Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 10,099 8,345 14,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.25% 13.99% 20.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.03% 15.69% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8,602 6,033 10,485
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%

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 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Developer in the UK excluding London

Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the UK excluding London

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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +12 2,878 £52,084 -5.30% 532
South East 0 2,234 £57,500 - 315
North West +11 1,708 £52,500 -4.55% 319
Midlands +10 1,568 £50,000 -9.09% 357
South West +4 1,409 £50,000 -9.09% 217
West Midlands +13 1,019 £51,000 -7.27% 228
Yorkshire +16 914 £50,000 -4.76% 149
East of England +13 873 £50,000 -13.04% 142
Scotland -24 651 £54,000 -1.82% 124
East Midlands +3 542 £50,000 -9.09% 128
Wales +7 345 £52,500 +16.02% 56
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 68
Northern Ireland -2 145 £51,000 +2.00% 38
Channel Islands - 5 £60,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 2
Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3,796 (37.59%) C#
2 3,719 (36.83%) JavaScript
3 3,679 (36.43%) .NET
4 3,010 (29.80%) Agile
5 2,860 (28.32%) Azure
6 2,546 (25.21%) Full Stack Development
7 2,381 (23.58%) SQL
8 2,307 (22.84%) HTML
9 2,068 (20.48%) CSS
10 1,921 (19.02%) React
11 1,905 (18.86%) Microsoft
12 1,881 (18.63%) SQL Server
13 1,695 (16.78%) AngularJS
14 1,634 (16.18%) Social Skills
15 1,599 (15.83%) AWS
16 1,584 (15.68%) MVC
17 1,574 (15.59%) ASP.NET
18 1,389 (13.75%) DevOps
19 1,366 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
20 1,327 (13.14%) .NET Core
21 1,277 (12.64%) TypeScript
22 1,250 (12.38%) Microservices
23 1,247 (12.35%) Git
24 1,179 (11.67%) Degree
25 1,167 (11.56%) PHP
26 1,116 (11.05%) Java
27 1,115 (11.04%) Software Engineering
28 1,067 (10.57%) .NET Framework
29 1,018 (10.08%) Vue
30 971 (9.61%) Finance

