Junior Developer Jobs

Junior Developer
UK

The median Junior Developer salary in the UK is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 566 604
Rank change year-on-year -30 +38 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 129 362 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 98 320 232
10th Percentile £25,925 £24,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,172 £26,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,875 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,762 104,573 82,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.72% 94.81% 91.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26,971 73,911 54,230
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,734 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.47%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in the UK

Junior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior Developer in the UK

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in the UK

Junior Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England -24 121 £32,500 +8.33% 195
UK excluding London +37 107 £31,000 +3.33% 136
Work from Home +28 54 £32,500 - 124
South East +86 49 £30,750 -5.38% 29
South West +107 23 £32,000 +14.29% 16
London +48 19 £52,500 +31.25% 72
Midlands +28 14 £30,438 +10.68% 19
North of England -4 12 £30,750 +2.50% 45
East Midlands +39 10 £27,938 +1.59% 12
Yorkshire +31 5 £29,000 -3.33% 15
North West -26 5 £36,250 +25.00% 22
West Midlands +35 4 £32,750 +19.09% 7
East of England +16 4 £33,750 +12.50% 12
Scotland +96 3 £30,000 - 11
Wales +42 2 - - 2
North East - 2 £28,125 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 56 (43.41%) JavaScript
2 52 (40.31%) SQL
3 41 (31.78%) HTML
3 41 (31.78%) CSS
4 38 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (23.26%) C#
5 30 (23.26%) Azure
6 28 (21.71%) Git
6 28 (21.71%) Retail
7 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
8 26 (20.16%) Power Platform
8 26 (20.16%) Power BI
8 26 (20.16%) Agile
8 26 (20.16%) PHP
9 23 (17.83%) .NET
9 23 (17.83%) Microsoft
10 22 (17.05%) MySQL
10 22 (17.05%) Java
11 21 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (16.28%) Data Structures
12 20 (15.50%) Data Mining
12 20 (15.50%) Computer Science
12 20 (15.50%) Customer Experience
13 19 (14.73%) Degree
13 19 (14.73%) Data Analysis
13 19 (14.73%) Coaching
13 19 (14.73%) AWS
14 18 (13.95%) Performance Management
14 18 (13.95%) Facebook
14 18 (13.95%) Data Management

Junior 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 5 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.78%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.78%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Solana
3 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.88%) InDesign
3 2 (1.55%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.78%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.78%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.26%) Azure
2 26 (20.16%) Power Platform
3 19 (14.73%) AWS
4 5 (3.88%) SaaS
5 4 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.10%) Serverless
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.33%) GCP
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.55%) Figma
7 2 (1.55%) GitHub
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.78%) Sage Pay
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Broadband
1 1 (0.78%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) Power BI
2 22 (17.05%) MySQL
3 20 (15.50%) Data Mining
4 18 (13.95%) BusinessObjects
5 11 (8.53%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.75%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.55%) FileMaker
10 2 (1.55%) Tableau
11 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.78%) Big Data
11 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.78%) Power Query
11 1 (0.78%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (21.71%) Git
2 2 (1.55%) Gradle
2 2 (1.55%) Maven
2 2 (1.55%) Postman
2 2 (1.55%) Subversion
2 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.55%) Vite
2 2 (1.55%) webpack
3 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) JIRA
3 1 (0.78%) JUnit
3 1 (0.78%) NUnit
General
1 28 (21.71%) Retail
2 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.18%) Finance
5 8 (6.20%) Law
6 4 (3.10%) Banking
6 4 (3.10%) Games
6 4 (3.10%) iGaming
7 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.55%) Marketing
8 2 (1.55%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.78%) Electronics
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.78%) Police
9 1 (0.78%) Swedish Language
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) CSS
1 41 (31.78%) HTML
2 23 (17.83%) .NET
3 17 (13.18%) RESTful
4 14 (10.85%) Node.js
4 14 (10.85%) React
5 12 (9.30%) Laravel
6 11 (8.53%) AngularJS
7 10 (7.75%) .NET Framework
7 10 (7.75%) HTML5
7 10 (7.75%) REST
7 10 (7.75%) Web Services
8 9 (6.98%) Pandas
9 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET
9 7 (5.43%) CakePHP
9 7 (5.43%) LAMP
10 6 (4.65%) NumPy
11 5 (3.88%) J2EE
11 5 (3.88%) Spring
12 4 (3.10%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.28%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.88%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.10%) Mobile Games
4 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.55%) IoT
5 2 (1.55%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.78%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.65%) Linux
2 2 (1.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Android
3 1 (0.78%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (20.16%) Agile
3 20 (15.50%) Computer Science
3 20 (15.50%) Customer Experience
4 19 (14.73%) Coaching
4 19 (14.73%) Data Analysis
5 18 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 18 (13.95%) Commercial Awareness
5 18 (13.95%) Data Management
5 18 (13.95%) Performance Management
5 18 (13.95%) Service Delivery
5 18 (13.95%) WFM
6 17 (13.18%) E-Commerce
7 16 (12.40%) Web Development
8 15 (11.63%) MVC
9 14 (10.85%) DevOps
10 13 (10.08%) Clean Code
10 13 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (10.08%) OOP
10 13 (10.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (43.41%) JavaScript
2 52 (40.31%) SQL
3 30 (23.26%) C#
4 26 (20.16%) PHP
5 22 (17.05%) Java
6 18 (13.95%) Python
6 18 (13.95%) VBA
7 11 (8.53%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.10%) C
9 3 (2.33%) Groovy
10 2 (1.55%) Bash
10 2 (1.55%) Go
11 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.78%) C++
11 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) Degree
2 13 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.78%) HND
6 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.95%) Facebook
3 8 (6.20%) Adobe
4 4 (3.10%) Twitter
5 2 (1.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.78%) Epicor
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) WooCommerce
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