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 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,747 9,561 8,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.70% 13.94% 15.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.63% 14.65% 16.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 6,817 7,533
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £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 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 38,927 65,264 51,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 95.19% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,272 39,661 39,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 1,422 £80,000 +3.23% 722
North of England -13 982 £60,000 +14.29% 484
North West -11 720 £60,000 +14.29% 262
South East -18 555 £60,000 - 570
Midlands -17 389 £55,000 +10.00% 340
West Midlands -11 260 £55,000 +10.00% 190
South West -17 231 £52,500 - 173
Yorkshire -28 204 £60,000 +14.29% 166
East of England -55 150 £50,000 - 181
East Midlands -40 129 £52,500 +8.25% 138
North East -23 60 £50,000 -9.09% 63
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,606 (42.86%) Agile
2 1,189 (31.73%) Finance
3 1,130 (30.16%) Python
4 1,105 (29.49%) JavaScript
5 1,030 (27.49%) Java
6 973 (25.97%) Azure
7 943 (25.17%) SQL
8 902 (24.07%) C#
9 885 (23.62%) AWS
10 835 (22.28%) .NET
11 767 (20.47%) Docker
12 724 (19.32%) React
13 668 (17.83%) Social Skills
14 658 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
15 647 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
16 643 (17.16%) Security Cleared
17 627 (16.73%) C++
18 612 (16.33%) Linux
19 600 (16.01%) CI/CD
20 599 (15.99%) OO
21 596 (15.91%) OOP
22 586 (15.64%) TypeScript
23 579 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
24 561 (14.97%) Design Patterns
25 555 (14.81%) Microsoft
26 543 (14.49%) Software Engineering
27 541 (14.44%) DevOps
28 539 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
29 529 (14.12%) HTML
30 516 (13.77%) Go

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.89%) CMS
4 53 (1.41%) Confluence
5 34 (0.91%) WordPress
6 26 (0.69%) IIS
7 24 (0.64%) Umbraco
8 23 (0.61%) Apache
9 20 (0.53%) Headless CMS
10 18 (0.48%) Appian
11 13 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 11 (0.29%) JBoss
12 11 (0.29%) OpenEdge
13 10 (0.27%) Drupal
14 9 (0.24%) nginx
15 7 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
16 6 (0.16%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
17 5 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 47 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 14 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.27%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.24%) Sketch
7 6 (0.16%) InVision
7 6 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.080%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.080%) Elementor
10 3 (0.080%) InDesign
10 3 (0.080%) Lectora
10 3 (0.080%) Snagit
10 3 (0.080%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.053%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 100 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.61%) Shopify
3 21 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 16 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
5 15 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 13 (0.35%) Magento
7 12 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.16%) Endur
9 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
11 4 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.11%) Sage 1000
11 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.080%) Elite 3E
13 2 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
14 1 (0.027%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 973 (25.97%) Azure
2 885 (23.62%) AWS
3 391 (10.44%) Power Platform
4 287 (7.66%) GCP
5 231 (6.16%) Serverless
6 202 (5.39%) SaaS
7 182 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
8 160 (4.27%) PowerApps
9 158 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 134 (3.58%) GitHub
11 132 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 111 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
13 101 (2.70%) dbt
14 99 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
15 75 (2.00%) Amazon S3
16 70 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
18 63 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
19 58 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
20 53 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 401 (10.70%) VPN
2 399 (10.65%) DNS
3 22 (0.59%) Internet
3 22 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.29%) Broadband
5 9 (0.24%) HTTP
6 8 (0.21%) WPA
7 7 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.13%) MQTT
8 5 (0.13%) SMS
9 4 (0.11%) Intranet
10 3 (0.080%) FTP
11 2 (0.053%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.053%) Network Security
12 1 (0.027%) AMQP
12 1 (0.027%) Multicast
12 1 (0.027%) RS-232
12 1 (0.027%) RS-422
12 1 (0.027%) RS-485
12 1 (0.027%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (12.78%) SQL Server
2 303 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 258 (6.89%) Power BI
4 197 (5.26%) MySQL
5 171 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 156 (4.16%) MongoDB
7 150 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 130 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
9 102 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
10 99 (2.64%) Apache Iceberg
11 96 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
12 95 (2.54%) Apache Arrow
12 95 (2.54%) Dremio
13 83 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 82 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 78 (2.08%) DynamoDB
16 75 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 51 (1.36%) RDBMS
18 46 (1.23%) Redis
19 39 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 382 (10.19%) Git
2 134 (3.58%) JIRA
3 103 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 65 (1.73%) JUnit
5 52 (1.39%) Mockito
6 42 (1.12%) GitLab
7 36 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 32 (0.85%) JMeter
9 31 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 31 (0.83%) Maven
10 26 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.56%) Postman
12 21 (0.56%) webpack
13 19 (0.51%) Storybook
14 17 (0.45%) NUnit
14 17 (0.45%) Selenium
14 17 (0.45%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.32%) DbUnit
15 12 (0.32%) jMock
General
1 1,189 (31.73%) Finance
2 668 (17.83%) Social Skills
3 658 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 539 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 275 (7.34%) Front Office
6 173 (4.62%) Law
7 168 (4.48%) Banking
8 164 (4.38%) Marketing
9 156 (4.16%) Public Sector
10 104 (2.78%) Retail
11 63 (1.68%) Investment Banking
12 61 (1.63%) Games
13 51 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 49 (1.31%) Back Office
15 47 (1.25%) Legal
16 41 (1.09%) Health Technology
17 36 (0.96%) Tech for Good
18 35 (0.93%) Publishing
19 33 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.72%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 835 (22.28%) .NET
2 724 (19.32%) React
3 529 (14.12%) HTML
4 477 (12.73%) CSS
5 427 (11.40%) Node.js
6 373 (9.95%) AngularJS
7 353 (9.42%) RESTful
8 330 (8.81%) REST
9 282 (7.53%) Vue
10 234 (6.24%) ASP.NET
11 206 (5.50%) .NET Core
12 182 (4.86%) Web Services
13 174 (4.64%) .NET Framework
14 172 (4.59%) Pandas
15 151 (4.03%) Spring
16 142 (3.79%) Spring Boot
17 134 (3.58%) HTML5
18 126 (3.36%) JSON
19 119 (3.18%) Kafka
20 114 (3.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 446 (11.90%) Cyberattack
2 184 (4.91%) Fixed Income
3 174 (4.64%) Equities
4 166 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 132 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 106 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 98 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 94 (2.51%) Mobile App
9 91 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
10 83 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 81 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
12 77 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 76 (2.03%) Data Structures
14 74 (1.97%) Algorithms
15 72 (1.92%) Hedge funds
16 63 (1.68%) Management Information System
17 42 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
18 31 (0.83%) Derivative
19 29 (0.77%) e-Learning
20 26 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 612 (16.33%) Linux
2 506 (13.50%) Android
3 52 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 51 (1.36%) Windows
5 27 (0.72%) Unix
6 9 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.11%) Rocky
8 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.053%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.027%) MVS
10 1 (0.027%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,606 (42.86%) Agile
2 647 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
3 600 (16.01%) CI/CD
4 599 (15.99%) OO
5 596 (15.91%) OOP
6 579 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 561 (14.97%) Design Patterns
8 543 (14.49%) Software Engineering
9 541 (14.44%) DevOps
10 497 (13.26%) Mathematics
11 481 (12.84%) Android Development
12 475 (12.68%) Line Management
13 385 (10.27%) Microservices
14 354 (9.45%) User Experience
15 316 (8.43%) Mentoring
16 290 (7.74%) TDD
17 289 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 286 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence
18 286 (7.63%) Clean Code
19 272 (7.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,130 (30.16%) Python
2 1,105 (29.49%) JavaScript
3 1,030 (27.49%) Java
4 943 (25.17%) SQL
5 902 (24.07%) C#
6 627 (16.73%) C++
7 586 (15.64%) TypeScript
8 516 (13.77%) Go
9 190 (5.07%) PHP
10 158 (4.22%) T-SQL
11 59 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.55%) Rust
13 55 (1.47%) C
13 55 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 48 (1.28%) Apex Code
15 45 (1.20%) VB.NET
16 40 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 36 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 33 (0.88%) Shell Script
19 26 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 643 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 478 (12.76%) DV Cleared
3 322 (8.59%) Degree
4 169 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (3.87%) SC Cleared
6 70 (1.87%) DBS Check
7 45 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 43 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (0.91%) PhD
10 28 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 25 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 10 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
13 9 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.080%) ITIL Certification
17 2 (0.053%) Postgraduate
18 1 (0.027%) MCSA
18 1 (0.027%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.28%) QA
2 105 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.85%) GDPR
5 21 (0.56%) WCAG
6 15 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.35%) SLA
8 8 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.080%) MiFID
11 2 (0.053%) EMIR
11 2 (0.053%) GRC
11 2 (0.053%) HL7
12 1 (0.027%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.027%) CDISC
12 1 (0.027%) COBIT
12 1 (0.027%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.027%) PMO
12 1 (0.027%) SOC 2
System Software
1 767 (20.47%) Docker
2 13 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.16%) Firmware
5 5 (0.13%) zsh
6 4 (0.11%) Postfix
7 2 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.027%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.027%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 464 (12.38%) Ansible
2 276 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 152 (4.06%) Terraform
4 27 (0.72%) Kibana
5 17 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (0.27%) Grafana
9 6 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) Argo
10 4 (0.11%) CloudHub
11 2 (0.053%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.027%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.027%) Istio
12 1 (0.027%) logstash
12 1 (0.027%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.027%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.027%) QRadar
Vendors
1 555 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.34%) Oracle
3 101 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 60 (1.60%) Databricks
5 59 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 56 (1.49%) Google
7 49 (1.31%) SAP
8 46 (1.23%) Splunk
9 45 (1.20%) Guidewire
10 44 (1.17%) IBM
11 36 (0.96%) Adobe
12 30 (0.80%) Dynatrace
13 26 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.67%) Facebook
14 25 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.56%) Blue Prism
16 17 (0.45%) Atlassian
17 16 (0.43%) Apple
17 16 (0.43%) OpenAI
18 15 (0.40%) Infor