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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 6,737 4,166 13,860
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.19% 10.61% 14.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.71% 11.79% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,574 2,967 11,859
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 £75,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +6.19% -13.08%

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 77,354 35,327 87,995
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.97% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 54,278 20,476 65,429
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
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 11 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 11 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 +4 2,007 £80,000 +3.90% 367
North of England +12 1,817 £55,000 - 244
South East +7 1,149 £60,000 +9.09% 226
North West +8 933 £55,000 - 138
Midlands +3 855 £55,000 - 127
Yorkshire +23 604 £55,000 -8.33% 61
South West -2 505 £55,000 -0.90% 90
West Midlands -2 452 £59,125 +7.50% 77
East Midlands +31 402 £50,000 -4.76% 50
East of England +24 368 £60,000 +11.11% 80
North East +20 280 £57,500 +4.55% 46
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 1,507 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,328 (19.71%) .NET
3 1,320 (19.59%) C#
4 1,206 (17.90%) Azure
5 1,172 (17.40%) SQL
6 1,124 (16.68%) Agile
7 1,053 (15.63%) JavaScript
8 923 (13.70%) AWS
9 914 (13.57%) Python
10 871 (12.93%) Microsoft
11 852 (12.65%) Java
12 824 (12.23%) CI/CD
13 822 (12.20%) React
14 761 (11.30%) TypeScript
15 709 (10.52%) Software Engineering
16 698 (10.36%) DevOps
17 632 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
18 596 (8.85%) AI
19 564 (8.37%) HTML
20 556 (8.25%) CSS
21 473 (7.02%) Microservices
22 466 (6.92%) .NET Core
23 464 (6.89%) Node.js
24 461 (6.84%) SQL Server
25 444 (6.59%) PHP
26 442 (6.56%) Mentoring
27 423 (6.28%) Power Platform
28 421 (6.25%) Docker
29 420 (6.23%) ASP.NET
30 406 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement

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
1 130 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 52 (0.77%) CMS
3 50 (0.74%) WordPress
4 25 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.31%) Confluence
6 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.28%) ColdFusion
7 18 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.24%) IIS
9 15 (0.22%) Apache
10 14 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.16%) JBoss
11 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.13%) Mule
12 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
13 8 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.12%) Drupal
14 7 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.089%) CICS
15 6 (0.089%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 46 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.045%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.015%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.015%) Sketch
7 1 (0.015%) Trello
7 1 (0.015%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.40%) Shopify
3 22 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 18 (0.27%) Visualfiles
5 11 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.10%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.089%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.045%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.045%) Magento
11 3 (0.045%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.030%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.030%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.030%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (17.90%) Azure
2 923 (13.70%) AWS
3 423 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 322 (4.78%) GitHub
5 300 (4.45%) SaaS
6 280 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
7 276 (4.10%) Serverless
8 218 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
9 194 (2.88%) PowerApps
10 191 (2.84%) Power Automate
11 173 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
12 147 (2.18%) Amazon S3
13 130 (1.93%) GCP
14 121 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 118 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
16 117 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
17 104 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
18 93 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
19 85 (1.26%) Azure AI
20 73 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (1.56%) Internet
2 66 (0.98%) Broadband
3 34 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.24%) VoIP
5 12 (0.18%) HTTP
6 10 (0.15%) SSL
7 6 (0.089%) Intranet
8 5 (0.074%) DNS
8 5 (0.074%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.074%) RTP
8 5 (0.074%) TETRA
9 3 (0.045%) AMQP
9 3 (0.045%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.045%) LAN
9 3 (0.045%) MQTT
9 3 (0.045%) Network Security
9 3 (0.045%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.045%) WAN
9 3 (0.045%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.030%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 265 (3.93%) MongoDB
3 258 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 253 (3.76%) Power BI
5 171 (2.54%) MySQL
6 168 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
7 129 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 123 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 118 (1.75%) DynamoDB
10 86 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 46 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 44 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (0.50%) OLTP
17 33 (0.49%) Redis
18 20 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.28%) Power Query
20 18 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 405 (6.01%) Git
2 149 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 81 (1.20%) JIRA
4 79 (1.17%) GitLab
5 55 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 55 (0.82%) Maven
6 38 (0.56%) JUnit
7 37 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 20 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.28%) Gradle
10 18 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.25%) Mockito
11 17 (0.25%) Subversion
12 16 (0.24%) Eclipse
13 15 (0.22%) Claude Code
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.21%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.21%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.19%) fastlane
