Developer/Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer/Developer
UK

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in the UK is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 539 441
Rank change year-on-year -28 -98 +134
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 87 210 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.34% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.36% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 80 199 271
10th Percentile - £71,250 £66,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £102,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -8.89% +18.42%
75th Percentile £142,500 £128,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £142,500 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Developer/Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Developer/Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Developer/Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Developer/Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Developer/Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer/Software Engineer in the UK

Developer/Software Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer/Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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 -23 83 £130,000 +26.83% 17
London -34 81 £130,000 +23.81% 8
Work from Home -23 74 £130,000 +23.81% 4
UK excluding London +86 6 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Scotland - 4 - -
South East +46 1 £65,000 +30.00% 5
South West +26 1 £55,000 -8.33% 2

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 December 2025, Developer/Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 83 (95.40%) Agile
3 77 (88.51%) AWS
3 77 (88.51%) React
4 75 (86.21%) JavaScript
4 75 (86.21%) TypeScript
5 74 (85.06%) Investment Management
6 72 (82.76%) Node.js
7 69 (79.31%) Order Management
8 64 (73.56%) Python
9 55 (63.22%) GCP
10 54 (62.07%) AngularJS
11 53 (60.92%) Vue
12 50 (57.47%) Asset Management
13 49 (56.32%) Fintech
14 48 (55.17%) PostgreSQL
15 46 (52.87%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (51.72%) Apache Airflow
16 45 (51.72%) Apache Arrow
16 45 (51.72%) Apache Iceberg
16 45 (51.72%) dbt
16 45 (51.72%) Dremio
16 45 (51.72%) NumPy
16 45 (51.72%) Pandas
16 45 (51.72%) Performance Attribution
16 45 (51.72%) Risk Management
16 45 (51.72%) SciPy
17 34 (39.08%) Java
18 28 (32.18%) Redux
19 26 (29.89%) Kafka

Developer/Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (51.72%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 77 (88.51%) AWS
2 55 (63.22%) GCP
3 45 (51.72%) dbt
4 4 (4.60%) Azure
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.15%) GitHub
5 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (55.17%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (52.87%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (51.72%) Apache Arrow
3 45 (51.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 45 (51.72%) Dremio
4 2 (2.30%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.30%) Big Data
4 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.30%) HBase
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Git
1 3 (3.45%) Maven
2 2 (2.30%) Gradle
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) Gatling
3 1 (1.15%) JMeter
3 1 (1.15%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.15%) Vite
General
1 80 (91.95%) Finance
2 73 (83.91%) Front Office
3 7 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.05%) Law
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Legal
6 1 (1.15%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (88.51%) React
2 72 (82.76%) Node.js
3 54 (62.07%) AngularJS
4 53 (60.92%) Vue
5 45 (51.72%) NumPy
5 45 (51.72%) Pandas
5 45 (51.72%) SciPy
6 28 (32.18%) Redux
7 26 (29.89%) Kafka
8 24 (27.59%) GraphQL
9 6 (6.90%) Spring
10 3 (3.45%) REST
10 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.30%) .NET
11 2 (2.30%) JPA
12 1 (1.15%) CSS
12 1 (1.15%) HTML
12 1 (1.15%) JMS
12 1 (1.15%) WCF
12 1 (1.15%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 73 (83.91%) Fixed Income
2 50 (57.47%) Equities
2 50 (57.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Derivative
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.15%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 83 (95.40%) Agile
3 74 (85.06%) Investment Management
4 69 (79.31%) Order Management
5 50 (57.47%) Asset Management
6 49 (56.32%) Fintech
7 45 (51.72%) Performance Attribution
7 45 (51.72%) Risk Management
8 24 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (27.59%) Portfolio Management
9 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (6.90%) Operational Stability
10 6 (6.90%) SDLC
10 6 (6.90%) TDD
11 4 (4.60%) Computer Science
11 4 (4.60%) Decision-Making
11 4 (4.60%) Test Automation
12 3 (3.45%) Code Quality
12 3 (3.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 75 (86.21%) JavaScript
1 75 (86.21%) TypeScript
2 64 (73.56%) Python
3 34 (39.08%) Java
4 24 (27.59%) Go
5 3 (3.45%) C++
5 3 (3.45%) SQL
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.45%) Oracle
2 2 (2.30%) Cloudera
2 2 (2.30%) Databricks
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
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