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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 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 6,884 4,162 13,915
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.15% 10.35% 14.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.66% 11.49% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,731 2,966 11,798
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £75,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -12.31%

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 79,518 36,214 88,110
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 90.02% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55,925 21,171 65,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £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 26 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 26 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 2,013 £80,000 +3.23% 385
North of England +12 1,875 £55,000 -4.35% 242
South East +10 1,148 £60,000 +9.09% 251
North West +9 972 £55,000 - 114
Midlands +4 875 £55,000 +1.87% 155
Yorkshire +29 593 £55,000 -8.33% 79
South West -1 529 £55,000 - 86
West Midlands -2 470 £60,000 +9.09% 96
East of England +25 408 £60,000 +9.09% 81
East Midlands +27 404 £50,000 - 59
North East +16 310 £57,500 +4.55% 54
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 1,617 (23.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,440 (20.92%) C#
3 1,432 (20.80%) .NET
4 1,335 (19.39%) Azure
5 1,289 (18.72%) SQL
6 1,232 (17.90%) Agile
7 1,090 (15.83%) JavaScript
8 1,011 (14.69%) Microsoft
9 974 (14.15%) AWS
10 910 (13.22%) Python
11 884 (12.84%) CI/CD
12 861 (12.51%) Java
13 845 (12.27%) React
14 810 (11.77%) TypeScript
15 747 (10.85%) DevOps
16 721 (10.47%) Software Engineering
17 675 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
18 659 (9.57%) AI
19 589 (8.56%) HTML
20 576 (8.37%) CSS
21 564 (8.19%) .NET Core
22 525 (7.63%) ASP.NET
23 516 (7.50%) Microservices
24 504 (7.32%) Node.js
25 487 (7.07%) SQL Server
26 473 (6.87%) Docker
27 459 (6.67%) Power Platform
28 453 (6.58%) RESTful
29 444 (6.45%) Mentoring
30 432 (6.28%) 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
1 140 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 54 (0.78%) CMS
3 45 (0.65%) WordPress
4 24 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 22 (0.32%) Confluence
5 22 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.31%) ColdFusion
7 19 (0.28%) IIS
8 17 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 17 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 14 (0.20%) Apache
10 11 (0.16%) Mule
11 10 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.13%) JBoss
12 9 (0.13%) OpenEdge
13 8 (0.12%) Drupal
13 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (0.10%) Appian
15 6 (0.087%) CICS
Applications
1 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.015%) Sketch
6 1 (0.015%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.33%) 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
8 8 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.073%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.073%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.058%) Magento
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.044%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.044%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.029%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
12 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
12 2 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 2 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,335 (19.39%) Azure
2 974 (14.15%) AWS
3 459 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 353 (5.13%) GitHub
5 325 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 283 (4.11%) SaaS
7 278 (4.04%) Serverless
8 229 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 225 (3.27%) Power Automate
10 223 (3.24%) PowerApps
11 178 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
12 147 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 146 (2.12%) GCP
14 138 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
15 132 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
16 124 (1.80%) Azure AI
17 121 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
17 121 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
18 105 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
19 77 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (1.63%) Internet
2 66 (0.96%) Broadband
3 30 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.23%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) HTTP
6 11 (0.16%) SSL
7 8 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.087%) Intranet
8 6 (0.087%) MQTT
9 5 (0.073%) RTP
10 4 (0.058%) DNS
11 3 (0.044%) AMQP
11 3 (0.044%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.044%) LAN
11 3 (0.044%) Network Security
11 3 (0.044%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.044%) WAN
11 3 (0.044%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.029%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (0.029%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 360 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 357 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 264 (3.83%) Power BI
5 173 (2.51%) MySQL
6 172 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 128 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 127 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
9 124 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 121 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 59 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 54 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 43 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 42 (0.61%) Redis
16 36 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
17 33 (0.48%) OLTP
18 21 (0.31%) RDBMS
19 18 (0.26%) MariaDB
19 18 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 407 (5.91%) Git
2 158 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 85 (1.23%) GitLab
3 85 (1.23%) JIRA
4 54 (0.78%) Maven
5 53 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 40 (0.58%) JUnit
7 38 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 24 (0.35%) Eclipse
9 23 (0.33%) Subversion
10 21 (0.31%) CircleCI
11 20 (0.29%) Gradle
12 19 (0.28%) Claude Code
13 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.23%) Mockito
