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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,899 4,167 13,833
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.15% 10.33% 14.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.65% 11.47% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,746 2,965 11,730
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £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 £75,188 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 79,755 36,318 87,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.01% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,088 21,224 64,679
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 27 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 27 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 +3 2,016 £80,000 +3.23% 396
North of England +12 1,874 £55,000 -4.35% 273
South East +10 1,152 £60,000 +9.09% 274
North West +9 967 £55,000 - 127
Midlands +3 882 £55,000 +0.64% 168
Yorkshire +25 594 £55,000 -8.33% 92
South West -1 530 £55,000 - 101
West Midlands -3 477 £60,000 +9.09% 104
East of England +26 409 £60,000 +9.09% 84
East Midlands +29 404 £50,000 -4.76% 64
North East +20 313 £57,500 +4.55% 59
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 1,625 (23.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,441 (20.89%) C#
3 1,433 (20.77%) .NET
4 1,341 (19.44%) Azure
5 1,297 (18.80%) SQL
6 1,242 (18.00%) Agile
7 1,099 (15.93%) JavaScript
8 1,012 (14.67%) Microsoft
9 982 (14.23%) AWS
10 912 (13.22%) Python
11 890 (12.90%) CI/CD
12 866 (12.55%) Java
13 849 (12.31%) React
14 813 (11.78%) TypeScript
15 754 (10.93%) DevOps
16 724 (10.49%) Software Engineering
17 681 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
18 666 (9.65%) AI
19 593 (8.60%) HTML
20 581 (8.42%) CSS
21 562 (8.15%) .NET Core
22 525 (7.61%) ASP.NET
23 520 (7.54%) Microservices
24 507 (7.35%) Node.js
25 487 (7.06%) SQL Server
26 476 (6.90%) Docker
27 463 (6.71%) Power Platform
28 454 (6.58%) RESTful
29 446 (6.46%) Mentoring
30 437 (6.33%) PHP

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
1 141 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 54 (0.78%) CMS
3 47 (0.68%) WordPress
4 24 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 22 (0.32%) Confluence
5 22 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
7 19 (0.28%) IIS
8 18 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 17 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.20%) Apache
11 12 (0.17%) Mule
12 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.13%) JBoss
13 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
14 8 (0.12%) Drupal
14 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
15 7 (0.10%) Appian
16 6 (0.087%) CICS
Applications
1 47 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.014%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.014%) Elementor
6 1 (0.014%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.014%) Sketch
6 1 (0.014%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 22 (0.32%) Shopify
4 19 (0.28%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
7 8 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.072%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.058%) Magento
9 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.029%) Oracle CRM
11 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,341 (19.44%) Azure
2 982 (14.23%) AWS
3 463 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 353 (5.12%) GitHub
5 328 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
6 282 (4.09%) SaaS
7 278 (4.03%) Serverless
8 231 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
9 226 (3.28%) Power Automate
10 224 (3.25%) PowerApps
11 178 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 149 (2.16%) Amazon S3
13 147 (2.13%) GCP
14 138 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
15 134 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
16 126 (1.83%) Azure AI
17 121 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
17 121 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
18 104 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 77 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (1.61%) Internet
2 66 (0.96%) Broadband
3 30 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 12 (0.17%) SSL
7 8 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
8 6 (0.087%) MQTT
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 4 (0.058%) DNS
11 3 (0.043%) AMQP
11 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.043%) LAN
11 3 (0.043%) Network Security
11 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.043%) WAN
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 363 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 360 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 267 (3.87%) Power BI
5 176 (2.55%) MySQL
6 174 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
7 129 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
7 129 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 125 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 121 (1.75%) DynamoDB
10 59 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 55 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (0.61%) Redis
14 36 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
15 33 (0.48%) OLTP
16 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
17 19 (0.28%) MariaDB
18 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 408 (5.91%) Git
2 157 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 86 (1.25%) JIRA
4 84 (1.22%) GitLab
5 54 (0.78%) Maven
6 53 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 40 (0.58%) JUnit
8 38 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 23 (0.33%) Subversion
11 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
11 20 (0.29%) Gradle
12 19 (0.28%) Claude Code
13 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.23%) Mockito
13 16 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 16 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 898 (13.02%) Finance
