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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7,005 4,347 13,098
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.08% 10.09% 14.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.57% 11.16% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,857 3,111 11,033
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £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 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 81,756 38,938 85,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 90.41% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57,481 23,375 62,455
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +5.99% -11.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 9 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 9 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 +1 1,998 £80,000 - 455
North of England +10 1,888 £55,000 -4.35% 307
South East +9 1,189 £60,000 +9.09% 269
North West +9 966 £55,000 -4.35% 153
Midlands +3 907 £55,000 - 163
Yorkshire +22 598 £55,000 -8.33% 86
South West -2 554 £55,000 - 111
West Midlands -1 501 £60,000 +7.14% 92
East of England +27 430 £60,000 +11.63% 93
East Midlands +28 405 £50,000 -4.76% 70
North East +15 324 £55,000 - 72
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,739 (24.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,566 (22.36%) C#
3 1,550 (22.13%) .NET
4 1,448 (20.67%) Azure
5 1,402 (20.01%) SQL
6 1,336 (19.07%) Agile
7 1,151 (16.43%) JavaScript
8 1,147 (16.37%) Microsoft
9 1,020 (14.56%) AWS
10 945 (13.49%) CI/CD
11 899 (12.83%) Python
12 884 (12.62%) React
13 869 (12.41%) TypeScript
14 863 (12.32%) Java
15 790 (11.28%) DevOps
16 723 (10.32%) Software Engineering
17 715 (10.21%) AI
18 696 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
19 655 (9.35%) .NET Core
20 635 (9.06%) ASP.NET
21 626 (8.94%) HTML
22 616 (8.79%) CSS
23 575 (8.21%) Microservices
24 547 (7.81%) Node.js
25 522 (7.45%) ASP.NET Core
26 515 (7.35%) Docker
27 495 (7.07%) RESTful
28 490 (7.00%) SQL Server
29 482 (6.88%) Power Platform
30 469 (6.70%) Azure SQL Database

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
1 147 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 56 (0.80%) CMS
3 48 (0.69%) WordPress
4 23 (0.33%) Confluence
4 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 20 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 19 (0.27%) IIS
8 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.21%) 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
13 7 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.100%) Appian
14 6 (0.086%) CICS
14 6 (0.086%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) 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 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 20 (0.29%) Shopify
3 20 (0.29%) Visualfiles
4 15 (0.21%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.057%) Magento
8 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.043%) Oracle CRM
9 3 (0.043%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,448 (20.67%) Azure
2 1,020 (14.56%) AWS
3 482 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 389 (5.55%) GitHub
5 366 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 278 (3.97%) SaaS
7 274 (3.91%) Serverless
8 241 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
9 239 (3.41%) Power Automate
10 238 (3.40%) PowerApps
11 174 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
12 172 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
13 160 (2.28%) Azure AI
14 156 (2.23%) GCP
15 145 (2.07%) Amazon S3
16 144 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
17 123 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
18 120 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
19 104 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
20 81 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.64%) Internet
2 63 (0.90%) Broadband
3 27 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 13 (0.19%) SSL
7 7 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.086%) Intranet
8 6 (0.086%) MQTT
9 5 (0.071%) RTP
9 5 (0.071%) Wireless
10 4 (0.057%) DNS
11 3 (0.043%) Bluetooth
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%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 469 (6.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 455 (6.50%) MongoDB
4 278 (3.97%) Power BI
5 190 (2.71%) MySQL
6 182 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 166 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
8 133 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 125 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 123 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 58 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 45 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (0.64%) Redis
15 35 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (0.41%) OLTP
17 21 (0.30%) MariaDB
17 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 410 (5.85%) Git
2 153 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 84 (1.20%) GitLab
5 54 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 53 (0.76%) Maven
7 40 (0.57%) JUnit
8 39 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 25 (0.36%) Subversion
11 21 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 20 (0.29%) Gradle
13 19 (0.27%) CircleCI
14 18 (0.26%) Visual Studio
15 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
16 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
17 14 (0.20%) fastlane
17 14 (0.20%) Mockito
18 12 (0.17%) Selenium
19 11 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 919 (13.12%) Finance
2 662 (9.45%) Social Skills
3 214 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (2.84%) Law
5 178 (2.54%) Retail
6 172 (2.46%) Front Office
7 169 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 155 (2.21%) Banking
9 149 (2.13%) Marketing
10 113 (1.61%) Games
11 107 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 92 (1.31%) Legal
13 81 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 80 (1.14%) Advertising
15 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 38 (0.54%) Tech for Good
17 27 (0.39%) Aerospace
17 27 (0.39%) Automotive
18 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,550 (22.13%) .NET
2 884 (12.62%) React
3 655 (9.35%) .NET Core
4 635 (9.06%) ASP.NET
5 626 (8.94%) HTML
6 616 (8.79%) CSS
7 547 (7.81%) Node.js
8 522 (7.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 495 (7.07%) RESTful
10 462 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 413 (5.90%) REST
12 389 (5.55%) Vue
13 241 (3.44%) Blazor
14 233 (3.33%) Entity Framework
15 221 (3.15%) Spring
16 210 (3.00%) Spring Boot
17 201 (2.87%) Laravel
18 181 (2.58%) ASP.NET Web API
19 166 (2.37%) .NET Framework
20 144 (2.06%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 230 (3.28%) Cloud Native
2 228 (3.25%) Mobile App
3 226 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 160 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
5 147 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 142 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 107 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 104 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 95 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 89 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 84 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 81 (1.16%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.08%) Low-Code
14 65 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 61 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.76%) Equities
17 38 (0.54%) Derivative
18 35 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
18 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
19 34 (0.49%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.51%) Linux
2 139 (1.98%) Android
3 132 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 84 (1.20%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.100%) Debian
8 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.071%) 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 1,739 (24.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,336 (19.07%) Agile
3 945 (13.49%) CI/CD
4 790 (11.28%) DevOps
5 723 (10.32%) Software Engineering
6 715 (10.21%) AI
7 696 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
8 575 (8.21%) Microservices
9 448 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 442 (6.31%) Mentoring
11 372 (5.31%) Front End Development
12 370 (5.28%) Clean Code
13 362 (5.17%) Computer Science
14 339 (4.84%) Business Intelligence
15 327 (4.67%) Web Development
16 309 (4.41%) SDLC
17 298 (4.25%) Analytics
18 292 (4.17%) Machine Learning
19 283 (4.04%) TDD
20 278 (3.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,566 (22.36%) C#
2 1,402 (20.01%) SQL
3 1,151 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 899 (12.83%) Python
5 869 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 863 (12.32%) Java
7 448 (6.40%) PHP
8 305 (4.35%) C++
9 122 (1.74%) Go
10 97 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 76 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 67 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 59 (0.84%) C
14 59 (0.84%) PowerShell
14 59 (0.84%) Swift
15 56 (0.80%) Bash
15 56 (0.80%) Ruby
16 53 (0.76%) Rust
17 48 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 418 (5.97%) Degree
2 343 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 279 (3.98%) SC Cleared
4 243 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 42 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 28 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.14%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.100%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.086%) HND
18 4 (0.057%) ACCA
18 4 (0.057%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 125 (1.78%) QA
3 53 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.53%) 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 6 (0.086%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.086%) SLA
11 5 (0.071%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
12 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
13 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.029%) JTAG
14 2 (0.029%) MiFID
14 2 (0.029%) PMO
15 1 (0.014%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 515 (7.35%) Docker
2 24 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
5 4 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 367 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 153 (2.18%) Terraform
3 29 (0.41%) HP Fortify
4 27 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.27%) Ansible
6 15 (0.21%) 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
11 3 (0.043%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.029%) logstash
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
12 2 (0.029%) Puppet
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,147 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 165 (2.36%) Salesforce
3 147 (2.10%) Oracle
4 91 (1.30%) Google
5 82 (1.17%) ServiceNow
6 58 (0.83%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 47 (0.67%) SAP
9 40 (0.57%) Databricks
10 38 (0.54%) OpenAI
11 37 (0.53%) MuleSoft
12 35 (0.50%) iManage
13 32 (0.46%) Informatica
14 28 (0.40%) Cognos
15 25 (0.36%) Apple
16 23 (0.33%) Intapp
16 23 (0.33%) Splunk
17 21 (0.30%) Adobe
17 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.30%) YouTube