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 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,944 4,190 13,848
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.18% 10.24% 14.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.68% 11.38% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,789 2,991 11,743
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,407
% change year-on-year - +8.29% -14.76%

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 79,959 36,827 87,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 90.00% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 56,236 21,708 64,688
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -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 28 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 28 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 +3 2,013 £80,000 +3.23% 404
North of England +11 1,885 £55,000 -4.35% 273
South East +9 1,165 £60,000 +9.09% 274
North West +9 969 £55,000 - 126
Midlands +4 890 £55,000 - 173
Yorkshire +28 598 £55,000 -8.33% 93
South West -3 535 £55,000 - 102
West Midlands -2 481 £60,000 +9.09% 110
East of England +26 419 £60,000 +10.09% 86
East Midlands +30 408 £50,000 -4.76% 63
North East +19 318 £57,500 +4.55% 59
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 1,672 (24.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,491 (21.47%) C#
3 1,482 (21.34%) .NET
4 1,383 (19.92%) Azure
5 1,343 (19.34%) SQL
6 1,280 (18.43%) Agile
7 1,114 (16.04%) JavaScript
8 1,057 (15.22%) Microsoft
9 990 (14.26%) AWS
10 907 (13.06%) Python
11 905 (13.03%) CI/CD
12 869 (12.51%) React
13 867 (12.49%) Java
14 832 (11.98%) TypeScript
15 771 (11.10%) DevOps
16 725 (10.44%) Software Engineering
17 682 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
18 680 (9.79%) AI
19 608 (8.76%) .NET Core
20 601 (8.65%) HTML
21 589 (8.48%) CSS
22 569 (8.19%) ASP.NET
23 539 (7.76%) Microservices
24 524 (7.55%) Node.js
25 488 (7.03%) Docker
26 486 (7.00%) SQL Server
27 469 (6.75%) RESTful
28 465 (6.70%) Power Platform
29 456 (6.57%) ASP.NET Core
30 442 (6.37%) AngularJS

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
1 141 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 54 (0.78%) CMS
3 47 (0.68%) WordPress
4 24 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 22 (0.32%) Confluence
5 22 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
7 19 (0.27%) IIS
8 18 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 17 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.20%) Apache
11 12 (0.17%) Mule
12 9 (0.13%) JBoss
12 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
12 9 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.12%) Drupal
13 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (0.10%) Appian
15 6 (0.086%) CICS
Applications
1 47 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.19%) 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%) Elementor
6 1 (0.014%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.014%) Sketch
6 1 (0.014%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 22 (0.32%) Shopify
4 19 (0.27%) Visualfiles
5 15 (0.22%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (0.072%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.072%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.058%) Magento
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
11 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
12 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,383 (19.92%) Azure
2 990 (14.26%) AWS
3 465 (6.70%) Power Platform
4 360 (5.18%) GitHub
5 343 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 279 (4.02%) SaaS
7 278 (4.00%) Serverless
8 231 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 227 (3.27%) Power Automate
10 225 (3.24%) PowerApps
11 178 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 149 (2.15%) Amazon S3
13 148 (2.13%) GCP
14 147 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
15 139 (2.00%) Azure AI
15 139 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
16 121 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 121 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
17 104 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
18 77 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (1.56%) Internet
2 66 (0.95%) Broadband
3 30 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 12 (0.17%) SSL
7 8 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.086%) Intranet
8 6 (0.086%) MQTT
9 5 (0.072%) RTP
10 4 (0.058%) DNS
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%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.043%) WAN
11 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (0.029%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 409 (5.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 401 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 269 (3.87%) Power BI
5 175 (2.52%) MySQL
5 175 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
7 130 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 125 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 121 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 60 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 55 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 45 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 45 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (0.59%) Redis
14 36 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (0.46%) OLTP
16 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
17 19 (0.27%) MariaDB
18 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 403 (5.80%) Git
2 157 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 87 (1.25%) JIRA
4 84 (1.21%) GitLab
5 53 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.76%) Maven
6 39 (0.56%) JUnit
7 38 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 24 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 23 (0.33%) Subversion
10 20 (0.29%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.29%) Gradle
