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 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 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 6,775 4,169 14,097
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.19% 10.56% 14.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.71% 11.74% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,613 2,968 11,973
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 £76,250 £77,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year - +8.75% -15.12%

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 77,803 35,497 89,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 54,705 20,597 65,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,341
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -13.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 14 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 14 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 2,018 £80,000 +3.23% 338
North of England +12 1,833 £55,000 - 246
South East +8 1,149 £60,000 +9.09% 236
North West +8 945 £55,000 - 140
Midlands +2 853 £55,000 - 125
Yorkshire +21 604 £55,000 -8.33% 58
South West -3 509 £55,000 -0.90% 95
West Midlands -2 454 £59,625 +8.41% 78
East Midlands +28 398 £50,000 -4.76% 47
East of England +25 377 £60,000 +10.09% 75
North East +20 284 £57,500 +4.55% 50
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 1,545 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,346 (19.87%) .NET
3 1,343 (19.82%) C#
4 1,237 (18.26%) Azure
5 1,204 (17.77%) SQL
6 1,155 (17.05%) Agile
7 1,067 (15.75%) JavaScript
8 942 (13.90%) AWS
9 917 (13.54%) Python
10 902 (13.31%) Microsoft
11 857 (12.65%) Java
12 841 (12.41%) CI/CD
13 835 (12.32%) React
14 775 (11.44%) TypeScript
15 716 (10.57%) DevOps
16 707 (10.44%) Software Engineering
17 644 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
18 619 (9.14%) AI
19 567 (8.37%) HTML
20 559 (8.25%) CSS
21 488 (7.20%) .NET Core
22 487 (7.19%) Microservices
23 473 (6.98%) Node.js
24 461 (6.80%) SQL Server
25 445 (6.57%) Mentoring
26 441 (6.51%) ASP.NET
27 439 (6.48%) Docker
28 437 (6.45%) PHP
29 433 (6.39%) Power Platform
30 419 (6.18%) 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
1 133 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 52 (0.77%) CMS
3 49 (0.72%) WordPress
4 25 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.31%) Confluence
6 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.28%) ColdFusion
6 19 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.24%) IIS
8 15 (0.22%) Apache
9 14 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.16%) JBoss
10 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.13%) Mule
11 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 8 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.12%) Drupal
13 7 (0.10%) Headless CMS
13 7 (0.10%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.089%) CICS
Applications
1 47 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.015%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.38%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 18 (0.27%) Visualfiles
5 13 (0.19%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.10%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.089%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.044%) Magento
12 3 (0.044%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.030%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.030%) Salesforce CRM
13 2 (0.030%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.030%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,237 (18.26%) Azure
2 942 (13.90%) AWS
3 433 (6.39%) Power Platform
4 329 (4.86%) GitHub
5 293 (4.32%) SaaS
6 292 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
7 281 (4.15%) Serverless
8 219 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 200 (2.95%) PowerApps
10 199 (2.94%) Power Automate
11 177 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
12 151 (2.23%) Amazon S3
13 134 (1.98%) GCP
14 122 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 122 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
15 120 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
16 106 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 101 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
18 97 (1.43%) Azure AI
19 76 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (1.59%) Internet
2 66 (0.97%) Broadband
3 33 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.24%) VoIP
5 12 (0.18%) HTTP
6 10 (0.15%) SSL
7 6 (0.089%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.089%) Intranet
8 5 (0.074%) DNS
8 5 (0.074%) RTP
8 5 (0.074%) TETRA
9 3 (0.044%) AMQP
9 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.044%) LAN
9 3 (0.044%) MQTT
9 3 (0.044%) Network Security
9 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.044%) WAN
9 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.030%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 286 (4.22%) MongoDB
3 283 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 256 (3.78%) Power BI
5 169 (2.49%) MySQL
6 168 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 131 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 125 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 119 (1.76%) DynamoDB
10 97 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 56 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 47 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 45 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 33 (0.49%) OLTP
16 33 (0.49%) Redis
17 21 (0.31%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.28%) Power Query
19 18 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 407 (6.01%) Git
2 152 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 83 (1.23%) JIRA
4 80 (1.18%) GitLab
5 56 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 55 (0.81%) Maven
7 39 (0.58%) JUnit
8 38 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.30%) Gradle
10 19 (0.28%) Subversion
