Applications Developer Jobs

Application Developer
UK

The median Application Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 642 631
Rank change year-on-year +144 -11 -92
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 468 315 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.33% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.36% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 384 242 442
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £39,893
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.96%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +164 399 £52,500 -8.70% 41
UK excluding London +114 351 £50,000 -4.76% 37
Work from Home +92 232 £52,101 -10.17% 25
South West +55 93 £46,958 +4.35% 1
South East +23 88 £61,500 +11.82% 7
North of England +64 74 £45,750 -16.64% 9
London +45 68 £62,500 -7.41% 8
Midlands +2 47 £45,000 -14.29% 13
Yorkshire +78 40 £40,000 -27.19% 2
North West +7 34 £55,000 +4.76% 6
East of England +13 29 £40,000 -12.10% 3
East Midlands -9 25 £40,000 -31.03% 5
West Midlands -3 22 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Wales +13 11 £52,101 +30.25% 1
Scotland -74 6 £47,500 -11.53% 4
Channel Islands - 4 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland +21 3 £60,000 +20.00%

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 203 (43.38%) .NET
2 190 (40.60%) C#
3 162 (34.62%) Microsoft
4 139 (29.70%) JavaScript
5 129 (27.56%) SQL
6 122 (26.07%) Azure
7 120 (25.64%) Agile
8 104 (22.22%) DevOps
8 104 (22.22%) Power Platform
9 96 (20.51%) Social Skills
9 96 (20.51%) .NET Framework
10 85 (18.16%) ASP.NET
11 82 (17.52%) Power Automate
12 81 (17.31%) Finance
13 80 (17.09%) SQL Server
14 79 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (16.03%) PowerApps
15 75 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
16 72 (15.38%) CRM
17 65 (13.89%) CMS
18 63 (13.46%) User Experience
19 62 (13.25%) React
20 60 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
20 60 (12.82%) HTML
21 59 (12.61%) Degree
22 58 (12.39%) Power BI
23 57 (12.18%) Scrum
23 57 (12.18%) MVC
24 56 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
25 55 (11.75%) RESTful

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 65 (13.89%) CMS
2 42 (8.97%) IIS
3 37 (7.91%) SharePoint
4 36 (7.69%) Headless CMS
4 36 (7.69%) Kentico
4 36 (7.69%) Sitecore CMS
4 36 (7.69%) Umbraco
5 12 (2.56%) Apache
6 8 (1.71%) Appian
7 5 (1.07%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.85%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.43%) Confluence
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.21%) JBoss
10 1 (0.21%) Mendix
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.92%) Shopify
3 3 (0.64%) Maximo
4 2 (0.43%) HFM
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 122 (26.07%) Azure
2 104 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 82 (17.52%) Power Automate
4 75 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (16.03%) PowerApps
5 46 (9.83%) Dynamics 365
6 42 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (7.69%) Kontent
8 27 (5.77%) AWS
9 24 (5.13%) Serverless
10 22 (4.70%) Azure Functions
11 19 (4.06%) Firebase
12 18 (3.85%) GitHub
13 9 (1.92%) SaaS
14 8 (1.71%) AWS IoT
15 7 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.28%) Entra ID
17 5 (1.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.50%) Wireless
2 2 (0.43%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.43%) SSL
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
3 1 (0.21%) Internet
3 1 (0.21%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) MQTT
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (17.09%) SQL Server
2 58 (12.39%) Power BI
3 22 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.27%) MySQL
5 15 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.56%) MS Access
7 9 (1.92%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.28%) SQLite
9 5 (1.07%) MySQL Workbench
9 5 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.64%) GIS
11 3 (0.64%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 49 (10.47%) Visual Studio
2 36 (7.69%) Git
3 14 (2.99%) JIRA
4 13 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.56%) NUnit
6 8 (1.71%) Selenium
7 7 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.28%) JMeter
8 6 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.28%) Xcode
9 5 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.85%) Maven
10 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.64%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.21%) GitLab
13 1 (0.21%) Moq
13 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 96 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.31%) Finance
3 41 (8.76%) Marketing
4 37 (7.91%) Fire and Rescue
5 31 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.99%) Mandarin Language
6 14 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.56%) Retail
8 11 (2.35%) Electronics
8 11 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.14%) Law
10 9 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.71%) Back Office
12 7 (1.50%) Banking
13 6 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.07%) Automotive
14 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (43.38%) .NET
2 96 (20.51%) .NET Framework
3 85 (18.16%) ASP.NET
4 62 (13.25%) React
5 60 (12.82%) HTML
6 55 (11.75%) RESTful
7 47 (10.04%) AngularJS
8 46 (9.83%) .NET Core
9 43 (9.19%) CSS
10 39 (8.33%) Next.js
11 38 (8.12%) ASP.NET MVC
12 30 (6.41%) WPF
13 28 (5.98%) REST
14 26 (5.56%) Web Services
15 22 (4.70%) JSON
16 20 (4.27%) XML
17 19 (4.06%) HTML5
17 19 (4.06%) WCF
18 16 (3.42%) Entity Framework
19 14 (2.99%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.04%) Mobile App
2 42 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.99%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.14%) EPoS
7 9 (1.92%) IoT
8 6 (1.28%) Animation
9 5 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.07%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) Femtech
10 4 (0.85%) Life Science
11 3 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.64%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.64%) Wiki
12 2 (0.43%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.21%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.21%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.21%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 30 (6.41%) Android
3 15 (3.21%) Windows
4 8 (1.71%) Linux
5 2 (0.43%) AIX
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (25.64%) Agile
2 104 (22.22%) DevOps
3 79 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (15.38%) CRM
5 63 (13.46%) User Experience
6 60 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (12.18%) MVC
7 57 (12.18%) Scrum
8 56 (11.97%) Continuous Integration
9 47 (10.04%) Web Development
10 46 (9.83%) E-Commerce
11 44 (9.40%) ERP
11 44 (9.40%) Project Delivery
12 40 (8.55%) Mobile First
13 38 (8.12%) CI/CD
13 38 (8.12%) Deployment Automation
14 37 (7.91%) Computer Science
14 37 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (7.69%) Data Privacy
15 36 (7.69%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 190 (40.60%) C#
2 139 (29.70%) JavaScript
3 129 (27.56%) SQL
4 43 (9.19%) Java
5 33 (7.05%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.98%) T-SQL
7 20 (4.27%) Swift
8 14 (2.99%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.78%) VBA
10 12 (2.56%) Python
11 11 (2.35%) VB.NET
12 10 (2.14%) Objective-C
12 10 (2.14%) VB
13 9 (1.92%) PHP
14 7 (1.50%) C
15 6 (1.28%) XPath
16 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.85%) Dart
18 3 (0.64%) Formula Language
18 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (12.61%) Degree
2 37 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 19 (4.06%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.13%) QA
2 8 (1.71%) GDPR
3 5 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.50%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.85%) Terraform
4 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.43%) Ansible
4 2 (0.43%) Nagios
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.21%) Packer
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.69%) Optimizely
2 36 (7.69%) Sitecore
3 21 (4.49%) Oracle
4 18 (3.85%) Apple
5 13 (2.78%) Google
6 12 (2.56%) Xamarin
7 10 (2.14%) F5
7 10 (2.14%) SAP
8 5 (1.07%) IBM
9 3 (0.64%) Zend
10 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.21%) New Relic
11 1 (0.21%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.21%) Splunk
11 1 (0.21%) TIBCO