Development Engineer
UK

The median Development Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 756 814
Rank change year-on-year +71 +58 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Engineer 203 221 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 88 138 110
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,145 £38,947
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,542 £80,000
90th Percentile £66,125 £90,900 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -4.76%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Development Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Engineer.

Salary trend for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Development Engineer in the UK

Development Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +75 184 £52,500 -19.23% 116
UK excluding London +17 174 £50,000 -16.67% 110
South East +88 99 £50,000 -16.67% 31
Work from Home +39 40 £55,000 -26.67% 32
Midlands -12 40 £50,000 -13.04% 23
West Midlands -3 26 £54,250 -5.65% 12
London +74 25 £62,500 -16.67% 20
East Midlands -7 14 £47,500 - 11
North of England +26 13 £65,000 +15.56% 11
Wales +1 8 £50,000 +1.01% 4
Yorkshire +79 7 £65,000 -13.97% 3
South West -27 6 £40,000 -20.39% 19
North East 0 3 - - 4
North West -9 3 - - 4
East of England -13 3 £65,000 - 15
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland -73 2 - - 9

Development Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Development Engineer 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 Development Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (56.16%) Degree
2 81 (39.90%) Electronics
3 78 (38.42%) Firmware
4 77 (37.93%) Manufacturing
5 74 (36.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (36.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 71 (34.98%) Schematic Capture
6 71 (34.98%) EMC
6 71 (34.98%) Project Planning
7 41 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (16.75%) DevOps
9 32 (15.76%) Python
10 29 (14.29%) Git
11 28 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (13.30%) Software Engineering
13 26 (12.81%) Computer Science
13 26 (12.81%) C++
14 25 (12.32%) C#
14 25 (12.32%) Azure
15 24 (11.82%) Agile
16 18 (8.87%) Java
17 17 (8.37%) SQL
17 17 (8.37%) Use Case
18 16 (7.88%) AWS
19 15 (7.39%) Windows
19 15 (7.39%) Containerisation
20 14 (6.90%) Social Skills
20 14 (6.90%) .NET
20 14 (6.90%) Finance
20 14 (6.90%) Software Testing

Development Engineer 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 7 (3.45%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) CMS
2 6 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Doxygen
1 1 (0.49%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.32%) Azure
2 16 (7.88%) AWS
3 12 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.45%) GitHub
6 6 (2.96%) GCP
6 6 (2.96%) IaaS
7 5 (2.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.46%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.46%) Serverless
8 4 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.48%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.48%) Route 53
9 3 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.45%) Modbus
2 5 (2.46%) Bluetooth
3 4 (1.97%) Profibus
3 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.48%) Firewall
4 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.48%) MQTT
4 3 (1.48%) RS-232
4 3 (1.48%) RS-422
4 3 (1.48%) RS-485
5 2 (0.99%) LAN
5 2 (0.99%) WAN
6 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.97%) Big Data
3 3 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.99%) DB2
4 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.49%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (14.29%) Git
2 10 (4.93%) Subversion
3 7 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.97%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.99%) GitLab
5 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 81 (39.90%) Electronics
2 77 (37.93%) Manufacturing
3 74 (36.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.90%) Finance
4 14 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 13 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.91%) Games
7 4 (1.97%) Automotive
7 4 (1.97%) Military
8 3 (1.48%) Law
9 2 (0.99%) Marketing
9 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.90%) .NET
2 11 (5.42%) REST
3 10 (4.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 10 (4.93%) Unreal Engine
4 8 (3.94%) ASP.NET
5 7 (3.45%) React
6 6 (2.96%) JSON
6 6 (2.96%) SOAP
6 6 (2.96%) Web Services
6 6 (2.96%) XML
6 6 (2.96%) XSLT
7 5 (2.46%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.97%) GTK
9 3 (1.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.48%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.48%) Kendo UI
10 2 (0.99%) Flask
10 2 (0.99%) Kafka
10 2 (0.99%) Spring
10 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.96%) Analogue Electronics
2 6 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (2.96%) Life Science
3 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.99%) Animation
5 2 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.99%) Kindle
5 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.49%) 3D Printing
6 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.39%) Windows
2 13 (6.40%) Linux
3 3 (1.48%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.98%) Project Planning
1 71 (34.98%) Schematic Capture
2 41 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (16.75%) DevOps
4 27 (13.30%) Software Engineering
5 26 (12.81%) Computer Science
6 24 (11.82%) Agile
7 17 (8.37%) Use Case
8 15 (7.39%) Containerisation
9 14 (6.90%) Mathematics
9 14 (6.90%) Software Testing
10 13 (6.40%) SDLC
11 12 (5.91%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (5.91%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (5.91%) Mentoring
11 12 (5.91%) Test Automation
12 11 (5.42%) CI/CD
12 11 (5.42%) Multithreading
12 11 (5.42%) Physics
12 11 (5.42%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.76%) Python
2 26 (12.81%) C++
3 25 (12.32%) C#
4 18 (8.87%) Java
5 17 (8.37%) SQL
6 10 (4.93%) Bash
7 9 (4.43%) C
7 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.43%) MATLAB
8 8 (3.94%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.96%) Ruby
9 6 (2.96%) XPath
10 4 (1.97%) Embedded C++
10 4 (1.97%) Go
10 4 (1.97%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.48%) Ada
12 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 114 (56.16%) Degree
2 28 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.48%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.48%) HNC
5 3 (1.48%) HND
5 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.48%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.97%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (1.97%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.97%) ISO 13485
2 3 (1.48%) QA
System Software
1 78 (38.42%) Firmware
2 74 (36.45%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (3.45%) Docker
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (34.98%) EMC
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.46%) Google
4 3 (1.48%) Telerik
5 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco
5 2 (0.99%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) Xilinx