Developer Jobs in Luton

Developer
Bedfordshire > Luton

The median Developer salary in Luton is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 5 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Luton 6.94% 6.52% 6.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% 6.57% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile - £33,500 £58,525
25th Percentile £47,500 - £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -39.39% +37.50%
75th Percentile £52,500 - £85,000
90th Percentile £63,000 £59,000 £85,500
Bedfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Luton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Luton. 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 Luton with a recognized job title 65 137 163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 99.28% 84.46%
Number of salaries quoted 47 81 110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £41,875 £48,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -17.86% +17.15%
75th Percentile £66,000 £91,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £112,500 -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £50,484 £48,039 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.09% -16.45% +21.05%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Luton

Developer
Salary Trend in Luton

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

Salary trend for Developer in Luton

Developer
Salary Histogram in Luton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Luton over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Luton

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Luton region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) MassTransit
2 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) Personalization
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (80.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) Redis
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (80.00%) LINQ
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Automotive
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) CSS

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (80.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) LINQ
2 4 (80.00%) MassTransit
2 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (80.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Personalization
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes