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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 647 612 390
Rank change year-on-year -35 -222 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 252 409 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.42% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 222 342 421
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,412 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +6.79% +13.04%
75th Percentile £83,438 £89,571 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £109,750 £92,500
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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -4 217 £62,500 -10.71% 72
UK excluding London +25 145 £52,500 -8.70% 31
Work from Home -49 107 £65,000 -10.34% 49
London +15 83 £85,000 +9.68% 46
North of England +64 54 £55,000 -18.52% 16
North West +13 31 £52,500 -22.22% 12
Yorkshire +100 22 £57,500 -25.81% 3
South East +3 21 £65,000 +4.00% 2
Midlands +11 18 £45,000 - 4
South West -10 18 £47,500 -17.39%
East of England +27 17 £45,000 +20.00% 2
Scotland -52 14 £54,000 +2.86% 4
West Midlands +36 13 £46,250 -7.50% 2
East Midlands -14 5 £35,000 -9.09% 2
Wales +10 3 £40,000 - 3
North East +4 1 £45,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 86 (34.13%) AWS
2 72 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 72 (28.57%) Agile
3 71 (28.17%) C#
4 68 (26.98%) Social Skills
5 67 (26.59%) Microservices
6 62 (24.60%) .NET
7 58 (23.02%) Node.js
8 57 (22.62%) SQL
9 56 (22.22%) TypeScript
10 55 (21.83%) Java
11 52 (20.63%) Software Engineering
12 47 (18.65%) Python
13 46 (18.25%) Docker
14 41 (16.27%) Serverless
15 40 (15.87%) Azure
16 35 (13.89%) Computer Science
16 35 (13.89%) HTML
16 35 (13.89%) Clean Code
16 35 (13.89%) CI/CD
17 34 (13.49%) Test Automation
18 33 (13.10%) Kubernetes
19 32 (12.70%) Relational Database
19 32 (12.70%) DevOps
20 31 (12.30%) DynamoDB
20 31 (12.30%) CSS
20 31 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
21 30 (11.90%) Degree
22 29 (11.51%) Finance
23 28 (11.11%) GitHub

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 (4.37%) WordPress
2 7 (2.78%) nginx
3 6 (2.38%) CMS
4 5 (1.98%) Drupal
5 4 (1.59%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.79%) Apache
6 2 (0.79%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (34.13%) AWS
2 41 (16.27%) Serverless
3 40 (15.87%) Azure
4 28 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (11.11%) GitHub
5 23 (9.13%) SaaS
6 14 (5.56%) GCP
7 11 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (2.78%) Azure Functions
9 7 (2.78%) IaaS
9 7 (2.78%) npm
9 7 (2.78%) PaaS
10 6 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.38%) Yarn
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) HTTP
2 6 (2.38%) AMQP
2 6 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.40%) MQTT
3 1 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.70%) Relational Database
2 31 (12.30%) DynamoDB
3 25 (9.92%) MySQL
4 19 (7.54%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.38%) DB2
8 6 (2.38%) Redis
9 5 (1.98%) KDB
9 5 (1.98%) Kdb+
10 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (6.75%) Git
2 9 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.78%) Mocha
4 6 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.38%) Postman
5 4 (1.59%) Maven
6 2 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.79%) Subversion
7 1 (0.40%) GitLab
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
7 1 (0.40%) NUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Snyk
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 68 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.51%) Finance
3 14 (5.56%) Banking
4 9 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.17%) Games
6 7 (2.78%) Health Technology
6 7 (2.78%) Marketing
7 5 (1.98%) Front Office
7 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.60%) .NET
2 58 (23.02%) Node.js
3 35 (13.89%) HTML
4 31 (12.30%) CSS
5 24 (9.52%) REST
6 22 (8.73%) RESTful
7 21 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 20 (7.94%) AngularJS
8 20 (7.94%) Spring
8 20 (7.94%) Spring Boot
9 19 (7.54%) Web Services
10 18 (7.14%) JSON
10 18 (7.14%) Kafka
10 18 (7.14%) OAuth
10 18 (7.14%) React
11 16 (6.35%) Laravel
11 16 (6.35%) Vue
12 15 (5.95%) .NET Framework
13 13 (5.16%) gRPC
14 11 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.54%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.37%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.37%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.17%) Hedge funds
4 8 (3.17%) IoT
5 7 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.79%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.57%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Android
3 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.57%) Agile
2 67 (26.59%) Microservices
3 52 (20.63%) Software Engineering
4 35 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 35 (13.89%) Clean Code
4 35 (13.89%) Computer Science
5 34 (13.49%) Test Automation
6 32 (12.70%) DevOps
7 31 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (10.32%) Front End Development
8 26 (10.32%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (10.32%) Software Testing
9 24 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 23 (9.13%) TDD
11 22 (8.73%) Design Patterns
11 22 (8.73%) OO
12 20 (7.94%) Unit Testing
13 19 (7.54%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (7.54%) Functional Programming
13 19 (7.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 71 (28.17%) C#
3 57 (22.62%) SQL
4 56 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 55 (21.83%) Java
6 47 (18.65%) Python
7 27 (10.71%) PHP
8 21 (8.33%) Go
9 10 (3.97%) C++
10 9 (3.57%) Scala
11 8 (3.17%) Clojure
11 8 (3.17%) F#
11 8 (3.17%) Haskell
11 8 (3.17%) Rust
12 7 (2.78%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.38%) C
13 6 (2.38%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.98%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (11.90%) Degree
2 19 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.57%) GDPR
2 7 (2.78%) HIPAA
2 7 (2.78%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (18.25%) Docker
2 9 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.16%) Terraform
3 6 (2.38%) Grafana
3 6 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (4.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.97%) Oracle
3 5 (1.98%) Google
4 2 (0.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce