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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 621 624
Rank change year-on-year +122 +3 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 63 149 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 58 132 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,972 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £67,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 34,463 66,724 54,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.80% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,670 47,232 31,095
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 6 May 2025.

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 6 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 +66 29 £60,000 +33.33% 9
West Midlands +56 19 £60,000 +29.73% 6
East of England +40 12 £66,296 +55.99% 6
North of England +19 11 £57,500 +2.22% 17
East Midlands +49 10 £60,000 +71.43% 3
North West -11 8 £57,500 +9.52% 14
South West +99 7 £65,000 +36.84% 11
Wales +41 6 £65,000 +62.50%
Scotland +114 5 £75,000 +38.89% 1
South East +82 5 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Yorkshire +56 3 £58,250 +1.30% 3
Backend Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 42 (66.67%) SQL
2 33 (52.38%) Azure
3 30 (47.62%) AWS
4 29 (46.03%) Docker
5 27 (42.86%) Agile
6 26 (41.27%) Containerisation
7 25 (39.68%) Microservices
8 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
9 23 (36.51%) Python
10 22 (34.92%) NoSQL
10 22 (34.92%) Unit Testing
11 20 (31.75%) C#
11 20 (31.75%) Java
11 20 (31.75%) DevOps
11 20 (31.75%) React
12 18 (28.57%) Linux
13 17 (26.98%) JUnit
13 17 (26.98%) Git
13 17 (26.98%) AngularJS
14 16 (25.40%) JPA
14 16 (25.40%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (25.40%) RESTful
14 16 (25.40%) SaaS
14 16 (25.40%) Hibernate
14 16 (25.40%) JavaScript
15 15 (23.81%) Eclipse
15 15 (23.81%) IntelliJ
15 15 (23.81%) IBM
15 15 (23.81%) Mockito
15 15 (23.81%) Jasmine

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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) Azure
2 30 (47.62%) AWS
3 16 (25.40%) SaaS
4 11 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) GitHub
5 9 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.11%) Serverless
7 5 (7.94%) GCP
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.59%) AWS IoT
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.59%) Datadog
10 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.59%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.92%) NoSQL
2 12 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (12.70%) Redis
4 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 6 (9.52%) MySQL
6 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.59%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.59%) Power BI
8 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.59%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) Git
1 17 (26.98%) JUnit
2 15 (23.81%) Eclipse
2 15 (23.81%) IntelliJ
2 15 (23.81%) Jasmine
2 15 (23.81%) Karma Test Runner
2 15 (23.81%) Mockito
2 15 (23.81%) Protractor
3 7 (11.11%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.35%) NUnit
6 3 (4.76%) Spinnaker
7 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.59%) Gradle
8 1 (1.59%) Maven
8 1 (1.59%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.17%) Finance
3 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.59%) Agriculture
4 1 (1.59%) Automotive
4 1 (1.59%) Back Office
4 1 (1.59%) Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Games
4 1 (1.59%) Law
4 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.75%) React
2 17 (26.98%) AngularJS
3 16 (25.40%) Hibernate
3 16 (25.40%) JPA
3 16 (25.40%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (25.40%) RESTful
4 14 (22.22%) .NET
5 13 (20.63%) Node.js
6 11 (17.46%) GraphQL
7 8 (12.70%) .NET Framework
7 8 (12.70%) OAuth
8 7 (11.11%) Django
8 7 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 7 (11.11%) HTML
8 7 (11.11%) WebSockets
9 6 (9.52%) Flask
9 6 (9.52%) Kafka
9 6 (9.52%) pytest
9 6 (9.52%) REST
9 6 (9.52%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.81%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.17%) IoT
3 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.59%) Clustering
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.59%) LIMS
4 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Agile
2 26 (41.27%) Containerisation
3 25 (39.68%) Microservices
4 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
5 22 (34.92%) Unit Testing
6 20 (31.75%) DevOps
7 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (15.87%) Code Quality
8 10 (15.87%) Front End Development
9 7 (11.11%) TDD
10 6 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (9.52%) Conversational UI
10 6 (9.52%) Design Patterns
11 5 (7.94%) Clean Code
11 5 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (7.94%) Continuous Delivery
11 5 (7.94%) OOP
11 5 (7.94%) Software Engineering
12 4 (6.35%) OO
12 4 (6.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (66.67%) SQL
2 23 (36.51%) Python
3 20 (31.75%) C#
3 20 (31.75%) Java
4 16 (25.40%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) C++
6 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.76%) PHP
8 2 (3.17%) Ruby
9 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (46.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.52%) Grafana
2 6 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) IBM
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) PayPal
4 3 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Okta
6 1 (1.59%) Zend