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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,813 4,161 14,218
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.21% 10.52% 15.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.72% 11.70% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,644 2,963 12,072
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 £77,125 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 78,099 35,564 89,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.90% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 54,949 20,661 66,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,926 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +4 2,027 £80,000 +3.23% 488
North of England +12 1,846 £55,000 - 281
South East +7 1,141 £60,000 +9.09% 273
North West +9 955 £55,000 - 149
Midlands +3 866 £55,000 - 160
Yorkshire +23 604 £55,000 -8.33% 71
South West -2 515 £55,000 -0.90% 103
West Midlands -2 462 £60,000 +9.09% 89
East Midlands +28 403 £50,000 -4.76% 71
East of England +25 382 £60,000 +10.09% 95
North East +19 287 £57,500 +4.55% 63
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 1,560 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,364 (20.02%) .NET
3 1,360 (19.96%) C#
4 1,254 (18.41%) Azure
5 1,216 (17.85%) SQL
6 1,166 (17.11%) Agile
7 1,067 (15.66%) JavaScript
8 946 (13.89%) AWS
9 920 (13.50%) Python
10 912 (13.39%) Microsoft
11 858 (12.59%) Java
12 848 (12.45%) CI/CD
13 839 (12.31%) React
14 782 (11.48%) TypeScript
15 717 (10.52%) DevOps
16 712 (10.45%) Software Engineering
17 645 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
18 625 (9.17%) AI
19 573 (8.41%) HTML
20 564 (8.28%) CSS
21 496 (7.28%) .NET Core
22 491 (7.21%) Microservices
23 474 (6.96%) Node.js
24 464 (6.81%) SQL Server
25 451 (6.62%) ASP.NET
26 450 (6.61%) Mentoring
27 447 (6.56%) Docker
28 435 (6.38%) PHP
29 434 (6.37%) Power Platform
30 424 (6.22%) 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
1 134 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 52 (0.76%) CMS
3 49 (0.72%) WordPress
4 25 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.31%) Confluence
6 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.28%) ColdFusion
6 19 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.23%) IIS
8 15 (0.22%) Apache
9 14 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.16%) JBoss
10 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.13%) Mule
11 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 8 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.12%) Drupal
13 7 (0.10%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.088%) Appian
14 6 (0.088%) OpenStack
Applications
1 47 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
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 26 (0.38%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 18 (0.26%) Visualfiles
5 13 (0.19%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.10%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.088%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.044%) Magento
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 1,254 (18.41%) Azure
2 946 (13.89%) AWS
3 434 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 337 (4.95%) GitHub
5 293 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (4.26%) SaaS
7 281 (4.12%) Serverless
8 218 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
9 203 (2.98%) PowerApps
10 202 (2.96%) Power Automate
11 179 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
12 151 (2.22%) Amazon S3
13 137 (2.01%) GCP
14 125 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
15 122 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
16 120 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
17 108 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
18 106 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
19 100 (1.47%) Azure AI
20 77 (1.13%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (1.60%) Internet
2 66 (0.97%) Broadband
3 32 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 12 (0.18%) HTTP
6 10 (0.15%) SSL
7 6 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.088%) Intranet
8 5 (0.073%) DNS
8 5 (0.073%) RTP
9 4 (0.059%) MQTT
9 4 (0.059%) TETRA
10 3 (0.044%) AMQP
10 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.044%) LAN
10 3 (0.044%) Network Security
10 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.044%) WAN
10 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 293 (4.30%) MongoDB
3 290 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 254 (3.73%) Power BI
5 169 (2.48%) MySQL
6 165 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
7 133 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 124 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 121 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 98 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 49 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
16 33 (0.48%) Redis
17 32 (0.47%) OLTP
18 21 (0.31%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.28%) Power Query
20 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 405 (5.94%) Git
2 156 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 82 (1.20%) GitLab
3 82 (1.20%) JIRA
4 56 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 55 (0.81%) Maven
6 39 (0.57%) JUnit
7 38 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.29%) Gradle
10 19 (0.28%) Subversion
11 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.25%) Mockito
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.21%) fastlane
14 14 (0.21%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.19%) Selenium
16 12 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 888 (13.03%) Finance
2 620 (9.10%) Social Skills
3 219 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (2.67%) Law
5 174 (2.55%) Front Office
6 171 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 164 (2.41%) Retail
8 161 (2.36%) Banking
9 134 (1.97%) Marketing
10 97 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 95 (1.39%) Games
12 87 (1.28%) Legal
13 73 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 52 (0.76%) Advertising
15 43 (0.63%) Investment Banking
15 43 (0.63%) Tech for Good
16 36 (0.53%) Multimedia
17 25 (0.37%) Aviation
17 25 (0.37%) Health Technology
17 25 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,364 (20.02%) .NET
2 839 (12.31%) React
3 573 (8.41%) HTML
4 564 (8.28%) CSS
5 496 (7.28%) .NET Core
6 474 (6.96%) Node.js
7 451 (6.62%) ASP.NET
8 424 (6.22%) RESTful
9 405 (5.94%) AngularJS
10 398 (5.84%) REST
11 330 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
12 317 (4.65%) Vue
13 223 (3.27%) Spring
14 212 (3.11%) Spring Boot
15 187 (2.74%) Laravel
16 168 (2.47%) Blazor
17 156 (2.29%) Entity Framework
18 154 (2.26%) SOAP
19 139 (2.04%) .NET Framework
20 130 (1.91%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 267 (3.92%) Mobile App
2 220 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 192 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 144 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 141 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
6 136 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 108 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 103 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 94 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.22%) Hedge funds
11 80 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 78 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 77 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 63 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 61 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.78%) Equities
17 38 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (0.54%) PropTech
19 36 (0.53%) Derivative
20 34 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (2.48%) Linux
2 144 (2.11%) Android
3 139 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 67 (0.98%) Windows
5 16 (0.23%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.088%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.073%) Debian
10 4 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.059%) zOS
11 3 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,560 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,166 (17.11%) Agile
3 848 (12.45%) CI/CD
4 717 (10.52%) DevOps
5 712 (10.45%) Software Engineering
6 645 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
7 625 (9.17%) AI
8 491 (7.21%) Microservices
9 450 (6.61%) Mentoring
10 415 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 376 (5.52%) Front End Development
12 363 (5.33%) Clean Code
13 344 (5.05%) Computer Science
14 318 (4.67%) Web Development
15 310 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
16 306 (4.49%) SDLC
17 286 (4.20%) Analytics
18 257 (3.77%) User Experience
19 246 (3.61%) Scrum
19 246 (3.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,360 (19.96%) C#
2 1,216 (17.85%) SQL
3 1,067 (15.66%) JavaScript
4 920 (13.50%) Python
5 858 (12.59%) Java
6 782 (11.48%) TypeScript
7 435 (6.38%) PHP
8 304 (4.46%) C++
9 121 (1.78%) Go
10 100 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 73 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 72 (1.06%) Apex Code
13 68 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 62 (0.91%) C
15 59 (0.87%) Bash
16 58 (0.85%) Swift
17 53 (0.78%) PowerShell
18 51 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 49 (0.72%) Rust
20 47 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 396 (5.81%) Degree
2 316 (4.64%) Security Cleared
3 253 (3.71%) SC Cleared
4 218 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 55 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 36 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 27 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.19%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.059%) ACCA
17 4 (0.059%) HND
17 4 (0.059%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.059%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (1.78%) Accessibility
2 117 (1.72%) QA
3 52 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.44%) WCAG
5 25 (0.37%) GDPR
6 24 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.18%) TickIT
8 10 (0.15%) NIST
9 9 (0.13%) NCSC
10 5 (0.073%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.059%) 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
1 447 (6.56%) Docker
2 24 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.059%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 300 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 142 (2.08%) Terraform
3 29 (0.43%) HP Fortify
3 29 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.28%) Ansible
5 13 (0.19%) Grafana
6 11 (0.16%) Kibana
7 10 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.073%) Argo
9 4 (0.059%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.059%) CloudHub
9 4 (0.059%) Nagios
9 4 (0.059%) Podman
10 2 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.029%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.029%) MIIS
10 2 (0.029%) Packer
11 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.015%) logstash
Vendors
1 912 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 154 (2.26%) Oracle
3 153 (2.25%) Salesforce
4 71 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 62 (0.91%) Google
6 51 (0.75%) IBM
7 49 (0.72%) SAP
8 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 32 (0.47%) Databricks
9 32 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 31 (0.46%) Facebook
10 31 (0.46%) iManage
11 26 (0.38%) Informatica
12 25 (0.37%) Cognos
13 24 (0.35%) Intapp
14 23 (0.34%) Apple
15 22 (0.32%) Splunk
16 21 (0.31%) Adobe
17 20 (0.29%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.29%) Xamarin