript
4 60 (27.91%) C#
5 58 (26.98%) Microservices
6 53 (24.65%) Agile
7 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
8 50 (23.26%) Software Engineering
9 42 (19.53%) Java
9 42 (19.53%) SQL
10 41 (19.07%) Node.js
10 41 (19.07%) Azure
11 37 (17.21%) Docker
11 37 (17.21%) TypeScript
12 35 (16.28%) Python
13 34 (15.81%) HTML
14 33 (15.35%) Computer Science
15 30 (13.95%) CSS
16 28 (13.02%) Serverless
16 28 (13.02%) Clean Code
17 27 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (12.56%) PHP
18 26 (12.09%) Degree
18 26 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
18 26 (12.09%) CI/CD
19 25 (11.63%) Finance
19 25 (11.63%) Relational Database
19 25 (11.63%) DevOps
20 24 (11.16%) Kubernetes
21 23 (10.70%) MySQL

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (5.12%) WordPress
2 7 (3.26%) nginx
3 6 (2.79%) CMS
4 5 (2.33%) Drupal
5 4 (1.86%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.93%) Apache
6 2 (0.93%) IIS
7 1 (0.47%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (33.02%) AWS
2 41 (19.07%) Azure
3 28 (13.02%) Serverless
4 21 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (8.84%) GitHub
6 16 (7.44%) SaaS
7 13 (6.05%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.12%) GCP
9 8 (3.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.26%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.26%) IaaS
10 7 (3.26%) npm
10 7 (3.26%) PaaS
11 6 (2.79%) Yarn
12 5 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.40%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (1.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) HTTP
2 6 (2.79%) AMQP
2 6 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.47%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.63%) Relational Database
2 23 (10.70%) MySQL
3 19 (8.84%) DynamoDB
3 19 (8.84%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.58%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.65%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.79%) DB2
8 5 (2.33%) KDB
8 5 (2.33%) Kdb+
8 5 (2.33%) Redis
9 4 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (7.44%) Git
2 7 (3.26%) Mocha
3 6 (2.79%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.40%) Postman
5 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.93%) Subversion
6 1 (0.47%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.47%) Mockito
6 1 (0.47%) Moq
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.63%) Finance
3 9 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (4.19%) Banking
4 7 (3.26%) Marketing
5 5 (2.33%) Front Office
5 5 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.86%) Retail
7 3 (1.40%) Games
7 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.93%) Electronics
8 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.47%) Aviation
9 1 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (28.84%) .NET
2 41 (19.07%) Node.js
3 34 (15.81%) HTML
4 30 (13.95%) CSS
5 22 (10.23%) RESTful
6 20 (9.30%) AngularJS
6 20 (9.30%) OAuth
7 18 (8.37%) Web Services
8 16 (7.44%) Laravel
8 16 (7.44%) Vue
9 15 (6.98%) React
10 14 (6.51%) GraphQL
10 14 (6.51%) Kafka
11 13 (6.05%) .NET Framework
11 13 (6.05%) gRPC
12 12 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (5.12%) Spring
13 11 (5.12%) Spring Boot
14 10 (4.65%) REST
15 9 (4.19%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.37%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.12%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.12%) Client/Server
3 8 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.72%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.26%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.40%) Derivative
6 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.93%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.47%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.47%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.19%) Linux
2 4 (1.86%) Android
2 4 (1.86%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.98%) Microservices
2 53 (24.65%) Agile
3 50 (23.26%) Software Engineering
4 33 (15.35%) Computer Science
5 28 (13.02%) Clean Code
6 27 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (12.09%) CI/CD
7 26 (12.09%) Full Stack Development
8 25 (11.63%) DevOps
9 23 (10.70%) OO
10 22 (10.23%) Front End Development
11 21 (9.77%) Design Patterns
12 20 (9.30%) Test Automation
13 19 (8.84%) API Development
13 19 (8.84%) Software Testing
14 18 (8.37%) Data Protection
14 18 (8.37%) SDLC
14 18 (8.37%) TDD
15 16 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (7.44%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 61 (28.37%) JavaScript
2 60 (27.91%) C#
3 42 (19.53%) Java
3 42 (19.53%) SQL
4 37 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 35 (16.28%) Python
6 27 (12.56%) PHP
7 14 (6.51%) Go
8 10 (4.65%) Scala
9 9 (4.19%) Clojure
9 9 (4.19%) F#
9 9 (4.19%) Haskell
10 8 (3.72%) Rust
11 6 (2.79%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.33%) C++
13 4 (1.86%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.93%) Bash
15 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (12.09%) Degree
2 18 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.26%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.79%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.19%) GDPR
2 7 (3.26%) HIPAA
2 7 (3.26%) QA
3 6 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (17.21%) Docker
2 11 (5.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.12%) Terraform
3 6 (2.79%) Grafana
3 6 (2.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (5.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.33%) Oracle
3 4 (1.86%) Google
4 2 (0.93%) SAP
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe
5 1 (0.47%) IBM
5 1 (0.47%) Salesforce