Hybrid/Remote Development Specialist Job Trends

Development Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Specialist salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 428 -
Rank change year-on-year +61 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Specialist 4 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.027% 0.024% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.025% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £55,500 - -
25th Percentile £59,063 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £120,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% - -
75th Percentile £71,000 - -
90th Percentile £74,600 - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,000 £32,705
% change year-on-year -6.25% +46.77% -49.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,996 15,789 20,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 96.08% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,087 9,529 17,098
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Development Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Development Specialist' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Development Specialist job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Development Specialist
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Development Specialist job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Development Specialist job vacancies

Development Specialist
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Development Specialist over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Development Specialist salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Development Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Development Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Development Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (25.00%) iTrent
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) LLM
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenCL
1 1 (25.00%) OpenMP

Development Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenCL
1 1 (25.00%) OpenMP
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CUDA
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (25.00%) LLM
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Parallel Programming
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Fortran
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat