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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,924 4,154 14,274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.19% 10.36% 15.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.70% 11.52% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,763 2,961 12,135
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £93,750
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 79,578 36,065 89,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 89.96% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,025 21,047 66,131
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +4 2,026 £80,000 +3.23% 341
North of England +12 1,881 £55,000 -3.51% 261
South East +11 1,156 £60,000 +9.09% 239
North West +9 969 £55,000 - 123
Midlands +4 884 £55,000 +0.64% 159
Yorkshire +27 604 £55,000 -8.33% 84
South West -1 536 £55,000 - 94
West Midlands -3 474 £60,000 +9.09% 94
East Midlands +26 409 £50,000 -4.76% 65
East of England +23 407 £60,000 +9.09% 74
North East +20 308 £57,500 +4.55% 61
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 1,623 (23.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,447 (20.90%) C#
3 1,442 (20.83%) .NET
4 1,335 (19.28%) Azure
5 1,290 (18.63%) SQL
6 1,238 (17.88%) Agile
7 1,091 (15.76%) JavaScript
8 1,005 (14.51%) Microsoft
9 964 (13.92%) AWS
10 911 (13.16%) Python
11 881 (12.72%) CI/CD
12 867 (12.52%) Java
13 849 (12.26%) React
14 809 (11.68%) TypeScript
15 747 (10.79%) DevOps
16 719 (10.38%) Software Engineering
17 671 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
18 659 (9.52%) AI
19 587 (8.48%) HTML
20 576 (8.32%) CSS
21 566 (8.17%) .NET Core
22 524 (7.57%) ASP.NET
23 516 (7.45%) Microservices
24 501 (7.24%) Node.js
25 481 (6.95%) SQL Server
26 473 (6.83%) Docker
27 453 (6.54%) Power Platform
28 452 (6.53%) RESTful
29 445 (6.43%) Mentoring
30 435 (6.28%) PHP

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
1 137 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 54 (0.78%) CMS
3 48 (0.69%) WordPress
4 25 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 22 (0.32%) Confluence
6 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 21 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.27%) IIS
8 17 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 16 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 15 (0.22%) Apache
11 10 (0.14%) JBoss
11 10 (0.14%) Mule
11 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
13 8 (0.12%) Drupal
13 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (0.10%) Appian
15 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 45 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.029%) 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%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.014%) Sketch
6 1 (0.014%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.35%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 19 (0.27%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.072%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.058%) Magento
11 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.029%) Fidessa
13 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.029%) Oracle CRM
13 2 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
13 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,335 (19.28%) Azure
2 964 (13.92%) AWS
3 453 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 354 (5.11%) GitHub
5 326 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
6 284 (4.10%) SaaS
7 275 (3.97%) Serverless
8 227 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
9 219 (3.16%) Power Automate
10 218 (3.15%) PowerApps
11 175 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
12 146 (2.11%) Amazon S3
13 145 (2.09%) GCP
14 137 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
15 131 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
16 124 (1.79%) Azure AI
17 121 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
18 120 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
19 104 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
20 77 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (1.63%) Internet
2 68 (0.98%) Broadband
3 31 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 13 (0.19%) HTTP
6 11 (0.16%) SSL
7 8 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
9 5 (0.072%) DNS
9 5 (0.072%) MQTT
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 3 (0.043%) AMQP
10 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.043%) LAN
10 3 (0.043%) Network Security
10 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.043%) WAN
10 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.029%) SMS
11 2 (0.029%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 359 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 359 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 262 (3.78%) Power BI
4 171 (2.47%) MySQL
4 171 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
5 127 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 126 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 125 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 119 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 55 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 53 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
11 47 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 40 (0.58%) Redis
14 36 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (0.46%) OLTP
16 20 (0.29%) RDBMS
17 18 (0.26%) MariaDB
18 17 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 408 (5.89%) Git
2 158 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 86 (1.24%) JIRA
4 83 (1.20%) GitLab
5 53 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.77%) Maven
6 40 (0.58%) JUnit
7 37 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 23 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.33%) Subversion
9 21 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.29%) Gradle
11 19 (0.27%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.23%) Mockito
