Backend Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Backend Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 619 621 548
Rank change year-on-year +2 -73 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 152 132 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.23% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 132 112 166
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 70,794 51,688 70,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 89.09% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 49,908 29,605 42,636
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,348
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Backend Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +53 61 £55,000 -18.52% 8
North West +13 38 £52,500 -22.22% 6
Yorkshire +86 22 £57,500 -25.81% 2
Midlands -4 22 £45,000 - 10
East of England -1 18 £42,500 +13.33% 4
South East -30 18 £65,000 - 1
South West -15 17 £47,500 -17.39% 4
West Midlands +7 15 £45,000 - 7
Scotland -52 12 £54,000 -34.94% 1
East Midlands -21 7 £35,000 -9.09% 3
Wales +8 4 £40,000 - 1
North East -2 1 £45,000 -14.29%
Backend Developer
UK

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Backend 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 UK excluding London region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 48 (31.58%) C#
1 48 (31.58%) AWS
2 47 (30.92%) JavaScript
2 47 (30.92%) .NET
3 43 (28.29%) Social Skills
4 40 (26.32%) Agile
5 39 (25.66%) Software Engineering
6 37 (24.34%) SQL
7 30 (19.74%) Microservices
8 28 (18.42%) Azure
9 25 (16.45%) Docker
9 25 (16.45%) CSS
10 24 (15.79%) PHP
10 24 (15.79%) Node.js
11 23 (15.13%) HTML
12 22 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (13.82%) Clean Code
13 21 (13.82%) MySQL
13 21 (13.82%) Computer Science
14 20 (13.16%) Degree
14 20 (13.16%) Python
14 20 (13.16%) Test Automation
15 19 (12.50%) SaaS
15 19 (12.50%) TypeScript
15 19 (12.50%) Software Testing
15 19 (12.50%) CI/CD
16 18 (11.84%) DevOps
16 18 (11.84%) REST
16 18 (11.84%) RESTful
17 17 (11.18%) Relational Database

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (5.26%) WordPress
2 5 (3.29%) Drupal
3 3 (1.97%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Moodle
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (31.58%) AWS
2 28 (18.42%) Azure
3 19 (12.50%) SaaS
4 17 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (11.18%) Serverless
5 10 (6.58%) GitHub
6 8 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Functions
7 7 (4.61%) IaaS
7 7 (4.61%) PaaS
8 4 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.63%) GCP
9 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.97%) Firebase
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.32%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) HTTP
2 6 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.66%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) MySQL
2 17 (11.18%) Relational Database
3 15 (9.87%) DynamoDB
4 14 (9.21%) SQL Server
5 13 (8.55%) NoSQL
6 12 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.97%) Redis
9 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.32%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.66%) Power BI
11 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Git
2 7 (4.61%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.29%) Postman
4 3 (1.97%) Maven
5 2 (1.32%) Subversion
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) GitLab
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Mockito
6 1 (0.66%) Moq
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.66%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 43 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.89%) Finance
3 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.61%) Games
3 7 (4.61%) Marketing
4 3 (1.97%) Banking
4 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.97%) Retail
4 3 (1.97%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.32%) Electronics
5 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.66%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.66%) Automotive
6 1 (0.66%) Aviation
6 1 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.66%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (30.92%) .NET
2 25 (16.45%) CSS
3 24 (15.79%) Node.js
4 23 (15.13%) HTML
5 18 (11.84%) REST
5 18 (11.84%) RESTful
6 15 (9.87%) Laravel
6 15 (9.87%) Web Services
7 14 (9.21%) Vue
8 12 (7.89%) Kafka
9 11 (7.24%) React
10 9 (5.92%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.92%) OAuth
11 8 (5.26%) JSON
12 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.61%) gRPC
13 6 (3.95%) LAMP
13 6 (3.95%) React Native
13 6 (3.95%) Spring
13 6 (3.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.24%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.61%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.97%) IoT
5 3 (1.97%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.32%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.32%) Agile
2 39 (25.66%) Software Engineering
3 30 (19.74%) Microservices
4 22 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (13.82%) Clean Code
5 21 (13.82%) Computer Science
6 20 (13.16%) Test Automation
7 19 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 19 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 18 (11.84%) DevOps
9 17 (11.18%) API Development
9 17 (11.18%) Front End Development
10 16 (10.53%) TDD
11 15 (9.87%) Design Patterns
11 15 (9.87%) OO
12 14 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (8.55%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (7.24%) Data Protection
14 11 (7.24%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (6.58%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.58%) C#
2 47 (30.92%) JavaScript
3 37 (24.34%) SQL
4 24 (15.79%) PHP
5 20 (13.16%) Python
6 19 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.53%) Java
8 10 (6.58%) Go
9 6 (3.95%) C++
10 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) Degree
2 16 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.61%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) GDPR
2 7 (4.61%) HIPAA
3 5 (3.29%) QA
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (16.45%) Docker
2 6 (3.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (2.63%) Google
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle
3 2 (1.32%) SAP
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe
4 1 (0.66%) Salesforce