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 leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 8 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 8,846 6,638 14,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.55% 13.79% 18.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.28% 15.38% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 5,090 10,147
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +7 2,552 £55,000 - 295
South East -2 2,038 £58,500 -2.50% 267
Midlands +4 1,547 £50,000 -9.09% 182
North West +9 1,491 £55,000 - 161
South West +2 1,102 £52,500 -4.55% 115
West Midlands +8 972 £50,000 -9.09% 111
Yorkshire +7 808 £52,500 - 98
East of England +16 588 £50,000 -9.09% 107
East Midlands +5 567 £47,500 -17.39% 71
Scotland -15 544 £55,000 - 58
Wales +15 344 £50,000 +8.70% 16
North East +12 253 £55,000 +4.76% 40
Northern Ireland 0 128 £55,000 +10.00% 59
Channel Islands - 6 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 2,964 (33.51%) .NET
2 2,935 (33.18%) C#
3 2,800 (31.65%) JavaScript
4 2,182 (24.67%) Azure
5 2,103 (23.77%) Agile
6 1,941 (21.94%) Full Stack Development
7 1,849 (20.90%) SQL
8 1,821 (20.59%) HTML
9 1,681 (19.00%) CSS
10 1,532 (17.32%) React
11 1,313 (14.84%) Social Skills
12 1,218 (13.77%) SQL Server
13 1,189 (13.44%) AngularJS
14 1,171 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
15 1,163 (13.15%) AWS
16 1,119 (12.65%) DevOps
17 1,107 (12.51%) Microsoft
18 985 (11.13%) ASP.NET
19 943 (10.66%) PHP
19 943 (10.66%) Git
20 938 (10.60%) TypeScript
21 924 (10.45%) Software Engineering
22 912 (10.31%) Degree
23 893 (10.09%) MVC
24 873 (9.87%) Web Development
25 835 (9.44%) Java
26 796 (9.00%) .NET Core
27 771 (8.72%) Microservices
28 768 (8.68%) Vue
29 751 (8.49%) .NET Framework

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
1 234 (2.65%) CMS
2 209 (2.36%) WordPress
3 152 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 111 (1.25%) Umbraco
5 109 (1.23%) IIS
6 58 (0.66%) Apache
7 53 (0.60%) Confluence
8 43 (0.49%) Headless CMS
9 37 (0.42%) nginx
10 35 (0.40%) Apache Spark
11 34 (0.38%) Drupal
12 33 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
13 31 (0.35%) OpenEdge
13 31 (0.35%) SAS
14 30 (0.34%) Kentico
15 28 (0.32%) Appian
16 21 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
17 15 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 15 (0.17%) Totara
18 13 (0.15%) Moodle
Applications
1 78 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (0.38%) Simulink
4 21 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 20 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 17 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.079%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.068%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.045%) Sketch
10 4 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.034%) InDesign
11 3 (0.034%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.034%) Trello
12 2 (0.023%) Stateflow
13 1 (0.011%) CPLEX
13 1 (0.011%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.011%) Maya
Business Applications
1 129 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.96%) Magento
3 62 (0.70%) Shopify
4 36 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
5 23 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 21 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 16 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 15 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.12%) NEC Housing
10 10 (0.11%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.11%) Sage X3
11 9 (0.10%) Visualfiles
12 7 (0.079%) BPCS
13 6 (0.068%) Sage 50
14 5 (0.057%) Odoo
14 5 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
15 4 (0.045%) IBM Planning Analytics
15 4 (0.045%) SAP ERP
15 4 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
15 4 (0.045%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 2,182 (24.67%) Azure
2 1,163 (13.15%) AWS
3 576 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
4 565 (6.39%) Power Platform
5 418 (4.73%) SaaS
6 350 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
7 326 (3.69%) Serverless
8 271 (3.06%) GitHub
9 226 (2.55%) Power Automate
10 224 (2.53%) PowerApps
11 183 (2.07%) Azure Functions
12 167 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 155 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 141 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
15 128 (1.45%) GCP
16 120 (1.36%) Azure API Management
17 115 (1.30%) IBM Cloud
18 81 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
19 55 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
20 53 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 90 (1.02%) Internet
2 45 (0.51%) DNS
3 41 (0.46%) HTTP
4 39 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 34 (0.38%) Firewall
6 29 (0.33%) Intranet
7 27 (0.31%) SSL
7 27 (0.31%) Wireless
8 20 (0.23%) Network Security
9 15 (0.17%) MQTT
10 14 (0.16%) VPN
11 13 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.14%) 5G
13 9 (0.10%) WAN
14 8 (0.090%) Broadband
14 8 (0.090%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.090%) SMTP
15 6 (0.068%) Bluetooth
16 5 (0.057%) Ethernet
16 5 (0.057%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,218 (13.77%) SQL Server
2 625 (7.07%) MySQL
3 396 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 369 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 345 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 342 (3.87%) Power BI
7 293 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 122 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 118 (1.33%) DB2
10 112 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 97 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
12 96 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 82 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 69 (0.78%) Oracle Database
15 68 (0.77%) Power Query
16 64 (0.72%) Redis
17 63 (0.71%) DynamoDB
18 39 (0.44%) Data Lake
19 37 (0.42%) MS Access
20 36 (0.41%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 943 (10.66%) Git
2 272 (3.07%) Visual Studio
3 187 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 175 (1.98%) JIRA
5 95 (1.07%) GitLab
6 94 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 72 (0.81%) Selenium
8 63 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 54 (0.61%) webpack
10 52 (0.59%) Jasmine
11 50 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 47 (0.53%) NUnit
13 44 (0.50%) JUnit
14 43 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
15 38 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
16 35 (0.40%) TeamCity
17 33 (0.37%) gulp
17 33 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
18 30 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
19 29 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,313 (14.84%) Social Skills
2 730 (8.25%) Finance
3 364 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (3.72%) Marketing
5 324 (3.66%) Law
6 309 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 264 (2.98%) Retail
8 232 (2.62%) Games
9 204 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 193 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 156 (1.76%) Legal
12 104 (1.18%) Tech for Good
13 83 (0.94%) Banking
14 79 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 76 (0.86%) Automotive
16 71 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 68 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
19 63 (0.71%) Advertising
20 55 (0.62%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,964 (33.51%) .NET
2 1,821 (20.59%) HTML
3 1,681 (19.00%) CSS
4 1,532 (17.32%) React
5 1,189 (13.44%) AngularJS
6 985 (11.13%) ASP.NET
7 796 (9.00%) .NET Core
8 768 (8.68%) Vue
9 751 (8.49%) .NET Framework
10 631 (7.13%) Node.js
11 612 (6.92%) ASP.NET Web API
12 603 (6.82%) REST
13 528 (5.97%) RESTful
14 512 (5.79%) Laravel
15 500 (5.65%) HTML5
16 496 (5.61%) Entity Framework
16 496 (5.61%) Web Services
17 460 (5.20%) jQuery
18 341 (3.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 338 (3.82%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 315 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
2 313 (3.54%) Mobile App
3 267 (3.02%) Algorithms
4 169 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 154 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 148 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 139 (1.57%) Blockchain
8 129 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 115 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 110 (1.24%) IoT
11 104 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 65 (0.73%) NHS
13 64 (0.72%) Social Media
13 64 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
14 59 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
15 58 (0.66%) e-Learning
16 55 (0.62%) Cloud Native
17 53 (0.60%) Onboarding
18 46 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
18 46 (0.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 504 (5.70%) Linux
2 356 (4.02%) Windows
3 319 (3.61%) Android
4 265 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 72 (0.81%) Unix
6 44 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 23 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 20 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
9 15 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.14%) VMS
11 10 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.045%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.023%) Windows Mobile
14 2 (0.023%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.011%) CentOS
15 1 (0.011%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,103 (23.77%) Agile
2 1,941 (21.94%) Full Stack Development
3 1,171 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
4 1,119 (12.65%) DevOps
5 924 (10.45%) Software Engineering
6 893 (10.09%) MVC
7 873 (9.87%) Web Development
8 771 (8.72%) Microservices
9 673 (7.61%) Computer Science
10 645 (7.29%) CI/CD
11 597 (6.75%) User Experience
12 589 (6.66%) TDD
13 532 (6.01%) Front End Development
14 526 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence
15 502 (5.67%) Scrum
16 486 (5.49%) Mentoring
17 454 (5.13%) Design Patterns
18 436 (4.93%) E-Commerce
19 416 (4.70%) Business Intelligence
19 416 (4.70%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2,935 (33.18%) C#
2 2,800 (31.65%) JavaScript
3 1,849 (20.90%) SQL
4 943 (10.66%) PHP
5 938 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 835 (9.44%) Java
7 711 (8.04%) Python
8 333 (3.76%) C++
9 222 (2.51%) T-SQL
10 212 (2.40%) C
11 163 (1.84%) VB.NET
12 128 (1.45%) Go
13 127 (1.44%) PL/SQL
14 94 (1.06%) VB
15 90 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 78 (0.88%) Ruby
17 77 (0.87%) PowerShell
18 72 (0.81%) Swift
19 54 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 35 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 912 (10.31%) Degree
2 432 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 415 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 270 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 71 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 68 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 44 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 41 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (0.33%) PhD
11 18 (0.20%) AWS Certification
12 15 (0.17%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
14 10 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (0.079%) CIPD
16 6 (0.068%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.068%) HND
17 5 (0.057%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 4 (0.045%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (2.84%) QA
2 89 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 54 (0.61%) GDPR
4 39 (0.44%) WCAG
5 36 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.090%) SLA
9 4 (0.045%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.034%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.034%) GRC
11 2 (0.023%) MISRA
11 2 (0.023%) MISRA C
11 2 (0.023%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.023%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.011%) ITGC
12 1 (0.011%) NIST
System Software
1 598 (6.76%) Docker
2 38 (0.43%) Firmware
3 30 (0.34%) HDFS
4 26 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 20 (0.23%) Active Directory
6 6 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.057%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.011%) GlusterFS
8 1 (0.011%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 367 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 153 (1.73%) Terraform
3 44 (0.50%) Ansible
4 21 (0.24%) Kibana
5 10 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.10%) MIIS
7 8 (0.090%) Rancher
8 7 (0.079%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.079%) SCOM
9 4 (0.045%) Grafana
9 4 (0.045%) HP Quality Center
9 4 (0.045%) WSUS
10 3 (0.034%) Galera Cluster
11 2 (0.023%) Plesk
12 1 (0.011%) cPanel
12 1 (0.011%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.011%) logstash
12 1 (0.011%) Nagios
12 1 (0.011%) Puppet
12 1 (0.011%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1,107 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 308 (3.48%) Oracle
3 149 (1.68%) IBM
4 141 (1.59%) Google
5 118 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 101 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 94 (1.06%) Xamarin
8 72 (0.81%) Adobe
9 57 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 46 (0.52%) SAP
11 45 (0.51%) Facebook
12 44 (0.50%) Databricks
13 41 (0.46%) Sitecore
14 40 (0.45%) Xilinx
15 38 (0.43%) Informatica
16 36 (0.41%) Siebel
17 35 (0.40%) WooCommerce
18 34 (0.38%) Optimizely
19 30 (0.34%) Cloudera
20 27 (0.31%) Apple