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 898 (12.97%) Finance
2 638 (9.21%) Social Skills
3 217 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (2.72%) Law
5 176 (2.54%) Front Office
6 175 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 172 (2.48%) Retail
8 162 (2.34%) Banking
9 142 (2.05%) Marketing
10 103 (1.49%) Games
10 103 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 91 (1.31%) Legal
12 81 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 64 (0.92%) Advertising
14 44 (0.64%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
16 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
17 26 (0.38%) Local Government
17 26 (0.38%) Multimedia
18 24 (0.35%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,442 (20.83%) .NET
2 849 (12.26%) React
3 587 (8.48%) HTML
4 576 (8.32%) CSS
5 566 (8.17%) .NET Core
6 524 (7.57%) ASP.NET
7 501 (7.24%) Node.js
8 452 (6.53%) RESTful
9 425 (6.14%) AngularJS
10 410 (5.92%) REST
11 406 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 344 (4.97%) Vue
13 224 (3.24%) Spring
14 212 (3.06%) Spring Boot
15 194 (2.80%) Blazor
16 187 (2.70%) Laravel
17 186 (2.69%) Entity Framework
18 154 (2.22%) SOAP
19 148 (2.14%) .NET Framework
20 138 (1.99%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 256 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 226 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 200 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
4 147 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 146 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 140 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 108 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 96 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 81 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 78 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 63 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 60 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.77%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 36 (0.52%) Derivative
19 35 (0.51%) PropTech
20 33 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 175 (2.53%) Linux
2 147 (2.12%) Android
3 135 (1.95%) Apple iOS
4 78 (1.13%) Windows
5 19 (0.27%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.087%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.072%) Debian
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,623 (23.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,238 (17.88%) Agile
3 881 (12.72%) CI/CD
4 747 (10.79%) DevOps
5 719 (10.38%) Software Engineering
6 671 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
7 659 (9.52%) AI
8 516 (7.45%) Microservices
9 445 (6.43%) Mentoring
10 427 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 368 (5.31%) Front End Development
12 366 (5.29%) Clean Code
13 355 (5.13%) Computer Science
14 321 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
14 321 (4.64%) Web Development
15 312 (4.51%) SDLC
16 293 (4.23%) Analytics
17 260 (3.76%) Scrum
17 260 (3.76%) TDD
18 257 (3.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,447 (20.90%) C#
2 1,290 (18.63%) SQL
3 1,091 (15.76%) JavaScript
4 911 (13.16%) Python
5 867 (12.52%) Java
6 809 (11.68%) TypeScript
7 435 (6.28%) PHP
8 309 (4.46%) C++
9 121 (1.75%) Go
10 97 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 75 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 72 (1.04%) Apex Code
13 71 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 62 (0.90%) C
15 58 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 58 (0.84%) Swift
16 57 (0.82%) Bash
17 50 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 50 (0.72%) Ruby
17 50 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 408 (5.89%) Degree
2 330 (4.77%) Security Cleared
3 267 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 230 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 56 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 50 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 25 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.17%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.072%) HND
17 4 (0.058%) ACCA
17 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
18 3 (0.043%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (1.88%) Accessibility
2 122 (1.76%) QA
3 52 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 34 (0.49%) WCAG
5 26 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.36%) GDPR
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 11 (0.16%) NCSC
9 10 (0.14%) NIST
10 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.058%) SLA
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) GAAP
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) IFRS
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
13 2 (0.029%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 473 (6.83%) Docker
2 25 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.072%) Firmware
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 331 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.11%) Terraform
3 29 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 27 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 20 (0.29%) Ansible
6 15 (0.22%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.087%) Argo
9 6 (0.087%) CloudHub
10 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.058%) 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
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.014%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,005 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 155 (2.24%) Salesforce
3 153 (2.21%) Oracle
4 73 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 69 (1.00%) Google
6 53 (0.77%) IBM
7 49 (0.71%) SAP
8 40 (0.58%) Facebook
9 37 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 35 (0.51%) Databricks
11 33 (0.48%) iManage
11 33 (0.48%) MuleSoft
12 29 (0.42%) Informatica
13 25 (0.36%) Cognos
13 25 (0.36%) Intapp
14 23 (0.33%) Apple
14 23 (0.33%) Splunk
15 21 (0.30%) Adobe
16 20 (0.29%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.27%) Blue Prism