How much should Software Developers earn?

Back End, Full Stack and Front End Developer salaries broken down by experience, seniority, associated skills, and position salary listings. Taken from the Insights Library on cord.

Expected salaries — all Developers

Mid-level Developers expect an average salary of £53,503. Senior Developers, meanwhile, expect an average salary of £75,659.

Across all seniorities, Back End Developers expect to be paid more than Full Stack or Front End Developers. Front End Developers, meanwhile, expect to be paid less than either Full Stack or Back End Developers.

Front End

Skills and expected salaries

Junior Front End Developers

Typescript is the most valuable skill for Junior Front End Developers, followed by Angular, Node.js and React Native.

React Native is the most valuable skill for Mid Front End Developers, followed by Typescript, Redux and React.

Similarly, React Native, Redux, React and Typescript are the most valuable skills for Senior Front End Developers.

Among Lead Front End Developers, React Native is the most valuable primary skill, followed by Typescript, React and Redux.

Front End Developer positions on cord pay, on average, £44,100-£68,982 at Mid level, and £51,667-£79,900 at Senior level.

Full Stack

Skills and expected salaries

Go is the most valuable programming language for Junior Full Stack Developers, followed by Java, Python and Ruby.

Go is also the most valuable programming language for Mid Full Stack Developers, followed by Ruby, Java and Typescript.

Among Senior Full Stack Developers, Go, Ruby, Python and Java are the most valuable programming languages to know.

The most valuable programming language for Lead Full Stack Developers is Ruby, followed by Go, Python and Java.

Full Stack Developer positions on cord pay, on average, £45,354-£70,978 at Mid level, and £53,962-£83,682 at Senior Level.

Back End

Skills and expected salaries

Scala is the most valuable skill for Junior Back End Developers, followed by Go, C++ and Java.

Scala is also the most valuable skill for Mid Back End Developers, followed by Go, C and Java.

Again, Scala is the most valuable skill among Senior Back End Developers, followed by Go, Ruby and C++.

Scala, Ruby, Go and Python are the most valuable skills for Lead Back End Developers.

Back End positions tend to pay, on average, £46,471-£78,231 at Mid level and £56,518-£87,288 at Senior level.

Key insights

• Back End Developers expect the highest salaries, Front End Developers the lowest
• React Native is the most valuable primary skill for Mid-Senior Front End Developers
• Scala tends to be the most valuable skill for Back End Developers, while Go is a more valuable skill for most Full Stack Developers
• Link to Insights on cord

Data disclaimer

Data is drawn from the expected salary of 8,181 Front End, Full Stack and Back End Engineers who started looking for UK-based work on cord since 1st Jan 2021, and the salary ranges of 2022 UK-based positions posed on cord since 1st Jan 2021.