Development Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 598 590
Rank change year-on-year +157 -8 +136
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 142 174 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 17 77 78
10th Percentile £38,400 £35,000 £46,145
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,250 £72,250
90th Percentile - £65,000 £77,542
UK median annual salary £53,750 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -23.08% +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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Development Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Engineer
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 Development Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Midlands +119 104 £50,000 - 28
West Midlands +112 71 £50,000 -7.83% 15
East Midlands +48 33 - - 12
South East +6 13 £57,500 +15.00% 36
South West +102 6 £52,500 +31.25% 29
North of England +45 6 - - 24
Wales +41 5 - - 14
Scotland +128 4 £55,000 - 24
North East +45 4 - - 3
East of England +41 4 £39,000 -40.00% 39
North West -1 2 - - 20
Development Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 103 (72.54%) Validation
2 101 (71.13%) Software Testing
3 100 (70.42%) Agile
3 100 (70.42%) Automotive
4 99 (69.72%) MATLAB
4 99 (69.72%) Simulink
4 99 (69.72%) Aerospace
4 99 (69.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 99 (69.72%) Systems Engineering
5 17 (11.97%) Local Government
5 17 (11.97%) Degree
5 17 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (10.56%) Mentoring
7 14 (9.86%) Finance
7 14 (9.86%) NHS
8 13 (9.15%) Project Delivery
9 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
9 12 (8.45%) Accessibility
9 12 (8.45%) Due Diligence
9 12 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (8.45%) Strategic Planning
10 11 (7.75%) Python
10 11 (7.75%) Project Management
11 10 (7.04%) Software Engineering
12 8 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (5.63%) Legal
12 8 (5.63%) Test Automation
13 7 (4.93%) Risk Assessment
14 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
14 6 (4.23%) LabVIEW

Development Engineer 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 4 (2.82%) Apache
1 4 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 99 (69.72%) Simulink
2 4 (2.82%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (2.11%) AutoCAD
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.70%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.82%) Amazon S3
1 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.11%) DNS
1 3 (2.11%) HTTP
1 3 (2.11%) SMTP
1 3 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.41%) BGP
2 2 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.41%) DMVPN
2 2 (1.41%) EIGRP
2 2 (1.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.82%) Big Data
1 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
1 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.82%) Parquet
1 4 (2.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.23%) LabVIEW
2 2 (1.41%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.41%) Postman
2 2 (1.41%) SoapUI
General
1 100 (70.42%) Automotive
2 99 (69.72%) Aerospace
3 17 (11.97%) Local Government
4 14 (9.86%) Finance
5 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.63%) Legal
7 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.52%) Social Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Electronics
9 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.11%) Law
9 3 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) REST
2 2 (1.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) NHS
2 6 (4.23%) Analogue Electronics
3 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (72.54%) Validation
2 101 (71.13%) Software Testing
3 100 (70.42%) Agile
4 99 (69.72%) Systems Engineering
5 17 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (10.56%) Mentoring
7 13 (9.15%) Project Delivery
8 12 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (8.45%) Due Diligence
8 12 (8.45%) Strategic Planning
9 11 (7.75%) Project Management
10 10 (7.04%) Software Engineering
11 8 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (5.63%) Test Automation
12 7 (4.93%) Risk Assessment
13 6 (4.23%) Business Development
13 6 (4.23%) Line Management
14 5 (3.52%) CAD
15 4 (2.82%) Business Intelligence
15 4 (2.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (69.72%) MATLAB
2 11 (7.75%) Python
3 5 (3.52%) C
3 5 (3.52%) C#
3 5 (3.52%) SQL
4 4 (2.82%) Embedded C
4 4 (2.82%) Java
4 4 (2.82%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.41%) C++
5 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.70%) Pascal
6 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (69.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (11.97%) Degree
3 6 (4.23%) Postgraduate
4 4 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) CCA
5 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.41%) FortiGate
1 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.41%) Podman
2 1 (0.70%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 4 (2.82%) Oracle
2 3 (2.11%) Google
3 2 (1.41%) Cisco
3 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
3 2 (1.41%) Graphcore
3 2 (1.41%) Juniper
3 2 (1.41%) McAfee
3 2 (1.41%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.70%) Splunk