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 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,482 8,306 6,991
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.54% 13.50% 15.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.32% 14.31% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 5,638 6,191
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £113,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% -10.00% +4.00%

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 41,870 58,044 44,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27,008 32,905 34,377
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,955 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,828 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 -4 1,338 £80,000 +5.96% 486
North of England -20 668 £57,500 +9.52% 279
South East -21 568 £60,000 - 471
Midlands -14 429 £54,649 +9.30% 252
North West -18 360 £60,000 +14.29% 175
West Midlands -10 276 £55,000 +10.00% 159
South West -15 274 £52,500 +5.00% 141
Yorkshire -19 235 £54,500 +9.00% 76
East of England -36 168 £53,500 +7.00% 104
East Midlands -18 153 £52,000 +4.00% 89
North East -16 75 £50,000 -4.76% 30
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, 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 1,153 (33.11%) Agile
2 1,123 (32.25%) JavaScript
3 986 (28.32%) Azure
4 898 (25.79%) C#
5 866 (24.87%) SQL
6 817 (23.46%) .NET
7 814 (23.38%) AWS
8 743 (21.34%) Python
9 721 (20.71%) React
10 661 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
11 629 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
12 626 (17.98%) CI/CD
13 581 (16.69%) HTML
14 576 (16.54%) Java
15 552 (15.85%) CSS
16 542 (15.57%) Microsoft
16 542 (15.57%) TypeScript
17 537 (15.42%) DevOps
18 494 (14.19%) Software Engineering
19 448 (12.87%) Git
20 422 (12.12%) SQL Server
21 413 (11.86%) Mentoring
22 386 (11.09%) Microservices
23 366 (10.51%) REST
24 365 (10.48%) Power Platform
25 364 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
26 349 (10.02%) Degree
27 338 (9.71%) AngularJS
28 337 (9.68%) Node.js
29 336 (9.65%) RESTful

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 91 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 68 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (1.67%) CMS
4 39 (1.12%) Confluence
5 36 (1.03%) WordPress
6 25 (0.72%) Apache
7 21 (0.60%) Appian
8 20 (0.57%) Umbraco
9 15 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.43%) IIS
10 14 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.20%) nginx
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.14%) Drupal
13 5 (0.14%) JBoss
13 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.29%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.14%) Elementor
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.086%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.086%) Lectora
10 3 (0.086%) Snagit
10 3 (0.086%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 78 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.66%) Shopify
3 17 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 10 (0.29%) Magento
6 9 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 6 (0.17%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.14%) Maximo
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.11%) Endur
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.086%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.086%) Primavera
10 3 (0.086%) Sage 1000
11 2 (0.057%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 986 (28.32%) Azure
2 814 (23.38%) AWS
3 365 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 255 (7.32%) GitHub
5 234 (6.72%) GCP
6 217 (6.23%) Serverless
7 200 (5.74%) SaaS
8 169 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
9 152 (4.37%) Power Automate
10 151 (4.34%) PowerApps
11 145 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
12 83 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (1.87%) dbt
16 55 (1.58%) Amazon S3
17 54 (1.55%) Azure Functions
18 53 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
19 51 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
20 49 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.27%) Internet
2 30 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.46%) Broadband
4 9 (0.26%) HTTP
4 9 (0.26%) Multicast
5 8 (0.23%) WPA
6 7 (0.20%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.17%) Intranet
7 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.11%) FTP
9 3 (0.086%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.057%) AMQP
10 2 (0.057%) DNS
10 2 (0.057%) Network Security
10 2 (0.057%) RS-232
10 2 (0.057%) RS-485
10 2 (0.057%) SSH
10 2 (0.057%) SSL
11 1 (0.029%) RS-422
11 1 (0.029%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 232 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
3 224 (6.43%) Power BI
4 206 (5.92%) MySQL
5 182 (5.23%) Relational Database
6 157 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 140 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 85 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 74 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 64 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 62 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 59 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
13 58 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
14 55 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
14 55 (1.58%) Dremio
14 55 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 48 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 46 (1.32%) RDBMS
17 45 (1.29%) Redis
18 32 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 448 (12.87%) Git
2 131 (3.76%) JIRA
3 93 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.29%) Visual Studio
5 44 (1.26%) JUnit
6 42 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.06%) GitLab
8 34 (0.98%) Mockito
9 28 (0.80%) Selenium
10 24 (0.69%) JMeter
11 22 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 22 (0.63%) webpack
12 21 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.52%) Maven
14 17 (0.49%) Postman
14 17 (0.49%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
15 16 (0.46%) Storybook
16 15 (0.43%) Xcode
17 13 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 746 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 733 (21.05%) Finance
3 240 (6.89%) Front Office
4 210 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (5.17%) Banking
6 171 (4.91%) Law
7 166 (4.77%) Public Sector
8 164 (4.71%) Marketing
9 99 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 93 (2.67%) Retail
11 80 (2.30%) Investment Banking
12 72 (2.07%) Multimedia
13 62 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 60 (1.72%) Games
15 55 (1.58%) Legal
16 40 (1.15%) Health Technology
17 36 (1.03%) Back Office
17 36 (1.03%) Electronics
18 34 (0.98%) Publishing
19 32 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 817 (23.46%) .NET
2 721 (20.71%) React
3 581 (16.69%) HTML
4 552 (15.85%) CSS
5 366 (10.51%) REST
6 338 (9.71%) AngularJS
7 337 (9.68%) Node.js
8 336 (9.65%) RESTful
9 247 (7.09%) Vue
10 233 (6.69%) .NET Core
11 224 (6.43%) ASP.NET
12 186 (5.34%) .NET Framework
13 153 (4.39%) Spring
14 134 (3.85%) JSON
15 127 (3.65%) Spring Boot
16 124 (3.56%) Kafka
16 124 (3.56%) Web Services
17 113 (3.25%) HTML5
18 102 (2.93%) XML
19 101 (2.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 151 (4.34%) Cloud Native
2 127 (3.65%) Fixed Income
3 120 (3.45%) Equities
4 113 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 112 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 108 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 108 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 100 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 87 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 82 (2.35%) Algorithms
9 82 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 81 (2.33%) Data Structures
11 78 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 61 (1.75%) Hedge funds
13 51 (1.46%) Management Information System
14 38 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.06%) Derivative
16 36 (1.03%) IoT
17 31 (0.89%) Low-Code
18 26 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.37%) Linux
2 83 (2.38%) Android
3 76 (2.18%) Apple iOS
4 63 (1.81%) Windows
5 27 (0.78%) Unix
6 14 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.029%) MVS
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,153 (33.11%) Agile
2 661 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
3 629 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 626 (17.98%) CI/CD
5 537 (15.42%) DevOps
6 494 (14.19%) Software Engineering
7 413 (11.86%) Mentoring
8 386 (11.09%) Microservices
9 364 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 335 (9.62%) User Experience
11 322 (9.25%) AI
12 312 (8.96%) Clean Code
13 287 (8.24%) Test Automation
14 274 (7.87%) Computer Science
15 273 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
16 272 (7.81%) Front End Development
17 250 (7.18%) Scrum
18 239 (6.86%) TDD
19 211 (6.06%) SDLC
20 209 (6.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,123 (32.25%) JavaScript
2 898 (25.79%) C#
3 866 (24.87%) SQL
4 743 (21.34%) Python
5 576 (16.54%) Java
6 542 (15.57%) TypeScript
7 205 (5.89%) PHP
8 186 (5.34%) C++
9 77 (2.21%) Go
10 72 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 71 (2.04%) PowerShell
12 54 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 53 (1.52%) C
14 48 (1.38%) Apex Code
15 44 (1.26%) PL/SQL
16 41 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 36 (1.03%) VB.NET
18 34 (0.98%) Swift
19 30 (0.86%) Ruby
20 29 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 349 (10.02%) Degree
2 201 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 164 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (3.76%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 86 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 76 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 67 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 50 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 39 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.92%) PhD
13 20 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 2 (0.057%) HNC
18 2 (0.057%) MCSA
18 2 (0.057%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (5.43%) QA
2 129 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.21%) GDPR
4 37 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.52%) WCAG
6 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.26%) SLA
8 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.14%) PERC
10 3 (0.086%) MiFID
10 3 (0.086%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.057%) EMIR
11 2 (0.057%) NIST
11 2 (0.057%) PSD2
12 1 (0.029%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.029%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.029%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.029%) MISRA
12 1 (0.029%) NCSC
12 1 (0.029%) PMO
System Software
1 307 (8.82%) Docker
2 19 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.23%) Firmware
4 4 (0.11%) zsh
5 3 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 221 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 102 (2.93%) Terraform
3 23 (0.66%) Kibana
4 17 (0.49%) Ansible
5 15 (0.43%) Grafana
6 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.11%) CloudHub
9 3 (0.086%) Argo
9 3 (0.086%) cPanel
9 3 (0.086%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.086%) logstash
9 3 (0.086%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.086%) Plesk
10 2 (0.057%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.029%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.029%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.029%) QRadar
11 1 (0.029%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 542 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.42%) Oracle
3 109 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 67 (1.92%) SAP
5 48 (1.38%) Databricks
6 47 (1.35%) Google
6 47 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.29%) Guidewire
8 38 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 35 (1.01%) Splunk
10 34 (0.98%) Blue Prism
11 28 (0.80%) IBM
12 26 (0.75%) Dynatrace
12 26 (0.75%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.63%) Adobe
14 19 (0.55%) Apple
15 18 (0.52%) OpenAI
15 18 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 16 (0.46%) Xamarin
17 11 (0.32%) HubSpot