Developer Jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Developer
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The median Developer salary in Stoke-on-Trent is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 13 49 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 12.62% 14.33% 16.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.62% 15.61% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9 38 17
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +1.69%
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £58,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £53,688 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.13% +2.63% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Stoke-on-Trent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Stoke-on-Trent with a recognized job title 103 314 186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 91.81% 86.11%
Number of salaries quoted 61 281 156
10th Percentile £28,000 £22,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -0.62% +7.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £61,500 £67,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £38,754 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.12% -11.11% +5.88%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Stoke-on-Trent

Developer
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Stoke-on-Trent.

Salary trend for Developer in Stoke-on-Trent

Developer
Salary Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Stoke-on-Trent

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 Stoke-on-Trent region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) Law
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Power BI
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
5 3 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (23.08%) Database Optimisation
6 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (15.38%) Python
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) ETL
6 2 (15.38%) X++

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 6 (46.15%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) Electron
2 1 (7.69%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Jest
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) Parceljs
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (23.08%) Database Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Data Security
6 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
6 1 (7.69%) User Experience
6 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (15.38%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) X++
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle