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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,873 4,180 14,402
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.23% 10.51% 15.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.74% 11.67% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,705 2,975 12,249
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £75,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year - +8.75% -15.12%

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 78,596 35,808 90,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.04% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 55,264 20,815 66,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,821 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
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 19 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 19 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 +2 2,027 £80,000 +4.58% 355
North of England +12 1,863 £55,000 - 252
South East +9 1,151 £60,000 +9.09% 248
North West +9 964 £55,000 - 131
Midlands +4 887 £55,000 - 145
Yorkshire +26 606 £55,000 -8.33% 73
South West -2 520 £55,000 - 94
West Midlands -2 474 £60,000 +9.09% 88
East Midlands +24 412 £50,000 -4.76% 57
East of England +25 388 £60,000 +9.09% 75
North East +20 293 £57,500 +4.55% 53
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 1,596 (23.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,402 (20.40%) .NET
3 1,397 (20.33%) C#
4 1,276 (18.57%) Azure
5 1,249 (18.17%) SQL
6 1,195 (17.39%) Agile
7 1,080 (15.71%) JavaScript
8 948 (13.79%) Microsoft
9 946 (13.76%) AWS
10 916 (13.33%) Python
11 864 (12.57%) Java
12 859 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 849 (12.35%) React
14 793 (11.54%) TypeScript
15 729 (10.61%) DevOps
16 713 (10.37%) Software Engineering
17 664 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
18 639 (9.30%) AI
19 579 (8.42%) HTML
20 568 (8.26%) CSS
21 525 (7.64%) .NET Core
22 494 (7.19%) Microservices
23 487 (7.09%) Node.js
24 481 (7.00%) ASP.NET
25 467 (6.79%) SQL Server
26 451 (6.56%) Docker
27 444 (6.46%) Mentoring
28 443 (6.45%) Power Platform
29 436 (6.34%) PHP
30 432 (6.29%) RESTful

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
1 138 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 52 (0.76%) CMS
3 48 (0.70%) WordPress
4 25 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 24 (0.35%) Confluence
6 21 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.29%) ColdFusion
8 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 17 (0.25%) IIS
10 15 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 14 (0.20%) Apache
12 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.15%) JBoss
14 9 (0.13%) Mule
14 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
15 8 (0.12%) Drupal
15 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
16 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
17 6 (0.087%) Appian
17 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.015%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 19 (0.28%) Visualfiles
5 14 (0.20%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.087%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.058%) Magento
11 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.044%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
13 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,276 (18.57%) Azure
2 946 (13.76%) AWS
3 443 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 337 (4.90%) GitHub
5 308 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 289 (4.20%) SaaS
7 275 (4.00%) Serverless
8 222 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 213 (3.10%) PowerApps
10 212 (3.08%) Power Automate
11 174 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
12 147 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 136 (1.98%) GCP
14 130 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
15 122 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
16 119 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
17 114 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
18 111 (1.62%) Azure AI
19 103 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
20 75 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (1.57%) Internet
2 67 (0.97%) Broadband
3 31 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 13 (0.19%) HTTP
6 10 (0.15%) SSL
7 7 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
9 5 (0.073%) DNS
9 5 (0.073%) RTP
10 4 (0.058%) MQTT
10 4 (0.058%) TETRA
11 3 (0.044%) AMQP
11 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.044%) LAN
11 3 (0.044%) Network Security
11 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.044%) WAN
11 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 321 (4.67%) MongoDB
3 319 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 255 (3.71%) Power BI
5 170 (2.47%) MySQL
6 167 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 129 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 124 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 116 (1.69%) DynamoDB
10 108 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 55 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 50 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
13 45 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 42 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (0.54%) Redis
17 33 (0.48%) OLTP
18 20 (0.29%) RDBMS
19 18 (0.26%) MariaDB
19 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 401 (5.83%) Git
2 154 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 85 (1.24%) JIRA
4 79 (1.15%) GitLab
5 53 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.77%) Maven
6 40 (0.58%) JUnit
7 35 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 20 (0.29%) Gradle
8 20 (0.29%) Subversion
9 19 (0.28%) Eclipse
10 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.25%) Mockito
12 15 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 13 (0.19%) Selenium
14 13 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 892 (12.98%) Finance
2 634 (9.22%) Social Skills
3 221 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (2.74%) Law
5 175 (2.55%) Public Sector
6 173 (2.52%) Front Office
7 167 (2.43%) Retail
8 161 (2.34%) Banking
9 139 (2.02%) Marketing
10 100 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 97 (1.41%) Games
12 93 (1.35%) Legal
13 80 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 57 (0.83%) Advertising
15 43 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
17 28 (0.41%) Multimedia
18 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
19 25 (0.36%) Automotive
19 25 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,402 (20.40%) .NET
2 849 (12.35%) React
3 579 (8.42%) HTML
4 568 (8.26%) CSS
5 525 (7.64%) .NET Core
6 487 (7.09%) Node.js
7 481 (7.00%) ASP.NET
8 432 (6.29%) RESTful
9 409 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 406 (5.91%) REST
11 362 (5.27%) ASP.NET Core
12 326 (4.74%) Vue
13 223 (3.24%) Spring
14 210 (3.06%) Spring Boot
15 189 (2.75%) Laravel
16 180 (2.62%) Blazor
17 170 (2.47%) Entity Framework
18 158 (2.30%) SOAP
19 141 (2.05%) .NET Framework
20 128 (1.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 264 (3.84%) Mobile App
2 221 (3.22%) Cloud Native
3 200 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
4 147 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 141 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 139 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 110 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 103 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 96 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 83 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 80 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 78 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 61 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 61 (0.89%) Management Information System
14 52 (0.76%) Equities
15 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
16 37 (0.54%) Derivative
16 37 (0.54%) PropTech
17 34 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (2.50%) Linux
2 144 (2.10%) Android
3 137 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 75 (1.09%) Windows
5 16 (0.23%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.087%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.073%) Debian
9 5 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.015%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,596 (23.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,195 (17.39%) Agile
3 859 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 729 (10.61%) DevOps
5 713 (10.37%) Software Engineering
6 664 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
7 639 (9.30%) AI
8 494 (7.19%) Microservices
9 444 (6.46%) Mentoring
10 421 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 373 (5.43%) Front End Development
12 361 (5.25%) Clean Code
13 350 (5.09%) Computer Science
14 322 (4.68%) Web Development
15 314 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
16 307 (4.47%) SDLC
17 288 (4.19%) Analytics
18 260 (3.78%) User Experience
19 250 (3.64%) TDD
20 249 (3.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,397 (20.33%) C#
2 1,249 (18.17%) SQL
3 1,080 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 916 (13.33%) Python
5 864 (12.57%) Java
6 793 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 436 (6.34%) PHP
8 308 (4.48%) C++
9 119 (1.73%) Go
10 99 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 72 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 71 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 64 (0.93%) C
15 57 (0.83%) Swift
16 56 (0.81%) Bash
16 56 (0.81%) PowerShell
17 49 (0.71%) Ruby
18 48 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 46 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 403 (5.86%) Degree
2 327 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 262 (3.81%) SC Cleared
4 224 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 58 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 51 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 27 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.19%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.073%) HND
16 4 (0.058%) ACCA
16 4 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 118 (1.72%) QA
3 52 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 33 (0.48%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.35%) GDPR
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 11 (0.16%) NCSC
9 10 (0.15%) NIST
10 5 (0.073%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.044%) SLA
12 3 (0.044%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) GAAP
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) IFRS
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
13 2 (0.029%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 451 (6.56%) Docker
2 25 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.058%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 310 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 141 (2.05%) Terraform
3 27 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 26 (0.38%) HP Fortify
5 19 (0.28%) Ansible
6 12 (0.17%) Grafana
7 11 (0.16%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.073%) Argo
9 5 (0.073%) CloudHub
10 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.058%) Podman
11 3 (0.044%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.044%) Nagios
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
13 1 (0.015%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.015%) logstash
Vendors
1 948 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 156 (2.27%) Oracle
3 154 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 71 (1.03%) ServiceNow
5 66 (0.96%) Google
6 52 (0.76%) IBM
7 50 (0.73%) SAP
8 37 (0.54%) Facebook
8 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 33 (0.48%) iManage
9 33 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 32 (0.47%) Databricks
11 27 (0.39%) Informatica
12 25 (0.36%) Cognos
12 25 (0.36%) Intapp
13 23 (0.33%) Apple
14 22 (0.32%) Splunk
15 21 (0.31%) Adobe
16 20 (0.29%) Xamarin
17 19 (0.28%) Dynatrace