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
1 259 (2.56%) CMS
2 257 (2.54%) WordPress
3 214 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 129 (1.28%) Confluence
5 125 (1.24%) IIS
6 122 (1.21%) Umbraco
7 79 (0.78%) Apache
8 73 (0.72%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.52%) Headless CMS
10 52 (0.51%) nginx
11 46 (0.46%) OpenEdge
12 44 (0.44%) Kentico
13 42 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
14 40 (0.40%) Drupal
15 34 (0.34%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.24%) SAS
17 13 (0.13%) Apache Solr
17 13 (0.13%) Tomcat
18 12 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
18 12 (0.12%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 91 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 30 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 25 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
5 19 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 18 (0.18%) Simulink
7 14 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.089%) InfoPath
9 6 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.050%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.040%) Maya
11 4 (0.040%) Sketch
11 4 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.030%) InDesign
13 2 (0.020%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.020%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.010%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 135 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 103 (1.02%) Shopify
3 84 (0.83%) Magento
4 53 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 37 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
6 32 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 32 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
7 25 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 9 (0.089%) Maximo
9 7 (0.069%) BPCS
10 6 (0.059%) Sage 200
11 5 (0.050%) Odoo
11 5 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.050%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.040%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
12 4 (0.040%) Sonata
12 4 (0.040%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,860 (28.32%) Azure
2 1,599 (15.83%) AWS
3 707 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 661 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
5 451 (4.47%) SaaS
6 383 (3.79%) Serverless
7 356 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 278 (2.75%) GitHub
9 276 (2.73%) PowerApps
10 274 (2.71%) Power Automate
11 184 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
12 174 (1.72%) Azure Functions
12 174 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 159 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 126 (1.25%) GCP
15 125 (1.24%) Azure API Management
16 119 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
17 117 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
18 77 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
19 74 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 193 (1.91%) Internet
2 62 (0.61%) DNS
3 61 (0.60%) HTTP
4 43 (0.43%) Firewall
5 40 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.35%) SSL
7 27 (0.27%) Intranet
8 24 (0.24%) Wireless
9 20 (0.20%) MQTT
10 16 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
11 15 (0.15%) 5G
12 13 (0.13%) Broadband
12 13 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.11%) Network Security
14 10 (0.099%) VPN
14 10 (0.099%) WAN
15 9 (0.089%) SMTP
16 8 (0.079%) Mobile Broadband
16 8 (0.079%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.079%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,881 (18.63%) SQL Server
2 796 (7.88%) MySQL
3 530 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 482 (4.77%) Power BI
5 478 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 433 (4.29%) MongoDB
7 391 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 245 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
9 210 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 202 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 164 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
12 119 (1.18%) DB2
13 117 (1.16%) Oracle Database
14 113 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 87 (0.86%) Redis
16 79 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
17 78 (0.77%) Power Query
18 77 (0.76%) Tableau
19 70 (0.69%) DynamoDB
20 69 (0.68%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 1,247 (12.35%) Git
2 416 (4.12%) Visual Studio
3 301 (2.98%) JIRA
4 263 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 171 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 110 (1.09%) GitLab
7 87 (0.86%) Selenium
8 83 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
9 68 (0.67%) NUnit
10 67 (0.66%) Sourcetree
11 62 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 58 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 58 (0.57%) Jasmine
13 54 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
14 53 (0.52%) JUnit
14 53 (0.52%) webpack
15 46 (0.46%) TeamCity
16 41 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
17 39 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
18 36 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 1,634 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 971 (9.61%) Finance
3 418 (4.14%) Marketing
4 392 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 386 (3.82%) Law
6 379 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 351 (3.48%) Retail
8 316 (3.13%) Games
9 267 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 239 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 156 (1.54%) Banking
12 148 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 127 (1.26%) Legal
14 120 (1.19%) Tech for Good
15 113 (1.12%) Advertising
16 105 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 96 (0.95%) Automotive
18 82 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 79 (0.78%) Electronics
20 76 (0.75%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,679 (36.43%) .NET
2 2,307 (22.84%) HTML
3 2,068 (20.48%) CSS
4 1,921 (19.02%) React
5 1,695 (16.78%) AngularJS
6 1,574 (15.59%) ASP.NET
7 1,327 (13.14%) .NET Core
8 1,067 (10.57%) .NET Framework
9 1,018 (10.08%) Vue
10 961 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
11 959 (9.50%) Node.js
12 881 (8.72%) Entity Framework
13 842 (8.34%) ASP.NET MVC
14 752 (7.45%) HTML5
15 740 (7.33%) REST
16 714 (7.07%) RESTful
17 666 (6.59%) Laravel
18 599 (5.93%) jQuery
19 568 (5.62%) Web Services
20 458 (4.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 460 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 313 (3.10%) Mobile App
3 304 (3.01%) Algorithms
4 192 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 191 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 185 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 169 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 148 (1.47%) IoT
9 129 (1.28%) Blockchain
10 119 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 117 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 117 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
12 95 (0.94%) Management Information System
13 78 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
14 72 (0.71%) Client/Server
14 72 (0.71%) Cloud Native
14 72 (0.71%) Social Media
15 56 (0.55%) NHS
16 55 (0.54%) Onboarding
17 51 (0.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 584 (5.78%) Linux
2 400 (3.96%) Windows
3 340 (3.37%) Android
4 274 (2.71%) Apple iOS
5 116 (1.15%) Unix
6 35 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 21 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.20%) VMS
10 18 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.099%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.059%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.050%) Windows Mobile
15 4 (0.040%) AIX
15 4 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.020%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,010 (29.80%) Agile
2 2,546 (25.21%) Full Stack Development
3 1,584 (15.68%) MVC
4 1,389 (13.75%) DevOps
5 1,366 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
6 1,250 (12.38%) Microservices
7 1,115 (11.04%) Software Engineering
8 969 (9.60%) Web Development
9 957 (9.48%) TDD
10 846 (8.38%) Scrum
11 791 (7.83%) User Experience
12 766 (7.58%) CI/CD
13 755 (7.48%) Computer Science
14 733 (7.26%) Front End Development
15 647 (6.41%) Artificial Intelligence
16 626 (6.20%) Business Intelligence
17 609 (6.03%) Design Patterns
17 609 (6.03%) Mentoring
18 518 (5.13%) Unit Testing
19 513 (5.08%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3,796 (37.59%) C#
2 3,719 (36.83%) JavaScript
3 2,381 (23.58%) SQL
4 1,277 (12.64%) TypeScript
5 1,167 (11.56%) PHP
6 1,116 (11.05%) Java
7 806 (7.98%) Python
8 387 (3.83%) C++
9 297 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 236 (2.34%) C
11 193 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 192 (1.90%) VB.NET
13 125 (1.24%) Go
14 115 (1.14%) VB
15 108 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 103 (1.02%) PowerShell
17 89 (0.88%) Ruby
18 67 (0.66%) Swift
19 65 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 48 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,179 (11.67%) Degree
2 542 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 477 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 406 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 105 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 77 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 67 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 60 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (0.43%) PhD
10 42 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 42 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 38 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 38 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
12 11 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.099%) HND
14 8 (0.079%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.069%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.040%) CIPD
17 3 (0.030%) ISTQB
17 3 (0.030%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (3.44%) QA
2 90 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 56 (0.55%) GDPR
4 44 (0.44%) WCAG
5 34 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 24 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (0.12%) SLA
8 10 (0.099%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.099%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.099%) WAI
9 5 (0.050%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.030%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.030%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.020%) GRC
11 2 (0.020%) HL7
11 2 (0.020%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.010%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.010%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.010%) ITGC
12 1 (0.010%) NIST
System Software
1 782 (7.74%) Docker
2 56 (0.55%) HDFS
3 49 (0.49%) Firmware
4 31 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
5 27 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.20%) Active Directory
7 8 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.030%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.020%) Varnish
11 2 (0.020%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.010%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 490 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 224 (2.22%) Terraform
3 83 (0.82%) Ansible
4 18 (0.18%) Kibana
5 10 (0.099%) Rancher
6 8 (0.079%) MIIS
7 7 (0.069%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.050%) Grafana
9 5 (0.050%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (0.040%) cPanel
10 4 (0.040%) Puppet
10 4 (0.040%) WSUS
11 3 (0.030%) Galera Cluster
12 1 (0.010%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.010%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.010%) Istio
12 1 (0.010%) Kiali
12 1 (0.010%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.010%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,905 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 350 (3.47%) Oracle
3 245 (2.43%) Google
4 160 (1.58%) IBM
5 119 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 118 (1.17%) Facebook
7 109 (1.08%) Xamarin
8 83 (0.82%) Adobe
9 81 (0.80%) Databricks
9 81 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 72 (0.71%) ServiceNow
11 65 (0.64%) Informatica
12 59 (0.58%) SAP
13 58 (0.57%) Sitecore
14 57 (0.56%) Apple
15 56 (0.55%) Cloudera
16 47 (0.47%) WooCommerce
17 40 (0.40%) Optimizely
18 35 (0.35%) YouTube
19 34 (0.34%) WSO2