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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 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 6,932 4,167 14,365
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.23% 10.41% 15.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.74% 11.57% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,770 2,970 12,214
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,700 £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 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 79,299 36,015 90,144
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.94% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55,805 21,039 66,729
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
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 23 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 23 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 2,028 £80,000 +3.23% 369
North of England +12 1,878 £55,000 -2.65% 259
South East +9 1,160 £60,000 +9.09% 238
North West +9 966 £55,000 - 128
Midlands +4 890 £55,000 - 158
Yorkshire +29 605 £55,000 -8.33% 78
South West -1 533 £55,000 - 94
West Midlands -2 477 £60,000 +9.09% 95
East Midlands +26 412 £50,000 -4.76% 63
East of England +25 408 £60,000 +9.09% 72
North East +17 307 £57,500 +4.55% 59
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 1,624 (23.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,444 (20.83%) C#
3 1,443 (20.82%) .NET
4 1,332 (19.22%) Azure
5 1,293 (18.65%) SQL
6 1,233 (17.79%) Agile
7 1,088 (15.70%) JavaScript
8 1,002 (14.45%) Microsoft
9 964 (13.91%) AWS
10 914 (13.19%) Python
11 877 (12.65%) CI/CD
12 868 (12.52%) Java
13 855 (12.33%) React
14 810 (11.68%) TypeScript
15 747 (10.78%) DevOps
16 719 (10.37%) Software Engineering
17 671 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
18 657 (9.48%) AI
19 588 (8.48%) HTML
20 577 (8.32%) CSS
21 565 (8.15%) .NET Core
22 523 (7.54%) ASP.NET
23 509 (7.34%) Microservices
24 500 (7.21%) Node.js
25 477 (6.88%) SQL Server
26 469 (6.77%) Docker
27 452 (6.52%) Power Platform
28 448 (6.46%) RESTful
29 447 (6.45%) Mentoring
30 435 (6.28%) PHP

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 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 54 (0.78%) CMS
3 48 (0.69%) WordPress
4 26 (0.38%) Umbraco
5 23 (0.33%) Confluence
6 21 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.29%) ColdFusion
8 19 (0.27%) IIS
9 18 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 16 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 15 (0.22%) Apache
12 10 (0.14%) JBoss
12 10 (0.14%) Mule
12 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
14 8 (0.12%) Drupal
14 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
15 7 (0.10%) Appian
16 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 45 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.029%) 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%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.014%) Sketch
6 1 (0.014%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 19 (0.27%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.087%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.058%) Magento
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.029%) Fidessa
12 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.029%) Oracle CRM
12 2 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,332 (19.22%) Azure
2 964 (13.91%) AWS
3 452 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 355 (5.12%) GitHub
5 324 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 284 (4.10%) SaaS
7 275 (3.97%) Serverless
8 225 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 219 (3.16%) Power Automate
9 219 (3.16%) PowerApps
10 175 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
11 148 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 143 (2.06%) GCP
13 137 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
14 130 (1.88%) GitHub Copilot
15 123 (1.77%) Azure AI
16 121 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
16 121 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
17 104 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
18 75 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (1.62%) Internet
2 68 (0.98%) Broadband
3 31 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 13 (0.19%) HTTP
6 11 (0.16%) SSL
7 8 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
9 5 (0.072%) DNS
9 5 (0.072%) MQTT
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 3 (0.043%) AMQP
10 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.043%) LAN
10 3 (0.043%) Network Security
10 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.043%) WAN
10 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.029%) SMS
11 2 (0.029%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 359 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 358 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 261 (3.77%) Power BI
5 170 (2.45%) MySQL
6 167 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 127 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 126 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
8 126 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 119 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 55 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 51 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
12 46 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 41 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 39 (0.56%) Redis
15 38 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (0.46%) OLTP
17 20 (0.29%) RDBMS
18 18 (0.26%) MariaDB
18 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 408 (5.89%) Git
2 156 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 87 (1.26%) JIRA
4 80 (1.15%) GitLab
5 54 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 53 (0.76%) Maven
7 40 (0.58%) JUnit
8 37 (0.53%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.33%) Subversion
10 22 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
