Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 8 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7,025 18,718 27,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.79% 17.04% 24.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.52% 17.87% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,058 13,866 20,033
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 45,256 104,719 107,256
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.31% 95.36% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 33,818 67,498 74,508
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 +1 3,249 £80,000 +6.67% 1,469
North of England -2 1,141 £52,500 -4.55% 717
South East -5 1,030 £57,000 -0.87% 643
Midlands +3 684 £52,500 -1.41% 309
North West -2 644 £52,500 -4.55% 427
South West -9 574 £55,000 +4.76% 261
Yorkshire 0 444 £52,500 - 224
West Midlands +2 398 £52,500 -4.55% 205
East Midlands +1 288 £55,000 +10.00% 104
East of England -3 203 £60,000 +9.09% 221
North East -4 53 £50,000 -4.43% 78
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 2,730 (38.86%) JavaScript
2 2,499 (35.57%) Agile
3 2,389 (34.01%) C#
4 2,251 (32.04%) .NET
5 2,153 (30.65%) SQL
6 2,001 (28.48%) Azure
7 1,658 (23.60%) AWS
8 1,604 (22.83%) React
9 1,595 (22.70%) Java
10 1,568 (22.32%) HTML
11 1,549 (22.05%) Finance
12 1,507 (21.45%) CSS
13 1,368 (19.47%) Full Stack Development
14 1,335 (19.00%) DevOps
15 1,305 (18.58%) Social Skills
16 1,179 (16.78%) SQL Server
17 1,152 (16.40%) AngularJS
18 1,119 (15.93%) TypeScript
19 1,109 (15.79%) Python
20 1,081 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
21 1,066 (15.17%) Degree
22 1,038 (14.78%) Microsoft
23 1,030 (14.66%) Software Engineering
24 932 (13.27%) Git
25 874 (12.44%) Microservices
26 872 (12.41%) CI/CD
27 816 (11.62%) Docker
28 758 (10.79%) TDD
29 745 (10.60%) ASP.NET
30 702 (9.99%) .NET Core

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 144 (2.05%) Apache
2 134 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 131 (1.86%) CMS
4 125 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 113 (1.61%) WordPress
6 91 (1.30%) Confluence
7 66 (0.94%) Umbraco
8 61 (0.87%) IIS
9 30 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 26 (0.37%) JBoss
11 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
11 24 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
12 22 (0.31%) Drupal
13 15 (0.21%) nginx
13 15 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 13 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.17%) Kentico
16 11 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 11 (0.16%) OpenEdge
17 10 (0.14%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 55 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 17 (0.24%) Sketch
5 15 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 13 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.11%) InfoPath
10 6 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.071%) Blender
11 5 (0.071%) InDesign
12 4 (0.057%) 3ds Max
12 4 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.057%) LibreOffice
12 4 (0.057%) Trello
13 3 (0.043%) FileZilla
13 3 (0.043%) Maya
13 3 (0.043%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 187 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (0.56%) Magento
3 32 (0.46%) Shopify
4 23 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 17 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.23%) Maximo
7 14 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
8 13 (0.19%) Visualfiles
9 11 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
10 9 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.11%) Endur
11 8 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
12 7 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.085%) Exstream
13 6 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 6 (0.085%) JDE OneWorld
13 6 (0.085%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.085%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,001 (28.48%) Azure
2 1,658 (23.60%) AWS
3 654 (9.31%) Power Platform
4 554 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 508 (7.23%) GCP
6 332 (4.73%) Serverless
7 311 (4.43%) SaaS
8 267 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
9 203 (2.89%) PowerApps
10 153 (2.18%) GitHub
11 129 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 122 (1.74%) Power Automate
13 121 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 107 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 105 (1.49%) Azure Functions
16 95 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
17 80 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
17 80 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 78 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
19 72 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 60 (0.85%) Internet
2 46 (0.65%) HTTP
3 24 (0.34%) LAN
3 24 (0.34%) WAN
4 20 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.19%) Wireless
6 12 (0.17%) SSH
7 11 (0.16%) DNS
7 11 (0.16%) VoIP
8 9 (0.13%) Intranet
9 7 (0.100%) Software-Defined Radio
10 6 (0.085%) FTP
10 6 (0.085%) Network Security
10 6 (0.085%) OpenVPN
11 5 (0.071%) ATM
12 4 (0.057%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.057%) Multicast
12 4 (0.057%) PPP
13 3 (0.043%) MQTT
13 3 (0.043%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,179 (16.78%) SQL Server
2 472 (6.72%) Power BI
3 391 (5.57%) MySQL
4 368 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
5 333 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 315 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 260 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 221 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 199 (2.83%) MongoDB
10 171 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
11 106 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 102 (1.45%) RDBMS
13 98 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
14 95 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
15 91 (1.30%) Redis
16 89 (1.27%) Oracle Database
17 73 (1.04%) Tableau
18 72 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 70 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
20 58 (0.83%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 932 (13.27%) Git
2 245 (3.49%) JIRA
3 228 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 195 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 130 (1.85%) Maven
6 105 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 99 (1.41%) Selenium
8 98 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 82 (1.17%) JUnit
10 74 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
11 69 (0.98%) Gradle
12 68 (0.97%) GitLab
13 65 (0.93%) IntelliJ
14 58 (0.83%) Cucumber
15 55 (0.78%) Jasmine
16 51 (0.73%) Postman
17 47 (0.67%) NUnit
17 47 (0.67%) TeamCity
18 45 (0.64%) Mockito
19 43 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,549 (22.05%) Finance
2 1,305 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 536 (7.63%) Front Office
