Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 12,673 13,724 29,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.78% 15.37% 21.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.64% 16.79% 22.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,932 10,603 18,094
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.84% +12.73%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,017 81,732 129,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,430 51,948 75,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in England.

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 3,653 £75,000 -3.23% 988
North of England +12 2,878 £52,084 -5.30% 522
South East 0 2,234 £57,500 - 311
North West +11 1,708 £52,500 -4.55% 316
Midlands +10 1,568 £50,000 -9.09% 353
South West +4 1,409 £50,000 -9.09% 208
West Midlands +13 1,019 £51,000 -7.27% 222
Yorkshire +16 914 £50,000 -4.76% 147
East of England +13 873 £50,000 -13.04% 144
East Midlands +3 542 £50,000 -9.09% 130
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 63
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4,589 (36.21%) JavaScript
2 4,488 (35.41%) C#
3 4,323 (34.11%) .NET
4 3,925 (30.97%) Agile
5 3,665 (28.92%) Azure
6 3,325 (26.24%) Full Stack Development
7 3,075 (24.26%) SQL
8 2,642 (20.85%) HTML
9 2,506 (19.77%) React
10 2,447 (19.31%) AWS
11 2,347 (18.52%) CSS
12 2,248 (17.74%) SQL Server
13 2,242 (17.69%) Microsoft
14 2,095 (16.53%) AngularJS
15 2,080 (16.41%) Social Skills
16 1,868 (14.74%) Finance
17 1,860 (14.68%) TypeScript
18 1,819 (14.35%) ASP.NET
19 1,790 (14.12%) DevOps
20 1,739 (13.72%) Java
21 1,735 (13.69%) MVC
22 1,659 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
23 1,655 (13.06%) Software Engineering
24 1,545 (12.19%) Microservices
25 1,524 (12.03%) .NET Core
26 1,518 (11.98%) Degree
27 1,505 (11.88%) Python
28 1,435 (11.32%) Git
29 1,250 (9.86%) PHP
30 1,247 (9.84%) TDD

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 310 (2.45%) CMS
2 293 (2.31%) Apache
3 277 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 275 (2.17%) WordPress
5 198 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 163 (1.29%) Confluence
7 155 (1.22%) IIS
8 119 (0.94%) Umbraco
9 74 (0.58%) Drupal
10 69 (0.54%) nginx
11 61 (0.48%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.42%) Headless CMS
13 52 (0.41%) Kentico
14 49 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
15 40 (0.32%) OpenStack
16 28 (0.22%) Tomcat
17 24 (0.19%) Mendix
18 23 (0.18%) Appian
19 20 (0.16%) SAS
20 18 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 118 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 20 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.14%) Simulink
8 9 (0.071%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.055%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.039%) InDesign
11 5 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.032%) Maya
12 4 (0.032%) Sketch
12 4 (0.032%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.024%) Blender
13 3 (0.024%) GNU Octave
13 3 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 172 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 112 (0.88%) Shopify
3 94 (0.74%) Magento
4 63 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 34 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 32 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
10 16 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 11 (0.087%) Visualfiles
12 9 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 9 (0.071%) Maximo
13 7 (0.055%) BPCS
13 7 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
14 6 (0.047%) SAP ERP
15 5 (0.039%) Odoo
15 5 (0.039%) Sage 200
15 5 (0.039%) SAP BPC
15 5 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3,665 (28.92%) Azure
2 2,447 (19.31%) AWS
3 963 (7.60%) Power Platform
4 814 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 539 (4.25%) Serverless
6 529 (4.17%) GCP
7 479 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
8 475 (3.75%) SaaS
9 370 (2.92%) PowerApps
10 364 (2.87%) GitHub
11 344 (2.71%) Power Automate
12 246 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 229 (1.81%) Azure Functions
14 224 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 223 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 173 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.14%) Azure API Management
18 130 (1.03%) IBM Cloud
19 91 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
20 87 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 206 (1.63%) Internet
2 64 (0.51%) HTTP
2 64 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 61 (0.48%) DNS
4 43 (0.34%) Firewall
5 36 (0.28%) SSL
6 24 (0.19%) Wireless
7 23 (0.18%) Intranet
8 22 (0.17%) VPN
9 19 (0.15%) Broadband
10 17 (0.13%) Network Security
11 16 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.12%) 5G
13 14 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.10%) MQTT
14 13 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.087%) BGP
15 11 (0.087%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.087%) MPLS
16 10 (0.079%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,248 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 887 (7.00%) MySQL
3 726 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
4 642 (5.07%) Power BI
5 566 (4.47%) MongoDB
6 523 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 511 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 293 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 285 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 245 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 238 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 189 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 183 (1.44%) Apache Ignite
14 167 (1.32%) Redis
15 142 (1.12%) DB2
16 119 (0.94%) Oracle Database
17 110 (0.87%) Data Lake
18 92 (0.73%) Tableau
19 86 (0.68%) DynamoDB
20 82 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,435 (11.32%) Git
2 464 (3.66%) Visual Studio
3 419 (3.31%) JIRA
4 222 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 180 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 142 (1.12%) Cypress.io
7 129 (1.02%) GitLab
8 107 (0.84%) Selenium
9 103 (0.81%) NUnit
10 97 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 82 (0.65%) Sourcetree
12 80 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 72 (0.57%) JUnit
14 64 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
15 56 (0.44%) Jasmine
16 54 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
17 53 (0.42%) Moq
18 48 (0.38%) webpack
19 47 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
20 42 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 2,080 (16.41%) Social Skills
2 1,868 (14.74%) Finance
3 551 (4.35%) Front Office
4 530 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
5 483 (3.81%) Banking
6 474 (3.74%) Marketing
7 437 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 391 (3.09%) Retail
9 373 (2.94%) Law
10 354 (2.79%) Games
11 232 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 212 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 183 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 167 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
15 155 (1.22%) Legal
16 142 (1.12%) Tech for Good
17 134 (1.06%) Advertising
18 125 (0.99%) Telecoms
19 113 (0.89%) Automotive
20 109 (0.86%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,323 (34.11%) .NET
2 2,642 (20.85%) HTML
3 2,506 (19.77%) React
4 2,347 (18.52%) CSS
5 2,095 (16.53%) AngularJS
6 1,819 (14.35%) ASP.NET
7 1,524 (12.03%) .NET Core
8 1,228 (9.69%) Vue
9 1,183 (9.33%) .NET Framework
10 1,177 (9.29%) Node.js
11 1,020 (8.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 940 (7.42%) Entity Framework
13 936 (7.39%) ASP.NET MVC
14 925 (7.30%) REST
15 869 (6.86%) HTML5
16 867 (6.84%) RESTful
17 719 (5.67%) Web Services
18 696 (5.49%) Laravel
19 694 (5.48%) jQuery
20 510 (4.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 598 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
2 413 (3.26%) Fixed Income
3 383 (3.02%) Hedge funds
4 329 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 311 (2.45%) Equities
6 308 (2.43%) Algorithms
7 306 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 281 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 239 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 224 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 224 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 216 (1.70%) Derivative
12 183 (1.44%) IoT
13 173 (1.37%) Blockchain
14 160 (1.26%) Client/Server
15 140 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
16 133 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 120 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
18 112 (0.88%) Cloud Native
19 111 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 725 (5.72%) Linux
2 459 (3.62%) Windows
3 369 (2.91%) Android
4 316 (2.49%) Apple iOS
5 90 (0.71%) Unix
6 34 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.21%) VMS
8 22 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.14%) CentOS
9 18 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
10 16 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.071%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.039%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.039%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.032%) AIX
15 4 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.016%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,925 (30.97%) Agile
2 3,325 (26.24%) Full Stack Development
3 1,790 (14.12%) DevOps
4 1,735 (13.69%) MVC
5 1,659 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1,655 (13.06%) Software Engineering
7 1,545 (12.19%) Microservices
8 1,247 (9.84%) TDD
9 1,077 (8.50%) Computer Science
10 1,031 (8.14%) Web Development
11 1,018 (8.03%) Scrum
12 918 (7.24%) CI/CD
12 918 (7.24%) User Experience
13 832 (6.57%) Front End Development
14 814 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
15 795 (6.27%) Mentoring
16 734 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence
17 721 (5.69%) Design Patterns
18 640 (5.05%) OO
19 632 (4.99%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,589 (36.21%) JavaScript
2 4,488 (35.41%) C#
3 3,075 (24.26%) SQL
4 1,860 (14.68%) TypeScript
5 1,739 (13.72%) Java
6 1,505 (11.88%) Python
7 1,250 (9.86%) PHP
8 467 (3.68%) C++
9 397 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 239 (1.89%) C
11 233 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 205 (1.62%) VB.NET
13 169 (1.33%) Go
14 159 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 154 (1.22%) PowerShell
16 117 (0.92%) Ruby
17 115 (0.91%) VB
18 108 (0.85%) Scala
19 100 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 76 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,518 (11.98%) Degree
2 614 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 601 (4.74%) Security Cleared
4 445 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 136 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 116 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 70 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 57 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (0.44%) PhD
10 54 (0.43%) Azure Certification
11 51 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 50 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.087%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.087%) HND
16 11 (0.087%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.047%) Numerate Degree
18 4 (0.032%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (3.44%) QA
2 109 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.54%) GDPR
4 54 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 51 (0.40%) WCAG
6 24 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.11%) SLA
9 12 (0.095%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.055%) MiFID
12 6 (0.047%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.024%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.024%) PMO
13 3 (0.024%) WAI
14 2 (0.016%) EMIR
14 2 (0.016%) GRC
14 2 (0.016%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.016%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,062 (8.38%) Docker
2 39 (0.31%) Firmware
3 35 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 30 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.079%) HDFS
7 8 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.016%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.008%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.008%) GridGain
11 1 (0.008%) OpenSIPS
11 1 (0.008%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.008%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 720 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 252 (1.99%) Terraform
3 94 (0.74%) Ansible
4 25 (0.20%) Grafana
4 25 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.16%) Kibana
6 15 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.079%) Rancher
8 9 (0.071%) MIIS
9 7 (0.055%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.047%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.047%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.039%) cPanel
11 5 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.032%) Puppet
12 4 (0.032%) WSUS
13 3 (0.024%) Control-M
14 2 (0.016%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.016%) Nagios
14 2 (0.016%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,242 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 398 (3.14%) Oracle
3 381 (3.01%) Google
4 186 (1.47%) IBM
5 145 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 133 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 125 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 122 (0.96%) Facebook
9 112 (0.88%) Adobe
10 96 (0.76%) Xamarin
11 68 (0.54%) SAP
12 66 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 61 (0.48%) Apple
14 49 (0.39%) MuleSoft
15 47 (0.37%) Progress
16 45 (0.36%) WooCommerce
17 43 (0.34%) Databricks
18 42 (0.33%) Bloomberg
18 42 (0.33%) YouTube
19 41 (0.32%) WSO2