Developer Job Trends in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,113 8,542 7,631
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.32% 13.73% 15.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.08% 14.42% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,428 5,829 6,722
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,613 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £98,750 £113,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +6.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,530 59,224 48,045
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 95.20% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 23,271 33,938 37,059
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,958
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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
London -3 1,308 £80,000 +3.23% 695
North of England -28 584 £60,000 +14.29% 476
South East -28 487 £60,000 - 579
Midlands -28 338 £55,000 +10.00% 219
North West -29 334 £60,000 +14.29% 269
South West -17 233 £52,500 +5.00% 208
West Midlands -20 225 £57,500 +15.00% 144
Yorkshire -27 188 £60,000 +20.00% 147
East of England -54 138 £50,000 - 138
East Midlands -46 113 £50,000 +5.26% 74
North East -23 64 £50,000 -6.76% 66
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, 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 1,134 (36.43%) Agile
2 1,033 (33.18%) JavaScript
3 900 (28.91%) Azure
4 865 (27.79%) SQL
5 858 (27.56%) C#
6 774 (24.86%) AWS
7 755 (24.25%) .NET
8 690 (22.17%) React
9 667 (21.43%) Python
10 614 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
11 584 (18.76%) CI/CD
12 566 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 560 (17.99%) Java
14 558 (17.92%) TypeScript
15 528 (16.96%) DevOps
16 518 (16.64%) HTML
17 503 (16.16%) Microsoft
18 485 (15.58%) CSS
19 460 (14.78%) Software Engineering
20 414 (13.30%) Git
21 396 (12.72%) SQL Server
22 373 (11.98%) Microservices
23 371 (11.92%) Power Platform
24 358 (11.50%) Node.js
25 355 (11.40%) AngularJS
26 352 (11.31%) REST
27 345 (11.08%) Mentoring
28 341 (10.95%) User Experience
29 339 (10.89%) RESTful
30 337 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement

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 83 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 66 (2.12%) CMS
4 46 (1.48%) Confluence
5 30 (0.96%) WordPress
6 23 (0.74%) IIS
7 21 (0.67%) Apache
8 19 (0.61%) Headless CMS
8 19 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 18 (0.58%) Appian
10 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.35%) Apache Spark
12 9 (0.29%) nginx
13 8 (0.26%) JBoss
14 7 (0.22%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.22%) Drupal
15 6 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.16%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 55 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.22%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.096%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.096%) Elementor
10 3 (0.096%) Lectora
10 3 (0.096%) Snagit
10 3 (0.096%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 75 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.55%) Shopify
3 13 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 11 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite
6 10 (0.32%) Magento
6 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.13%) Endur
9 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.13%) Sage 1000
9 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.096%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.096%) Fidessa
11 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.064%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 900 (28.91%) Azure
2 774 (24.86%) AWS
3 371 (11.92%) Power Platform
4 253 (8.13%) GCP
5 209 (6.71%) Serverless
6 193 (6.20%) SaaS
7 178 (5.72%) GitHub
8 150 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
9 146 (4.69%) Power Automate
10 145 (4.66%) PowerApps
11 133 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
12 85 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 83 (2.67%) dbt
14 78 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 62 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
16 58 (1.86%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
19 53 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
20 51 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.35%) Internet
2 26 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.39%) Broadband
4 9 (0.29%) HTTP
5 8 (0.26%) WPA
6 7 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.13%) Intranet
7 4 (0.13%) MQTT
7 4 (0.13%) SMS
8 3 (0.096%) FTP
8 3 (0.096%) Multicast
8 3 (0.096%) VPN
9 2 (0.064%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.064%) DNS
9 2 (0.064%) Network Security
9 2 (0.064%) RS-232
9 2 (0.064%) RS-485
9 2 (0.064%) SSH
10 1 (0.032%) AMQP
10 1 (0.032%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (12.72%) SQL Server
2 261 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (7.84%) Power BI
4 188 (6.04%) MySQL
5 187 (6.01%) Relational Database
6 148 (4.75%) MongoDB
6 148 (4.75%) NoSQL
7 93 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 80 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
9 79 (2.54%) Apache Iceberg
10 78 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 75 (2.41%) Apache Arrow
11 75 (2.41%) Dremio
11 75 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
12 69 (2.22%) DynamoDB
13 63 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 59 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 48 (1.54%) RDBMS
16 42 (1.35%) Redis
17 35 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 414 (13.30%) Git
2 138 (4.43%) JIRA
3 103 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.73%) JUnit
5 45 (1.45%) Mockito
6 43 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.19%) GitLab
8 36 (1.16%) Visual Studio
9 31 (1.00%) Maven
10 25 (0.80%) JMeter
10 25 (0.80%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.80%) webpack
11 23 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 21 (0.67%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.67%) Selenium
13 19 (0.61%) Postman
14 18 (0.58%) Storybook
15 15 (0.48%) NUnit
16 13 (0.42%) gulp
17 12 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 752 (24.16%) Finance
