Software Developer Jobs in England

Software Developer
UK > England

The median Software Developer salary in England is £53,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 194 149
Rank change year-on-year +51 -45 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 1,729 1,692 3,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.92% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 2.09% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 1,349 2,091
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £39,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,813 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,104 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in England

Software Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England +113 382 £49,500 -10.00% 89
South East -46 372 £60,000 +4.35% 85
South West +68 295 £50,000 +2.56% 51
London -46 258 £85,000 +9.68% 95
Midlands +73 253 £47,500 -5.00% 82
North West +87 218 £50,000 -9.09% 46
West Midlands +87 169 £50,000 -4.76% 49
East of England +65 159 £50,000 -9.09% 30
Yorkshire +92 126 £48,500 -15.65% 31
East Midlands +17 83 £44,000 -3.30% 33
North East +11 38 £47,500 -9.52% 15
Software Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 946 (54.71%) C#
2 795 (45.98%) .NET
3 598 (34.59%) JavaScript
4 551 (31.87%) Agile
5 482 (27.88%) SQL
6 373 (21.57%) Software Engineering
7 351 (20.30%) Azure
8 342 (19.78%) Social Skills
9 341 (19.72%) Degree
9 341 (19.72%) SQL Server
10 301 (17.41%) Java
11 290 (16.77%) HTML
12 287 (16.60%) Full Stack Development
13 276 (15.96%) DevOps
14 269 (15.56%) AWS
15 266 (15.38%) CSS
15 266 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
16 258 (14.92%) Computer Science
17 257 (14.86%) React
18 249 (14.40%) TypeScript
19 242 (14.00%) Python
20 227 (13.13%) Finance
20 227 (13.13%) .NET Core
21 211 (12.20%) ASP.NET
22 207 (11.97%) MVC
23 203 (11.74%) AngularJS
24 200 (11.57%) Docker
25 198 (11.45%) Microsoft
26 193 (11.16%) .NET Framework
27 188 (10.87%) Git

