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 2 June 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,882 10,909 7,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.24% 14.36% 14.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.03% 15.12% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,981 9,240 5,782
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,173 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.75% -15.12% +8.33%

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 35,880 72,172 50,269
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 95.00% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 18,173 50,788 29,439
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -6.54% +6.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 2 June 2025.

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 2 June 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
North of England -24 965 £55,000 +5.60% 4,793
North West -21 733 £55,000 +4.76% 2,320
South East -20 707 £55,000 -4.35% 5,220
Midlands -22 455 £55,000 +10.00% 4,070
West Midlands -19 306 £55,000 +10.00% 2,210
South West -13 301 £57,500 +15.00% 2,467
East of England -42 220 £54,000 +8.00% 3,127
Yorkshire -31 181 £60,000 +20.00% 1,886
Scotland -14 169 £55,000 +1.85% 906
East Midlands -44 146 £52,500 +8.25% 1,601
Wales -31 54 £52,500 - 561
North East -20 51 £55,000 +10.00% 601
Northern Ireland -15 17 £64,500 +25.24% 306
Isle of Man +18 5 - - 1
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2025, 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 1,179 (40.91%) Agile
2 887 (30.78%) JavaScript
3 827 (28.70%) C#
4 812 (28.17%) Java
5 785 (27.24%) SQL
6 778 (27.00%) .NET
7 726 (25.19%) Python
8 707 (24.53%) Docker
9 699 (24.25%) Azure
10 694 (24.08%) Finance
11 612 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
12 601 (20.85%) OOP
13 584 (20.26%) OO
13 584 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
14 581 (20.16%) C++
15 571 (19.81%) Linux
16 564 (19.57%) Security Cleared
17 544 (18.88%) HTML
18 533 (18.49%) Design Patterns
19 523 (18.15%) Social Skills
20 514 (17.83%) AWS
21 504 (17.49%) SQL Server
22 501 (17.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 493 (17.11%) React
24 477 (16.55%) Android
25 465 (16.13%) Line Management
26 460 (15.96%) CSS
27 458 (15.89%) Mathematics
28 456 (15.82%) Android Development
29 450 (15.61%) Go

