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 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 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 7,047 4,309 13,516
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.13% 10.15% 14.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.63% 11.22% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,896 3,085 11,434
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 81,657 38,390 86,138
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 90.45% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 57,502 22,945 63,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,121 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £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 7 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 7 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 2,012 £80,000 - 498
North of England +10 1,907 £55,000 -4.35% 390
South East +9 1,187 £60,000 +9.09% 370
North West +9 978 £55,000 -4.35% 181
Midlands +4 915 £55,000 - 231
Yorkshire +25 603 £55,000 -8.33% 130
South West 0 557 £55,000 - 140
West Midlands -2 507 £60,000 +5.73% 120
East of England +29 431 £60,000 +11.63% 168
East Midlands +26 407 £50,000 -4.76% 110
North East +19 326 £55,000 +2.33% 83
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 1,745 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,569 (22.26%) C#
3 1,558 (22.11%) .NET
4 1,456 (20.66%) Azure
5 1,413 (20.05%) SQL
6 1,336 (18.96%) Agile
7 1,150 (16.32%) JavaScript
8 1,147 (16.28%) Microsoft
9 1,015 (14.40%) AWS
10 934 (13.25%) CI/CD
11 907 (12.87%) Python
12 889 (12.62%) React
13 866 (12.29%) Java
14 863 (12.25%) TypeScript
15 792 (11.24%) DevOps
16 730 (10.36%) Software Engineering
17 713 (10.12%) AI
18 693 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
19 667 (9.47%) .NET Core
20 640 (9.08%) ASP.NET
21 626 (8.88%) HTML
22 615 (8.73%) CSS
23 574 (8.15%) Microservices
24 547 (7.76%) Node.js
25 524 (7.44%) ASP.NET Core
26 513 (7.28%) Docker
27 493 (7.00%) RESTful
28 492 (6.98%) SQL Server
29 478 (6.78%) Power Platform
30 473 (6.71%) 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
1 145 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 55 (0.78%) CMS
3 47 (0.67%) WordPress
4 23 (0.33%) Confluence
4 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 20 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 20 (0.28%) IIS
7 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.21%) Apache
9 13 (0.18%) Mule
10 9 (0.13%) JBoss
11 8 (0.11%) Drupal
11 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.099%) Appian
13 6 (0.085%) CICS
13 6 (0.085%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.28%) 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 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 20 (0.28%) Shopify
3 20 (0.28%) 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
8 7 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.057%) Magento
9 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.043%) Oracle CRM
10 3 (0.043%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.028%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,456 (20.66%) Azure
2 1,015 (14.40%) AWS
3 478 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 382 (5.42%) GitHub
5 368 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 280 (3.97%) SaaS
7 273 (3.87%) Serverless
8 239 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 238 (3.38%) Power Automate
10 237 (3.36%) PowerApps
11 174 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 172 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
13 163 (2.31%) Azure AI
14 155 (2.20%) GCP
15 145 (2.06%) Amazon S3
16 144 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
17 119 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
17 119 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
18 103 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
19 81 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.63%) Internet
2 63 (0.89%) Broadband
3 29 (0.41%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 13 (0.18%) SSL
7 8 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.085%) Intranet
8 6 (0.085%) 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
1 492 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 473 (6.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 459 (6.51%) MongoDB
4 277 (3.93%) Power BI
5 186 (2.64%) MySQL
6 180 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
7 167 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
8 133 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 121 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 120 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 44 (0.62%) Redis
15 43 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 34 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
17 30 (0.43%) OLTP
18 21 (0.30%) MariaDB
18 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 405 (5.75%) Git
2 152 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.25%) JIRA
4 84 (1.19%) GitLab
5 54 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 53 (0.75%) Maven
7 39 (0.55%) JUnit
7 39 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 25 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 24 (0.34%) Subversion
10 21 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 20 (0.28%) Gradle
12 19 (0.27%) CircleCI
13 18 (0.26%) Visual Studio
14 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.20%) fastlane
16 14 (0.20%) Mockito
17 12 (0.17%) Selenium
18 11 (0.16%) NUnit
General
1 918 (13.03%) Finance
2 655 (9.29%) Social Skills
3 215 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (2.82%) Law
5 181 (2.57%) Retail
6 173 (2.45%) Front Office
7 172 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 155 (2.20%) Banking
