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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 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 6,763 4,169 13,932
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.20% 10.60% 14.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.73% 11.79% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,599 2,964 11,901
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 77,507 35,371 88,423
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.95% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54,461 20,505 65,670
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -12.98%
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 12 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 12 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 2,013 £80,000 +3.23% 300
North of England +11 1,823 £55,000 - 234
South East +7 1,155 £60,000 +9.09% 221
North West +8 935 £55,000 - 135
Midlands +2 853 £55,000 - 118
Yorkshire +23 605 £55,000 -8.33% 54
South West -2 511 £55,000 -1.79% 80
West Midlands -2 454 £59,125 +7.50% 74
East Midlands +26 398 £50,000 -4.76% 44
East of England +24 372 £60,000 +10.09% 70
North East +20 283 £57,500 +4.55% 47
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,527 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,339 (19.80%) .NET
3 1,333 (19.71%) C#
4 1,221 (18.05%) Azure
5 1,185 (17.52%) SQL
6 1,143 (16.90%) Agile
7 1,057 (15.63%) JavaScript
8 929 (13.74%) AWS
9 915 (13.53%) Python
10 886 (13.10%) Microsoft
11 852 (12.60%) Java
12 829 (12.26%) CI/CD
13 828 (12.24%) React
14 772 (11.42%) TypeScript
15 709 (10.48%) Software Engineering
16 703 (10.39%) DevOps
17 639 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
18 603 (8.92%) AI
19 563 (8.32%) HTML
20 555 (8.21%) CSS
21 480 (7.10%) Microservices
22 476 (7.04%) .NET Core
23 470 (6.95%) Node.js
24 457 (6.76%) SQL Server
25 442 (6.54%) Mentoring
25 442 (6.54%) PHP
26 431 (6.37%) ASP.NET
27 429 (6.34%) Power Platform
28 426 (6.30%) Docker
29 413 (6.11%) 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 (1.97%) 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
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 46 (0.68%) 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%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
6 1 (0.015%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (0.75%) 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 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.044%) Magento
11 3 (0.044%) 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 1,221 (18.05%) Azure
2 929 (13.74%) AWS
3 429 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 327 (4.84%) GitHub
5 299 (4.42%) SaaS
6 284 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
7 277 (4.10%) Serverless
8 219 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
9 198 (2.93%) PowerApps
10 195 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 173 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 147 (2.17%) Amazon S3
13 131 (1.94%) GCP
14 122 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 121 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
16 117 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
17 104 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
18 97 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
19 88 (1.30%) Azure AI
20 75 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 106 (1.57%) 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 (0.044%) 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
1 457 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 276 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 271 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 254 (3.76%) Power BI
5 170 (2.51%) MySQL
6 168 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 129 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 121 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 118 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 92 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 47 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 44 (0.65%) 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 19 (0.28%) Power Query
17 19 (0.28%) RDBMS
18 18 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 402 (5.94%) Git
2 149 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 83 (1.23%) JIRA
4 79 (1.17%) GitLab
5 55 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 54 (0.80%) Maven
7 38 (0.56%) JUnit
8 37 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 20 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.30%) Gradle
10 18 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.25%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.25%) Mockito
11 17 (0.25%) Subversion
12 16 (0.24%) Eclipse
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
1 878 (12.98%) Finance
2 618 (9.14%) Social Skills
3 221 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (2.65%) Law
5 174 (2.57%) Front Office
6 170 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 164 (2.42%) Retail
8 157 (2.32%) Banking
9 132 (1.95%) Marketing
10 95 (1.40%) Games
11 94 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 87 (1.29%) Legal
13 72 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 47 (0.69%) Advertising
15 43 (0.64%) 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
18 25 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,339 (19.80%) .NET
2 828 (12.24%) React
3 563 (8.32%) HTML
4 555 (8.21%) CSS
5 476 (7.04%) .NET Core
6 470 (6.95%) Node.js
7 431 (6.37%) ASP.NET
8 413 (6.11%) RESTful
9 396 (5.86%) AngularJS
10 392 (5.80%) REST
11 309 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
11 309 (4.57%) Vue
12 222 (3.28%) Spring
13 209 (3.09%) Spring Boot
14 188 (2.78%) Laravel
15 157 (2.32%) Blazor
16 153 (2.26%) Entity Framework
16 153 (2.26%) SOAP
17 135 (2.00%) .NET Framework
18 127 (1.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 269 (3.98%) Mobile App
2 216 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 185 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 141 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 134 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 110 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 101 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 93 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 86 (1.27%) Hedge funds
11 79 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 77 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 76 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 65 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 62 (0.92%) Management Information System
16 54 (0.80%) Equities
17 38 (0.56%) PropTech
17 38 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
18 36 (0.53%) Derivative
19 34 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 166 (2.45%) Linux
2 141 (2.08%) Android
3 139 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 68 (1.01%) 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 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,527 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,143 (16.90%) Agile
3 829 (12.26%) CI/CD
4 709 (10.48%) Software Engineering
5 703 (10.39%) DevOps
6 639 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
7 603 (8.92%) AI
8 480 (7.10%) Microservices
9 442 (6.54%) Mentoring
10 412 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 373 (5.52%) Front End Development
12 361 (5.34%) Clean Code
13 338 (5.00%) Computer Science
14 319 (4.72%) Web Development
15 310 (4.58%) Business Intelligence
16 298 (4.41%) SDLC
17 284 (4.20%) Analytics
18 257 (3.80%) User Experience
19 240 (3.55%) Scrum
20 239 (3.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,333 (19.71%) C#
2 1,185 (17.52%) SQL
3 1,057 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 915 (13.53%) Python
5 852 (12.60%) Java
6 772 (11.42%) TypeScript
7 442 (6.54%) PHP
8 303 (4.48%) C++
9 121 (1.79%) Go
10 98 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 71 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 68 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 63 (0.93%) C
15 58 (0.86%) Bash
16 55 (0.81%) Swift
17 53 (0.78%) PowerShell
18 51 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 49 (0.72%) Rust
20 44 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 390 (5.77%) Degree
2 314 (4.64%) Security Cleared
3 252 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 212 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (1.12%) 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 26 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 25 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.21%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.074%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.059%) ACCA
16 4 (0.059%) HND
16 4 (0.059%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.059%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (1.76%) Accessibility
2 112 (1.66%) 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
1 426 (6.30%) 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
1 283 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 140 (2.07%) Terraform
3 29 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 28 (0.41%) 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
1 886 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 156 (2.31%) Oracle
3 152 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 71 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 60 (0.89%) Google
6 49 (0.72%) 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 28 (0.41%) Facebook
12 25 (0.37%) Cognos
12 25 (0.37%) Intapp
13 24 (0.35%) Informatica
14 22 (0.33%) Splunk
14 22 (0.33%) Xamarin
15 21 (0.31%) Adobe
15 21 (0.31%) Apple
16 19 (0.28%) Dynatrace