Development Manager
UK

The median Development Manager salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 404 543
Rank change year-on-year +195 +139 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 1,425 836 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 0.79% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 0.87% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,133 426 639
10th Percentile £35,000 - £51,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -25.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -18.52% +12.50%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in the UK

Development Manager
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +197 1,245 £40,000 -33.33% 332
UK excluding London +119 992 £45,000 -18.18% 233
Work from Home +225 788 £40,000 -40.74% 146
South East +118 394 £40,000 -33.33% 67
London +228 361 £40,000 -51.52% 111
Midlands +103 213 £45,000 -25.00% 37
North of England +61 174 £50,000 +0.89% 64
West Midlands +102 164 £40,060 -38.37% 25
North West +36 92 £50,000 -16.67% 36
Scotland +1 80 £45,000 -10.89% 10
Yorkshire +87 69 £50,000 +33.33% 24
South West -29 57 £50,000 +14.29% 30
East Midlands +11 49 £65,000 +8.33% 12
East of England +2 48 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Wales +34 42 £35,700 +2.00% 3
North East -1 13 £70,000 +47.24% 4
Northern Ireland +23 6 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Development Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 992 (69.61%) Business Development
2 369 (25.89%) Salesforce
3 332 (23.30%) Customer Experience
4 327 (22.95%) Client Onboarding
5 309 (21.68%) Social Skills
6 205 (14.39%) CRM
7 190 (13.33%) Agile
8 176 (12.35%) Marketing
9 167 (11.72%) Finance
10 134 (9.40%) Decision-Making
11 126 (8.84%) Degree
12 111 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (7.16%) Microsoft
14 99 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
15 97 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
16 91 (6.39%) B2B
17 85 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
18 84 (5.89%) Telecoms
18 84 (5.89%) SaaS
19 83 (5.82%) Project Management
20 78 (5.47%) .NET
21 75 (5.26%) Software Engineering
22 67 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
23 66 (4.63%) Azure
23 66 (4.63%) Mentoring
24 65 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 64 (4.49%) C#
26 62 (4.35%) SAP
26 62 (4.35%) Value Proposition
27 61 (4.28%) Manufacturing

Development Manager 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 23 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (0.77%) CMS
3 9 (0.63%) WordPress
4 8 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.42%) Apache
5 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.42%) nginx
5 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.28%) Confluence
6 4 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Drupal
8 2 (0.14%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Liferay
8 2 (0.14%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.070%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.070%) SAS
Applications
1 99 (6.95%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.14%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.070%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 46 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 23 (1.61%) Endur
3 17 (1.19%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.42%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 2 (0.14%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.070%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 84 (5.89%) SaaS
2 66 (4.63%) Azure
3 35 (2.46%) AWS
4 21 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 20 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.70%) GCP
7 8 (0.56%) PowerApps
8 7 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (0.49%) IBM Cloud
9 6 (0.42%) Asana
9 6 (0.42%) dbt
10 4 (0.28%) PaaS
11 3 (0.21%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.21%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.14%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.14%) npm
12 2 (0.14%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.070%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.070%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.47%) VoIP
2 18 (1.26%) Unified Communications
3 16 (1.12%) Broadband
4 9 (0.63%) Network Security
5 8 (0.56%) Firewall
6 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 5 (0.35%) SSL
6 5 (0.35%) WAN
7 4 (0.28%) NaaS
8 3 (0.21%) FTP
8 3 (0.21%) HTTP
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) MQTT
8 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.21%) VPN
9 2 (0.14%) Internet
9 2 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.14%) VPLS
9 2 (0.14%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 25 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 23 (1.61%) RDBMS
4 14 (0.98%) MySQL
5 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (0.63%) OLAP
6 9 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.56%) Power BI
8 6 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.42%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.42%) Dremio
8 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.28%) GIS
10 2 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.14%) DTS
10 2 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.14%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 14 (0.98%) JIRA
2 12 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.49%) Git
4 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
4 6 (0.42%) Selenium
4 6 (0.42%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.14%) Bower
5 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.14%) gulp
5 2 (0.14%) Moq
5 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 309 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 176 (12.35%) Marketing
3 167 (11.72%) Finance
4 84 (5.89%) Telecoms
5 67 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
6 65 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (4.28%) Manufacturing
8 59 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (3.65%) Public Sector
10 51 (3.58%) Retail
11 43 (3.02%) Legal
12 34 (2.39%) Games
13 32 (2.25%) Local Government
14 22 (1.54%) Automotive
15 20 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
19 9 (0.63%) Law
20 8 (0.56%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.47%) .NET
2 17 (1.19%) HTML
2 17 (1.19%) React
3 13 (0.91%) CSS
4 9 (0.63%) ASP.NET
5 8 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (0.56%) Node.js
5 8 (0.56%) Redux
6 7 (0.49%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.42%) gRPC
7 6 (0.42%) LAMP
7 6 (0.42%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (0.35%) Ajax
8 5 (0.35%) Laravel
8 5 (0.35%) Vue
8 5 (0.35%) Web Services
9 4 (0.28%) Jest
9 4 (0.28%) jQuery
9 4 (0.28%) REST
9 4 (0.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 48 (3.37%) Driving Licence
4 27 (1.89%) Social Media
5 23 (1.61%) Swaptions
6 22 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 20 (1.40%) Life Science
9 15 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (0.84%) Biopharmaceutical
11 10 (0.70%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.63%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.63%) e-Learning
12 9 (0.63%) FMCG
12 9 (0.63%) NHS
13 8 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
13 8 (0.56%) Learning Management System
14 7 (0.49%) 3D Graphics
14 7 (0.49%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (0.70%) Linux
2 9 (0.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.070%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 992 (69.61%) Business Development
2 332 (23.30%) Customer Experience
3 327 (22.95%) Client Onboarding
4 205 (14.39%) CRM
5 190 (13.33%) Agile
6 134 (9.40%) Decision-Making
7 111 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (6.39%) B2B
9 83 (5.82%) Project Management
10 75 (5.26%) Software Engineering
11 66 (4.63%) Mentoring
12 62 (4.35%) Value Proposition
13 61 (4.28%) SDLC
14 51 (3.58%) DevOps
15 50 (3.51%) People Management
16 49 (3.44%) Active Listening
16 49 (3.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (3.37%) Business Strategy
17 48 (3.37%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (3.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (4.49%) C#
2 47 (3.30%) Java
3 45 (3.16%) SQL
4 29 (2.04%) PHP
5 27 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 25 (1.75%) VB
7 23 (1.61%) Python
8 18 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.12%) C
10 15 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.56%) C++
12 6 (0.42%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.21%) Go
13 3 (0.21%) R
13 3 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.14%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.14%) XAML
15 1 (0.070%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 126 (8.84%) Degree
2 19 (1.33%) Master's Degree
3 16 (1.12%) DBS Check
4 14 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (0.84%) MBA
5 12 (0.84%) PhD
5 12 (0.84%) SC Cleared
5 12 (0.84%) Security Cleared
6 10 (0.70%) CFA
6 10 (0.70%) CIMA
7 7 (0.49%) CIPD
7 7 (0.49%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.21%) HNC
8 3 (0.21%) HND
8 3 (0.21%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.070%) MCAD
10 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.070%) MRICS
10 1 (0.070%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.86%) SLA
2 27 (1.89%) QA
3 8 (0.56%) GDPR
4 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.35%) NCSC
7 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.14%) PMO
8 2 (0.14%) WCAG
9 1 (0.070%) IFRS
9 1 (0.070%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.070%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (1.26%) Docker
2 5 (0.35%) Firmware
3 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.84%) Ansible
3 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.070%) PaperCut
4 1 (0.070%) Plesk
4 1 (0.070%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 369 (25.89%) Salesforce
2 102 (7.16%) Microsoft
3 62 (4.35%) SAP
4 23 (1.61%) OpenLink
4 23 (1.61%) Oracle
4 23 (1.61%) Sybase
4 23 (1.61%) TIBCO
5 15 (1.05%) Sage
6 11 (0.77%) IBM
6 11 (0.77%) NetApp
6 11 (0.77%) YouTube
7 9 (0.63%) IFS
8 8 (0.56%) Cisco
9 7 (0.49%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.42%) BT
11 4 (0.28%) ATG
11 4 (0.28%) Dell
11 4 (0.28%) Google
11 4 (0.28%) HP
11 4 (0.28%) Sophos