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 22 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,821 11,942 7,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.02% 14.60% 13.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.87% 15.38% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,929 10,013 5,585
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +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 35,829 77,657 48,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 94.92% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 54,301 28,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
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 22 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 22 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 -25 952 £56,500 +7.62% 1,651
North West -20 717 £55,000 +4.76% 980
South East -20 674 £55,000 -4.35% 2,780
Midlands -25 449 £55,000 +10.00% 910
West Midlands -17 306 £55,000 +10.00% 494
South West -14 294 £55,000 +10.00% 699
East of England -39 225 £55,000 +10.00% 654
Yorkshire -38 182 £60,000 +20.00% 504
Scotland -23 174 £55,000 +1.85% 490
East Midlands -46 140 £52,500 +5.00% 400
North East -20 53 £55,000 +4.76% 173
Wales -36 45 £60,000 +14.29% 189
Northern Ireland -18 18 £69,000 +25.45% 129
Isle of Man +18 5 - - 2
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 1,145 (40.59%) Agile
2 823 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 805 (28.54%) Java
4 787 (27.90%) C#
5 782 (27.72%) SQL
6 744 (26.37%) .NET
7 709 (25.13%) Python
8 704 (24.96%) Finance
9 681 (24.14%) Docker
10 674 (23.89%) Azure
11 611 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
12 587 (20.81%) C++
13 582 (20.63%) OOP
14 577 (20.45%) Security Cleared
15 561 (19.89%) OO
16 558 (19.78%) Linux
17 545 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
18 533 (18.89%) Design Patterns
19 506 (17.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 505 (17.90%) AWS
21 500 (17.72%) HTML
22 498 (17.65%) Social Skills
23 482 (17.09%) Android
24 469 (16.63%) SQL Server
25 461 (16.34%) Line Management
25 461 (16.34%) Android Development
26 460 (16.31%) Mathematics
27 445 (15.77%) Go
28 444 (15.74%) Ansible
28 444 (15.74%) React

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 82 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 80 (2.84%) CMS
3 53 (1.88%) Confluence
4 47 (1.67%) WordPress
5 36 (1.28%) Umbraco
6 29 (1.03%) IIS
7 28 (0.99%) OpenEdge
8 18 (0.64%) JBoss
9 17 (0.60%) Headless CMS
10 14 (0.50%) Apache
10 14 (0.50%) Appian
11 13 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
12 12 (0.43%) Apache Spark
13 8 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.25%) Drupal
15 6 (0.21%) nginx
16 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
17 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
17 4 (0.14%) Strapi
18 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 58 (2.06%) Chatbot
2 41 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.21%) Revit
9 5 (0.18%) Trello
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.11%) Elementor
11 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.071%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.071%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.035%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.035%) Moqups
13 1 (0.035%) MS Visio
13 1 (0.035%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 89 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.78%) Magento
2 22 (0.78%) Shopify
3 21 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 16 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.43%) Sage 200
7 10 (0.35%) Sage 50
7 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
8 9 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 4 (0.14%) Sage 1000
10 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.071%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 674 (23.89%) Azure
2 505 (17.90%) AWS
3 307 (10.88%) Power Platform
4 165 (5.85%) Serverless
5 137 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
6 122 (4.32%) SaaS
7 114 (4.04%) Power Automate
7 114 (4.04%) PowerApps
8 112 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (3.30%) GitHub
10 78 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 75 (2.66%) GCP
12 72 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
13 47 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
14 46 (1.63%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
15 45 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 392 (13.90%) DNS
2 391 (13.86%) VPN
3 26 (0.92%) Broadband
4 20 (0.71%) Intranet
5 15 (0.53%) HTTP
5 15 (0.53%) Internet
5 15 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.43%) Network Security
7 8 (0.28%) Modbus
7 8 (0.28%) MQTT
8 6 (0.21%) 5G
8 6 (0.21%) WPA
9 3 (0.11%) SMS
9 3 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.071%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.071%) RTP
10 2 (0.071%) Wireless
11 1 (0.035%) RS-232
11 1 (0.035%) RS-422
11 1 (0.035%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (16.63%) SQL Server
2 238 (8.44%) MySQL
3 206 (7.30%) Power BI
4 163 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 101 (3.58%) Relational Database
7 98 (3.47%) MongoDB
8 81 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
9 77 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 68 (2.41%) DynamoDB
11 54 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 37 (1.31%) RDBMS
12 37 (1.31%) Redis
13 35 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
15 26 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
15 26 (0.92%) OLTP
16 25 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (0.74%) Data Mining
18 20 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 326 (11.56%) Git
2 93 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 92 (3.26%) JIRA
4 79 (2.80%) Visual Studio
5 76 (2.69%) JUnit
6 48 (1.70%) Mockito
7 35 (1.24%) Maven
8 30 (1.06%) webpack
