Development Engineer Jobs in England

Development Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Engineer salary in England is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 735 806
Rank change year-on-year +89 +71 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 185 197 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 78 130 108
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £90,925 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.77% +8.33% -

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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
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 £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in England

Development Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +78 99 £50,000 -16.67% 28
Midlands -18 38 £50,000 -13.04% 27
London +71 26 £65,000 -13.33% 11
West Midlands -6 25 £58,500 +1.74% 15
North of England +48 15 £65,000 -2.29% 13
East Midlands -6 13 £50,000 - 12
Yorkshire +86 6 £65,000 -13.97% 3
North West +11 6 - - 6
South West -27 6 £40,000 -21.55% 14
East of England 0 3 £65,000 - 11
North East -3 3 - - 5
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (62.16%) Degree
2 78 (42.16%) Electronics
2 78 (42.16%) Manufacturing
3 74 (40.00%) Firmware
3 74 (40.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 71 (38.38%) Schematic Capture
4 71 (38.38%) EMC
4 71 (38.38%) Project Planning
4 71 (38.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.76%) DevOps
6 31 (16.76%) Python
7 25 (13.51%) Agile
7 25 (13.51%) Git
7 25 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (12.97%) Computer Science
8 24 (12.97%) C#
9 22 (11.89%) C++
9 22 (11.89%) Azure
9 22 (11.89%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.73%) Java
11 17 (9.19%) SQL
11 17 (9.19%) Use Case
12 15 (8.11%) .NET
13 14 (7.57%) Mathematics
14 13 (7.03%) AWS
14 13 (7.03%) Software Testing
14 13 (7.03%) Containerisation
14 13 (7.03%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (6.49%) Full Stack Development

Development Engineer 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 7 (3.78%) Confluence
2 6 (3.24%) CMS
2 6 (3.24%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.54%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Doxygen
1 1 (0.54%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.89%) Azure
2 13 (7.03%) AWS
3 12 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.78%) GitHub
5 6 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.24%) IaaS
6 5 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.70%) Serverless
7 4 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.16%) GCP
8 3 (1.62%) SaaS
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.08%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (1.08%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) Modbus
2 5 (2.70%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.16%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.16%) RS-232
3 4 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.62%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.62%) MQTT
4 3 (1.62%) RS-422
4 3 (1.62%) RS-485
5 2 (1.08%) LAN
5 2 (1.08%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.16%) Big Data
3 2 (1.08%) DB2
3 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.54%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (13.51%) Git
2 10 (5.41%) Subversion
3 6 (3.24%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.16%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.08%) GitLab
5 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.54%) JIRA
General
1 78 (42.16%) Electronics
1 78 (42.16%) Manufacturing
2 71 (38.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (6.49%) Games
4 11 (5.95%) Social Skills
5 9 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.86%) Finance
6 4 (2.16%) Military
7 3 (1.62%) Automotive
8 2 (1.08%) Marketing
8 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.11%) .NET
2 12 (6.49%) REST
3 10 (5.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 10 (5.41%) Unreal Engine
4 8 (4.32%) ASP.NET
5 7 (3.78%) React
6 6 (3.24%) JSON
6 6 (3.24%) SOAP
6 6 (3.24%) Web Services
6 6 (3.24%) XML
6 6 (3.24%) XSLT
7 5 (2.70%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.16%) GTK
9 3 (1.62%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.62%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.62%) Flask
9 3 (1.62%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.62%) Kendo UI
10 2 (1.08%) Kafka
10 2 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.95%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.24%) Analogue Electronics
2 6 (3.24%) Life Science
3 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.08%) Animation
5 2 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.08%) Kindle
5 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) 3D Printing
6 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Lidar
6 1 (0.54%) Optoelectronics
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Windows
2 10 (5.41%) Linux
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.38%) Project Planning
1 71 (38.38%) Schematic Capture
2 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (16.76%) DevOps
4 25 (13.51%) Agile
5 24 (12.97%) Computer Science
6 22 (11.89%) Software Engineering
7 17 (9.19%) Use Case
8 14 (7.57%) Mathematics
9 13 (7.03%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (7.03%) Containerisation
9 13 (7.03%) Software Testing
10 12 (6.49%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (6.49%) Physics
11 11 (5.95%) CI/CD
11 11 (5.95%) Cross-Platform Development
11 11 (5.95%) Multithreading
11 11 (5.95%) Test Automation
12 10 (5.41%) SDET
13 9 (4.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.76%) Python
2 24 (12.97%) C#
3 22 (11.89%) C++
4 18 (9.73%) Java
5 17 (9.19%) SQL
6 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.86%) MATLAB
7 8 (4.32%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.78%) Bash
9 6 (3.24%) C
9 6 (3.24%) Ruby
9 6 (3.24%) XPath
10 4 (2.16%) Go
10 4 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.62%) Ada
12 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 115 (62.16%) Degree
2 25 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.24%) HNC
3 6 (3.24%) HND
3 6 (3.24%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.16%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.62%) QA
System Software
1 74 (40.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 74 (40.00%) Firmware
2 4 (2.16%) Docker
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (38.38%) EMC
2 6 (3.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.62%) Google
3 3 (1.62%) Telerik
4 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.08%) Cisco
4 2 (1.08%) IBM
5 1 (0.54%) Xilinx