Graduate Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Graduate Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Graduate Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £25,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 688 697
Rank change year-on-year +172 +9 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate Developer 55 77 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49 74 51
10th Percentile - £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile - £25,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £30,000 £36,875 £34,037
90th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £35,000
UK median annual salary £25,000 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -7.69%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -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% -

Graduate Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Graduate Developer in the UK excluding London

Graduate Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Graduate Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Graduate Developer in the UK excluding London

Graduate Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Graduate Developer in the UK excluding London

Graduate 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 Graduate Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +72 23 £25,000 +4.17% 2
West Midlands +79 18 £27,000 -22.86% 2
East of England +51 14 £25,000 -28.57% 4
North of England +34 10 £25,000 -37.50% 8
South East +55 4 £32,500 +8.34% 7
East Midlands +35 4 £25,000 +4.17%
North East - 4 £25,000 -
South West +119 3 £30,000 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire +64 3 £25,000 -5.66% 2
North West -12 3 £25,000 -37.50% 6
Scotland +123 1 £30,000 +15.38% 1
Graduate Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Graduate 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 Graduate Developer in the job title.

1 50 (90.91%) Degree
2 43 (78.18%) Computer Science
3 40 (72.73%) C#
4 39 (70.91%) Java
4 39 (70.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (60.00%) C++
5 33 (60.00%) .NET
5 33 (60.00%) CSS
6 32 (58.18%) OO
6 32 (58.18%) MVC
6 32 (58.18%) ASP.NET
6 32 (58.18%) Agile
6 32 (58.18%) Azure
7 31 (56.36%) jQuery
7 31 (56.36%) SQL Server
7 31 (56.36%) PHP
8 28 (50.91%) Finance
9 27 (49.09%) MySQL
9 27 (49.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
11 21 (38.18%) OOP
12 19 (34.55%) SQL
13 8 (14.55%) Python
13 8 (14.55%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (10.91%) Clean Code
14 6 (10.91%) WinForms
14 6 (10.91%) Revit
15 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
15 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared

Graduate 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 1 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Azure
2 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (3.64%) AWS
2 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.82%) Sage Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (56.36%) SQL Server
2 27 (49.09%) MySQL
3 1 (1.82%) Big Data
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.82%) FileMaker
3 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Redis
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 28 (50.91%) Finance
2 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Law
4 4 (7.27%) Police
5 1 (1.82%) Electronics
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (60.00%) .NET
1 33 (60.00%) CSS
2 32 (58.18%) ASP.NET
3 31 (56.36%) jQuery
4 6 (10.91%) WinForms
5 4 (7.27%) GWT
5 4 (7.27%) J2EE
5 4 (7.27%) JPA
5 4 (7.27%) Middleware
5 4 (7.27%) Vaadin
6 2 (3.64%) HTML
6 2 (3.64%) Node.js
6 2 (3.64%) Spring
7 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.82%) Backbone.js
7 1 (1.82%) D3.js
7 1 (1.82%) Express.js
7 1 (1.82%) React
7 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.27%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.64%) BBC
3 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (78.18%) Computer Science
2 32 (58.18%) Agile
2 32 (58.18%) MVC
2 32 (58.18%) OO
3 27 (49.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (38.18%) OOP
6 6 (10.91%) Clean Code
7 4 (7.27%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (7.27%) SDLC
8 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (5.45%) Mathematics
9 2 (3.64%) Mentoring
9 2 (3.64%) Microservices
9 2 (3.64%) Web Development
10 1 (1.82%) Data Protection
10 1 (1.82%) Digital Marketing
10 1 (1.82%) Digital Signal Processing
10 1 (1.82%) Pair Programming
10 1 (1.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (72.73%) C#
2 39 (70.91%) Java
3 33 (60.00%) C++
4 31 (56.36%) PHP
5 19 (34.55%) SQL
6 8 (14.55%) Python
7 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.64%) C
8 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.82%) Bash
9 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (90.91%) Degree
2 39 (70.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.82%) PhD
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle
2 1 (1.82%) SAP