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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,318 8,285 7,248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.49% 13.66% 15.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.24% 14.40% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 5,617 6,427
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £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 £113,750 £97,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,572 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.72% -8.35% +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 40,271 57,548 45,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 94.92% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,710 32,582 35,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 8 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 8 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 1,326 £80,000 +3.23% 1,853
North of England -23 649 £58,000 +10.48% 661
South East -22 511 £60,000 - 1,721
Midlands -17 384 £53,574 +7.15% 347
North West -20 357 £60,000 +14.29% 465
South West -17 258 £52,500 +5.00% 225
West Midlands -12 254 £55,000 +10.00% 188
Yorkshire -25 223 £55,000 +10.00% 142
East of England -31 154 £52,500 +5.00% 162
East Midlands -27 130 £47,500 - 154
North East -19 71 £50,000 -4.76% 58
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 1,169 (35.23%) Agile
2 1,100 (33.15%) JavaScript
3 955 (28.78%) Azure
4 893 (26.91%) C#
5 867 (26.13%) SQL
6 802 (24.17%) AWS
7 797 (24.02%) .NET
8 710 (21.40%) Python
9 707 (21.31%) React
10 654 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
11 613 (18.47%) CI/CD
12 598 (18.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 586 (17.66%) Java
14 570 (17.18%) HTML
15 552 (16.64%) TypeScript
16 539 (16.24%) CSS
16 539 (16.24%) DevOps
17 528 (15.91%) Microsoft
18 477 (14.38%) Software Engineering
19 442 (13.32%) Git
20 409 (12.33%) SQL Server
21 399 (12.03%) Mentoring
22 387 (11.66%) Microservices
23 365 (11.00%) Power Platform
24 362 (10.91%) REST
25 358 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
26 351 (10.58%) AngularJS
27 344 (10.37%) User Experience
28 342 (10.31%) RESTful
29 339 (10.22%) Node.js

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 80 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 73 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (1.87%) CMS
4 43 (1.30%) Confluence
5 34 (1.02%) WordPress
6 23 (0.69%) Apache
7 21 (0.63%) Appian
8 19 (0.57%) Umbraco
9 18 (0.54%) IIS
10 14 (0.42%) Headless CMS
11 13 (0.39%) Apache Spark
12 8 (0.24%) nginx
13 7 (0.21%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.21%) JBoss
13 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.18%) Drupal
14 6 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.30%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) Elementor
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.090%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.090%) Lectora
8 3 (0.090%) Snagit
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.060%) InVision
Business Applications
1 77 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.72%) Shopify
3 17 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 11 (0.33%) Magento
7 10 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
8 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.12%) Endur
9 4 (0.12%) Maximo
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) Sage 1000
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.090%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.090%) Primavera
11 2 (0.060%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 955 (28.78%) Azure
2 802 (24.17%) AWS
3 365 (11.00%) Power Platform
4 240 (7.23%) GCP
5 229 (6.90%) GitHub
6 221 (6.66%) Serverless
7 191 (5.76%) SaaS
8 161 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
9 149 (4.49%) Power Automate
10 148 (4.46%) PowerApps
11 142 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
12 83 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
14 71 (2.14%) dbt
15 69 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
16 62 (1.87%) Amazon S3
17 55 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
18 54 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
19 53 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.99%) Internet
2 29 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.51%) Broadband
4 11 (0.33%) HTTP
5 8 (0.24%) Multicast
5 8 (0.24%) WPA
6 7 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.12%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.12%) FTP
7 4 (0.12%) Intranet
7 4 (0.12%) MQTT
7 4 (0.12%) SMS
8 3 (0.090%) Network Security
8 3 (0.090%) VPN
9 2 (0.060%) AMQP
9 2 (0.060%) DNS
9 2 (0.060%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.060%) RS-232
9 2 (0.060%) RS-485
9 2 (0.060%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 247 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 228 (6.87%) Power BI
4 194 (5.85%) MySQL
5 188 (5.67%) Relational Database
6 152 (4.58%) NoSQL
7 140 (4.22%) MongoDB
8 90 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
9 76 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 68 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
11 67 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
11 67 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
12 66 (1.99%) DynamoDB
13 63 (1.90%) Apache Arrow
13 63 (1.90%) Dremio
14 56 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 51 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 49 (1.48%) RDBMS
17 45 (1.36%) Redis
18 31 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 442 (13.32%) Git
2 133 (4.01%) JIRA
3 100 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.69%) JUnit
5 44 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.30%) Mockito
6 43 (1.30%) Visual Studio
7 37 (1.12%) GitLab
8 28 (0.84%) Maven
9 26 (0.78%) Selenium
10 25 (0.75%) JMeter
11 24 (0.72%) webpack
12 23 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 22 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 21 (0.63%) TeamCity
15 18 (0.54%) Postman
16 16 (0.48%) Storybook
17 14 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
18 13 (0.39%) Cucumber
18 13 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 741 (22.33%) Finance
