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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,859 4,165 14,379
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.23% 10.50% 15.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.75% 11.66% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,691 2,966 12,230
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £75,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 78,395 35,712 90,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.05% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 55,154 20,740 66,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%
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 18 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 18 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 2,030 £80,000 +3.23% 347
North of England +12 1,859 £55,000 - 248
South East +9 1,147 £60,000 +9.09% 250
North West +8 964 £55,000 - 131
Midlands +4 878 £55,000 - 143
Yorkshire +24 602 £55,000 -8.33% 69
South West 0 523 £55,000 - 88
West Midlands -2 469 £60,000 +9.09% 83
East Midlands +26 408 £50,000 -4.76% 60
East of England +23 385 £60,000 +9.09% 72
North East +20 293 £57,500 +4.55% 52
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 1,580 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,387 (20.22%) .NET
3 1,383 (20.16%) C#
4 1,269 (18.50%) Azure
5 1,228 (17.90%) SQL
6 1,183 (17.25%) Agile
7 1,078 (15.72%) JavaScript
8 954 (13.91%) AWS
9 931 (13.57%) Microsoft
10 920 (13.41%) Python
11 867 (12.64%) Java
12 856 (12.48%) CI/CD
13 844 (12.31%) React
14 786 (11.46%) TypeScript
15 723 (10.54%) DevOps
16 713 (10.40%) Software Engineering
17 654 (9.53%) Problem-Solving
18 629 (9.17%) AI
19 580 (8.46%) HTML
20 569 (8.30%) CSS
21 511 (7.45%) .NET Core
22 494 (7.20%) Microservices
23 480 (7.00%) Node.js
24 468 (6.82%) SQL Server
25 463 (6.75%) ASP.NET
26 452 (6.59%) Docker
27 450 (6.56%) Mentoring
28 436 (6.36%) PHP
28 436 (6.36%) Power Platform
29 428 (6.24%) RESTful

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
1 136 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 51 (0.74%) CMS
3 48 (0.70%) WordPress
4 25 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 24 (0.35%) Confluence
6 20 (0.29%) ColdFusion
6 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.23%) IIS
9 15 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 15 (0.22%) Apache
10 11 (0.16%) JBoss
10 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.13%) Mule
11 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 8 (0.12%) Drupal
13 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.10%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.087%) Appian
14 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 48 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.015%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.38%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 18 (0.26%) Visualfiles
5 14 (0.20%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.087%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.044%) Magento
12 3 (0.044%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
13 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,269 (18.50%) Azure
2 954 (13.91%) AWS
3 436 (6.36%) Power Platform
4 338 (4.93%) GitHub
5 299 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
6 291 (4.24%) SaaS
7 278 (4.05%) Serverless
8 219 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
9 206 (3.00%) Power Automate
9 206 (3.00%) PowerApps
10 176 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 137 (2.00%) GCP
13 128 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
14 122 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 120 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
16 110 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
17 105 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 103 (1.50%) Azure AI
19 75 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 107 (1.56%) Internet
2 67 (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 6 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.087%) Intranet
8 5 (0.073%) DNS
8 5 (0.073%) RTP
9 4 (0.058%) MQTT
9 4 (0.058%) TETRA
10 3 (0.044%) AMQP
10 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.044%) LAN
10 3 (0.044%) Network Security
10 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.044%) WAN
10 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 303 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 302 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 252 (3.67%) Power BI
5 170 (2.48%) MySQL
6 167 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 130 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 124 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 118 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 103 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
11 53 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 49 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 47 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (0.54%) Redis
17 33 (0.48%) OLTP
18 21 (0.31%) RDBMS
19 18 (0.26%) MariaDB
19 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 406 (5.92%) Git
2 156 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 85 (1.24%) JIRA
4 81 (1.18%) GitLab
5 54 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 54 (0.79%) Maven
6 40 (0.58%) JUnit
7 36 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.31%) CircleCI
8 21 (0.31%) Subversion
9 20 (0.29%) Gradle
10 19 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
12 17 (0.25%) Mockito
13 15 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
15 13 (0.19%) Selenium
16 12 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 889 (12.96%) Finance
2 627 (9.14%) Social Skills
3 218 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (2.67%) Law
