Developer Jobs in England

Developer
UK > England

The median Developer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 13,476 13,032 30,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.81% 15.49% 21.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.64% 16.97% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11,510 10,163 17,701
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,173 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.12% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Developer in England

Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in England

Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -5 3,727 £75,000 -3.23% 926
North of England +12 3,130 £52,084 -5.30% 489
South East 0 2,383 £57,500 -4.17% 320
North West +12 1,841 £52,500 -4.55% 302
Midlands +6 1,783 £50,000 -9.09% 338
South West +5 1,490 £50,000 -9.09% 197
West Midlands +11 1,153 £50,000 -9.09% 214
Yorkshire +14 995 £50,000 -4.76% 136
East of England +12 903 £50,000 -11.11% 142
East Midlands +4 622 £48,500 -11.82% 122
North East +5 294 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Developer
UK

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 4,688 (34.79%) JavaScript
2 4,683 (34.75%) C#
3 4,553 (33.79%) .NET
4 4,033 (29.93%) Agile
5 3,774 (28.01%) Azure
6 3,498 (25.96%) Full Stack Development
7 3,129 (23.22%) SQL
8 2,704 (20.07%) HTML
9 2,561 (19.00%) React
10 2,510 (18.63%) AWS
11 2,408 (17.87%) CSS
12 2,317 (17.19%) SQL Server
13 2,265 (16.81%) Microsoft
14 2,139 (15.87%) AngularJS
15 2,107 (15.64%) Social Skills
16 1,905 (14.14%) Finance
17 1,885 (13.99%) TypeScript
18 1,881 (13.96%) ASP.NET
19 1,809 (13.42%) DevOps
20 1,758 (13.05%) MVC
21 1,723 (12.79%) Java
22 1,716 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
23 1,686 (12.51%) Software Engineering
24 1,575 (11.69%) .NET Core
25 1,558 (11.56%) Microservices
26 1,530 (11.35%) Degree
27 1,525 (11.32%) Python
28 1,442 (10.70%) Git
29 1,296 (9.62%) PHP
30 1,272 (9.44%) TDD

