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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,967 4,288 13,649
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.11% 10.19% 14.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.61% 11.26% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,817 3,073 11,554
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £75,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year - +5.73% -12.69%

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 80,925 38,071 87,152
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 90.46% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,966 22,660 64,145
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,870 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,806 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 2,008 £80,000 - 564
North of England +12 1,882 £55,000 -4.35% 306
South East +9 1,174 £60,000 +9.09% 290
North West +9 970 £55,000 -4.35% 149
Midlands +3 894 £55,000 - 199
Yorkshire +25 592 £55,000 -8.33% 93
South West -2 548 £55,000 - 112
West Midlands -2 488 £60,000 +7.14% 120
East of England +28 423 £60,000 +11.63% 103
East Midlands +28 405 £50,000 -4.76% 79
North East +20 320 £55,500 +0.91% 68
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 1,687 (24.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,508 (21.64%) C#
3 1,497 (21.49%) .NET
4 1,405 (20.17%) Azure
5 1,352 (19.41%) SQL
6 1,295 (18.59%) Agile
7 1,118 (16.05%) JavaScript
8 1,088 (15.62%) Microsoft
9 996 (14.30%) AWS
10 911 (13.08%) CI/CD
11 900 (12.92%) Python
12 866 (12.43%) Java
13 863 (12.39%) React
14 840 (12.06%) TypeScript
15 774 (11.11%) DevOps
16 729 (10.46%) Software Engineering
17 689 (9.89%) AI
18 686 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
19 620 (8.90%) .NET Core
20 603 (8.66%) HTML
21 592 (8.50%) CSS
22 585 (8.40%) ASP.NET
23 548 (7.87%) Microservices
24 527 (7.56%) Node.js
25 494 (7.09%) Docker
26 487 (6.99%) SQL Server
27 476 (6.83%) RESTful
28 473 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
28 473 (6.79%) Power Platform
29 444 (6.37%) AngularJS

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
1 144 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 55 (0.79%) CMS
3 47 (0.67%) WordPress
4 24 (0.34%) Umbraco
5 23 (0.33%) Confluence
5 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
7 19 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 19 (0.27%) IIS
8 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.20%) Apache
10 13 (0.19%) Mule
11 9 (0.13%) JBoss
11 9 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.11%) Drupal
12 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 8 (0.11%) OpenEdge
13 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.10%) Appian
14 6 (0.086%) CICS
Applications
1 49 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.043%) 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 54 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 21 (0.30%) Shopify
4 20 (0.29%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.057%) Magento
9 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.057%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,405 (20.17%) Azure
2 996 (14.30%) AWS
3 473 (6.79%) Power Platform
4 366 (5.25%) GitHub
5 351 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
6 279 (4.00%) SaaS
7 271 (3.89%) Serverless
8 236 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 236 (3.39%) Power Automate
9 234 (3.36%) PowerApps
10 171 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
12 154 (2.21%) GCP
13 147 (2.11%) Azure AI
14 143 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
15 142 (2.04%) Amazon S3
16 119 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 118 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
18 103 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
19 77 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 111 (1.59%) Internet
2 63 (0.90%) Broadband
3 29 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 13 (0.19%) SSL
7 8 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.086%) Intranet
8 6 (0.086%) MQTT
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 4 (0.057%) DNS
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%) Wireless
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) AMQP
12 2 (0.029%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 425 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 415 (5.96%) MongoDB
4 276 (3.96%) Power BI
5 181 (2.60%) MySQL
6 177 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 151 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 132 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 121 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 120 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 44 (0.63%) Redis
15 43 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
16 34 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
17 31 (0.44%) OLTP
18 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.27%) MariaDB
20 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 401 (5.76%) Git
2 152 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 84 (1.21%) GitLab
5 54 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 54 (0.78%) Maven
6 40 (0.57%) JUnit
7 39 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 25 (0.36%) Eclipse
9 24 (0.34%) Subversion
10 20 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 20 (0.29%) Gradle
11 19 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
13 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.22%) Mockito
15 14 (0.20%) fastlane
16 12 (0.17%) Selenium
17 11 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 905 (12.99%) Finance
2 650 (9.33%) Social Skills
