Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,232 2,558 4,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.42% 16.90% 22.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% 18.65% 23.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 1,965 3,307
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,200 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,621 13,714 18,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.60% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,594 12,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 25 April 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 25 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
Thames Valley -3 898 £60,000 - 107
Hampshire -5 489 £60,000 +14.29% 56
Berkshire -2 457 £65,000 +8.33% 49
Surrey -3 283 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Buckinghamshire -1 238 £55,000 - 33
Kent +6 232 £55,000 - 31
Oxfordshire +3 203 £57,500 -4.17% 25
East Sussex -3 154 £57,500 +4.55% 16
West Sussex +10 98 £55,000 -5.98% 19
Sussex +4 54 £50,000 -23.08% 5
Middlesex -39 5 £44,000 -48.24% 1
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 1,031 (46.19%) JavaScript
2 1,010 (45.25%) .NET
3 1,003 (44.94%) C#
4 825 (36.96%) Agile
5 811 (36.34%) Azure
6 641 (28.72%) Full Stack Development
7 622 (27.87%) HTML
8 618 (27.69%) SQL
9 564 (25.27%) CSS
9 564 (25.27%) React
10 542 (24.28%) SQL Server
11 496 (22.22%) AngularJS
12 480 (21.51%) ASP.NET
13 477 (21.37%) MVC
14 435 (19.49%) Microsoft
15 400 (17.92%) Microservices
16 397 (17.79%) AWS
17 395 (17.70%) DevOps
18 371 (16.62%) .NET Core
19 354 (15.86%) Social Skills
20 349 (15.64%) Git
21 348 (15.59%) TypeScript
22 340 (15.23%) Java
23 333 (14.92%) Degree
24 330 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
25 320 (14.34%) Docker
26 304 (13.62%) TDD
27 294 (13.17%) Computer Science
28 287 (12.86%) .NET Framework
29 284 (12.72%) HTML5

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 69 (3.09%) CMS
2 46 (2.06%) IIS
3 43 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 32 (1.43%) Umbraco
6 27 (1.21%) Apache
7 25 (1.12%) Kentico
8 24 (1.08%) Headless CMS
9 20 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
9 20 (0.90%) WordPress
10 18 (0.81%) nginx
11 12 (0.54%) Drupal
11 12 (0.54%) JBoss
12 11 (0.49%) IBM Domino
12 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.45%) Confluence
14 9 (0.40%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
16 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.18%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 28 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.45%) Simulink
4 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.045%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.045%) InDesign
6 1 (0.045%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 47 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.34%) Siebel CRM
3 18 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.31%) Magento
6 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.22%) Odoo
7 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
7 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.13%) Shopify
9 2 (0.090%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.090%) nopCommerce
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.090%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 811 (36.34%) Azure
2 397 (17.79%) AWS
3 211 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (7.35%) Serverless
5 111 (4.97%) Power Platform
6 102 (4.57%) SaaS
7 85 (3.81%) Azure Functions
8 82 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 82 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
9 75 (3.36%) GitHub
10 74 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 71 (3.18%) Azure API Management
12 68 (3.05%) IBM Cloud
13 57 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
14 53 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
16 31 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
17 28 (1.25%) Power Automate
18 27 (1.21%) PaaS
19 23 (1.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.69%) Internet
2 28 (1.25%) HTTP
3 19 (0.85%) DNS
4 15 (0.67%) SSL
5 14 (0.63%) Firewall
6 9 (0.40%) Network Security
6 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.36%) VPN
8 7 (0.31%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.22%) Intranet
10 4 (0.18%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.18%) LAN
10 4 (0.18%) MQTT
10 4 (0.18%) NAS
10 4 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.090%) Wireless
12 1 (0.045%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 542 (24.28%) SQL Server
2 218 (9.77%) NoSQL
3 193 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (8.24%) Relational Database
5 173 (7.75%) MongoDB
6 164 (7.35%) MySQL
7 92 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
8 71 (3.18%) Power BI
9 68 (3.05%) DB2
10 59 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (1.34%) Oracle BI EE
11 30 (1.34%) Siebel EIM
12 27 (1.21%) Redis
13 26 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 25 (1.12%) Power Query
15 23 (1.03%) Data Lake
16 20 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
17 19 (0.85%) MariaDB
17 19 (0.85%) Oracle Database
17 19 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 349 (15.64%) Git
2 101 (4.53%) Visual Studio
3 89 (3.99%) JIRA
4 84 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 53 (2.37%) Selenium
6 42 (1.88%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.75%) NUnit
8 31 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 30 (1.34%) JUnit
10 29 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 25 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (1.08%) Ant
13 20 (0.90%) GitLab
14 18 (0.81%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.81%) Postman
15 14 (0.63%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.54%) Jasmine
16 12 (0.54%) Maven
17 11 (0.49%) Vite
18 10 (0.45%) MorphX
General
1 354 (15.86%) Social Skills
2 236 (10.57%) Finance
3 152 (6.81%) Public Sector
4 86 (3.85%) Marketing
5 75 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (2.82%) Retail
7 48 (2.15%) Manufacturing
7 48 (2.15%) Telecoms
8 43 (1.93%) Law
9 36 (1.61%) Games
10 35 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.16%) Advertising
11 26 (1.16%) Tech for Good
12 23 (1.03%) Back Office
13 21 (0.94%) Electronics
14 19 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (0.76%) Banking
16 13 (0.58%) Aviation
16 13 (0.58%) Multimedia
17 12 (0.54%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,010 (45.25%) .NET
2 622 (27.87%) HTML
3 564 (25.27%) CSS
3 564 (25.27%) React
4 496 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 480 (21.51%) ASP.NET
6 371 (16.62%) .NET Core
7 287 (12.86%) .NET Framework
8 284 (12.72%) HTML5
9 278 (12.46%) Vue
10 257 (11.51%) ASP.NET MVC
10 257 (11.51%) Entity Framework
11 252 (11.29%) ASP.NET Web API
11 252 (11.29%) Node.js
12 237 (10.62%) REST
13 210 (9.41%) Web Services
14 188 (8.42%) jQuery
15 181 (8.11%) CSS3
16 175 (7.84%) RESTful
17 157 (7.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.15%) Algorithms
2 106 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
3 74 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 69 (3.09%) Blockchain
5 68 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 66 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.25%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.90%) Social Media
14 19 (0.85%) Mainframe
15 15 (0.67%) e-Learning
16 14 (0.63%) Cloud Native
16 14 (0.63%) Digital Media
17 13 (0.58%) BBC
17 13 (0.58%) IoT
17 13 (0.58%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 178 (7.97%) Linux
2 145 (6.50%) Windows
3 100 (4.48%) Android
4 83 (3.72%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.31%) Unix
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.090%) AIX
9 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (36.96%) Agile
2 641 (28.72%) Full Stack Development
3 477 (21.37%) MVC
4 400 (17.92%) Microservices
5 395 (17.70%) DevOps
6 330 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (13.62%) TDD
8 294 (13.17%) Computer Science
9 254 (11.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 221 (9.90%) Web Development
11 211 (9.45%) Scrum
12 196 (8.78%) CI/CD
13 190 (8.51%) Software Engineering
14 184 (8.24%) BDD
15 183 (8.20%) User Experience
16 168 (7.53%) Design Patterns
17 156 (6.99%) OOP
18 155 (6.94%) OO
19 154 (6.90%) Front End Development
20 142 (6.36%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (46.19%) JavaScript
2 1,003 (44.94%) C#
3 618 (27.69%) SQL
4 348 (15.59%) TypeScript
5 340 (15.23%) Java
6 261 (11.69%) Python
7 214 (9.59%) PHP
8 129 (5.78%) C++
9 63 (2.82%) C
10 60 (2.69%) Go
11 52 (2.33%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 24 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.85%) COBOL
15 16 (0.72%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.45%) Scala
18 9 (0.40%) Bicep
18 9 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 333 (14.92%) Degree
2 208 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 169 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 125 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 39 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
6 33 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 22 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.81%) PhD
11 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.13%) MBA
13 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.045%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.045%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.045%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.045%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.58%) QA
2 38 (1.70%) WCAG
3 21 (0.94%) GDPR
4 20 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.090%) GRC
9 2 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.045%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 320 (14.34%) Docker
2 28 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 223 (9.99%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.33%) Terraform
3 50 (2.24%) Ansible
4 8 (0.36%) MIIS
5 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (0.22%) Kibana
6 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.18%) WSUS
7 3 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.045%) Control-M
Vendors
1 435 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 94 (4.21%) Oracle
3 79 (3.54%) IBM
4 68 (3.05%) Red Hat
5 48 (2.15%) Google
6 36 (1.61%) WSO2
7 31 (1.39%) Facebook
8 30 (1.34%) Siebel
9 26 (1.16%) SAP
10 22 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 21 (0.94%) Xamarin
12 20 (0.90%) Sitecore
13 19 (0.85%) Optimizely
13 19 (0.85%) Unisys
14 13 (0.58%) Adobe
14 13 (0.58%) Apple
14 13 (0.58%) Sony
14 13 (0.58%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.54%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.45%) Xilinx