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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 613 600
Rank change year-on-year +98 -13 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 60 150 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 55 133 116
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £54,375 £42,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,296 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £79,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +7.69%

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 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
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 £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 16 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 16 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 +72 26 £60,000 +33.33% 2
West Midlands +61 17 £60,000 +29.73% 1
East of England +37 12 £66,296 +55.99% 4
North of England +2 10 £57,500 +2.22% 26
East Midlands +36 9 £60,000 +71.43% 1
North West -22 7 £57,500 +6.98% 22
South East +85 6 £65,000 - 29
Scotland +103 5 £75,000 +37.61% 1
South West +96 5 £65,000 +36.84% 10
Wales +39 4 £65,000 +62.50%
Yorkshire +48 3 £58,250 +1.30% 4
Backend Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 40 (66.67%) SQL
2 31 (51.67%) Azure
3 29 (48.33%) AWS
4 27 (45.00%) Docker
5 25 (41.67%) Microservices
5 25 (41.67%) Agile
6 24 (40.00%) Containerisation
7 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
7 21 (35.00%) NoSQL
7 21 (35.00%) Unit Testing
8 20 (33.33%) C#
8 20 (33.33%) Python
8 20 (33.33%) React
9 19 (31.67%) Java
10 18 (30.00%) Linux
11 17 (28.33%) JUnit
11 17 (28.33%) JavaScript
11 17 (28.33%) DevOps
11 17 (28.33%) AngularJS
12 16 (26.67%) Hibernate
12 16 (26.67%) JPA
12 16 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (26.67%) SaaS
13 15 (25.00%) Mockito
13 15 (25.00%) Jasmine
13 15 (25.00%) Eclipse
13 15 (25.00%) IntelliJ
13 15 (25.00%) IBM
13 15 (25.00%) Karma Test Runner
13 15 (25.00%) Algorithms

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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 31 (51.67%) Azure
2 29 (48.33%) AWS
3 16 (26.67%) SaaS
4 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (11.67%) Serverless
6 5 (8.33%) GCP
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.67%) AWS IoT
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.67%) Datadog
9 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.00%) MySQL
5 5 (8.33%) Redis
6 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.67%) Power BI
8 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) JUnit
2 15 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 15 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 15 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 15 (25.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 15 (25.00%) Mockito
2 15 (25.00%) Protractor
3 14 (23.33%) Git
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
5 4 (6.67%) NUnit
5 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.00%) Spinnaker
7 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.67%) Gradle
8 1 (1.67%) Maven
8 1 (1.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.67%) Automotive
5 1 (1.67%) Back Office
5 1 (1.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Games
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.33%) React
2 17 (28.33%) AngularJS
3 16 (26.67%) Hibernate
3 16 (26.67%) JPA
3 16 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (23.33%) .NET
5 12 (20.00%) Node.js
5 12 (20.00%) RESTful
6 8 (13.33%) .NET Framework
7 7 (11.67%) Entity Framework
7 7 (11.67%) GraphQL
7 7 (11.67%) HTML
8 6 (10.00%) Kafka
8 6 (10.00%) OAuth
8 6 (10.00%) REST
9 5 (8.33%) Django
10 4 (6.67%) .NET Core
10 4 (6.67%) pytest
10 4 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
10 4 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) IoT
3 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Clustering
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.67%) LIMS
4 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Agile
1 25 (41.67%) Microservices
2 24 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.00%) Unit Testing
4 17 (28.33%) DevOps
5 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.00%) Code Quality
7 8 (13.33%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (10.00%) Conversational UI
8 6 (10.00%) Design Patterns
8 6 (10.00%) TDD
9 5 (8.33%) Clean Code
9 5 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (8.33%) OOP
9 5 (8.33%) Software Engineering
10 4 (6.67%) Event-Driven
10 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (66.67%) SQL
2 20 (33.33%) C#
2 20 (33.33%) Python
3 19 (31.67%) Java
4 17 (28.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.00%) C++
6 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.00%) PHP
8 1 (1.67%) Ruby
8 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 4 (6.67%) Grafana
3 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) IBM
2 6 (10.00%) PayPal
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.00%) Databricks
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle
5 2 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) Okta
6 1 (1.67%) Zend