Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 12 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 4,168 10,717 15,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.01% 16.18% 23.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.57% 16.96% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,394 7,834 11,746
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

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 30,710 63,198 62,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 95.40% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 21,320 37,844 43,526
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,362
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 -2 1,141 £52,500 -4.55% 717
South East -5 1,030 £57,000 -0.87% 643
Midlands +3 684 £52,500 -1.41% 309
North West -2 644 £52,500 -4.55% 427
South West -9 574 £55,000 +4.76% 261
Yorkshire 0 444 £52,500 - 224
West Midlands +2 398 £52,500 -4.55% 205
Scotland -15 315 £55,000 - 128
East Midlands +1 288 £55,000 +10.00% 104
East of England -3 203 £60,000 +9.09% 221
Wales -12 142 £51,104 +5.92% 86
Northern Ireland +2 101 £50,000 -4.76% 46
North East -4 53 £50,000 -4.43% 78
Channel Islands +5 1 £65,000 -35.00%
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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 1,770 (42.47%) JavaScript
2 1,506 (36.13%) C#
3 1,484 (35.60%) .NET
4 1,478 (35.46%) Agile
5 1,421 (34.09%) SQL
6 1,236 (29.65%) HTML
7 1,198 (28.74%) Azure
8 1,183 (28.38%) CSS
9 968 (23.22%) React
10 820 (19.67%) DevOps
11 818 (19.63%) AWS
12 809 (19.41%) Social Skills
13 784 (18.81%) SQL Server
14 772 (18.52%) Full Stack Development
15 747 (17.92%) AngularJS
16 727 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
17 719 (17.25%) Git
18 705 (16.91%) Java
19 667 (16.00%) Microsoft
20 646 (15.50%) Degree
21 577 (13.84%) TypeScript
22 530 (12.72%) MVC
23 508 (12.19%) Finance
24 492 (11.80%) Front End Development
25 483 (11.59%) .NET Core
26 482 (11.56%) Docker
27 458 (10.99%) CI/CD
28 453 (10.87%) Software Engineering
29 451 (10.82%) PHP
30 432 (10.36%) Node.js

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
1 123 (2.95%) CMS
2 80 (1.92%) Confluence
3 72 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.73%) WordPress
4 69 (1.66%) Umbraco
5 35 (0.84%) IIS
6 30 (0.72%) JBoss
6 30 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
7 25 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 19 (0.46%) Apache
9 13 (0.31%) Drupal
9 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.24%) Kentico
12 7 (0.17%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.17%) OpenEdge
12 7 (0.17%) SAS
13 6 (0.14%) NServiceBus
13 6 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 12 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 11 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.19%) InfoPath
7 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.096%) LibreOffice
8 4 (0.096%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
9 3 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.048%) Blender
11 1 (0.024%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.024%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.024%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 112 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.82%) Magento
3 24 (0.58%) Shopify
4 16 (0.38%) Maximo
5 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
6 14 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
7 13 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.14%) Exstream
9 6 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 6 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 5 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.12%) ProductWriter
10 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.096%) Front Arena
11 4 (0.096%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
12 3 (0.072%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,198 (28.74%) Azure
2 818 (19.63%) AWS
3 398 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 349 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
5 262 (6.29%) SaaS
6 193 (4.63%) Serverless
7 144 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 131 (3.14%) GCP
9 109 (2.62%) GitHub
10 84 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 62 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
14 53 (1.27%) Azure Functions
14 53 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 50 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
16 46 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 43 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
18 40 (0.96%) Amazon S3
18 40 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 36 (0.86%) Internet
2 24 (0.58%) HTTP
2 24 (0.58%) LAN
2 24 (0.58%) WAN
3 16 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.31%) Wireless
5 11 (0.26%) DNS
6 9 (0.22%) Intranet
7 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
8 6 (0.14%) PPP
8 6 (0.14%) SSH
9 5 (0.12%) MQTT
10 4 (0.096%) FTP
10 4 (0.096%) Network Security
10 4 (0.096%) SSL
11 3 (0.072%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.072%) VPN
12 2 (0.048%) Broadband
12 2 (0.048%) SNMP
12 2 (0.048%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 784 (18.81%) SQL Server
2 360 (8.64%) MySQL
3 320 (7.68%) Power BI
4 268 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 184 (4.41%) Relational Database
7 136 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 132 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
9 128 (3.07%) MongoDB
9 128 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 96 (2.30%) Oracle Database
11 64 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 60 (1.44%) Tableau
13 58 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (1.13%) Oracle Database 11g
14 47 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 46 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (1.10%) Power Query
15 46 (1.10%) Redis
16 36 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 719 (17.25%) Git
2 181 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 167 (4.01%) JIRA
4 138 (3.31%) Visual Studio
5 101 (2.42%) Maven
6 73 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 63 (1.51%) Selenium
