About Backend jobs
Backend development remains the single largest software engineering discipline in the UK, and the 48 roles currently listed on Geekery.io span every major stack. Python leads the count, with Django, FastAPI, and Flask roles at consultancies, scale-ups, and large enterprise employers. Java is still the workhorse of UK banking, insurance, and government — expect steady demand for Spring Boot engineers in London, Edinburgh, and Manchester. Node.js is concentrated in product-led scale-ups and media companies, with TypeScript increasingly required.
What’s changed most in the last two years is the rise of Go (Golang) in platform engineering and infrastructure roles, and a quieter but steady demand for .NET / C# in fintech and the public sector. Rust is starting to appear in ads but is still a small fraction of total UK backend hiring.
UK backend developer salaries cluster as follows: junior roles £35,000–£50,000, mid-level £26,227–£100,000, senior £40,000–£235,000, and expert £50,000–£95,000. The UK median for backend developers is around £62,500. London adds a 10–20% premium; Manchester, Bristol, and Edinburgh are typically within ±5% of national median.
Remote work has settled into a roughly 50/50 split: half of these roles are fully remote within the UK, half require hybrid or on-site presence. Hybrid is most common in financial services and government. Fully remote is most common in SaaS and platform-led businesses.
The fastest-growing specialisations inside backend right now are platform engineering (building internal developer platforms), event-driven systems (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ), and serverless / edge (Cloudflare Workers, Lambda, Deno Deploy). If you’re a backend engineer planning your next move, the listings below are filtered by recency and include salary bands where employers have shared them.
