Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 9,995 8,717 14,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.26% 14.19% 21.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.04% 15.90% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,508 6,296 10,668
10th Percentile £33,638 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

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 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +12 2,809 £52,084 -5.30% 536
South East 0 2,226 £57,500 - 314
North West +11 1,673 £52,084 -5.30% 348
Midlands +11 1,579 £50,000 -9.09% 314
South West +3 1,394 £50,000 -6.58% 201
West Midlands +13 1,003 £50,000 -9.09% 205
Yorkshire +15 890 £50,000 -4.76% 144
East of England +11 875 £50,000 -13.04% 149
Scotland -24 644 £53,500 -2.73% 118
East Midlands +6 571 £50,000 -5.66% 109
Wales +7 333 £52,500 +16.67% 67
North East +4 246 £50,000 -9.09% 50
Northern Ireland -2 144 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 3,755 (37.57%) C#
2 3,723 (37.25%) JavaScript
3 3,631 (36.33%) .NET
4 2,961 (29.62%) Agile
5 2,811 (28.12%) Azure
6 2,527 (25.28%) Full Stack Development
7 2,434 (24.35%) SQL
8 2,315 (23.16%) HTML
9 2,071 (20.72%) CSS
10 1,942 (19.43%) React
11 1,918 (19.19%) Microsoft
12 1,899 (19.00%) SQL Server
13 1,722 (17.23%) AngularJS
14 1,630 (16.31%) Social Skills
15 1,593 (15.94%) AWS
16 1,580 (15.81%) MVC
17 1,567 (15.68%) ASP.NET
18 1,373 (13.74%) DevOps
19 1,356 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
20 1,316 (13.17%) .NET Core
21 1,282 (12.83%) TypeScript
22 1,251 (12.52%) Git
23 1,222 (12.23%) Microservices
24 1,199 (12.00%) Degree
25 1,182 (11.83%) PHP
26 1,121 (11.22%) Java
27 1,109 (11.10%) Software Engineering
28 1,038 (10.39%) .NET Framework
29 1,014 (10.15%) Vue
30 977 (9.77%) Finance

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
1 253 (2.53%) CMS
1 253 (2.53%) WordPress
2 218 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 132 (1.32%) Confluence
4 125 (1.25%) IIS
5 122 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 80 (0.80%) Apache
7 73 (0.73%) Apache Spark
8 52 (0.52%) Headless CMS
8 52 (0.52%) nginx
9 45 (0.45%) OpenEdge
10 43 (0.43%) Kentico
11 41 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
12 40 (0.40%) Drupal
13 35 (0.35%) OpenStack
14 24 (0.24%) SAS
15 14 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 13 (0.13%) JBoss
17 12 (0.12%) Apache Solr
17 12 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 89 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 30 (0.30%) Photoshop
5 25 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 19 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 15 (0.15%) InfoPath
8 14 (0.14%) Simulink
9 13 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.050%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.040%) Maya
12 4 (0.040%) Sketch
12 4 (0.040%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.030%) InDesign
13 3 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.020%) Adobe Captivate
14 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
15 1 (0.010%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 140 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 105 (1.05%) Shopify
3 80 (0.80%) Magento
4 54 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 37 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
6 32 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 30 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
8 27 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.11%) Maximo
10 7 (0.070%) BPCS
10 7 (0.070%) Sage 200
11 6 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.050%) Odoo
12 5 (0.050%) SAP ERP
13 4 (0.040%) Elite 3E
13 4 (0.040%) Oracle EBS R12
13 4 (0.040%) Oracle Financials
13 4 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
13 4 (0.040%) Sonata
13 4 (0.040%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,811 (28.12%) Azure
2 1,593 (15.94%) AWS
3 711 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 657 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
5 438 (4.38%) SaaS
6 387 (3.87%) Serverless
7 359 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
8 282 (2.82%) GitHub
9 272 (2.72%) PowerApps
10 269 (2.69%) Power Automate
11 186 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
12 172 (1.72%) Azure Functions
12 172 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 157 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 126 (1.26%) GCP
15 123 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 122 (1.22%) Azure API Management
17 113 (1.13%) IBM Cloud
18 80 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
19 75 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (1.87%) Internet
2 65 (0.65%) HTTP
3 61 (0.61%) DNS
4 43 (0.43%) Firewall
5 38 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.35%) SSL
7 32 (0.32%) WAN
8 29 (0.29%) LAN
9 28 (0.28%) Intranet
10 24 (0.24%) Wireless
11 22 (0.22%) MQTT
12 16 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
13 13 (0.13%) 5G
13 13 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.12%) Broadband
15 10 (0.10%) VPN
16 9 (0.090%) Network Security
17 8 (0.080%) SMTP
17 8 (0.080%) VoIP
18 7 (0.070%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,899 (19.00%) SQL Server
2 778 (7.78%) MySQL
3 533 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 480 (4.80%) Power BI
5 477 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 425 (4.25%) MongoDB
7 392 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 242 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 214 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 213 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 165 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
12 133 (1.33%) Oracle Database
13 123 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 116 (1.16%) DB2
15 91 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
16 87 (0.87%) Redis
17 78 (0.78%) Tableau
18 77 (0.77%) Power Query
19 72 (0.72%) DynamoDB
20 69 (0.69%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 1,251 (12.52%) Git
2 418 (4.18%) Visual Studio
3 306 (3.06%) JIRA
4 270 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 175 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 108 (1.08%) GitLab
7 89 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
8 86 (0.86%) Selenium
9 69 (0.69%) NUnit
10 67 (0.67%) Sourcetree
11 66 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 60 (0.60%) Jasmine
13 58 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
14 56 (0.56%) JUnit
15 51 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
16 50 (0.50%) TeamCity
17 46 (0.46%) webpack
18 43 (0.43%) Maven
19 40 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
20 38 (0.38%) gulp
General
1 1,630 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 977 (9.77%) Finance
3 413 (4.13%) Marketing
4 387 (3.87%) Public Sector
5 385 (3.85%) Law
6 379 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
7 359 (3.59%) Retail
8 305 (3.05%) Games
9 271 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 245 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 160 (1.60%) Banking
12 152 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 129 (1.29%) Legal
14 115 (1.15%) Tech for Good
15 110 (1.10%) Advertising
16 98 (0.98%) Telecoms
17 95 (0.95%) Automotive
18 81 (0.81%) Electronics
18 81 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 69 (0.69%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,631 (36.33%) .NET
2 2,315 (23.16%) HTML
3 2,071 (20.72%) CSS
4 1,942 (19.43%) React
5 1,722 (17.23%) AngularJS
6 1,567 (15.68%) ASP.NET
7 1,316 (13.17%) .NET Core
8 1,038 (10.39%) .NET Framework
9 1,014 (10.15%) Vue
10 974 (9.74%) Node.js
11 928 (9.28%) ASP.NET Web API
12 853 (8.53%) Entity Framework
13 835 (8.35%) ASP.NET MVC
14 769 (7.69%) HTML5
15 737 (7.37%) REST
16 708 (7.08%) RESTful
17 663 (6.63%) Laravel
18 598 (5.98%) jQuery
19 565 (5.65%) Web Services
20 454 (4.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 455 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 310 (3.10%) Mobile App
3 299 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 191 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
5 187 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 186 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 170 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 142 (1.42%) IoT
9 123 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
10 118 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 115 (1.15%) Blockchain
12 113 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
13 96 (0.96%) Management Information System
14 78 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
15 74 (0.74%) Cloud Native
16 71 (0.71%) Client/Server
17 68 (0.68%) Social Media
18 58 (0.58%) Onboarding
19 56 (0.56%) Low-Code
20 52 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 572 (5.72%) Linux
2 391 (3.91%) Windows
3 333 (3.33%) Android
4 272 (2.72%) Apple iOS
5 117 (1.17%) Unix
6 35 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 21 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.20%) VMS
10 14 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.060%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.050%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.040%) AIX
15 4 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.020%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,961 (29.62%) Agile
2 2,527 (25.28%) Full Stack Development
3 1,580 (15.81%) MVC
4 1,373 (13.74%) DevOps
5 1,356 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1,222 (12.23%) Microservices
7 1,109 (11.10%) Software Engineering
8 976 (9.76%) Web Development
9 942 (9.42%) TDD
10 855 (8.55%) Scrum
11 786 (7.86%) User Experience
12 758 (7.58%) CI/CD
13 745 (7.45%) Computer Science
14 741 (7.41%) Front End Development
15 633 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence
16 632 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
17 614 (6.14%) Design Patterns
18 602 (6.02%) Mentoring
19 517 (5.17%) Unit Testing
20 505 (5.05%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3,755 (37.57%) C#
2 3,723 (37.25%) JavaScript
3 2,434 (24.35%) SQL
4 1,282 (12.83%) TypeScript
5 1,182 (11.83%) PHP
6 1,121 (11.22%) Java
7 836 (8.36%) Python
8 373 (3.73%) C++
9 300 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 227 (2.27%) C
11 209 (2.09%) PL/SQL
12 188 (1.88%) VB.NET
13 131 (1.31%) VB
14 119 (1.19%) Go
15 108 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 104 (1.04%) PowerShell
17 89 (0.89%) Ruby
18 69 (0.69%) Swift
19 63 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 47 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,199 (12.00%) Degree
2 529 (5.29%) Security Cleared
3 473 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 400 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 112 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 74 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 68 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 62 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (0.43%) PhD
10 41 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 39 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
12 37 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 36 (0.36%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.10%) HND
16 8 (0.080%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.070%) AWS Certified Developer
18 4 (0.040%) CIPD
19 3 (0.030%) ISTQB
19 3 (0.030%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (3.54%) QA
2 90 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 57 (0.57%) GDPR
4 45 (0.45%) WCAG
5 32 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.12%) SLA
8 11 (0.11%) WAI
9 10 (0.10%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.050%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.030%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.030%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.020%) GRC
12 2 (0.020%) HL7
12 2 (0.020%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.010%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.010%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.010%) ITGC
13 1 (0.010%) NIST
System Software
1 796 (7.96%) Docker
2 56 (0.56%) HDFS
3 51 (0.51%) Firmware
4 32 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 27 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.21%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.030%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.020%) Varnish
11 2 (0.020%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.010%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 483 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 220 (2.20%) Terraform
3 73 (0.73%) Ansible
4 18 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.10%) Rancher
6 8 (0.080%) MIIS
7 7 (0.070%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.050%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (0.050%) Puppet
9 4 (0.040%) cPanel
9 4 (0.040%) Grafana
9 4 (0.040%) WSUS
10 3 (0.030%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.010%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.010%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.010%) Istio
11 1 (0.010%) Kiali
11 1 (0.010%) Oozie
11 1 (0.010%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,918 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 355 (3.55%) Oracle
3 242 (2.42%) Google
4 159 (1.59%) IBM
5 117 (1.17%) Facebook
6 115 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 106 (1.06%) Xamarin
8 84 (0.84%) Adobe
9 82 (0.82%) Databricks
10 81 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 68 (0.68%) ServiceNow
12 65 (0.65%) Informatica
13 58 (0.58%) SAP
14 57 (0.57%) Sitecore
15 56 (0.56%) Apple
15 56 (0.56%) Cloudera
16 47 (0.47%) WooCommerce
17 37 (0.37%) Optimizely
18 35 (0.35%) Progress
18 35 (0.35%) WSO2