Developer Jobs in the South East

Developer
England > South East

The median Developer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,367 2,312 4,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.36% 16.71% 21.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.19% 18.56% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,986 1,792 3,171
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,677 12,455 19,867
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.04% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,843 7,951 12,374
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Developer in the South East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the South East

Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley -3 884 £60,000 -7.69% 106
Hampshire -4 574 £60,000 +9.09% 74
Berkshire -2 446 £65,000 - 36
Surrey -1 309 £55,000 -8.33% 44
Kent +8 258 £55,000 - 33
Buckinghamshire -1 233 £55,000 -4.35% 36
Oxfordshire 0 205 £55,000 -15.38% 34
East Sussex -3 155 £55,000 - 41
West Sussex +7 102 £55,000 -5.98% 12
Sussex +3 58 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Middlesex -36 5 £44,000 -43.23% 1
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 South East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 1,056 (44.61%) .NET
2 1,035 (43.73%) C#
3 1,009 (42.63%) JavaScript
4 865 (36.54%) Agile
5 843 (35.61%) Azure
6 677 (28.60%) Full Stack Development
7 629 (26.57%) HTML
8 610 (25.77%) SQL
9 579 (24.46%) CSS
10 554 (23.41%) SQL Server
11 552 (23.32%) React
12 502 (21.21%) ASP.NET
13 493 (20.83%) AngularJS
14 484 (20.45%) MVC
15 431 (18.21%) Microsoft
16 410 (17.32%) DevOps
17 407 (17.19%) Microservices
18 403 (17.03%) AWS
19 391 (16.52%) .NET Core
20 375 (15.84%) Social Skills
21 357 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
22 350 (14.79%) Git
23 337 (14.24%) Java
24 330 (13.94%) Degree
25 324 (13.69%) TypeScript
26 316 (13.35%) TDD
27 300 (12.67%) .NET Framework
27 300 (12.67%) Docker
28 293 (12.38%) Computer Science
29 283 (11.96%) ASP.NET Web API

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 72 (3.04%) CMS
2 43 (1.82%) IIS
2 43 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 29 (1.23%) Umbraco
5 25 (1.06%) Apache
5 25 (1.06%) Kentico
6 24 (1.01%) Headless CMS
7 22 (0.93%) WordPress
8 21 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
9 18 (0.76%) nginx
10 14 (0.59%) IBM Domino
11 13 (0.55%) Drupal
12 11 (0.46%) JBoss
13 10 (0.42%) Confluence
14 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
14 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
15 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 24 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.76%) Simulink
4 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.25%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.042%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.042%) InDesign
7 1 (0.042%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.042%) Revit
Business Applications
1 43 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (1.48%) Siebel CRM
3 17 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
4 8 (0.34%) Magento
5 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.21%) Odoo
7 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
7 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
8 2 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.084%) nopCommerce
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.084%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.084%) Shopify
9 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 843 (35.61%) Azure
2 403 (17.03%) AWS
3 219 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (6.76%) Serverless
5 119 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 109 (4.60%) SaaS
7 91 (3.84%) Azure Functions
8 86 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 80 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 77 (3.25%) Azure API Management
10 77 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
11 76 (3.21%) GitHub
12 74 (3.13%) IBM Cloud
13 49 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (1.35%) Power Automate
16 29 (1.23%) GCP
17 27 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.41%) Internet
2 24 (1.01%) HTTP
3 19 (0.80%) DNS
4 15 (0.63%) SSL
5 14 (0.59%) Firewall
5 14 (0.59%) Network Security
6 9 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.34%) VPN
8 7 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
10 4 (0.17%) Intranet
10 4 (0.17%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.17%) LAN
10 4 (0.17%) MQTT
10 4 (0.17%) NAS
10 4 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.17%) Wireless
11 1 (0.042%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 554 (23.41%) SQL Server
2 216 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 194 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 182 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 179 (7.56%) Relational Database
6 162 (6.84%) MySQL
7 92 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
8 83 (3.51%) Power BI
9 74 (3.13%) DB2
10 59 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (1.48%) Oracle BI EE
11 35 (1.48%) Siebel EIM
12 32 (1.35%) Power Query
13 29 (1.23%) Redis
14 25 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (0.93%) Data Lake
16 21 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.63%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.59%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 350 (14.79%) Git
2 103 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 88 (3.72%) JIRA
4 75 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 57 (2.41%) Selenium
6 43 (1.82%) NUnit
7 35 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 34 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 33 (1.39%) JUnit
10 32 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 28 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 23 (0.97%) GitLab
13 22 (0.93%) Ant
14 19 (0.80%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.59%) Jasmine
16 13 (0.55%) Postman
16 13 (0.55%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.42%) MorphX
17 10 (0.42%) MSBuild
18 9 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 375 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 255 (10.77%) Finance
3 155 (6.55%) Public Sector
4 95 (4.01%) Marketing
5 71 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (2.70%) Retail
7 56 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 45 (1.90%) Law
9 42 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.69%) Aerospace
11 34 (1.44%) Games
12 26 (1.10%) Advertising
12 26 (1.10%) Tech for Good
13 25 (1.06%) Back Office
14 22 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (0.89%) Electronics
16 18 (0.76%) Multimedia
17 14 (0.59%) Banking
18 12 (0.51%) Military
19 11 (0.46%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,056 (44.61%) .NET
2 629 (26.57%) HTML
3 579 (24.46%) CSS
4 552 (23.32%) React
5 502 (21.21%) ASP.NET
6 493 (20.83%) AngularJS
7 391 (16.52%) .NET Core
8 300 (12.67%) .NET Framework
9 283 (11.96%) ASP.NET Web API
10 282 (11.91%) Vue
11 277 (11.70%) HTML5
12 272 (11.49%) Entity Framework
13 263 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
14 245 (10.35%) Node.js
15 237 (10.01%) REST
16 220 (9.29%) Web Services
17 187 (7.90%) jQuery
18 183 (7.73%) CSS3
19 174 (7.35%) RESTful
20 160 (6.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 127 (5.37%) Algorithms
2 115 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
3 80 (3.38%) Data Structures
4 76 (3.21%) Blockchain
5 74 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 72 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
9 43 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 23 (0.97%) Management Information System
13 22 (0.93%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.93%) Social Media
14 15 (0.63%) Cloud Native
14 15 (0.63%) Mainframe
14 15 (0.63%) NHS
15 14 (0.59%) Digital Media
16 13 (0.55%) BBC
16 13 (0.55%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 192 (8.11%) Linux
2 148 (6.25%) Windows
3 109 (4.60%) Android
4 86 (3.63%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.25%) Unix
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.084%) AIX
9 2 (0.084%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (36.54%) Agile
2 677 (28.60%) Full Stack Development
3 484 (20.45%) MVC
4 410 (17.32%) DevOps
5 407 (17.19%) Microservices
6 357 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
7 316 (13.35%) TDD
8 293 (12.38%) Computer Science
9 270 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 237 (10.01%) Web Development
11 216 (9.13%) CI/CD
12 215 (9.08%) Software Engineering
13 202 (8.53%) Scrum
14 186 (7.86%) User Experience
15 184 (7.77%) Design Patterns
16 177 (7.48%) BDD
17 165 (6.97%) OO
18 162 (6.84%) OOP
19 152 (6.42%) Front End Development
20 142 (6.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,035 (43.73%) C#
2 1,009 (42.63%) JavaScript
3 610 (25.77%) SQL
4 337 (14.24%) Java
5 324 (13.69%) TypeScript
6 266 (11.24%) Python
7 209 (8.83%) PHP
8 136 (5.75%) C++
9 77 (3.25%) C
10 72 (3.04%) Go
11 51 (2.15%) T-SQL
12 36 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 26 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.76%) VB.NET
15 16 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.63%) COBOL
17 11 (0.46%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.38%) Scala
19 8 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 330 (13.94%) Degree
2 207 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 174 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 122 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 33 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 31 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
8 24 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 19 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.80%) PhD
10 13 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.13%) MBA
14 2 (0.084%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.084%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.084%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.042%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.042%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.42%) QA
2 31 (1.31%) WCAG
3 22 (0.93%) GDPR
4 20 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 9 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.084%) GRC
9 2 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.042%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 300 (12.67%) Docker
2 22 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.42%) Firmware
4 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.17%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.084%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 208 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.94%) Terraform
3 42 (1.77%) Ansible
4 9 (0.38%) MIIS
5 8 (0.34%) Kibana
6 5 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.17%) WSUS
8 3 (0.13%) Puppet
9 2 (0.084%) Grafana
10 1 (0.042%) cPanel
10 1 (0.042%) Plesk
Vendors
1 431 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.10%) Oracle
3 83 (3.51%) IBM
4 76 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 59 (2.49%) Google
6 35 (1.48%) Siebel
7 31 (1.31%) Facebook
8 30 (1.27%) WSO2
9 26 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.10%) SAP
10 21 (0.89%) Optimizely
10 21 (0.89%) Sitecore
10 21 (0.89%) Xamarin
11 18 (0.76%) Xilinx
12 15 (0.63%) Unisys
13 14 (0.59%) Adobe
13 14 (0.59%) Apple
14 13 (0.55%) Sony
14 13 (0.55%) Yahoo!
15 10 (0.42%) HP