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 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,448 7,446 6,747
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.27% 13.10% 15.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.01% 13.93% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 4,967 5,963
10th Percentile £38,125 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 43,054 53,467 42,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.03% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27,832 29,735 33,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,175 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -4 1,315 £80,000 +3.23% 557
North of England -22 636 £55,200 +5.14% 431
South East -13 619 £60,000 - 530
Midlands -16 417 £52,500 +5.00% 232
North West -18 332 £60,000 +14.29% 263
South West -15 269 £52,500 +5.00% 141
West Midlands -9 260 £55,000 +7.31% 145
Yorkshire -20 235 £51,250 +2.50% 115
East Midlands -16 157 £49,500 -1.00% 87
East of England -36 155 £55,000 +10.00% 107
North East -16 71 £50,000 -4.76% 57
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, 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 1,069 (31.00%) Agile
2 1,043 (30.25%) JavaScript
3 957 (27.76%) Azure
4 850 (24.65%) C#
5 790 (22.91%) SQL
6 770 (22.33%) .NET
7 769 (22.30%) AWS
8 723 (20.97%) Python
9 695 (20.16%) React
10 649 (18.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 606 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
12 582 (16.88%) CI/CD
13 567 (16.44%) Java
14 541 (15.69%) HTML
15 524 (15.20%) Microsoft
16 512 (14.85%) CSS
17 508 (14.73%) DevOps
18 504 (14.62%) TypeScript
19 481 (13.95%) Software Engineering
20 401 (11.63%) Git
21 400 (11.60%) Mentoring
22 383 (11.11%) SQL Server
23 376 (10.90%) Microservices
24 352 (10.21%) REST
25 347 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
26 334 (9.69%) Power Platform
27 329 (9.54%) Node.js
28 320 (9.28%) AI
29 311 (9.02%) Degree
30 306 (8.87%) AngularJS

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 91 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 57 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (1.36%) CMS
4 35 (1.02%) Confluence
5 24 (0.70%) WordPress
6 21 (0.61%) Apache
7 16 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 12 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 8 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.20%) Appian
10 7 (0.20%) IIS
11 6 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.15%) Camunda
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.15%) nginx
12 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 35 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.087%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.087%) Lectora
8 3 (0.087%) Sketch
8 3 (0.087%) Snagit
8 3 (0.087%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.058%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.058%) Elementor
10 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.55%) Shopify
3 14 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 10 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 6 (0.17%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.15%) Maximo
9 4 (0.12%) Endur
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.087%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.087%) Magento
10 3 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.087%) Primavera
10 3 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.087%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.087%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 957 (27.76%) Azure
2 769 (22.30%) AWS
3 334 (9.69%) Power Platform
4 268 (7.77%) GitHub
5 218 (6.32%) Serverless
6 204 (5.92%) GCP
7 195 (5.66%) SaaS
8 148 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
9 142 (4.12%) Power Automate
10 137 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
11 133 (3.86%) PowerApps
12 84 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 70 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
15 61 (1.77%) Amazon S3
16 56 (1.62%) dbt
17 54 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
17 54 (1.57%) Azure Functions
18 53 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
19 52 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (2.73%) Internet
2 28 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.41%) Broadband
4 13 (0.38%) Multicast
5 10 (0.29%) HTTP
6 7 (0.20%) Bluetooth
6 7 (0.20%) WPA
7 6 (0.17%) Intranet
7 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.15%) TETRA
9 4 (0.12%) DNS
10 3 (0.087%) AMQP
10 3 (0.087%) FTP
10 3 (0.087%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.087%) SSL
11 2 (0.058%) Network Security
11 2 (0.058%) SSH
12 1 (0.029%) GPRS
12 1 (0.029%) GSM
12 1 (0.029%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 209 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (5.80%) Power BI
4 182 (5.28%) MySQL
5 177 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 150 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 127 (3.68%) MongoDB
8 76 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
9 68 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 50 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 49 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 48 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
14 47 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
15 45 (1.31%) Apache Arrow
15 45 (1.31%) Dremio
15 45 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 41 (1.19%) RDBMS
17 35 (1.02%) Redis
18 26 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 401 (11.63%) Git
2 115 (3.34%) JIRA
3 99 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.22%) Cypress.io
4 42 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.19%) JUnit
6 37 (1.07%) GitLab
7 32 (0.93%) Mockito
8 28 (0.81%) Selenium
9 25 (0.73%) JMeter
10 23 (0.67%) webpack
11 20 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.55%) Maven
13 18 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.52%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.44%) Storybook
16 14 (0.41%) Postman
17 12 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
17 12 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 683 (19.81%) Finance
2 680 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 221 (6.41%) Front Office
