Developer Job Trends in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,969 4,262 13,847
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.12% 10.20% 14.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.61% 11.30% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,819 3,054 11,748
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year - +8.75% -15.12%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 80,906 37,725 87,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.30% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,953 22,407 64,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,945 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -12.50%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Developer job vacancy trend in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Developer in England

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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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 +3 2,013 £80,000 - 564
North of England +12 1,884 £55,000 -4.35% 306
South East +10 1,172 £60,000 +9.09% 290
North West +8 971 £55,000 -4.35% 149
Midlands +4 895 £55,000 - 199
Yorkshire +26 591 £55,000 -8.33% 93
South West -1 543 £55,000 - 112
West Midlands -2 486 £60,000 +7.14% 120
East of England +25 424 £60,000 +11.11% 103
East Midlands +27 408 £50,000 -4.76% 79
North East +19 322 £55,500 +0.91% 68
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 July 2026, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,685 (24.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,508 (21.64%) C#
3 1,496 (21.47%) .NET
4 1,400 (20.09%) Azure
5 1,353 (19.41%) SQL
6 1,292 (18.54%) Agile
7 1,115 (16.00%) JavaScript
8 1,088 (15.61%) Microsoft
9 992 (14.23%) AWS
10 909 (13.04%) CI/CD
11 899 (12.90%) Python
12 862 (12.37%) Java
12 862 (12.37%) React
13 838 (12.02%) TypeScript
14 770 (11.05%) DevOps
15 727 (10.43%) Software Engineering
16 688 (9.87%) AI
17 685 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
18 620 (8.90%) .NET Core
19 604 (8.67%) HTML
20 592 (8.49%) CSS
21 584 (8.38%) ASP.NET
22 547 (7.85%) Microservices
23 525 (7.53%) Node.js
24 491 (7.05%) Docker
25 487 (6.99%) SQL Server
26 475 (6.82%) RESTful
27 473 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
28 472 (6.77%) Power Platform
29 443 (6.36%) AngularJS

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 143 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 55 (0.79%) CMS
3 47 (0.67%) WordPress
4 24 (0.34%) Umbraco
5 23 (0.33%) Confluence
6 22 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
8 19 (0.27%) IIS
9 18 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 14 (0.20%) Apache
12 12 (0.17%) Mule
13 9 (0.13%) JBoss
13 9 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.11%) Drupal
14 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 8 (0.11%) OpenEdge
15 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
15 7 (0.10%) Appian
16 6 (0.086%) CICS
Applications
1 49 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.014%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.014%) Elementor
6 1 (0.014%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.014%) Sketch
6 1 (0.014%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 21 (0.30%) Shopify
4 20 (0.29%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 8 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.057%) Magento
8 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.057%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.029%) Oracle CRM
10 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,400 (20.09%) Azure
2 992 (14.23%) AWS
3 472 (6.77%) Power Platform
4 364 (5.22%) GitHub
5 348 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
6 279 (4.00%) SaaS
7 270 (3.87%) Serverless
8 235 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 235 (3.37%) Power Automate
9 233 (3.34%) PowerApps
10 171 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 152 (2.18%) GCP
13 147 (2.11%) Azure AI
14 142 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
15 141 (2.02%) Amazon S3
16 118 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
16 118 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 103 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
18 76 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 111 (1.59%) Internet
2 63 (0.90%) Broadband
3 29 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 12 (0.17%) SSL
7 8 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.086%) Intranet
8 6 (0.086%) MQTT
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 4 (0.057%) DNS
11 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.043%) LAN
11 3 (0.043%) Network Security
11 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.043%) WAN
11 3 (0.043%) Wireless
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) AMQP
12 2 (0.029%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 425 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (5.94%) MongoDB
4 276 (3.96%) Power BI
5 179 (2.57%) MySQL
6 175 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
7 150 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 131 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 120 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 119 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 56 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 44 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (0.63%) Redis
15 34 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (0.46%) OLTP
17 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.27%) MariaDB
19 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 400 (5.74%) Git
2 151 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 83 (1.19%) GitLab
5 53 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.76%) Maven
6 40 (0.57%) JUnit
7 38 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 25 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 24 (0.34%) Subversion
10 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.29%) Gradle
11 19 (0.27%) Claude Code
12 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
13 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.22%) Mockito
15 14 (0.20%) fastlane
16 12 (0.17%) Selenium
17 11 (0.16%) NUnit
General
1 908 (13.03%) Finance
2 647 (9.28%) Social Skills
3 213 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (2.78%) Law
5 177 (2.54%) Retail
6 173 (2.48%) Front Office
7 171 (2.45%) Public Sector
8 156 (2.24%) Banking
9 143 (2.05%) Marketing
10 106 (1.52%) Games
11 104 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 92 (1.32%) Legal
13 81 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 72 (1.03%) Advertising
15 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 39 (0.56%) Tech for Good
17 27 (0.39%) Automotive
18 26 (0.37%) Health Technology
19 25 (0.36%) Aerospace
20 24 (0.34%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,496 (21.47%) .NET
2 862 (12.37%) React
3 620 (8.90%) .NET Core
4 604 (8.67%) HTML
5 592 (8.49%) CSS
6 584 (8.38%) ASP.NET
7 525 (7.53%) Node.js
8 475 (6.82%) RESTful
9 473 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
10 443 (6.36%) AngularJS
11 407 (5.84%) REST
12 371 (5.32%) Vue
13 222 (3.19%) Blazor
14 217 (3.11%) Spring
15 210 (3.01%) Entity Framework
16 205 (2.94%) Spring Boot
17 192 (2.76%) Laravel
18 162 (2.32%) ASP.NET Web API
19 154 (2.21%) .NET Framework
20 144 (2.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 241 (3.46%) Mobile App
2 232 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 214 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
4 155 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 143 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
6 142 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 107 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 107 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 94 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 88 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 84 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 81 (1.16%) Hedge funds
12 76 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 63 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 59 (0.85%) Management Information System
15 52 (0.75%) Equities
16 38 (0.55%) Derivative
17 35 (0.50%) PropTech
17 35 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
17 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 173 (2.48%) Linux
2 145 (2.08%) Android
3 133 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 83 (1.19%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.086%) Debian
8 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,685 (24.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,292 (18.54%) Agile
3 909 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 770 (11.05%) DevOps
5 727 (10.43%) Software Engineering
6 688 (9.87%) AI
7 685 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
8 547 (7.85%) Microservices
9 441 (6.33%) Mentoring
10 440 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 368 (5.28%) Clean Code
11 368 (5.28%) Front End Development
12 362 (5.19%) Computer Science
13 333 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
14 319 (4.58%) Web Development
15 310 (4.45%) SDLC
16 292 (4.19%) Analytics
17 276 (3.96%) Machine Learning
18 271 (3.89%) TDD
19 267 (3.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,508 (21.64%) C#
2 1,353 (19.41%) SQL
3 1,115 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 899 (12.90%) Python
5 862 (12.37%) Java
6 838 (12.02%) TypeScript
7 437 (6.27%) PHP
8 310 (4.45%) C++
9 123 (1.76%) Go
10 95 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 75 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 69 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 58 (0.83%) C
14 58 (0.83%) PowerShell
14 58 (0.83%) Swift
15 55 (0.79%) Bash
16 52 (0.75%) Rust
17 51 (0.73%) Ruby
18 49 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 414 (5.94%) Degree
2 347 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 280 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 238 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 59 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 44 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 29 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
9 27 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.16%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.086%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.072%) HND
16 4 (0.057%) ACCA
16 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
17 3 (0.043%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 123 (1.76%) QA
3 52 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 35 (0.50%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
6 24 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 10 (0.14%) NCSC
9 8 (0.11%) NIST
10 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.072%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.072%) SLA
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) MiFID
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
14 1 (0.014%) ITGC
14 1 (0.014%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 491 (7.05%) Docker
2 24 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
4 6 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 348 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.09%) Terraform
3 28 (0.40%) HP Fortify
3 28 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.27%) Ansible
5 15 (0.22%) Grafana
6 12 (0.17%) Kibana
7 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.11%) CloudHub
9 6 (0.086%) Argo
10 4 (0.057%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.057%) Podman
11 3 (0.043%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.043%) Nagios
12 2 (0.029%) logstash
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
12 2 (0.029%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.014%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,088 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 159 (2.28%) Salesforce
3 151 (2.17%) Oracle
4 80 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 79 (1.13%) Google
6 57 (0.82%) IBM
7 48 (0.69%) Facebook
8 46 (0.66%) SAP
9 38 (0.55%) Databricks
10 37 (0.53%) OpenAI
11 34 (0.49%) iManage
11 34 (0.49%) MuleSoft
12 31 (0.44%) Informatica
13 27 (0.39%) Cognos
14 25 (0.36%) Apple
14 25 (0.36%) Intapp
15 23 (0.33%) Splunk
16 21 (0.30%) Adobe
16 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.29%) Blue Prism