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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7,011 4,306 13,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.10% 10.12% 14.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.60% 11.19% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,861 3,080 11,177
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £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 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 81,543 38,467 85,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.45% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57,406 23,001 62,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 8 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 8 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 +2 2,002 £80,000 - 447
North of England +11 1,890 £55,000 -4.35% 305
South East +9 1,191 £60,000 +9.09% 286
North West +9 966 £55,000 -4.35% 145
Midlands +2 906 £55,000 - 186
Yorkshire +24 602 £55,000 -8.33% 98
South West -1 553 £55,000 - 115
West Midlands -1 502 £60,000 +5.73% 100
East of England +27 431 £60,000 +12.15% 113
East Midlands +24 403 £50,000 -4.76% 85
North East +19 322 £55,000 +2.33% 66
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 1,740 (24.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,565 (22.32%) C#
3 1,552 (22.14%) .NET
4 1,450 (20.68%) Azure
5 1,408 (20.08%) SQL
6 1,340 (19.11%) Agile
7 1,153 (16.45%) JavaScript
8 1,149 (16.39%) Microsoft
9 1,016 (14.49%) AWS
10 942 (13.44%) CI/CD
11 902 (12.87%) Python
12 888 (12.67%) React
13 868 (12.38%) TypeScript
14 863 (12.31%) Java
15 792 (11.30%) DevOps
16 723 (10.31%) Software Engineering
17 718 (10.24%) AI
18 695 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
19 659 (9.40%) .NET Core
20 636 (9.07%) ASP.NET
21 626 (8.93%) HTML
22 617 (8.80%) CSS
23 576 (8.22%) Microservices
24 547 (7.80%) Node.js
25 525 (7.49%) ASP.NET Core
26 515 (7.35%) Docker
27 495 (7.06%) RESTful
28 487 (6.95%) SQL Server
29 481 (6.86%) Power Platform
30 473 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database

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
1 146 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 56 (0.80%) CMS
3 48 (0.68%) WordPress
4 23 (0.33%) Confluence
4 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 20 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 20 (0.29%) IIS
7 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.21%) Apache
9 13 (0.19%) Mule
10 9 (0.13%) JBoss
10 9 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.11%) Drupal
11 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.100%) Appian
13 6 (0.086%) CICS
13 6 (0.086%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) 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 25 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 20 (0.29%) Shopify
3 20 (0.29%) Visualfiles
4 15 (0.21%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.057%) Magento
8 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.043%) Oracle CRM
9 3 (0.043%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,450 (20.68%) Azure
2 1,016 (14.49%) AWS
3 481 (6.86%) Power Platform
4 387 (5.52%) GitHub
5 367 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
6 278 (3.97%) SaaS
7 272 (3.88%) Serverless
8 240 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
9 238 (3.39%) Power Automate
9 238 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 175 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 171 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
12 163 (2.32%) Azure AI
13 156 (2.23%) GCP
14 144 (2.05%) Amazon S3
14 144 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
15 122 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 119 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 104 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
18 81 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 116 (1.65%) Internet
2 63 (0.90%) Broadband
3 28 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 13 (0.19%) SSL
7 8 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.086%) Intranet
8 6 (0.086%) MQTT
9 5 (0.071%) RTP
9 5 (0.071%) Wireless
10 4 (0.057%) DNS
11 3 (0.043%) Bluetooth
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%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 473 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 459 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 278 (3.97%) Power BI
5 188 (2.68%) MySQL
6 182 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 167 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 133 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 124 (1.77%) NoSQL
10 122 (1.74%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 58 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 45 (0.64%) Redis
15 44 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
17 29 (0.41%) OLTP
18 21 (0.30%) MariaDB
18 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 409 (5.83%) Git
2 153 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 84 (1.20%) GitLab
5 54 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 53 (0.76%) Maven
7 39 (0.56%) JUnit
7 39 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 25 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 24 (0.34%) Subversion
10 21 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 20 (0.29%) Gradle
12 19 (0.27%) CircleCI
13 18 (0.26%) Visual Studio
14 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.20%) fastlane
16 14 (0.20%) Mockito
17 12 (0.17%) Selenium
18 11 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 917 (13.08%) Finance
2 663 (9.46%) Social Skills
3 214 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (2.82%) Law
5 180 (2.57%) Retail
