Developer Jobs

Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 4,837 14,307 16,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 14.74% 15.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.37% 15.57% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,555 12,185 12,735
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 46,641 91,861 97,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 94.62% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 27,168 66,209 60,975
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,686 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -12.19% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Developer in the UK

Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK

Developer
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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
England -7 4,394 £60,000 +4.35% 2,585
UK excluding London -11 3,017 £55,000 +4.76% 1,548
Work from Home -5 2,083 £60,000 +4.35% 1,649
London -5 1,623 £75,000 - 1,397
North of England -10 994 £52,500 +1.37% 410
North West -12 754 £52,500 +0.80% 243
South East -12 703 £55,000 -4.35% 437
Midlands -17 507 £53,688 +7.38% 220
West Midlands -13 341 £56,750 +13.50% 124
South West -13 299 £57,500 +15.00% 125
East of England -17 246 £54,500 +9.00% 146
Scotland -3 193 £55,000 +3.77% 141
Yorkshire -21 186 £55,000 +10.00% 131
East Midlands -20 163 £50,000 - 91
Wales -20 69 £50,000 -4.76% 29
North East -14 54 £55,750 +11.50% 38
Northern Ireland -14 20 £69,000 +29.58% 62
Isle of Man +17 4 - -
Channel Islands -1 2 £75,000 +25.00%

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 April 2025, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 1,821 (37.65%) Agile
2 1,598 (33.04%) JavaScript
3 1,370 (28.32%) C#
4 1,357 (28.05%) Finance
5 1,270 (26.26%) .NET
6 1,223 (25.28%) Python
7 1,220 (25.22%) SQL
8 1,189 (24.58%) Azure
9 1,171 (24.21%) Java
10 1,023 (21.15%) React
11 1,009 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
12 972 (20.10%) AWS
13 967 (19.99%) HTML
14 965 (19.95%) Social Skills
15 961 (19.87%) Docker
16 865 (17.88%) CSS
17 771 (15.94%) C++
18 758 (15.67%) SQL Server
19 747 (15.44%) Linux
20 735 (15.20%) OO
20 735 (15.20%) OOP
20 735 (15.20%) Full-Stack Development
21 722 (14.93%) TypeScript
22 709 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
23 693 (14.33%) Microsoft
24 685 (14.16%) Security Cleared
25 669 (13.83%) DevOps
26 661 (13.67%) CI/CD
27 656 (13.56%) Git
28 651 (13.46%) Design Patterns

