Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 7,754 21,192 31,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 16.91% 24.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.23% 17.74% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,609 15,557 22,673
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

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 50,923 119,491 123,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.34% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37,248 74,881 84,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,005
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK

Developer
Top 18 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 2 December 2023. 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 -1 6,940 £65,000 +3.17% 3,335
UK excluding London -3 4,116 £55,000 - 2,334
Work from Home -1 3,935 £62,500 +4.17% 2,168
London +1 3,203 £80,000 +6.67% 1,274
North of England -2 1,123 £52,500 -4.55% 733
South East -5 1,018 £57,500 - 618
Midlands +3 676 £52,500 -0.19% 335
North West -2 637 £52,500 -4.55% 423
South West -8 570 £55,000 +4.76% 257
Yorkshire 0 435 £54,000 +2.86% 239
West Midlands +2 394 £52,500 -4.55% 223
Scotland -16 314 £55,000 - 124
East Midlands +2 284 £55,000 +10.00% 111
East of England 0 205 £60,000 +9.09% 205
Wales -11 135 £52,500 +10.53% 74
Northern Ireland +4 97 £50,000 -4.76% 40
North East -3 51 £50,000 - 82
Channel Islands +5 1 £65,000 -35.00%

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, 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 2,981 (38.44%) JavaScript
2 2,728 (35.18%) Agile
3 2,599 (33.52%) C#
4 2,463 (31.76%) .NET
5 2,324 (29.97%) SQL
6 2,165 (27.92%) Azure
7 1,806 (23.29%) AWS
8 1,748 (22.54%) React
9 1,746 (22.52%) Java
10 1,728 (22.29%) HTML
11 1,702 (21.95%) CSS
12 1,622 (20.92%) Finance
13 1,492 (19.24%) Full Stack Development
14 1,490 (19.22%) Social Skills
15 1,484 (19.14%) DevOps
16 1,283 (16.55%) AngularJS
17 1,262 (16.28%) SQL Server
18 1,234 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
19 1,208 (15.58%) TypeScript
20 1,194 (15.40%) Python
21 1,171 (15.10%) Degree
22 1,114 (14.37%) Software Engineering
23 1,106 (14.26%) Microsoft
24 1,082 (13.95%) Git
25 958 (12.35%) CI/CD
26 953 (12.29%) Microservices
27 900 (11.61%) Docker
28 800 (10.32%) TDD
29 792 (10.21%) Front End Development
30 787 (10.15%) ASP.NET

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
1 159 (2.05%) CMS
2 141 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 137 (1.77%) Apache
4 130 (1.68%) Confluence
5 126 (1.62%) WordPress
6 118 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 72 (0.93%) Umbraco
8 64 (0.83%) IIS
9 34 (0.44%) JBoss
10 33 (0.43%) Tomcat
11 32 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
12 31 (0.40%) Drupal
13 28 (0.36%) Apache Spark
14 15 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 15 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 14 (0.18%) Kentico
15 14 (0.18%) nginx
16 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 12 (0.15%) OpenEdge
17 11 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 55 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 15 (0.19%) Sketch
5 14 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 13 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.10%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.064%) Blender
11 4 (0.052%) 3ds Max
11 4 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.052%) InDesign
11 4 (0.052%) LibreOffice
11 4 (0.052%) Trello
12 3 (0.039%) FileZilla
12 3 (0.039%) Maya
12 3 (0.039%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 214 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (0.50%) Magento
3 36 (0.46%) Shopify
4 23 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 19 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.21%) Maximo
7 13 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
7 13 (0.17%) Visualfiles
8 12 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
9 10 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
10 8 (0.10%) Endur
10 8 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
12 6 (0.077%) Exstream
12 6 (0.077%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 5 (0.064%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.064%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 2,165 (27.92%) Azure
2 1,806 (23.29%) AWS
3 717 (9.25%) Power Platform
4 616 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
5 525 (6.77%) GCP
6 382 (4.93%) Serverless
7 354 (4.57%) SaaS
8 301 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
9 225 (2.90%) PowerApps
10 198 (2.55%) GitHub
11 144 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
