Digital Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 543 536
Rank change year-on-year +39 -7 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Digital Developer 18 15 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.042% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.045% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 31
10th Percentile - £40,619 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,619 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,134 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -23.39% -4.35%
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £47,200 £60,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £43,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% -27.39% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,586 33,429 32,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,611 16,250 24,824
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,013 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Digital Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Digital Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Digital Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Digital Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Digital Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Developer in the UK excluding London

Digital 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 Digital Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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 - 7 £40,000 -
South East - 7 - - 1
East Midlands - 6 £40,000 -
North of England +11 4 £50,500 +19.86% 3
North West +19 2 £50,500 +19.86% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
Digital Developer
UK

Digital Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Digital Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Digital Developer in the job title.

1 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (44.44%) Customer Experience
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (33.33%) CRM
3 6 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
3 6 (33.33%) Data Science
3 6 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 6 (33.33%) Digital Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Economics
3 6 (33.33%) Lead Generation
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (33.33%) Power BI
3 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Statistics
3 6 (33.33%) Tableau
3 6 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
4 5 (27.78%) HTML
5 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (22.22%) Photoshop
5 4 (22.22%) User Experience

Digital Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) CMS
2 2 (11.11%) Drupal
2 2 (11.11%) EPiServer
2 2 (11.11%) Umbraco
2 2 (11.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (22.22%) Photoshop
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (11.11%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Figma
2 2 (11.11%) npm
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Kontent
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Power BI
1 6 (33.33%) Tableau
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Grunt
1 2 (11.11%) gulp
1 2 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 8 (44.44%) Marketing
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Multimedia
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) CSS
2 3 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 2 (11.11%) CSS3
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) Redux
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) Sass
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) Laravel
4 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Graphic Design
2 2 (11.11%) e-Learning
2 2 (11.11%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (44.44%) Customer Experience
2 6 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Analytics
2 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) CRM
2 6 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
2 6 (33.33%) Data Science
2 6 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 6 (33.33%) Digital Analytics
2 6 (33.33%) Economics
2 6 (33.33%) Lead Generation
2 6 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 6 (33.33%) Statistics
2 6 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (22.22%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe