Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 12,611 14,341 28,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.87% 15.38% 21.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.74% 16.80% 22.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,886 11,036 18,407
10th Percentile £35,639 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -3 3,672 £75,000 -6.25% 923
North of England +12 2,808 £52,084 -5.30% 529
South East 0 2,224 £57,500 - 299
North West +11 1,672 £52,084 -5.30% 344
Midlands +12 1,578 £50,000 -9.09% 301
South West +4 1,394 £50,000 -6.56% 188
West Midlands +13 1,002 £50,000 -9.09% 193
Yorkshire +15 890 £50,000 -4.76% 143
East of England +12 875 £50,000 -13.04% 143
East Midlands +6 571 £50,000 -5.66% 108
North East +4 246 £50,000 -9.09% 48
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 4,602 (36.49%) JavaScript
2 4,475 (35.48%) C#
3 4,303 (34.12%) .NET
4 3,866 (30.66%) Agile
5 3,626 (28.75%) Azure
6 3,273 (25.95%) Full Stack Development
7 3,129 (24.81%) SQL
8 2,643 (20.96%) HTML
9 2,505 (19.86%) React
10 2,430 (19.27%) AWS
11 2,343 (18.58%) CSS
12 2,273 (18.02%) SQL Server
13 2,264 (17.95%) Microsoft
14 2,121 (16.82%) AngularJS
15 2,085 (16.53%) Social Skills
16 1,850 (14.67%) Finance
17 1,847 (14.65%) TypeScript
18 1,820 (14.43%) ASP.NET
19 1,797 (14.25%) DevOps
20 1,759 (13.95%) Java
21 1,731 (13.73%) MVC
22 1,656 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
23 1,629 (12.92%) Software Engineering
24 1,551 (12.30%) Degree
25 1,540 (12.21%) Microservices
26 1,523 (12.08%) .NET Core
27 1,513 (12.00%) Python
28 1,433 (11.36%) Git
29 1,264 (10.02%) PHP
30 1,244 (9.86%) TDD

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
1 303 (2.40%) CMS
2 288 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 273 (2.16%) WordPress
4 254 (2.01%) Apache
5 165 (1.31%) Confluence
6 161 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
7 156 (1.24%) IIS
8 118 (0.94%) Umbraco
9 73 (0.58%) Drupal
10 68 (0.54%) nginx
11 60 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.42%) Headless CMS
13 51 (0.40%) Kentico
14 48 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
15 41 (0.33%) OpenStack
16 31 (0.25%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 19 (0.15%) SAS
20 18 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 118 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 31 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 15 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 14 (0.11%) Simulink
10 7 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.056%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.040%) InDesign
12 4 (0.032%) Maya
12 4 (0.032%) Sketch
12 4 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.032%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 180 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 114 (0.90%) Shopify
3 89 (0.71%) Magento
4 65 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 43 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 39 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
8 30 (0.24%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 13 (0.10%) Visualfiles
12 11 (0.087%) Maximo
13 8 (0.063%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 7 (0.056%) BPCS
14 7 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
15 6 (0.048%) BusinessWorks
15 6 (0.048%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.048%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.040%) Odoo
16 5 (0.040%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,626 (28.75%) Azure
2 2,430 (19.27%) AWS
3 981 (7.78%) Power Platform
4 815 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
5 542 (4.30%) Serverless
6 510 (4.04%) GCP
7 489 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
8 466 (3.70%) SaaS
9 369 (2.93%) GitHub
10 368 (2.92%) PowerApps
11 340 (2.70%) Power Automate
12 247 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
13 228 (1.81%) Azure Functions
14 224 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 223 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 175 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
17 140 (1.11%) Azure API Management
18 122 (0.97%) IBM Cloud
19 94 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
20 88 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 204 (1.62%) Internet
2 66 (0.52%) HTTP
3 61 (0.48%) DNS
4 59 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 43 (0.34%) Firewall
6 36 (0.29%) SSL
7 32 (0.25%) WAN
8 29 (0.23%) LAN
9 24 (0.19%) Intranet
9 24 (0.19%) Wireless
10 22 (0.17%) VPN
11 18 (0.14%) Broadband
12 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
12 16 (0.13%) Network Security
13 14 (0.11%) MQTT
14 13 (0.10%) 5G
14 13 (0.10%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.087%) BGP
15 11 (0.087%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,273 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 867 (6.87%) MySQL
3 699 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
4 649 (5.15%) Power BI
5 555 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 519 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 515 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 308 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 284 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 249 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
11 241 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 201 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 168 (1.33%) Redis
14 144 (1.14%) Apache Ignite
15 133 (1.05%) DB2
16 132 (1.05%) Oracle Database
17 99 (0.79%) Data Lake
18 91 (0.72%) Tableau
19 88 (0.70%) DynamoDB
20 81 (0.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,433 (11.36%) Git
2 467 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 426 (3.38%) JIRA
4 229 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 185 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 127 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 125 (0.99%) GitLab
8 109 (0.86%) Selenium
9 105 (0.83%) NUnit
10 101 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
11 86 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 82 (0.65%) Sourcetree
13 77 (0.61%) JUnit
14 63 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
15 61 (0.48%) Jasmine
16 52 (0.41%) Maven
16 52 (0.41%) Moq
16 52 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
17 48 (0.38%) webpack
18 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,085 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 1,850 (14.67%) Finance
3 536 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
4 532 (4.22%) Front Office
5 468 (3.71%) Marketing
6 458 (3.63%) Banking
7 424 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 402 (3.19%) Retail
9 377 (2.99%) Law
10 354 (2.81%) Games
