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 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,881 10,768 8,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.26% 14.38% 13.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.05% 15.14% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,978 9,129 5,805
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% +3.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,242 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.61% -15.01% +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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -23 967 £55,000 +5.60% 790
North West -21 737 £55,000 +4.76% 532
South East -20 709 £55,000 -4.35% 422
Midlands -22 453 £55,000 +10.00% 397
West Midlands -18 307 £55,000 +10.00% 261
South West -13 299 £57,500 +15.00% 240
East of England -44 218 £54,000 +8.00% 178
Yorkshire -30 180 £60,000 +20.00% 170
Scotland -14 170 £55,000 +1.85% 133
East Midlands -47 143 £52,500 +6.60% 129
Wales -31 54 £52,500 - 46
North East -19 50 £55,000 +7.32% 94
Northern Ireland -16 17 £64,500 +21.13% 53
Isle of Man +17 5 - - 1
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 1,178 (40.89%) Agile
2 882 (30.61%) JavaScript
3 824 (28.60%) C#
4 813 (28.22%) Java
5 777 (26.97%) SQL
6 776 (26.94%) .NET
7 726 (25.20%) Python
8 707 (24.54%) Docker
9 695 (24.12%) Azure
10 691 (23.98%) Finance
11 613 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
12 601 (20.86%) OOP
13 585 (20.31%) OO
14 582 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
15 581 (20.17%) C++
16 570 (19.78%) Linux
17 567 (19.68%) Security Cleared
18 538 (18.67%) HTML
19 532 (18.47%) Design Patterns
20 525 (18.22%) Social Skills
21 517 (17.95%) AWS
22 504 (17.49%) SQL Server
23 501 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 493 (17.11%) React
25 477 (16.56%) Android
26 465 (16.14%) Line Management
27 458 (15.90%) Mathematics
28 456 (15.83%) Android Development
29 455 (15.79%) CSS
30 449 (15.58%) 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 96 (3.33%) CMS
2 88 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.91%) WordPress
4 47 (1.63%) Confluence
5 42 (1.46%) Umbraco
6 34 (1.18%) OpenEdge
7 29 (1.01%) IIS
8 20 (0.69%) Headless CMS
9 19 (0.66%) JBoss
10 14 (0.49%) Apache
10 14 (0.49%) Appian
10 14 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
11 9 (0.31%) Apache Spark
12 6 (0.21%) Drupal
12 6 (0.21%) nginx
12 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.17%) Strapi
14 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 63 (2.19%) Chatbot
2 44 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.31%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.24%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.21%) Trello
7 3 (0.10%) Sketch
8 2 (0.069%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.069%) Elementor
8 2 (0.069%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.069%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.035%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.035%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 80 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.01%) Magento
2 29 (1.01%) Shopify
3 23 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
5 15 (0.52%) Sage 200
6 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.45%) Sage 50
7 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite
8 6 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 4 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.069%) Sage 1000
11 2 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.069%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 695 (24.12%) Azure
2 517 (17.95%) AWS
3 304 (10.55%) Power Platform
4 175 (6.07%) Serverless
5 134 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 130 (4.51%) SaaS
7 121 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (4.13%) Power Automate
9 112 (3.89%) PowerApps
10 106 (3.68%) GitHub
11 81 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
12 79 (2.74%) GCP
13 71 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (1.60%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
15 45 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
15 45 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
18 31 (1.08%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 393 (13.64%) DNS
2 391 (13.57%) VPN
3 25 (0.87%) 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
2 257 (8.92%) MySQL
3 201 (6.98%) Power BI
4 163 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 113 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 100 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 95 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 79 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 77 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 69 (2.40%) DynamoDB
11 54 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (1.25%) Redis
13 33 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.15%) RDBMS
14 30 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
15 26 (0.90%) OLTP
16 23 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 22 (0.76%) Power Query