8 61 (1.46%) IntelliJ
9 59 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 40 (0.96%) NUnit
11 38 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 38 (0.91%) GitLab
11 38 (0.91%) JUnit
12 34 (0.82%) Subversion
13 32 (0.77%) Postman
14 27 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
14 27 (0.65%) Visual Studio Team System
15 24 (0.58%) TeamCity
16 22 (0.53%) Cucumber
16 22 (0.53%) gulp
General
1 809 (19.41%) Social Skills
2 508 (12.19%) Finance
3 256 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 167 (4.01%) Public Sector
6 152 (3.65%) Retail
7 133 (3.19%) Law
8 109 (2.62%) Marketing
9 108 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 90 (2.16%) Banking
11 78 (1.87%) Games
12 69 (1.66%) Legal
13 59 (1.42%) Tech for Good
14 53 (1.27%) Electronics
15 48 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 40 (0.96%) Automotive
17 32 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
19 21 (0.50%) Local Government
20 20 (0.48%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,484 (35.60%) .NET
2 1,236 (29.65%) HTML
3 1,183 (28.38%) CSS
4 968 (23.22%) React
5 747 (17.92%) AngularJS
6 483 (11.59%) .NET Core
7 432 (10.36%) Node.js
8 427 (10.24%) ASP.NET
9 372 (8.93%) REST
10 348 (8.35%) .NET Framework
11 325 (7.80%) Vue
12 323 (7.75%) HTML5
13 308 (7.39%) RESTful
14 302 (7.25%) Web Services
15 275 (6.60%) jQuery
16 270 (6.48%) XML
17 268 (6.43%) Spring
18 240 (5.76%) Laravel
19 212 (5.09%) JSON
20 196 (4.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 186 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
2 130 (3.12%) Product Ownership
3 125 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 109 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 68 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 57 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 51 (1.22%) IoT
11 39 (0.94%) Low-Code
12 33 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 33 (0.79%) NHS
13 29 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (0.70%) Private Cloud
13 29 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
14 26 (0.62%) Virtual Reality
15 21 (0.50%) Onboarding
16 19 (0.46%) Management Information System
17 18 (0.43%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 215 (5.16%) Linux
2 117 (2.81%) Android
3 113 (2.71%) Windows
4 71 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 38 (0.91%) Unix
7 10 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.096%) QNX Neutrino
10 2 (0.048%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.024%) MVS
11 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,478 (35.46%) Agile
2 820 (19.67%) DevOps
3 772 (18.52%) Full Stack Development
4 727 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 530 (12.72%) MVC
6 492 (11.80%) Front End Development
7 458 (10.99%) CI/CD
8 453 (10.87%) Software Engineering
9 421 (10.10%) Scrum
10 408 (9.79%) Microservices
11 401 (9.62%) Web Development
12 394 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
13 380 (9.12%) Unit Testing
14 372 (8.93%) Mentoring
14 372 (8.93%) TDD
15 369 (8.85%) Computer Science
16 330 (7.92%) User Experience
17 311 (7.46%) Actionable Insight
18 286 (6.86%) Design Patterns
19 274 (6.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,770 (42.47%) JavaScript
2 1,506 (36.13%) C#
3 1,421 (34.09%) SQL
4 705 (16.91%) Java
5 577 (13.84%) TypeScript
6 451 (10.82%) PHP
7 426 (10.22%) Python
8 239 (5.73%) T-SQL
9 166 (3.98%) C++
10 120 (2.88%) PL/SQL
11 90 (2.16%) VB.NET
12 71 (1.70%) Ruby
13 67 (1.61%) Bash
14 61 (1.46%) PowerShell
15 60 (1.44%) C
16 53 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 51 (1.22%) VB
18 49 (1.18%) Go
19 46 (1.10%) Kotlin
20 24 (0.58%) JSX
Qualifications
1 646 (15.50%) Degree
2 343 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 277 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 243 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 15 (0.36%) PhD
11 12 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
13 6 (0.14%) MCPD
13 6 (0.14%) MCSA
14 5 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.12%) OCP
14 5 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.096%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (3.24%) QA
2 46 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.67%) WCAG
4 22 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 12 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.24%) GDPR
8 7 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
9 5 (0.12%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.072%) GRC
10 3 (0.072%) NCSC
10 3 (0.072%) PMO
10 3 (0.072%) WAI
11 2 (0.048%) MISRA
12 1 (0.024%) HL7
12 1 (0.024%) SLA
System Software
1 482 (11.56%) Docker
2 26 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.24%) Firmware
4 5 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.12%) FreeRADIUS
4 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.048%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.048%) Postfix
6 2 (0.048%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.048%) vSphere
7 1 (0.024%) HDFS
7 1 (0.024%) Varnish
7 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 342 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 91 (2.18%) Terraform
3 46 (1.10%) Ansible
4 9 (0.22%) Grafana
5 8 (0.19%) SCCM
6 6 (0.14%) MIIS
6 6 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.14%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.096%) Packer
8 2 (0.048%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (0.048%) cPanel
8 2 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.024%) Control-M
9 1 (0.024%) FlexNet
9 1 (0.024%) Istio
9 1 (0.024%) Plesk
9 1 (0.024%) Puppet
Vendors
1 667 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 238 (5.71%) Oracle
3 67 (1.61%) Google
4 65 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 53 (1.27%) Xamarin
6 50 (1.20%) SAP
7 26 (0.62%) Adobe
8 25 (0.60%) ServiceNow
9 24 (0.58%) IBM
10 18 (0.43%) Sitecore
11 14 (0.34%) Rollbar
11 14 (0.34%) Siebel
12 13 (0.31%) Databricks
12 13 (0.31%) WSO2
12 13 (0.31%) Zoho
13 10 (0.24%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.22%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.22%) Apple
14 9 (0.22%) Unisys
15 8 (0.19%) Telerik