5 175 (2.55%) Front Office
6 174 (2.54%) Public Sector
7 166 (2.42%) Retail
8 162 (2.36%) Banking
9 137 (2.00%) Marketing
10 100 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 96 (1.40%) Games
12 89 (1.30%) Legal
13 75 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 55 (0.80%) Advertising
15 43 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
17 33 (0.48%) Multimedia
18 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
19 25 (0.36%) Aviation
19 25 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,387 (20.22%) .NET
2 844 (12.31%) React
3 580 (8.46%) HTML
4 569 (8.30%) CSS
5 511 (7.45%) .NET Core
6 480 (7.00%) Node.js
7 463 (6.75%) ASP.NET
8 428 (6.24%) RESTful
9 405 (5.90%) AngularJS
10 403 (5.88%) REST
11 341 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
12 322 (4.69%) Vue
13 224 (3.27%) Spring
14 212 (3.09%) Spring Boot
15 189 (2.76%) Laravel
16 171 (2.49%) Blazor
17 160 (2.33%) Entity Framework
18 156 (2.27%) SOAP
19 140 (2.04%) .NET Framework
20 129 (1.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 266 (3.88%) Mobile App
2 221 (3.22%) Cloud Native
3 194 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
4 148 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 140 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 137 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 110 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 103 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 95 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 83 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 79 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 78 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 61 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 61 (0.89%) Management Information System
14 52 (0.76%) Equities
15 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
16 37 (0.54%) Derivative
16 37 (0.54%) PropTech
17 34 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 171 (2.49%) Linux
2 146 (2.13%) Android
3 139 (2.03%) Apple iOS
4 73 (1.06%) Windows
5 16 (0.23%) 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 (0.073%) Debian
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,580 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,183 (17.25%) Agile
3 856 (12.48%) CI/CD
4 723 (10.54%) DevOps
5 713 (10.40%) Software Engineering
6 654 (9.53%) Problem-Solving
7 629 (9.17%) AI
8 494 (7.20%) Microservices
9 450 (6.56%) Mentoring
10 422 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 374 (5.45%) Front End Development
12 363 (5.29%) Clean Code
13 349 (5.09%) Computer Science
14 321 (4.68%) Web Development
15 309 (4.51%) Business Intelligence
16 308 (4.49%) SDLC
17 284 (4.14%) Analytics
18 258 (3.76%) User Experience
19 249 (3.63%) Scrum
19 249 (3.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,383 (20.16%) C#
2 1,228 (17.90%) SQL
3 1,078 (15.72%) JavaScript
4 920 (13.41%) Python
5 867 (12.64%) Java
6 786 (11.46%) TypeScript
7 436 (6.36%) PHP
8 306 (4.46%) C++
9 121 (1.76%) Go
10 100 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 72 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 68 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 63 (0.92%) C
15 58 (0.85%) Swift
16 57 (0.83%) Bash
17 54 (0.79%) PowerShell
18 49 (0.71%) Ruby
19 48 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 48 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 402 (5.86%) Degree
2 324 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 260 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 224 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 56 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 51 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 33 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 28 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.19%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.058%) ACCA
17 4 (0.058%) HND
17 4 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (1.81%) Accessibility
2 117 (1.71%) QA
3 52 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 33 (0.48%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
5 25 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.17%) TickIT
7 11 (0.16%) NCSC
8 10 (0.15%) NIST
9 5 (0.073%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.044%) SLA
11 3 (0.044%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.029%) GAAP
12 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.029%) IFRS
12 2 (0.029%) PMO
12 2 (0.029%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 452 (6.59%) Docker
2 25 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.058%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 308 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.10%) Terraform
3 29 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 27 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 19 (0.28%) Ansible
6 13 (0.19%) Grafana
7 11 (0.16%) Kibana
8 10 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.073%) Argo
9 5 (0.073%) CloudHub
10 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.058%) Nagios
10 4 (0.058%) Podman
11 3 (0.044%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
13 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.015%) logstash
Vendors
1 931 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 156 (2.27%) Oracle
3 154 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 71 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 63 (0.92%) Google
6 51 (0.74%) IBM
7 48 (0.70%) SAP
8 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 34 (0.50%) Facebook
10 33 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 32 (0.47%) Databricks
12 31 (0.45%) iManage
13 26 (0.38%) Informatica
14 25 (0.36%) Cognos
14 25 (0.36%) Intapp
15 22 (0.32%) Apple
15 22 (0.32%) Splunk
16 21 (0.31%) Adobe
17 20 (0.29%) Xamarin
18 19 (0.28%) Dynatrace