Software Developer Jobs in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 121 204
Rank change year-on-year -89 +83 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 837 1,874 1,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.58% 2.19% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.32% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 321 1,660 1,118
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -

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 47,711 80,899 67,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 94.69% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,594 57,551 47,157
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in England

Software 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 Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
North of England +16 456 £60,000 +21.21% 145
North West +73 413 £53,750 +7.50% 79
London -68 114 £110,000 +10.00% 75
South East -130 112 £65,000 +8.33% 125
Midlands -81 52 £60,000 +33.33% 82
South West -59 48 £60,000 +20.00% 53
East of England -54 47 £53,000 +6.00% 71
West Midlands -46 37 £60,000 +33.33% 45
Yorkshire -68 36 £67,500 +42.11% 48
East Midlands -32 15 £65,000 +44.44% 37
North East -16 7 £47,500 -5.00% 19
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 2025, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 593 (70.85%) Agile
2 545 (65.11%) Python
3 525 (62.72%) Java
4 489 (58.42%) C++
5 470 (56.15%) Linux
6 469 (56.03%) Security Cleared
6 469 (56.03%) Docker
6 469 (56.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 466 (55.68%) Finance
8 460 (54.96%) Mathematics
8 460 (54.96%) Analytical Skills
9 458 (54.72%) OOP
10 457 (54.60%) Line Management
10 457 (54.60%) Design Patterns
11 456 (54.48%) Android
12 454 (54.24%) DV Cleared
12 454 (54.24%) OO
12 454 (54.24%) Android Development
13 451 (53.88%) Go
14 446 (53.29%) Ansible
14 446 (53.29%) Cyberattack
15 397 (47.43%) VPN
15 397 (47.43%) DNS
16 165 (19.71%) .NET
17 162 (19.35%) C#
18 158 (18.88%) Software Engineering
19 151 (18.04%) AWS
20 148 (17.68%) Azure
21 140 (16.73%) JavaScript
22 133 (15.89%) SQL

Software 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 32 (3.82%) Apache
1 32 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.48%) CMS
3 2 (0.24%) Confluence
3 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
3 2 (0.24%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.12%) Camunda
4 1 (0.12%) DNN
4 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.12%) Kentico
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.72%) Revit
2 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Magento
1 8 (0.96%) Shopify
2 7 (0.84%) Infor CloudSuite
2 7 (0.84%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.36%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (18.04%) AWS
2 148 (17.68%) Azure
3 49 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
3 49 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (5.50%) SaaS
5 33 (3.94%) dbt
6 32 (3.82%) Snowflake
7 28 (3.35%) Serverless
8 24 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.51%) Power Platform
10 19 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.31%) GCP
12 8 (0.96%) BigCommerce
12 8 (0.96%) GitHub
13 7 (0.84%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.60%) Azure Functions
15 5 (0.60%) PowerApps
16 4 (0.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 4 (0.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 397 (47.43%) DNS
1 397 (47.43%) VPN
2 3 (0.36%) Internet
2 3 (0.36%) Multicast
2 3 (0.36%) Network Security
3 2 (0.24%) Wireless
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
2 55 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 32 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
3 32 (3.82%) Apache Arrow
3 32 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
3 32 (3.82%) Dremio
4 22 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 17 (2.03%) DynamoDB
6 17 (2.03%) MySQL
7 16 (1.91%) Power BI
8 13 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.36%) MS Access
11 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (2.99%) Git
2 15 (1.79%) JIRA
3 7 (0.84%) Cypress.io
3 7 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.60%) Postman
4 5 (0.60%) Selenium
4 5 (0.60%) Subversion
5 4 (0.48%) GitLab
5 4 (0.48%) Vite
6 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.36%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.24%) Gatling
7 2 (0.24%) GDB
7 2 (0.24%) JMeter
7 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.24%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 469 (56.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 466 (55.68%) Finance
3 460 (54.96%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.69%) Social Skills
5 54 (6.45%) Banking
6 35 (4.18%) Investment Banking
7 34 (4.06%) Front Office
8 30 (3.58%) Law
9 19 (2.27%) Tech for Good
10 17 (2.03%) Retail
11 14 (1.67%) Marketing
12 11 (1.31%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.31%) Publishing
13 9 (1.08%) Legal
14 6 (0.72%) Automotive
15 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.36%) Electronics
16 3 (0.36%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (19.71%) .NET
2 87 (10.39%) Node.js
3 63 (7.53%) React
4 50 (5.97%) HTML
4 50 (5.97%) Pandas
5 37 (4.42%) .NET Framework
6 33 (3.94%) ASP.NET
6 33 (3.94%) CSS
7 32 (3.82%) PySpark
8 29 (3.46%) AngularJS
9 28 (3.35%) .NET Core
10 26 (3.11%) RESTful
11 19 (2.27%) Blazor
12 16 (1.91%) Entity Framework
13 13 (1.55%) HTML5
14 12 (1.43%) REST
15 11 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
15 11 (1.31%) Spring
16 10 (1.19%) Web Services
16 10 (1.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 446 (53.29%) Cyberattack
2 40 (4.78%) Derivative
3 39 (4.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (4.30%) Equities
5 35 (4.18%) Fixed Income
5 35 (4.18%) Hedge funds
6 34 (4.06%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.39%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.96%) Client/Server
13 8 (0.96%) EPoS
13 8 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
16 5 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 470 (56.15%) Linux
2 456 (54.48%) Android
3 8 (0.96%) Windows
4 6 (0.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (70.85%) Agile
2 460 (54.96%) Mathematics
3 458 (54.72%) OOP
4 457 (54.60%) Design Patterns
4 457 (54.60%) Line Management
5 454 (54.24%) Android Development
5 454 (54.24%) OO
6 158 (18.88%) Software Engineering
7 99 (11.83%) CI/CD
8 65 (7.77%) Containerisation
8 65 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (7.53%) Kanban
10 61 (7.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 59 (7.05%) Secure Coding
12 56 (6.69%) Collaborative Working
13 52 (6.21%) OWASP
14 49 (5.85%) Computer Science
14 49 (5.85%) Statistics
15 44 (5.26%) DevOps
15 44 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 545 (65.11%) Python
2 525 (62.72%) Java
3 489 (58.42%) C++
4 451 (53.88%) Go
5 162 (19.35%) C#
6 140 (16.73%) JavaScript
7 133 (15.89%) SQL
8 76 (9.08%) TypeScript
9 57 (6.81%) Rust
10 17 (2.03%) C
11 12 (1.43%) PHP
12 11 (1.31%) Delphi
12 11 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.96%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.60%) Bicep
14 5 (0.60%) VB
14 5 (0.60%) XAML
15 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.24%) Fortran
16 2 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 469 (56.03%) Security Cleared
2 454 (54.24%) DV Cleared
3 66 (7.89%) Degree
4 27 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.72%) PhD
7 4 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.12%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.58%) QA
2 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.36%) GDPR
4 1 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 469 (56.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 446 (53.29%) Ansible
2 63 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 54 (6.45%) Terraform
4 3 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.08%) Oracle
3 7 (0.84%) Infor
4 6 (0.72%) PayPal
5 3 (0.36%) SAP
5 3 (0.36%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.24%) Google
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.12%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.12%) Cisco
7 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.12%) Sitecore