9 28 (0.99%) GitLab
10 27 (0.96%) Jasmine
11 21 (0.74%) NUnit
12 20 (0.71%) JMeter
12 20 (0.71%) TeamCity
13 19 (0.67%) SonarQube
14 18 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 16 (0.57%) Bitbucket
15 16 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
16 14 (0.50%) gulp
16 14 (0.50%) MagicDraw
16 14 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 704 (24.96%) Finance
2 611 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
3 506 (17.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 498 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 135 (4.79%) Law
6 114 (4.04%) Retail
7 92 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 77 (2.73%) Games
9 69 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 63 (2.23%) Marketing
11 50 (1.77%) Banking
12 28 (0.99%) Automotive
12 28 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (0.82%) Advertising
14 22 (0.78%) Tech for Good
15 21 (0.74%) Legal
16 20 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 20 (0.71%) Back Office
16 20 (0.71%) Police
17 19 (0.67%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 744 (26.37%) .NET
2 500 (17.72%) HTML
3 444 (15.74%) React
4 415 (14.71%) CSS
5 234 (8.29%) Node.js
6 231 (8.19%) ASP.NET
7 220 (7.80%) REST
8 214 (7.59%) RESTful
9 212 (7.52%) AngularJS
10 201 (7.13%) .NET Core
11 169 (5.99%) .NET Framework
12 141 (5.00%) Web Services
13 132 (4.68%) jQuery
14 131 (4.64%) Spring
15 127 (4.50%) Vue
16 125 (4.43%) Spring Boot
17 113 (4.01%) HTML5
18 97 (3.44%) XML
19 95 (3.37%) JSON
20 82 (2.91%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 427 (15.14%) Cyberattack
2 107 (3.79%) Mobile App
3 73 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
4 65 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 63 (2.23%) Data Structures
6 61 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 53 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 43 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 29 (1.03%) IoT
11 29 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 26 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (0.89%) Onboarding
14 23 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 21 (0.74%) e-Learning
16 17 (0.60%) NHS
17 16 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
18 15 (0.53%) Legacy Code
19 14 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 558 (19.78%) Linux
2 482 (17.09%) Android
3 73 (2.59%) Windows
4 52 (1.84%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.96%) Unix
6 5 (0.18%) Rocky
6 5 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.071%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (40.59%) Agile
2 582 (20.63%) OOP
3 561 (19.89%) OO
4 545 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 533 (18.89%) Design Patterns
6 461 (16.34%) Android Development
6 461 (16.34%) Line Management
7 460 (16.31%) Mathematics
8 404 (14.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 390 (13.82%) CI/CD
10 341 (12.09%) DevOps
11 287 (10.17%) Microservices
12 261 (9.25%) Software Engineering
13 226 (8.01%) User Experience
14 221 (7.83%) Front End Development
15 212 (7.52%) Mentoring
16 209 (7.41%) TDD
17 208 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
18 206 (7.30%) MVC
19 204 (7.23%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 823 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 805 (28.54%) Java
3 787 (27.90%) C#
4 782 (27.72%) SQL
5 709 (25.13%) Python
6 587 (20.81%) C++
7 445 (15.77%) Go
8 307 (10.88%) TypeScript
9 258 (9.15%) PHP
10 116 (4.11%) T-SQL
11 65 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 48 (1.70%) Rust
13 47 (1.67%) VB.NET
14 42 (1.49%) C
15 28 (0.99%) Apex Code
16 27 (0.96%) VBA
17 26 (0.92%) PowerShell
18 25 (0.89%) Swift
19 22 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 21 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 577 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 443 (15.70%) DV Cleared
3 339 (12.02%) Degree
4 154 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 124 (4.40%) SC Cleared
6 69 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 23 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 22 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.60%) PhD
11 8 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.25%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.21%) ACCA
14 4 (0.14%) CIMA
15 2 (0.071%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.071%) MOS
15 2 (0.071%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.035%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.035%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (3.83%) QA
2 75 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.96%) SLA
4 26 (0.92%) GDPR
5 22 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 18 (0.64%) WCAG
7 4 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.071%) 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%) PMO
9 1 (0.035%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 681 (24.14%) Docker
2 13 (0.46%) Firmware
3 6 (0.21%) HDFS
4 5 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.14%) Postfix
6 3 (0.11%) LXC
7 2 (0.071%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 444 (15.74%) Ansible
2 202 (7.16%) Kubernetes
3 96 (3.40%) Terraform
4 17 (0.60%) Kibana
5 13 (0.46%) Grafana
6 12 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.035%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 424 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 111 (3.93%) Oracle
3 56 (1.99%) PayPal
4 44 (1.56%) SAP
5 43 (1.52%) IBM
6 41 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 40 (1.42%) Google
8 34 (1.21%) Adobe
8 34 (1.21%) Splunk
9 31 (1.10%) Progress
10 23 (0.82%) Red Hat
11 20 (0.71%) Facebook
12 19 (0.67%) Dynatrace
13 18 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 18 (0.64%) Sage
13 18 (0.64%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.60%) Databricks
15 14 (0.50%) HP
16 12 (0.43%) Rollbar
16 12 (0.43%) WooCommerce