Development Engineer Jobs

Development Engineer
UK

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 727 786
Rank change year-on-year -22 +59 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 93 160 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 62 116 159
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,725 £34,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £54,875 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,188 £77,542 £79,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £91,875 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% -12.38%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer.

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -30 79 £46,500 -28.46% 45
UK excluding London -62 77 £50,000 -16.67% 47
Midlands -25 28 £45,000 -14.73% 10
Work from Home +3 25 £57,500 -23.89% 17
South East +11 23 £40,000 -33.33% 11
West Midlands -14 17 £45,000 -14.73% 3
London +55 15 £65,000 -13.97% 2
East Midlands -21 11 £45,000 - 7
Wales +29 10 £50,000 +8.20% 1
North of England 0 10 £65,000 -13.97% 8
Yorkshire +57 8 £65,000 -13.97% 1
South West -12 3 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Scotland -47 2 - - 2
North East - 2 - -
East of England -18 1 £65,000 - 11

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (35.48%) Degree
2 28 (30.11%) Software Engineering
2 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (27.96%) Python
4 18 (19.35%) C++
4 18 (19.35%) Software Testing
5 16 (17.20%) Java
5 16 (17.20%) Agile
6 15 (16.13%) SDET
6 15 (16.13%) C#
7 14 (15.05%) Azure
7 14 (15.05%) DevOps
8 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (13.98%) MATLAB
9 12 (12.90%) AWS
9 12 (12.90%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.90%) Git
9 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.83%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.83%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.75%) SQL
11 10 (10.75%) Social Skills
12 9 (9.68%) Task Automation
12 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
12 9 (9.68%) Physics
12 9 (9.68%) Firmware
13 8 (8.60%) Linux
13 8 (8.60%) Finance

Development Engineer 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 6 (6.45%) Confluence
1 6 (6.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Simulink
2 1 (1.08%) Maya
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) NUKE
2 1 (1.08%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.05%) Azure
2 12 (12.90%) AWS
3 6 (6.45%) GitHub
3 6 (6.45%) IaaS
3 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.38%) PowerApps
4 5 (5.38%) Serverless
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.08%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.08%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) Ethernet
2 4 (4.30%) Modbus
2 4 (4.30%) Profibus
3 2 (2.15%) Bluetooth
3 2 (2.15%) LAN
3 2 (2.15%) WAN
4 1 (1.08%) RS-232
4 1 (1.08%) RS-422
4 1 (1.08%) RS-485
4 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.30%) Big Data
3 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.08%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.08%) DB2
4 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.08%) MySQL
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) Subversion
2 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.15%) GitLab
3 2 (2.15%) LoadUI
3 2 (2.15%) Selenium
3 2 (2.15%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (10.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.60%) Automotive
3 8 (8.60%) Finance
4 6 (6.45%) Electronics
5 5 (5.38%) Games
5 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Military
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) .NET
1 5 (5.38%) Gherkin
1 5 (5.38%) Playwright
1 5 (5.38%) React
2 4 (4.30%) Unreal Engine
3 3 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.23%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (2.15%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.15%) CSS
5 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.08%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.08%) GTK
5 1 (1.08%) HTML
5 1 (1.08%) Kafka
5 1 (1.08%) pytest
5 1 (1.08%) Spring
5 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.08%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.45%) Life Science
2 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.15%) Animation
5 2 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
1 28 (30.11%) Software Engineering
2 18 (19.35%) Software Testing
3 16 (17.20%) Agile
4 15 (16.13%) SDET
5 14 (15.05%) DevOps
6 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (12.90%) Test Automation
7 11 (11.83%) Computer Science
7 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
7 11 (11.83%) Machine Learning
8 9 (9.68%) Physics
8 9 (9.68%) Task Automation
9 8 (8.60%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (8.60%) SDLC
10 7 (7.53%) Mathematics
10 7 (7.53%) Mentoring
11 6 (6.45%) Open Source
11 6 (6.45%) Signal Processing
11 6 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.96%) Python
2 18 (19.35%) C++
3 16 (17.20%) Java
4 15 (16.13%) C#
5 13 (13.98%) MATLAB
6 10 (10.75%) SQL
7 7 (7.53%) Bash
7 7 (7.53%) C
8 6 (6.45%) Ruby
9 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.30%) Embedded C++
10 4 (4.30%) Go
10 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.15%) Embedded C
11 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.08%) Ada
12 1 (1.08%) PHP
12 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (35.48%) Degree
2 12 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.30%) ISO 13485
2 3 (3.23%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (9.68%) Firmware
2 5 (5.38%) Docker
3 3 (3.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Xilinx
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) Rockwell
3 2 (2.15%) Siemens
4 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.08%) Cisco
4 1 (1.08%) IBM
4 1 (1.08%) Perforce
4 1 (1.08%) VMware