Development Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £38,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 197 325
Rank change year-on-year +29 +128 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 758 1,038 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.92% 1.39% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 1.47% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 248 734 299
10th Percentile £28,822 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £30,580 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £48,597 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% -7.43% -25.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £82,125 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -25.00% -22.58%

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
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% -

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East -15 188 £57,500 +27.78% 493
North of England +27 176 £40,000 -27.27% 508
East of England +117 170 £41,000 -31.67% 318
Midlands -24 108 £30,580 -35.62% 425
West Midlands -10 96 £30,580 -23.66% 231
South West +121 76 £38,000 -24.00% 216
North East +82 74 £35,000 -50.00% 65
North West -48 53 £37,500 -31.82% 244
Yorkshire +34 47 £52,500 +10.53% 201
Scotland +53 21 £38,000 -41.54% 95
Wales +17 14 £75,000 +110.08% 59
East Midlands -19 12 £51,500 -24.82% 172
Northern Ireland +37 5 £40,000 -33.33% 24
Development Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Development Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 604 (79.68%) Business Development
2 390 (51.45%) Social Skills
3 334 (44.06%) Marketing
4 330 (43.54%) Finance
5 213 (28.10%) Public Sector
6 209 (27.57%) Collaborative Working
7 208 (27.44%) Collaborative Culture
7 208 (27.44%) Marketing Strategy
8 204 (26.91%) Facilities Management
9 121 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
10 100 (13.19%) CRM
11 94 (12.40%) QA
12 92 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
12 92 (12.14%) Project Management
13 91 (12.01%) Degree
14 90 (11.87%) Business Strategy
15 89 (11.74%) FMCG
16 88 (11.61%) B2B
17 82 (10.82%) Competitor Analysis
17 82 (10.82%) Commercialisation
17 82 (10.82%) Product Strategy
18 80 (10.55%) Active Listening
19 79 (10.42%) Salesforce
20 78 (10.29%) Value Proposition
21 77 (10.16%) Deadline-Driven
21 77 (10.16%) SLA
21 77 (10.16%) SAP
21 77 (10.16%) Salesforce CRM
22 73 (9.63%) Customer Service
23 70 (9.23%) Business Enablement

Development Manager 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 2 (0.26%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.13%) Moodle
2 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.13%) Totara
2 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 77 (10.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.26%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.13%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 18 (2.37%) SaaS
2 14 (1.85%) AWS
2 14 (1.85%) Azure
3 7 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (0.92%) Amazon S3
3 7 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.40%) Azure API Management
5 3 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.13%) GCP
7 1 (0.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.13%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) SSL
2 5 (0.66%) IP Telephony
2 5 (0.66%) Network Security
3 3 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.26%) WPA
5 1 (0.13%) LAN
5 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Wireless
5 1 (0.13%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (0.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.26%) Big Data
4 2 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.13%) Redis
5 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.79%) JIRA
2 3 (0.40%) Git
3 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 390 (51.45%) Social Skills
2 334 (44.06%) Marketing
3 330 (43.54%) Finance
4 213 (28.10%) Public Sector
5 92 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.17%) Banking
8 23 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.19%) Electronics
10 8 (1.06%) Legal
11 7 (0.92%) Automotive
12 6 (0.79%) Games
12 6 (0.79%) Retail
13 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.40%) Law
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.72%) .NET
2 8 (1.06%) React
3 7 (0.92%) Android Jetpack
3 7 (0.92%) Jetpack Compose
3 7 (0.92%) Node.js
3 7 (0.92%) OAuth
3 7 (0.92%) SwiftUI
3 7 (0.92%) UIKit
4 5 (0.66%) CodeIgniter
4 5 (0.66%) Laravel
5 4 (0.53%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.40%) Hibernate
6 3 (0.40%) Spring
7 2 (0.26%) Blazor
8 1 (0.13%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.13%) Kafka
8 1 (0.13%) NestJS
8 1 (0.13%) Next.js
8 1 (0.13%) Vue
8 1 (0.13%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.74%) FMCG
2 16 (2.11%) Data Centre
3 14 (1.85%) Driving Licence
3 14 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.58%) Virtual Team
5 11 (1.45%) e-Learning
6 10 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.19%) Social Media
8 5 (0.66%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.40%) AS400
10 3 (0.40%) CCTV
10 3 (0.40%) EPoS
10 3 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.26%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.13%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.58%) Android
1 12 (1.58%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.26%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (79.68%) Business Development
2 209 (27.57%) Collaborative Working
3 208 (27.44%) Collaborative Culture
3 208 (27.44%) Marketing Strategy
4 204 (26.91%) Facilities Management
5 121 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (13.19%) CRM
7 92 (12.14%) Project Management
8 90 (11.87%) Business Strategy
9 88 (11.61%) B2B
10 82 (10.82%) Commercialisation
10 82 (10.82%) Competitor Analysis
10 82 (10.82%) Product Strategy
11 80 (10.55%) Active Listening
12 78 (10.29%) Value Proposition
13 77 (10.16%) Deadline-Driven
14 73 (9.63%) Customer Service
15 70 (9.23%) Business Enablement
16 59 (7.78%) Technology Enablement
17 42 (5.54%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 19 (2.51%) Java
2 16 (2.11%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.58%) C#
4 7 (0.92%) Kotlin
4 7 (0.92%) Swift
5 5 (0.66%) PHP
5 5 (0.66%) SQL
6 1 (0.13%) Python
6 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (12.01%) Degree
2 4 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (12.40%) QA
2 77 (10.16%) SLA
3 5 (0.66%) GDPR
3 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Ansible
2 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (10.42%) Salesforce
2 77 (10.16%) SAP
3 59 (7.78%) YouTube
4 18 (2.37%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.11%) Oracle
6 9 (1.19%) Intel
6 9 (1.19%) Tenable
7 8 (1.06%) Fortinet
7 8 (1.06%) Sophos
8 7 (0.92%) Cisco
8 7 (0.92%) Google
8 7 (0.92%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.66%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.40%) Databricks
11 2 (0.26%) NetApp
12 1 (0.13%) BMC
12 1 (0.13%) Commvault
12 1 (0.13%) Sage
12 1 (0.13%) VMware