2 728 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 249 (7.50%) Front Office
4 223 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (5.46%) Law
6 174 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 173 (5.21%) Banking
8 166 (5.00%) Marketing
9 102 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 99 (2.98%) Retail
11 76 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 62 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 60 (1.81%) Games
14 58 (1.75%) Multimedia
15 53 (1.60%) Legal
16 41 (1.24%) Back Office
17 37 (1.12%) Electronics
18 35 (1.05%) Health Technology
19 29 (0.87%) Publishing
20 28 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 797 (24.02%) .NET
2 707 (21.31%) React
3 570 (17.18%) HTML
4 539 (16.24%) CSS
5 362 (10.91%) REST
6 351 (10.58%) AngularJS
7 342 (10.31%) RESTful
8 339 (10.22%) Node.js
9 254 (7.66%) Vue
10 219 (6.60%) ASP.NET
11 214 (6.45%) .NET Core
12 180 (5.42%) .NET Framework
13 166 (5.00%) Spring
14 146 (4.40%) Web Services
15 141 (4.25%) Spring Boot
16 130 (3.92%) JSON
17 124 (3.74%) Kafka
18 119 (3.59%) HTML5
19 108 (3.25%) GraphQL
20 102 (3.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.40%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.13%) Fixed Income
3 132 (3.98%) Equities
4 121 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 111 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 103 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
8 96 (2.89%) Mobile App
9 92 (2.77%) Onboarding
10 84 (2.53%) Data Structures
10 84 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
12 79 (2.38%) Algorithms
13 63 (1.90%) Hedge funds
14 57 (1.72%) Management Information System
15 40 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (1.12%) Derivative
17 30 (0.90%) IoT
18 29 (0.87%) Low-Code
19 24 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (5.09%) Linux
2 79 (2.38%) Android
3 71 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 58 (1.75%) Windows
5 27 (0.81%) Unix
6 14 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.060%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.030%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (35.23%) Agile
2 654 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
3 613 (18.47%) CI/CD
4 598 (18.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 539 (16.24%) DevOps
6 477 (14.38%) Software Engineering
7 399 (12.03%) Mentoring
8 387 (11.66%) Microservices
9 358 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 344 (10.37%) User Experience
11 305 (9.19%) AI
11 305 (9.19%) Clean Code
12 300 (9.04%) Test Automation
13 270 (8.14%) Front End Development
14 266 (8.02%) Computer Science
15 259 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
16 258 (7.78%) TDD
17 256 (7.72%) Scrum
18 215 (6.48%) SDLC
19 212 (6.39%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (33.15%) JavaScript
2 893 (26.91%) C#
3 867 (26.13%) SQL
4 710 (21.40%) Python
5 586 (17.66%) Java
6 552 (16.64%) TypeScript
7 184 (5.55%) PHP
8 176 (5.30%) C++
9 72 (2.17%) Go
9 72 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 66 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 54 (1.63%) C
12 52 (1.57%) Kotlin
13 49 (1.48%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 39 (1.18%) VB.NET
16 37 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 32 (0.96%) Swift
18 30 (0.90%) Ruby
19 29 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 336 (10.13%) Degree
2 211 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 166 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 141 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 85 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 73 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 63 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 53 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 49 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 33 (0.99%) PhD
12 31 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
15 12 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 2 (0.060%) IBM Certification
18 2 (0.060%) MCSA
18 2 (0.060%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.73%) QA
2 123 (3.71%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.18%) GDPR
4 35 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.48%) WCAG
6 11 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.30%) SLA
8 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.12%) PERC
10 3 (0.090%) MiFID
10 3 (0.090%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.060%) EMIR
11 2 (0.060%) GRC
11 2 (0.060%) PSD2
12 1 (0.030%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.030%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.030%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.030%) MISRA
12 1 (0.030%) PMO
12 1 (0.030%) SOC 2
System Software
1 318 (9.58%) Docker
2 18 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.15%) zsh
5 4 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.060%) Postfix
8 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 226 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 107 (3.22%) Terraform
3 23 (0.69%) Kibana
4 19 (0.57%) Ansible
5 16 (0.48%) Grafana
6 11 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.12%) Argo
9 4 (0.12%) CloudHub
9 4 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.090%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.060%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.060%) logstash
12 1 (0.030%) cPanel
12 1 (0.030%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.030%) Plesk
12 1 (0.030%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.030%) QRadar
12 1 (0.030%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 528 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 112 (3.38%) Oracle
3 106 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 64 (1.93%) SAP
5 55 (1.66%) Databricks
6 50 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 49 (1.48%) Google
7 49 (1.48%) Guidewire
8 39 (1.18%) Splunk
9 38 (1.15%) Atlassian
10 34 (1.02%) Blue Prism
11 30 (0.90%) IBM
12 27 (0.81%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.66%) Adobe
15 17 (0.51%) Apple
15 17 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 16 (0.48%) Facebook
16 16 (0.48%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.48%) Xamarin