Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £59,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,887 10,893 28,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.89% 15.32% 19.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.67% 16.71% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8,925 8,989 17,388
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -5 3,000 £77,500 -3.13% 365
North of England +7 2,552 £55,000 - 295
South East -2 2,038 £58,500 -2.50% 267
Midlands +4 1,547 £50,000 -9.09% 182
North West +9 1,491 £55,000 - 161
South West +2 1,102 £52,500 -4.55% 115
West Midlands +8 972 £50,000 -9.09% 111
Yorkshire +7 808 £52,500 - 98
East of England +16 588 £50,000 -9.09% 107
East Midlands +5 567 £47,500 -17.39% 71
North East +12 253 £55,000 +4.76% 40
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 3,563 (32.73%) JavaScript
2 3,485 (32.01%) C#
3 3,446 (31.65%) .NET
4 2,938 (26.99%) Agile
5 2,783 (25.56%) Azure
6 2,536 (23.29%) Full Stack Development
7 2,392 (21.97%) SQL
8 2,129 (19.56%) HTML
9 1,988 (18.26%) React
10 1,962 (18.02%) CSS
11 1,869 (17.17%) AWS
12 1,652 (15.17%) Social Skills
13 1,592 (14.62%) Finance
14 1,525 (14.01%) SQL Server
15 1,477 (13.57%) AngularJS
16 1,470 (13.50%) TypeScript
17 1,430 (13.13%) DevOps
18 1,406 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
19 1,402 (12.88%) Software Engineering
20 1,378 (12.66%) Python
21 1,348 (12.38%) Java
22 1,336 (12.27%) Microsoft
23 1,236 (11.35%) Degree
24 1,175 (10.79%) ASP.NET
25 1,121 (10.30%) Git
26 1,016 (9.33%) PHP
27 1,014 (9.31%) MVC
28 943 (8.66%) .NET Core
29 939 (8.62%) Microservices
30 925 (8.50%) Computer Science

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
1 360 (3.31%) Apache
2 280 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 276 (2.54%) CMS
4 208 (1.91%) WordPress
5 206 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 136 (1.25%) IIS
7 98 (0.90%) Umbraco
8 76 (0.70%) Confluence
9 55 (0.51%) Drupal
10 49 (0.45%) nginx
11 43 (0.39%) Headless CMS
12 42 (0.39%) Appian
13 40 (0.37%) OpenEdge
14 38 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
15 33 (0.30%) Kentico
16 27 (0.25%) SAS
17 24 (0.22%) Mendix
18 20 (0.18%) Moodle
19 15 (0.14%) Apache Spark
19 15 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 95 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (0.31%) Photoshop
3 34 (0.31%) Simulink
4 19 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 14 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.092%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.073%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.064%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.055%) InDesign
10 5 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.046%) Trello
11 4 (0.037%) Sketch
12 3 (0.028%) GNU Octave
12 3 (0.028%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.018%) Blender
13 2 (0.018%) Revit
13 2 (0.018%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 188 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 94 (0.86%) Magento
3 74 (0.68%) Shopify
4 37 (0.34%) SDL Web 8
5 36 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
6 32 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 25 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 24 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 22 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
10 21 (0.19%) Visualfiles
11 16 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
12 12 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 11 (0.10%) NEC Housing
14 10 (0.092%) Sage X3
15 7 (0.064%) BPCS
16 6 (0.055%) Elite 3E
17 5 (0.046%) Odoo
17 5 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
17 5 (0.046%) SAP ERP
18 4 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2,783 (25.56%) Azure
2 1,869 (17.17%) AWS
3 805 (7.39%) Power Platform
4 697 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
5 507 (4.66%) GCP
6 482 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
7 452 (4.15%) SaaS
8 438 (4.02%) Serverless
9 328 (3.01%) PowerApps
10 316 (2.90%) GitHub
11 305 (2.80%) Power Automate
12 226 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 225 (2.07%) Azure Functions
14 198 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
15 184 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
16 152 (1.40%) dbt
17 134 (1.23%) Azure API Management
18 127 (1.17%) IBM Cloud
19 124 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
20 119 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 93 (0.85%) Internet
