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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 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 6,887 4,170 14,419
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.22% 10.48% 15.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.74% 11.64% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,721 2,967 12,263
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 £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 78,810 35,838 90,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.06% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55,430 20,848 67,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,969 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +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 20 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 20 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 +3 2,029 £80,000 +3.23% 339
North of England +12 1,861 £55,000 -2.65% 249
South East +9 1,158 £60,000 +9.09% 241
North West +9 961 £55,000 - 124
Midlands +4 889 £55,000 - 147
Yorkshire +26 604 £55,000 -8.33% 76
South West -2 524 £55,000 - 90
West Midlands -2 473 £60,000 +9.09% 91
East Midlands +28 415 £50,000 -4.76% 56
East of England +24 390 £60,000 +9.09% 75
North East +19 296 £57,500 +4.55% 53
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 1,606 (23.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,416 (20.56%) .NET
3 1,412 (20.50%) C#
4 1,293 (18.77%) Azure
5 1,261 (18.31%) SQL
6 1,207 (17.53%) Agile
7 1,081 (15.70%) JavaScript
8 963 (13.98%) Microsoft
9 956 (13.88%) AWS
10 920 (13.36%) Python
11 869 (12.62%) Java
12 863 (12.53%) CI/CD
13 852 (12.37%) React
14 801 (11.63%) TypeScript
15 736 (10.69%) DevOps
16 714 (10.37%) Software Engineering
17 667 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
18 644 (9.35%) AI
19 578 (8.39%) HTML
20 568 (8.25%) CSS
21 538 (7.81%) .NET Core
22 504 (7.32%) Microservices
23 495 (7.19%) ASP.NET
24 493 (7.16%) Node.js
25 468 (6.80%) SQL Server
26 458 (6.65%) Docker
27 445 (6.46%) Mentoring
28 444 (6.45%) Power Platform
29 439 (6.37%) RESTful
30 434 (6.30%) PHP

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
1 137 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 52 (0.76%) CMS
3 48 (0.70%) WordPress
4 25 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 23 (0.33%) Confluence
6 21 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.29%) ColdFusion
8 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 17 (0.25%) IIS
10 16 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 15 (0.22%) Apache
12 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.15%) JBoss
13 10 (0.15%) Mule
14 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
15 8 (0.12%) Drupal
15 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
17 6 (0.087%) Appian
17 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 19 (0.28%) Visualfiles
5 14 (0.20%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.087%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.058%) Magento
11 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.044%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.029%) Fidessa
13 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,293 (18.77%) Azure
2 956 (13.88%) AWS
3 444 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 343 (4.98%) GitHub
5 312 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 288 (4.18%) SaaS
7 277 (4.02%) Serverless
8 223 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
9 214 (3.11%) Power Automate
9 214 (3.11%) PowerApps
10 176 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 148 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 139 (2.02%) GCP
13 130 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
14 122 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 120 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
16 119 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
17 114 (1.66%) Azure AI
18 103 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
19 75 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (1.58%) Internet
2 67 (0.97%) Broadband
3 31 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 13 (0.19%) HTTP
6 11 (0.16%) SSL
7 7 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
9 5 (0.073%) DNS
9 5 (0.073%) RTP
10 4 (0.058%) MQTT
10 4 (0.058%) TETRA
11 3 (0.044%) AMQP
11 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.044%) LAN
11 3 (0.044%) Network Security
11 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.044%) WAN
11 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 334 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 333 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 256 (3.72%) Power BI
5 168 (2.44%) MySQL
6 166 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 128 (1.86%) NoSQL
8 125 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 119 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
10 117 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 54 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 50 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (0.54%) Redis
17 32 (0.46%) OLTP
18 20 (0.29%) RDBMS
19 18 (0.26%) MariaDB
19 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 404 (5.87%) Git
2 154 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 86 (1.25%) JIRA
4 80 (1.16%) GitLab
5 53 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.77%) Maven
6 40 (0.58%) JUnit
7 36 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.30%) Subversion
9 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.29%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.29%) Gradle
10 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.25%) Mockito