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 325 (2.41%) CMS
2 313 (2.32%) Apache
3 284 (2.11%) WordPress
4 274 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 217 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 156 (1.16%) IIS
7 147 (1.09%) Confluence
8 119 (0.88%) Umbraco
9 75 (0.56%) Drupal
10 67 (0.50%) nginx
11 64 (0.47%) OpenEdge
12 53 (0.39%) Headless CMS
12 53 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
13 51 (0.38%) Kentico
14 35 (0.26%) OpenStack
15 26 (0.19%) Tomcat
16 24 (0.18%) Appian
16 24 (0.18%) Mendix
17 23 (0.17%) SAS
18 19 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 120 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 30 (0.22%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 22 (0.16%) Simulink
7 18 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 16 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.052%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.052%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.037%) InDesign
11 5 (0.037%) Sketch
11 5 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.030%) Maya
12 4 (0.030%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.022%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.022%) Blender
13 3 (0.022%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 186 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 118 (0.88%) Shopify
3 105 (0.78%) Magento
4 63 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 49 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 36 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
7 36 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
7 36 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
8 16 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 16 (0.12%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.074%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.052%) BPCS
11 6 (0.045%) Maximo
11 6 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.037%) Odoo
12 5 (0.037%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.037%) Sage 200
12 5 (0.037%) SAP BPC
12 5 (0.037%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,774 (28.01%) Azure
2 2,510 (18.63%) AWS
3 991 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 818 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
5 534 (3.96%) GCP
6 533 (3.96%) Serverless
7 526 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 510 (3.78%) SaaS
9 380 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 365 (2.71%) GitHub
11 349 (2.59%) Power Automate
12 272 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
13 230 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 225 (1.67%) Azure Functions
15 221 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
16 176 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
17 144 (1.07%) Azure API Management
18 130 (0.96%) IBM Cloud
19 99 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
20 90 (0.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 210 (1.56%) Internet
2 64 (0.47%) HTTP
3 63 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 60 (0.45%) DNS
5 47 (0.35%) Firewall
6 38 (0.28%) SSL
7 26 (0.19%) Wireless
8 24 (0.18%) VPN
9 23 (0.17%) Intranet
10 22 (0.16%) Network Security
11 20 (0.15%) Broadband
12 16 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.11%) 5G
13 15 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.089%) MQTT
16 11 (0.082%) BGP
16 11 (0.082%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.082%) MPLS
17 10 (0.074%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,317 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 916 (6.80%) MySQL
3 732 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 654 (4.85%) Power BI
5 568 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 509 (3.78%) NoSQL
7 507 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 293 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 287 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
10 245 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
11 239 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 202 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
13 188 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 168 (1.25%) Redis
15 141 (1.05%) DB2
16 118 (0.88%) Data Lake
17 116 (0.86%) Oracle Database
18 92 (0.68%) DynamoDB
19 90 (0.67%) Power Query
20 88 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,442 (10.70%) Git
2 465 (3.45%) Visual Studio
3 412 (3.06%) JIRA
4 206 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 167 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 141 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 141 (1.05%) GitLab
7 113 (0.84%) NUnit
8 108 (0.80%) Selenium
9 99 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
10 87 (0.65%) Sourcetree
10 87 (0.65%) TeamCity
11 74 (0.55%) JUnit
12 69 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 65 (0.48%) Moq
14 55 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
15 53 (0.39%) Jasmine
16 49 (0.36%) webpack
17 46 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
18 43 (0.32%) gulp
General
1 2,107 (15.64%) Social Skills
2 1,905 (14.14%) Finance
3 547 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
4 545 (4.04%) Front Office
5 513 (3.81%) Marketing
6 480 (3.56%) Banking
7 446 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 405 (3.01%) Retail
9 384 (2.85%) Law
10 358 (2.66%) Games
11 245 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 221 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 180 (1.34%) Investment Banking
13 180 (1.34%) Legal
14 153 (1.14%) Tech for Good
15 151 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
16 137 (1.02%) Advertising
17 130 (0.96%) Telecoms
18 118 (0.88%) Automotive
19 113 (0.84%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,553 (33.79%) .NET
2 2,704 (20.07%) HTML
3 2,561 (19.00%) React
4 2,408 (17.87%) CSS
5 2,139 (15.87%) AngularJS
6 1,881 (13.96%) ASP.NET
7 1,575 (11.69%) .NET Core
8 1,261 (9.36%) Vue
9 1,224 (9.08%) .NET Framework
10 1,177 (8.73%) Node.js
11 1,069 (7.93%) ASP.NET Web API
12 979 (7.26%) Entity Framework
13 952 (7.06%) ASP.NET MVC
14 914 (6.78%) REST
15 905 (6.72%) RESTful
16 881 (6.54%) HTML5
17 737 (5.47%) Web Services
18 718 (5.33%) Laravel
19 714 (5.30%) jQuery
20 520 (3.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 608 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
2 412 (3.06%) Fixed Income
3 386 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 344 (2.55%) Mobile App
5 321 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 311 (2.31%) Equities
7 301 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 276 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 243 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 231 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 225 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 213 (1.58%) Derivative
13 187 (1.39%) IoT
14 178 (1.32%) Blockchain
15 161 (1.19%) Client/Server
16 143 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
17 133 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
18 132 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
19 115 (0.85%) Cloud Native
20 111 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 732 (5.43%) Linux
2 466 (3.46%) Windows
3 389 (2.89%) Android
4 321 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 89 (0.66%) Unix
6 35 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 28 (0.21%) VMS
8 25 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
9 24 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 17 (0.13%) CentOS
11 16 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.059%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.045%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.037%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.037%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.030%) AIX
16 4 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.030%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.015%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,033 (29.93%) Agile
2 3,498 (25.96%) Full Stack Development
3 1,809 (13.42%) DevOps
4 1,758 (13.05%) MVC
5 1,716 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
6 1,686 (12.51%) Software Engineering
7 1,558 (11.56%) Microservices
8 1,272 (9.44%) TDD
9 1,102 (8.18%) Computer Science
10 1,052 (7.81%) Web Development
11 1,021 (7.58%) Scrum
12 955 (7.09%) CI/CD
13 941 (6.98%) User Experience
14 843 (6.26%) Front End Development
15 818 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
16 803 (5.96%) Mentoring
17 759 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence
18 720 (5.34%) Design Patterns
19 660 (4.90%) Unit Testing
20 659 (4.89%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4,688 (34.79%) JavaScript
2 4,683 (34.75%) C#
3 3,129 (23.22%) SQL
4 1,885 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 1,723 (12.79%) Java
6 1,525 (11.32%) Python
7 1,296 (9.62%) PHP
8 478 (3.55%) C++
9 407 (3.02%) T-SQL
10 250 (1.86%) C
11 232 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 217 (1.61%) VB.NET
13 178 (1.32%) Go
14 157 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 153 (1.14%) PowerShell
16 121 (0.90%) Ruby
17 116 (0.86%) VB
18 112 (0.83%) Scala
19 106 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 77 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,530 (11.35%) Degree
2 625 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 600 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 439 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 145 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 100 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 62 (0.46%) DV Cleared
8 62 (0.46%) PhD
9 56 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 45 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
13 19 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (0.082%) Postgraduate
15 10 (0.074%) AWS Certified Developer
15 10 (0.074%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.074%) HND
16 6 (0.045%) CIPD
16 6 (0.045%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (3.18%) QA
2 109 (0.81%) Accessibility
3 69 (0.51%) GDPR
4 52 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 47 (0.35%) WCAG
6 19 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.10%) SLA
8 12 (0.089%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 11 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.067%) MiFID
11 6 (0.045%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.022%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.022%) EMIR
12 3 (0.022%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.022%) PMO
12 3 (0.022%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.015%) GRC
13 2 (0.015%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.015%) WAI
System Software
1 1,026 (7.61%) Docker
2 39 (0.29%) Firmware
3 34 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 25 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 25 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.059%) HDFS
8 6 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.045%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.022%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.015%) VMware Infrastructure
11 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.007%) Ceph
11 1 (0.007%) GridGain
11 1 (0.007%) KVM
11 1 (0.007%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.007%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 698 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 253 (1.88%) Terraform
3 87 (0.65%) Ansible
4 27 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.19%) Grafana
6 22 (0.16%) Kibana
7 15 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.074%) MIIS
8 10 (0.074%) Rancher
9 7 (0.052%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.045%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.045%) cPanel
10 6 (0.045%) Data Guard
11 5 (0.037%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.030%) Control-M
12 4 (0.030%) Puppet
12 4 (0.030%) SCOM
12 4 (0.030%) WSUS
13 3 (0.022%) Packer
14 2 (0.015%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,265 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 404 (3.00%) Oracle
3 387 (2.87%) Google
4 179 (1.33%) IBM
5 154 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 149 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 135 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 124 (0.92%) Facebook
9 122 (0.91%) Adobe
10 97 (0.72%) Xamarin
11 73 (0.54%) SAP
12 70 (0.52%) Sitecore
13 59 (0.44%) Apple
14 50 (0.37%) MuleSoft
15 47 (0.35%) Progress
15 47 (0.35%) WooCommerce
16 45 (0.33%) Databricks
17 43 (0.32%) YouTube
18 40 (0.30%) Optimizely
19 38 (0.28%) Bloomberg