16 12 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 875 (12.99%) Finance
2 617 (9.16%) Social Skills
3 223 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (2.69%) Law
5 173 (2.57%) Front Office
6 170 (2.52%) Public Sector
7 161 (2.39%) Retail
8 158 (2.35%) Banking
9 129 (1.91%) Marketing
10 94 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 93 (1.38%) Games
12 88 (1.31%) Legal
13 72 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 47 (0.70%) Advertising
15 44 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 42 (0.62%) Tech for Good
17 37 (0.55%) Multimedia
18 25 (0.37%) Aviation
18 25 (0.37%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,328 (19.71%) .NET
2 822 (12.20%) React
3 564 (8.37%) HTML
4 556 (8.25%) CSS
5 466 (6.92%) .NET Core
6 464 (6.89%) Node.js
7 420 (6.23%) ASP.NET
8 405 (6.01%) RESTful
9 394 (5.85%) REST
10 392 (5.82%) AngularJS
11 304 (4.51%) Vue
12 296 (4.39%) ASP.NET Core
13 221 (3.28%) Spring
14 209 (3.10%) Spring Boot
15 190 (2.82%) Laravel
16 154 (2.29%) SOAP
17 152 (2.26%) Blazor
18 148 (2.20%) Entity Framework
19 136 (2.02%) .NET Framework
20 127 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 271 (4.02%) Mobile App
2 213 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 183 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 142 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 140 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 133 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 111 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 100 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 93 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.26%) Hedge funds
11 77 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 74 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 64 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 62 (0.92%) Management Information System
16 54 (0.80%) Equities
17 38 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (0.55%) PropTech
19 36 (0.53%) Derivative
20 34 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 167 (2.48%) Linux
2 142 (2.11%) Android
3 139 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 67 (0.99%) Windows
5 15 (0.22%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.089%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.074%) Debian
10 4 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.059%) zOS
11 3 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,507 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,124 (16.68%) Agile
3 824 (12.23%) CI/CD
4 709 (10.52%) Software Engineering
5 698 (10.36%) DevOps
6 632 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 596 (8.85%) AI
8 473 (7.02%) Microservices
9 442 (6.56%) Mentoring
10 406 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 372 (5.52%) Front End Development
12 361 (5.36%) Clean Code
13 336 (4.99%) Computer Science
14 318 (4.72%) Web Development
15 310 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
16 298 (4.42%) SDLC
17 282 (4.19%) Analytics
18 253 (3.76%) User Experience
19 237 (3.52%) Scrum
20 235 (3.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,320 (19.59%) C#
2 1,172 (17.40%) SQL
3 1,053 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 914 (13.57%) Python
5 852 (12.65%) Java
6 761 (11.30%) TypeScript
7 444 (6.59%) PHP
8 301 (4.47%) C++
9 121 (1.80%) Go
10 98 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 75 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 67 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 62 (0.92%) C
15 58 (0.86%) Bash
16 55 (0.82%) Swift
17 52 (0.77%) PowerShell
18 50 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 48 (0.71%) Rust
20 43 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 387 (5.74%) Degree
2 311 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 249 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 210 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 60 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 54 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 37 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 26 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 21 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.21%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.074%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.059%) ACCA
17 4 (0.059%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.059%) Tableau Certification
18 3 (0.045%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 109 (1.62%) QA
3 50 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.43%) WCAG
5 24 (0.36%) GDPR
5 24 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.18%) TickIT
7 10 (0.15%) NIST
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 5 (0.074%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.059%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.045%) SLA
11 3 (0.045%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.030%) GAAP
12 2 (0.030%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.030%) IFRS
12 2 (0.030%) PMO
12 2 (0.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 421 (6.25%) Docker
2 24 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.059%) Firmware
6 3 (0.045%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 280 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 140 (2.08%) Terraform
3 29 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 28 (0.42%) HP Fortify
5 19 (0.28%) Ansible
6 14 (0.21%) Grafana
7 11 (0.16%) Kibana
8 10 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.074%) Argo
10 4 (0.059%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.059%) CloudHub
10 4 (0.059%) Nagios
10 4 (0.059%) Podman
11 2 (0.030%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.030%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.030%) MIIS
11 2 (0.030%) Packer
12 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.015%) logstash
Vendors
1 871 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 159 (2.36%) Oracle
3 151 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 71 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 58 (0.86%) Google
6 48 (0.71%) IBM
6 48 (0.71%) SAP
7 37 (0.55%) OpenAI
8 33 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 31 (0.46%) Databricks
9 31 (0.46%) iManage
10 27 (0.40%) Facebook
11 25 (0.37%) Cognos
11 25 (0.37%) Intapp
12 24 (0.36%) Informatica
13 22 (0.33%) Splunk
13 22 (0.33%) Xamarin
14 21 (0.31%) Adobe
15 20 (0.30%) Apple
16 19 (0.28%) Dynatrace