12 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.19%) Visual Studio
16 12 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 893 (12.97%) Finance
2 636 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 220 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (2.74%) Law
5 175 (2.54%) Front Office
6 174 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 170 (2.47%) Retail
8 160 (2.32%) Banking
9 140 (2.03%) Marketing
10 103 (1.50%) Games
11 101 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 93 (1.35%) Legal
13 80 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 59 (0.86%) Advertising
15 43 (0.62%) Investment Banking
16 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
17 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
17 27 (0.39%) Multimedia
18 25 (0.36%) Automotive
18 25 (0.36%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,416 (20.56%) .NET
2 852 (12.37%) React
3 578 (8.39%) HTML
4 568 (8.25%) CSS
5 538 (7.81%) .NET Core
6 495 (7.19%) ASP.NET
7 493 (7.16%) Node.js
8 439 (6.37%) RESTful
9 415 (6.03%) AngularJS
10 408 (5.92%) REST
11 377 (5.47%) ASP.NET Core
12 334 (4.85%) Vue
13 224 (3.25%) Spring
14 210 (3.05%) Spring Boot
15 187 (2.72%) Laravel
16 186 (2.70%) Blazor
17 174 (2.53%) Entity Framework
18 157 (2.28%) SOAP
19 144 (2.09%) .NET Framework
20 129 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 263 (3.82%) Mobile App
2 221 (3.21%) Cloud Native
3 201 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
4 147 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 142 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 109 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 104 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 96 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 82 (1.19%) Hedge funds
12 80 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 78 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 61 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 61 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 53 (0.77%) Equities
16 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
17 37 (0.54%) Derivative
17 37 (0.54%) PropTech
18 33 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 173 (2.51%) Linux
2 143 (2.08%) Android
3 137 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 75 (1.09%) Windows
5 17 (0.25%) 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
9 5 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.015%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,606 (23.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,207 (17.53%) Agile
3 863 (12.53%) CI/CD
4 736 (10.69%) DevOps
5 714 (10.37%) Software Engineering
6 667 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
7 644 (9.35%) AI
8 504 (7.32%) Microservices
9 445 (6.46%) Mentoring
10 424 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 372 (5.40%) Front End Development
12 362 (5.26%) Clean Code
13 353 (5.13%) Computer Science
14 319 (4.63%) Web Development
15 315 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
16 310 (4.50%) SDLC
17 289 (4.20%) Analytics
18 259 (3.76%) User Experience
19 253 (3.67%) Scrum
19 253 (3.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,412 (20.50%) C#
2 1,261 (18.31%) SQL
3 1,081 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 920 (13.36%) Python
5 869 (12.62%) Java
6 801 (11.63%) TypeScript
7 434 (6.30%) PHP
8 309 (4.49%) C++
9 119 (1.73%) Go
10 98 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 73 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 72 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 71 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 64 (0.93%) C
15 57 (0.83%) Bash
15 57 (0.83%) Swift
16 56 (0.81%) PowerShell
17 49 (0.71%) Ruby
17 49 (0.71%) Rust
18 48 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 406 (5.90%) Degree
2 330 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 264 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 227 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 50 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 27 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 27 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.19%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.073%) HND
15 4 (0.058%) ACCA
15 4 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (1.83%) Accessibility
2 120 (1.74%) 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
1 458 (6.65%) Docker
2 25 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.058%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 315 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 142 (2.06%) Terraform
3 27 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 26 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 20 (0.29%) Ansible
6 13 (0.19%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.087%) CloudHub
10 5 (0.073%) Argo
11 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.058%) Podman
12 3 (0.044%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.044%) Nagios
13 2 (0.029%) logstash
13 2 (0.029%) MIIS
13 2 (0.029%) Packer
14 1 (0.015%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 963 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 156 (2.27%) Oracle
3 155 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 72 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 67 (0.97%) Google
6 53 (0.77%) IBM
7 51 (0.74%) SAP
8 38 (0.55%) Facebook
9 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 34 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.48%) Databricks
11 33 (0.48%) iManage
12 28 (0.41%) Informatica
13 25 (0.36%) Cognos
13 25 (0.36%) Intapp
14 23 (0.33%) Apple
15 22 (0.32%) Splunk
16 21 (0.30%) Adobe
17 20 (0.29%) Xamarin
18 19 (0.28%) Dynatrace