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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,990 4,330 12,362
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.97% 10.00% 14.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.45% 11.05% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,840 3,089 10,363
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 82,694 39,203 81,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 90.51% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,229 23,636 58,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year - +4.66% -12.42%

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 17 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 17 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 0 1,969 £80,000 - 322
North of England +10 1,901 £55,000 -4.35% 201
South East +7 1,182 £60,000 +9.09% 195
North West +9 970 £55,000 -4.35% 98
Midlands +4 903 £55,000 - 146
Yorkshire +23 602 £55,000 -8.33% 58
South West -2 553 £55,000 - 76
West Midlands +1 510 £60,000 +4.35% 89
East of England +28 444 £60,000 +11.11% 67
East Midlands +31 392 £50,000 -4.76% 57
North East +15 329 £55,000 - 51
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 1,745 (24.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,561 (22.33%) C#
3 1,546 (22.12%) .NET
4 1,433 (20.50%) Azure
5 1,396 (19.97%) SQL
6 1,332 (19.06%) Agile
7 1,155 (16.52%) JavaScript
8 1,149 (16.44%) Microsoft
9 1,028 (14.71%) AWS
10 940 (13.45%) CI/CD
11 889 (12.72%) Python
12 887 (12.69%) React
13 881 (12.60%) TypeScript
14 857 (12.26%) Java
15 776 (11.10%) DevOps
16 737 (10.54%) AI
17 722 (10.33%) Software Engineering
18 718 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
19 645 (9.23%) .NET Core
20 635 (9.08%) ASP.NET
21 622 (8.90%) HTML
22 612 (8.76%) CSS
23 585 (8.37%) Microservices
24 557 (7.97%) Node.js
25 522 (7.47%) ASP.NET Core
26 513 (7.34%) Docker
27 495 (7.08%) SQL Server
28 494 (7.07%) RESTful
29 479 (6.85%) Power Platform
30 464 (6.64%) 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
1 151 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 61 (0.87%) CMS
3 50 (0.72%) WordPress
4 24 (0.34%) Anypoint
4 24 (0.34%) Confluence
5 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (0.31%) IIS
6 22 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
8 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.23%) Mule
9 14 (0.20%) Apache
10 9 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.13%) JBoss
10 9 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.11%) Drupal
12 7 (0.10%) Appian
13 6 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
13 6 (0.086%) CICS
13 6 (0.086%) Documentum
Applications
1 52 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.10%) 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 26 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 22 (0.31%) Shopify
4 21 (0.30%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.21%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.072%) Magento
10 5 (0.072%) Oracle CRM
10 5 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
12 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.029%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,433 (20.50%) Azure
2 1,028 (14.71%) AWS
3 479 (6.85%) Power Platform
4 381 (5.45%) GitHub
5 359 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
6 275 (3.93%) SaaS
7 264 (3.78%) Serverless
8 245 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
9 244 (3.49%) Power Automate
10 243 (3.48%) PowerApps
11 177 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 168 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
13 160 (2.29%) Azure AI
13 160 (2.29%) GCP
14 148 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
15 141 (2.02%) Amazon S3
16 121 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
17 109 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
18 101 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
19 79 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 110 (1.57%) Internet
2 58 (0.83%) Broadband
3 25 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) SSL
5 15 (0.21%) HTTP
6 14 (0.20%) VoIP
7 7 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.10%) MQTT
8 6 (0.086%) Intranet
9 5 (0.072%) Wireless
10 4 (0.057%) DNS
11 3 (0.043%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.043%) Firewall
11 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.043%) LAN
11 3 (0.043%) Network Security
11 3 (0.043%) RTP
11 3 (0.043%) WAN
12 2 (0.029%) UWB
12 2 (0.029%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 495 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 464 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 454 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 273 (3.91%) Power BI
5 199 (2.85%) MySQL
6 190 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
7 164 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 139 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 127 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 121 (1.73%) DynamoDB
11 64 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
13 48 (0.69%) Redis
14 46 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 44 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (0.39%) OLTP
18 22 (0.31%) MariaDB
19 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
20 20 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 418 (5.98%) Git
2 143 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 78 (1.12%) GitLab
5 50 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 49 (0.70%) Maven
7 37 (0.53%) JUnit
8 35 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.39%) Eclipse
10 26 (0.37%) Subversion
11 24 (0.34%) Claude Code
12 22 (0.31%) Visual Studio
13 20 (0.29%) Gradle
14 18 (0.26%) CircleCI
15 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
16 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
17 14 (0.20%) fastlane
18 13 (0.19%) Mockito
19 12 (0.17%) Selenium
19 12 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 910 (13.02%) Finance
2 673 (9.63%) Social Skills
3 212 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (2.92%) Law
5 181 (2.59%) Retail
6 172 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 169 (2.42%) Front Office
8 150 (2.15%) Banking
9 146 (2.09%) Marketing
10 113 (1.62%) Games
11 105 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 98 (1.40%) Legal
13 83 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 79 (1.13%) Advertising
15 41 (0.59%) Investment Banking
16 37 (0.53%) 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 1,546 (22.12%) .NET
2 887 (12.69%) React
3 645 (9.23%) .NET Core
4 635 (9.08%) ASP.NET
5 622 (8.90%) HTML
6 612 (8.76%) CSS
7 557 (7.97%) Node.js
8 522 (7.47%) ASP.NET Core
9 494 (7.07%) RESTful
10 458 (6.55%) AngularJS
11 416 (5.95%) REST
12 388 (5.55%) Vue
13 241 (3.45%) Blazor
14 235 (3.36%) Entity Framework
15 219 (3.13%) Spring
16 206 (2.95%) Spring Boot
17 202 (2.89%) Laravel
18 184 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
19 169 (2.42%) .NET Framework
20 143 (2.05%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 230 (3.29%) Cloud Native
2 228 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
3 220 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 165 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 156 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
6 135 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 105 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 103 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 94 (1.34%) Fixed Income
10 89 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 88 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 78 (1.12%) Hedge funds
13 74 (1.06%) Low-Code
14 64 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 61 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 50 (0.72%) Equities
17 38 (0.54%) Derivative
18 35 (0.50%) Onboarding
19 34 (0.49%) PropTech
19 34 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (2.49%) Linux
2 144 (2.06%) Android
3 133 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 87 (1.24%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.10%) Debian
9 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,745 (24.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,332 (19.06%) Agile
3 940 (13.45%) CI/CD
4 776 (11.10%) DevOps
5 737 (10.54%) AI
6 722 (10.33%) Software Engineering
7 718 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
8 585 (8.37%) Microservices
9 458 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 444 (6.35%) Mentoring
11 371 (5.31%) Clean Code
12 365 (5.22%) Front End Development
13 357 (5.11%) Computer Science
14 338 (4.84%) Web Development
15 335 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
16 312 (4.46%) SDLC
17 295 (4.22%) Analytics
18 291 (4.16%) Machine Learning
19 281 (4.02%) TDD
20 278 (3.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,561 (22.33%) C#
2 1,396 (19.97%) SQL
3 1,155 (16.52%) JavaScript
4 889 (12.72%) Python
5 881 (12.60%) TypeScript
6 857 (12.26%) Java
7 451 (6.45%) PHP
8 295 (4.22%) C++
9 121 (1.73%) Go
10 99 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 76 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 66 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 65 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 60 (0.86%) Swift
15 59 (0.84%) PowerShell
16 57 (0.82%) Ruby
17 54 (0.77%) C
18 52 (0.74%) Rust
19 49 (0.70%) Bash
20 45 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 409 (5.85%) Degree
2 349 (4.99%) Security Cleared
3 283 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 239 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 54 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 36 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 27 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 21 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.086%) HND
15 6 (0.086%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.072%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 4 (0.057%) ACCA
17 4 (0.057%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 126 (1.80%) QA
3 55 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 41 (0.59%) WCAG
5 24 (0.34%) GDPR
6 21 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 7 (0.10%) SLA
10 6 (0.086%) NIST
11 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.072%) PCI DSS
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%) HL7
System Software
1 513 (7.34%) Docker
2 20 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
5 3 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.029%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 368 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 155 (2.22%) Terraform
3 26 (0.37%) HP Fortify
3 26 (0.37%) Prometheus
4 18 (0.26%) Ansible
5 14 (0.20%) Grafana
6 12 (0.17%) CloudHub
7 11 (0.16%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.072%) Argo
10 4 (0.057%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.057%) Podman
10 4 (0.057%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.043%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.043%) Nagios
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
12 2 (0.029%) Puppet
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,149 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 164 (2.35%) Salesforce
3 147 (2.10%) Oracle
4 98 (1.40%) Google
5 87 (1.24%) ServiceNow
6 59 (0.84%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 49 (0.70%) SAP
9 41 (0.59%) Databricks
9 41 (0.59%) MuleSoft
10 38 (0.54%) OpenAI
11 36 (0.52%) iManage
12 32 (0.46%) Informatica
13 29 (0.41%) Cognos
14 26 (0.37%) Apple
15 23 (0.33%) Intapp
15 23 (0.33%) Splunk
16 22 (0.31%) Adobe
17 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.30%) YouTube