9 148 (2.10%) Marketing
10 113 (1.60%) Games
11 106 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 93 (1.32%) Legal
13 81 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 80 (1.14%) Advertising
15 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 39 (0.55%) Tech for Good
17 27 (0.38%) Aerospace
17 27 (0.38%) Automotive
18 25 (0.35%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.35%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,558 (22.11%) .NET
2 889 (12.62%) React
3 667 (9.47%) .NET Core
4 640 (9.08%) ASP.NET
5 626 (8.88%) HTML
6 615 (8.73%) CSS
7 547 (7.76%) Node.js
8 524 (7.44%) ASP.NET Core
9 493 (7.00%) RESTful
10 461 (6.54%) AngularJS
11 413 (5.86%) REST
12 390 (5.53%) Vue
13 244 (3.46%) Blazor
14 229 (3.25%) Entity Framework
15 218 (3.09%) Spring
16 207 (2.94%) Spring Boot
17 198 (2.81%) Laravel
18 180 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web API
19 164 (2.33%) .NET Framework
20 147 (2.09%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 233 (3.31%) Cloud Native
1 233 (3.31%) Mobile App
2 226 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
3 158 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
4 147 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 142 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 107 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 104 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 94 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 88 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 84 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 81 (1.15%) Hedge funds
12 78 (1.11%) Low-Code
13 64 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 60 (0.85%) Management Information System
15 52 (0.74%) Equities
16 38 (0.54%) Derivative
17 35 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
17 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
18 34 (0.48%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.50%) Linux
2 139 (1.97%) Android
3 133 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 84 (1.19%) Windows
5 20 (0.28%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.099%) Debian
9 6 (0.085%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.057%) zOS
12 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,745 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,336 (18.96%) Agile
3 934 (13.25%) CI/CD
4 792 (11.24%) DevOps
5 730 (10.36%) Software Engineering
6 713 (10.12%) AI
7 693 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
8 574 (8.15%) Microservices
9 444 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 443 (6.29%) Mentoring
11 371 (5.26%) Clean Code
12 369 (5.24%) Front End Development
13 362 (5.14%) Computer Science
14 337 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
15 324 (4.60%) Web Development
16 311 (4.41%) SDLC
17 298 (4.23%) Analytics
18 295 (4.19%) Machine Learning
19 283 (4.02%) TDD
20 276 (3.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,569 (22.26%) C#
2 1,413 (20.05%) SQL
3 1,150 (16.32%) JavaScript
4 907 (12.87%) Python
5 866 (12.29%) Java
6 863 (12.25%) TypeScript
7 445 (6.31%) PHP
8 309 (4.38%) C++
9 122 (1.73%) Go
10 95 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 76 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 67 (0.95%) Apex Code
12 67 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 60 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 59 (0.84%) C
14 59 (0.84%) Swift
15 56 (0.79%) Bash
16 53 (0.75%) Ruby
16 53 (0.75%) Rust
17 48 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 416 (5.90%) Degree
2 344 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 280 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 241 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (0.82%) AWS Certification
5 58 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 42 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 30 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 27 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.14%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.085%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.085%) HND
15 5 (0.071%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.057%) ACCA
16 4 (0.057%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (1.93%) Accessibility
2 124 (1.76%) QA
3 52 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.53%) WCAG
5 25 (0.35%) 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 (0.085%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.085%) 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 (0.028%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.028%) JTAG
14 2 (0.028%) MiFID
14 2 (0.028%) PMO
15 1 (0.014%) ITGC
System Software
1 513 (7.28%) Docker
2 24 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.085%) Firmware
5 4 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 366 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 150 (2.13%) Terraform
3 29 (0.41%) HP Fortify
4 27 (0.38%) 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 (0.085%) 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 (0.028%) logstash
12 2 (0.028%) MIIS
12 2 (0.028%) Packer
12 2 (0.028%) Puppet
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,147 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 163 (2.31%) Salesforce
3 148 (2.10%) Oracle
4 89 (1.26%) Google
5 83 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 58 (0.82%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 47 (0.67%) SAP
9 39 (0.55%) Databricks
10 38 (0.54%) OpenAI
11 37 (0.53%) MuleSoft
12 35 (0.50%) iManage
13 32 (0.45%) Informatica
14 28 (0.40%) Cognos
15 26 (0.37%) Apple
16 24 (0.34%) Intapp
17 23 (0.33%) Splunk
18 21 (0.30%) Adobe
18 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.30%) YouTube