11 19 (0.27%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
13 15 (0.22%) Mockito
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 906 (13.05%) Finance
2 647 (9.32%) Social Skills
3 219 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (2.78%) Law
5 177 (2.55%) Retail
6 175 (2.52%) Front Office
7 173 (2.49%) Public Sector
8 158 (2.28%) Banking
9 143 (2.06%) Marketing
10 104 (1.50%) Games
10 104 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 93 (1.34%) Legal
12 81 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 70 (1.01%) Advertising
14 43 (0.62%) Investment Banking
15 39 (0.56%) Tech for Good
16 25 (0.36%) Automotive
16 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
16 25 (0.36%) Local Government
17 24 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,482 (21.34%) .NET
2 869 (12.51%) React
3 608 (8.76%) .NET Core
4 601 (8.65%) HTML
5 589 (8.48%) CSS
6 569 (8.19%) ASP.NET
7 524 (7.55%) Node.js
8 469 (6.75%) RESTful
9 456 (6.57%) ASP.NET Core
10 442 (6.37%) AngularJS
11 413 (5.95%) REST
12 363 (5.23%) Vue
13 218 (3.14%) Spring
14 217 (3.13%) Blazor
15 207 (2.98%) Spring Boot
16 203 (2.92%) Entity Framework
17 191 (2.75%) Laravel
18 158 (2.28%) ASP.NET Web API
19 153 (2.20%) .NET Framework
20 152 (2.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 244 (3.51%) Mobile App
2 231 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 207 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
4 153 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 145 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 143 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 109 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 108 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 95 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 82 (1.18%) Hedge funds
13 79 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 64 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 59 (0.85%) Management Information System
16 53 (0.76%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (0.53%) Derivative
19 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
20 34 (0.49%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 175 (2.52%) Linux
2 141 (2.03%) Android
3 131 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 81 (1.17%) Windows
5 20 (0.29%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.086%) Debian
8 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
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 1,672 (24.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,280 (18.43%) Agile
3 905 (13.03%) CI/CD
4 771 (11.10%) DevOps
5 725 (10.44%) Software Engineering
6 682 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
7 680 (9.79%) AI
8 539 (7.76%) Microservices
9 440 (6.34%) Mentoring
10 438 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 369 (5.31%) Clean Code
12 366 (5.27%) Front End Development
13 360 (5.18%) Computer Science
14 329 (4.74%) Business Intelligence
15 319 (4.59%) Web Development
16 311 (4.48%) SDLC
17 295 (4.25%) Analytics
18 271 (3.90%) Machine Learning
19 269 (3.87%) Scrum
20 268 (3.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,491 (21.47%) C#
2 1,343 (19.34%) SQL
3 1,114 (16.04%) JavaScript
4 907 (13.06%) Python
5 867 (12.49%) Java
6 832 (11.98%) TypeScript
7 438 (6.31%) PHP
8 308 (4.44%) C++
9 123 (1.77%) Go
10 96 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 71 (1.02%) Apex Code
13 70 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 60 (0.86%) C
15 57 (0.82%) PowerShell
15 57 (0.82%) Swift
16 55 (0.79%) Bash
17 50 (0.72%) Ruby
17 50 (0.72%) Rust
18 48 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 413 (5.95%) Degree
2 343 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 277 (3.99%) SC Cleared
4 235 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 59 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 44 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 29 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
9 25 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.16%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.086%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.072%) HND
16 4 (0.058%) ACCA
16 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
17 3 (0.043%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 121 (1.74%) QA
3 52 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 34 (0.49%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
6 24 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 8 (0.12%) NIST
10 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.072%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.058%) SLA
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) MiFID
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
14 1 (0.014%) GAAP
14 1 (0.014%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 488 (7.03%) Docker
2 24 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.072%) Firmware
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 344 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.10%) Terraform
3 28 (0.40%) HP Fortify
3 28 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 19 (0.27%) Ansible
5 15 (0.22%) Grafana
6 12 (0.17%) Kibana
7 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.12%) CloudHub
9 6 (0.086%) Argo
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%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.014%) Puppet
13 1 (0.014%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,057 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 160 (2.30%) Salesforce
3 153 (2.20%) Oracle
4 78 (1.12%) ServiceNow
5 74 (1.07%) Google
6 56 (0.81%) IBM
7 50 (0.72%) SAP
8 47 (0.68%) Facebook
9 37 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 36 (0.52%) Databricks
10 36 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 34 (0.49%) iManage
12 30 (0.43%) Informatica
13 26 (0.37%) Cognos
14 25 (0.36%) Apple
14 25 (0.36%) Intapp
15 23 (0.33%) Splunk
16 21 (0.30%) Adobe
16 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.27%) Blue Prism