4 440 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
5 373 (5.31%) Banking
6 246 (3.50%) Retail
7 226 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 193 (2.75%) Marketing
9 184 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 183 (2.60%) Law
11 151 (2.15%) Investment Banking
12 149 (2.12%) Legal
13 137 (1.95%) Games
14 114 (1.62%) Manufacturing
15 86 (1.22%) Tech for Good
16 69 (0.98%) Financial Institution
17 68 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 55 (0.78%) Electronics
19 54 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
20 44 (0.63%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,251 (32.04%) .NET
2 1,604 (22.83%) React
3 1,568 (22.32%) HTML
4 1,507 (21.45%) CSS
5 1,152 (16.40%) AngularJS
6 745 (10.60%) ASP.NET
7 702 (9.99%) .NET Core
8 636 (9.05%) Node.js
9 624 (8.88%) REST
10 558 (7.94%) .NET Framework
11 492 (7.00%) Spring
12 474 (6.75%) Vue
13 458 (6.52%) RESTful
14 431 (6.14%) HTML5
15 429 (6.11%) Web Services
16 360 (5.12%) Spring Boot
17 353 (5.02%) JSON
18 320 (4.56%) XML
19 316 (4.50%) jQuery
20 305 (4.34%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 415 (5.91%) Greenfield Project
2 294 (4.19%) Fixed Income
3 223 (3.17%) Derivative
4 221 (3.15%) Hedge funds
5 219 (3.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 186 (2.65%) Equities
7 183 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 177 (2.52%) Product Ownership
9 158 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 127 (1.81%) Cloud Native
11 119 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 105 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 98 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 85 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 85 (1.21%) Management Information System
15 79 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 77 (1.10%) IoT
17 75 (1.07%) Low-Code
18 47 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
19 39 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 320 (4.56%) Linux
2 196 (2.79%) Android
3 175 (2.49%) Windows
4 122 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 58 (0.83%) Unix
6 23 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.20%) CentOS
7 14 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.057%) QNX Neutrino
10 2 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.028%) VMS
10 2 (0.028%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.014%) MVS
11 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,499 (35.57%) Agile
2 1,368 (19.47%) Full Stack Development
3 1,335 (19.00%) DevOps
4 1,081 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
5 1,030 (14.66%) Software Engineering
6 874 (12.44%) Microservices
7 872 (12.41%) CI/CD
8 758 (10.79%) TDD
9 698 (9.94%) MVC
10 696 (9.91%) Front End Development
11 651 (9.27%) Computer Science
12 607 (8.64%) Scrum
13 555 (7.90%) Mentoring
14 553 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
15 545 (7.76%) User Experience
16 536 (7.63%) Web Development
17 522 (7.43%) Unit Testing
18 454 (6.46%) Analytics
19 427 (6.08%) Fintech
20 423 (6.02%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2,730 (38.86%) JavaScript
2 2,389 (34.01%) C#
3 2,153 (30.65%) SQL
4 1,595 (22.70%) Java
5 1,119 (15.93%) TypeScript
6 1,109 (15.79%) Python
7 558 (7.94%) PHP
8 385 (5.48%) T-SQL
9 369 (5.25%) C++
10 164 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 125 (1.78%) VB.NET
12 124 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 116 (1.65%) PowerShell
14 101 (1.44%) Ruby
15 99 (1.41%) Go
16 95 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 89 (1.27%) Scala
18 79 (1.12%) VB
19 65 (0.93%) Bash
19 65 (0.93%) C
Qualifications
1 1,066 (15.17%) Degree
2 432 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 405 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 343 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 118 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 51 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 49 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (0.61%) PhD
9 37 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 15 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
12 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.100%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.085%) MCPD
14 6 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.071%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.071%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.057%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.043%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (4.78%) QA
2 74 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 43 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 40 (0.57%) WCAG
5 30 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.14%) GDPR
9 7 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.085%) PMO
11 3 (0.043%) GRC
11 3 (0.043%) NCSC
11 3 (0.043%) SLA
12 2 (0.028%) MISRA
12 2 (0.028%) WAI
13 1 (0.014%) COREP
13 1 (0.014%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.014%) EMIR
13 1 (0.014%) IFRS
13 1 (0.014%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 816 (11.62%) Docker
2 38 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.13%) OpenSIPS
4 8 (0.11%) Firmware
5 5 (0.071%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 5 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.071%) FreeRADIUS
5 5 (0.071%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.043%) HDFS
6 3 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.028%) Postfix
7 2 (0.028%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.028%) vSphere
8 1 (0.014%) Varnish
8 1 (0.014%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 613 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 209 (2.98%) Terraform
3 75 (1.07%) Ansible
4 17 (0.24%) Grafana
5 12 (0.17%) Kibana
6 11 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.11%) SCCM
8 7 (0.100%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.085%) Control-M
9 6 (0.085%) MIIS
9 6 (0.085%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.071%) SELinux
11 4 (0.057%) Packer
12 3 (0.043%) cPanel
13 2 (0.028%) BMC PATROL
14 1 (0.014%) FlexNet
14 1 (0.014%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.014%) Matomo
14 1 (0.014%) Plesk
14 1 (0.014%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,038 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 295 (4.20%) Oracle
3 178 (2.53%) Google
4 121 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 62 (0.88%) SAP
6 58 (0.83%) Adobe
7 55 (0.78%) IBM
8 53 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 49 (0.70%) Xamarin
10 27 (0.38%) TIBCO
11 24 (0.34%) Finsemble
11 24 (0.34%) Sitecore
12 23 (0.33%) Atlassian
13 22 (0.31%) WSO2
14 19 (0.27%) Databricks
15 18 (0.26%) Apple
16 16 (0.23%) Alteryx
17 15 (0.21%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.20%) Siebel
18 14 (0.20%) Sybase