2 673 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 248 (7.97%) Front Office
4 218 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 176 (5.65%) Banking
6 172 (5.53%) Law
7 169 (5.43%) Marketing
8 167 (5.36%) Public Sector
9 105 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 101 (3.24%) Retail
11 71 (2.28%) Investment Banking
12 60 (1.93%) Games
13 59 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 52 (1.67%) Legal
15 45 (1.45%) Back Office
16 34 (1.09%) Electronics
16 34 (1.09%) Multimedia
17 33 (1.06%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.80%) Publishing
19 23 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 755 (24.25%) .NET
2 690 (22.17%) React
3 518 (16.64%) HTML
4 485 (15.58%) CSS
5 358 (11.50%) Node.js
6 355 (11.40%) AngularJS
7 352 (11.31%) REST
8 339 (10.89%) RESTful
9 259 (8.32%) Vue
10 216 (6.94%) ASP.NET
11 203 (6.52%) .NET Core
12 172 (5.53%) .NET Framework
13 154 (4.95%) Web Services
14 150 (4.82%) Spring
15 130 (4.18%) Spring Boot
16 129 (4.14%) HTML5
17 124 (3.98%) JSON
18 117 (3.76%) Kafka
19 109 (3.50%) GraphQL
20 105 (3.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (4.79%) Fixed Income
2 147 (4.72%) Equities
3 138 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 136 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 114 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 99 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 98 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
8 89 (2.86%) Mobile App
8 89 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 87 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 81 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
11 79 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (2.44%) Algorithms
13 63 (2.02%) Hedge funds
14 59 (1.90%) Management Information System
15 43 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
16 34 (1.09%) Derivative
17 29 (0.93%) e-Learning
18 25 (0.80%) IoT
18 25 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 164 (5.27%) Linux
2 70 (2.25%) Android
3 61 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 53 (1.70%) Windows
5 28 (0.90%) Unix
6 14 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.032%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (36.43%) Agile
2 614 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
3 584 (18.76%) CI/CD
4 566 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 528 (16.96%) DevOps
6 460 (14.78%) Software Engineering
7 373 (11.98%) Microservices
8 345 (11.08%) Mentoring
9 341 (10.95%) User Experience
10 337 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 301 (9.67%) AI
12 294 (9.44%) Clean Code
13 285 (9.16%) Test Automation
14 277 (8.90%) TDD
15 257 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
15 257 (8.26%) Computer Science
16 255 (8.19%) Front End Development
17 248 (7.97%) Scrum
18 201 (6.46%) SDLC
19 200 (6.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (33.18%) JavaScript
2 865 (27.79%) SQL
3 858 (27.56%) C#
4 667 (21.43%) Python
5 560 (17.99%) Java
6 558 (17.92%) TypeScript
7 171 (5.49%) PHP
8 166 (5.33%) C++
9 92 (2.96%) T-SQL
10 71 (2.28%) Go
11 66 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 54 (1.73%) PL/SQL
13 50 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 49 (1.57%) Apex Code
15 48 (1.54%) C
16 41 (1.32%) VB.NET
17 37 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 28 (0.90%) Ruby
18 28 (0.90%) Shell Script
18 28 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 321 (10.31%) Degree
2 204 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 163 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 143 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 66 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 47 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 46 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 42 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 32 (1.03%) PhD
12 31 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 13 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
18 2 (0.064%) HNC
18 2 (0.064%) MCSA
18 2 (0.064%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (5.91%) QA
2 115 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.12%) GDPR
5 18 (0.58%) WCAG
6 13 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.32%) SLA
8 8 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.096%) MiFID
9 3 (0.096%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.064%) EMIR
10 2 (0.064%) PERC
10 2 (0.064%) PSD2
11 1 (0.032%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.032%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.032%) COBIT
11 1 (0.032%) GRC
11 1 (0.032%) MISRA
11 1 (0.032%) PMO
11 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 305 (9.80%) Docker
2 15 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.22%) Firmware
5 5 (0.16%) zsh
6 3 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.096%) Postfix
6 3 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 217 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 105 (3.37%) Terraform
3 23 (0.74%) Kibana
4 22 (0.71%) Ansible
5 16 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.39%) Grafana
7 10 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
7 10 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.13%) Argo
9 4 (0.13%) CloudHub
10 2 (0.064%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.064%) logstash
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.032%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.032%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.032%) QRadar
11 1 (0.032%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 503 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.89%) Oracle
3 105 (3.37%) Salesforce
4 59 (1.90%) SAP
5 57 (1.83%) Databricks
6 52 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 51 (1.64%) Guidewire
8 50 (1.61%) Google
9 44 (1.41%) IBM
10 39 (1.25%) Splunk
11 37 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 34 (1.09%) Blue Prism
13 27 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 23 (0.74%) Facebook
14 23 (0.74%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.74%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.71%) Adobe
16 16 (0.51%) Apple
16 16 (0.51%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud