Programmer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Programmer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Programmer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 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 394 628 532
Rank change year-on-year +234 -96 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Programmer 442 105 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.21% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 294 53 144
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £32,144
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,162 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £71,652 £68,043
UK median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Programmer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Programmer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Programmer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programmer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Programmer in the UK excluding London

Programmer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programmer within the UK excluding London region 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
Midlands +108 130 £38,000 -15.56% 35
North of England +106 105 £40,000 -20.00% 38
South East +27 86 £42,500 -39.29% 29
North West +55 75 £50,000 +11.11% 24
East Midlands +47 67 £38,000 -30.91% 11
East of England - 67 £45,000 - 10
West Midlands +48 63 £35,000 -17.65% 24
South West +21 54 £45,000 -18.18% 13
Yorkshire +64 28 £35,000 -33.26% 9
North East - 2 - - 5
Programmer
UK

Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Programmer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Programmer in the job title.

1 88 (19.91%) CAD
2 74 (16.74%) Manufacturing
3 56 (12.67%) Mentoring
4 55 (12.44%) Software Engineering
5 53 (11.99%) Aerospace
6 48 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (10.18%) Creative Thinking
7 45 (10.18%) Social Skills
7 45 (10.18%) User Experience
8 42 (9.50%) Machine Learning
9 39 (8.82%) Automotive
10 38 (8.60%) Agile
10 38 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (8.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (8.60%) Data Engineering
10 38 (8.60%) Cyberattack
11 30 (6.79%) SQL
12 27 (6.11%) Windows
13 26 (5.88%) RPG
13 26 (5.88%) Siemens
13 26 (5.88%) Degree
14 21 (4.75%) SystemVerilog
14 21 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
15 18 (4.07%) AutoCAD
15 18 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (3.85%) R
16 17 (3.85%) C#
17 16 (3.62%) MS Visio
17 16 (3.62%) Siemens NX
18 15 (3.39%) Analytical Skills

Programmer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.13%) CICS
1 5 (1.13%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.07%) AutoCAD
3 16 (3.62%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.62%) Siemens NX
4 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.68%) SPSS
6 2 (0.45%) ALPHACAM
6 2 (0.45%) Stata
7 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.23%) Azure
2 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.23%) Azure Functions
2 1 (0.23%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.36%) FTP
2 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.23%) Profibus
2 1 (0.23%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.58%) SQL Server
1 7 (1.58%) UniData
2 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.26%) Eclipse
2 7 (1.58%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.36%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.23%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) JIRA
4 1 (0.23%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.23%) PVCS
General
1 74 (16.74%) Manufacturing
2 53 (11.99%) Aerospace
3 45 (10.18%) Social Skills
4 39 (8.82%) Automotive
5 38 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (3.17%) Marketing
8 11 (2.49%) Games
9 10 (2.26%) Finance
9 10 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.58%) Retail
11 6 (1.36%) Aviation
11 6 (1.36%) Electronics
12 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.68%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.45%) Law
14 2 (0.45%) Military
14 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.71%) EDI
2 11 (2.49%) REST
3 10 (2.26%) JSON
3 10 (2.26%) Web Services
3 10 (2.26%) XML
3 10 (2.26%) XSL
4 9 (2.04%) .NET
5 8 (1.81%) HTML
6 7 (1.58%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.36%) Classic ASP
7 6 (1.36%) HTML5
7 6 (1.36%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (1.13%) EDIFACT
9 4 (0.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 4 (0.90%) Unreal Engine
10 3 (0.68%) ISPF
11 2 (0.45%) CSS
12 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (0.23%) React
12 1 (0.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.60%) Cyberattack
2 14 (3.17%) IoT
2 14 (3.17%) Robotics
3 8 (1.81%) Mainframe
4 7 (1.58%) ARM Cortex
4 7 (1.58%) AS400
4 7 (1.58%) Verilog
5 6 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.45%) Oculus
6 2 (0.45%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.23%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.23%) iSeries
7 1 (0.23%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.11%) Windows
2 5 (1.13%) Linux
3 4 (0.90%) AIX
3 4 (0.90%) Unix
3 4 (0.90%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (19.91%) CAD
2 56 (12.67%) Mentoring
3 55 (12.44%) Software Engineering
4 48 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (10.18%) Creative Thinking
5 45 (10.18%) User Experience
6 42 (9.50%) Machine Learning
7 38 (8.60%) Agile
7 38 (8.60%) Data Engineering
7 38 (8.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (3.39%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (3.17%) 3D Modelling
11 13 (2.94%) Mathematics
12 12 (2.71%) Computer Science
12 12 (2.71%) Physics
13 11 (2.49%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (2.49%) SDLC
14 10 (2.26%) Modular Programming
14 10 (2.26%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.79%) SQL
2 26 (5.88%) RPG
3 21 (4.75%) SystemVerilog
4 17 (3.85%) C#
4 17 (3.85%) R
5 13 (2.94%) Python
6 11 (2.49%) Ladder Logic
7 8 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.58%) RPG IV
8 7 (1.58%) Tcl
8 7 (1.58%) VB
9 6 (1.36%) Java
9 6 (1.36%) VBScript
10 5 (1.13%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.13%) RPG/400
11 3 (0.68%) JCL
11 3 (0.68%) REXX
12 2 (0.45%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (5.88%) Degree
2 5 (1.13%) PhD
2 5 (1.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.45%) GDPR
1 2 (0.45%) QA
2 1 (0.23%) CDISC
2 1 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 3 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (0.45%) ACF2
2 2 (0.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 26 (5.88%) Siemens
2 14 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.26%) Cadence
3 10 (2.26%) Synopsys
4 5 (1.13%) IBM
4 5 (1.13%) Oracle
5 3 (0.68%) Broadcom
5 3 (0.68%) Quadient
5 3 (0.68%) Splunk
6 2 (0.45%) Rockwell
6 2 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.23%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.23%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.23%) QinetiQ
7 1 (0.23%) Toshiba