Application Developer
UK

The median Application Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 649 619
Rank change year-on-year +147 -30 -99
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 457 352 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.34% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.37% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 378 264 448
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £75,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £89,956 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Applications Developer in the UK

Applications Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +167 388 £52,500 -9.48% 50
UK excluding London +122 336 £50,000 -4.76% 42
Work from Home +97 223 £52,500 -9.48% 34
South West +51 97 £46,958 +4.35% 3
South East +45 85 £60,000 +20.00% 7
London +47 70 £62,500 -10.71% 9
North of England +84 69 £44,000 -19.83% 8
Yorkshire +114 36 £39,250 -28.56% 4
Midlands +18 36 £60,000 +17.07% 9
North West +34 33 £55,000 +4.76% 3
East of England +34 31 £40,000 -23.81% 12
West Midlands +33 22 £60,000 +20.00% 7
East Midlands -17 14 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Wales +17 9 £52,101 +38.94% 2
Scotland -74 6 £47,500 -13.45% 2
Channel Islands - 4 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland +25 3 £60,000 +20.00% 1

Applications Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Applications 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 featuring Applications Developer in the job title.

1 208 (45.51%) .NET
2 192 (42.01%) C#
3 161 (35.23%) Microsoft
4 139 (30.42%) JavaScript
5 128 (28.01%) Azure
6 127 (27.79%) Agile
7 122 (26.70%) SQL
8 110 (24.07%) Power Platform
9 108 (23.63%) DevOps
10 95 (20.79%) .NET Framework
11 94 (20.57%) Social Skills
12 87 (19.04%) ASP.NET
13 84 (18.38%) SQL Server
14 83 (18.16%) Power Automate
15 79 (17.29%) PowerApps
16 78 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
17 77 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
17 77 (16.85%) Finance
18 69 (15.10%) CRM
19 66 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
20 63 (13.79%) CMS
21 61 (13.35%) Degree
21 61 (13.35%) React
22 60 (13.13%) User Experience
22 60 (13.13%) Power BI
23 58 (12.69%) MVC
24 56 (12.25%) Scrum
25 55 (12.04%) HTML
25 55 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
26 52 (11.38%) Visual Studio

Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 63 (13.79%) CMS
2 44 (9.63%) IIS
2 44 (9.63%) SharePoint
3 35 (7.66%) Headless CMS
3 35 (7.66%) Kentico
3 35 (7.66%) Sitecore CMS
3 35 (7.66%) Umbraco
4 11 (2.41%) Apache
5 8 (1.75%) Appian
6 7 (1.53%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.88%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.44%) Confluence
8 2 (0.44%) nginx
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) Mendix
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 26 (5.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.97%) Shopify
3 7 (1.53%) Maximo
4 3 (0.66%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.22%) HFM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 128 (28.01%) Azure
2 110 (24.07%) Power Platform
3 83 (18.16%) Power Automate
4 79 (17.29%) PowerApps
5 78 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (10.50%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (7.66%) Kontent
9 25 (5.47%) Serverless
10 23 (5.03%) AWS
11 22 (4.81%) Azure Functions
12 20 (4.38%) Firebase
13 17 (3.72%) GitHub
14 9 (1.97%) SaaS
15 7 (1.53%) AWS IoT
15 7 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
17 5 (1.09%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.53%) Wireless
2 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) Intranet
3 1 (0.22%) MQTT
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (18.38%) SQL Server
2 60 (13.13%) Power BI
3 25 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 22 (4.81%) MySQL
5 15 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.97%) MS Access
7 9 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.53%) GIS
9 6 (1.31%) SQLite
10 5 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.09%) MySQL Workbench
10 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.66%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 52 (11.38%) Visual Studio
2 36 (7.88%) Git
3 13 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.84%) JIRA
3 13 (2.84%) NUnit
4 9 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (1.75%) Selenium
6 7 (1.53%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.31%) JMeter
7 6 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.09%) Xcode
9 4 (0.88%) Maven
9 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.44%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.22%) fastlane
12 1 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
12 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 94 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.85%) Finance
3 41 (8.97%) Marketing
4 37 (8.10%) Fire and Rescue
5 30 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (2.63%) Retail
7 11 (2.41%) Law
7 11 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.19%) Electronics
8 10 (2.19%) Mandarin Language
9 9 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.75%) Back Office
11 6 (1.31%) Banking
11 6 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.09%) Automotive
12 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (45.51%) .NET
2 95 (20.79%) .NET Framework
3 87 (19.04%) ASP.NET
4 61 (13.35%) React
5 55 (12.04%) HTML
6 51 (11.16%) RESTful
7 49 (10.72%) AngularJS
8 47 (10.28%) .NET Core
9 39 (8.53%) ASP.NET MVC
9 39 (8.53%) CSS
10 38 (8.32%) Next.js
11 35 (7.66%) REST
12 31 (6.78%) WPF
13 27 (5.91%) Web Services
14 22 (4.81%) JSON
14 22 (4.81%) XML
15 20 (4.38%) HTML5
15 20 (4.38%) WCF
16 14 (3.06%) Entity Framework
16 14 (3.06%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.63%) Mobile App
2 40 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (6.13%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.50%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.19%) EPoS
7 8 (1.75%) IoT
8 6 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.09%) Animation
9 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Femtech
10 4 (0.88%) Life Science
11 3 (0.66%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.66%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.66%) Wiki
12 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.22%) N-Tier
13 1 (0.22%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.22%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.78%) Apple iOS
2 26 (5.69%) Android
3 16 (3.50%) Windows
4 11 (2.41%) Linux
5 2 (0.44%) AIX
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (27.79%) Agile
2 108 (23.63%) DevOps
3 77 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (15.10%) CRM
5 66 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
6 60 (13.13%) User Experience
7 58 (12.69%) MVC
8 56 (12.25%) Scrum
9 55 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
10 49 (10.72%) Web Development
11 45 (9.85%) E-Commerce
12 43 (9.41%) ERP
12 43 (9.41%) Project Delivery
13 39 (8.53%) Mobile First
14 38 (8.32%) CI/CD
15 37 (8.10%) Deployment Automation
16 36 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (7.66%) Computer Science
17 35 (7.66%) Data Privacy
17 35 (7.66%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 192 (42.01%) C#
2 139 (30.42%) JavaScript
3 122 (26.70%) SQL
4 49 (10.72%) Java
5 36 (7.88%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.25%) T-SQL
7 19 (4.16%) Swift
8 15 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.84%) Python
10 11 (2.41%) VB.NET
11 10 (2.19%) Objective-C
11 10 (2.19%) PHP
11 10 (2.19%) VB
11 10 (2.19%) VBA
12 7 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.31%) C
13 6 (1.31%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.31%) XPath
14 5 (1.09%) Dart
15 3 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (13.35%) Degree
2 35 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.47%) QA
2 7 (1.53%) GDPR
3 5 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.53%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.88%) Terraform
4 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.44%) Ansible
4 2 (0.44%) Nagios
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.22%) Packer
5 1 (0.22%) Puppet
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 161 (35.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.66%) Optimizely
2 35 (7.66%) Sitecore
3 22 (4.81%) Oracle
4 19 (4.16%) Apple
5 14 (3.06%) Google
6 10 (2.19%) F5
6 10 (2.19%) SAP
6 10 (2.19%) Xamarin
7 9 (1.97%) IBM
8 3 (0.66%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.66%) Zend
9 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.22%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.22%) New Relic
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.22%) Splunk