Junior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 535 444
Rank change year-on-year +2 -91 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 243 244 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.42% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.47% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 222 186 401
10th Percentile £23,250 £25,952 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,938 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £34,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £33,750 £38,868 £39,500
90th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £58,750
UK median annual salary £30,250 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% - +7.69%

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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
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%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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 +59 66 £30,000 -4.76% 17
Midlands +15 57 £27,500 -26.67% 15
South East -18 51 £32,500 -4.41% 18
North West +24 42 £30,000 -20.00% 14
West Midlands +25 39 £27,500 -35.29% 9
East of England +3 35 £30,000 +3.45% 5
Yorkshire +82 24 £30,000 -4.76% 3
South West -17 20 £27,750 -20.71% 9
East Midlands +1 18 £27,500 -3.51% 6
Scotland -60 9 £30,000 -20.00% 4
Wales +2 5 £42,500 +41.67% 2
Junior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 110 (45.27%) C#
2 97 (39.92%) JavaScript
3 80 (32.92%) .NET
4 76 (31.28%) Degree
5 73 (30.04%) SQL
6 64 (26.34%) HTML
7 62 (25.51%) CSS
8 55 (22.63%) PHP
8 55 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (20.99%) Social Skills
9 51 (20.99%) SQL Server
9 51 (20.99%) Agile
10 50 (20.58%) Computer Science
11 45 (18.52%) Java
12 43 (17.70%) React
13 42 (17.28%) Web Development
14 39 (16.05%) Full Stack Development
15 34 (13.99%) Azure
16 33 (13.58%) Microsoft
17 32 (13.17%) Finance
17 32 (13.17%) Computer Science Degree
18 28 (11.52%) AWS
19 27 (11.11%) Git
19 27 (11.11%) .NET Framework
19 27 (11.11%) Docker
20 26 (10.70%) TDD
20 26 (10.70%) Marketing
21 25 (10.29%) MySQL
21 25 (10.29%) DevOps
22 23 (9.47%) Business Intelligence

Junior 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 21 (8.64%) WordPress
2 11 (4.53%) CMS
3 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.70%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.23%) InDesign
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Magento
1 8 (3.29%) Shopify
2 3 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 34 (13.99%) Azure
2 28 (11.52%) AWS
3 21 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (5.76%) SaaS
6 7 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.06%) GitHub
9 4 (1.65%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.82%) Figma
11 2 (0.82%) GCP
11 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.82%) Sage Pay
12 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.41%) MailChimp
12 1 (0.41%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.99%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.29%) MySQL
3 20 (8.23%) Power BI
4 14 (5.76%) MS Access
5 12 (4.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (4.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.88%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.23%) EDRMS
10 3 (1.23%) Redis
11 2 (0.82%) FileMaker
12 1 (0.41%) ArangoDB
12 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 27 (11.11%) Git
2 17 (7.00%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.47%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (1.65%) GitLab
6 4 (1.65%) Gradle
6 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.82%) git-flow
8 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.82%) webpack
9 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.17%) Finance
3 26 (10.70%) Marketing
4 20 (8.23%) Law
5 18 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.53%) Back Office
8 8 (3.29%) Games
8 8 (3.29%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.88%) Automotive
10 6 (2.47%) Retail
10 6 (2.47%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.65%) Electronics
12 2 (0.82%) Advertising
12 2 (0.82%) Aviation
12 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Billing
13 1 (0.41%) Legal
13 1 (0.41%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (32.92%) .NET
2 64 (26.34%) HTML
3 62 (25.51%) CSS
4 43 (17.70%) React
5 27 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 23 (9.47%) Laravel
7 22 (9.05%) Vue
8 18 (7.41%) AngularJS
9 17 (7.00%) ASP.NET
10 15 (6.17%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (5.76%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.35%) Web Services
13 12 (4.94%) React Native
14 11 (4.53%) Node.js
14 11 (4.53%) Sass
15 10 (4.12%) HTML5
15 10 (4.12%) jQuery
15 10 (4.12%) REST
16 9 (3.70%) Ajax
16 9 (3.70%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.41%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.06%) Graphic Design
4 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.23%) Hackathon
5 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.23%) Social Media
6 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.82%) e-Health
6 2 (0.82%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.82%) Life Science
7 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.41%) Animation
7 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.23%) Unix
3 2 (0.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (20.99%) Agile
3 50 (20.58%) Computer Science
4 42 (17.28%) Web Development
5 39 (16.05%) Full Stack Development
6 26 (10.70%) TDD
7 25 (10.29%) DevOps
8 23 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (9.05%) Mentoring
9 22 (9.05%) Software Engineering
10 17 (7.00%) User Experience
11 16 (6.58%) CI/CD
11 16 (6.58%) MVC
11 16 (6.58%) Scrum
12 15 (6.17%) ERP
13 14 (5.76%) Microservices
13 14 (5.76%) OOP
13 14 (5.76%) SDLC
14 13 (5.35%) Front End Development
15 12 (4.94%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 110 (45.27%) C#
2 97 (39.92%) JavaScript
3 73 (30.04%) SQL
4 55 (22.63%) PHP
5 45 (18.52%) Java
6 20 (8.23%) C++
7 19 (7.82%) Python
8 16 (6.58%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.12%) Go
10 7 (2.88%) C
10 7 (2.88%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.88%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.65%) Bash
11 4 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.41%) RPG
12 1 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (31.28%) Degree
2 32 (13.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.47%) HND
4 2 (0.82%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.06%) QA
2 4 (1.65%) GDPR
3 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.53%) Adobe
3 10 (4.12%) Oracle
4 9 (3.70%) F5
5 8 (3.29%) YouTube
6 4 (1.65%) Google
7 3 (1.23%) SAP
7 3 (1.23%) Zend
8 2 (0.82%) WooCommerce
9 1 (0.41%) IBM
9 1 (0.41%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Xamarin