Programmer
UK

The median Programmer salary in the UK is £26,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 526 452 422
Rank change year-on-year -74 -30 +172
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 210 898 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.71% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.75% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 132 122 200
10th Percentile £23,107 £37,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £24,400 £41,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £45,000 £75,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £66,778 £117,500 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,993 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -40.01% +11.11% +5.88%

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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Programmer in the UK

Programmer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Programmer.

Salary trend for Programmer in the UK

Programmer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programmer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Programmer in the UK

Programmer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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 -1 196 £26,000 -52.73% 151
UK excluding London -82 160 £29,993 -40.01% 128
South East +133 101 £25,000 -59.51% 35
Work from Home +82 91 £65,066 +8.44% 33
London +195 42 £26,000 -64.14% 33
North of England -19 35 £42,500 -15.00% 25
Yorkshire +10 23 £65,066 +53.10% 7
North West +33 12 £26,000 -48.00% 15
Scotland -38 10 £35,000 - 3
South West +47 6 £34,854 -39.38% 12
Northern Ireland - 4 £29,993 - 2
East of England +75 2 £45,000 -25.00% 14
Midlands +22 2 £43,750 -2.78% 38
West Midlands +29 1 £37,500 -16.67% 32
East Midlands +27 1 £50,000 - 6

Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 94 (44.76%) Degree
2 83 (39.52%) Computer Science
3 80 (38.10%) Creative Thinking
4 79 (37.62%) DBS Check
4 79 (37.62%) Social Housing
5 75 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 75 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (35.24%) Line Management
6 74 (35.24%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (32.38%) Mathematics
8 67 (31.90%) CDISC
8 67 (31.90%) QA
8 67 (31.90%) XML
8 67 (31.90%) SAS
8 67 (31.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 67 (31.90%) Statistics
8 67 (31.90%) Onboarding
9 66 (31.43%) Metadata
9 66 (31.43%) Base SAS
9 66 (31.43%) SAS Macro
9 66 (31.43%) Biotechnology
9 66 (31.43%) Life Science
9 66 (31.43%) Collaborative Working
10 41 (19.52%) Project Management
11 36 (17.14%) Local Government
12 32 (15.24%) Immunology
12 32 (15.24%) Decision-Making
12 32 (15.24%) Housing Association
13 31 (14.76%) Time Management
13 31 (14.76%) Clinical Data Management

Programmer 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 67 (31.90%) SAS
2 4 (1.90%) CMS
2 4 (1.90%) WordPress
3 1 (0.48%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.90%) Photoshop
1 4 (1.90%) Trello
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.48%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.48%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (2.86%) Azure
2 4 (1.90%) AWS
2 4 (1.90%) GCP
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.48%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (31.43%) Base SAS
1 66 (31.43%) Metadata
2 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.48%) DB2
3 1 (0.48%) DTS
3 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.48%) Power BI
3 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.86%) JIRA
2 5 (2.38%) Git
General
1 79 (37.62%) Social Housing
2 75 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 75 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 67 (31.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 36 (17.14%) Local Government
5 16 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.67%) Finance
7 11 (5.24%) Banking
8 3 (1.43%) Games
8 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.95%) Front Office
9 2 (0.95%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Aviation
10 1 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.48%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (31.90%) XML
2 13 (6.19%) .NET
3 11 (5.24%) HTML
3 11 (5.24%) Middleware
4 10 (4.76%) React
5 8 (3.81%) CSS
6 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.90%) Laravel
7 4 (1.90%) Node.js
7 4 (1.90%) Vue
8 3 (1.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 2 (0.95%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.95%) Unreal Engine
10 1 (0.48%) DirectX
10 1 (0.48%) EDI
10 1 (0.48%) ISAPI
10 1 (0.48%) JSON
10 1 (0.48%) OpenGL
10 1 (0.48%) REST
10 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (31.90%) Onboarding
2 66 (31.43%) Life Science
3 32 (15.24%) Housing Association
4 31 (14.76%) PDA
5 16 (7.62%) Mainframe
6 15 (7.14%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (4.76%) Robotics
8 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.38%) IBM Mainframe
9 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.43%) AS400
11 2 (0.95%) Device Driver
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
12 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.48%) Equities
12 1 (0.48%) Fixed Income
12 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
12 1 (0.48%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.24%) zOS
2 3 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) Android
3 2 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (39.52%) Computer Science
2 80 (38.10%) Creative Thinking
3 74 (35.24%) Line Management
3 74 (35.24%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (32.38%) Mathematics
5 67 (31.90%) Statistics
6 66 (31.43%) Biotechnology
6 66 (31.43%) Collaborative Working
7 41 (19.52%) Project Management
8 32 (15.24%) Decision-Making
8 32 (15.24%) Immunology
9 31 (14.76%) Biostatistics
9 31 (14.76%) Clinical Data Management
9 31 (14.76%) Data Management
9 31 (14.76%) Time Management
10 15 (7.14%) Agile
11 14 (6.67%) Customer Service
12 11 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (4.76%) Incident Management
13 10 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 66 (31.43%) SAS Macro
2 18 (8.57%) SQL
3 13 (6.19%) C#
4 12 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.76%) Java
6 8 (3.81%) C
6 8 (3.81%) PHP
7 5 (2.38%) C++
7 5 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.38%) Python
8 3 (1.43%) RPG
9 2 (0.95%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.95%) RPG IV
9 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) ABAP
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (44.76%) Degree
2 79 (37.62%) DBS Check
3 31 (14.76%) Numerate Degree
4 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (31.90%) CDISC
1 67 (31.90%) QA
2 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (7.62%) IBM
2 13 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.76%) TOWER Software
4 8 (3.81%) Oracle
5 2 (0.95%) JD Edwards
5 2 (0.95%) SAP
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Charles River
6 1 (0.48%) Draytek
6 1 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.48%) Murex
6 1 (0.48%) VMware