Developer Jobs 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 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 4,017 13,058 13,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.30% 14.77% 15.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.15% 15.60% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,781 11,246 10,390
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.31% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 1,498 £77,500 +3.33% 2,173
North of England -24 919 £55,000 +5.60% 3,314
North West -21 700 £55,000 +4.76% 1,676
South East -18 671 £55,000 -4.35% 3,815
Midlands -27 414 £53,688 +7.38% 2,640
West Midlands -19 284 £57,500 +15.00% 1,429
South West -16 268 £55,000 +10.00% 1,613
East of England -49 190 £55,000 +10.00% 1,986
Yorkshire -31 172 £60,000 +20.00% 1,228
East Midlands -48 127 £50,000 - 1,049
North East -24 47 £56,500 +7.62% 424
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,648 (41.03%) Agile
2 1,311 (32.64%) JavaScript
3 1,192 (29.67%) Finance
4 1,189 (29.60%) Python
5 1,062 (26.44%) SQL
6 1,052 (26.19%) C#
7 1,044 (25.99%) Java
8 940 (23.40%) Azure
9 939 (23.38%) AWS
9 939 (23.38%) .NET
10 883 (21.98%) React
11 854 (21.26%) Docker
12 784 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
13 744 (18.52%) Social Skills
14 707 (17.60%) C++
15 687 (17.10%) Linux
16 681 (16.95%) OOP
16 681 (16.95%) HTML
17 668 (16.63%) OO
18 665 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
19 645 (16.06%) TypeScript
20 639 (15.91%) CI/CD
21 634 (15.78%) Security Cleared
22 605 (15.06%) Microsoft
23 601 (14.96%) CSS
24 598 (14.89%) Design Patterns
25 580 (14.44%) SQL Server
26 576 (14.34%) Full-Stack Development
27 555 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
28 524 (13.04%) DevOps

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 122 (3.04%) CMS
2 115 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 95 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 64 (1.59%) WordPress
5 63 (1.57%) Apache
6 60 (1.49%) Confluence
7 57 (1.42%) OpenEdge
8 35 (0.87%) Umbraco
9 23 (0.57%) Drupal
10 21 (0.52%) IIS
10 21 (0.52%) nginx
11 20 (0.50%) Headless CMS
12 18 (0.45%) JBoss
12 18 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
13 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
14 11 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Spark
15 7 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.12%) Liferay
17 4 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 61 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 46 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.32%) Adobe XD
6 12 (0.30%) Trello
7 10 (0.25%) Sketch
8 7 (0.17%) Revit
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 6 (0.15%) InVision
10 5 (0.12%) InDesign
10 5 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.075%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.050%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.025%) Moqups
13 1 (0.025%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 101 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 34 (0.85%) Shopify
4 24 (0.60%) Magento
5 22 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
7 11 (0.27%) JDE OneWorld
8 9 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.20%) Orchestrade
10 7 (0.17%) SAP Business One
11 6 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite
11 6 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 6 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
12 5 (0.12%) Endur
13 4 (0.100%) Elite 3E
13 4 (0.100%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 3 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
14 3 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
15 2 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
15 2 (0.050%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 940 (23.40%) Azure
2 939 (23.38%) AWS
3 425 (10.58%) Power Platform
4 311 (7.74%) Serverless
5 226 (5.63%) GCP
6 202 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
7 193 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
8 182 (4.53%) Power Automate
9 179 (4.46%) PowerApps
10 160 (3.98%) SaaS
11 158 (3.93%) Amazon S3
11 158 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
12 149 (3.71%) GitHub
13 107 (2.66%) dbt
14 100 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
15 91 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
16 76 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
16 76 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
17 67 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 56 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 402 (10.01%) VPN
2 398 (9.91%) DNS
3 78 (1.94%) Broadband
4 31 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 25 (0.62%) Intranet
6 15 (0.37%) Internet
7 14 (0.35%) HTTP
8 8 (0.20%) 5G
9 7 (0.17%) SMS
10 6 (0.15%) MQTT
11 4 (0.100%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.100%) Multicast
12 3 (0.075%) Network Security
12 3 (0.075%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.050%) Bluetooth
13 2 (0.050%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.050%) RTP
13 2 (0.050%) Wireless
13 2 (0.050%) Wireshark
14 1 (0.025%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 279 (6.95%) Power BI
3 274 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 273 (6.80%) MySQL
5 170 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 168 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 163 (4.06%) MongoDB
8 146 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 139 (3.46%) Relational Database
10 106 (2.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 105 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
12 102 (2.54%) Apache Arrow
12 102 (2.54%) Apache Iceberg
13 101 (2.51%) Dremio
14 81 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
15 75 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 66 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 58 (1.44%) Redis
18 45 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
19 42 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 483 (12.02%) Git
2 143 (3.56%) JIRA
3 124 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 89 (2.22%) JUnit
5 76 (1.89%) Visual Studio
6 60 (1.49%) Mockito
7 56 (1.39%) GitLab
8 51 (1.27%) webpack
9 47 (1.17%) Maven
10 42 (1.05%) Jasmine
11 32 (0.80%) IntelliJ
12 30 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
13 29 (0.72%) NUnit
14 28 (0.70%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.65%) Bitbucket
15 26 (0.65%) Gradle
15 26 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
16 25 (0.62%) gulp
17 23 (0.57%) SonarQube
17 23 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 1,192 (29.67%) Finance
2 744 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 665 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 555 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 255 (6.35%) Front Office
6 216 (5.38%) Banking
7 145 (3.61%) Law
7 145 (3.61%) Retail
8 124 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 121 (3.01%) Marketing
10 108 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 101 (2.51%) Games
12 65 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 43 (1.07%) Tech for Good
14 42 (1.05%) Advertising
15 39 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (0.87%) Back Office
17 33 (0.82%) Telecoms
18 32 (0.80%) Legal
19 28 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 939 (23.38%) .NET
2 883 (21.98%) React
3 681 (16.95%) HTML
4 601 (14.96%) CSS
5 463 (11.53%) Node.js
6 431 (10.73%) AngularJS
7 335 (8.34%) RESTful
8 289 (7.19%) REST
9 271 (6.75%) ASP.NET
10 269 (6.70%) .NET Core
10 269 (6.70%) Vue
11 210 (5.23%) .NET Framework
12 193 (4.80%) Web Services
13 181 (4.51%) HTML5
14 179 (4.46%) GraphQL
15 173 (4.31%) XML
16 151 (3.76%) Spring
17 145 (3.61%) jQuery
18 144 (3.58%) Pandas
19 135 (3.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 446 (11.10%) Cyberattack
2 178 (4.43%) Fixed Income
3 173 (4.31%) Mobile App
4 168 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 156 (3.88%) Equities
6 119 (2.96%) Hedge funds
7 108 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 100 (2.49%) Product Ownership
9 96 (2.39%) Algorithms
10 93 (2.32%) Management Information System
11 89 (2.22%) Cloud Native
12 83 (2.07%) Data Structures
13 77 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
14 70 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
15 62 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
16 56 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
17 53 (1.32%) Derivative
18 48 (1.19%) Onboarding
19 30 (0.75%) Virtual Team
20 23 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 687 (17.10%) Linux
2 518 (12.90%) Android
3 73 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 64 (1.59%) Windows
5 18 (0.45%) Unix
6 7 (0.17%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.12%) Rocky
8 4 (0.100%) Debian
8 4 (0.100%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.075%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.050%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,648 (41.03%) Agile
2 784 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
3 681 (16.95%) OOP
4 668 (16.63%) OO
5 639 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 598 (14.89%) Design Patterns
7 576 (14.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 524 (13.04%) DevOps
9 518 (12.90%) Software Engineering
10 511 (12.72%) Mathematics
11 490 (12.20%) Android Development
12 483 (12.02%) Line Management
13 416 (10.36%) Microservices
14 393 (9.78%) User Experience
15 347 (8.64%) Mentoring
16 344 (8.56%) Front End Development
17 330 (8.22%) TDD
18 295 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
19 292 (7.27%) Computer Science
20 284 (7.07%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,311 (32.64%) JavaScript
2 1,189 (29.60%) Python
3 1,062 (26.44%) SQL
4 1,052 (26.19%) C#
5 1,044 (25.99%) Java
6 707 (17.60%) C++
7 645 (16.06%) TypeScript
8 483 (12.02%) Go
9 291 (7.24%) PHP
10 140 (3.49%) T-SQL
11 65 (1.62%) C
12 61 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 60 (1.49%) PowerShell
14 59 (1.47%) Rust
15 47 (1.17%) VB.NET
16 44 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 43 (1.07%) Apex Code
18 42 (1.05%) Swift
19 37 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 27 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 634 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 489 (12.17%) Degree
3 473 (11.77%) DV Cleared
4 201 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 153 (3.81%) SC Cleared
6 82 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 67 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 45 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 31 (0.77%) PhD
10 28 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.42%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.100%) ACCA
15 4 (0.100%) CIMA
15 4 (0.100%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.050%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.050%) MOS
16 2 (0.050%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (4.98%) QA
2 118 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.00%) WCAG
4 31 (0.77%) SLA
5 26 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 25 (0.62%) GDPR
7 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 4 (0.100%) NCSC
10 2 (0.050%) GRC
10 2 (0.050%) HL7
11 1 (0.025%) CDISC
11 1 (0.025%) EMIR
11 1 (0.025%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.025%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.025%) MiFID
11 1 (0.025%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 854 (21.26%) Docker
2 12 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.100%) Postfix
5 3 (0.075%) LXC
6 2 (0.050%) Firmware
6 2 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.025%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.025%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.025%) zsh
Systems Management
1 483 (12.02%) Ansible
2 314 (7.82%) Kubernetes
3 143 (3.56%) Terraform
4 24 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.42%) Grafana
7 16 (0.40%) Kibana
8 12 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.20%) Argo
10 4 (0.100%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.050%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.050%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.025%) CEMLI
12 1 (0.025%) Istio
12 1 (0.025%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.025%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 605 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 162 (4.03%) Oracle
3 71 (1.77%) Salesforce
4 68 (1.69%) IBM
5 64 (1.59%) Google
6 62 (1.54%) SAP
7 56 (1.39%) Progress
8 53 (1.32%) Adobe
8 53 (1.32%) PayPal
9 41 (1.02%) Databricks
10 40 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.60%) New Relic
11 24 (0.60%) Splunk
12 23 (0.57%) Facebook
12 23 (0.57%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.50%) Atlassian
14 19 (0.47%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.45%) HP
16 16 (0.40%) Dell
17 12 (0.30%) VMware