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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7,001 4,359 12,805
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.99% 10.04% 14.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.48% 11.11% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,857 3,110 10,759
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £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 82,580 39,236 83,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.36% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,047 23,648 61,154
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £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 13 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 13 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 +1 1,989 £80,000 - 447
North of England +10 1,882 £55,000 -4.35% 291
South East +9 1,189 £60,000 +9.09% 265
North West +8 963 £55,000 -4.35% 150
Midlands +4 910 £55,000 - 171
Yorkshire +21 596 £55,000 -8.33% 79
South West -3 555 £55,000 - 115
West Midlands -1 510 £60,000 +5.73% 101
East of England +25 437 £60,000 +12.15% 79
East Midlands +27 399 £50,000 -4.76% 69
North East +13 323 £55,000 - 67
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 1,742 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,557 (22.24%) C#
3 1,540 (22.00%) .NET
4 1,435 (20.50%) Azure
5 1,394 (19.91%) SQL
6 1,333 (19.04%) Agile
7 1,159 (16.55%) JavaScript
8 1,152 (16.45%) Microsoft
9 1,024 (14.63%) AWS
10 944 (13.48%) CI/CD
11 897 (12.81%) Python
12 882 (12.60%) React
13 873 (12.47%) TypeScript
14 854 (12.20%) Java
15 783 (11.18%) DevOps
16 724 (10.34%) AI
17 723 (10.33%) Software Engineering
18 707 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
19 648 (9.26%) .NET Core
20 636 (9.08%) ASP.NET
21 627 (8.96%) HTML
22 617 (8.81%) CSS
23 576 (8.23%) Microservices
24 552 (7.88%) Node.js
25 522 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
26 508 (7.26%) Docker
27 493 (7.04%) RESTful
28 488 (6.97%) SQL Server
29 485 (6.93%) Power Platform
30 467 (6.67%) 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
1 150 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 58 (0.83%) CMS
3 50 (0.71%) WordPress
4 24 (0.34%) Confluence
5 23 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
7 20 (0.29%) IIS
8 16 (0.23%) Apache
8 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.21%) Mule
10 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.13%) JBoss
12 8 (0.11%) Drupal
12 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 7 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.100%) Appian
14 6 (0.086%) CICS
14 6 (0.086%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 51 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.057%) 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 55 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 21 (0.30%) Visualfiles
4 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 15 (0.21%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.071%) Oracle CRM
10 4 (0.057%) Magento
10 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
11 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.043%) SAP CO
12 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,435 (20.50%) Azure
2 1,024 (14.63%) AWS
3 485 (6.93%) Power Platform
4 389 (5.56%) GitHub
5 362 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 274 (3.91%) SaaS
7 267 (3.81%) Serverless
8 245 (3.50%) Power Automate
8 245 (3.50%) PowerApps
9 244 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
10 178 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
11 168 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 159 (2.27%) Azure AI
12 159 (2.27%) GCP
13 146 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
14 143 (2.04%) Amazon S3
15 120 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
16 116 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 100 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
18 82 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (1.59%) Internet
2 58 (0.83%) Broadband
3 26 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.21%) HTTP
4 15 (0.21%) SSL
4 15 (0.21%) VoIP
5 7 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.086%) Intranet
6 6 (0.086%) MQTT
7 5 (0.071%) Wireless
8 4 (0.057%) DNS
8 4 (0.057%) RTP
9 3 (0.043%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.043%) LAN
9 3 (0.043%) Network Security
9 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.043%) WAN
9 3 (0.043%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 467 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 455 (6.50%) MongoDB
4 278 (3.97%) Power BI
5 199 (2.84%) MySQL
6 188 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 165 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
8 138 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 126 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 120 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 59 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 45 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (0.64%) Redis
15 34 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (0.40%) OLTP
17 22 (0.31%) MariaDB
18 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 413 (5.90%) Git
2 145 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 89 (1.27%) JIRA
4 80 (1.14%) GitLab
5 51 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 49 (0.70%) Maven
7 38 (0.54%) JUnit
8 36 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 25 (0.36%) Subversion
11 23 (0.33%) Claude Code
12 20 (0.29%) Gradle
13 18 (0.26%) CircleCI
13 18 (0.26%) Visual Studio
14 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.20%) fastlane
17 13 (0.19%) Mockito
18 12 (0.17%) Selenium
18 12 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 914 (13.06%) Finance
2 668 (9.54%) Social Skills
3 214 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (2.90%) Law
5 177 (2.53%) Retail
6 175 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 169 (2.41%) Front Office
8 149 (2.13%) Banking
9 147 (2.10%) Marketing
10 114 (1.63%) Games
11 104 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 92 (1.31%) Legal
13 82 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 80 (1.14%) Advertising
15 40 (0.57%) Investment Banking
16 38 (0.54%) Tech for Good
17 28 (0.40%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.39%) Automotive
19 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
19 25 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,540 (22.00%) .NET
2 882 (12.60%) React
3 648 (9.26%) .NET Core
4 636 (9.08%) ASP.NET
5 627 (8.96%) HTML
6 617 (8.81%) CSS
7 552 (7.88%) Node.js
8 522 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
9 493 (7.04%) RESTful
10 453 (6.47%) AngularJS
11 412 (5.88%) REST
12 388 (5.54%) Vue
13 238 (3.40%) Blazor
14 235 (3.36%) Entity Framework
15 224 (3.20%) Spring
16 210 (3.00%) Spring Boot
17 205 (2.93%) Laravel
18 183 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
19 170 (2.43%) .NET Framework
20 143 (2.04%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 229 (3.27%) Cloud Native
2 227 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
3 218 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 161 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 149 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 140 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 106 (1.51%) Algorithms
8 104 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 94 (1.34%) Fixed Income
10 90 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 87 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 79 (1.13%) Hedge funds
13 77 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 66 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 61 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.76%) Equities
17 38 (0.54%) Derivative
18 35 (0.50%) Onboarding
18 35 (0.50%) PropTech
18 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.51%) Linux
2 141 (2.01%) Android
3 132 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 86 (1.23%) Windows
5 21 (0.30%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.100%) Debian
8 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,742 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,333 (19.04%) Agile
3 944 (13.48%) CI/CD
4 783 (11.18%) DevOps
5 724 (10.34%) AI
6 723 (10.33%) Software Engineering
7 707 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
8 576 (8.23%) Microservices
9 454 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 439 (6.27%) Mentoring
11 368 (5.26%) Front End Development
12 365 (5.21%) Clean Code
13 360 (5.14%) Computer Science
14 341 (4.87%) Business Intelligence
15 331 (4.73%) Web Development
16 307 (4.39%) SDLC
17 296 (4.23%) Analytics
18 290 (4.14%) Machine Learning
19 278 (3.97%) TDD
20 273 (3.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,557 (22.24%) C#
2 1,394 (19.91%) SQL
3 1,159 (16.55%) JavaScript
4 897 (12.81%) Python
5 873 (12.47%) TypeScript
6 854 (12.20%) Java
7 449 (6.41%) PHP
8 301 (4.30%) C++
9 120 (1.71%) Go
10 97 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 73 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 59 (0.84%) Swift
15 57 (0.81%) PowerShell
15 57 (0.81%) Ruby
16 56 (0.80%) C
17 54 (0.77%) Rust
18 50 (0.71%) Bash
19 47 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 413 (5.90%) Degree
2 347 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 284 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 242 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 56 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 40 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.100%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.086%) HND
17 4 (0.057%) ACCA
17 4 (0.057%) Oracle Certification
17 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 124 (1.77%) QA
3 54 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 39 (0.56%) WCAG
5 24 (0.34%) GDPR
6 22 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 6 (0.086%) NIST
9 6 (0.086%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.086%) SLA
10 5 (0.071%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) JTAG
13 2 (0.029%) MiFID
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
14 1 (0.014%) ITGC
System Software
1 508 (7.26%) Docker
2 22 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
5 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.043%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 368 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 156 (2.23%) Terraform
3 26 (0.37%) HP Fortify
3 26 (0.37%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.27%) Ansible
5 15 (0.21%) Grafana
6 12 (0.17%) Kibana
7 11 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.086%) 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 (0.029%) logstash
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
12 2 (0.029%) Puppet
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,152 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 168 (2.40%) Salesforce
3 150 (2.14%) Oracle
4 96 (1.37%) Google
5 85 (1.21%) ServiceNow
6 57 (0.81%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 48 (0.69%) SAP
9 41 (0.59%) Databricks
10 40 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 39 (0.56%) OpenAI
12 35 (0.50%) iManage
13 32 (0.46%) Informatica
14 28 (0.40%) Cognos
15 25 (0.36%) Apple
16 23 (0.33%) Splunk
17 22 (0.31%) Intapp
18 21 (0.30%) Adobe
18 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.30%) YouTube