2 648 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 219 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (2.78%) Law
5 175 (2.54%) Front Office
6 172 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 171 (2.48%) Retail
8 159 (2.30%) Banking
9 138 (2.00%) Marketing
10 104 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 102 (1.48%) Games
12 92 (1.33%) Legal
13 80 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 65 (0.94%) Advertising
15 43 (0.62%) Investment Banking
16 39 (0.57%) Tech for Good
17 25 (0.36%) Automotive
17 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
17 25 (0.36%) Local Government
18 24 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,433 (20.77%) .NET
2 849 (12.31%) React
3 593 (8.60%) HTML
4 581 (8.42%) CSS
5 562 (8.15%) .NET Core
6 525 (7.61%) ASP.NET
7 507 (7.35%) Node.js
8 454 (6.58%) RESTful
9 423 (6.13%) AngularJS
10 410 (5.94%) ASP.NET Core
10 410 (5.94%) REST
11 345 (5.00%) Vue
12 219 (3.17%) Spring
13 207 (3.00%) Spring Boot
14 198 (2.87%) Blazor
15 189 (2.74%) Laravel
16 186 (2.70%) Entity Framework
17 151 (2.19%) SOAP
18 146 (2.12%) .NET Framework
19 139 (2.01%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 244 (3.54%) Mobile App
2 230 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 199 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 148 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
5 145 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 142 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 108 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 107 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 95 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 86 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 82 (1.19%) Hedge funds
13 79 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 63 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 60 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.77%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (0.54%) Derivative
19 35 (0.51%) PropTech
19 35 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.55%) Linux
2 140 (2.03%) Android
3 131 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 81 (1.17%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.087%) Debian
8 6 (0.087%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,625 (23.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,242 (18.00%) Agile
3 890 (12.90%) CI/CD
4 754 (10.93%) DevOps
5 724 (10.49%) Software Engineering
6 681 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
7 666 (9.65%) AI
8 520 (7.54%) Microservices
9 446 (6.46%) Mentoring
10 436 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 368 (5.33%) Clean Code
12 365 (5.29%) Front End Development
13 361 (5.23%) Computer Science
14 325 (4.71%) Business Intelligence
15 320 (4.64%) Web Development
16 311 (4.51%) SDLC
17 292 (4.23%) Analytics
18 260 (3.77%) Scrum
19 259 (3.75%) TDD
20 257 (3.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,441 (20.89%) C#
2 1,297 (18.80%) SQL
3 1,099 (15.93%) JavaScript
4 912 (13.22%) Python
5 866 (12.55%) Java
6 813 (11.78%) TypeScript
7 437 (6.33%) PHP
8 308 (4.46%) C++
9 123 (1.78%) Go
10 96 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 72 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 71 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 61 (0.88%) C
15 57 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 57 (0.83%) Swift
16 56 (0.81%) Bash
17 50 (0.72%) Ruby
17 50 (0.72%) Rust
18 48 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 414 (6.00%) Degree
2 344 (4.99%) Security Cleared
3 278 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 235 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 50 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 44 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 25 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.16%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.072%) HND
16 4 (0.058%) ACCA
16 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
17 3 (0.043%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 122 (1.77%) QA
3 52 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 34 (0.49%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
6 24 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 8 (0.12%) NIST
10 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.072%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.058%) SLA
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) MiFID
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
14 1 (0.014%) GAAP
14 1 (0.014%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 476 (6.90%) Docker
2 24 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.072%) Firmware
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 332 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.12%) Terraform
3 28 (0.41%) HP Fortify
3 28 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.28%) Ansible
5 15 (0.22%) Grafana
6 12 (0.17%) Kibana
7 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.12%) CloudHub
9 6 (0.087%) Argo
10 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.058%) Podman
11 3 (0.043%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.043%) Nagios
12 2 (0.029%) logstash
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.014%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,012 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 160 (2.32%) Salesforce
3 155 (2.25%) Oracle
4 78 (1.13%) ServiceNow
5 69 (1.00%) Google
6 56 (0.81%) IBM
7 49 (0.71%) SAP
8 41 (0.59%) Facebook
9 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 36 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 35 (0.51%) Databricks
12 33 (0.48%) iManage
13 30 (0.43%) Informatica
14 26 (0.38%) Cognos
15 25 (0.36%) Intapp
16 23 (0.33%) Apple
16 23 (0.33%) Splunk
17 21 (0.30%) Adobe
17 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
18 19 (0.28%) Blue Prism