Junior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £30,000 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 486 530 524
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 85 246 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 57 225 185
10th Percentile £26,000 £22,950 £25,400
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +3.82%
75th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,868
90th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

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% -

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior 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
South East +78 40 £30,000 -7.69% 69
South West +118 20 £34,000 +22.52% 17
North of England -16 10 £29,000 - 55
Midlands +10 8 £28,375 +3.18% 29
Yorkshire +43 5 £29,000 +0.87% 11
East Midlands +26 5 £27,938 +1.59% 15
North West -38 4 £40,000 +37.93% 41
West Midlands +27 3 £32,500 +18.18% 14
East of England +11 3 £32,500 +8.33% 16
Scotland +117 2 - - 14
Wales +44 2 - - 5
North East - 1 £25,500 - 5
Junior Developer
UK

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

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

1 38 (44.71%) JavaScript
2 34 (40.00%) SQL
3 32 (37.65%) CSS
4 31 (36.47%) HTML
5 26 (30.59%) Retail
6 25 (29.41%) Azure
7 24 (28.24%) Power BI
7 24 (28.24%) Power Platform
8 23 (27.06%) PHP
9 20 (23.53%) Microsoft
9 20 (23.53%) Customer Experience
9 20 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (22.35%) Coaching
10 19 (22.35%) Data Structures
10 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (21.18%) Commercial Awareness
11 18 (21.18%) Facebook
11 18 (21.18%) Data Mining
11 18 (21.18%) Microsoft Excel
11 18 (21.18%) MySQL
11 18 (21.18%) C#
11 18 (21.18%) VBA
11 18 (21.18%) BusinessObjects
11 18 (21.18%) Service Delivery
11 18 (21.18%) Performance Management
11 18 (21.18%) Data Management
11 18 (21.18%) Data Analysis
11 18 (21.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 18 (21.18%) WFM
12 15 (17.65%) Git

Junior 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 (1.18%) CMS
1 1 (1.18%) NServiceBus
1 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (21.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) Azure
2 24 (28.24%) Power Platform
3 8 (9.41%) AWS
4 4 (4.71%) SaaS
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.18%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.18%) GitHub
5 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.24%) Power BI
2 18 (21.18%) BusinessObjects
2 18 (21.18%) Data Mining
2 18 (21.18%) MySQL
3 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.18%) Big Data
6 1 (1.18%) FileMaker
6 1 (1.18%) Power Query
6 1 (1.18%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) Vite
2 2 (2.35%) webpack
3 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.18%) JUnit
3 1 (1.18%) NUnit
General
1 26 (30.59%) Retail
2 20 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Law
5 2 (2.35%) Finance
5 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Electronics
6 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Legal
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Police
6 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) CSS
2 31 (36.47%) HTML
3 14 (16.47%) RESTful
4 13 (15.29%) .NET
5 11 (12.94%) Laravel
6 8 (9.41%) CakePHP
6 8 (9.41%) Node.js
7 7 (8.24%) .NET Framework
7 7 (8.24%) React
8 6 (7.06%) LAMP
8 6 (7.06%) REST
8 6 (7.06%) Web Services
9 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.88%) J2EE
10 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.71%) jQuery
10 4 (4.71%) Next.js
10 4 (4.71%) Vue
11 3 (3.53%) .NET Core
11 3 (3.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.18%) IoT
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) Customer Experience
2 19 (22.35%) Coaching
2 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.18%) Commercial Awareness
3 18 (21.18%) Data Analysis
3 18 (21.18%) Data Management
3 18 (21.18%) Performance Management
3 18 (21.18%) Service Delivery
3 18 (21.18%) WFM
4 14 (16.47%) E-Commerce
5 13 (15.29%) MVC
6 11 (12.94%) DevOps
7 10 (11.76%) Agile
8 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.41%) Computer Science
9 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (9.41%) Web Development
10 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.24%) Microservices
10 7 (8.24%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) JavaScript
2 34 (40.00%) SQL
3 23 (27.06%) PHP
4 18 (21.18%) C#
4 18 (21.18%) VBA
5 13 (15.29%) Java
6 8 (9.41%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.24%) Python
8 4 (4.71%) C
9 3 (3.53%) Groovy
10 2 (2.35%) Bash
11 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.18%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) HND
3 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Grafana
1 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.18%) Facebook
3 3 (3.53%) Twitter
4 2 (2.35%) Adobe
4 2 (2.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.18%) Epicor
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) Splunk