Development Engineer
UK

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK 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 711 745 796
Rank change year-on-year +34 +51 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 202 216 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.24% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 89 134 119
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,270 £38,858
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £80,000
90th Percentile - £92,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -4.76%

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 97,915 88,821 160,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 91.42% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,754 56,171 84,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer.

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the UK 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
England +46 183 £52,500 -19.23% 114
UK excluding London +9 173 £50,000 -16.67% 116
South East +72 99 £50,000 -16.67% 26
Midlands -19 41 £50,000 -13.04% 23
Work from Home +12 39 £55,000 -27.20% 48
West Midlands -15 27 £50,000 -13.04% 13
London +67 25 £62,500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands -14 14 £47,500 - 10
North of England +18 11 £65,000 +13.04% 15
Yorkshire +76 8 £65,000 -13.97% 4
Wales -2 8 £50,000 +1.01% 8
South West -23 6 £40,000 -20.39% 18
North East 0 3 - - 3
East of England -18 3 £65,000 - 21
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland -70 2 - - 7

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 111 (54.95%) Degree
2 81 (40.10%) Electronics
3 78 (38.61%) Firmware
4 77 (38.12%) Manufacturing
5 74 (36.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (36.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 71 (35.15%) Schematic Capture
6 71 (35.15%) EMC
6 71 (35.15%) Project Planning
7 40 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (17.82%) DevOps
9 32 (15.84%) Python
10 29 (14.36%) Git
11 28 (13.86%) Software Engineering
11 28 (13.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (13.37%) C#
13 26 (12.87%) C++
13 26 (12.87%) Computer Science
13 26 (12.87%) Azure
14 24 (11.88%) Agile
15 18 (8.91%) Java
15 18 (8.91%) SQL
16 17 (8.42%) Use Case
17 16 (7.92%) AWS
18 15 (7.43%) Software Testing
18 15 (7.43%) Windows
18 15 (7.43%) Finance
18 15 (7.43%) Containerisation
19 14 (6.93%) Social Skills
19 14 (6.93%) .NET

Development Engineer 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 7 (3.47%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) CMS
2 6 (2.97%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Doxygen
1 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.87%) Azure
2 16 (7.92%) AWS
3 13 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.47%) GitHub
6 6 (2.97%) IaaS
7 5 (2.48%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.48%) GCP
7 5 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.48%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.48%) Serverless
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.49%) Route 53
9 3 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.47%) Modbus
2 5 (2.48%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.98%) Profibus
3 4 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.49%) Firewall
4 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.49%) MQTT
4 3 (1.49%) RS-232
4 3 (1.49%) RS-422
4 3 (1.49%) RS-485
5 2 (0.99%) LAN
5 2 (0.99%) WAN
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.98%) Big Data
3 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.99%) DB2
4 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (14.36%) Git
2 10 (4.95%) Subversion
3 8 (3.96%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.99%) GitLab
5 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.50%) JIRA
6 1 (0.50%) LoadUI
General
1 81 (40.10%) Electronics
2 77 (38.12%) Manufacturing
3 74 (36.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (7.43%) Finance
5 14 (6.93%) Social Skills
6 13 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.94%) Games
8 5 (2.48%) Automotive
9 4 (1.98%) Military
10 3 (1.49%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Marketing
11 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.93%) .NET
2 10 (4.95%) REST
2 10 (4.95%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 10 (4.95%) Unreal Engine
3 8 (3.96%) ASP.NET
4 7 (3.47%) React
5 6 (2.97%) JSON
5 6 (2.97%) SOAP
5 6 (2.97%) Web Services
5 6 (2.97%) XML
5 6 (2.97%) XSLT
6 5 (2.48%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.98%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.98%) GTK
8 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.49%) Kendo UI
9 2 (0.99%) Kafka
9 2 (0.99%) Playwright
9 2 (0.99%) Spring
9 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.97%) Analogue Electronics
2 6 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (2.97%) Life Science
3 5 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.99%) Animation
5 2 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.99%) Kindle
5 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.50%) 3D Printing
6 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.43%) Windows
2 13 (6.44%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.15%) Project Planning
1 71 (35.15%) Schematic Capture
2 40 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.82%) DevOps
4 28 (13.86%) Software Engineering
5 26 (12.87%) Computer Science
6 24 (11.88%) Agile
7 17 (8.42%) Use Case
8 15 (7.43%) Containerisation
8 15 (7.43%) Software Testing
9 14 (6.93%) Mathematics
10 13 (6.44%) SDLC
10 13 (6.44%) Test Automation
11 12 (5.94%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (5.94%) Mentoring
11 12 (5.94%) SDET
12 11 (5.45%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (5.45%) CI/CD
12 11 (5.45%) Cross-Platform Development
12 11 (5.45%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.84%) Python
2 27 (13.37%) C#
3 26 (12.87%) C++
4 18 (8.91%) Java
4 18 (8.91%) SQL
5 10 (4.95%) Bash
6 9 (4.46%) C
6 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.46%) MATLAB
7 8 (3.96%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.97%) Ruby
8 6 (2.97%) XPath
9 4 (1.98%) Embedded C++
9 4 (1.98%) Go
9 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.49%) Ada
11 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 111 (54.95%) Degree
2 28 (13.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.98%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (1.98%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.98%) ISO 13485
1 4 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 78 (38.61%) Firmware
2 74 (36.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (3.96%) Docker
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (35.15%) EMC
2 10 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.98%) Google
4 3 (1.49%) Telerik
5 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco
5 2 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Xilinx