Software Developer Jobs in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer salary in England is £53,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 198 147
Rank change year-on-year +54 -51 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,713 1,794 3,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.02% 1.92% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 2.10% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 1,402 2,118
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £39,218
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
North of England +116 364 £48,750 -11.36% 116
South East -47 361 £60,000 +9.09% 52
South West +75 289 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Midlands +92 275 £47,500 -5.00% 53
London -51 255 £85,000 +9.68% 68
North West +93 213 £50,000 -9.09% 85
West Midlands +95 168 £50,000 -4.76% 31
East of England +53 156 £50,000 -9.09% 20
Yorkshire +100 116 £47,500 -17.39% 21
East Midlands +29 106 £43,000 -4.44% 22
North East +9 35 £45,000 -14.29% 13
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 926 (54.06%) C#
2 782 (45.65%) .NET
3 610 (35.61%) JavaScript
4 532 (31.06%) Agile
5 502 (29.31%) SQL
6 366 (21.37%) SQL Server
7 359 (20.96%) Degree
8 349 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 340 (19.85%) Azure
10 332 (19.38%) Social Skills
11 313 (18.27%) HTML
12 295 (17.22%) Java
13 290 (16.93%) Full Stack Development
14 287 (16.75%) CSS
15 284 (16.58%) React
16 262 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
17 261 (15.24%) DevOps
18 259 (15.12%) Python
19 256 (14.94%) Computer Science
20 250 (14.59%) AWS
21 240 (14.01%) TypeScript
22 230 (13.43%) AngularJS
23 216 (12.61%) Microsoft
24 215 (12.55%) .NET Core
25 211 (12.32%) ASP.NET
25 211 (12.32%) Finance
26 209 (12.20%) MVC
26 209 (12.20%) Docker
27 187 (10.92%) Git
27 187 (10.92%) .NET Framework

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 61 (3.56%) Apache
2 49 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (0.88%) CMS
4 9 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.47%) Confluence
5 8 (0.47%) IIS
6 7 (0.41%) Mendix
6 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.29%) Drupal
7 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.058%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Simulink
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.058%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.058%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) BPCS
1 7 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.41%) Shopify
2 4 (0.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.12%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 340 (19.85%) Azure
2 250 (14.59%) AWS
3 134 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (4.03%) GCP
5 61 (3.56%) GitHub
6 55 (3.21%) SaaS
7 49 (2.86%) dbt
8 47 (2.74%) Serverless
9 36 (2.10%) Snowflake
10 27 (1.58%) Power Platform
11 26 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (0.99%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.70%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.70%) Pulumi
16 10 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.58%) PaaS
17 9 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (0.53%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.58%) LAN
2 23 (1.34%) WAN
3 18 (1.05%) Internet
4 13 (0.76%) Wireless
5 12 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.53%) Network Security
7 6 (0.35%) DNS
8 4 (0.23%) 4G
8 4 (0.23%) 5G
8 4 (0.23%) Firewall
8 4 (0.23%) HTTP
8 4 (0.23%) iSCSI
8 4 (0.23%) Multicast
8 4 (0.23%) NAS
8 4 (0.23%) VPN
8 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.12%) RS-232
9 2 (0.12%) SSL
10 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.058%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (21.37%) SQL Server
2 101 (5.90%) MySQL
3 95 (5.55%) NoSQL
4 67 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 49 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (2.86%) Apache Arrow
5 49 (2.86%) Apache Ignite
5 49 (2.86%) Dremio
6 46 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.69%) Redis
9 25 (1.46%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.70%) Power BI
13 10 (0.58%) GIS
13 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.47%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 187 (10.92%) Git
2 85 (4.96%) Visual Studio
3 41 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.98%) JIRA
5 20 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (1.05%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.88%) NUnit
7 15 (0.88%) Selenium
8 14 (0.82%) Maven
9 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 12 (0.70%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.53%) Gradle
12 9 (0.53%) Jasmine
12 9 (0.53%) Moq
12 9 (0.53%) PHPUnit
13 8 (0.47%) CMake
13 8 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
