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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 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 7,002 4,332 12,811
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.99% 10.00% 14.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.48% 11.07% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,854 3,092 10,766
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,625 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +5.43% -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 82,582 39,134 83,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.30% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,054 23,578 61,195
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 15 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 15 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 0 1,983 £80,000 - 391
North of England +10 1,890 £55,000 -4.35% 503
South East +9 1,187 £60,000 +9.09% 439
North West +8 966 £55,000 -4.35% 245
Midlands +4 905 £55,000 - 324
Yorkshire +23 602 £55,000 -8.33% 166
South West -2 560 £55,000 - 183
West Midlands -1 511 £60,000 +5.73% 164
East of England +24 440 £60,000 +12.15% 242
East Midlands +26 393 £50,000 -4.76% 160
North East +13 322 £55,000 - 97
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 1,744 (24.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,559 (22.27%) C#
3 1,547 (22.09%) .NET
4 1,428 (20.39%) Azure
5 1,396 (19.94%) SQL
6 1,331 (19.01%) Agile
7 1,154 (16.48%) JavaScript
8 1,151 (16.44%) Microsoft
9 1,024 (14.62%) AWS
10 940 (13.42%) CI/CD
11 889 (12.70%) Python
12 886 (12.65%) React
13 880 (12.57%) TypeScript
14 851 (12.15%) Java
15 776 (11.08%) DevOps
16 731 (10.44%) AI
17 720 (10.28%) Software Engineering
18 710 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
19 647 (9.24%) .NET Core
20 636 (9.08%) ASP.NET
21 623 (8.90%) HTML
22 612 (8.74%) CSS
23 580 (8.28%) Microservices
24 553 (7.90%) Node.js
25 523 (7.47%) ASP.NET Core
26 509 (7.27%) Docker
27 499 (7.13%) RESTful
28 491 (7.01%) SQL Server
29 482 (6.88%) Power Platform
30 465 (6.64%) 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 59 (0.84%) CMS
3 50 (0.71%) WordPress
4 24 (0.34%) Confluence
5 23 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
8 20 (0.29%) IIS
9 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 15 (0.21%) Mule
11 14 (0.20%) Apache
12 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 9 (0.13%) JBoss
14 8 (0.11%) Drupal
15 7 (0.100%) Appian
16 6 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
16 6 (0.086%) CICS
16 6 (0.086%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 51 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.100%) 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 (0.36%) 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%) Magento
9 5 (0.071%) Oracle CRM
9 5 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.029%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,428 (20.39%) Azure
2 1,024 (14.62%) AWS
3 482 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 384 (5.48%) GitHub
5 361 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
6 275 (3.93%) SaaS
7 265 (3.78%) Serverless
8 244 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 243 (3.47%) Power Automate
9 243 (3.47%) PowerApps
10 177 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 167 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
12 160 (2.29%) Azure AI
13 158 (2.26%) GCP
14 146 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
15 140 (2.00%) Amazon S3
16 120 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 113 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
18 100 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 81 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 110 (1.57%) Internet
2 58 (0.83%) Broadband
3 25 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.21%) HTTP
4 15 (0.21%) SSL
4 15 (0.21%) VoIP
5 7 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.100%) MQTT
6 6 (0.086%) Intranet
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%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.029%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 491 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 465 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 454 (6.48%) MongoDB
4 273 (3.90%) Power BI
5 199 (2.84%) MySQL
6 189 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 165 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
8 138 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 125 (1.79%) NoSQL
10 120 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 64 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 57 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (0.64%) Redis
14 45 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (0.40%) OLTP
17 22 (0.31%) MariaDB
18 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 20 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 413 (5.90%) Git
2 144 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 79 (1.13%) GitLab
5 51 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 50 (0.71%) Maven
7 39 (0.56%) JUnit
8 35 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 27 (0.39%) Eclipse
10 26 (0.37%) 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
1 909 (12.98%) Finance
2 672 (9.60%) Social Skills
3 210 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (2.88%) Law
5 179 (2.56%) Retail
6 172 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 168 (2.40%) Front Office
8 148 (2.11%) Banking
8 148 (2.11%) Marketing
9 113 (1.61%) Games
10 103 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 96 (1.37%) Legal
12 83 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 79 (1.13%) Advertising
14 39 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 38 (0.54%) Tech for Good
16 28 (0.40%) Aerospace
17 27 (0.39%) Automotive
18 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,547 (22.09%) .NET
2 886 (12.65%) React
3 647 (9.24%) .NET Core
4 636 (9.08%) ASP.NET
5 623 (8.90%) HTML
6 612 (8.74%) CSS
7 553 (7.90%) Node.js
8 523 (7.47%) ASP.NET Core
9 499 (7.13%) RESTful
10 457 (6.53%) AngularJS
11 416 (5.94%) REST
12 389 (5.56%) Vue
13 240 (3.43%) Blazor
14 234 (3.34%) Entity Framework
15 220 (3.14%) Spring
16 206 (2.94%) Spring Boot
17 203 (2.90%) Laravel
18 183 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
19 168 (2.40%) .NET Framework
20 143 (2.04%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 230 (3.28%) Cloud Native
2 228 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
3 219 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 164 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 151 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
6 137 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 104 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 102 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 94 (1.34%) Fixed Income
10 92 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 87 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 78 (1.11%) Hedge funds
13 77 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 64 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 60 (0.86%) Management Information System
16 50 (0.71%) Equities
17 37 (0.53%) Derivative
18 35 (0.50%) Onboarding
19 34 (0.49%) PropTech
19 34 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 173 (2.47%) Linux
2 143 (2.04%) Android
3 134 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 85 (1.21%) 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 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.057%) zOS
10 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,744 (24.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,331 (19.01%) Agile
3 940 (13.42%) CI/CD
4 776 (11.08%) DevOps
5 731 (10.44%) AI
6 720 (10.28%) Software Engineering
7 710 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
8 580 (8.28%) Microservices
9 454 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 440 (6.28%) Mentoring
11 369 (5.27%) Front End Development
12 367 (5.24%) Clean Code
13 357 (5.10%) Computer Science
14 336 (4.80%) Business Intelligence
15 335 (4.78%) Web Development
16 310 (4.43%) SDLC
17 294 (4.20%) Analytics
18 290 (4.14%) Machine Learning
19 278 (3.97%) TDD
20 275 (3.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,559 (22.27%) C#
2 1,396 (19.94%) SQL
3 1,154 (16.48%) JavaScript
4 889 (12.70%) Python
5 880 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 851 (12.15%) Java
7 449 (6.41%) PHP
8 298 (4.26%) C++
9 120 (1.71%) Go
10 98 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 67 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 65 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 61 (0.87%) Swift
15 58 (0.83%) PowerShell
16 57 (0.81%) Ruby
17 55 (0.79%) C
18 54 (0.77%) Rust
19 49 (0.70%) Bash
20 46 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 409 (5.84%) Degree
2 343 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 281 (4.01%) SC Cleared
4 241 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 54 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 36 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 27 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 22 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.086%) HND
14 6 (0.086%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.071%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.057%) ACCA
16 4 (0.057%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 128 (1.83%) QA
3 54 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 40 (0.57%) WCAG
5 24 (0.34%) GDPR
6 22 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 7 (0.100%) SLA
10 6 (0.086%) NIST
10 6 (0.086%) PCI DSS
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 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
14 2 (0.029%) JTAG
14 2 (0.029%) MiFID
14 2 (0.029%) PMO
15 1 (0.014%) HL7
System Software
1 509 (7.27%) 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
1 367 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 155 (2.21%) Terraform
3 26 (0.37%) HP Fortify
3 26 (0.37%) Prometheus
4 18 (0.26%) Ansible
5 14 (0.20%) Grafana
6 11 (0.16%) CloudHub
6 11 (0.16%) Kibana
7 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.086%) Argo
9 4 (0.057%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.057%) Podman
9 4 (0.057%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.043%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.043%) Nagios
11 2 (0.029%) MIIS
11 2 (0.029%) Packer
11 2 (0.029%) Puppet
12 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,151 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 166 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 148 (2.11%) Oracle
4 96 (1.37%) Google
5 86 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 57 (0.81%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 47 (0.67%) SAP
9 41 (0.59%) Databricks
10 40 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 38 (0.54%) 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%) Adobe
17 22 (0.31%) Intapp
18 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.30%) YouTube