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
1 172 (3.56%) CMS
2 131 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 111 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 94 (1.94%) WordPress
5 90 (1.86%) Apache
6 72 (1.49%) OpenEdge
7 70 (1.45%) Confluence
8 44 (0.91%) Umbraco
9 27 (0.56%) Drupal
10 24 (0.50%) nginx
11 21 (0.43%) Apache Spark
11 21 (0.43%) Headless CMS
12 18 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 17 (0.35%) JBoss
14 15 (0.31%) IIS
15 12 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
15 12 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
16 7 (0.14%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.12%) Liferay
17 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 51 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.39%) Adobe XD
4 19 (0.39%) Trello
5 12 (0.25%) Sketch
6 9 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.14%) InDesign
7 7 (0.14%) Revit
8 5 (0.10%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.083%) InVision
9 4 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 2 (0.041%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.041%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.041%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.021%) Blender
Business Applications
1 115 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.97%) Shopify
3 44 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 28 (0.58%) Magento
5 23 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 21 (0.43%) Sage 200
7 19 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 19 (0.39%) Sage 50
8 11 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
9 8 (0.17%) Orchestrade
9 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
10 7 (0.14%) Endur
11 6 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
13 4 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
13 4 (0.083%) Infor CloudSuite
13 4 (0.083%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 1,189 (24.58%) Azure
2 972 (20.10%) AWS
3 463 (9.57%) Power Platform
4 281 (5.81%) Serverless
5 259 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
5 259 (5.35%) GCP
6 249 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
7 238 (4.92%) GitHub
8 226 (4.67%) SaaS
9 204 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 196 (4.05%) PowerApps
11 123 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
12 109 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
13 98 (2.03%) dbt
14 80 (1.65%) Amazon S3
14 80 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
15 75 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
17 65 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
18 64 (1.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 402 (8.31%) VPN
2 399 (8.25%) DNS
3 46 (0.95%) TCP/IP
4 32 (0.66%) Intranet
5 22 (0.45%) Network Security
6 19 (0.39%) HTTP
6 19 (0.39%) Internet
7 17 (0.35%) MQTT
8 10 (0.21%) 5G
8 10 (0.21%) Broadband
9 9 (0.19%) Modbus
10 7 (0.14%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.14%) SMS
11 5 (0.10%) BGP
11 5 (0.10%) Bluetooth
11 5 (0.10%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.10%) IPsec
11 5 (0.10%) MPLS
11 5 (0.10%) OSPF
12 4 (0.083%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (15.67%) SQL Server
2 379 (7.84%) MySQL
3 306 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
4 262 (5.42%) Power BI
5 214 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 186 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 164 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 106 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 91 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 89 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
11 87 (1.80%) Apache Arrow
12 86 (1.78%) Apache Iceberg
12 86 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 86 (1.78%) Dremio
13 82 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 81 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
14 81 (1.67%) Redis
15 70 (1.45%) DynamoDB
16 54 (1.12%) RDBMS
17 40 (0.83%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 656 (13.56%) Git
2 177 (3.66%) JIRA
3 165 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 151 (3.12%) Visual Studio
5 111 (2.29%) JUnit
6 76 (1.57%) webpack
7 71 (1.47%) Mockito
8 66 (1.36%) GitLab
9 49 (1.01%) Jasmine
10 48 (0.99%) Maven
11 41 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 40 (0.83%) IntelliJ
13 38 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
14 35 (0.72%) Gradle
15 34 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
16 31 (0.64%) Cypress.io
17 29 (0.60%) gulp
18 28 (0.58%) Eclipse
19 27 (0.56%) NUnit
20 26 (0.54%) JMeter
General
1 1,357 (28.05%) Finance
2 965 (19.95%) Social Skills
3 709 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 601 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 260 (5.38%) Front Office
6 250 (5.17%) Banking
7 157 (3.25%) Law
8 149 (3.08%) Marketing
9 147 (3.04%) Games
9 147 (3.04%) Retail
10 130 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 108 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 104 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 55 (1.14%) Tech for Good
14 50 (1.03%) Advertising
15 44 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (0.89%) Automotive
17 41 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 38 (0.79%) Legal
19 34 (0.70%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,270 (26.26%) .NET
2 1,023 (21.15%) React
3 967 (19.99%) HTML
4 865 (17.88%) CSS
5 541 (11.18%) AngularJS
5 541 (11.18%) Node.js
6 399 (8.25%) RESTful
7 361 (7.46%) .NET Core
8 353 (7.30%) REST
9 351 (7.26%) .NET Framework
10 333 (6.88%) ASP.NET
11 308 (6.37%) Vue
12 279 (5.77%) HTML5
13 226 (4.67%) Web Services
14 210 (4.34%) jQuery
15 208 (4.30%) XML
16 181 (3.74%) Spring
17 171 (3.54%) Laravel
18 164 (3.39%) JSON
19 162 (3.35%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 446 (9.22%) Cyberattack
2 231 (4.78%) Mobile App
3 174 (3.60%) Fixed Income
4 151 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
5 140 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 137 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 129 (2.67%) Hedge funds
8 125 (2.58%) Equities
9 105 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 93 (1.92%) Cloud Native
11 87 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 86 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
13 80 (1.65%) Data Structures
14 74 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
15 69 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 63 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
17 61 (1.26%) Derivative
18 60 (1.24%) Virtual Team
19 41 (0.85%) IoT
20 37 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 747 (15.44%) Linux
2 564 (11.66%) Android
3 113 (2.34%) Windows
4 111 (2.29%) Apple iOS
5 36 (0.74%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.10%) Debian
8 5 (0.10%) Rocky
9 3 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.041%) CentOS
10 2 (0.041%) zOS
11 1 (0.021%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,821 (37.65%) Agile
2 1,009 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
3 735 (15.20%) Full-Stack Development
3 735 (15.20%) OO
3 735 (15.20%) OOP
4 669 (13.83%) DevOps
5 661 (13.67%) CI/CD
6 651 (13.46%) Design Patterns
7 629 (13.00%) Software Engineering
8 545 (11.27%) Mathematics
9 505 (10.44%) Android Development
10 504 (10.42%) Microservices
10 504 (10.42%) User Experience
11 490 (10.13%) Line Management
12 460 (9.51%) Front End Development
13 381 (7.88%) Computer Science
14 352 (7.28%) Web Development
15 348 (7.19%) Mentoring
16 344 (7.11%) MVC
17 326 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,598 (33.04%) JavaScript
2 1,370 (28.32%) C#
3 1,223 (25.28%) Python
4 1,220 (25.22%) SQL
5 1,171 (24.21%) Java
6 771 (15.94%) C++
7 722 (14.93%) TypeScript
8 490 (10.13%) Go
9 414 (8.56%) PHP
10 149 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 106 (2.19%) C
12 83 (1.72%) PowerShell
13 63 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 63 (1.30%) Rust
14 61 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 53 (1.10%) VB.NET
16 52 (1.08%) Apex Code
17 48 (0.99%) Swift
18 46 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 42 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 685 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 639 (13.21%) Degree
3 476 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 258 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 178 (3.68%) SC Cleared
6 71 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 58 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 39 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (0.70%) PhD
10 32 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.23%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.12%) ACCA
14 6 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.10%) HND
16 4 (0.083%) CIMA
17 3 (0.062%) Oracle Certification
17 3 (0.062%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (4.94%) QA
2 155 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.01%) WCAG
4 38 (0.79%) SLA
5 34 (0.70%) GDPR
6 23 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.10%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.083%) GRC
8 4 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.083%) NCSC
9 2 (0.041%) HL7
9 2 (0.041%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.041%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.041%) PMO
10 1 (0.021%) CDISC
10 1 (0.021%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.021%) MiFID
10 1 (0.021%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 961 (19.87%) Docker
2 23 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.27%) Firmware
4 6 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.062%) LXC
6 2 (0.041%) Postfix
6 2 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.021%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.021%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.021%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 485 (10.03%) Ansible
2 400 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 142 (2.94%) Terraform
4 23 (0.48%) Kibana
5 20 (0.41%) Grafana
5 20 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.17%) Argo
8 6 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.083%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.083%) Rundeck
10 3 (0.062%) Istio
11 2 (0.041%) cPanel
12 1 (0.021%) CEMLI
12 1 (0.021%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.021%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.021%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 693 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 177 (3.66%) Oracle
3 101 (2.09%) Google
4 80 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 70 (1.45%) Progress
6 65 (1.34%) Adobe
7 62 (1.28%) SAP
8 57 (1.18%) IBM
9 51 (1.05%) PayPal
10 47 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 39 (0.81%) Databricks
11 39 (0.81%) Xamarin
12 28 (0.58%) Splunk
13 26 (0.54%) New Relic
14 24 (0.50%) Sage
15 23 (0.48%) HP
15 23 (0.48%) MuleSoft
16 21 (0.43%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.39%) WooCommerce
18 15 (0.31%) Dell