11 18 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.27%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.25%) Mockito
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.21%) fastlane
14 14 (0.21%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.19%) Visual Studio
16 12 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 882 (13.02%) Finance
2 621 (9.17%) Social Skills
3 221 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (2.66%) Law
5 174 (2.57%) Front Office
6 170 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 165 (2.44%) Retail
8 158 (2.33%) Banking
9 133 (1.96%) Marketing
10 96 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 94 (1.39%) Games
12 88 (1.30%) Legal
13 72 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 48 (0.71%) Advertising
15 43 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 42 (0.62%) Tech for Good
17 36 (0.53%) Multimedia
18 25 (0.37%) Aviation
18 25 (0.37%) Health Technology
19 24 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,346 (19.87%) .NET
2 835 (12.32%) React
3 567 (8.37%) HTML
4 559 (8.25%) CSS
5 488 (7.20%) .NET Core
6 473 (6.98%) Node.js
7 441 (6.51%) ASP.NET
8 419 (6.18%) RESTful
9 399 (5.89%) AngularJS
10 396 (5.85%) REST
11 321 (4.74%) ASP.NET Core
12 313 (4.62%) Vue
13 223 (3.29%) Spring
14 212 (3.13%) Spring Boot
15 187 (2.76%) Laravel
16 166 (2.45%) Blazor
17 153 (2.26%) Entity Framework
18 152 (2.24%) SOAP
19 139 (2.05%) .NET Framework
20 129 (1.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 269 (3.97%) Mobile App
2 218 (3.22%) Cloud Native
3 186 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 142 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 134 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 108 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 102 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 94 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 84 (1.24%) Hedge funds
11 79 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 79 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 76 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 63 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 61 (0.90%) Management Information System
15 53 (0.78%) Equities
16 38 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
17 36 (0.53%) Derivative
17 36 (0.53%) PropTech
18 34 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (2.49%) Linux
2 143 (2.11%) Android
3 139 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 68 (1.00%) Windows
5 16 (0.24%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) 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 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,545 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,155 (17.05%) Agile
3 841 (12.41%) CI/CD
4 716 (10.57%) DevOps
5 707 (10.44%) Software Engineering
6 644 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
7 619 (9.14%) AI
8 487 (7.19%) Microservices
9 445 (6.57%) Mentoring
10 412 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 374 (5.52%) Front End Development
12 361 (5.33%) Clean Code
13 342 (5.05%) Computer Science
14 316 (4.66%) Web Development
15 312 (4.61%) Business Intelligence
16 304 (4.49%) SDLC
17 285 (4.21%) Analytics
18 257 (3.79%) User Experience
19 246 (3.63%) Scrum
20 242 (3.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,343 (19.82%) C#
2 1,204 (17.77%) SQL
3 1,067 (15.75%) JavaScript
4 917 (13.54%) Python
5 857 (12.65%) Java
6 775 (11.44%) TypeScript
7 437 (6.45%) PHP
8 304 (4.49%) C++
9 121 (1.79%) Go
10 98 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 67 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 62 (0.92%) C
15 59 (0.87%) Bash
16 57 (0.84%) Swift
17 53 (0.78%) PowerShell
18 51 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 50 (0.74%) Rust
20 46 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 394 (5.82%) Degree
2 316 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 254 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 216 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 53 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 36 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 27 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.19%) 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%) HND
17 4 (0.059%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.059%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (1.76%) Accessibility
2 115 (1.70%) QA
3 51 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.43%) WCAG
5 24 (0.35%) GDPR
5 24 (0.35%) 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 (0.044%) SLA
11 3 (0.044%) 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
1 439 (6.48%) Docker
2 24 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.059%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 292 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 141 (2.08%) Terraform
3 29 (0.43%) HP Fortify
3 29 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.28%) Ansible
5 14 (0.21%) Grafana
6 11 (0.16%) Kibana
7 10 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.074%) Argo
9 4 (0.059%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.059%) CloudHub
9 4 (0.059%) Nagios
9 4 (0.059%) Podman
10 2 (0.030%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.030%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.030%) MIIS
10 2 (0.030%) Packer
11 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.015%) logstash
Vendors
1 902 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 155 (2.29%) Oracle
3 152 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 72 (1.06%) ServiceNow
5 62 (0.92%) Google
6 50 (0.74%) IBM
7 48 (0.71%) SAP
8 37 (0.55%) OpenAI
9 32 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 31 (0.46%) Databricks
10 31 (0.46%) iManage
11 30 (0.44%) Facebook
12 25 (0.37%) Cognos
12 25 (0.37%) Intapp
13 24 (0.35%) Informatica
14 23 (0.34%) Apple
15 22 (0.32%) Splunk
16 21 (0.31%) Adobe
17 20 (0.30%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.30%) Xamarin