4 189 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 170 (4.93%) Banking
6 160 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 151 (4.38%) Law
8 149 (4.32%) Marketing
9 88 (2.55%) Multimedia
10 86 (2.49%) Retail
11 83 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 79 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 54 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 51 (1.48%) Legal
15 50 (1.45%) Games
16 42 (1.22%) Health Technology
17 34 (0.99%) Publishing
17 34 (0.99%) Tech for Good
18 32 (0.93%) Back Office
19 30 (0.87%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 770 (22.33%) .NET
2 695 (20.16%) React
3 541 (15.69%) HTML
4 512 (14.85%) CSS
5 352 (10.21%) REST
6 329 (9.54%) Node.js
7 306 (8.87%) AngularJS
7 306 (8.87%) RESTful
8 234 (6.79%) .NET Core
9 218 (6.32%) Vue
10 200 (5.80%) ASP.NET
11 171 (4.96%) .NET Framework
12 163 (4.73%) Spring
13 136 (3.94%) Spring Boot
14 127 (3.68%) JSON
15 121 (3.51%) Kafka
16 101 (2.93%) Web Services
17 98 (2.84%) XML
18 95 (2.76%) GraphQL
19 90 (2.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 117 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
3 114 (3.31%) Fixed Income
4 104 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 103 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 102 (2.96%) Equities
7 98 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 96 (2.78%) Mobile App
9 85 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 81 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 80 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
12 75 (2.18%) Onboarding
13 74 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 57 (1.65%) Hedge funds
15 50 (1.45%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.16%) Derivative
17 39 (1.13%) IoT
18 34 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
19 29 (0.84%) Low-Code
20 24 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (3.97%) Linux
2 73 (2.12%) Android
3 71 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 55 (1.60%) Windows
5 22 (0.64%) Unix
6 12 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.029%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.029%) MVS
8 1 (0.029%) VMS
8 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (31.00%) Agile
2 649 (18.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 606 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
4 582 (16.88%) CI/CD
5 508 (14.73%) DevOps
6 481 (13.95%) Software Engineering
7 400 (11.60%) Mentoring
8 376 (10.90%) Microservices
9 347 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 320 (9.28%) AI
11 296 (8.58%) User Experience
12 291 (8.44%) Clean Code
13 270 (7.83%) Test Automation
14 257 (7.45%) Computer Science
15 252 (7.31%) Business Intelligence
16 248 (7.19%) Front End Development
17 229 (6.64%) Scrum
18 219 (6.35%) TDD
19 208 (6.03%) Containerisation
20 192 (5.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (30.25%) JavaScript
2 850 (24.65%) C#
3 790 (22.91%) SQL
4 723 (20.97%) Python
5 567 (16.44%) Java
6 504 (14.62%) TypeScript
7 194 (5.63%) PHP
8 186 (5.39%) C++
9 74 (2.15%) Go
10 69 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 58 (1.68%) T-SQL
12 52 (1.51%) C
13 50 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 43 (1.25%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 41 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 28 (0.81%) Scala
16 28 (0.81%) Swift
16 28 (0.81%) VB.NET
17 27 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 311 (9.02%) Degree
2 190 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 140 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 122 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 111 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 104 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 92 (2.67%) Azure Certification
8 83 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 44 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 31 (0.90%) PhD
12 20 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 14 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
16 5 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.058%) MCP
17 2 (0.058%) MCSA
17 2 (0.058%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (4.73%) QA
2 124 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.19%) GDPR
4 33 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.55%) WCAG
6 12 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.23%) SLA
8 5 (0.15%) PERC
9 3 (0.087%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.058%) NCSC
10 2 (0.058%) NIST
10 2 (0.058%) PSD2
11 1 (0.029%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.029%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.029%) GRC
11 1 (0.029%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.029%) MISRA
11 1 (0.029%) PMO
11 1 (0.029%) SOC 2
System Software
1 290 (8.41%) Docker
2 19 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.17%) Firmware
4 3 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.087%) zsh
5 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.029%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 214 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 92 (2.67%) Terraform
3 22 (0.64%) Kibana
4 17 (0.49%) Ansible
5 14 (0.41%) Grafana
6 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.12%) CloudHub
9 3 (0.087%) cPanel
9 3 (0.087%) logstash
9 3 (0.087%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.087%) Plesk
10 2 (0.058%) Argo
10 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.058%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.029%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.029%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.029%) QRadar
11 1 (0.029%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 524 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 117 (3.39%) Oracle
3 96 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 64 (1.86%) SAP
5 48 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 40 (1.16%) Databricks
6 40 (1.16%) Guidewire
7 36 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 35 (1.02%) Blue Prism
9 31 (0.90%) Google
10 30 (0.87%) Splunk
11 26 (0.75%) IBM
12 25 (0.73%) Dynatrace
12 25 (0.73%) MuleSoft
13 19 (0.55%) OpenAI
14 18 (0.52%) Apple
14 18 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 15 (0.44%) Adobe
15 15 (0.44%) Red Hat
16 14 (0.41%) JDA