12 134 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 132 (1.70%) Power Automate
14 114 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 111 (1.43%) Azure Functions
16 103 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
17 101 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
18 86 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
19 81 (1.04%) Amazon S3
20 76 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 60 (0.77%) Internet
2 57 (0.74%) HTTP
3 26 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 24 (0.31%) LAN
4 24 (0.31%) WAN
5 13 (0.17%) DNS
5 13 (0.17%) Wireless
6 12 (0.15%) SSH
7 11 (0.14%) Intranet
7 11 (0.14%) VoIP
8 8 (0.10%) Bluetooth
8 8 (0.10%) SSL
9 7 (0.090%) Network Security
9 7 (0.090%) PPP
9 7 (0.090%) Software-Defined Radio
10 6 (0.077%) FTP
11 5 (0.064%) MQTT
11 5 (0.064%) OpenVPN
12 4 (0.052%) ATM
12 4 (0.052%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,262 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 520 (6.71%) Power BI
3 465 (6.00%) MySQL
4 452 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 388 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 350 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 283 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 240 (3.10%) MongoDB
9 233 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 194 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
11 127 (1.64%) RDBMS
12 120 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 113 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 110 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 104 (1.34%) Redis
16 88 (1.13%) Apache Ignite
17 81 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 81 (1.04%) Tableau
18 76 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
19 65 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,082 (13.95%) Git
2 283 (3.65%) JIRA
3 281 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 216 (2.79%) Visual Studio
5 170 (2.19%) Maven
6 114 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 109 (1.41%) Selenium
8 108 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 103 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 92 (1.19%) IntelliJ
11 87 (1.12%) JUnit
12 72 (0.93%) GitLab
12 72 (0.93%) Gradle
13 62 (0.80%) Jasmine
14 61 (0.79%) Cucumber
15 58 (0.75%) Postman
16 49 (0.63%) NUnit
17 47 (0.61%) Mockito
18 46 (0.59%) TeamCity
19 42 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 1,622 (20.92%) Finance
2 1,490 (19.22%) Social Skills
3 527 (6.80%) Front Office
4 468 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
5 405 (5.22%) Banking
6 332 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 258 (3.33%) Retail
8 225 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 208 (2.68%) Marketing
10 197 (2.54%) Law
11 176 (2.27%) Games
12 153 (1.97%) Investment Banking
13 151 (1.95%) Legal
14 123 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 89 (1.15%) Tech for Good
16 74 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 66 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 59 (0.76%) Electronics
18 59 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
19 44 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,463 (31.76%) .NET
2 1,748 (22.54%) React
3 1,728 (22.29%) HTML
4 1,702 (21.95%) CSS
5 1,283 (16.55%) AngularJS
6 787 (10.15%) ASP.NET
7 738 (9.52%) .NET Core
8 722 (9.31%) Node.js
9 687 (8.86%) REST
10 600 (7.74%) .NET Framework
11 575 (7.42%) Spring
12 541 (6.98%) RESTful
12 541 (6.98%) Vue
13 482 (6.22%) Web Services
14 447 (5.76%) HTML5
15 401 (5.17%) Spring Boot
16 393 (5.07%) JSON
17 367 (4.73%) XML
18 366 (4.72%) jQuery
19 324 (4.18%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 446 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
2 289 (3.73%) Fixed Income
3 222 (2.86%) Derivative
4 221 (2.85%) Hedge funds
5 217 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 199 (2.57%) Mobile App
7 189 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 182 (2.35%) Equities
8 182 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 151 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 133 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 114 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 105 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
13 97 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 90 (1.16%) Management Information System
15 82 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
16 77 (0.99%) Low-Code
17 74 (0.95%) IoT
18 47 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
18 47 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 348 (4.49%) Linux