11 20 (0.29%) Gradle
12 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
13 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.23%) Mockito
14 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
15 14 (0.20%) fastlane
15 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 896 (12.93%) Finance
2 641 (9.25%) Social Skills
3 221 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (2.73%) Law
5 176 (2.54%) Front Office
6 174 (2.51%) Public Sector
7 173 (2.50%) Retail
8 161 (2.32%) Banking
9 142 (2.05%) Marketing
10 103 (1.49%) Games
11 102 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 93 (1.34%) Legal
13 80 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 63 (0.91%) Advertising
15 44 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
17 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
17 27 (0.39%) Multimedia
18 26 (0.38%) Local Government
19 24 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,443 (20.82%) .NET
2 855 (12.33%) React
3 588 (8.48%) HTML
4 577 (8.32%) CSS
5 565 (8.15%) .NET Core
6 523 (7.54%) ASP.NET
7 500 (7.21%) Node.js
8 448 (6.46%) RESTful
9 424 (6.12%) AngularJS
10 412 (5.94%) REST
11 406 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 343 (4.95%) Vue
13 221 (3.19%) Spring
14 209 (3.02%) Spring Boot
15 193 (2.78%) Blazor
16 186 (2.68%) Entity Framework
16 186 (2.68%) Laravel
17 158 (2.28%) SOAP
18 148 (2.14%) .NET Framework
19 138 (1.99%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 257 (3.71%) Mobile App
2 226 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 201 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
4 147 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 145 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 140 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 108 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 106 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 96 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (1.20%) Hedge funds
12 81 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 80 (1.15%) Low-Code
14 63 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 60 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.76%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 36 (0.52%) Derivative
19 35 (0.50%) PropTech
20 33 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (2.51%) Linux
2 146 (2.11%) Android
3 135 (1.95%) Apple iOS
4 77 (1.11%) Windows
5 19 (0.27%) 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 (0.072%) Debian
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,624 (23.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,233 (17.79%) Agile
3 877 (12.65%) CI/CD
4 747 (10.78%) DevOps
5 719 (10.37%) Software Engineering
6 671 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
7 657 (9.48%) AI
8 509 (7.34%) Microservices
9 447 (6.45%) Mentoring
10 427 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 368 (5.31%) Front End Development
12 365 (5.27%) Clean Code
13 352 (5.08%) Computer Science
14 320 (4.62%) Business Intelligence
14 320 (4.62%) Web Development
15 313 (4.52%) SDLC
16 292 (4.21%) Analytics
17 259 (3.74%) Scrum
17 259 (3.74%) TDD
18 258 (3.72%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,444 (20.83%) C#
2 1,293 (18.65%) SQL
3 1,088 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 914 (13.19%) Python
5 868 (12.52%) Java
6 810 (11.68%) TypeScript
7 435 (6.28%) PHP
8 309 (4.46%) C++
9 120 (1.73%) Go
10 98 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 75 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 73 (1.05%) Apex Code
13 72 (1.04%) PL/SQL
14 62 (0.89%) C
15 58 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 58 (0.84%) Swift
16 57 (0.82%) Bash
17 50 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 50 (0.72%) Rust
18 49 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 406 (5.86%) Degree
2 331 (4.77%) Security Cleared
3 267 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 228 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 50 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 25 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.17%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.072%) HND
17 4 (0.058%) ACCA
17 4 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (1.83%) Accessibility
2 121 (1.75%) QA
3 53 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 33 (0.48%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
5 25 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.17%) TickIT
7 11 (0.16%) NCSC
8 10 (0.14%) NIST
9 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.058%) SLA
11 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.029%) GAAP
12 2 (0.029%) IFRS
12 2 (0.029%) MiFID
12 2 (0.029%) PMO
12 2 (0.029%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 469 (6.77%) Docker
2 25 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.072%) Firmware
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 327 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.08%) Terraform
3 28 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 27 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 20 (0.29%) Ansible
6 14 (0.20%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.087%) Argo
9 6 (0.087%) CloudHub
10 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.058%) 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
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.014%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,002 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 156 (2.25%) Salesforce
3 155 (2.24%) Oracle
4 73 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 68 (0.98%) Google
6 54 (0.78%) IBM
7 51 (0.74%) SAP
8 40 (0.58%) Facebook
9 37 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 34 (0.49%) Databricks
10 34 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.48%) iManage
12 28 (0.40%) Informatica
13 26 (0.38%) Intapp
14 25 (0.36%) Cognos
15 23 (0.33%) Apple
16 22 (0.32%) Splunk
17 21 (0.30%) Adobe
18 19 (0.27%) Blue Prism
18 19 (0.27%) Xamarin