11 236 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 209 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 178 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 175 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 159 (1.26%) Legal
16 138 (1.09%) Tech for Good
17 129 (1.02%) Advertising
18 115 (0.91%) Telecoms
19 111 (0.88%) Automotive
20 105 (0.83%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,303 (34.12%) .NET
2 2,643 (20.96%) HTML
3 2,505 (19.86%) React
4 2,343 (18.58%) CSS
5 2,121 (16.82%) AngularJS
6 1,820 (14.43%) ASP.NET
7 1,523 (12.08%) .NET Core
8 1,225 (9.71%) Vue
9 1,181 (9.36%) Node.js
10 1,167 (9.25%) .NET Framework
11 994 (7.88%) ASP.NET Web API
12 931 (7.38%) ASP.NET MVC
13 921 (7.30%) REST
14 915 (7.26%) Entity Framework
15 890 (7.06%) HTML5
16 866 (6.87%) RESTful
17 710 (5.63%) Web Services
18 689 (5.46%) Laravel
19 684 (5.42%) jQuery
20 500 (3.96%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 597 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
2 392 (3.11%) Fixed Income
3 355 (2.82%) Hedge funds
4 331 (2.62%) Mobile App
5 304 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 296 (2.35%) Algorithms
7 289 (2.29%) Equities
8 271 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 241 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 228 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 224 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
12 216 (1.71%) Derivative
13 180 (1.43%) IoT
14 159 (1.26%) Blockchain
15 156 (1.24%) Client/Server
16 143 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 125 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
18 118 (0.94%) Management Information System
19 117 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
20 112 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 711 (5.64%) Linux
2 440 (3.49%) Windows
3 358 (2.84%) Android
4 311 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 89 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.21%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.14%) CentOS
10 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 14 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.079%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.048%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.040%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.040%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.032%) AIX
16 4 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,866 (30.66%) Agile
2 3,273 (25.95%) Full Stack Development
3 1,797 (14.25%) DevOps
4 1,731 (13.73%) MVC
5 1,656 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
6 1,629 (12.92%) Software Engineering
7 1,540 (12.21%) Microservices
8 1,244 (9.86%) TDD
9 1,074 (8.52%) Computer Science
10 1,042 (8.26%) Web Development
11 1,029 (8.16%) Scrum
12 933 (7.40%) CI/CD
13 915 (7.26%) User Experience
14 848 (6.72%) Front End Development
15 819 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
16 796 (6.31%) Mentoring
17 723 (5.73%) Design Patterns
18 688 (5.46%) Artificial Intelligence
19 630 (5.00%) Unit Testing
20 628 (4.98%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4,602 (36.49%) JavaScript
2 4,475 (35.48%) C#
3 3,129 (24.81%) SQL
4 1,847 (14.65%) TypeScript
5 1,759 (13.95%) Java
6 1,513 (12.00%) Python
7 1,264 (10.02%) PHP
8 462 (3.66%) C++
9 412 (3.27%) T-SQL
10 234 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 225 (1.78%) C
12 199 (1.58%) VB.NET
13 172 (1.36%) PL/SQL
14 164 (1.30%) Go
15 158 (1.25%) PowerShell
16 134 (1.06%) VB
17 117 (0.93%) Ruby
18 112 (0.89%) Scala
19 100 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 79 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,551 (12.30%) Degree
2 618 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 589 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 438 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 132 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 123 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 58 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (0.44%) PhD
10 53 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 50 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 46 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 39 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
14 20 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.095%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.087%) HND
17 11 (0.087%) Postgraduate
18 6 (0.048%) Numerate Degree
19 4 (0.032%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (3.64%) QA
2 109 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.54%) GDPR
4 54 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 54 (0.43%) WCAG
5 29 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 21 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.11%) SLA
8 12 (0.095%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.048%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.032%) MiFID
11 4 (0.032%) WAI
12 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.024%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.024%) PMO
13 2 (0.016%) GRC
13 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,085 (8.60%) Docker
2 40 (0.32%) Firmware
3 35 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.079%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.048%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.016%) OpenSIPS
10 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.008%) GridGain
11 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 729 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 249 (1.97%) Terraform
3 88 (0.70%) Ansible
4 26 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (0.17%) Grafana
6 18 (0.14%) Kibana
7 14 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.079%) Rancher
9 9 (0.071%) MIIS
10 7 (0.056%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.048%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.048%) cPanel
11 6 (0.048%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.040%) Control-M
12 5 (0.040%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.040%) Puppet
13 4 (0.032%) WSUS
14 2 (0.016%) Consul
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,264 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 406 (3.22%) Oracle
3 357 (2.83%) Google
4 184 (1.46%) IBM
5 143 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 125 (0.99%) Red Hat
7 121 (0.96%) Facebook
8 118 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 115 (0.91%) Adobe
10 97 (0.77%) Xamarin
11 65 (0.52%) Sitecore
12 64 (0.51%) SAP
13 59 (0.47%) Apple
14 48 (0.38%) Progress
15 45 (0.36%) WooCommerce
16 44 (0.35%) Databricks
16 44 (0.35%) MuleSoft
17 43 (0.34%) WSO2
18 41 (0.33%) Bloomberg
18 41 (0.33%) YouTube