Technical Developer
UK

The median Technical Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 834 890 1076
Rank change year-on-year +56 +186 -197
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Developer 61 62 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.063% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.069% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 43 58 111
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £62,806
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,625 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% -6.90%

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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Technical Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Developer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Developer in the UK

Technical Developer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +96 60 £67,500 -3.57% 12
UK excluding London -2 40 £60,000 -14.29% 8
South East +23 22 £77,500 -8.82% 3
London +131 20 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Work from Home +63 18 £80,000 +23.08% 6
North of England +19 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
North West 0 15 £50,000 -39.39% 1
West Midlands +8 3 £55,000 -4.35%
Midlands -9 3 £55,000 -4.35% 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Developer in the job title.

1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 16 (26.23%) Design Patterns
3 14 (22.95%) SQL
4 13 (21.31%) Computer Science
4 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
5 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (19.67%) C#
6 11 (18.03%) Java
6 11 (18.03%) Agile
6 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.03%) Microservices
7 10 (16.39%) OOP
7 10 (16.39%) Client/Server
8 9 (14.75%) AWS
8 9 (14.75%) .NET
8 9 (14.75%) Finance
8 9 (14.75%) IoT
9 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (13.11%) HTML
9 8 (13.11%) CSS
9 8 (13.11%) QA
10 7 (11.48%) Spring
10 7 (11.48%) Checkstyle
10 7 (11.48%) Hadoop
10 7 (11.48%) Open Source
10 7 (11.48%) HTML5
10 7 (11.48%) MapReduce
10 7 (11.48%) Apache Hive
10 7 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (11.48%) Static Code Analysis

Technical 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 7 (11.48%) Apache Pig
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.64%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.64%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.64%) HFM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) AWS
3 7 (11.48%) Serverless
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (9.84%) GitHub
4 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.20%) PaaS
6 4 (6.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.28%) IaaS
8 1 (1.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.64%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) OCI
8 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Apache Hive
1 7 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (11.48%) Big Data
1 7 (11.48%) Hadoop
2 6 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (9.84%) MySQL
2 6 (9.84%) Power BI
3 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Checkstyle
1 7 (11.48%) JUnit
1 7 (11.48%) SonarQube
2 6 (9.84%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (14.75%) Finance
2 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Law
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) .NET
2 8 (13.11%) CSS
2 8 (13.11%) HTML
3 7 (11.48%) HTML5
3 7 (11.48%) J2EE
3 7 (11.48%) Spring
3 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
4 6 (9.84%) Doctrine
4 6 (9.84%) jQuery
4 6 (9.84%) Laravel
4 6 (9.84%) Symfony
4 6 (9.84%) Vue
5 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.92%) React
7 2 (3.28%) REST
8 1 (1.64%) CSS3
8 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.64%) React Native
8 1 (1.64%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Client/Server
2 9 (14.75%) IoT
3 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
3 7 (11.48%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
1 6 (9.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.23%) Design Patterns
2 13 (21.31%) Computer Science
2 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
3 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.03%) Agile
4 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.03%) Microservices
5 10 (16.39%) OOP
6 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Development
7 7 (11.48%) Analytics
7 7 (11.48%) MapReduce
7 7 (11.48%) OO
7 7 (11.48%) OOD
7 7 (11.48%) Open Source
7 7 (11.48%) People Management
7 7 (11.48%) SDLC
7 7 (11.48%) Static Code Analysis
8 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.84%) MVC
8 6 (9.84%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.95%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) C#
3 11 (18.03%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) Python
5 6 (9.84%) PHP
5 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.84%) Scala
6 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Databricks
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.64%) Salesforce