2 54 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 49 (0.45%) HTTP
4 45 (0.41%) DNS
5 34 (0.31%) Firewall
6 28 (0.26%) SSL
6 28 (0.26%) VPN
7 26 (0.24%) Intranet
8 23 (0.21%) Network Security
9 22 (0.20%) Wireless
10 13 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.11%) 5G
11 12 (0.11%) Broadband
12 11 (0.10%) BGP
12 11 (0.10%) Ethernet VPN
12 11 (0.10%) MPLS
12 11 (0.10%) MQTT
13 9 (0.083%) WAN
14 8 (0.073%) FTP
14 8 (0.073%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,525 (14.01%) SQL Server
2 695 (6.38%) MySQL
3 575 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 495 (4.55%) Power BI
5 452 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 422 (3.88%) NoSQL
7 379 (3.48%) MongoDB
8 270 (2.48%) Apache Ignite
9 197 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 170 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 159 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 140 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 138 (1.27%) DB2
14 137 (1.26%) Apache Arrow
15 136 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
15 136 (1.25%) Dremio
16 120 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
17 111 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
18 108 (0.99%) Redis
19 88 (0.81%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,121 (10.30%) Git
2 319 (2.93%) Visual Studio
3 294 (2.70%) JIRA
4 174 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 130 (1.19%) GitLab
6 127 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 99 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 89 (0.82%) Selenium
9 88 (0.81%) NUnit
10 79 (0.73%) TeamCity
11 71 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
12 67 (0.62%) Moq
13 63 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
14 55 (0.51%) JUnit
15 54 (0.50%) Jasmine
16 47 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
17 44 (0.40%) Sourcetree
18 43 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
18 43 (0.39%) webpack
19 34 (0.31%) gulp
General
1 1,652 (15.17%) Social Skills
2 1,592 (14.62%) Finance
3 503 (4.62%) Front Office
4 460 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 435 (4.00%) Banking
6 416 (3.82%) Marketing
7 348 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 346 (3.18%) Law
9 307 (2.82%) Retail
10 247 (2.27%) Games
11 202 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 193 (1.77%) Investment Banking
13 187 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 187 (1.72%) Legal
14 122 (1.12%) Tech for Good
15 105 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 87 (0.80%) Automotive
17 82 (0.75%) Back Office
18 81 (0.74%) Advertising
19 77 (0.71%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,446 (31.65%) .NET
2 2,129 (19.56%) HTML
3 1,988 (18.26%) React
4 1,962 (18.02%) CSS
5 1,477 (13.57%) AngularJS
6 1,175 (10.79%) ASP.NET
7 943 (8.66%) .NET Core
8 864 (7.94%) Vue
9 837 (7.69%) .NET Framework
10 804 (7.38%) Node.js
11 733 (6.73%) REST
12 680 (6.25%) RESTful
13 630 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
14 629 (5.78%) Web Services
15 564 (5.18%) HTML5
16 563 (5.17%) jQuery
17 558 (5.13%) Laravel
18 553 (5.08%) Entity Framework
19 409 (3.76%) ASP.NET MVC
20 400 (3.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 414 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
2 395 (3.63%) Fixed Income
3 372 (3.42%) Hedge funds
4 317 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 303 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 299 (2.75%) Equities
7 292 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 211 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 204 (1.87%) Derivative
10 200 (1.84%) Product Ownership
11 191 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 178 (1.63%) Blockchain
13 155 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 138 (1.27%) IoT
15 128 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
16 117 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 109 (1.00%) Cloud Native
17 109 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
18 83 (0.76%) Onboarding
19 77 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 606 (5.57%) Linux
2 409 (3.76%) Windows
3 347 (3.19%) Android
4 298 (2.74%) Apple iOS
5 67 (0.62%) Unix
6 44 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
7 24 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 19 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 15 (0.14%) CentOS
10 14 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
10 14 (0.13%) VMS
