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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 3,485 8,312 7,039
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.52% 13.56% 15.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.30% 14.37% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,786 5,641 6,232
10th Percentile £37,813 £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% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.77% -10.18% +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 41,993 57,862 44,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.39% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27,075 32,736 34,532
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -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 22 November 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 22 November 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 1,343 £80,000 +4.58% 1,189
North of England -19 670 £57,500 +9.52% 444
South East -21 570 £60,000 - 545
Midlands -14 428 £54,649 +9.30% 289
North West -17 361 £60,000 +14.29% 290
West Midlands -10 275 £55,000 +10.00% 183
South West -16 272 £52,500 +5.00% 180
Yorkshire -20 236 £55,000 +10.00% 112
East of England -39 167 £53,500 +7.00% 127
East Midlands -19 153 £52,000 +4.00% 104
North East -16 75 £50,000 -4.76% 44
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 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 1,157 (33.20%) Agile
2 1,125 (32.28%) JavaScript
3 986 (28.29%) Azure
4 899 (25.80%) C#
5 869 (24.94%) SQL
6 818 (23.47%) .NET
6 818 (23.47%) AWS
7 747 (21.43%) Python
8 723 (20.75%) React
9 664 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 631 (18.11%) CI/CD
11 630 (18.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 583 (16.73%) HTML
13 581 (16.67%) Java
14 550 (15.78%) CSS
15 544 (15.61%) TypeScript
16 542 (15.55%) Microsoft
17 539 (15.47%) DevOps
18 495 (14.20%) Software Engineering
19 450 (12.91%) Git
20 423 (12.14%) SQL Server
21 413 (11.85%) Mentoring
22 390 (11.19%) Microservices
23 368 (10.56%) REST
24 365 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
24 365 (10.47%) Power Platform
25 351 (10.07%) Degree
26 341 (9.78%) RESTful
27 338 (9.70%) AngularJS
27 338 (9.70%) Node.js

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 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 68 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (1.66%) CMS
4 39 (1.12%) Confluence
5 36 (1.03%) WordPress
6 25 (0.72%) Apache
7 21 (0.60%) Appian
8 20 (0.57%) Umbraco
9 15 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.43%) IIS
10 14 (0.40%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.20%) nginx
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
12 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.14%) Drupal
13 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.29%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.14%) Elementor
8 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.086%) Camtasia
10 3 (0.086%) Lectora
10 3 (0.086%) Snagit
10 3 (0.086%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 77 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.66%) Shopify
3 17 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 10 (0.29%) Magento
6 9 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 6 (0.17%) ProductWriter
8 5 (0.14%) Maximo
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.11%) Endur
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.086%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.086%) Primavera
10 3 (0.086%) Sage 1000
11 2 (0.057%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 986 (28.29%) Azure
2 818 (23.47%) AWS
3 365 (10.47%) Power Platform
4 256 (7.35%) GitHub
5 234 (6.71%) GCP
6 220 (6.31%) Serverless
7 199 (5.71%) SaaS
8 168 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
9 152 (4.36%) Power Automate
10 151 (4.33%) PowerApps
11 145 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
12 84 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (1.87%) dbt
16 56 (1.61%) Amazon S3
17 54 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
17 54 (1.55%) Azure Functions
18 52 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
19 51 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.27%) Internet
2 30 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 16 (0.46%) Broadband
4 9 (0.26%) HTTP
4 9 (0.26%) Multicast
5 8 (0.23%) WPA
6 7 (0.20%) Bluetooth
7 6 (0.17%) Intranet
7 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.11%) FTP
9 3 (0.086%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.057%) AMQP
10 2 (0.057%) DNS
10 2 (0.057%) MQTT
10 2 (0.057%) Network Security
10 2 (0.057%) RS-232
10 2 (0.057%) RS-485
10 2 (0.057%) SMS
10 2 (0.057%) SSH
10 2 (0.057%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 235 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 224 (6.43%) Power BI
4 207 (5.94%) MySQL
5 185 (5.31%) Relational Database
6 157 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 141 (4.05%) MongoDB
8 86 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
9 74 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 64 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 61 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 59 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
13 58 (1.66%) Apache Iceberg
14 56 (1.61%) DynamoDB
15 55 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
15 55 (1.58%) Dremio
16 48 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 47 (1.35%) RDBMS
18 45 (1.29%) Redis
19 32 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 450 (12.91%) Git
2 132 (3.79%) JIRA
3 95 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.32%) JUnit
5 45 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 42 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.06%) GitLab
8 35 (1.00%) Mockito
9 28 (0.80%) Selenium
10 25 (0.72%) JMeter
11 22 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 22 (0.63%) webpack
12 21 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.52%) Maven
14 17 (0.49%) Postman
14 17 (0.49%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
15 16 (0.46%) Storybook
16 15 (0.43%) Xcode
17 13 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 752 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 736 (21.12%) Finance
3 241 (6.92%) Front Office
4 213 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
5 182 (5.22%) Banking
6 171 (4.91%) Law
7 170 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 164 (4.71%) Marketing
9 99 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 93 (2.67%) Retail
11 81 (2.32%) Investment Banking
12 72 (2.07%) Multimedia
13 62 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 60 (1.72%) Games
15 54 (1.55%) Legal
16 40 (1.15%) Health Technology
17 36 (1.03%) Back Office
17 36 (1.03%) Electronics
18 34 (0.98%) Publishing
19 32 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 818 (23.47%) .NET
2 723 (20.75%) React
3 583 (16.73%) HTML
4 550 (15.78%) CSS
5 368 (10.56%) REST
6 341 (9.78%) RESTful
7 338 (9.70%) AngularJS
7 338 (9.70%) Node.js
8 246 (7.06%) Vue
9 233 (6.69%) .NET Core
10 225 (6.46%) ASP.NET
11 186 (5.34%) .NET Framework
12 156 (4.48%) Spring
13 135 (3.87%) JSON
14 130 (3.73%) Spring Boot
15 127 (3.64%) Web Services
16 124 (3.56%) Kafka
17 113 (3.24%) HTML5
18 103 (2.96%) XML
19 102 (2.93%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 151 (4.33%) Cloud Native
2 127 (3.64%) Fixed Income
3 121 (3.47%) Equities
4 113 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 112 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 108 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 108 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 102 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 87 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 82 (2.35%) Algorithms
9 82 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 81 (2.32%) Data Structures
11 79 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
12 61 (1.75%) Hedge funds
13 51 (1.46%) Management Information System
14 38 (1.09%) Derivative
14 38 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 36 (1.03%) IoT
16 31 (0.89%) Low-Code
17 26 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.39%) Linux
2 83 (2.38%) Android
3 76 (2.18%) Apple iOS
4 63 (1.81%) Windows
5 27 (0.77%) Unix
6 14 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.029%) MVS
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (33.20%) Agile
2 664 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 631 (18.11%) CI/CD
4 630 (18.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 539 (15.47%) DevOps
6 495 (14.20%) Software Engineering
7 413 (11.85%) Mentoring
8 390 (11.19%) Microservices
9 365 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 334 (9.58%) User Experience
11 321 (9.21%) AI
12 314 (9.01%) Clean Code
13 288 (8.26%) Test Automation
14 275 (7.89%) Computer Science
15 272 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
16 271 (7.78%) Front End Development
17 253 (7.26%) Scrum
18 241 (6.92%) TDD
19 213 (6.11%) SDLC
20 209 (6.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (32.28%) JavaScript
2 899 (25.80%) C#
3 869 (24.94%) SQL
4 747 (21.43%) Python
5 581 (16.67%) Java
6 544 (15.61%) TypeScript
7 204 (5.85%) PHP
8 187 (5.37%) C++
9 77 (2.21%) Go
10 72 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 71 (2.04%) PowerShell
12 54 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 53 (1.52%) C
14 48 (1.38%) Apex Code
15 46 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 41 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 36 (1.03%) VB.NET
18 34 (0.98%) Swift
19 30 (0.86%) Ruby
20 29 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 351 (10.07%) Degree
2 203 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 165 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 133 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 98 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 86 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 76 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 67 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 50 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 39 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.92%) PhD
13 20 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 2 (0.057%) HNC
18 2 (0.057%) MCSA
18 2 (0.057%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (5.42%) QA
2 129 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.21%) GDPR
4 37 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.49%) WCAG
6 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.29%) SLA
8 8 (0.23%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.14%) PERC
10 3 (0.086%) MiFID
10 3 (0.086%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.057%) EMIR
11 2 (0.057%) NIST
11 2 (0.057%) PSD2
12 1 (0.029%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.029%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.029%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.029%) MISRA
12 1 (0.029%) NCSC
12 1 (0.029%) PMO
System Software
1 310 (8.90%) Docker
2 19 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.23%) Firmware
4 4 (0.11%) zsh
5 3 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.029%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.96%) Terraform
3 24 (0.69%) Kibana
4 18 (0.52%) Ansible
5 15 (0.43%) Grafana
6 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.11%) CloudHub
9 3 (0.086%) Argo
9 3 (0.086%) cPanel
9 3 (0.086%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.086%) logstash
9 3 (0.086%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.086%) Plesk
10 2 (0.057%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.029%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.029%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.029%) QRadar
11 1 (0.029%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 542 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.47%) Oracle
3 109 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 67 (1.92%) SAP
5 48 (1.38%) Databricks
5 48 (1.38%) Google
6 47 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 45 (1.29%) Guidewire
8 38 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 37 (1.06%) Splunk
10 34 (0.98%) Blue Prism
11 29 (0.83%) IBM
12 27 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 26 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.60%) Adobe
15 19 (0.55%) Apple
16 18 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 17 (0.49%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.46%) Xamarin
19 11 (0.32%) HubSpot