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 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,477 7,238 6,771
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.06% 13.00% 15.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.83% 13.86% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 4,845 5,989
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,125 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% -9.04% +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 44,402 52,240 42,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 93.83% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28,028 29,074 33,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 1,307 £80,000 +3.23% 614
South East -13 654 £60,000 - 812
North of England -24 632 £55,200 +6.15% 754
Midlands -25 421 £52,500 +5.00% 544
North West -17 328 £60,000 +14.29% 410
South West -15 269 £54,250 +8.50% 312
West Midlands -23 261 £55,000 +6.54% 286
Yorkshire -20 236 £52,500 +5.00% 257
East Midlands -16 159 £49,500 -1.00% 231
East of England -41 155 £55,000 +10.00% 383
North East -22 70 £50,000 -4.76% 90
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 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 1,056 (30.37%) Agile
2 1,046 (30.08%) JavaScript
3 953 (27.41%) Azure
4 847 (24.36%) C#
5 775 (22.29%) SQL
6 766 (22.03%) .NET
7 765 (22.00%) AWS
8 729 (20.97%) Python
9 691 (19.87%) React
10 652 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 599 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
12 578 (16.62%) CI/CD
13 564 (16.22%) Java
14 546 (15.70%) HTML
15 529 (15.21%) Microsoft
16 510 (14.67%) DevOps
17 508 (14.61%) CSS
18 497 (14.29%) TypeScript
19 480 (13.81%) Software Engineering
20 401 (11.53%) Mentoring
21 391 (11.25%) Git
22 378 (10.87%) SQL Server
23 373 (10.73%) Microservices
24 354 (10.18%) REST
25 347 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
26 337 (9.69%) Power Platform
27 321 (9.23%) Node.js
28 319 (9.17%) AI
29 306 (8.80%) Degree
29 306 (8.80%) 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 90 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 57 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (1.35%) CMS
4 30 (0.86%) Confluence
5 25 (0.72%) WordPress
6 20 (0.58%) Apache
7 16 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 12 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 9 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.20%) Appian
10 7 (0.20%) IIS
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.14%) nginx
12 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 35 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.086%) Camtasia
6 3 (0.086%) Lectora
6 3 (0.086%) Snagit
6 3 (0.086%) S-PLUS
6 3 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.058%) Elementor
7 2 (0.058%) Sketch
8 1 (0.029%) InVision
Business Applications
1 65 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.55%) Shopify
3 14 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 8 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
8 6 (0.17%) Maximo
8 6 (0.17%) ProductWriter
9 5 (0.14%) Endur
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.086%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.086%) Magento
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.086%) Primavera
11 3 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.086%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.086%) Temenos T24
12 2 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 953 (27.41%) Azure
2 765 (22.00%) AWS
3 337 (9.69%) Power Platform
4 267 (7.68%) GitHub
5 219 (6.30%) Serverless
6 201 (5.78%) GCP
7 199 (5.72%) SaaS
8 146 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
9 145 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 140 (4.03%) Power Automate
11 130 (3.74%) PowerApps
12 84 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 67 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
15 63 (1.81%) Amazon S3
16 57 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
17 56 (1.61%) Azure Functions
18 55 (1.58%) dbt
19 53 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
20 52 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (2.73%) Internet
2 29 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.40%) Broadband
4 13 (0.37%) Multicast
5 11 (0.32%) HTTP
6 7 (0.20%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.17%) Intranet
7 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.14%) TETRA
9 4 (0.12%) DNS
9 4 (0.12%) WPA
10 3 (0.086%) AMQP
10 3 (0.086%) FTP
10 3 (0.086%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.086%) SSL
11 2 (0.058%) Network Security
11 2 (0.058%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.058%) SSH
12 1 (0.029%) GPRS
12 1 (0.029%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 206 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (5.75%) Power BI
4 179 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 178 (5.12%) MySQL
6 149 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 122 (3.51%) MongoDB
8 74 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 66 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 56 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 48 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 48 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 47 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
13 46 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
13 46 (1.32%) DynamoDB
14 45 (1.29%) Apache Arrow
14 45 (1.29%) Dremio
15 41 (1.18%) RDBMS
16 33 (0.95%) Redis
17 28 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 391 (11.25%) Git
2 110 (3.16%) JIRA
3 98 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.24%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.18%) Cypress.io
6 39 (1.12%) JUnit
7 37 (1.06%) GitLab
8 31 (0.89%) Mockito
9 28 (0.81%) Selenium
10 25 (0.72%) JMeter
11 22 (0.63%) webpack
12 20 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 19 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 18 (0.52%) Maven
15 17 (0.49%) Bitbucket
16 16 (0.46%) Storybook
17 15 (0.43%) SonarQube
18 12 (0.35%) Postman
18 12 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
18 12 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 669 (19.24%) Finance
1 669 (19.24%) Social Skills
2 216 (6.21%) Front Office
3 189 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (4.72%) Banking
5 159 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 146 (4.20%) Law
7 141 (4.06%) Marketing
8 89 (2.56%) Multimedia
9 88 (2.53%) Retail
10 78 (2.24%) Investment Banking
11 77 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 51 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 48 (1.38%) Legal
14 47 (1.35%) Games
15 43 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 38 (1.09%) Tech for Good
17 36 (1.04%) Publishing
18 32 (0.92%) Back Office
19 30 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 766 (22.03%) .NET
2 691 (19.87%) React
3 546 (15.70%) HTML
4 508 (14.61%) CSS
5 354 (10.18%) REST
6 321 (9.23%) Node.js
7 306 (8.80%) RESTful
8 302 (8.69%) AngularJS
9 238 (6.84%) .NET Core
10 217 (6.24%) Vue
11 198 (5.69%) ASP.NET
12 169 (4.86%) .NET Framework
13 163 (4.69%) Spring
14 136 (3.91%) Spring Boot
15 124 (3.57%) JSON
16 119 (3.42%) Kafka
17 101 (2.90%) XML
18 98 (2.82%) Web Services
19 93 (2.67%) GraphQL
20 90 (2.59%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.20%) Cloud Native
2 117 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
3 113 (3.25%) Fixed Income
4 105 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (2.93%) Product Ownership
6 101 (2.90%) Equities
6 101 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 98 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 85 (2.44%) Data Structures
9 79 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 79 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
10 72 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 71 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 58 (1.67%) Hedge funds
13 49 (1.41%) Management Information System
14 39 (1.12%) Derivative
14 39 (1.12%) IoT
15 35 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
16 33 (0.95%) Low-Code
17 25 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 136 (3.91%) Linux
2 74 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 69 (1.98%) Android
4 53 (1.52%) Windows
5 21 (0.60%) Unix
6 12 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.029%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.029%) MVS
8 1 (0.029%) VMS
8 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (30.37%) Agile
2 652 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 599 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
4 578 (16.62%) CI/CD
5 510 (14.67%) DevOps
6 480 (13.81%) Software Engineering
7 401 (11.53%) Mentoring
8 373 (10.73%) Microservices
9 347 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 319 (9.17%) AI
11 291 (8.37%) User Experience
12 288 (8.28%) Clean Code
13 262 (7.54%) Test Automation
14 254 (7.31%) Business Intelligence
15 250 (7.19%) Computer Science
16 246 (7.08%) Front End Development
17 227 (6.53%) Scrum
18 220 (6.33%) TDD
19 205 (5.90%) Containerisation
20 190 (5.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (30.08%) JavaScript
2 847 (24.36%) C#
3 775 (22.29%) SQL
4 729 (20.97%) Python
5 564 (16.22%) Java
6 497 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 192 (5.52%) PHP
8 181 (5.21%) C++
9 74 (2.13%) Go
10 70 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 57 (1.64%) T-SQL
12 51 (1.47%) C
13 46 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 42 (1.21%) Apex Code
14 42 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 40 (1.15%) PL/SQL
16 28 (0.81%) Scala
16 28 (0.81%) Swift
17 25 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 24 (0.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 306 (8.80%) Degree
2 185 (5.32%) Security Cleared
3 133 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 115 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 112 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 105 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 93 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 84 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 45 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 32 (0.92%) PhD
12 30 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 22 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 14 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 3 (0.086%) IBM Certification
19 2 (0.058%) MCSA
19 2 (0.058%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (4.66%) QA
2 122 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.12%) GDPR
4 32 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.55%) WCAG
6 12 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) SLA
9 5 (0.14%) PERC
10 3 (0.086%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.058%) NCSC
11 2 (0.058%) NIST
11 2 (0.058%) PSD2
12 1 (0.029%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.029%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.029%) GRC
12 1 (0.029%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.029%) MISRA
12 1 (0.029%) PMO
12 1 (0.029%) SOC 2
System Software
1 285 (8.20%) Docker
2 19 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.17%) Firmware
4 3 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.086%) zsh
5 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.029%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 212 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 87 (2.50%) Terraform
3 22 (0.63%) Kibana
4 16 (0.46%) Ansible
5 14 (0.40%) Grafana
6 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.12%) CloudHub
10 3 (0.086%) cPanel
10 3 (0.086%) logstash
10 3 (0.086%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.086%) Plesk
11 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.058%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.029%) Argo
12 1 (0.029%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.029%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.029%) QRadar
12 1 (0.029%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 529 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.42%) Oracle
3 99 (2.85%) Salesforce
4 63 (1.81%) SAP
5 49 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 38 (1.09%) Guidewire
7 37 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 36 (1.04%) Blue Prism
8 36 (1.04%) Databricks
9 29 (0.83%) Google
10 28 (0.81%) Splunk
11 27 (0.78%) IBM
11 27 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 25 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 20 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 18 (0.52%) Apple
16 15 (0.43%) Adobe
16 15 (0.43%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.40%) JDA