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 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,544 8,031 6,868
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.60% 13.35% 15.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.38% 14.17% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,829 5,387 6,080
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 £110,000 £98,750 £113,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -10.77% +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 42,282 56,668 43,532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 94.18% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27,239 31,759 33,846
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 26 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 26 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 1,351 £80,000 +5.26% 578
North of England -19 673 £57,500 +9.52% 401
South East -18 589 £60,000 - 692
Midlands -13 441 £53,574 +7.15% 343
North West -17 364 £60,000 +14.29% 236
South West -14 281 £52,500 +5.00% 193
West Midlands -9 280 £55,000 +10.00% 200
Yorkshire -22 236 £52,500 +5.00% 124
East of England -39 171 £53,500 +7.00% 180
East Midlands -16 161 £50,000 - 134
North East -15 75 £50,000 -4.76% 42
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 1,151 (32.48%) Agile
2 1,124 (31.72%) JavaScript
3 1,000 (28.22%) Azure
4 911 (25.71%) C#
5 871 (24.58%) SQL
6 825 (23.28%) .NET
7 809 (22.83%) AWS
8 740 (20.88%) Python
9 724 (20.43%) React
10 669 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
11 642 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 630 (17.78%) CI/CD
13 586 (16.53%) HTML
14 583 (16.45%) Java
15 554 (15.63%) CSS
16 545 (15.38%) DevOps
16 545 (15.38%) Microsoft
17 541 (15.27%) TypeScript
18 496 (14.00%) Software Engineering
19 451 (12.73%) Git
20 426 (12.02%) SQL Server
21 416 (11.74%) Mentoring
22 393 (11.09%) Microservices
23 373 (10.52%) REST
24 367 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
25 366 (10.33%) Power Platform
26 351 (9.90%) Degree
27 337 (9.51%) Node.js
27 337 (9.51%) User Experience
28 336 (9.48%) 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 92 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 63 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (1.64%) CMS
4 39 (1.10%) Confluence
5 36 (1.02%) WordPress
6 25 (0.71%) Apache
7 21 (0.59%) Appian
8 20 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 15 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.42%) IIS
10 14 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.23%) nginx
12 7 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.17%) Drupal
13 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.14%) JBoss
14 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.28%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.23%) 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 (0.085%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.085%) Lectora
10 3 (0.085%) Snagit
10 3 (0.085%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.056%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 78 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.65%) Shopify
3 17 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 10 (0.28%) Magento
6 9 (0.25%) 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 (0.085%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.085%) Primavera
10 3 (0.085%) Temenos T24
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (28.22%) Azure
2 809 (22.83%) AWS
3 366 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 258 (7.28%) GitHub
5 228 (6.43%) GCP
6 221 (6.24%) Serverless
7 202 (5.70%) SaaS
8 170 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
9 153 (4.32%) Power Automate
10 149 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
11 146 (4.12%) PowerApps
12 85 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
13 82 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 73 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
15 61 (1.72%) dbt
16 58 (1.64%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.58%) Azure Functions
17 56 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
18 53 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
19 51 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (2.26%) Internet
2 30 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.45%) Broadband
4 12 (0.34%) Multicast
5 10 (0.28%) HTTP
6 8 (0.23%) WPA
7 7 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 6 (0.17%) Intranet
8 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.11%) FTP
10 3 (0.085%) AMQP
10 3 (0.085%) DNS
10 3 (0.085%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.056%) Network Security
11 2 (0.056%) RS-232
11 2 (0.056%) RS-485
11 2 (0.056%) SSH
11 2 (0.056%) SSL
11 2 (0.056%) TETRA
12 1 (0.028%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (12.02%) SQL Server
2 227 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 225 (6.35%) Power BI
4 210 (5.93%) MySQL
5 184 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 157 (4.43%) NoSQL
7 141 (3.98%) MongoDB
8 87 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 75 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 62 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
10 62 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 55 (1.55%) DynamoDB
12 54 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
13 53 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
14 50 (1.41%) Apache Arrow
14 50 (1.41%) Dremio
15 48 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 46 (1.30%) RDBMS
17 45 (1.27%) Redis
18 31 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 451 (12.73%) Git
2 131 (3.70%) JIRA
3 96 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.33%) Visual Studio
5 45 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 44 (1.24%) JUnit
7 39 (1.10%) GitLab
8 34 (0.96%) Mockito
9 29 (0.82%) Selenium
10 24 (0.68%) JMeter
10 24 (0.68%) webpack
11 22 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 21 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.59%) Maven
13 19 (0.54%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.48%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.48%) Postman
15 16 (0.45%) Storybook