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 98 (3.40%) CMS
2 88 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.94%) WordPress
4 47 (1.63%) Confluence
5 42 (1.46%) Umbraco
6 33 (1.15%) OpenEdge
7 29 (1.01%) IIS
8 20 (0.69%) Headless CMS
9 18 (0.62%) JBoss
10 14 (0.49%) Apache
10 14 (0.49%) Appian
11 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
12 9 (0.31%) Apache Spark
13 7 (0.24%) Drupal
14 6 (0.21%) nginx
14 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
15 5 (0.17%) Strapi
16 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 63 (2.19%) Chatbot
2 42 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.35%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.24%) Revit
7 6 (0.21%) Trello
8 3 (0.10%) Elementor
8 3 (0.10%) Sketch
9 2 (0.069%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.069%) Final Cut Pro
9 2 (0.069%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.035%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.035%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 80 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.01%) Shopify
3 28 (0.97%) Magento
4 23 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 20 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
6 15 (0.52%) Sage 200
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.45%) Sage 50
8 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite
9 6 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 4 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (0.10%) Sage 1000
12 2 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
12 2 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.069%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 699 (24.25%) Azure
2 514 (17.83%) AWS
3 303 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 172 (5.97%) Serverless
5 136 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
6 131 (4.55%) SaaS
7 122 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (4.16%) Power Automate
9 113 (3.92%) PowerApps
10 109 (3.78%) GitHub
11 79 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (2.71%) GCP
13 70 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (1.60%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
15 45 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 44 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
19 31 (1.08%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 393 (13.64%) DNS
2 391 (13.57%) VPN
3 26 (0.90%) Broadband
4 24 (0.83%) Intranet
5 19 (0.66%) Internet
6 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.52%) Network Security
8 12 (0.42%) HTTP
9 9 (0.31%) MQTT
10 8 (0.28%) 5G
10 8 (0.28%) Modbus
11 4 (0.14%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.14%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.10%) SMS
12 3 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.069%) RTP
13 2 (0.069%) Wireless
14 1 (0.035%) Ethernet
14 1 (0.035%) SMTP
14 1 (0.035%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 258 (8.95%) MySQL
3 201 (6.97%) Power BI
4 162 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
5 114 (3.96%) NoSQL
6 101 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 94 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 80 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 78 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 67 (2.32%) DynamoDB
11 56 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 37 (1.28%) Redis
13 34 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.18%) RDBMS
14 30 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
15 26 (0.90%) OLTP
16 23 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 22 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.69%) Data Mining
18 20 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 363 (12.60%) Git
2 97 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 91 (3.16%) Visual Studio
4 89 (3.09%) JIRA
5 73 (2.53%) JUnit
6 46 (1.60%) Mockito
7 43 (1.49%) webpack
8 31 (1.08%) GitLab
8 31 (1.08%) Jasmine
9 25 (0.87%) Maven
10 24 (0.83%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.73%) NUnit
11 21 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 20 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
13 18 (0.62%) Eclipse
13 18 (0.62%) IntelliJ
14 17 (0.59%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.59%) gulp
14 17 (0.59%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.56%) Protractor
General
1 694 (24.08%) Finance
2 612 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
3 523 (18.15%) Social Skills
4 501 (17.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (4.65%) Law
6 116 (4.02%) Retail
7 88 (3.05%) Public Sector
8 78 (2.71%) Games
9 73 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 65 (2.26%) Marketing
11 50 (1.73%) Banking
12 35 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (0.97%) Automotive
14 27 (0.94%) Tech for Good
15 26 (0.90%) Advertising
16 22 (0.76%) Electronics
17 21 (0.73%) Police
18 19 (0.66%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.66%) Back Office
18 19 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 778 (27.00%) .NET
2 544 (18.88%) HTML
3 493 (17.11%) React
4 460 (15.96%) CSS
5 254 (8.81%) Node.js
6 240 (8.33%) ASP.NET
7 221 (7.67%) AngularJS
8 219 (7.60%) .NET Core
8 219 (7.60%) REST
9 216 (7.49%) RESTful
10 183 (6.35%) .NET Framework
11 142 (4.93%) Web Services
12 138 (4.79%) Vue
13 135 (4.68%) jQuery
14 130 (4.51%) HTML5
15 118 (4.09%) Spring
16 112 (3.89%) Spring Boot
17 104 (3.61%) XML
18 97 (3.37%) Laravel
19 95 (3.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 427 (14.82%) Cyberattack
2 124 (4.30%) Mobile App
3 76 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
4 70 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 59 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 52 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 49 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 48 (1.67%) Algorithms
11 42 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.08%) IoT
13 29 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (0.97%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.69%) NHS
16 19 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.62%) e-Learning
17 18 (0.62%) Legacy Code
18 16 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
19 13 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 571 (19.81%) Linux
2 477 (16.55%) Android
3 75 (2.60%) Windows
4 49 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.94%) Unix
6 7 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.17%) Rocky
8 3 (0.10%) Debian
9 2 (0.069%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.069%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,179 (40.91%) Agile
2 601 (20.85%) OOP
3 584 (20.26%) OO
3 584 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
4 533 (18.49%) Design Patterns
5 465 (16.13%) Line Management
6 458 (15.89%) Mathematics
7 456 (15.82%) Android Development
8 420 (14.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 404 (14.02%) CI/CD
10 356 (12.35%) DevOps
11 300 (10.41%) Microservices
12 284 (9.85%) Software Engineering
13 244 (8.47%) User Experience
14 234 (8.12%) Front End Development
15 228 (7.91%) Web Development
16 222 (7.70%) MVC
17 212 (7.36%) TDD
18 211 (7.32%) Computer Science
19 206 (7.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 887 (30.78%) JavaScript
2 827 (28.70%) C#
3 812 (28.17%) Java
4 785 (27.24%) SQL
5 726 (25.19%) Python
6 581 (20.16%) C++
7 450 (15.61%) Go
8 344 (11.94%) TypeScript
9 288 (9.99%) PHP
10 112 (3.89%) T-SQL
11 61 (2.12%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.73%) VB.NET
13 46 (1.60%) Rust
14 42 (1.46%) C
15 27 (0.94%) Apex Code
15 27 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 25 (0.87%) VBA
17 23 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.80%) Swift
18 19 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 564 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 442 (15.34%) DV Cleared
3 386 (13.39%) Degree
4 162 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 113 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 68 (2.36%) DBS Check
7 23 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 22 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (0.62%) PhD
11 8 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.24%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.21%) ACCA
14 4 (0.14%) CIMA
15 2 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.069%) MOS
15 2 (0.069%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.035%) CCA
16 1 (0.035%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.89%) QA
2 86 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.04%) SLA
4 28 (0.97%) GDPR
5 27 (0.94%) WCAG
6 20 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.035%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.035%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.035%) GRC
9 1 (0.035%) HL7
9 1 (0.035%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.035%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.035%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.035%) PMO
9 1 (0.035%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 707 (24.53%) Docker
2 13 (0.45%) Firmware
3 5 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.14%) Postfix
5 3 (0.10%) HDFS
5 3 (0.10%) LXC
6 2 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 446 (15.48%) Ansible
2 214 (7.43%) Kubernetes
3 91 (3.16%) Terraform
4 14 (0.49%) Grafana
4 14 (0.49%) Kibana
5 12 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.035%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 441 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 133 (4.61%) Oracle
3 55 (1.91%) PayPal
4 47 (1.63%) IBM
5 46 (1.60%) SAP
6 41 (1.42%) Google
7 38 (1.32%) Adobe
8 37 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 36 (1.25%) Progress
10 27 (0.94%) Splunk
11 23 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 21 (0.73%) Sage
13 20 (0.69%) Facebook
14 19 (0.66%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.62%) ServiceNow
16 17 (0.59%) HP
17 15 (0.52%) Dynatrace
17 15 (0.52%) WooCommerce
18 14 (0.49%) Databricks
18 14 (0.49%) UiPath