18 21 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (0.69%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 359 (12.46%) Git
2 98 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 90 (3.12%) Visual Studio
4 89 (3.09%) JIRA
5 74 (2.57%) 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
1 691 (23.98%) Finance
2 613 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 525 (18.22%) Social Skills
4 501 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (4.65%) Law
6 115 (3.99%) Retail
7 89 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 78 (2.71%) Games
9 72 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 65 (2.26%) Marketing
11 50 (1.74%) Banking
12 35 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (0.94%) Automotive
13 27 (0.94%) Tech for Good
14 26 (0.90%) Advertising
15 22 (0.76%) Electronics
16 21 (0.73%) Police
17 19 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.66%) Back Office
17 19 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (26.94%) .NET
2 538 (18.67%) HTML
3 493 (17.11%) React
4 455 (15.79%) CSS
5 256 (8.89%) Node.js
6 236 (8.19%) ASP.NET
7 222 (7.71%) AngularJS
8 221 (7.67%) .NET Core
9 217 (7.53%) REST
10 216 (7.50%) RESTful
11 181 (6.28%) .NET Framework
12 141 (4.89%) Web Services
13 136 (4.72%) Vue
14 134 (4.65%) jQuery
15 128 (4.44%) HTML5
16 119 (4.13%) Spring
17 113 (3.92%) Spring Boot
18 104 (3.61%) XML
19 98 (3.40%) Laravel
20 95 (3.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 427 (14.82%) Cyberattack
2 124 (4.30%) Mobile App
3 79 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 69 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 59 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 53 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 49 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 48 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 42 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.08%) IoT
12 29 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 20 (0.69%) NHS
15 19 (0.66%) Virtual Team
16 18 (0.62%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.62%) Legacy Code
17 16 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
18 13 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 570 (19.78%) Linux
2 477 (16.56%) Android
3 73 (2.53%) Windows
4 49 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.94%) Unix
6 6 (0.21%) 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 1,178 (40.89%) Agile
2 601 (20.86%) OOP
3 585 (20.31%) OO
4 582 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
5 532 (18.47%) Design Patterns
6 465 (16.14%) Line Management
7 458 (15.90%) Mathematics
8 456 (15.83%) Android Development
9 420 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 399 (13.85%) CI/CD
11 355 (12.32%) DevOps
12 300 (10.41%) Microservices
13 288 (10.00%) Software Engineering
14 242 (8.40%) User Experience
15 232 (8.05%) Front End Development
16 226 (7.84%) Web Development
17 220 (7.64%) MVC
18 211 (7.32%) TDD
19 210 (7.29%) Computer Science
20 206 (7.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 882 (30.61%) JavaScript
2 824 (28.60%) C#
3 813 (28.22%) Java
4 777 (26.97%) SQL
5 726 (25.20%) Python
6 581 (20.17%) C++
7 449 (15.58%) Go
8 344 (11.94%) TypeScript
9 289 (10.03%) PHP
10 109 (3.78%) T-SQL
11 61 (2.12%) PL/SQL
12 48 (1.67%) VB.NET
13 46 (1.60%) Rust
14 40 (1.39%) C
15 27 (0.94%) Apex Code
15 27 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 25 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 24 (0.83%) VBA
18 23 (0.80%) Swift
19 19 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 567 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 442 (15.34%) DV Cleared
3 387 (13.43%) Degree
4 161 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 115 (3.99%) 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 7 (0.24%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.21%) ACCA
13 4 (0.14%) CIMA
14 2 (0.069%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.069%) MOS
14 2 (0.069%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.035%) CCA
15 1 (0.035%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.89%) QA
2 86 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.08%) 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 (24.54%) 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
1 447 (15.52%) Ansible
2 214 (7.43%) Kubernetes
3 90 (3.12%) Terraform
4 14 (0.49%) Kibana
5 13 (0.45%) Grafana
6 11 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.14%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.035%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 438 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 135 (4.69%) Oracle
3 55 (1.91%) PayPal
4 48 (1.67%) SAP
5 47 (1.63%) IBM
6 41 (1.42%) Google
7 38 (1.32%) Adobe
8 37 (1.28%) Progress
9 36 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 27 (0.94%) Splunk
11 23 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 20 (0.69%) Facebook
12 20 (0.69%) Sage
13 19 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 19 (0.66%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.59%) HP
15 15 (0.52%) Dynatrace
15 15 (0.52%) WooCommerce
16 14 (0.49%) Databricks
16 14 (0.49%) UiPath