Backend Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Backend Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 627 555
Rank change year-on-year +19 -72 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 149 134 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.22% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 117 155
10th Percentile £35,250 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +16.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend 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 Backend Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +73 58 £55,000 -18.52% 5
North West +23 34 £52,500 -22.22% 3
Yorkshire +100 23 £57,500 -25.81% 1
South East -19 21 £65,000 +4.00% 3
East of England +20 18 £42,500 +13.33% 2
Midlands -2 18 £45,000 +2.86% 5
South West -18 18 £47,500 -17.39% 3
West Midlands +18 13 £46,250 +2.78% 3
Scotland -56 13 £54,500 +3.81% 5
East Midlands -14 5 £35,000 -9.09% 2
Wales +5 3 £40,000 - 3
North East -4 1 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Backend Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Backend 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 Backend Developer in the job title.

1 51 (34.23%) AWS
2 48 (32.21%) C#
3 47 (31.54%) .NET
4 45 (30.20%) JavaScript
5 44 (29.53%) Social Skills
6 42 (28.19%) Agile
7 39 (26.17%) SQL
8 36 (24.16%) Software Engineering
9 31 (20.81%) Microservices
10 28 (18.79%) Azure
11 26 (17.45%) Docker
12 25 (16.78%) Node.js
12 25 (16.78%) PHP
12 25 (16.78%) CSS
13 23 (15.44%) HTML
14 22 (14.77%) MySQL
15 21 (14.09%) CI/CD
15 21 (14.09%) Test Automation
16 20 (13.42%) Computer Science
16 20 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (13.42%) Clean Code
17 19 (12.75%) Degree
17 19 (12.75%) SaaS
17 19 (12.75%) REST
18 18 (12.08%) DevOps
18 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
18 18 (12.08%) Kubernetes
18 18 (12.08%) Front End Development
18 18 (12.08%) Serverless
18 18 (12.08%) Java

Backend 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 8 (5.37%) WordPress
2 6 (4.03%) CMS
3 5 (3.36%) Drupal
4 4 (2.68%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.34%) Apache
5 2 (1.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Moodle
6 1 (0.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (34.23%) AWS
2 28 (18.79%) Azure
3 19 (12.75%) SaaS
4 18 (12.08%) Serverless
5 17 (11.41%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.71%) GitHub
7 8 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (4.70%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.70%) IaaS
8 7 (4.70%) PaaS
9 4 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.68%) GCP
10 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.01%) Firebase
11 2 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.34%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.34%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.34%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.70%) HTTP
2 6 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.77%) MySQL
2 17 (11.41%) Relational Database
3 16 (10.74%) DynamoDB
4 13 (8.72%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.05%) NoSQL
5 12 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.01%) Redis
7 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.34%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.67%) Power BI
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.40%) Git
2 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.36%) Postman
5 4 (2.68%) Maven
6 2 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.34%) Subversion
7 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.67%) GitLab
7 1 (0.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.67%) Mockito
7 1 (0.67%) Moq
7 1 (0.67%) NUnit
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.67%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.67%) Snyk
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.72%) Finance
3 7 (4.70%) Marketing
4 6 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.03%) Games
5 4 (2.68%) Banking
6 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.01%) Retail
7 2 (1.34%) Electronics
7 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.34%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.67%) Automotive
8 1 (0.67%) Aviation
8 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (31.54%) .NET
2 25 (16.78%) CSS
2 25 (16.78%) Node.js
3 23 (15.44%) HTML
4 19 (12.75%) REST
5 17 (11.41%) RESTful
6 16 (10.74%) Laravel
7 15 (10.07%) Web Services
8 14 (9.40%) Vue
9 12 (8.05%) Kafka
10 10 (6.71%) React
11 9 (6.04%) JSON
11 9 (6.04%) OAuth
12 8 (5.37%) .NET Framework
12 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.70%) gRPC
13 7 (4.70%) LAMP
13 7 (4.70%) Spring
13 7 (4.70%) Spring Boot
14 6 (4.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.38%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.70%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.68%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.01%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.34%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.67%) NHS
8 1 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.19%) Agile
2 36 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 31 (20.81%) Microservices
4 21 (14.09%) CI/CD
4 21 (14.09%) Test Automation
5 20 (13.42%) Clean Code
5 20 (13.42%) Computer Science
5 20 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (12.08%) DevOps
6 18 (12.08%) Front End Development
7 17 (11.41%) API Development
8 16 (10.74%) OO
8 16 (10.74%) TDD
9 15 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (10.07%) Software Testing
10 13 (8.72%) Design Patterns
11 12 (8.05%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (8.05%) Data Protection
12 10 (6.71%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.21%) C#
2 45 (30.20%) JavaScript
3 39 (26.17%) SQL
4 25 (16.78%) PHP
5 18 (12.08%) Java
5 18 (12.08%) Python
5 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.71%) Go
7 6 (4.03%) C++
8 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (12.75%) Degree
2 15 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.70%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) GDPR
2 7 (4.70%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.68%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (17.45%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.04%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (2.68%) Google
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle
3 2 (1.34%) SAP
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe
4 1 (0.67%) Salesforce