Junior Developer Jobs in England

Junior Developer
UK > England

The median Junior Developer salary in England is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 554 579
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 110 298 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.37% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 84 276 251
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,000 £26,125
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £46,000
90th Percentile £57,625 £50,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in England

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in England

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in England

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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 +88 39 £30,000 -7.69% 46
London +53 21 £50,000 +25.00% 48
South West +110 20 £34,500 +23.21% 8
North of England -3 13 £29,000 -3.33% 55
Midlands +24 12 £30,000 +9.09% 22
Yorkshire +52 7 £29,000 -3.33% 11
West Midlands +30 7 £32,500 +18.18% 11
East Midlands +19 5 £27,938 -2.83% 11
East of England +13 5 £35,000 +16.67% 3
North West -33 5 £38,750 +29.17% 37
North East - 1 £25,500 - 7
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 48 (43.64%) JavaScript
2 46 (41.82%) SQL
3 40 (36.36%) HTML
4 39 (35.45%) CSS
5 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (25.45%) Azure
7 25 (22.73%) Retail
7 25 (22.73%) C#
8 23 (20.91%) PHP
9 22 (20.00%) .NET
9 22 (20.00%) Power Platform
9 22 (20.00%) Power BI
10 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
10 20 (18.18%) MySQL
11 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
12 18 (16.36%) Data Structures
12 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
12 18 (16.36%) Data Analysis
12 18 (16.36%) Git
12 18 (16.36%) Customer Experience
13 17 (15.45%) RESTful
13 17 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
13 17 (15.45%) Coaching
14 16 (14.55%) Facebook
14 16 (14.55%) Commercial Awareness
14 16 (14.55%) BusinessObjects
14 16 (14.55%) VBA
14 16 (14.55%) Data Mining
14 16 (14.55%) Service Delivery
14 16 (14.55%) Performance Management

Junior 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 5 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.91%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.91%) Solana
2 1 (0.91%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.55%) InDesign
4 2 (1.82%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.91%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.45%) Azure
2 22 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (13.64%) AWS
4 5 (4.55%) SaaS
5 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.64%) Serverless
6 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.73%) GitHub
7 2 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.91%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.91%) Figma
8 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.00%) Power BI
2 20 (18.18%) MySQL
3 16 (14.55%) BusinessObjects
3 16 (14.55%) Data Mining
4 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
5 8 (7.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.91%) FileMaker
8 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.91%) Power Query
8 1 (0.91%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (16.36%) Git
2 2 (1.82%) Vite
2 2 (1.82%) webpack
3 1 (0.91%) Gradle
3 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.91%) Maven
3 1 (0.91%) NUnit
3 1 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 25 (22.73%) Retail
2 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.73%) Finance
5 7 (6.36%) Law
6 4 (3.64%) Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.91%) Legal
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Police
8 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.36%) HTML
2 39 (35.45%) CSS
3 22 (20.00%) .NET
4 17 (15.45%) RESTful
5 12 (10.91%) Laravel
6 11 (10.00%) React
7 9 (8.18%) .NET Framework
7 9 (8.18%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.18%) Node.js
7 9 (8.18%) Web Services
8 8 (7.27%) CakePHP
8 8 (7.27%) Pandas
9 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
9 6 (5.45%) LAMP
9 6 (5.45%) NumPy
9 6 (5.45%) REST
10 5 (4.55%) HTML5
10 5 (4.55%) J2EE
10 5 (4.55%) Vue
11 4 (3.64%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.91%) Bitcoin
5 1 (0.91%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.91%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.91%) NHS
5 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Android
2 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.91%) Rocky
2 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.36%) Customer Experience
2 18 (16.36%) Data Analysis
3 17 (15.45%) Coaching
4 16 (14.55%) Commercial Awareness
4 16 (14.55%) Data Management
4 16 (14.55%) Performance Management
4 16 (14.55%) Service Delivery
4 16 (14.55%) WFM
5 14 (12.73%) MVC
6 13 (11.82%) Agile
6 13 (11.82%) CI/CD
6 13 (11.82%) DevOps
6 13 (11.82%) E-Commerce
6 13 (11.82%) Web Development
7 12 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (8.18%) OOP
11 7 (6.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (43.64%) JavaScript
2 46 (41.82%) SQL
3 25 (22.73%) C#
4 23 (20.91%) PHP
5 16 (14.55%) VBA
6 14 (12.73%) Java
7 13 (11.82%) Python
8 11 (10.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.73%) C
9 3 (2.73%) Groovy
10 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.82%) Go
11 1 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.91%) Bash
11 1 (0.91%) VB
11 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.55%) Facebook
3 8 (7.27%) Adobe
4 3 (2.73%) Twitter
5 1 (0.91%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) Toshiba