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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 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 6,992 4,340 12,985
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.05% 10.04% 14.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.54% 11.11% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,844 3,101 10,932
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £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 81,911 39,061 84,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.39% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 57,582 23,417 61,969
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,043 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +3.85% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £76,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +2 1,992 £80,000 - 414
North of England +10 1,878 £55,000 -4.35% 277
South East +10 1,189 £60,000 +9.09% 262
North West +9 961 £55,000 -4.35% 137
Midlands +4 911 £55,000 - 166
Yorkshire +22 596 £55,000 -8.33% 77
South West -2 553 £55,000 - 99
West Midlands -1 505 £60,000 +5.73% 94
East of England +28 430 £60,000 +11.11% 88
East Midlands +25 405 £50,000 -4.76% 72
North East +14 321 £55,000 - 67
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 1,738 (24.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,562 (22.34%) C#
3 1,547 (22.13%) .NET
4 1,443 (20.64%) Azure
5 1,399 (20.01%) SQL
6 1,332 (19.05%) Agile
7 1,151 (16.46%) JavaScript
8 1,145 (16.38%) Microsoft
9 1,024 (14.65%) AWS
10 940 (13.44%) CI/CD
11 891 (12.74%) Python
12 881 (12.60%) React
13 868 (12.41%) TypeScript
14 863 (12.34%) Java
15 786 (11.24%) DevOps
16 722 (10.33%) Software Engineering
17 713 (10.20%) AI
18 696 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
19 653 (9.34%) .NET Core
20 634 (9.07%) ASP.NET
21 624 (8.92%) HTML
22 615 (8.80%) CSS
23 574 (8.21%) Microservices
24 548 (7.84%) Node.js
25 520 (7.44%) ASP.NET Core
26 513 (7.34%) Docker
27 492 (7.04%) RESTful
28 490 (7.01%) SQL Server
29 481 (6.88%) Power Platform
30 467 (6.68%) 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
1 147 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 57 (0.82%) CMS
3 49 (0.70%) WordPress
4 23 (0.33%) Confluence
4 23 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 21 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 21 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 19 (0.27%) IIS
7 16 (0.23%) Apache
7 16 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.20%) Mule
9 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.13%) JBoss
11 8 (0.11%) Drupal
11 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.10%) Appian
13 6 (0.086%) CICS
13 6 (0.086%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.043%) 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 54 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 20 (0.29%) Shopify
3 20 (0.29%) Visualfiles
4 15 (0.21%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 9 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.057%) Magento
8 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.057%) Oracle CRM
8 4 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.043%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.043%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.043%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.043%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.029%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,443 (20.64%) Azure
2 1,024 (14.65%) AWS
3 481 (6.88%) Power Platform
4 389 (5.56%) GitHub
5 362 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
6 275 (3.93%) Serverless
7 274 (3.92%) SaaS
8 240 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
8 240 (3.43%) Power Automate
9 239 (3.42%) PowerApps
10 175 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 172 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 159 (2.27%) Azure AI
13 158 (2.26%) GCP
14 145 (2.07%) Amazon S3
14 145 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
15 123 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
16 118 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 104 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 81 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (1.64%) Internet
2 60 (0.86%) Broadband
3 26 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 15 (0.21%) HTTP
4 15 (0.21%) VoIP
5 14 (0.20%) SSL
6 7 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.086%) Intranet
7 6 (0.086%) MQTT
8 5 (0.072%) Wireless
9 4 (0.057%) DNS
9 4 (0.057%) RTP
10 3 (0.043%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.043%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.043%) LAN
10 3 (0.043%) Network Security
10 3 (0.043%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.043%) WAN
10 3 (0.043%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.043%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 467 (6.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 454 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 279 (3.99%) Power BI
5 193 (2.76%) MySQL
6 182 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 165 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
8 135 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 125 (1.79%) NoSQL
10 123 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 63 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 58 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 46 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 45 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (0.64%) Redis
15 35 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (0.40%) OLTP
17 21 (0.30%) MariaDB
17 21 (0.30%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 411 (5.88%) Git
2 152 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 88 (1.26%) JIRA
4 84 (1.20%) GitLab
5 54 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 53 (0.76%) Maven
7 40 (0.57%) JUnit
8 39 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 26 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 25 (0.36%) Subversion
11 22 (0.31%) Claude Code
12 20 (0.29%) Gradle
13 19 (0.27%) CircleCI
14 18 (0.26%) Visual Studio
15 17 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
16 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
17 14 (0.20%) fastlane
17 14 (0.20%) Mockito
18 12 (0.17%) Selenium
18 12 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 916 (13.10%) Finance
2 662 (9.47%) Social Skills
3 212 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (2.86%) Law
5 177 (2.53%) Retail
6 171 (2.45%) Front Office
7 170 (2.43%) Public Sector
8 154 (2.20%) Banking
9 147 (2.10%) Marketing
10 113 (1.62%) Games
11 102 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 92 (1.32%) Legal
13 81 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 80 (1.14%) Advertising
15 42 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 37 (0.53%) Tech for Good
17 28 (0.40%) Aerospace
18 27 (0.39%) Automotive
19 26 (0.37%) Health Technology
20 25 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,547 (22.13%) .NET
2 881 (12.60%) React
3 653 (9.34%) .NET Core
4 634 (9.07%) ASP.NET
5 624 (8.92%) HTML
6 615 (8.80%) CSS
7 548 (7.84%) Node.js
8 520 (7.44%) ASP.NET Core
9 492 (7.04%) RESTful
10 461 (6.59%) AngularJS
11 413 (5.91%) REST
12 389 (5.56%) Vue
13 240 (3.43%) Blazor
14 233 (3.33%) Entity Framework
15 221 (3.16%) Spring
16 211 (3.02%) Spring Boot
17 203 (2.90%) Laravel
18 181 (2.59%) ASP.NET Web API
19 167 (2.39%) .NET Framework
20 143 (2.05%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 229 (3.28%) Cloud Native
1 229 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
2 226 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 161 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
4 145 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 141 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 106 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 104 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 95 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 89 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 85 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 80 (1.14%) Hedge funds
12 74 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 66 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 61 (0.87%) Management Information System
15 53 (0.76%) Equities
16 38 (0.54%) Derivative
17 35 (0.50%) Virtual Team
18 34 (0.49%) PropTech
18 34 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 177 (2.53%) Linux
2 139 (1.99%) Android
3 132 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 85 (1.22%) Windows
5 21 (0.30%) Unix
6 11 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.10%) Debian
8 6 (0.086%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.057%) 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 1,738 (24.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 1,332 (19.05%) Agile
3 940 (13.44%) CI/CD
4 786 (11.24%) DevOps
5 722 (10.33%) Software Engineering
6 713 (10.20%) AI
7 696 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
8 574 (8.21%) Microservices
9 447 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 439 (6.28%) Mentoring
11 371 (5.31%) Front End Development
12 369 (5.28%) Clean Code
13 361 (5.16%) Computer Science
14 340 (4.86%) Business Intelligence
15 329 (4.71%) Web Development
16 309 (4.42%) SDLC
17 297 (4.25%) Analytics
18 290 (4.15%) Machine Learning
19 282 (4.03%) TDD
20 277 (3.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,562 (22.34%) C#
2 1,399 (20.01%) SQL
3 1,151 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 891 (12.74%) Python
5 868 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 863 (12.34%) Java
7 446 (6.38%) PHP
8 303 (4.33%) C++
9 121 (1.73%) Go
10 97 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 74 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 68 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 67 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 59 (0.84%) Swift
15 57 (0.82%) C
15 57 (0.82%) PowerShell
16 56 (0.80%) Ruby
17 54 (0.77%) Bash
18 52 (0.74%) Rust
19 48 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 413 (5.91%) Degree
2 346 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 282 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 242 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 57 (0.82%) 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 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.11%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.086%) HND
17 4 (0.057%) ACCA
17 4 (0.057%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 4 (0.057%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 125 (1.79%) QA
3 53 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 37 (0.53%) WCAG
5 25 (0.36%) GDPR
6 22 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.17%) TickIT
8 8 (0.11%) NCSC
9 6 (0.086%) NIST
9 6 (0.086%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.086%) SLA
10 5 (0.072%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.043%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.029%) Good Clinical Practice
13 2 (0.029%) JTAG
13 2 (0.029%) MiFID
13 2 (0.029%) PMO
14 1 (0.014%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 513 (7.34%) Docker
2 22 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.086%) Firmware
5 4 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.043%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 367 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 154 (2.20%) Terraform
3 29 (0.41%) HP Fortify
4 27 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.27%) Ansible
6 15 (0.21%) Grafana
7 12 (0.17%) Kibana
8 10 (0.14%) CloudHub
9 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.086%) 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 (0.029%) logstash
13 2 (0.029%) MIIS
13 2 (0.029%) Packer
13 2 (0.029%) Puppet
14 1 (0.014%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,145 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 166 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 149 (2.13%) Oracle
4 93 (1.33%) Google
5 83 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 58 (0.83%) IBM
7 54 (0.77%) Facebook
8 47 (0.67%) SAP
9 40 (0.57%) Databricks
10 38 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 37 (0.53%) 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