Backend Developer Jobs in England

Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Backend Developer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 602 459
Rank change year-on-year -30 -143 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 233 308 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.38% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.41% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 195 266 356
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,375 £41,625
25th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in England

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in England

Backend 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 Backend Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +2 85 £85,000 +9.68% 27
North of England +39 65 £55,000 -18.52% 9
North West -3 42 £50,000 -25.93% 5
Midlands -23 25 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire +74 22 £57,500 -25.81% 2
East of England -9 19 £42,500 +13.33% 5
West Midlands 0 18 £45,000 - 5
South West -37 18 £47,500 -17.39% 1
South East -56 16 £65,000 - 2
East Midlands -25 7 £35,000 -9.09% 1
North East -17 1 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Backend Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Backend 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 Backend Developer in the job title.

1 74 (31.76%) AWS
2 61 (26.18%) .NET
3 59 (25.32%) JavaScript
4 58 (24.89%) Software Engineering
5 57 (24.46%) C#
6 56 (24.03%) Agile
7 55 (23.61%) Social Skills
8 53 (22.75%) Microservices
9 46 (19.74%) Java
10 42 (18.03%) Node.js
11 41 (17.60%) SQL
12 39 (16.74%) Azure
13 38 (16.31%) TypeScript
14 36 (15.45%) Python
15 35 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (14.16%) Clean Code
16 33 (14.16%) Docker
17 32 (13.73%) Computer Science
17 32 (13.73%) Degree
17 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
17 32 (13.73%) Serverless
18 31 (13.30%) HTML
19 30 (12.88%) DevOps
20 29 (12.45%) Finance
21 28 (12.02%) Software Testing
21 28 (12.02%) PHP
22 27 (11.59%) CSS
22 27 (11.59%) Design Patterns
23 26 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
24 25 (10.73%) OO

Backend 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 11 (4.72%) WordPress
2 9 (3.86%) nginx
3 5 (2.15%) Drupal
4 3 (1.29%) CMS
5 2 (0.86%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 74 (31.76%) AWS
2 39 (16.74%) Azure
3 32 (13.73%) Serverless
4 26 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (9.01%) SaaS
6 20 (8.58%) GitHub
7 12 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (4.29%) GCP
9 8 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.00%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.00%) IaaS
10 7 (3.00%) npm
10 7 (3.00%) PaaS
11 6 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.58%) Yarn
12 5 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.00%) HTTP
2 6 (2.58%) AMQP
2 6 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.43%) SAN
3 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.73%) MySQL
2 23 (9.87%) DynamoDB
2 23 (9.87%) Relational Database
3 21 (9.01%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.58%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.58%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.58%) DB2
6 6 (2.58%) Redis
7 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.15%) KDB
7 5 (2.15%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.86%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.43%) Power BI
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (7.73%) Git
2 8 (3.43%) Bitbucket
3 7 (3.00%) Mocha
4 6 (2.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.15%) Postman
6 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.29%) Selenium
7 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.86%) JUnit
8 2 (0.86%) Maven
8 2 (0.86%) Mockito
8 2 (0.86%) Moq
8 2 (0.86%) Subversion
8 2 (0.86%) TestNG
9 1 (0.43%) JIRA
9 1 (0.43%) NUnit
9 1 (0.43%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.45%) Finance
3 11 (4.72%) Banking
4 10 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.43%) Marketing
6 7 (3.00%) Retail
7 5 (2.15%) Front Office
7 5 (2.15%) Games
7 5 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.15%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.29%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.86%) Automotive
10 2 (0.86%) Electronics
10 2 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.18%) .NET
2 42 (18.03%) Node.js
3 31 (13.30%) HTML
4 27 (11.59%) CSS
5 20 (8.58%) AngularJS
6 19 (8.15%) OAuth
6 19 (8.15%) React
7 18 (7.73%) RESTful
8 17 (7.30%) Kafka
8 17 (7.30%) Laravel
9 16 (6.87%) Vue
10 15 (6.44%) Web Services
11 14 (6.01%) REST
11 14 (6.01%) Spring
11 14 (6.01%) Spring Boot
12 13 (5.58%) GraphQL
12 13 (5.58%) gRPC
12 13 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (3.86%) Express.js
13 9 (3.86%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.58%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.72%) Algorithms
2 11 (4.72%) Client/Server
3 9 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.43%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.86%) Derivative
8 2 (0.86%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.86%) IoT
8 2 (0.86%) Life Science
8 2 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.43%) NHS
9 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.89%) Software Engineering
2 56 (24.03%) Agile
3 53 (22.75%) Microservices
4 35 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (14.16%) Clean Code
6 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
6 32 (13.73%) Computer Science
7 30 (12.88%) DevOps
8 28 (12.02%) Software Testing
9 27 (11.59%) Design Patterns
10 25 (10.73%) OO
11 24 (10.30%) Front End Development
11 24 (10.30%) Test Automation
12 21 (9.01%) Full Stack Development
12 21 (9.01%) TDD
13 17 (7.30%) API Development
14 16 (6.87%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (6.87%) Data Protection
14 16 (6.87%) Unit Testing
15 15 (6.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.32%) JavaScript
2 57 (24.46%) C#
3 46 (19.74%) Java
4 41 (17.60%) SQL
5 38 (16.31%) TypeScript
6 36 (15.45%) Python
7 28 (12.02%) PHP
8 14 (6.01%) Go
9 7 (3.00%) Rust
10 6 (2.58%) C++
10 6 (2.58%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.72%) Scala
12 3 (1.29%) Clojure
12 3 (1.29%) F#
12 3 (1.29%) Haskell
13 2 (0.86%) Bash
14 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (13.73%) Degree
2 23 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.43%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.86%) GDPR
2 7 (3.00%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.15%) QA
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (14.16%) Docker
2 9 (3.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.30%) Terraform
3 6 (2.58%) Grafana
3 6 (2.58%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.86%) Ansible
4 2 (0.86%) Kustomize
4 2 (0.86%) Packer
5 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (3.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.58%) Oracle
3 4 (1.72%) Google
4 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.86%) SAP
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe
5 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce