Backend Developer Jobs in the South East

Backend Developer
England > South East

The median Backend Developer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 365 368
Rank change year-on-year +84 +3 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 5 21 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.058% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.13% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 36
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 7,372 15,697 13,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.00% 93.91% 90.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,474 11,361 8,490
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,425 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the South East

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the South East

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the South East

Backend Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +73 3 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Buckinghamshire +40 3 £60,000 -14.29%
Hampshire +74 1 £70,000 -
Kent +29 1 £55,000 -13.73% 1
Backend Developer
England

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Backend 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 South East region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) SQLite
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Python

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS IoT
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
1 1 (20.00%) Protractor
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) LIMS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM