Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East is £58,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,038 1,885 4,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.50% 16.27% 18.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.33% 17.78% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,651 1,548 2,998
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,574 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.46% +8.33% +9.09%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Thames Valley -4 648 £60,000 -7.69% 73
Hampshire 0 609 £62,500 +13.64% 56
Berkshire 0 368 £65,000 -3.70% 37
Surrey -2 254 £57,500 -4.17% 24
Kent +14 220 £57,500 +9.52% 21
East Sussex +2 172 £55,000 - 22
Buckinghamshire +5 141 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Oxfordshire -10 139 £55,000 -18.52% 23
West Sussex +10 69 £55,000 -5.98% 11
Sussex 0 48 £50,000 - 3
Middlesex -35 5 £57,500 -14.81% 1
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 832 (40.82%) .NET
2 796 (39.06%) C#
3 769 (37.73%) JavaScript
4 641 (31.45%) Agile
5 606 (29.74%) Azure
6 543 (26.64%) HTML
7 519 (25.47%) CSS
8 488 (23.95%) SQL
9 476 (23.36%) Full Stack Development
10 418 (20.51%) React
11 343 (16.83%) SQL Server
12 338 (16.58%) Social Skills
13 332 (16.29%) ASP.NET
13 332 (16.29%) DevOps
14 331 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
15 328 (16.09%) AngularJS
16 307 (15.06%) MVC
17 302 (14.82%) Git
17 302 (14.82%) Degree
18 279 (13.69%) Computer Science
18 279 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
19 277 (13.59%) Java
20 270 (13.25%) AWS
21 253 (12.41%) Python
22 245 (12.02%) Microservices
23 240 (11.78%) .NET Core
24 238 (11.68%) Docker
25 236 (11.58%) Microsoft
26 233 (11.43%) TypeScript
27 229 (11.24%) Finance

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 62 (3.04%) CMS
2 31 (1.52%) IIS
2 31 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.23%) Umbraco
4 17 (0.83%) Kentico
5 16 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 16 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
6 14 (0.69%) WordPress
7 12 (0.59%) Apache
8 11 (0.54%) Drupal
8 11 (0.54%) nginx
8 11 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.44%) Moodle
9 9 (0.44%) Totara
10 8 (0.39%) IBM Domino
10 8 (0.39%) JBoss
10 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.29%) Confluence
12 5 (0.25%) ColdFusion
12 5 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 32 (1.57%) Simulink
2 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.098%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.049%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
5 1 (0.049%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.049%) Revit
Business Applications
1 38 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.77%) Siebel CRM
3 10 (0.49%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.25%) Magento
4 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.25%) Odoo
5 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
6 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.098%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.049%) nopCommerce
8 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.049%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 606 (29.74%) Azure
2 270 (13.25%) AWS
3 180 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
4 132 (6.48%) Serverless
5 101 (4.96%) Power Platform
6 100 (4.91%) SaaS
7 93 (4.56%) Azure Functions
8 81 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
9 80 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
10 77 (3.78%) Azure API Management
11 74 (3.63%) IBM Cloud
12 73 (3.58%) GitHub
13 44 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
14 31 (1.52%) Power Automate
15 30 (1.47%) GCP
16 27 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (1.23%) PaaS
18 23 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
19 22 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.13%) Internet
2 19 (0.93%) HTTP
3 15 (0.74%) Network Security
4 10 (0.49%) DNS
5 8 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.39%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) Firewall
7 6 (0.29%) SSL
8 5 (0.25%) Intranet
9 4 (0.20%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.20%) LAN
9 4 (0.20%) MQTT
9 4 (0.20%) NAS
9 4 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.098%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.049%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.049%) Hyperconnected
11 1 (0.049%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 176 (8.64%) NoSQL
3 171 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
4 152 (7.46%) Relational Database
5 132 (6.48%) MySQL
6 125 (6.13%) MongoDB
7 74 (3.63%) DB2
8 68 (3.34%) Power BI
9 41 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
10 36 (1.77%) Oracle BI EE
10 36 (1.77%) Siebel EIM
11 27 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (1.32%) Power Query
12 26 (1.28%) Redis
13 20 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 19 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (0.74%) OLTP
15 15 (0.74%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 302 (14.82%) Git
2 87 (4.27%) Visual Studio
3 61 (2.99%) JIRA
4 59 (2.89%) Jenkins
5 53 (2.60%) Selenium
6 35 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 30 (1.47%) NUnit
9 29 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 28 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 27 (1.32%) JUnit
12 20 (0.98%) GitLab
13 16 (0.79%) MSBuild
14 15 (0.74%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.74%) Jasmine
15 13 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.59%) gulp
16 12 (0.59%) webpack
17 11 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
18 10 (0.49%) Ant
General
1 338 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 229 (11.24%) Finance
3 132 (6.48%) Public Sector
4 75 (3.68%) Marketing
5 70 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.36%) Telecoms
7 43 (2.11%) Law
8 39 (1.91%) Retail
9 38 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 38 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.32%) Multimedia
11 24 (1.18%) Games
12 22 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (0.93%) Back Office
14 16 (0.79%) Local Government
14 16 (0.79%) Police
15 15 (0.74%) Legal
16 13 (0.64%) Electronics
17 11 (0.54%) Advertising
18 10 (0.49%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 832 (40.82%) .NET
2 543 (26.64%) HTML
3 519 (25.47%) CSS
4 418 (20.51%) React
5 332 (16.29%) ASP.NET
6 328 (16.09%) AngularJS
7 240 (11.78%) .NET Core
8 220 (10.79%) REST
9 203 (9.96%) Vue
10 202 (9.91%) Web Services
11 192 (9.42%) .NET Framework
12 176 (8.64%) HTML5
13 169 (8.29%) ASP.NET Web API
14 157 (7.70%) jQuery
15 156 (7.65%) Node.js
16 136 (6.67%) Entity Framework
17 128 (6.28%) RESTful
18 127 (6.23%) CSS3
19 126 (6.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 112 (5.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 139 (6.82%) Algorithms
2 95 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
3 78 (3.83%) Blockchain
4 75 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 74 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 68 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 39 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 35 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.52%) e-Learning
12 23 (1.13%) NHS
13 18 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
13 18 (0.88%) Management Information System
14 14 (0.69%) Digital Media
15 13 (0.64%) Cloud Native
16 12 (0.59%) Social Media
17 10 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 9 (0.44%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 176 (8.64%) Linux
2 126 (6.18%) Windows
3 107 (5.25%) Android
4 86 (4.22%) Apple iOS
5 39 (1.91%) Embedded Linux
6 10 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.098%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (31.45%) Agile
2 476 (23.36%) Full Stack Development
3 332 (16.29%) DevOps
4 331 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
5 307 (15.06%) MVC
6 279 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 279 (13.69%) Computer Science
7 245 (12.02%) Microservices
8 226 (11.09%) Web Development
9 220 (10.79%) Software Engineering
10 206 (10.11%) TDD
11 179 (8.78%) CI/CD
12 174 (8.54%) Design Patterns
13 170 (8.34%) User Experience
14 148 (7.26%) OOP
15 141 (6.92%) Front End Development
16 137 (6.72%) Continuous Integration
17 132 (6.48%) OO
18 125 (6.13%) Unit Testing
19 122 (5.99%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 796 (39.06%) C#
2 769 (37.73%) JavaScript
3 488 (23.95%) SQL
4 277 (13.59%) Java
5 253 (12.41%) Python
6 233 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 195 (9.57%) PHP
8 114 (5.59%) C++
9 97 (4.76%) C
10 63 (3.09%) Go
11 34 (1.67%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.62%) T-SQL
13 31 (1.52%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.69%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.59%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.49%) MATLAB
17 10 (0.49%) Ruby
18 9 (0.44%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 302 (14.82%) Degree
2 166 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 165 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 50 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 16 (0.79%) PhD
9 12 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
10 8 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.098%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (2.55%) QA
2 37 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.42%) WCAG
4 18 (0.88%) GDPR
5 14 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.098%) GRC
10 1 (0.049%) SLA
System Software
1 238 (11.68%) Docker
2 6 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.049%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 163 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.98%) Terraform
3 17 (0.83%) Ansible
4 10 (0.49%) Kibana
5 9 (0.44%) MIIS
6 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.20%) WSUS
8 2 (0.098%) Grafana
9 1 (0.049%) cPanel
9 1 (0.049%) Plesk
Vendors
1 236 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 89 (4.37%) Oracle
3 80 (3.93%) IBM
4 76 (3.73%) Red Hat
5 36 (1.77%) Siebel
6 32 (1.57%) Xilinx
7 26 (1.28%) Google
8 19 (0.93%) Optimizely
8 19 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.88%) SAP
10 16 (0.79%) Sitecore
11 11 (0.54%) Adobe
11 11 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.49%) NEC
12 10 (0.49%) WSO2
13 9 (0.44%) HP
13 9 (0.44%) Splunk
14 8 (0.39%) Unisys
14 8 (0.39%) Xamarin
15 7 (0.34%) OpenAI