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 £31,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 529 501
Rank change year-on-year +50 -28 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 96 239 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.36% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 66 218 195
10th Percentile £26,000 £23,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,016 £26,250 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £30,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -11.76% +4.62%
75th Percentile £38,441 £35,000 £38,809
90th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 9 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 9 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 +82 40 £30,000 -7.69% 27
South West +114 19 £34,500 +23.21% 4
Midlands +24 13 £31,250 +13.64% 16
North of England -4 13 £29,000 -3.33% 33
West Midlands +34 9 £32,500 +18.18% 7
Yorkshire +46 8 £29,000 -3.33% 6
East of England +7 5 £35,000 +16.67% 7
East Midlands +31 4 £28,375 -1.30% 9
North West -27 4 £38,750 +29.17% 26
Scotland +121 3 - - 6
Wales +39 3 £35,000 -17.65% 2
North East - 1 £25,500 - 1
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 45 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 39 (40.63%) SQL
3 38 (39.58%) HTML
3 38 (39.58%) CSS
4 26 (27.08%) Retail
4 26 (27.08%) Azure
5 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (26.04%) C#
5 25 (26.04%) PHP
6 23 (23.96%) Power Platform
7 22 (22.92%) Power BI
8 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (19.79%) MySQL
8 19 (19.79%) .NET
8 19 (19.79%) Microsoft
9 18 (18.75%) Customer Experience
10 17 (17.71%) Coaching
10 17 (17.71%) Data Structures
10 17 (17.71%) Data Analysis
10 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
11 16 (16.67%) Data Mining
11 16 (16.67%) VBA
11 16 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
11 16 (16.67%) Service Delivery
11 16 (16.67%) Data Management
11 16 (16.67%) WFM
11 16 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 16 (16.67%) Performance Management
11 16 (16.67%) RESTful
11 16 (16.67%) Facebook

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 (1.04%) CMS
1 1 (1.04%) NServiceBus
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.04%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.08%) Adobe XD
3 2 (2.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.08%) Azure
2 23 (23.96%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.50%) AWS
4 6 (6.25%) SaaS
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.13%) Serverless
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.08%) Figma
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.04%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub
7 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.92%) Power BI
2 19 (19.79%) MySQL
3 16 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
3 16 (16.67%) Data Mining
4 10 (10.42%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.04%) FileMaker
8 1 (1.04%) Power Query
8 1 (1.04%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Git
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.08%) JUnit
2 2 (2.08%) Vite
2 2 (2.08%) webpack
3 1 (1.04%) JMeter
3 1 (1.04%) Mockito
3 1 (1.04%) NUnit
General
1 26 (27.08%) Retail
2 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Law
5 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.08%) Finance
6 2 (2.08%) Police
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (39.58%) CSS
1 38 (39.58%) HTML
2 19 (19.79%) .NET
3 16 (16.67%) RESTful
4 13 (13.54%) Laravel
5 9 (9.38%) .NET Framework
5 9 (9.38%) Node.js
6 8 (8.33%) CakePHP
6 8 (8.33%) React
6 8 (8.33%) REST
6 8 (8.33%) Web Services
7 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET
7 6 (6.25%) LAMP
7 6 (6.25%) Vue
8 5 (5.21%) J2EE
8 5 (5.21%) jQuery
9 4 (4.17%) Next.js
9 4 (4.17%) Sass
10 3 (3.13%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.71%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.08%) NHS
3 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Android
2 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.04%) Rocky
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (18.75%) Customer Experience
3 17 (17.71%) Coaching
3 17 (17.71%) Data Analysis
4 16 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
4 16 (16.67%) Data Management
4 16 (16.67%) Performance Management
4 16 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 16 (16.67%) WFM
5 14 (14.58%) Agile
5 14 (14.58%) E-Commerce
5 14 (14.58%) MVC
6 13 (13.54%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.50%) DevOps
8 10 (10.42%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.42%) Web Development
9 9 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (9.38%) Microservices
10 8 (8.33%) OOP
11 7 (7.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 45 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 39 (40.63%) SQL
3 25 (26.04%) C#
3 25 (26.04%) PHP
4 16 (16.67%) VBA
5 15 (15.63%) Java
6 10 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.33%) Python
8 3 (3.13%) C
8 3 (3.13%) Groovy
9 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.08%) VB
10 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.04%) Bash
10 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.04%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) HND
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Grafana
2 1 (1.04%) Kibana
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) Facebook
3 4 (4.17%) Adobe
4 3 (3.13%) Twitter
5 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.04%) Epicor
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Toshiba
6 1 (1.04%) UiPath