Backend Developer
UK

The median Backend Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 627 401
Rank change year-on-year -30 -226 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 255 389 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.38% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.42% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 224 327 422
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,125 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -15 219 £62,500 -9.09% 64
UK excluding London +3 148 £52,500 -8.70% 30
Work from Home -50 111 £65,000 -10.34% 38
London -11 81 £85,000 +9.68% 39
North of England +62 57 £56,250 -16.67% 8
North West +22 33 £52,500 -22.22% 5
Yorkshire +91 23 £57,500 -25.81% 2
South East +3 21 £65,000 +4.00% 3
East of England +16 18 £42,500 +13.33% 3
Midlands +10 18 £45,000 +2.86% 5
South West -27 18 £47,500 -17.39% 3
West Midlands +23 13 £46,250 +2.78% 3
Scotland -54 13 £54,500 +3.81% 5
East Midlands -13 5 £35,000 -9.09% 2
Wales +13 3 £40,000 - 3
North East -3 1 £45,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 90 (35.29%) AWS
2 71 (27.84%) JavaScript
2 71 (27.84%) Agile
3 70 (27.45%) C#
4 68 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 67 (26.27%) Microservices
6 62 (24.31%) .NET
7 61 (23.92%) Node.js
8 58 (22.75%) TypeScript
9 56 (21.96%) SQL
10 55 (21.57%) Software Engineering
11 54 (21.18%) Java
12 46 (18.04%) Python
13 45 (17.65%) Docker
13 45 (17.65%) Serverless
14 40 (15.69%) Azure
15 38 (14.90%) CI/CD
16 36 (14.12%) Clean Code
17 35 (13.73%) DynamoDB
18 34 (13.33%) DevOps
18 34 (13.33%) HTML
18 34 (13.33%) Computer Science
19 33 (12.94%) Test Automation
20 32 (12.55%) Relational Database
20 32 (12.55%) Kubernetes
21 31 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
22 30 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
22 30 (11.76%) Degree
22 30 (11.76%) CSS
23 29 (11.37%) Finance

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 11 (4.31%) WordPress
2 7 (2.75%) nginx
3 6 (2.35%) CMS
4 5 (1.96%) Drupal
5 4 (1.57%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.78%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
1 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.29%) AWS
2 45 (17.65%) Serverless
3 40 (15.69%) Azure
4 30 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (10.98%) GitHub
6 23 (9.02%) SaaS
7 14 (5.49%) GCP
8 11 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.75%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.75%) IaaS
10 7 (2.75%) npm
10 7 (2.75%) PaaS
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.35%) Yarn
12 5 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) HTTP
2 6 (2.35%) AMQP
2 6 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.39%) MQTT
3 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.73%) DynamoDB
2 32 (12.55%) Relational Database
3 27 (10.59%) MySQL
4 19 (7.45%) SQL Server
5 16 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.71%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.35%) DB2
8 6 (2.35%) Redis
9 5 (1.96%) KDB
9 5 (1.96%) Kdb+
10 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.78%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (6.67%) Git
2 8 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.75%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.75%) Mocha
4 6 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.96%) Postman
6 4 (1.57%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.78%) Subversion
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) JUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Mockito
8 1 (0.39%) Moq
8 1 (0.39%) NUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 68 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.37%) Finance
3 15 (5.88%) Banking
4 9 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.53%) Health Technology
5 8 (3.14%) Games
6 7 (2.75%) Marketing
7 5 (1.96%) Front Office
7 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.57%) Retail
9 3 (1.18%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.78%) Electronics
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Automotive
11 1 (0.39%) Law
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.31%) .NET
2 61 (23.92%) Node.js
3 34 (13.33%) HTML
4 30 (11.76%) CSS
5 23 (9.02%) REST
6 21 (8.24%) GraphQL
6 21 (8.24%) RESTful
7 20 (7.84%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.45%) Kafka
8 19 (7.45%) React
8 19 (7.45%) Spring
8 19 (7.45%) Spring Boot
9 18 (7.06%) JSON
9 18 (7.06%) OAuth
9 18 (7.06%) Web Services
10 16 (6.27%) Laravel
10 16 (6.27%) Vue
11 14 (5.49%) .NET Framework
12 13 (5.10%) gRPC
12 13 (5.10%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.31%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.31%) Client/Server
4 10 (3.92%) IoT
5 8 (3.14%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.75%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.96%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.18%) Derivative
9 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.39%) NHS
11 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.92%) Linux
2 4 (1.57%) Android
3 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.84%) Agile
2 67 (26.27%) Microservices
3 55 (21.57%) Software Engineering
4 38 (14.90%) CI/CD
5 36 (14.12%) Clean Code
6 34 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 34 (13.33%) DevOps
7 33 (12.94%) Test Automation
8 31 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (10.59%) Software Testing
10 25 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (9.80%) Front End Development
10 25 (9.80%) Full Stack Development
11 24 (9.41%) TDD
12 23 (9.02%) Design Patterns
12 23 (9.02%) OO
13 20 (7.84%) Unit Testing
14 19 (7.45%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (7.45%) Event-Driven
14 19 (7.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 71 (27.84%) JavaScript
2 70 (27.45%) C#
3 58 (22.75%) TypeScript
4 56 (21.96%) SQL
5 54 (21.18%) Java
6 46 (18.04%) Python
7 27 (10.59%) PHP
8 21 (8.24%) Go
9 10 (3.92%) C++
10 8 (3.14%) Rust
10 8 (3.14%) Scala
11 7 (2.75%) Clojure
11 7 (2.75%) F#
11 7 (2.75%) Haskell
11 7 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.35%) C
12 6 (2.35%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.96%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.78%) Bash
14 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (11.76%) Degree
2 19 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.75%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.75%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.53%) GDPR
2 7 (2.75%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (17.65%) Docker
2 9 (3.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (12.55%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.88%) Terraform
3 6 (2.35%) Grafana
3 6 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.53%) Oracle
3 5 (1.96%) Google
4 2 (0.78%) SAP
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe
5 1 (0.39%) Salesforce