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 71 (4.11%) Apache
2 59 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (0.98%) CMS
4 10 (0.58%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.46%) Confluence
5 8 (0.46%) IIS
6 7 (0.40%) Mendix
7 6 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.29%) Drupal
8 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.058%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.058%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.058%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (0.93%) Simulink
2 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.058%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) BPCS
1 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.40%) Shopify
2 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
2 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.12%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.058%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 351 (20.30%) Azure
2 269 (15.56%) AWS
3 136 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (4.63%) GCP
5 70 (4.05%) SaaS
6 64 (3.70%) GitHub
7 59 (3.41%) dbt
8 48 (2.78%) Serverless
8 48 (2.78%) Snowflake
9 29 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 27 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (0.98%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.69%) Pulumi
15 11 (0.64%) PaaS
16 10 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.58%) Azure Pipelines
17 9 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.10%) Internet
2 13 (0.75%) Network Security
2 13 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 13 (0.75%) Wireless
3 6 (0.35%) DNS
4 5 (0.29%) 4G
4 5 (0.29%) 5G
5 4 (0.23%) Firewall
5 4 (0.23%) HTTP
5 4 (0.23%) iSCSI
5 4 (0.23%) LAN
5 4 (0.23%) Multicast
5 4 (0.23%) NAS
5 4 (0.23%) VPN
5 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.12%) RS-232
6 2 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (19.72%) SQL Server
2 103 (5.96%) MySQL
3 94 (5.44%) NoSQL
4 65 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 59 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
5 59 (3.41%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (3.41%) Apache Ignite
5 59 (3.41%) Dremio
6 47 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 30 (1.74%) Redis
9 24 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 17 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.69%) Power BI
14 10 (0.58%) GIS
15 8 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.46%) SQLite
16 7 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 188 (10.87%) Git
2 90 (5.21%) Visual Studio
3 40 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.97%) JIRA
5 19 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 19 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (1.04%) NUnit
6 18 (1.04%) Selenium
6 18 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
8 14 (0.81%) CircleCI
8 14 (0.81%) Maven
9 13 (0.75%) Jasmine
10 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.52%) Gradle
11 9 (0.52%) PHPUnit
12 8 (0.46%) CMake
12 8 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.46%) Moq
12 8 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 342 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 227 (13.13%) Finance
3 75 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (4.28%) Banking
5 65 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.59%) Front Office
7 59 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 50 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 40 (2.31%) Marketing
10 39 (2.26%) Law
11 38 (2.20%) Electronics
12 36 (2.08%) Retail
13 30 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (1.68%) Automotive
15 24 (1.39%) Tech for Good
16 23 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.16%) Legal
18 19 (1.10%) Games
19 16 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
20 15 (0.87%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 795 (45.98%) .NET
2 290 (16.77%) HTML
3 266 (15.38%) CSS
4 257 (14.86%) React
5 227 (13.13%) .NET Core
6 211 (12.20%) ASP.NET
7 203 (11.74%) AngularJS
8 193 (11.16%) .NET Framework
9 128 (7.40%) RESTful
10 118 (6.82%) Entity Framework
11 82 (4.74%) Node.js
12 80 (4.63%) HTML5
13 74 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
13 74 (4.28%) REST
13 74 (4.28%) Vue
14 64 (3.70%) WPF
15 63 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
15 63 (3.64%) Pandas
16 62 (3.59%) Protocol Buffers
17 61 (3.53%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (3.35%) Fixed Income
1 58 (3.35%) Mobile App
2 55 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (3.12%) Hedge funds
4 52 (3.01%) Algorithms
4 52 (3.01%) Derivative
4 52 (3.01%) Equities
5 51 (2.95%) IoT
6 47 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 32 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 31 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.68%) Client/Server
10 29 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
12 24 (1.39%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.93%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.69%) Blockchain
15 12 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.29%) Windows
2 122 (7.06%) Linux
3 47 (2.72%) Apple iOS
4 38 (2.20%) Android
5 16 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
6 13 (0.75%) Unix
7 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Mobile
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (31.87%) Agile
2 373 (21.57%) Software Engineering
3 287 (16.60%) Full Stack Development
4 276 (15.96%) DevOps
5 266 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 258 (14.92%) Computer Science
7 207 (11.97%) MVC
8 153 (8.85%) Microservices
9 149 (8.62%) CI/CD
10 135 (7.81%) Mentoring
11 127 (7.35%) TDD
12 115 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence
13 109 (6.30%) SDLC
13 109 (6.30%) Unit Testing
14 104 (6.02%) Test Automation
15 103 (5.96%) Code Quality
15 103 (5.96%) Design Patterns
16 99 (5.73%) Clean Code
17 98 (5.67%) Scrum
18 93 (5.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 946 (54.71%) C#
2 598 (34.59%) JavaScript
3 482 (27.88%) SQL
4 301 (17.41%) Java
5 249 (14.40%) TypeScript
6 242 (14.00%) Python
7 128 (7.40%) C++
8 111 (6.42%) C
9 90 (5.21%) PHP
10 46 (2.66%) VB.NET
11 37 (2.14%) Go
11 37 (2.14%) Kotlin
12 35 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 31 (1.79%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.45%) Ruby
15 20 (1.16%) VB
16 12 (0.69%) Embedded C
17 11 (0.64%) Rust
18 10 (0.58%) Bicep
19 9 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 341 (19.72%) Degree
2 141 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (4.74%) Security Cleared
4 31 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 28 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 26 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.16%) PhD
8 17 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.23%) CIPD
12 4 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.23%) MCSD
13 3 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.12%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.12%) HND
15 1 (0.058%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.53%) QA
2 8 (0.46%) GDPR
3 5 (0.29%) SLA
4 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 200 (11.57%) Docker
2 10 (0.58%) Firmware
3 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.058%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 155 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.12%) Terraform
3 14 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Kibana
5 7 (0.40%) MIIS
6 6 (0.35%) Grafana
7 5 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.23%) WSUS
9 1 (0.058%) Kiali
9 1 (0.058%) Knative
9 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 198 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.08%) Oracle
3 35 (2.02%) Google
4 25 (1.45%) Xamarin
5 16 (0.93%) Xilinx
6 14 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 12 (0.69%) Facebook
8 9 (0.52%) IBM
8 9 (0.52%) NVIDIA
9 8 (0.46%) F5
10 7 (0.40%) JDA
10 7 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.40%) Quadient
11 6 (0.35%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
11 6 (0.35%) YouTube
12 5 (0.29%) ESRI
12 5 (0.29%) Micro Focus
12 5 (0.29%) Peregrine
12 5 (0.29%) SAP