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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,905 4,164 14,426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.23% 10.44% 15.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.75% 11.61% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,745 2,966 12,265
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £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 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 78,940 35,879 90,570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.99% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 55,565 20,916 67,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +4 2,028 £80,000 +3.23% 331
North of England +12 1,872 £55,000 -2.65% 251
South East +9 1,158 £60,000 +9.09% 243
North West +9 965 £55,000 - 126
Midlands +4 888 £55,000 - 151
Yorkshire +28 606 £55,000 -8.33% 77
South West 0 527 £55,000 -0.90% 88
West Midlands -3 473 £60,000 +9.09% 91
East Midlands +29 414 £50,000 -4.76% 60
East of England +23 395 £60,000 +9.09% 70
North East +19 301 £57,500 +4.55% 53
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 1,616 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,427 (20.67%) C#
3 1,426 (20.65%) .NET
4 1,311 (18.99%) Azure
5 1,275 (18.46%) SQL
6 1,221 (17.68%) Agile
7 1,085 (15.71%) JavaScript
8 982 (14.22%) Microsoft
9 957 (13.86%) AWS
10 921 (13.34%) Python
11 871 (12.61%) CI/CD
12 870 (12.60%) Java
13 854 (12.37%) React
14 806 (11.67%) TypeScript
15 742 (10.75%) DevOps
16 717 (10.38%) Software Engineering
17 670 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
18 651 (9.43%) AI
19 586 (8.49%) HTML
20 575 (8.33%) CSS
21 549 (7.95%) .NET Core
22 507 (7.34%) ASP.NET
23 503 (7.28%) Microservices
24 495 (7.17%) Node.js
25 471 (6.82%) SQL Server
26 464 (6.72%) Docker
27 448 (6.49%) Power Platform
28 447 (6.47%) Mentoring
29 444 (6.43%) RESTful
30 433 (6.27%) PHP

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
1 138 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 52 (0.75%) CMS
3 48 (0.70%) WordPress
4 25 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 23 (0.33%) Confluence
6 21 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.29%) ColdFusion
8 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 17 (0.25%) IIS
10 16 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 15 (0.22%) Apache
12 10 (0.14%) JBoss
12 10 (0.14%) Mule
12 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
14 8 (0.12%) Drupal
14 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
15 7 (0.10%) Appian
16 6 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.029%) 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%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.014%) Sketch
6 1 (0.014%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 19 (0.28%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.087%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.087%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.058%) Magento
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.029%) Fidessa
12 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,311 (18.99%) Azure
2 957 (13.86%) AWS
3 448 (6.49%) Power Platform
4 349 (5.05%) GitHub
5 318 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
6 286 (4.14%) SaaS
7 278 (4.03%) Serverless
8 224 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
9 216 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 216 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 177 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (2.16%) Amazon S3
12 140 (2.03%) GCP
13 133 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
14 124 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
15 122 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 120 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
17 118 (1.71%) Azure AI
18 104 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 75 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 110 (1.59%) Internet
2 67 (0.97%) Broadband
3 31 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 13 (0.19%) HTTP
6 11 (0.16%) SSL
7 7 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
9 5 (0.072%) DNS
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 4 (0.058%) MQTT
11 3 (0.043%) AMQP
11 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.043%) LAN
11 3 (0.043%) Network Security
11 3 (0.043%) TETRA
11 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.043%) WAN
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 344 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 343 (4.97%) MongoDB
4 257 (3.72%) Power BI
5 169 (2.45%) MySQL
6 166 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 127 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 125 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 120 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 118 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 54 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 51 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (0.54%) Redis
17 32 (0.46%) OLTP
18 20 (0.29%) RDBMS
19 18 (0.26%) Big Data
19 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 408 (5.91%) Git
2 155 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 86 (1.25%) JIRA
4 81 (1.17%) GitLab
5 54 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 53 (0.77%) Maven
7 39 (0.56%) JUnit
8 37 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.32%) Subversion
10 21 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
11 20 (0.29%) Gradle
12 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
13 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.23%) Mockito
14 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
15 14 (0.20%) fastlane
15 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.20%) Visual Studio
16 12 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 894 (12.95%) Finance
2 637 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 222 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (2.74%) Law
5 175 (2.53%) Front Office
5 175 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 172 (2.49%) Retail
7 160 (2.32%) Banking
8 142 (2.06%) Marketing
9 104 (1.51%) Games
10 101 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 93 (1.35%) Legal
12 79 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 60 (0.87%) Advertising
14 43 (0.62%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
16 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
16 27 (0.39%) Multimedia
17 26 (0.38%) Local Government
18 25 (0.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,426 (20.65%) .NET
2 854 (12.37%) React
3 586 (8.49%) HTML
4 575 (8.33%) CSS
5 549 (7.95%) .NET Core
6 507 (7.34%) ASP.NET
7 495 (7.17%) Node.js
8 444 (6.43%) RESTful
9 419 (6.07%) AngularJS
10 410 (5.94%) REST
11 389 (5.63%) ASP.NET Core
12 338 (4.90%) Vue
13 223 (3.23%) Spring
14 210 (3.04%) Spring Boot
15 188 (2.72%) Blazor
16 187 (2.71%) Laravel
17 180 (2.61%) Entity Framework
18 157 (2.27%) SOAP
19 144 (2.09%) .NET Framework
20 132 (1.91%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 260 (3.77%) Mobile App
2 223 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 202 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
4 148 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 143 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 139 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
7 107 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 104 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 96 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 82 (1.19%) Hedge funds
12 81 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 79 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 62 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 60 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.77%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (0.54%) Derivative
19 36 (0.52%) PropTech
20 33 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 172 (2.49%) Linux
2 144 (2.09%) Android
3 136 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 76 (1.10%) Windows
5 18 (0.26%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.087%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.072%) Debian
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,616 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,221 (17.68%) Agile
3 871 (12.61%) CI/CD
4 742 (10.75%) DevOps
5 717 (10.38%) Software Engineering
6 670 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
7 651 (9.43%) AI
8 503 (7.28%) Microservices
9 447 (6.47%) Mentoring
10 427 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 372 (5.39%) Front End Development
12 363 (5.26%) Clean Code
13 353 (5.11%) Computer Science
14 319 (4.62%) Web Development
15 316 (4.58%) Business Intelligence
16 311 (4.50%) SDLC
17 291 (4.21%) Analytics
18 259 (3.75%) User Experience
19 254 (3.68%) Machine Learning
20 253 (3.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,427 (20.67%) C#
2 1,275 (18.46%) SQL
3 1,085 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 921 (13.34%) Python
5 870 (12.60%) Java
6 806 (11.67%) TypeScript
7 433 (6.27%) PHP
8 311 (4.50%) C++
9 120 (1.74%) Go
10 98 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 73 (1.06%) Apex Code
12 72 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 72 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 63 (0.91%) C
14 57 (0.83%) Bash
14 57 (0.83%) Swift
15 56 (0.81%) PowerShell
16 50 (0.72%) Rust
17 49 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 49 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 407 (5.89%) Degree
2 331 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 265 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 228 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 50 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 45 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 24 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.19%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.072%) HND
17 4 (0.058%) ACCA
17 4 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (1.84%) Accessibility
2 119 (1.72%) QA
3 53 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 33 (0.48%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
5 25 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.17%) TickIT
7 11 (0.16%) NCSC
8 10 (0.14%) NIST
9 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.043%) SLA
11 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.029%) GAAP
12 2 (0.029%) IFRS
12 2 (0.029%) MiFID
12 2 (0.029%) PMO
12 2 (0.029%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 464 (6.72%) Docker
2 25 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.058%) Firmware
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 320 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 142 (2.06%) Terraform
3 28 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 27 (0.39%) HP Fortify
5 20 (0.29%) Ansible
6 14 (0.20%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.087%) Argo
9 6 (0.087%) CloudHub
10 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
10 4 (0.058%) Podman
11 3 (0.043%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.043%) Nagios
12 2 (0.029%) logstash
12 2 (0.029%) MIIS
12 2 (0.029%) Packer
13 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 982 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 156 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 155 (2.24%) Oracle
4 72 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 67 (0.97%) Google
6 53 (0.77%) IBM
7 51 (0.74%) SAP
8 39 (0.56%) Facebook
9 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 34 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.48%) Databricks
11 33 (0.48%) iManage
12 28 (0.41%) Informatica
13 26 (0.38%) Intapp
14 25 (0.36%) Cognos
15 23 (0.33%) Apple
16 22 (0.32%) Splunk
17 21 (0.30%) Adobe
18 19 (0.28%) Blue Prism
18 19 (0.28%) Xamarin