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 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,407 8,268 7,156
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.41% 13.58% 15.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.18% 14.34% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,708 5,597 6,325
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £113,750 £97,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,644 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.60% -8.24% +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 41,644 57,671 45,173
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.73% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,465 32,493 34,957
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,724 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,168 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 15 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 15 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 -6 1,348 £80,000 +3.23% 1,097
North of England -24 667 £57,500 +9.52% 432
South East -24 538 £57,500 -4.17% 503
Midlands -19 397 £55,000 +10.00% 307
North West -17 363 £60,000 +14.29% 279
West Midlands -11 261 £55,000 +10.00% 187
South West -17 259 £52,500 +5.00% 191
Yorkshire -20 233 £55,000 +10.00% 116
East of England -39 161 £54,000 +8.00% 122
East Midlands -26 136 £49,500 -1.00% 116
North East -21 73 £50,000 -4.76% 39
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 1,171 (34.37%) Agile
2 1,122 (32.93%) JavaScript
3 972 (28.53%) Azure
4 894 (26.24%) C#
5 866 (25.42%) SQL
6 816 (23.95%) AWS
7 805 (23.63%) .NET
8 745 (21.87%) Python
9 720 (21.13%) React
10 669 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
11 636 (18.67%) CI/CD
12 613 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
13 588 (17.26%) Java
14 583 (17.11%) HTML
15 550 (16.14%) CSS
16 549 (16.11%) TypeScript
17 547 (16.06%) DevOps
18 533 (15.64%) Microsoft
19 479 (14.06%) Software Engineering
20 453 (13.30%) Git
21 416 (12.21%) SQL Server
22 412 (12.09%) Mentoring
23 395 (11.59%) Microservices
24 370 (10.86%) REST
25 365 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
26 362 (10.63%) Power Platform
27 349 (10.24%) AngularJS
27 349 (10.24%) Degree
28 345 (10.13%) RESTful
29 344 (10.10%) User Experience

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 88 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 73 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (1.79%) CMS
4 41 (1.20%) Confluence
5 34 (1.00%) WordPress
6 26 (0.76%) Apache
7 21 (0.62%) Appian
8 19 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 17 (0.50%) IIS
10 14 (0.41%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 7 (0.21%) JBoss
11 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.21%) nginx
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.15%) Drupal
13 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.29%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) Elementor
7 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.088%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.088%) Lectora
8 3 (0.088%) Snagit
8 3 (0.088%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.059%) InVision
Business Applications
1 80 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.68%) Shopify
3 17 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 10 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
7 10 (0.29%) Magento
8 5 (0.15%) Maximo
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.12%) Endur
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) ProductWriter
9 4 (0.12%) Sage 1000
9 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.088%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.088%) Primavera
11 2 (0.059%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 972 (28.53%) Azure
2 816 (23.95%) AWS
3 362 (10.63%) Power Platform
4 254 (7.46%) GitHub
5 237 (6.96%) GCP
6 224 (6.57%) Serverless
7 193 (5.66%) SaaS
8 167 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (4.49%) Power Automate
9 153 (4.49%) PowerApps
10 148 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
11 85 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 81 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 72 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (2.05%) dbt
15 60 (1.76%) Amazon S3
16 56 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
17 54 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
17 54 (1.58%) Azure Functions
18 53 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.26%) Internet
2 31 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
4 11 (0.32%) HTTP
5 9 (0.26%) Multicast
6 8 (0.23%) WPA
7 6 (0.18%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.12%) FTP
8 4 (0.12%) Intranet
9 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.088%) MQTT
9 3 (0.088%) Network Security
9 3 (0.088%) SMS
10 2 (0.059%) AMQP
10 2 (0.059%) DNS
10 2 (0.059%) RS-232
10 2 (0.059%) SSH
10 2 (0.059%) SSL
10 2 (0.059%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (12.21%) SQL Server
2 243 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
3 220 (6.46%) Power BI
4 198 (5.81%) MySQL
5 187 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 157 (4.61%) NoSQL
7 142 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 89 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
9 76 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 67 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 65 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
12 64 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
13 62 (1.82%) DynamoDB
14 60 (1.76%) Apache Arrow
14 60 (1.76%) Dremio
15 59 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 49 (1.44%) RDBMS
16 49 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (1.29%) Redis
18 30 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 453 (13.30%) Git
2 133 (3.90%) JIRA
3 97 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.50%) JUnit
5 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 44 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.14%) GitLab
7 39 (1.14%) Mockito
8 28 (0.82%) Selenium
9 25 (0.73%) JMeter
10 23 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.68%) Maven
11 22 (0.65%) TeamCity
11 22 (0.65%) webpack
12 20 (0.59%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.53%) Postman
14 16 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 16 (0.47%) Storybook