3 214 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (2.80%) Law
5 178 (2.55%) Retail
6 173 (2.48%) Front Office
6 173 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 154 (2.21%) Banking
8 143 (2.05%) Marketing
9 106 (1.52%) Games
9 106 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 92 (1.32%) Legal
11 81 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 72 (1.03%) Advertising
13 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 38 (0.55%) Tech for Good
15 27 (0.39%) Automotive
16 26 (0.37%) Health Technology
17 25 (0.36%) Aerospace
18 24 (0.34%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,497 (21.49%) .NET
2 863 (12.39%) React
3 620 (8.90%) .NET Core
4 603 (8.66%) HTML
5 592 (8.50%) CSS
6 585 (8.40%) ASP.NET
7 527 (7.56%) Node.js
8 476 (6.83%) RESTful
9 473 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
10 444 (6.37%) AngularJS
11 409 (5.87%) REST
12 372 (5.34%) Vue
13 223 (3.20%) Blazor
14 218 (3.13%) Spring
15 210 (3.01%) Entity Framework
16 207 (2.97%) Spring Boot
17 192 (2.76%) Laravel
18 162 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
19 154 (2.21%) .NET Framework
20 143 (2.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 236 (3.39%) Mobile App
2 231 (3.32%) Cloud Native
3 214 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
4 154 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 144 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
6 143 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 107 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 106 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 94 (1.35%) Fixed Income
10 88 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 80 (1.15%) Hedge funds
13 77 (1.11%) Low-Code
14 64 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 59 (0.85%) Management Information System
16 52 (0.75%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Derivative
18 35 (0.50%) PropTech
18 35 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
18 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 173 (2.48%) Linux
2 141 (2.02%) Android
3 133 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 83 (1.19%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.086%) Debian
8 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,687 (24.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,295 (18.59%) Agile
3 911 (13.08%) CI/CD
4 774 (11.11%) DevOps
5 729 (10.46%) Software Engineering
6 689 (9.89%) AI
7 686 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
8 548 (7.87%) Microservices
9 443 (6.36%) Mentoring
10 440 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 369 (5.30%) Front End Development
12 368 (5.28%) Clean Code
13 362 (5.20%) Computer Science
14 333 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
15 319 (4.58%) Web Development
16 311 (4.46%) SDLC
17 291 (4.18%) Analytics
18 276 (3.96%) Machine Learning
19 271 (3.89%) TDD
20 267 (3.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,508 (21.64%) C#
2 1,352 (19.41%) SQL
3 1,118 (16.05%) JavaScript
4 900 (12.92%) Python
5 866 (12.43%) Java
6 840 (12.06%) TypeScript
7 437 (6.27%) PHP
8 310 (4.45%) C++
9 122 (1.75%) Go
10 95 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 75 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 59 (0.85%) C
14 59 (0.85%) PowerShell
15 58 (0.83%) Swift
16 56 (0.80%) Bash
17 52 (0.75%) Rust
18 51 (0.73%) Ruby
19 49 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 413 (5.93%) Degree
2 347 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 280 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 238 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 44 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.14%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.086%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.086%) HND
16 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.057%) ACCA
17 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
18 3 (0.043%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (1.95%) Accessibility
2 124 (1.78%) QA
3 52 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 36 (0.52%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
6 24 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 10 (0.14%) NCSC
9 8 (0.11%) NIST
10 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.072%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.072%) SLA
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
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%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.014%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 494 (7.09%) Docker
2 24 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
5 5 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 349 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 147 (2.11%) Terraform
3 29 (0.42%) HP Fortify
4 27 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.27%) Ansible
6 15 (0.22%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) CloudHub
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.086%) Argo
10 4 (0.057%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.057%) 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
12 2 (0.029%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,088 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 161 (2.31%) Salesforce
3 149 (2.14%) Oracle
4 81 (1.16%) ServiceNow
5 80 (1.15%) Google
6 57 (0.82%) IBM
7 48 (0.69%) Facebook
8 47 (0.67%) SAP
9 38 (0.55%) Databricks
10 37 (0.53%) OpenAI
11 35 (0.50%) MuleSoft
12 34 (0.49%) iManage
13 31 (0.44%) Informatica
14 27 (0.39%) Cognos
15 25 (0.36%) Apple
15 25 (0.36%) Intapp
16 23 (0.33%) Splunk
17 21 (0.30%) Adobe
17 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
18 20 (0.29%) Blue Prism