11 5 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.028%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.028%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.018%) Windows Mobile
14 2 (0.018%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.009%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,938 (26.99%) Agile
2 2,536 (23.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1,430 (13.13%) DevOps
4 1,406 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
5 1,402 (12.88%) Software Engineering
6 1,014 (9.31%) MVC
7 939 (8.62%) Microservices
8 925 (8.50%) Computer Science
9 887 (8.15%) Web Development
10 823 (7.56%) TDD
11 798 (7.33%) CI/CD
12 715 (6.57%) User Experience
13 673 (6.18%) Artificial Intelligence
14 644 (5.92%) Front End Development
15 634 (5.82%) Scrum
16 594 (5.46%) Mentoring
17 562 (5.16%) Design Patterns
18 560 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
19 528 (4.85%) OO
20 512 (4.70%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3,563 (32.73%) JavaScript
2 3,485 (32.01%) C#
3 2,392 (21.97%) SQL
4 1,470 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 1,378 (12.66%) Python
6 1,348 (12.38%) Java
7 1,016 (9.33%) PHP
8 408 (3.75%) C++
9 310 (2.85%) T-SQL
10 217 (1.99%) C
11 189 (1.74%) Kotlin
12 181 (1.66%) VB.NET
13 147 (1.35%) Go
14 115 (1.06%) PowerShell
15 106 (0.97%) PL/SQL
16 102 (0.94%) Ruby
17 92 (0.85%) VB
18 85 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 81 (0.74%) Scala
20 73 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,236 (11.35%) Degree
2 556 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 475 (4.36%) Security Cleared
4 319 (2.93%) SC Cleared
5 130 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 78 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 55 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 48 (0.44%) PhD
9 41 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (0.26%) Azure Certification
12 23 (0.21%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
14 12 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
15 8 (0.073%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.073%) Postgraduate
16 7 (0.064%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.064%) CIPD
17 6 (0.055%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (3.07%) QA
2 106 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 61 (0.56%) GDPR
4 58 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 45 (0.41%) WCAG
6 19 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.17%) MiFID
8 13 (0.12%) SLA
9 12 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.037%) EMIR
11 4 (0.037%) GRC
11 4 (0.037%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.028%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.028%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.028%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.018%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.018%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.009%) ITGC
14 1 (0.009%) NIST
System Software
1 751 (6.90%) Docker
2 36 (0.33%) Firmware
3 30 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 23 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.073%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.028%) KVM
9 2 (0.018%) HDFS
10 1 (0.009%) Ceph
10 1 (0.009%) GlusterFS
10 1 (0.009%) GridGain
10 1 (0.009%) Varnish
10 1 (0.009%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 534 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 190 (1.75%) Terraform
3 49 (0.45%) Ansible
4 29 (0.27%) Kibana
5 28 (0.26%) Grafana
5 28 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.092%) MIIS
8 8 (0.073%) Rancher
9 7 (0.064%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.064%) SCOM
10 5 (0.046%) CloudHub
11 4 (0.037%) cPanel
11 4 (0.037%) HP Quality Center
11 4 (0.037%) Plesk
11 4 (0.037%) WSUS
12 3 (0.028%) Packer
13 2 (0.018%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.018%) Control-M
13 2 (0.018%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,336 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 318 (2.92%) Oracle
3 257 (2.36%) Google
4 170 (1.56%) IBM
5 158 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 133 (1.22%) Red Hat
7 113 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 100 (0.92%) Adobe
9 72 (0.66%) Xamarin
10 56 (0.51%) SAP
11 49 (0.45%) Facebook
12 45 (0.41%) Sitecore
13 44 (0.40%) Bloomberg
14 42 (0.39%) Databricks
15 40 (0.37%) MuleSoft
15 40 (0.37%) Xilinx
16 37 (0.34%) Atlassian
17 36 (0.33%) Siebel
18 35 (0.32%) Progress
18 35 (0.32%) Reuters