13 16 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 16 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.20%) fastlane
14 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 896 (13.02%) Finance
2 639 (9.28%) Social Skills
3 216 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (2.76%) Law
5 174 (2.53%) Front Office
6 172 (2.50%) Retail
7 171 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 159 (2.31%) Banking
9 137 (1.99%) Marketing
10 103 (1.50%) Games
11 102 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 92 (1.34%) Legal
13 80 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 64 (0.93%) Advertising
15 43 (0.62%) Investment Banking
16 39 (0.57%) Tech for Good
17 26 (0.38%) Local Government
17 26 (0.38%) Multimedia
18 25 (0.36%) Automotive
18 25 (0.36%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,432 (20.80%) .NET
2 845 (12.27%) React
3 589 (8.56%) HTML
4 576 (8.37%) CSS
5 564 (8.19%) .NET Core
6 525 (7.63%) ASP.NET
7 504 (7.32%) Node.js
8 453 (6.58%) RESTful
9 422 (6.13%) AngularJS
10 407 (5.91%) ASP.NET Core
11 406 (5.90%) REST
12 345 (5.01%) Vue
13 219 (3.18%) Spring
14 207 (3.01%) Spring Boot
15 194 (2.82%) Blazor
16 188 (2.73%) Laravel
17 186 (2.70%) Entity Framework
18 152 (2.21%) SOAP
19 148 (2.15%) .NET Framework
20 138 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 246 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 230 (3.34%) Cloud Native
3 198 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 146 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
5 145 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 140 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 108 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 106 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 95 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 85 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 82 (1.19%) Hedge funds
13 78 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 62 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 59 (0.86%) Management Information System
16 52 (0.76%) Equities
17 38 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
18 37 (0.54%) Derivative
19 35 (0.51%) PropTech
20 34 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 173 (2.51%) Linux
2 140 (2.03%) Android
3 131 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 80 (1.16%) Windows
5 19 (0.28%) 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 (0.073%) Debian
9 5 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.058%) zOS
11 1 (0.015%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.015%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.015%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,617 (23.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,232 (17.90%) Agile
3 884 (12.84%) CI/CD
4 747 (10.85%) DevOps
5 721 (10.47%) Software Engineering
6 675 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
7 659 (9.57%) AI
8 516 (7.50%) Microservices
9 444 (6.45%) Mentoring
10 431 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 366 (5.32%) Clean Code
12 363 (5.27%) Front End Development
13 358 (5.20%) Computer Science
14 322 (4.68%) Business Intelligence
15 319 (4.63%) Web Development
16 311 (4.52%) SDLC
17 291 (4.23%) Analytics
18 259 (3.76%) TDD
19 258 (3.75%) Scrum
20 255 (3.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,440 (20.92%) C#
2 1,289 (18.72%) SQL
3 1,090 (15.83%) JavaScript
4 910 (13.22%) Python
5 861 (12.51%) Java
6 810 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 432 (6.28%) PHP
8 308 (4.47%) C++
9 123 (1.79%) Go
10 96 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 73 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 72 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 71 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 61 (0.89%) C
15 57 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 57 (0.83%) Swift
16 56 (0.81%) Bash
17 50 (0.73%) Ruby
17 50 (0.73%) Rust
18 48 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 411 (5.97%) Degree
2 336 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 272 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 234 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 52 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 25 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 23 (0.33%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.16%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.073%) HND
17 4 (0.058%) ACCA
17 4 (0.058%) Tableau Certification
18 3 (0.044%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (1.86%) Accessibility
2 120 (1.74%) QA
3 52 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 33 (0.48%) 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 (0.073%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.058%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.058%) SLA
12 3 (0.044%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) MiFID
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
14 1 (0.015%) IFRS
14 1 (0.015%) ITGC
System Software
1 473 (6.87%) Docker
2 24 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.073%) Firmware
6 3 (0.044%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.015%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 331 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.09%) Terraform
3 29 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 28 (0.41%) HP Fortify
5 18 (0.26%) Ansible
6 15 (0.22%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.10%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.087%) Argo
11 4 (0.058%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.058%) Podman
12 3 (0.044%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.044%) Nagios
13 2 (0.029%) logstash
13 2 (0.029%) MIIS
13 2 (0.029%) Packer
14 1 (0.015%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.015%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.015%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,011 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 158 (2.30%) Salesforce
3 154 (2.24%) Oracle
4 76 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 68 (0.99%) Google
6 54 (0.78%) IBM
7 48 (0.70%) SAP
8 40 (0.58%) Facebook
9 37 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 35 (0.51%) Databricks
10 35 (0.51%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.48%) iManage
12 30 (0.44%) Informatica
13 25 (0.36%) Cognos
13 25 (0.36%) Intapp
14 23 (0.33%) Apple
14 23 (0.33%) Splunk
15 21 (0.31%) Adobe
16 20 (0.29%) Blue Prism
16 20 (0.29%) Dynatrace