Digital Developer Job Trends

Digital Developer
UK

The median Digital Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 649 759 747
Rank change year-on-year +110 -12 +117
Permanent jobs requiring a Digital Developer 27 37 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.047% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.050% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 23 33 27
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £65,000 £70,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £49,302
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.42% -6.09%

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Digital Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Digital Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Digital Developer job vacancies in the UK

Digital Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Developer over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Digital Developer in the UK

Digital Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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
UK excluding London +102 23 £55,000 +10.00% 4
England +91 18 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Work from Home +83 16 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Midlands +52 9 £40,000 -11.11% 1
Wales - 9 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 5 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands +42 4 £55,000 +22.22%
London - 4 £75,000 - 2
South West +78 3 £32,850 -56.20%
Yorkshire +14 2 - - 1
North of England +9 2 - - 2

Digital Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Digital 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 Digital Developer in the job title.

1 15 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (48.15%) Front End Development
3 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
4 10 (37.04%) Finance
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) HTML
5 9 (33.33%) CSS
6 8 (29.63%) SQL
6 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) React
7 7 (25.93%) DevOps
8 6 (22.22%) User Experience
8 6 (22.22%) Analytics
8 6 (22.22%) Git
8 6 (22.22%) Python
8 6 (22.22%) Data Science
9 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
9 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (18.52%) Accessibility
9 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (18.52%) Customer Experience
9 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
9 5 (18.52%) CRM
9 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (18.52%) Salesforce
9 5 (18.52%) RESTful
9 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
9 5 (18.52%) Economics
9 5 (18.52%) Statistical Analysis

Digital 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 3 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) CMS
2 2 (7.41%) Drupal
2 2 (7.41%) EPiServer
2 2 (7.41%) Umbraco
3 1 (3.70%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) GitHub
2 4 (14.81%) Serverless
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Azure App Service
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 3 (11.11%) PowerApps
4 2 (7.41%) Figma
4 2 (7.41%) npm
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
1 5 (18.52%) Tableau
2 3 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) JMeter
3 3 (11.11%) Postman
3 3 (11.11%) Selenium
3 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (7.41%) Grunt
4 2 (7.41%) gulp
4 2 (7.41%) webpack
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Marketing
3 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) CSS
1 9 (33.33%) HTML
2 8 (29.63%) React
3 5 (18.52%) Node.js
3 5 (18.52%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) .NET
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 3 (11.11%) Nuxt
4 3 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 3 (11.11%) Swagger
4 3 (11.11%) Vue
5 2 (7.41%) CSS3
5 2 (7.41%) HTML5
5 2 (7.41%) Redux
5 2 (7.41%) Sass
6 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.70%) Django
6 1 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.70%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (48.15%) Front End Development
3 10 (37.04%) Agile
4 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
6 6 (22.22%) Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) Data Science
6 6 (22.22%) User Experience
7 5 (18.52%) A/B Testing
7 5 (18.52%) CRM
7 5 (18.52%) Customer Acquisition
7 5 (18.52%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
7 5 (18.52%) Digital Analytics
7 5 (18.52%) Economics
7 5 (18.52%) Lead Generation
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) Statistical Analysis
7 5 (18.52%) Statistics
7 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
1 5 (18.52%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Salesforce
2 4 (14.81%) Guidewire
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace