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 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 193 145
Rank change year-on-year +55 -48 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,718 1,822 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.03% 1.94% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 2.11% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,496 1,412 2,131
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £39,312
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 £92,217 £95,000 £87,500
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 79,927 86,214 125,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59,989 54,425 75,776
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 23 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 23 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
South East -54 366 £60,000 +9.09% 54
North of England +107 364 £48,375 -12.05% 112
South West +64 288 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Midlands +100 272 £47,500 -5.00% 54
London -47 260 £85,000 +13.33% 67
North West +84 212 £50,000 -9.09% 83
West Midlands +94 166 £50,000 -4.76% 34
East of England +63 155 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire +99 116 £47,500 -17.39% 19
East Midlands +33 105 £43,000 -4.44% 20
North East +18 36 £45,000 -18.18% 13
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 934 (54.37%) C#
2 791 (46.04%) .NET
3 615 (35.80%) JavaScript
4 534 (31.08%) Agile
5 508 (29.57%) SQL
6 369 (21.48%) SQL Server
7 360 (20.95%) Degree
8 355 (20.66%) Software Engineering
9 343 (19.97%) Azure
10 329 (19.15%) Social Skills
11 318 (18.51%) HTML
12 299 (17.40%) Java
13 292 (17.00%) CSS
14 287 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
14 287 (16.71%) React
15 264 (15.37%) Python
16 260 (15.13%) Computer Science
16 260 (15.13%) DevOps
17 259 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
18 254 (14.78%) AWS
19 245 (14.26%) TypeScript
20 233 (13.56%) AngularJS
21 219 (12.75%) Microsoft
22 218 (12.69%) Finance
22 218 (12.69%) .NET Core
23 214 (12.46%) ASP.NET
24 212 (12.34%) Docker
25 211 (12.28%) MVC
26 187 (10.88%) .NET Framework
27 186 (10.83%) Git

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 63 (3.67%) Apache
2 51 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (0.93%) CMS
4 9 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.47%) Confluence
5 8 (0.47%) IIS
6 7 (0.41%) Mendix
6 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.35%) Drupal
8 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.058%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.058%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (0.81%) 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
Cloud Services
1 343 (19.97%) Azure
2 254 (14.78%) AWS
3 134 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (4.13%) GCP
5 61 (3.55%) GitHub
6 52 (3.03%) SaaS
7 51 (2.97%) dbt
8 48 (2.79%) Serverless
9 36 (2.10%) Snowflake
10 27 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 25 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (0.99%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.76%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.70%) Pulumi
16 10 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.58%) PaaS
17 9 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.57%) LAN
2 23 (1.34%) WAN
3 18 (1.05%) Internet
4 13 (0.76%) Wireless
5 12 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.58%) 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%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (21.48%) SQL Server
2 101 (5.88%) MySQL
3 98 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 67 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 51 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
5 51 (2.97%) Apache Arrow
5 51 (2.97%) Apache Ignite
5 51 (2.97%) Dremio
6 48 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.69%) Redis
9 19 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.93%) DynamoDB
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
1 186 (10.83%) Git
2 85 (4.95%) Visual Studio
3 40 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.92%) JIRA
5 19 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (1.05%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.87%) NUnit
7 15 (0.87%) Selenium
8 14 (0.81%) Maven
9 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.52%) Gradle
11 9 (0.52%) Jasmine
11 9 (0.52%) Moq
11 9 (0.52%) PHPUnit
12 8 (0.47%) CMake
12 8 (0.47%) GitLab
12 8 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 329 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 218 (12.69%) Finance
3 69 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (4.02%) Banking
4 62 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 60 (3.49%) Front Office
6 52 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 48 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 39 (2.27%) Electronics
9 36 (2.10%) Marketing
9 36 (2.10%) Retail
10 33 (1.92%) Automotive
11 32 (1.86%) Law
12 30 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (1.46%) Games
14 23 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.28%) Tech for Good
16 20 (1.16%) Legal
17 16 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.87%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 791 (46.04%) .NET
2 318 (18.51%) HTML
3 292 (17.00%) CSS
4 287 (16.71%) React
5 233 (13.56%) AngularJS
6 218 (12.69%) .NET Core
7 214 (12.46%) ASP.NET
8 187 (10.88%) .NET Framework
9 120 (6.98%) RESTful
10 112 (6.52%) Entity Framework
11 104 (6.05%) Node.js
12 98 (5.70%) HTML5
13 74 (4.31%) ASP.NET Web API
14 73 (4.25%) REST
15 72 (4.19%) Vue
16 67 (3.90%) ASP.NET MVC
17 64 (3.73%) XML
18 63 (3.67%) WPF
19 55 (3.20%) Pandas
20 54 (3.14%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 62 (3.61%) Mobile App
2 53 (3.08%) IoT
3 50 (2.91%) Algorithms
4 47 (2.74%) Fixed Income
5 46 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
6 44 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 43 (2.50%) Hedge funds
8 41 (2.39%) Derivative
8 41 (2.39%) Equities
9 33 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 30 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.63%) Client/Server
13 27 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
15 22 (1.28%) Cloud Native
16 20 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 18 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (0.70%) Digital Media
18 12 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.87%) Windows
2 112 (6.52%) Linux
3 49 (2.85%) Apple iOS
4 39 (2.27%) 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
11 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (31.08%) Agile
2 355 (20.66%) Software Engineering
3 287 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
4 260 (15.13%) Computer Science
4 260 (15.13%) DevOps
5 259 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (12.28%) MVC
7 148 (8.61%) Microservices
8 139 (8.09%) Mentoring
9 138 (8.03%) CI/CD
10 121 (7.04%) TDD
11 110 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
12 106 (6.17%) Unit Testing
13 105 (6.11%) Clean Code
13 105 (6.11%) Design Patterns
13 105 (6.11%) SDLC
14 102 (5.94%) Test Automation
15 97 (5.65%) Scrum
16 96 (5.59%) Code Quality
17 92 (5.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 934 (54.37%) C#
2 615 (35.80%) JavaScript
3 508 (29.57%) SQL
4 299 (17.40%) Java
5 264 (15.37%) Python
6 245 (14.26%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.93%) C++
8 109 (6.34%) PHP
9 103 (6.00%) C
10 44 (2.56%) VB
11 42 (2.44%) VB.NET
12 40 (2.33%) T-SQL
13 39 (2.27%) Go
14 35 (2.04%) Kotlin
15 30 (1.75%) PowerShell
16 29 (1.69%) Ruby
17 23 (1.34%) JSX
18 15 (0.87%) Scala
19 14 (0.81%) Rust
20 12 (0.70%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 360 (20.95%) Degree
2 146 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 72 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.80%) Master's Degree
5 26 (1.51%) SC Cleared
6 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.11%) 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 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.12%) HND
15 1 (0.058%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.78%) QA
2 8 (0.47%) GDPR
3 5 (0.29%) SLA
4 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.058%) MISRA
System Software
1 212 (12.34%) Docker
2 13 (0.76%) Firmware
3 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 164 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.91%) 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
1 219 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.10%) Oracle
3 33 (1.92%) Google
4 25 (1.46%) Xamarin
5 14 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 12 (0.70%) Facebook
7 10 (0.58%) Xilinx
8 9 (0.52%) IBM
8 9 (0.52%) 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%) Databricks
12 5 (0.29%) ESRI
12 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus
12 5 (0.29%) New Relic
12 5 (0.29%) Twitter