Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 676 2,595 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.05% 13.70% 16.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.97% 14.52% 18.51%
Number of salaries quoted 526 2,165 1,713
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,433 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 8,483 17,867 11,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.48% 94.35% 89.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 12,615 7,746
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,300
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.94% +0.50%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South East

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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 June 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 -27 243 £57,500 -4.17% 935
Hampshire -8 201 £54,325 -9.46% 405
Berkshire -19 145 £65,000 - 502
Surrey -24 78 £62,500 +13.64% 271
East Sussex -10 67 £50,000 -9.09% 162
Oxfordshire -7 62 £51,250 -6.82% 184
Kent -28 42 £31,000 -43.64% 206
Buckinghamshire -44 36 £52,500 -2.78% 253
Middlesex 0 20 £62,500 +23.15% 5
West Sussex -21 11 £41,250 -25.00% 141
Sussex -2 8 £42,500 -15.00% 35
Isle of Wight - 2 £46,250 - 2
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 244 (36.09%) .NET
2 242 (35.80%) JavaScript
3 199 (29.44%) C#
4 191 (28.25%) SQL
5 188 (27.81%) Agile
6 168 (24.85%) AWS
7 149 (22.04%) HTML
8 138 (20.41%) React
9 130 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 130 (19.23%) Azure
10 124 (18.34%) Social Skills
11 119 (17.60%) SQL Server
12 114 (16.86%) Java
13 108 (15.98%) CI/CD
14 106 (15.68%) CSS
15 105 (15.53%) Git
15 105 (15.53%) Docker
15 105 (15.53%) Microservices
16 103 (15.24%) Microsoft
17 102 (15.09%) TDD
17 102 (15.09%) DevOps
17 102 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (13.31%) RESTful
19 89 (13.17%) Node.js
20 87 (12.87%) TypeScript
21 85 (12.57%) REST
22 84 (12.43%) Kubernetes
23 81 (11.98%) ASP.NET
24 80 (11.83%) Python
25 79 (11.69%) Security Cleared

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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.66%) JBoss
3 17 (2.51%) CMS
4 13 (1.92%) IIS
4 13 (1.92%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (1.78%) Umbraco
6 9 (1.33%) Confluence
7 4 (0.59%) WordPress
8 3 (0.44%) Drupal
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.15%) Mule
10 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.74%) Trello
4 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.30%) Final Cut Pro
6 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 23 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.59%) Sage 1000
4 3 (0.44%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.30%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (24.85%) AWS
2 130 (19.23%) Azure
3 76 (11.24%) Power Platform
4 67 (9.91%) Serverless
5 52 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (6.66%) Dynamics 365
7 33 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 24 (3.55%) SaaS
11 23 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (2.66%) Power Automate
13 16 (2.37%) Amazon S3
13 16 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.22%) GCP
15 13 (1.92%) Cloudflare
16 12 (1.78%) GitHub
17 11 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 10 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.33%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) Intranet
2 2 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
3 1 (0.15%) Internet
3 1 (0.15%) RS-232
3 1 (0.15%) RS-422
3 1 (0.15%) RS-485
3 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 62 (9.17%) MySQL
3 57 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (6.66%) Power BI
5 37 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (5.33%) Relational Database
7 26 (3.85%) OLTP
7 26 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (3.40%) MongoDB
9 21 (3.11%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.96%) NoSQL
11 18 (2.66%) RDBMS
12 14 (2.07%) Redis
13 11 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.04%) Oracle ODI
15 5 (0.74%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 105 (15.53%) Git
2 56 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 43 (6.36%) JUnit
4 27 (3.99%) JIRA
4 27 (3.99%) Visual Studio
5 26 (3.85%) Mockito
6 17 (2.51%) JMeter
7 14 (2.07%) MagicDraw
7 14 (2.07%) webpack
8 13 (1.92%) gulp
9 12 (1.78%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.63%) Jasmine
10 11 (1.63%) NUnit
10 11 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.18%) Maven
12 7 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.89%) GitLab
13 6 (0.89%) jMock
13 6 (0.89%) Selenium
General
1 124 (18.34%) Social Skills
2 63 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (7.54%) Finance
4 49 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.14%) Games
7 27 (3.99%) Law
8 19 (2.81%) Retail
9 17 (2.51%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.63%) Tech for Good
11 10 (1.48%) Aviation
11 10 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.33%) Marketing
13 7 (1.04%) Advertising
13 7 (1.04%) Legal
13 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.74%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (36.09%) .NET
2 149 (22.04%) HTML
3 138 (20.41%) React
4 106 (15.68%) CSS
5 90 (13.31%) RESTful
6 89 (13.17%) Node.js
7 85 (12.57%) REST
8 81 (11.98%) ASP.NET
9 73 (10.80%) AngularJS
10 60 (8.88%) XML
11 59 (8.73%) .NET Core
12 58 (8.58%) .NET Framework
13 54 (7.99%) Web Services
14 53 (7.84%) Spring Boot
15 52 (7.69%) Spring
16 43 (6.36%) JSON
16 43 (6.36%) SOAP
17 40 (5.92%) Vue
18 33 (4.88%) Laravel
19 32 (4.73%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (5.77%) Mobile App
3 31 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.66%) Cyberattack
8 16 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.33%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.89%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.74%) Online Games
14 4 (0.59%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.59%) Robotics
15 3 (0.44%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.18%) Linux
2 29 (4.29%) Android
3 18 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.89%) Windows
5 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Unix
7 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (27.81%) Agile
2 130 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 108 (15.98%) CI/CD
4 105 (15.53%) Microservices
5 102 (15.09%) DevOps
5 102 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (15.09%) TDD
6 66 (9.76%) MVC
7 58 (8.58%) User Experience
8 55 (8.14%) Kanban
9 53 (7.84%) Software Engineering
10 51 (7.54%) Clean Code
10 51 (7.54%) Mentoring
11 45 (6.66%) Scrum
12 44 (6.51%) Artificial Intelligence
12 44 (6.51%) E-Commerce
13 43 (6.36%) Computer Science
13 43 (6.36%) Test Automation
14 42 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (6.21%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 242 (35.80%) JavaScript
2 199 (29.44%) C#
3 191 (28.25%) SQL
4 114 (16.86%) Java
5 87 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 80 (11.83%) Python
7 63 (9.32%) PHP
8 39 (5.77%) C++
9 33 (4.88%) PL/SQL
10 22 (3.25%) Go
11 19 (2.81%) VB.NET
12 18 (2.66%) Rust
13 17 (2.51%) Shell Script
14 16 (2.37%) C
15 15 (2.22%) Swift
16 11 (1.63%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.04%) PowerShell
17 7 (1.04%) X++
18 6 (0.89%) RPG
Qualifications
1 79 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.39%) Degree
3 56 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.37%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.48%) PhD
9 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.15%) CCA
12 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.44%) QA
2 20 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.92%) SLA
4 1 (0.15%) GDPR
4 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (15.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) Firmware
2 2 (0.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 84 (12.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.03%) Terraform
3 31 (4.59%) Ansible
4 16 (2.37%) Kibana
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 103 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.10%) Oracle
3 21 (3.11%) SAP
4 17 (2.51%) Red Hat
4 17 (2.51%) Splunk
5 16 (2.37%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.37%) IBM
6 12 (1.78%) Rollbar
7 8 (1.18%) Adobe
7 8 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.89%) Sage
9 4 (0.59%) Twitter
9 4 (0.59%) UiPath
10 3 (0.44%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.44%) PayPal
11 2 (0.30%) Apple
11 2 (0.30%) Facebook
11 2 (0.30%) Google
11 2 (0.30%) RedGate