Software Developer
UK

The median Software Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 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 201 182 125
Rank change year-on-year -19 -57 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 948 2,691 3,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.75% 2.14% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.24% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 828 1,869 2,762
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the UK

Software Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer.

Salary trend for Software Developer in the UK

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the UK

Software Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer 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 -30 806 £60,000 +9.09% 371
UK excluding London -54 652 £52,500 +5.00% 336
Work from Home -37 472 £57,500 +4.55% 218
London +27 238 £80,000 +14.29% 99
South East -30 199 £55,000 +4.76% 66
Midlands +39 124 £50,000 +5.26% 49
North of England -28 119 £52,500 +5.00% 92
South West -60 86 £55,000 +22.22% 64
East Midlands +8 72 £47,500 - 17
North West -7 60 £55,000 +4.76% 56
West Midlands +61 52 £50,000 - 32
Yorkshire +29 46 £47,500 -5.00% 29
Northern Ireland +12 43 £42,500 -8.11% 11
Scotland -15 40 £52,500 - 18
East of England +37 23 £70,000 +27.27% 26
Wales +4 20 £50,000 +8.01% 23
North East +18 13 £46,250 -7.50% 10

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

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

1 552 (58.23%) C#
2 509 (53.69%) .NET
3 458 (48.31%) JavaScript
4 366 (38.61%) SQL
5 353 (37.24%) Agile
6 280 (29.54%) SQL Server
7 273 (28.80%) HTML
8 271 (28.59%) CSS
9 257 (27.11%) React
10 252 (26.58%) Azure
11 209 (22.05%) Degree
12 206 (21.73%) Python
13 187 (19.73%) ASP.NET
14 185 (19.51%) AWS
14 185 (19.51%) Social Skills
15 183 (19.30%) .NET Core
16 179 (18.88%) Java
16 179 (18.88%) MVC
17 177 (18.67%) Software Engineering
18 174 (18.35%) DevOps
19 171 (18.04%) Microsoft
20 168 (17.72%) Finance
20 168 (17.72%) TypeScript
21 156 (16.46%) AngularJS
22 149 (15.72%) Full Stack Development
23 143 (15.08%) CI/CD
24 142 (14.98%) Git
25 130 (13.71%) Docker
26 128 (13.50%) Computer Science
27 127 (13.40%) .NET Framework

Software 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 28 (2.95%) Apache
2 21 (2.22%) Confluence
3 17 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.27%) CMS
5 8 (0.84%) Drupal
5 8 (0.84%) IIS
6 5 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.32%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
10 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Endur
2 7 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.53%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.21%) Scribe Insight
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 252 (26.58%) Azure
2 185 (19.51%) AWS
3 71 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (6.65%) Serverless
5 56 (5.91%) GCP
6 32 (3.38%) SaaS
7 26 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (2.43%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.90%) dbt
10 16 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.48%) Azure Pipelines
12 13 (1.37%) Azure Functions
13 11 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.16%) GitHub
14 10 (1.05%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (0.84%) Amazon Cognito
15 8 (0.84%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.43%) LAN
1 23 (2.43%) WAN
2 7 (0.74%) Bluetooth
2 7 (0.74%) SSL
3 6 (0.63%) HTTP
3 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.42%) ATM
4 4 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.42%) Wireless
5 3 (0.32%) Internet
6 2 (0.21%) Network Security
6 2 (0.21%) SNMP
7 1 (0.11%) DNS
7 1 (0.11%) MQTT
7 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (29.54%) SQL Server
2 66 (6.96%) MySQL
3 53 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.75%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.75%) Relational Database
5 33 (3.48%) RDBMS
6 30 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.11%) Power BI
8 17 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (1.79%) Apache Arrow
8 17 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
8 17 (1.79%) Big Data
8 17 (1.79%) Dremio
9 15 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.42%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 142 (14.98%) Git
2 32 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.06%) JIRA
4 21 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.37%) Maven
6 11 (1.16%) Selenium
7 9 (0.95%) NUnit
7 9 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.74%) GitLab
10 6 (0.63%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.53%) Appium
11 5 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.42%) GDB
12 4 (0.42%) JUnit
12 4 (0.42%) Subversion
13 3 (0.32%) Serenity BDD
13 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 185 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 168 (17.72%) Finance
3 64 (6.75%) Front Office
4 61 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (5.06%) Banking
5 48 (5.06%) Retail
6 35 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (2.64%) Automotive
8 22 (2.32%) Legal
9 20 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.00%) Electronics
10 19 (2.00%) Law
11 18 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.90%) Marketing
12 16 (1.69%) Games
13 12 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.05%) Back Office
15 8 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.84%) Tech for Good
15 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (53.69%) .NET
2 273 (28.80%) HTML
3 271 (28.59%) CSS
4 257 (27.11%) React
5 187 (19.73%) ASP.NET
6 183 (19.30%) .NET Core
7 156 (16.46%) AngularJS
8 127 (13.40%) .NET Framework
9 108 (11.39%) Node.js
10 100 (10.55%) ASP.NET Web API
11 90 (9.49%) ASP.NET MVC
12 83 (8.76%) Web Services
13 71 (7.49%) Entity Framework
14 65 (6.86%) REST
15 62 (6.54%) RESTful
16 61 (6.43%) HTML5
17 57 (6.01%) jQuery
18 54 (5.70%) XML
19 43 (4.54%) Vue
20 41 (4.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.91%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (2.64%) Mobile App
3 22 (2.32%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 17 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.69%) IoT
6 16 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
7 14 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.16%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (0.84%) Swaptions
12 7 (0.74%) Cyberattack
12 7 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.74%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 74 (7.81%) Linux
2 41 (4.32%) Windows
3 28 (2.95%) Android
4 26 (2.74%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.42%) QNX Neutrino
6 4 (0.42%) Unix
6 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (37.24%) Agile
2 179 (18.88%) MVC
3 177 (18.67%) Software Engineering
4 174 (18.35%) DevOps
5 149 (15.72%) Full Stack Development
6 143 (15.08%) CI/CD
7 128 (13.50%) Computer Science
8 111 (11.71%) Design Patterns
9 104 (10.97%) Microservices
10 102 (10.76%) TDD
11 97 (10.23%) Mentoring
12 86 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (8.33%) SDLC
13 79 (8.33%) Unit Testing
14 77 (8.12%) Scrum
15 71 (7.49%) SOLID
16 68 (7.17%) Test Automation
17 65 (6.86%) Web Development
18 54 (5.70%) Clean Code
19 47 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 552 (58.23%) C#
2 458 (48.31%) JavaScript
3 366 (38.61%) SQL
4 206 (21.73%) Python
5 179 (18.88%) Java
6 168 (17.72%) TypeScript
7 107 (11.29%) C++
8 71 (7.49%) T-SQL
9 63 (6.65%) PHP
10 45 (4.75%) VB.NET
11 44 (4.64%) VB
12 36 (3.80%) C
13 28 (2.95%) Ruby
14 25 (2.64%) Scala
15 23 (2.43%) JSX
16 18 (1.90%) Go
17 14 (1.48%) PowerShell
18 13 (1.37%) Bash
19 12 (1.27%) Rust
20 11 (1.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 209 (22.05%) Degree
2 84 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 66 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.05%) PhD
8 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.53%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.53%) OCP
11 5 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.21%) MCSA
13 2 (0.21%) MCSD
14 1 (0.11%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.22%) QA
2 8 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.63%) WCAG
4 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.21%) MISRA
4 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 130 (13.71%) Docker
2 9 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (0.53%) Firmware
3 5 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 97 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.95%) Terraform
3 3 (0.32%) MIIS
4 2 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Grafana
5 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 171 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.22%) Oracle
3 17 (1.79%) Google
4 13 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 9 (0.95%) SAP
6 8 (0.84%) OpenLink
6 8 (0.84%) Sybase
6 8 (0.84%) TIBCO
7 7 (0.74%) ESRI
8 5 (0.53%) Telerik
9 4 (0.42%) QNX
9 4 (0.42%) RedGate
10 3 (0.32%) Blue Prism
10 3 (0.32%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.21%) ABBYY
11 2 (0.21%) Ariba
11 2 (0.21%) Mercator
11 2 (0.21%) Splunk
12 1 (0.11%) Cadence
12 1 (0.11%) WSO2