2 196 (2.53%) Android
3 179 (2.31%) Windows
4 127 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 71 (0.92%) Unix
6 42 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.19%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.17%) CentOS
9 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.052%) QNX Neutrino
11 4 (0.052%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.026%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.013%) MVS
13 1 (0.013%) VMS
13 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,728 (35.18%) Agile
2 1,492 (19.24%) Full Stack Development
3 1,484 (19.14%) DevOps
4 1,234 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 1,114 (14.37%) Software Engineering
6 958 (12.35%) CI/CD
7 953 (12.29%) Microservices
8 800 (10.32%) TDD
9 792 (10.21%) Front End Development
10 747 (9.63%) MVC
11 725 (9.35%) Computer Science
12 675 (8.71%) Scrum
13 617 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
14 613 (7.91%) Mentoring
15 582 (7.51%) User Experience
16 578 (7.45%) Web Development
17 557 (7.18%) Unit Testing
18 482 (6.22%) Fintech
19 481 (6.20%) Analytics
20 472 (6.09%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2,981 (38.44%) JavaScript
2 2,599 (33.52%) C#
3 2,324 (29.97%) SQL
4 1,746 (22.52%) Java
5 1,208 (15.58%) TypeScript
6 1,194 (15.40%) Python
7 615 (7.93%) PHP
8 402 (5.18%) C++
9 397 (5.12%) T-SQL
10 172 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 157 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 137 (1.77%) VB.NET
13 122 (1.57%) Ruby
14 118 (1.52%) PowerShell
15 111 (1.43%) Go
16 97 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 94 (1.21%) Scala
18 87 (1.12%) Bash
19 81 (1.04%) C
20 79 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,171 (15.10%) Degree
2 480 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 464 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 392 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 120 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 62 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (0.55%) PhD
9 41 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 22 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 20 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
14 8 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.090%) MCSA
15 7 (0.090%) OCP
15 7 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.077%) MCPD
16 6 (0.077%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (4.59%) QA
2 90 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 44 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 42 (0.54%) WCAG
5 29 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.13%) GDPR
9 8 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.077%) PMO
11 4 (0.052%) WAI
12 3 (0.039%) GRC
12 3 (0.039%) NCSC
12 3 (0.039%) SLA
13 2 (0.026%) MISRA
14 1 (0.013%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.013%) Dodd-Frank
14 1 (0.013%) EMIR
14 1 (0.013%) IFRS
14 1 (0.013%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 900 (11.61%) Docker
2 40 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.13%) Firmware
4 9 (0.12%) OpenSIPS
5 8 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.064%) HDFS
6 5 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.052%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.026%) Postfix
9 2 (0.026%) Varnish
9 2 (0.026%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (0.026%) vSphere
10 1 (0.013%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 690 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 237 (3.06%) Terraform
3 80 (1.03%) Ansible
4 20 (0.26%) Grafana
5 13 (0.17%) Kibana
5 13 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.10%) MIIS
7 8 (0.10%) SCCM
8 6 (0.077%) Control-M
8 6 (0.077%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.064%) SELinux
10 4 (0.052%) cPanel
10 4 (0.052%) Packer
11 2 (0.026%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.026%) Plesk
12 1 (0.013%) FlexNet
12 1 (0.013%) Istio
12 1 (0.013%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.013%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,106 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 354 (4.57%) Oracle
3 185 (2.39%) Google
4 122 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 70 (0.90%) SAP
6 59 (0.76%) Adobe
7 57 (0.74%) ServiceNow
8 55 (0.71%) IBM
9 49 (0.63%) Xamarin
10 28 (0.36%) TIBCO
11 25 (0.32%) Sitecore
12 24 (0.31%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.31%) Finsemble
12 24 (0.31%) WSO2
13 22 (0.28%) Apple
14 20 (0.26%) Databricks
15 16 (0.21%) Alteryx
16 15 (0.19%) Sybase
17 14 (0.18%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.18%) Rollbar