Backend Developer Jobs

Backend Developer
UK

The median Backend Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 November 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 606 582
Rank change year-on-year +14 -24 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 189 144 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.26% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.27% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 113 122 353
10th Percentile £23,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,700 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 71,179 53,864 128,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 95.67% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,683 38,972 77,447
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,489 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer over the 6 months to 11 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the UK

Backend Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 November 2024. 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
England -23 158 £52,500 -27.59% 58
UK excluding London +27 128 £52,500 -19.23% 40
Work from Home +18 66 £65,000 -3.70% 42
London -8 56 £75,000 +3.45% 23
North of England +5 51 £52,500 -16.00% 17
North West -15 39 £52,500 -16.00% 13
Wales - 28 £27,500 - 1
South West +19 27 £61,250 +11.36% 4
Midlands -14 25 £65,000 +8.33% 7
West Midlands -22 18 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Yorkshire +24 11 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Scotland +7 8 £53,750 +4.37% 2
East Midlands -35 7 £45,000 -33.33% 4
South East -54 7 £65,000 -13.33% 4
East of England -44 2 - - 4
North East - 1 - -

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 November 2024, Backend 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 featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 62 (32.80%) Docker
2 58 (30.69%) JavaScript
3 56 (29.63%) SQL
4 55 (29.10%) Git
5 47 (24.87%) .NET
6 45 (23.81%) HTML
6 45 (23.81%) DevOps
7 44 (23.28%) AWS
8 42 (22.22%) Azure
8 42 (22.22%) C#
9 40 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (20.11%) Software Engineering
10 38 (20.11%) Google
11 37 (19.58%) Microservices
11 37 (19.58%) GCP
12 36 (19.05%) OOP
13 35 (18.52%) MySQL
13 35 (18.52%) Agile
14 34 (17.99%) E-Commerce
14 34 (17.99%) Node.js
14 34 (17.99%) Social Skills
14 34 (17.99%) Design Patterns
14 34 (17.99%) CI/CD
15 33 (17.46%) Containerisation
16 32 (16.93%) REST
16 32 (16.93%) Kubernetes
16 32 (16.93%) GraphQL
17 31 (16.40%) User Experience
17 31 (16.40%) MongoDB
17 31 (16.40%) Java

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (10.05%) nginx
2 17 (8.99%) Apache
3 10 (5.29%) Confluence
4 3 (1.59%) WordPress
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.28%) AWS
2 42 (22.22%) Azure
3 37 (19.58%) GCP
4 29 (15.34%) GitHub
5 28 (14.81%) Serverless
6 22 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (9.52%) Datadog
8 17 (8.99%) BrowserStack
8 17 (8.99%) Firebase
8 17 (8.99%) Sentry
9 13 (6.88%) SaaS
10 10 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.23%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.65%) BigCommerce
14 4 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
15 2 (1.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 2 (1.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.99%) MQTT
2 2 (1.06%) SSL
3 1 (0.53%) Multicast
3 1 (0.53%) SAN
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.52%) MySQL
2 31 (16.40%) MongoDB
3 28 (14.81%) Redis
4 20 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.99%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.06%) Hasura
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.53%) Power BI
11 1 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 55 (29.10%) Git
2 20 (10.58%) PHPUnit
3 17 (8.99%) Visual Studio Code
4 14 (7.41%) Maven
5 12 (6.35%) JIRA
5 12 (6.35%) SonarQube
6 8 (4.23%) GitLab
7 4 (2.12%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.59%) Mocha
8 3 (1.59%) Selenium
9 2 (1.06%) JUnit
9 2 (1.06%) Mockito
9 2 (1.06%) Postman
9 2 (1.06%) Subversion
9 2 (1.06%) TestNG
10 1 (0.53%) Appium
10 1 (0.53%) Moq
General
1 34 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.17%) Retail
3 22 (11.64%) Finance
4 17 (8.99%) Agriculture
4 17 (8.99%) iGaming
5 15 (7.94%) Games
6 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.29%) Publishing
8 5 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.65%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (2.65%) Marketing
8 5 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.12%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.06%) Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (24.87%) .NET
2 45 (23.81%) HTML
3 34 (17.99%) Node.js
4 32 (16.93%) GraphQL
4 32 (16.93%) REST
5 30 (15.87%) CSS
6 29 (15.34%) RESTful
7 26 (13.76%) React
8 24 (12.70%) HTML5
8 24 (12.70%) Symfony
8 24 (12.70%) WebSockets
9 20 (10.58%) Express.js
10 19 (10.05%) .NET Core
10 19 (10.05%) JSON
10 19 (10.05%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (9.52%) Web Services
12 17 (8.99%) JWT
12 17 (8.99%) LAMP
12 17 (8.99%) LEMP Stack
13 16 (8.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.52%) IoT
2 15 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.35%) Mobile Games
4 10 (5.29%) Sports Betting
5 7 (3.70%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.70%) Online Games
6 6 (3.17%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.65%) NHS
8 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.06%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.06%) FMCG
10 2 (1.06%) Graphic Design
10 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.06%) Life Science
10 2 (1.06%) Social Media
10 2 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.70%) Linux
2 22 (11.64%) Android
3 5 (2.65%) CentOS
3 5 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.65%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.81%) DevOps
2 40 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.11%) Software Engineering
4 37 (19.58%) Microservices
5 36 (19.05%) OOP
6 35 (18.52%) Agile
7 34 (17.99%) CI/CD
7 34 (17.99%) Design Patterns
7 34 (17.99%) E-Commerce
8 33 (17.46%) Containerisation
9 31 (16.40%) User Experience
10 28 (14.81%) MVC
11 26 (13.76%) Front End Development
12 23 (12.17%) Web Development
13 21 (11.11%) Clean Code
13 21 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.52%) TDD
14 18 (9.52%) UX Design
15 17 (8.99%) OO
16 16 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.69%) JavaScript
2 56 (29.63%) SQL
3 42 (22.22%) C#
4 31 (16.40%) Java
5 30 (15.87%) PHP
6 27 (14.29%) Python
7 15 (7.94%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.76%) C++
9 5 (2.65%) Bash
9 5 (2.65%) Go
10 4 (2.12%) Haskell
10 4 (2.12%) OCaml
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.53%) Scala
11 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (10.58%) Degree
2 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.65%) CIPD
6 5 (2.65%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.12%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (32.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (16.93%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.99%) Grafana
3 10 (5.29%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.70%) Kibana
4 7 (3.70%) Terraform
5 6 (3.17%) Ansible
6 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (20.11%) Google
2 22 (11.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.06%) Databricks
3 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.06%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe
4 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.53%) Informatica
4 1 (0.53%) SAP