6 172 (2.45%) Front Office
7 170 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 155 (2.21%) Banking
9 149 (2.13%) Marketing
10 113 (1.61%) Games
11 107 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 93 (1.33%) Legal
13 81 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 80 (1.14%) Advertising
15 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 38 (0.54%) Tech for Good
17 27 (0.39%) Aerospace
17 27 (0.39%) Automotive
18 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,552 (22.14%) .NET
2 888 (12.67%) React
3 659 (9.40%) .NET Core
4 636 (9.07%) ASP.NET
5 626 (8.93%) HTML
6 617 (8.80%) CSS
7 547 (7.80%) Node.js
8 525 (7.49%) ASP.NET Core
9 495 (7.06%) RESTful
10 463 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 414 (5.91%) REST
12 389 (5.55%) Vue
13 244 (3.48%) Blazor
14 230 (3.28%) Entity Framework
15 220 (3.14%) Spring
16 209 (2.98%) Spring Boot
17 200 (2.85%) Laravel
18 181 (2.58%) ASP.NET Web API
19 163 (2.32%) .NET Framework
20 147 (2.10%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 232 (3.31%) Mobile App
2 231 (3.29%) Cloud Native
3 226 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
4 158 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 147 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 141 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 107 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 104 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 95 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 89 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 81 (1.16%) Hedge funds
13 77 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 65 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 61 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.76%) Equities
17 38 (0.54%) Derivative
18 35 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
18 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
19 34 (0.48%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.51%) Linux
2 141 (2.01%) Android
3 133 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 84 (1.20%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.100%) Debian
9 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.057%) zOS
12 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,740 (24.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,340 (19.11%) Agile
3 942 (13.44%) CI/CD
4 792 (11.30%) DevOps
5 723 (10.31%) Software Engineering
6 718 (10.24%) AI
7 695 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
8 576 (8.22%) Microservices
9 448 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 443 (6.32%) Mentoring
11 372 (5.31%) Clean Code
12 371 (5.29%) Front End Development
13 362 (5.16%) Computer Science
14 339 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
15 325 (4.64%) Web Development
16 311 (4.44%) SDLC
17 299 (4.26%) Analytics
18 295 (4.21%) Machine Learning
19 284 (4.05%) TDD
20 278 (3.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,565 (22.32%) C#
2 1,408 (20.08%) SQL
3 1,153 (16.45%) JavaScript
4 902 (12.87%) Python
5 868 (12.38%) TypeScript
6 863 (12.31%) Java
7 446 (6.36%) PHP
8 306 (4.36%) C++
9 122 (1.74%) Go
10 98 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 76 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 67 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 60 (0.86%) PowerShell
14 60 (0.86%) Swift
15 59 (0.84%) C
16 56 (0.80%) Bash
17 55 (0.78%) Ruby
18 53 (0.76%) Rust
19 48 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 417 (5.95%) Degree
2 341 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 278 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 242 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 42 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 28 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.14%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.100%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.086%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.086%) HND
17 4 (0.057%) ACCA
17 4 (0.057%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (1.95%) Accessibility
2 125 (1.78%) QA
3 53 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.53%) 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 6 (0.086%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.086%) SLA
11 5 (0.071%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.029%) JTAG
14 2 (0.029%) MiFID
14 2 (0.029%) PMO
15 1 (0.014%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 515 (7.35%) Docker
2 24 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
5 4 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 367 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 151 (2.15%) Terraform
3 29 (0.41%) HP Fortify
4 27 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.27%) Ansible
6 15 (0.21%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) CloudHub
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
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
11 3 (0.043%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.029%) logstash
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
12 2 (0.029%) Puppet
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,149 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 164 (2.34%) Salesforce
3 148 (2.11%) Oracle
4 90 (1.28%) Google
5 83 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 58 (0.83%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 47 (0.67%) SAP
9 40 (0.57%) Databricks
10 38 (0.54%) OpenAI
11 37 (0.53%) MuleSoft
12 35 (0.50%) iManage
13 32 (0.46%) Informatica
14 28 (0.40%) Cognos
15 26 (0.37%) Apple
16 24 (0.34%) Intapp
17 23 (0.33%) Splunk
18 21 (0.30%) Adobe
18 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.30%) YouTube