16 15 (0.42%) Xcode
17 13 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 744 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 739 (20.85%) Finance
3 236 (6.66%) Front Office
4 214 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (5.02%) Banking
6 170 (4.80%) Law
7 166 (4.68%) Marketing
7 166 (4.68%) Public Sector
8 99 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 92 (2.60%) Retail
10 80 (2.26%) Investment Banking
11 72 (2.03%) Multimedia
12 62 (1.75%) Games
13 61 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.58%) Legal
15 38 (1.07%) Health Technology
16 36 (1.02%) Back Office
16 36 (1.02%) Electronics
17 31 (0.87%) Publishing
18 30 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 825 (23.28%) .NET
2 724 (20.43%) React
3 586 (16.53%) HTML
4 554 (15.63%) CSS
5 373 (10.52%) REST
6 337 (9.51%) Node.js
7 336 (9.48%) RESTful
8 335 (9.45%) AngularJS
9 243 (6.86%) Vue
10 240 (6.77%) .NET Core
11 226 (6.38%) ASP.NET
12 191 (5.39%) .NET Framework
13 158 (4.46%) Spring
14 137 (3.87%) JSON
15 132 (3.72%) Spring Boot
16 125 (3.53%) Kafka
17 124 (3.50%) Web Services
18 113 (3.19%) HTML5
19 102 (2.88%) GraphQL
19 102 (2.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 120 (3.39%) Fixed Income
3 115 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
4 113 (3.19%) Equities
5 111 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 110 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 106 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 100 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
9 88 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
10 85 (2.40%) Data Structures
11 82 (2.31%) Algorithms
12 81 (2.29%) Onboarding
13 80 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
14 61 (1.72%) Hedge funds
15 52 (1.47%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.13%) Derivative
17 38 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
17 38 (1.07%) IoT
18 31 (0.87%) Low-Code
19 27 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 156 (4.40%) Linux
2 83 (2.34%) Android
3 75 (2.12%) Apple iOS
4 62 (1.75%) Windows
5 27 (0.76%) Unix
6 13 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.028%) MVS
10 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.028%) VMS
10 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (32.48%) Agile
2 669 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
3 642 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 630 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 545 (15.38%) DevOps
6 496 (14.00%) Software Engineering
7 416 (11.74%) Mentoring
8 393 (11.09%) Microservices
9 367 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 337 (9.51%) User Experience
11 326 (9.20%) AI
12 317 (8.94%) Clean Code
13 287 (8.10%) Test Automation
14 279 (7.87%) Computer Science
15 277 (7.82%) Front End Development
16 276 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
17 244 (6.88%) Scrum
18 239 (6.74%) TDD
19 213 (6.01%) SDLC
20 209 (5.90%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,124 (31.72%) JavaScript
2 911 (25.71%) C#
3 871 (24.58%) SQL
4 740 (20.88%) Python
5 583 (16.45%) Java
6 541 (15.27%) TypeScript
7 213 (6.01%) PHP
8 191 (5.39%) C++
9 77 (2.17%) Go
10 71 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 71 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 56 (1.58%) C
12 54 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 48 (1.35%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 45 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 35 (0.99%) VB.NET
17 33 (0.93%) Swift
18 30 (0.85%) Ruby
19 29 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 351 (9.90%) Degree
2 202 (5.70%) Security Cleared
3 166 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 132 (3.72%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 87 (2.45%) AWS Certification
7 76 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 67 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 49 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 39 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 35 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.90%) PhD
13 20 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 2 (0.056%) HNC
18 2 (0.056%) IBM Certification
18 2 (0.056%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (5.33%) QA
2 131 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 45 (1.27%) GDPR
4 37 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.51%) WCAG
6 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.25%) SLA
8 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.14%) PERC
10 3 (0.085%) MiFID
10 3 (0.085%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.056%) EMIR
11 2 (0.056%) NIST
11 2 (0.056%) PSD2
12 1 (0.028%) GRC
12 1 (0.028%) HL7
12 1 (0.028%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.028%) NCSC
12 1 (0.028%) PMO
12 1 (0.028%) SOC 2
System Software
1 310 (8.75%) Docker
2 19 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.23%) Firmware
4 4 (0.11%) zsh
5 3 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.056%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.91%) Terraform
3 23 (0.65%) Kibana
4 17 (0.48%) Ansible
5 15 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) Argo
9 3 (0.085%) cPanel
9 3 (0.085%) logstash
9 3 (0.085%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.085%) Plesk
10 2 (0.056%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.056%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.028%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.028%) QRadar
11 1 (0.028%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 545 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.44%) Oracle
3 109 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 68 (1.92%) SAP
5 49 (1.38%) Databricks
6 47 (1.33%) Google
6 47 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.27%) Guidewire
8 38 (1.07%) Atlassian
9 35 (0.99%) Splunk
10 34 (0.96%) Blue Prism
11 28 (0.79%) IBM
12 27 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.73%) Dynatrace
14 22 (0.62%) Adobe
15 19 (0.54%) Apple
15 19 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 18 (0.51%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.45%) Xamarin
18 14 (0.40%) Red Hat