Live job market
Who's hiring backend developers in United Kingdom
55 backend developer roles are open in the United Kingdom right now across 29 employers, 33% of them remote. Everything below is counted from live postings on company career pages.
- Live openings
- 55
- Employers
- 29
- Remote share
- 33%
- Share of United Kingdom
- 0.6%
of all openings we track there
Companies posting the most backend developer roles in United Kingdom
- 1GitLab9 open roles
- 2Palantir5 open roles
- 3Spotify4 open roles
- 4Kpler4 open roles
- 5Monzo3 open roles
- 6Elastic3 open roles
- 7Pleo2 open roles
- 8Deliveroo2 open roles
- 9M Kopa2 open roles
- 10iwoca2 open roles
What United Kingdom employers ask for
Share of the 55 most recent backend developer postings that mention each skill. Read it as a checklist for your resume.
- gitlab16%
- customer-service11%
- event-driven9%
- prototyping9%
- elasticsearch5%
- microservices5%
- adaptability5%
- python5%
- kafka5%
- java4%
- collaboration4%
- rails4%
Where these roles are, inside United Kingdom
Locations exactly as the employers wrote them on the posting.
- 1London15 roles
- 2United Kingdom11 roles
- 3London, United Kingdom5 roles
- 4UK5 roles
- 5Remote, United Kingdom4 roles
- 6London, England, United Kingdom2 roles
- 7Ireland / Portugal / Spain / United Kingdom1 role
- 8Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, UK, Ukraine1 role
Recently posted
The newest backend developer openings in the feed for United Kingdom.
Expert Java Developer - remote from EU - Deadline 25/11/26
AlmavivA de Belgique
RemoteAlbania / Andorra / Austria / BelarusSenior Backend Developer
Waracle
London, England, United KingdomStaff Backend Engineer - Content Platform
Spotify
LondonSenior Java Engineer - Security - Elasticsearch
Elastic
United KingdomSenior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales
M-KOPA
RemoteIreland / Portugal / Spain / United KingdomSenior Backend Engineer - Payments
Pleo
United KingdomSenior Backend Engineer - Payments
Pleo
RemoteDenmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UKPrincipal Java Engineer - Distributed Systems, Serverless - Elasticsearch
Elastic
United KingdomSenior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch
Elastic
United KingdomStaff Backend Engineer
Monzo
RemoteUK£130k–£170kBackend Engineer
Lever Implementation Training Environment
London, EnglandSenior Staff Backend Engineer
Monzo
RemoteUK£155k–£200k
Backend Developers in other markets
The same role, counted the same way, everywhere else we have coverage.
- 1United States457 open
- 2Germany132 open
- 3India129 open
- 4France77 open
- 5Spain48 open
Other roles hiring in United Kingdom
Backend Developers in United Kingdom: the questions people ask
- How many backend developers jobs are open in United Kingdom?
- 55 right now, 33% of them remote. The number comes from live postings on company career pages and refreshes hourly, so it reflects roles still accepting applications rather than an all-time archive.
- Which companies hire backend developers in United Kingdom?
- The most active right now are GitLab, Palantir, Spotify, Kpler, Monzo. GitLab alone has 9 open backend developer roles.
- What skills do United Kingdom employers ask backend developers for?
- Across 55 recent postings, the most requested are gitlab (16% of ads), customer-service (11% of ads), event-driven (9% of ads), prototyping (9% of ads), elasticsearch (5% of ads).
- How current is this data?
- Counts refresh hourly. Postings drop out automatically when they expire, and the month-over-month figure compares today against a snapshot recorded 30 days ago, so a rise or fall reflects real movement rather than a change in how we count.
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