Developer
UK

The median Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 14,482 15,778 34,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 15.54% 22.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.43% 16.99% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,310 12,115 20,465
10th Percentile £35,288 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,942 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 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%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 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 +2 12,703 £57,500 -11.54% 2,437
UK excluding London +3 10,101 £52,500 -4.55% 1,650
Work from Home -1 6,273 £57,500 -8.00% 1,545
London -3 3,677 £75,000 -3.23% 936
North of England +12 2,872 £52,084 -5.30% 471
South East 0 2,239 £57,500 - 287
North West +11 1,706 £52,500 -4.55% 294
Midlands +9 1,572 £50,000 -9.09% 343
South West +3 1,406 £50,000 -9.09% 200
West Midlands +13 1,019 £52,500 -4.55% 211
Yorkshire +15 910 £50,000 -4.76% 136
East of England +12 877 £50,000 -13.04% 141
Scotland -23 651 £54,000 -1.82% 137
East Midlands +5 546 £50,000 -9.09% 131
Wales +7 343 £52,500 +16.67% 63
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 44
Northern Ireland -2 146 £53,250 +6.50% 34
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 5,068 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 5,003 (34.55%) C#
3 4,785 (33.04%) .NET
4 4,400 (30.38%) Agile
5 4,086 (28.21%) Azure
6 3,615 (24.96%) Full Stack Development
7 3,492 (24.11%) SQL
8 2,909 (20.09%) HTML
9 2,798 (19.32%) AWS
10 2,791 (19.27%) React
11 2,641 (18.24%) CSS
12 2,518 (17.39%) Microsoft
13 2,436 (16.82%) SQL Server
14 2,357 (16.28%) Social Skills
15 2,324 (16.05%) AngularJS
16 2,134 (14.74%) Finance
17 2,087 (14.41%) TypeScript
18 2,045 (14.12%) Java
19 2,020 (13.95%) DevOps
20 1,956 (13.51%) ASP.NET
21 1,953 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
22 1,913 (13.21%) Software Engineering
23 1,839 (12.70%) MVC
24 1,740 (12.01%) Microservices
25 1,701 (11.75%) Python
26 1,681 (11.61%) Degree
27 1,667 (11.51%) .NET Core
28 1,645 (11.36%) Git
29 1,420 (9.81%) TDD
30 1,385 (9.56%) PHP

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
1 346 (2.39%) CMS
2 340 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 308 (2.13%) WordPress
4 286 (1.97%) Apache
5 186 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 184 (1.27%) Confluence
7 162 (1.12%) IIS
8 134 (0.93%) Umbraco
9 89 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 83 (0.57%) Drupal
11 72 (0.50%) nginx
12 66 (0.46%) OpenEdge
13 53 (0.37%) Headless CMS
14 52 (0.36%) Kentico
15 50 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
16 42 (0.29%) OpenStack
17 31 (0.21%) Mendix
18 29 (0.20%) Tomcat
19 28 (0.19%) SAS
20 24 (0.17%) Appian
Applications
1 124 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 32 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 28 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 26 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 16 (0.11%) Simulink
9 10 (0.069%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.048%) GNU Octave
10 7 (0.048%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.035%) InDesign
12 5 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.028%) Maya
13 4 (0.028%) Sketch
13 4 (0.028%) Stateflow
14 3 (0.021%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.021%) Blender
14 3 (0.021%) Trello
Business Applications
1 219 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 113 (0.78%) Shopify
3 95 (0.66%) Magento
4 64 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
5 45 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 40 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 35 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 32 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
9 27 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
10 17 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 12 (0.083%) Visualfiles
12 10 (0.069%) Maximo
13 9 (0.062%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 9 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (0.048%) BPCS
14 7 (0.048%) Sage 200
15 6 (0.041%) SAP ERP
16 5 (0.035%) Odoo
16 5 (0.035%) SAP BPC
16 5 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4,086 (28.21%) Azure
2 2,798 (19.32%) AWS
3 1,118 (7.72%) Power Platform
4 911 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
5 620 (4.28%) Serverless
6 603 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
7 591 (4.08%) SaaS
8 561 (3.87%) GCP
9 443 (3.06%) PowerApps
10 421 (2.91%) Power Automate
11 419 (2.89%) GitHub
12 277 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
13 253 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 251 (1.73%) Azure Functions
15 241 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 190 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
17 152 (1.05%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.90%) IBM Cloud
19 103 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
19 103 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 217 (1.50%) Internet
2 75 (0.52%) HTTP
3 64 (0.44%) DNS
4 63 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 43 (0.30%) Firewall
6 41 (0.28%) SSL
7 30 (0.21%) Intranet
8 27 (0.19%) VPN
8 27 (0.19%) Wireless
9 22 (0.15%) Broadband
9 22 (0.15%) MQTT
10 16 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
10 16 (0.11%) Network Security
10 16 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.097%) 5G
11 14 (0.097%) Mobile Broadband
12 12 (0.083%) Bluetooth
13 11 (0.076%) BGP
13 11 (0.076%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.076%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,436 (16.82%) SQL Server
2 968 (6.68%) MySQL
3 857 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 696 (4.81%) Power BI
5 618 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 616 (4.25%) MongoDB
7 579 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 332 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 308 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
10 277 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 267 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 207 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 182 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 177 (1.22%) Redis
15 171 (1.18%) Apache Ignite
16 143 (0.99%) DB2
17 117 (0.81%) DynamoDB
18 113 (0.78%) Data Lake
19 110 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
20 100 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,645 (11.36%) Git
2 494 (3.41%) Visual Studio
3 455 (3.14%) JIRA
4 340 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 199 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 158 (1.09%) GitLab
7 146 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 122 (0.84%) Selenium
9 107 (0.74%) NUnit
10 106 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
11 82 (0.57%) Sourcetree
11 82 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 80 (0.55%) JUnit
13 70 (0.48%) Jasmine
14 69 (0.48%) webpack
15 65 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
16 64 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
17 59 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
18 56 (0.39%) Moq
19 55 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,357 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 2,134 (14.74%) Finance
3 585 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
4 561 (3.87%) Marketing
5 555 (3.83%) Front Office
6 545 (3.76%) Banking
7 524 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 493 (3.40%) Law
9 436 (3.01%) Retail
10 429 (2.96%) Games
11 399 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 254 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 207 (1.43%) Legal
14 187 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 182 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 163 (1.13%) Tech for Good
17 153 (1.06%) Telecoms
18 141 (0.97%) Advertising
19 113 (0.78%) Back Office
20 112 (0.77%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,785 (33.04%) .NET
2 2,909 (20.09%) HTML
3 2,791 (19.27%) React
4 2,641 (18.24%) CSS
5 2,324 (16.05%) AngularJS
6 1,956 (13.51%) ASP.NET
7 1,667 (11.51%) .NET Core
8 1,344 (9.28%) Node.js
9 1,333 (9.20%) Vue
10 1,317 (9.09%) .NET Framework
11 1,108 (7.65%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1,035 (7.15%) REST
13 1,031 (7.12%) Entity Framework
14 997 (6.88%) ASP.NET MVC
15 964 (6.66%) RESTful
16 935 (6.46%) HTML5
17 806 (5.57%) Web Services
18 774 (5.34%) Laravel
19 753 (5.20%) jQuery
20 549 (3.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 694 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
2 410 (2.83%) Fixed Income
3 402 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 380 (2.62%) Hedge funds
4 380 (2.62%) Mobile App
5 312 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 309 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 305 (2.11%) Equities
8 277 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 267 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 248 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 217 (1.50%) Derivative
12 206 (1.42%) IoT
13 182 (1.26%) Blockchain
14 165 (1.14%) Client/Server
15 150 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
16 136 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
17 135 (0.93%) Management Information System
18 133 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
19 126 (0.87%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 763 (5.27%) Linux
2 476 (3.29%) Windows
3 402 (2.78%) Android
4 340 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 162 (1.12%) Unix
6 35 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.20%) VMS
8 27 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 22 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 18 (0.12%) CentOS
11 17 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 13 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.035%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.035%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.028%) AIX
16 4 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.014%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,400 (30.38%) Agile
2 3,615 (24.96%) Full Stack Development
3 2,020 (13.95%) DevOps
4 1,953 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
5 1,913 (13.21%) Software Engineering
6 1,839 (12.70%) MVC
7 1,740 (12.01%) Microservices
8 1,420 (9.81%) TDD
9 1,185 (8.18%) Computer Science
10 1,164 (8.04%) CI/CD
11 1,161 (8.02%) Scrum
12 1,133 (7.82%) Web Development
13 1,033 (7.13%) Front End Development
14 1,005 (6.94%) User Experience
15 940 (6.49%) Mentoring
16 913 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence
17 911 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
18 786 (5.43%) Design Patterns
19 743 (5.13%) Unit Testing
20 699 (4.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5,068 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 5,003 (34.55%) C#
3 3,492 (24.11%) SQL
4 2,087 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 2,045 (14.12%) Java
6 1,701 (11.75%) Python
7 1,385 (9.56%) PHP
8 532 (3.67%) C++
9 442 (3.05%) T-SQL
10 292 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 282 (1.95%) C
12 255 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 208 (1.44%) VB.NET
14 207 (1.43%) Go
15 177 (1.22%) PowerShell
16 161 (1.11%) Ruby
17 130 (0.90%) Scala
18 119 (0.82%) VB
19 112 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 87 (0.60%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,681 (11.61%) Degree
2 707 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 671 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 543 (3.75%) SC Cleared
5 149 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 144 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 80 (0.55%) DBS Check
7 80 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 61 (0.42%) PhD
9 55 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 53 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 52 (0.36%) AWS Certification
12 39 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
13 23 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.12%) Postgraduate
15 14 (0.097%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
17 11 (0.076%) HND
18 8 (0.055%) Numerate Degree
19 6 (0.041%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 520 (3.59%) QA
2 156 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 68 (0.47%) GDPR
4 62 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 57 (0.39%) WCAG
6 29 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 21 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.10%) SLA
9 12 (0.083%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.083%) WAI
10 11 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.041%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.035%) GRC
12 5 (0.035%) MiFID
13 3 (0.021%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.021%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.021%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.021%) PMO
14 2 (0.014%) HL7
14 2 (0.014%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1,176 (8.12%) Docker
2 66 (0.46%) HDFS
3 55 (0.38%) Firmware
4 45 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 35 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
6 31 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.021%) Varnish
10 3 (0.021%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.014%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.007%) GridGain
12 1 (0.007%) OpenSIPS
12 1 (0.007%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 773 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 313 (2.16%) Terraform
3 96 (0.66%) Ansible
4 26 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.17%) Grafana
6 21 (0.15%) Kibana
7 15 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.069%) Rancher
9 9 (0.062%) MIIS
10 7 (0.048%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.041%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.041%) cPanel
11 6 (0.041%) Data Guard
12 5 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.035%) Puppet
13 4 (0.028%) Control-M
13 4 (0.028%) WSUS
14 3 (0.021%) Galera Cluster
15 2 (0.014%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.014%) Consul
Vendors
1 2,518 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 531 (3.67%) Oracle
3 397 (2.74%) Google
4 194 (1.34%) IBM
5 166 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 145 (1.00%) ServiceNow
7 133 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 128 (0.88%) Facebook
9 120 (0.83%) Adobe
10 109 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 101 (0.70%) Databricks
12 80 (0.55%) SAP
13 69 (0.48%) Sitecore
14 67 (0.46%) Apple
15 65 (0.45%) Informatica
16 57 (0.39%) Cloudera
17 53 (0.37%) WooCommerce
18 48 (0.33%) MuleSoft
18 48 (0.33%) Progress
19 45 (0.31%) Optimizely