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 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 543 593
Rank change year-on-year -28 +50 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 112 300 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.37% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 87 278 257
10th Percentile £26,150 £24,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £46,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £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 43,739 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,774 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,531 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 10 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 10 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 +87 40 £30,000 -7.69% 29
London +56 23 £50,000 +25.00% 39
South West +111 19 £34,500 +23.21% 5
Midlands +30 13 £31,250 +13.64% 17
North of England +5 13 £29,000 -3.33% 35
West Midlands +31 9 £32,500 +18.18% 8
Yorkshire +46 8 £29,000 -3.33% 7
East of England +13 5 £35,000 +16.67% 5
East Midlands +31 4 £28,375 -1.30% 9
North West -27 4 £38,750 +29.17% 27
North East - 1 £25,500 - 1
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 51 (45.54%) JavaScript
2 45 (40.18%) SQL
3 42 (37.50%) HTML
4 40 (35.71%) CSS
5 34 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (24.11%) Azure
6 27 (24.11%) C#
7 24 (21.43%) PHP
7 24 (21.43%) Retail
8 23 (20.54%) .NET
9 20 (17.86%) MySQL
9 20 (17.86%) Power Platform
9 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
10 19 (16.96%) Power BI
11 18 (16.07%) Git
12 17 (15.18%) RESTful
12 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
12 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
13 16 (14.29%) AWS
13 16 (14.29%) Data Structures
13 16 (14.29%) Python
13 16 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
13 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
13 16 (14.29%) Customer Experience
14 15 (13.39%) Java
14 15 (13.39%) Finance
14 15 (13.39%) Coaching
15 14 (12.50%) Facebook
15 14 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
15 14 (12.50%) Service Delivery

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 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.89%) NServiceBus
2 1 (0.89%) Solana
2 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.46%) InDesign
4 2 (1.79%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.79%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.11%) Azure
2 20 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 16 (14.29%) AWS
4 6 (5.36%) SaaS
5 5 (4.46%) Serverless
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.68%) GitHub
8 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.79%) Figma
8 2 (1.79%) GCP
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.89%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.86%) MySQL
2 19 (16.96%) Power BI
3 14 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 14 (12.50%) Data Mining
4 10 (8.93%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.89%) FileMaker
8 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.89%) Power Query
8 1 (0.89%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (16.07%) Git
2 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.79%) Vite
2 2 (1.79%) webpack
3 1 (0.89%) Gradle
3 1 (0.89%) JMeter
3 1 (0.89%) JUnit
3 1 (0.89%) Maven
3 1 (0.89%) Mockito
3 1 (0.89%) NUnit
3 1 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 24 (21.43%) Retail
2 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.39%) Finance
5 8 (7.14%) Law
6 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.79%) Police
8 1 (0.89%) Legal
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (37.50%) HTML
2 40 (35.71%) CSS
3 23 (20.54%) .NET
4 17 (15.18%) RESTful
5 13 (11.61%) Laravel
6 11 (9.82%) React
7 10 (8.93%) Web Services
8 9 (8.04%) .NET Framework
8 9 (8.04%) AngularJS
8 9 (8.04%) Node.js
9 8 (7.14%) CakePHP
9 8 (7.14%) Pandas
10 7 (6.25%) REST
11 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.36%) LAMP
11 6 (5.36%) NumPy
11 6 (5.36%) Vue
12 5 (4.46%) HTML5
12 5 (4.46%) J2EE
13 4 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.89%) Bitcoin
5 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Android
2 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.89%) Rocky
2 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (14.29%) Customer Experience
2 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 15 (13.39%) Coaching
4 14 (12.50%) Agile
4 14 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 14 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
4 14 (12.50%) Data Management
4 14 (12.50%) MVC
4 14 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 14 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 14 (12.50%) WFM
5 13 (11.61%) Computer Science
5 13 (11.61%) DevOps
5 13 (11.61%) E-Commerce
5 13 (11.61%) Web Development
6 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (9.82%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (8.04%) OOP
9 8 (7.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.54%) JavaScript
2 45 (40.18%) SQL
3 27 (24.11%) C#
4 24 (21.43%) PHP
5 16 (14.29%) Python
6 15 (13.39%) Java
7 14 (12.50%) VBA
8 11 (9.82%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.68%) C
9 3 (2.68%) Groovy
10 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.79%) Go
10 2 (1.79%) VB
11 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.89%) Bash
11 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.50%) Facebook
3 9 (8.04%) Adobe
4 3 (2.68%) Twitter
5 1 (0.89%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.89%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.89%) Splunk
5 1 (0.89%) Toshiba
5 1 (0.89%) UiPath