Application Developer
UK

The median Application Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 652 617
Rank change year-on-year +156 -35 -81
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Developer 457 342 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.37% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 378 259 441
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,713 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £73,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £89,852 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 10 May 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 10 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 +159 386 £52,500 -9.48% 44
UK excluding London +125 339 £50,000 -4.76% 37
Work from Home +87 225 £52,500 -9.48% 29
South West +68 98 £46,958 +17.39% 1
South East +37 84 £60,000 +20.00% 9
North of England +77 69 £44,000 -19.83% 9
London +34 67 £62,500 -7.41% 7
Midlands -12 37 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire +105 36 £39,250 -28.64% 5
North West +20 33 £55,000 +4.76% 3
East of England +37 31 £40,000 -12.10% 10
West Midlands +7 22 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -19 15 £52,500 -4.98% 2
Wales +14 11 £52,101 +38.94% 2
Scotland -67 6 £47,500 -11.53% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland +23 3 £60,000 +20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 207 (45.30%) .NET
2 189 (41.36%) C#
3 159 (34.79%) Microsoft
4 139 (30.42%) JavaScript
5 128 (28.01%) Azure
6 125 (27.35%) Agile
7 122 (26.70%) SQL
8 109 (23.85%) DevOps
8 109 (23.85%) Power Platform
9 95 (20.79%) .NET Framework
10 93 (20.35%) Social Skills
11 85 (18.60%) ASP.NET
12 83 (18.16%) Power Automate
13 81 (17.72%) SQL Server
14 79 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
15 78 (17.07%) PowerApps
15 78 (17.07%) Finance
16 77 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (15.10%) CRM
18 65 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
19 64 (14.00%) CMS
20 62 (13.57%) React
21 60 (13.13%) User Experience
21 60 (13.13%) Degree
22 59 (12.91%) Power BI
23 58 (12.69%) MVC
24 56 (12.25%) Scrum
24 56 (12.25%) Continuous Integration
25 55 (12.04%) HTML
26 52 (11.38%) 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 64 (14.00%) CMS
2 43 (9.41%) IIS
3 42 (9.19%) SharePoint
4 36 (7.88%) Headless CMS
4 36 (7.88%) Kentico
4 36 (7.88%) Sitecore CMS
4 36 (7.88%) Umbraco
5 11 (2.41%) Apache
6 8 (1.75%) Appian
7 6 (1.31%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.88%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.44%) Confluence
9 2 (0.44%) nginx
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.22%) JBoss
10 1 (0.22%) Mendix
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (5.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.97%) Shopify
3 7 (1.53%) Maximo
4 2 (0.44%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) HFM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 128 (28.01%) Azure
2 109 (23.85%) Power Platform
3 83 (18.16%) Power Automate
4 79 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (17.07%) PowerApps
6 48 (10.50%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (7.88%) Kontent
9 24 (5.25%) Serverless
10 23 (5.03%) AWS
11 22 (4.81%) Azure Functions
12 20 (4.38%) Firebase
13 17 (3.72%) GitHub
14 9 (1.97%) SaaS
15 7 (1.53%) AWS IoT
15 7 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (1.31%) Entra ID
17 5 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.53%) Wireless
2 2 (0.44%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) Intranet
3 1 (0.22%) MQTT
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (17.72%) SQL Server
2 59 (12.91%) Power BI
3 23 (5.03%) Relational Database
4 22 (4.81%) MySQL
5 15 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.97%) MS Access
7 9 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.53%) GIS
9 6 (1.31%) SQLite
10 5 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.09%) MySQL Workbench
11 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.66%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 1 (0.22%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 50 (10.94%) Visual Studio
2 35 (7.66%) Git
3 13 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.84%) JIRA
4 12 (2.63%) NUnit
5 9 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (1.75%) Selenium
7 7 (1.53%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.31%) JMeter
8 6 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.31%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.09%) Xcode
10 4 (0.88%) Maven
10 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.44%) Crashlytics
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.22%) fastlane
13 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 93 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.07%) Finance
3 41 (8.97%) Marketing
4 37 (8.10%) Fire and Rescue
5 30 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.63%) Retail
8 11 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.19%) Electronics
9 10 (2.19%) Law
9 10 (2.19%) Mandarin Language
10 9 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.75%) Back Office
12 6 (1.31%) Banking
12 6 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.09%) Automotive
13 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.88%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (45.30%) .NET
2 95 (20.79%) .NET Framework
3 85 (18.60%) ASP.NET
4 62 (13.57%) React
5 55 (12.04%) HTML
6 52 (11.38%) RESTful
7 49 (10.72%) AngularJS
8 47 (10.28%) .NET Core
9 40 (8.75%) CSS
10 39 (8.53%) ASP.NET MVC
10 39 (8.53%) Next.js
11 34 (7.44%) REST
12 30 (6.56%) WPF
13 26 (5.69%) Web Services
14 22 (4.81%) JSON
15 21 (4.60%) XML
16 20 (4.38%) HTML5
17 19 (4.16%) WCF
18 14 (3.06%) Entity Framework
18 14 (3.06%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.07%) Mobile App
2 41 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (6.13%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.50%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.19%) EPoS
7 8 (1.75%) IoT
8 6 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.09%) Animation
9 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Femtech
10 4 (0.88%) Life Science
11 3 (0.66%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.66%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.66%) Wiki
12 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.22%) N-Tier
13 1 (0.22%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.22%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.78%) Apple iOS
2 26 (5.69%) Android
3 16 (3.50%) Windows
4 11 (2.41%) Linux
5 2 (0.44%) AIX
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (27.35%) Agile
2 109 (23.85%) DevOps
3 77 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (15.10%) CRM
5 65 (14.22%) Business Intelligence
6 60 (13.13%) User Experience
7 58 (12.69%) MVC
8 56 (12.25%) Continuous Integration
8 56 (12.25%) Scrum
9 49 (10.72%) Web Development
10 46 (10.07%) E-Commerce
11 44 (9.63%) ERP
11 44 (9.63%) Project Delivery
12 40 (8.75%) Mobile First
13 38 (8.32%) CI/CD
13 38 (8.32%) Deployment Automation
14 37 (8.10%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (7.88%) Data Privacy
15 36 (7.88%) Presales
16 35 (7.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 189 (41.36%) C#
2 139 (30.42%) JavaScript
3 122 (26.70%) SQL
4 48 (10.50%) Java
5 36 (7.88%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.25%) T-SQL
7 19 (4.16%) Swift
8 15 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.84%) Python
10 11 (2.41%) VB.NET
11 10 (2.19%) Objective-C
11 10 (2.19%) PHP
11 10 (2.19%) VB
11 10 (2.19%) VBA
12 7 (1.53%) C
13 6 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.31%) XPath
14 5 (1.09%) Dart
14 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (13.13%) Degree
2 35 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.47%) QA
2 7 (1.53%) GDPR
3 5 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.53%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.88%) Terraform
4 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.44%) Ansible
4 2 (0.44%) Nagios
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.22%) Packer
5 1 (0.22%) Puppet
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 159 (34.79%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.88%) Optimizely
2 36 (7.88%) Sitecore
3 21 (4.60%) Oracle
4 19 (4.16%) Apple
5 14 (3.06%) Google
6 12 (2.63%) Xamarin
7 10 (2.19%) F5
7 10 (2.19%) SAP
8 9 (1.97%) IBM
9 3 (0.66%) Zend
10 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.22%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.22%) New Relic
11 1 (0.22%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.22%) Splunk