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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 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 6,840 4,159 14,258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.22% 10.52% 15.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.74% 11.69% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,670 2,962 12,111
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £76,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,750 £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 78,266 35,581 89,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.96% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 55,070 20,653 66,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 17 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 17 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 2,029 £80,000 +3.23% 402
North of England +12 1,853 £55,000 - 339
South East +8 1,145 £60,000 +9.09% 286
North West +9 959 £55,000 - 180
Midlands +4 873 £55,000 - 187
Yorkshire +23 605 £55,000 -8.33% 97
South West -2 520 £55,000 - 107
West Midlands -2 466 £60,000 +9.09% 99
East Midlands +26 406 £50,000 -4.76% 88
East of England +23 383 £60,000 +10.09% 110
North East +20 289 £57,500 +4.55% 64
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 1,571 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,377 (20.13%) .NET
3 1,369 (20.01%) C#
4 1,261 (18.44%) Azure
5 1,218 (17.81%) SQL
6 1,174 (17.16%) Agile
7 1,072 (15.67%) JavaScript
8 953 (13.93%) AWS
9 923 (13.49%) Python
10 920 (13.45%) Microsoft
11 865 (12.65%) Java
12 852 (12.46%) CI/CD
13 839 (12.27%) React
14 786 (11.49%) TypeScript
15 718 (10.50%) DevOps
16 713 (10.42%) Software Engineering
17 647 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
18 625 (9.14%) AI
19 576 (8.42%) HTML
20 566 (8.27%) CSS
21 502 (7.34%) .NET Core
22 494 (7.22%) Microservices
23 475 (6.94%) Node.js
24 467 (6.83%) SQL Server
25 456 (6.67%) ASP.NET
26 455 (6.65%) Docker
27 450 (6.58%) Mentoring
28 435 (6.36%) PHP
29 434 (6.35%) Power Platform
30 428 (6.26%) RESTful

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
1 134 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 51 (0.75%) CMS
3 48 (0.70%) WordPress
4 25 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 23 (0.34%) Confluence
6 20 (0.29%) ColdFusion
7 19 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.23%) IIS
9 15 (0.22%) Apache
10 14 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.16%) JBoss
11 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.13%) Mule
12 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
13 8 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.12%) Drupal
14 7 (0.10%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.088%) Appian
15 6 (0.088%) CICS
Applications
1 48 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.015%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.015%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.38%) Shopify
3 22 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 18 (0.26%) Visualfiles
5 13 (0.19%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.088%) NetSuite
10 6 (0.088%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.044%) Magento
12 3 (0.044%) Misys Opics
13 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
13 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
13 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 2 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,261 (18.44%) Azure
2 953 (13.93%) AWS
3 434 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 341 (4.99%) GitHub
5 294 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 291 (4.25%) SaaS
7 280 (4.09%) Serverless
8 218 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
9 204 (2.98%) PowerApps
10 203 (2.97%) Power Automate
11 178 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
12 151 (2.21%) Amazon S3
13 137 (2.00%) GCP
14 126 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
15 122 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
16 120 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
17 109 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
18 108 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
19 101 (1.48%) Azure AI
20 78 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (1.62%) Internet
2 67 (0.98%) Broadband
3 31 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 12 (0.18%) HTTP
6 10 (0.15%) SSL
7 6 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.088%) Intranet
8 5 (0.073%) DNS
8 5 (0.073%) RTP
9 4 (0.058%) MQTT
9 4 (0.058%) TETRA
10 3 (0.044%) AMQP
10 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.044%) LAN
10 3 (0.044%) Network Security
10 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.044%) WAN
10 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.029%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 295 (4.31%) MongoDB
3 294 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 254 (3.71%) Power BI
5 169 (2.47%) MySQL
6 168 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
7 133 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 123 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 121 (1.77%) DynamoDB
10 99 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 49 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 41 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
16 36 (0.53%) Redis
17 32 (0.47%) OLTP
18 21 (0.31%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.28%) Power Query
20 18 (0.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 407 (5.95%) Git
2 157 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 84 (1.23%) JIRA
4 83 (1.21%) GitLab
5 56 (0.82%) Cypress.io
5 56 (0.82%) Maven
6 39 (0.57%) JUnit
7 38 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.29%) Gradle
10 19 (0.28%) Subversion
11 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.25%) Mockito
13 15 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.19%) Selenium
16 12 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 889 (13.00%) Finance
2 621 (9.08%) Social Skills
3 217 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (2.66%) Law
5 174 (2.54%) Front Office
5 174 (2.54%) Public Sector
6 163 (2.38%) Retail
7 161 (2.35%) Banking
8 135 (1.97%) Marketing
9 100 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 96 (1.40%) Games
11 88 (1.29%) Legal
12 74 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 53 (0.77%) Advertising
14 43 (0.63%) Investment Banking
15 42 (0.61%) Tech for Good
16 36 (0.53%) Multimedia
17 27 (0.39%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.37%) Automotive
18 25 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,377 (20.13%) .NET
2 839 (12.27%) React
3 576 (8.42%) HTML
4 566 (8.27%) CSS
5 502 (7.34%) .NET Core
6 475 (6.94%) Node.js
7 456 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 428 (6.26%) RESTful
9 407 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 401 (5.86%) REST
11 334 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 320 (4.68%) Vue
13 225 (3.29%) Spring
14 214 (3.13%) Spring Boot
15 188 (2.75%) Laravel
16 169 (2.47%) Blazor
17 156 (2.28%) Entity Framework
18 155 (2.27%) SOAP
19 141 (2.06%) .NET Framework
20 130 (1.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 268 (3.92%) Mobile App
2 221 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 192 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
4 146 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 138 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 135 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 110 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 102 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 95 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 83 (1.21%) Hedge funds
11 80 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 79 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 78 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 61 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 61 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 52 (0.76%) Equities
16 38 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
17 37 (0.54%) PropTech
18 36 (0.53%) Derivative
19 34 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 170 (2.49%) Linux
2 146 (2.13%) Android
3 140 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 70 (1.02%) Windows
5 16 (0.23%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.088%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.073%) Debian
10 4 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 3 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,571 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,174 (17.16%) Agile
3 852 (12.46%) CI/CD
4 718 (10.50%) DevOps
5 713 (10.42%) Software Engineering
6 647 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
7 625 (9.14%) AI
8 494 (7.22%) Microservices
9 450 (6.58%) Mentoring
10 417 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 374 (5.47%) Front End Development
12 363 (5.31%) Clean Code
13 345 (5.04%) Computer Science
14 320 (4.68%) Web Development
15 310 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
16 307 (4.49%) SDLC
17 284 (4.15%) Analytics
18 258 (3.77%) User Experience
19 248 (3.63%) TDD
20 247 (3.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,369 (20.01%) C#
2 1,218 (17.81%) SQL
3 1,072 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 923 (13.49%) Python
5 865 (12.65%) Java
6 786 (11.49%) TypeScript
7 435 (6.36%) PHP
8 303 (4.43%) C++
9 121 (1.77%) Go
10 100 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 73 (1.07%) Apex Code
11 73 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 68 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 62 (0.91%) C
14 59 (0.86%) Bash
14 59 (0.86%) Swift
15 53 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 50 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 49 (0.72%) Ruby
18 48 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 398 (5.82%) Degree
2 321 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 257 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 221 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 59 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 55 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 36 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 28 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 22 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.19%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.058%) ACCA
17 4 (0.058%) HND
17 4 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
17 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (1.81%) Accessibility
2 116 (1.70%) QA
3 52 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 33 (0.48%) WCAG
5 25 (0.37%) GDPR
5 25 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.18%) TickIT
7 11 (0.16%) NCSC
8 10 (0.15%) NIST
9 5 (0.073%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.044%) SLA
11 3 (0.044%) 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
1 455 (6.65%) Docker
2 24 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.058%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 306 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.11%) Terraform
3 29 (0.42%) HP Fortify
3 29 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.28%) Ansible
5 13 (0.19%) Grafana
6 11 (0.16%) Kibana
7 10 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.073%) Argo
9 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
9 4 (0.058%) CloudHub
9 4 (0.058%) Nagios
9 4 (0.058%) Podman
10 3 (0.044%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.029%) MIIS
11 2 (0.029%) Packer
12 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.015%) logstash
Vendors
1 920 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 155 (2.27%) Oracle
3 153 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 72 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 63 (0.92%) Google
6 51 (0.75%) IBM
7 48 (0.70%) SAP
8 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 32 (0.47%) Databricks
9 32 (0.47%) Facebook
9 32 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 31 (0.45%) iManage
11 26 (0.38%) Informatica
12 25 (0.37%) Cognos
12 25 (0.37%) Intapp
13 23 (0.34%) Apple
14 22 (0.32%) Splunk
15 21 (0.31%) Adobe
16 20 (0.29%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.29%) Xamarin