Applications Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 452 588
Rank change year-on-year -67 +136 -80
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 60 339 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 44 296 127
10th Percentile £38,250 £33,625 £35,600
25th Percentile £46,625 £40,000 £38,271
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,813 £64,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £61,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Developer in the UK excluding London

Applications Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Midlands +45 21 £57,500 -4.17% 11
West Midlands +47 15 £60,000 - 8
South East +33 15 £50,000 -16.67% 20
East of England +22 7 £66,219 +65.55% 9
North of England -11 7 £72,500 +64.77% 21
Scotland +119 6 £75,000 +57.89% 1
East Midlands +24 6 £52,500 - 3
Yorkshire +43 5 £72,500 +81.25% 4
South West +13 3 £45,000 -4.17% 12
North West -25 2 £53,750 -2.27% 18
Northern Ireland +42 1 - -
Applications Developer
UK

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Applications 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 24 (40.00%) SQL
2 19 (31.67%) JavaScript
3 18 (30.00%) C#
3 18 (30.00%) HTML
4 15 (25.00%) Oracle
4 15 (25.00%) Python
5 14 (23.33%) Agile
6 13 (21.67%) Degree
7 12 (20.00%) CSS
7 12 (20.00%) .NET
7 12 (20.00%) Azure
8 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
8 11 (18.33%) PL/SQL
8 11 (18.33%) Migration
8 11 (18.33%) Data Migration
9 9 (15.00%) Git
9 9 (15.00%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
9 9 (15.00%) ERP
9 9 (15.00%) Mobile App
10 8 (13.33%) User Experience
10 8 (13.33%) Data Structures
10 8 (13.33%) Android
10 8 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
10 8 (13.33%) Code Quality
11 7 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (11.67%) Data Mapping
11 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (11.67%) ETL
11 7 (11.67%) SQL Server

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.00%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (11.67%) PowerApps
4 5 (8.33%) GitHub
4 5 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.67%) AWS
5 4 (6.67%) GCP
5 4 (6.67%) Serverless
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.33%) npm
8 1 (1.67%) Boomi
8 1 (1.67%) Firebase
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) 5G
1 4 (6.67%) Broadband
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle ODI
1 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) Power BI
3 3 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) MS Access
5 1 (1.67%) MySQL
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) JUnit
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.33%) NUnit
4 2 (3.33%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Mocha
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.67%) Xcode
5 1 (1.67%) XCTest
General
1 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.67%) Back Office
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Automotive
5 1 (1.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.67%) French Language
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Military
5 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) HTML
2 12 (20.00%) .NET
2 12 (20.00%) CSS
3 7 (11.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (10.00%) Node.js
4 6 (10.00%) RESTful
5 5 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (6.67%) JSON
6 4 (6.67%) Kafka
6 4 (6.67%) React
7 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.00%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.00%) Jest
7 3 (5.00%) WCF
7 3 (5.00%) XML
8 2 (3.33%) Flutter
8 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 8 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 7 (11.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.67%) Animation
6 1 (1.67%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Android
2 7 (11.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Agile
2 11 (18.33%) Data Migration
2 11 (18.33%) Migration
3 9 (15.00%) ERP
4 8 (13.33%) Code Quality
4 8 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
4 8 (13.33%) User Experience
5 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (11.67%) Data Mapping
5 7 (11.67%) ETL
5 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.67%) Validation
6 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.00%) Conversational UI
6 6 (10.00%) Scrum
7 5 (8.33%) API Development
7 5 (8.33%) API Integration
7 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (8.33%) DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) SQL
2 19 (31.67%) JavaScript
3 18 (30.00%) C#
4 15 (25.00%) Python
5 11 (18.33%) PL/SQL
6 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.00%) C++
8 5 (8.33%) Kotlin
9 4 (6.67%) Bash
9 4 (6.67%) Swift
10 2 (3.33%) Dart
10 2 (3.33%) PHP
10 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.67%) Java
11 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.67%) Rust
11 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.67%) VB
11 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Oracle
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) IBM
3 7 (11.67%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.00%) PayPal
5 2 (3.33%) Databricks
5 2 (3.33%) Okta
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft