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 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7,019 4,365 12,847
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.02% 10.06% 14.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.50% 11.13% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,869 3,112 10,797
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,875 £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 £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 82,535 39,220 83,741
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.37% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,071 23,613 61,241
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 £53,123
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.53% -11.46%
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 12 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 12 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 +1 1,994 £80,000 - 431
North of England +10 1,892 £55,000 -4.35% 312
South East +9 1,194 £60,000 +9.09% 283
North West +9 968 £55,000 -4.35% 155
Midlands +4 910 £55,000 - 174
Yorkshire +21 598 £55,000 -8.33% 85
South West -2 556 £55,000 - 112
West Midlands -1 510 £60,000 +5.73% 102
East of England +24 434 £60,000 +12.68% 85
East Midlands +25 399 £50,000 -4.76% 71
North East +14 326 £55,000 - 77
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,740 (24.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,563 (22.27%) C#
3 1,546 (22.03%) .NET
4 1,447 (20.62%) Azure
5 1,400 (19.95%) SQL
6 1,345 (19.16%) Agile
7 1,160 (16.53%) JavaScript
8 1,153 (16.43%) Microsoft
9 1,032 (14.70%) AWS
10 952 (13.56%) CI/CD
11 896 (12.77%) Python
12 884 (12.59%) React
13 876 (12.48%) TypeScript
14 863 (12.30%) Java
15 791 (11.27%) DevOps
16 723 (10.30%) Software Engineering
17 722 (10.29%) AI
18 708 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
19 651 (9.27%) .NET Core
20 637 (9.08%) ASP.NET
21 631 (8.99%) HTML
22 621 (8.85%) CSS
23 577 (8.22%) Microservices
24 551 (7.85%) Node.js
25 521 (7.42%) ASP.NET Core
26 515 (7.34%) Docker
27 496 (7.07%) RESTful
28 492 (7.01%) SQL Server
29 485 (6.91%) Power Platform
30 466 (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 58 (0.83%) CMS
3 50 (0.71%) WordPress
4 24 (0.34%) Confluence
5 23 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
7 20 (0.28%) IIS
8 16 (0.23%) Apache
8 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 15 (0.21%) Mule
10 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.13%) JBoss
12 8 (0.11%) Drupal
12 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 7 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
13 7 (0.100%) Appian
14 6 (0.085%) CICS
14 6 (0.085%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 51 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.057%) 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 55 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 21 (0.30%) Visualfiles
4 20 (0.28%) Shopify
5 15 (0.21%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.071%) Oracle CRM
11 4 (0.057%) Magento
11 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
12 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
12 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
12 3 (0.043%) SAP CO
13 2 (0.028%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,447 (20.62%) Azure
2 1,032 (14.70%) AWS
3 485 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 392 (5.58%) GitHub
5 364 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 276 (3.93%) Serverless
7 275 (3.92%) SaaS
8 244 (3.48%) Power Automate
8 244 (3.48%) PowerApps
9 243 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
10 176 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 173 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 160 (2.28%) GCP
13 159 (2.27%) Azure AI
14 148 (2.11%) Amazon S3
15 146 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
16 124 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
17 118 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
18 105 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
19 83 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.64%) Internet
2 60 (0.85%) Broadband
3 26 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.21%) HTTP
4 15 (0.21%) SSL
4 15 (0.21%) VoIP
5 7 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.085%) Intranet
6 6 (0.085%) MQTT
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%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 466 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 455 (6.48%) MongoDB
4 278 (3.96%) Power BI
5 198 (2.82%) MySQL
6 187 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 165 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 138 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 128 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 125 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 59 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 45 (0.64%) Redis
15 35 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (0.40%) OLTP
17 22 (0.31%) MariaDB
18 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
19 19 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 416 (5.93%) Git
2 152 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 89 (1.27%) JIRA
4 84 (1.20%) GitLab
5 54 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 52 (0.74%) Maven
7 39 (0.56%) JUnit
7 39 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 26 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 25 (0.36%) Subversion
10 23 (0.33%) Claude Code
11 20 (0.28%) Gradle
12 19 (0.27%) 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
1 914 (13.02%) Finance
2 670 (9.55%) Social Skills
3 215 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (2.89%) Law
5 178 (2.54%) Retail
6 175 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 171 (2.44%) Front Office
8 153 (2.18%) Banking
9 147 (2.09%) Marketing
10 113 (1.61%) Games
11 104 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 93 (1.32%) Legal
13 82 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 80 (1.14%) Advertising
15 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 38 (0.54%) Tech for Good
17 28 (0.40%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.38%) Automotive
19 26 (0.37%) Health Technology
20 25 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,546 (22.03%) .NET
2 884 (12.59%) React
3 651 (9.27%) .NET Core
4 637 (9.08%) ASP.NET
5 631 (8.99%) HTML
6 621 (8.85%) CSS
7 551 (7.85%) Node.js
8 521 (7.42%) ASP.NET Core
9 496 (7.07%) RESTful
10 459 (6.54%) AngularJS
11 415 (5.91%) REST
12 388 (5.53%) Vue
13 240 (3.42%) Blazor
14 235 (3.35%) Entity Framework
15 224 (3.19%) Spring
16 214 (3.05%) Spring Boot
17 204 (2.91%) Laravel
18 183 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
19 171 (2.44%) .NET Framework
20 143 (2.04%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 230 (3.28%) Cloud Native
1 230 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
2 221 (3.15%) Mobile App
3 163 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
4 149 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
5 141 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 106 (1.51%) Algorithms
6 106 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (1.35%) Fixed Income
8 90 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 87 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 79 (1.13%) Hedge funds
11 77 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 66 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 61 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 53 (0.76%) Equities
15 38 (0.54%) Derivative
16 35 (0.50%) Onboarding
16 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
17 34 (0.48%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 176 (2.51%) Linux
2 138 (1.97%) Android
3 132 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 86 (1.23%) Windows
5 21 (0.30%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.100%) Debian
8 6 (0.085%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.057%) zOS
11 1 (0.014%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.014%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.014%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,740 (24.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,345 (19.16%) Agile
3 952 (13.56%) CI/CD
4 791 (11.27%) DevOps
5 723 (10.30%) Software Engineering
6 722 (10.29%) AI
7 708 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
8 577 (8.22%) Microservices
9 455 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 441 (6.28%) Mentoring
11 373 (5.31%) Front End Development
12 370 (5.27%) Clean Code
13 361 (5.14%) Computer Science
14 341 (4.86%) Business Intelligence
15 331 (4.72%) Web Development
16 311 (4.43%) SDLC
17 300 (4.27%) Analytics
18 290 (4.13%) Machine Learning
19 282 (4.02%) TDD
20 276 (3.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,563 (22.27%) C#
2 1,400 (19.95%) SQL
3 1,160 (16.53%) JavaScript
4 896 (12.77%) Python
5 876 (12.48%) TypeScript
6 863 (12.30%) Java
7 448 (6.38%) PHP
8 302 (4.30%) C++
9 121 (1.72%) Go
10 97 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.95%) Apex Code
14 59 (0.84%) Swift
15 57 (0.81%) PowerShell
15 57 (0.81%) Ruby
16 56 (0.80%) C
17 54 (0.77%) Rust
18 53 (0.76%) Bash
19 47 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 414 (5.90%) Degree
2 349 (4.97%) Security Cleared
3 285 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 243 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 42 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 28 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 22 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.100%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.085%) HND
18 4 (0.057%) ACCA
18 4 (0.057%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 4 (0.057%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (2.01%) Accessibility
2 124 (1.77%) QA
3 54 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 39 (0.56%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
6 22 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 9 (0.13%) NCSC
9 6 (0.085%) NIST
9 6 (0.085%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.085%) SLA
10 5 (0.071%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.028%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.028%) JTAG
13 2 (0.028%) MiFID
13 2 (0.028%) PMO
14 1 (0.014%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 515 (7.34%) Docker
2 22 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.085%) Firmware
5 4 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 370 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 157 (2.24%) Terraform
3 29 (0.41%) HP Fortify
4 27 (0.38%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.27%) Ansible
6 15 (0.21%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 11 (0.16%) CloudHub
9 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.085%) Argo
11 4 (0.057%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.057%) Podman
12 3 (0.043%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.043%) Nagios
12 3 (0.043%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.028%) logstash
13 2 (0.028%) MIIS
13 2 (0.028%) Packer
13 2 (0.028%) Puppet
14 1 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,153 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 168 (2.39%) Salesforce
3 151 (2.15%) Oracle
4 96 (1.37%) Google
5 85 (1.21%) ServiceNow
6 58 (0.83%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 48 (0.68%) SAP
9 41 (0.58%) Databricks
10 40 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 39 (0.56%) 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%) Intapp
16 23 (0.33%) Splunk
17 21 (0.30%) Adobe
17 21 (0.30%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.30%) YouTube