Development Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 157 303
Rank change year-on-year +43 +146 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Manager 1,095 1,367 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.64% 1.74% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.97% 1.83% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 550 739 280
10th Percentile £30,580 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% -27.14%
75th Percentile £59,652 £70,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £90,125
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 36,850 74,699 47,718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.00% 94.92% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 19,469 52,078 28,910
10th Percentile £25,625 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +5.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Manager in the UK excluding London

Development Manager
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 Development Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
South East +10 265 £50,000 +11.11% 255
North of England +1 230 £50,000 -9.09% 281
East of England +115 224 £41,000 -31.67% 116
Midlands -35 165 £30,580 -32.04% 180
West Midlands -10 116 £30,580 -23.66% 117
South West +155 97 £38,000 -24.00% 87
Yorkshire +29 85 £55,000 +10.00% 91
North West -58 85 £40,000 -27.27% 157
Scotland +64 77 £38,000 -41.54% 47
North East +84 58 £50,000 -28.57% 35
East Midlands -44 49 £53,250 -20.22% 63
Wales +28 26 £57,500 +61.06% 26
Northern Ireland +41 11 £50,000 -13.04% 9
Development Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, Development Manager 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 Development Manager in the job title.

1 967 (88.31%) Business Development
2 393 (35.89%) Social Skills
3 336 (30.68%) Finance
4 318 (29.04%) Marketing
5 213 (19.45%) Public Sector
6 210 (19.18%) Collaborative Working
7 208 (19.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 208 (19.00%) Marketing Strategy
8 204 (18.63%) Facilities Management
9 102 (9.32%) CRM
10 99 (9.04%) Business Strategy
11 96 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (8.68%) B2B
13 88 (8.04%) Customer Service
14 80 (7.31%) Active Listening
14 80 (7.31%) Salesforce
15 79 (7.21%) Business Enablement
16 77 (7.03%) Value Proposition
16 77 (7.03%) Deadline-Driven
16 77 (7.03%) SLA
16 77 (7.03%) SAP
16 77 (7.03%) Salesforce CRM
17 69 (6.30%) Project Management
18 68 (6.21%) QA
18 68 (6.21%) YouTube
18 68 (6.21%) Technology Enablement
19 67 (6.12%) Degree
20 62 (5.66%) FMCG
20 62 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
21 56 (5.11%) Competitor Analysis

Development Manager 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 2 (0.18%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.091%) CMS
2 1 (0.091%) Moodle
2 1 (0.091%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.091%) Totara
2 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 77 (7.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 18 (1.64%) SaaS
2 14 (1.28%) AWS
3 13 (1.19%) Azure
4 7 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (0.64%) Amazon S3
4 7 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (0.27%) Azure API Management
5 3 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.091%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.091%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.091%) GCP
6 1 (0.091%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.091%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.091%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.091%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.64%) SSL
2 5 (0.46%) IP Telephony
2 5 (0.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.18%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.18%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.18%) WAN
3 2 (0.18%) Wireless
3 2 (0.18%) WPA
4 1 (0.091%) Broadband
4 1 (0.091%) LAN
4 1 (0.091%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.091%) VoIP
4 1 (0.091%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.27%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.091%) Big Data
4 1 (0.091%) Power BI
4 1 (0.091%) Redis
4 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.55%) JIRA
2 3 (0.27%) Git
3 1 (0.091%) Vagrant
General
1 393 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 336 (30.68%) Finance
3 318 (29.04%) Marketing
4 213 (19.45%) Public Sector
5 62 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 28 (2.56%) Local Government
9 24 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.10%) Banking
11 12 (1.10%) Electronics
11 12 (1.10%) Retail
12 10 (0.91%) Legal
12 10 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.82%) Games
14 8 (0.73%) Automotive
15 4 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.37%) Law
16 3 (0.27%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.10%) .NET
2 8 (0.73%) React
3 7 (0.64%) Android Jetpack
3 7 (0.64%) Jetpack Compose
3 7 (0.64%) Node.js
3 7 (0.64%) OAuth
3 7 (0.64%) SwiftUI
3 7 (0.64%) UIKit
4 5 (0.46%) CodeIgniter
4 5 (0.46%) Laravel
5 4 (0.37%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.27%) Hibernate
6 3 (0.27%) Spring
7 2 (0.18%) Blazor
8 1 (0.091%) Bootstrap
8 1 (0.091%) HTML5
8 1 (0.091%) Kafka
8 1 (0.091%) NestJS
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.091%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (5.66%) FMCG
2 18 (1.64%) Driving Licence
3 16 (1.46%) Data Centre
3 16 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.10%) Social Media
4 12 (1.10%) Virtual Team
5 11 (1.00%) e-Learning
5 11 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 9 (0.82%) Product Ownership
7 8 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (0.46%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.27%) AS400
10 3 (0.27%) CCTV
10 3 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.18%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.18%) EPoS
11 2 (0.18%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.18%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.10%) Android
1 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.27%) Windows
3 2 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 967 (88.31%) Business Development
2 210 (19.18%) Collaborative Working
3 208 (19.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 208 (19.00%) Marketing Strategy
4 204 (18.63%) Facilities Management
5 102 (9.32%) CRM
6 99 (9.04%) Business Strategy
7 96 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (8.68%) B2B
9 88 (8.04%) Customer Service
10 80 (7.31%) Active Listening
11 79 (7.21%) Business Enablement
12 77 (7.03%) Deadline-Driven
12 77 (7.03%) Value Proposition
13 69 (6.30%) Project Management
14 68 (6.21%) Technology Enablement
15 56 (5.11%) Commercialisation
15 56 (5.11%) Competitor Analysis
15 56 (5.11%) Product Strategy
16 46 (4.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 19 (1.74%) Java
2 16 (1.46%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.10%) C#
4 7 (0.64%) Kotlin
4 7 (0.64%) Swift
5 5 (0.46%) PHP
6 4 (0.37%) SQL
7 2 (0.18%) COBOL
8 1 (0.091%) PL/1
8 1 (0.091%) Python
8 1 (0.091%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (6.12%) Degree
2 26 (2.37%) DBS Check
3 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.091%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.091%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.03%) SLA
2 68 (6.21%) QA
3 5 (0.46%) GDPR
3 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.091%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.091%) Ansible
2 1 (0.091%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.091%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (7.31%) Salesforce
2 77 (7.03%) SAP
3 68 (6.21%) YouTube
4 19 (1.74%) Oracle
5 17 (1.55%) Microsoft
6 11 (1.00%) Sophos
7 9 (0.82%) Intel
7 9 (0.82%) Tenable
8 8 (0.73%) Fortinet
8 8 (0.73%) Google
9 7 (0.64%) Cisco
9 7 (0.64%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.27%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.27%) Databricks
12 2 (0.18%) NetApp
13 1 (0.091%) BMC
13 1 (0.091%) Commvault
13 1 (0.091%) Sage
13 1 (0.091%) VMware
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