14 7 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 332 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 211 (12.32%) Finance
3 69 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.85%) Banking
5 63 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 58 (3.39%) Front Office
7 50 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 48 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.28%) Electronics
10 38 (2.22%) Retail
11 36 (2.10%) Marketing
12 33 (1.93%) Law
13 30 (1.75%) Automotive
13 30 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (1.34%) Games
14 23 (1.34%) Tech for Good
14 23 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.17%) Legal
16 16 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 782 (45.65%) .NET
2 313 (18.27%) HTML
3 287 (16.75%) CSS
4 284 (16.58%) React
5 230 (13.43%) AngularJS
6 215 (12.55%) .NET Core
7 211 (12.32%) ASP.NET
8 187 (10.92%) .NET Framework
9 122 (7.12%) RESTful
10 112 (6.54%) Entity Framework
11 104 (6.07%) Node.js
12 99 (5.78%) HTML5
13 73 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
13 73 (4.26%) REST
13 73 (4.26%) Vue
14 66 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
15 63 (3.68%) WPF
15 63 (3.68%) XML
16 53 (3.09%) Pandas
17 52 (3.04%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 62 (3.62%) Mobile App
2 52 (3.04%) IoT
3 50 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 47 (2.74%) Fixed Income
4 47 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 43 (2.51%) Hedge funds
7 41 (2.39%) Derivative
7 41 (2.39%) Equities
8 33 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 31 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 30 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.63%) Client/Server
11 28 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
13 22 (1.28%) Cloud Native
14 20 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.70%) Blockchain
16 12 (0.70%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 121 (7.06%) Windows
2 112 (6.54%) Linux
3 49 (2.86%) Apple iOS
4 39 (2.28%) Android
5 13 (0.76%) Unix
6 10 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Mobile
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) VMS
11 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (31.06%) Agile
2 349 (20.37%) Software Engineering
3 290 (16.93%) Full Stack Development
4 262 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (15.24%) DevOps
6 256 (14.94%) Computer Science
7 209 (12.20%) MVC
8 148 (8.64%) Microservices
9 140 (8.17%) CI/CD
10 138 (8.06%) Mentoring
11 119 (6.95%) TDD
12 108 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 104 (6.07%) Clean Code
13 104 (6.07%) SDLC
14 102 (5.95%) Unit Testing
15 101 (5.90%) Design Patterns
16 100 (5.84%) Test Automation
17 97 (5.66%) Code Quality
17 97 (5.66%) Web Development
18 96 (5.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 926 (54.06%) C#
2 610 (35.61%) JavaScript
3 502 (29.31%) SQL
4 295 (17.22%) Java
5 259 (15.12%) Python
6 240 (14.01%) TypeScript
7 120 (7.01%) C++
8 113 (6.60%) PHP
9 103 (6.01%) C
10 45 (2.63%) VB
11 43 (2.51%) VB.NET
12 38 (2.22%) T-SQL
13 37 (2.16%) Go
14 35 (2.04%) Kotlin
15 30 (1.75%) PowerShell
16 26 (1.52%) Ruby
17 23 (1.34%) JSX
18 13 (0.76%) Rust
18 13 (0.76%) Scala
19 11 (0.64%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 359 (20.96%) Degree
2 143 (8.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 72 (4.20%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.81%) Master's Degree
5 25 (1.46%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.17%) PhD
8 16 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.23%) CIPD
12 4 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.23%) MCSD
13 3 (0.18%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.12%) HND
15 1 (0.058%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.74%) QA
2 8 (0.47%) GDPR
3 5 (0.29%) SLA
4 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 209 (12.20%) Docker
2 13 (0.76%) Firmware
3 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 158 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.98%) Terraform
3 12 (0.70%) Ansible
4 8 (0.47%) Kibana
5 7 (0.41%) MIIS
6 5 (0.29%) Grafana
6 5 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.23%) WSUS
8 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.058%) Kiali
Vendors
1 216 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.10%) Oracle
3 35 (2.04%) Google
4 25 (1.46%) Xamarin
5 14 (0.82%) Salesforce
6 12 (0.70%) Facebook
7 10 (0.58%) Xilinx
8 9 (0.53%) IBM
8 9 (0.53%) NVIDIA
9 8 (0.47%) F5
10 7 (0.41%) JDA
10 7 (0.41%) Quadient
11 6 (0.35%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
11 6 (0.35%) YouTube
12 5 (0.29%) ESRI
12 5 (0.29%) HP
12 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus
12 5 (0.29%) Peregrine
12 5 (0.29%) SAP