Development Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 301 382
Rank change year-on-year +15 +81 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 15 99 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.57% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.60% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10 37 18
10th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £42,775
25th Percentile £42,188 £37,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +11.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - - £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -19.23% +13.04%

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 8,283 16,379 12,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.89% 94.08% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,409 11,667 8,026
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the South East

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the South East

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the South East

Development Engineer
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 Development Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Hampshire +78 6 £44,000 -26.67% 9
Surrey - 4 £65,000 - 1
Middlesex - 3 - -
East Sussex +27 2 £50,000 - 4
Development Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) Apache
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (26.67%) Big Data
3 4 (26.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 4 (26.67%) Inmon Methodology
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) Data Security
3 4 (26.67%) Parquet
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
3 4 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection

Development Engineer 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 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) OrCAD
2 1 (6.67%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
1 3 (20.00%) SMTP
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) BGP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (13.33%) DMVPN
2 2 (13.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (13.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
1 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (26.67%) Parquet
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (20.00%) Law
1 3 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Local Government
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (26.67%) Data Security
1 4 (26.67%) Inmon Methodology
1 4 (26.67%) Kimball Methodology
1 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
1 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) C++
3 2 (13.33%) Pascal
3 2 (13.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Postgraduate
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) McAfee