15 15 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
16 14 (0.41%) Xcode
General
1 750 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 741 (21.75%) Finance
3 252 (7.40%) Front Office
4 215 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (5.34%) Banking
6 178 (5.22%) Law
7 175 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 169 (4.96%) Marketing
9 105 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 93 (2.73%) Retail
11 81 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 69 (2.03%) Multimedia
13 62 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 58 (1.70%) Games
15 54 (1.58%) Legal
16 40 (1.17%) Back Office
17 38 (1.12%) Health Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Electronics
19 31 (0.91%) Publishing
20 30 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 805 (23.63%) .NET
2 720 (21.13%) React
3 583 (17.11%) HTML
4 550 (16.14%) CSS
5 370 (10.86%) REST
6 349 (10.24%) AngularJS
7 345 (10.13%) RESTful
8 338 (9.92%) Node.js
9 250 (7.34%) Vue
10 221 (6.49%) ASP.NET
11 219 (6.43%) .NET Core
12 182 (5.34%) .NET Framework
13 166 (4.87%) Spring
14 139 (4.08%) Web Services
15 137 (4.02%) Spring Boot
16 135 (3.96%) JSON
17 126 (3.70%) Kafka
18 117 (3.43%) HTML5
19 107 (3.14%) GraphQL
20 104 (3.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 135 (3.96%) Fixed Income
3 130 (3.82%) Equities
4 120 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 109 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 107 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 103 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
8 101 (2.96%) Mobile App
9 89 (2.61%) Onboarding
10 85 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
10 85 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 82 (2.41%) Algorithms
12 80 (2.35%) Data Structures
13 65 (1.91%) Hedge funds
14 55 (1.61%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 38 (1.12%) Derivative
17 35 (1.03%) IoT
18 31 (0.91%) Low-Code
19 25 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.78%) Linux
2 80 (2.35%) Android
3 73 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 61 (1.79%) Windows
5 28 (0.82%) Unix
6 14 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.059%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.029%) MVS
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (34.37%) Agile
2 669 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 636 (18.67%) CI/CD
4 613 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
5 547 (16.06%) DevOps
6 479 (14.06%) Software Engineering
7 412 (12.09%) Mentoring
8 395 (11.59%) Microservices
9 365 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 344 (10.10%) User Experience
11 321 (9.42%) AI
12 313 (9.19%) Clean Code
13 302 (8.86%) Test Automation
14 277 (8.13%) Computer Science
15 273 (8.01%) Front End Development
16 267 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
17 258 (7.57%) Scrum
18 244 (7.16%) TDD
19 219 (6.43%) SDLC
20 213 (6.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,122 (32.93%) JavaScript
2 894 (26.24%) C#
3 866 (25.42%) SQL
4 745 (21.87%) Python
5 588 (17.26%) Java
6 549 (16.11%) TypeScript
7 187 (5.49%) PHP
8 186 (5.46%) C++
9 75 (2.20%) Go
10 72 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 72 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 56 (1.64%) C
12 54 (1.58%) Kotlin
13 48 (1.41%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.35%) PL/SQL
15 40 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 37 (1.09%) VB.NET
17 34 (1.00%) Swift
18 31 (0.91%) Ruby
19 29 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 349 (10.24%) Degree
2 207 (6.08%) Security Cleared
3 170 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 138 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 95 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 85 (2.49%) AWS Certification
7 74 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 64 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 50 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 39 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 33 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 33 (0.97%) PhD
12 20 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.059%) IBM Certification
17 2 (0.059%) MCSA
17 2 (0.059%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (5.69%) QA
2 131 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.23%) GDPR
4 35 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.47%) WCAG
6 12 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.32%) SLA
8 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.15%) PERC
10 3 (0.088%) MiFID
10 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.059%) EMIR
11 2 (0.059%) NIST
11 2 (0.059%) 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
1 315 (9.25%) Docker
2 19 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.23%) Firmware
4 5 (0.15%) zsh
5 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.029%) Postfix
6 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 228 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 107 (3.14%) Terraform
3 24 (0.70%) Kibana
4 20 (0.59%) Ansible
5 16 (0.47%) Grafana
6 9 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.12%) Argo
8 4 (0.12%) CloudHub
9 3 (0.088%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.088%) logstash
9 3 (0.088%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.059%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.029%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.029%) cPanel
11 1 (0.029%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.029%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.029%) QRadar
11 1 (0.029%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 533 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.52%) Oracle
3 110 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 66 (1.94%) SAP
5 54 (1.58%) Databricks
6 48 (1.41%) Google
6 48 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 47 (1.38%) Guidewire
8 40 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 40 (1.17%) Splunk
9 34 (1.00%) Blue Prism
10 32 (0.94%) IBM
11 27 (0.79%) Dynatrace
12 26 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.65%) Adobe
14 19 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 18 (0.53%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.50%) Apple
17 15 (0.44%) Xamarin
18 11 (0.32%) HubSpot