Live job market
Who's hiring backend developers in United Kingdom
43 backend developer roles are open in the United Kingdom right now across 26 employers, 35% of them remote. Everything below is counted from live postings on company career pages.
- Live openings
- 43
- Employers
- 26
- Remote share
- 35%
- Share of United Kingdom
- 1.4%
of all openings we track there
Companies posting the most backend developer roles in United Kingdom
- 1GitLab10 open roles
- 2iwoca5 open roles
- 3Freetrade3 open roles
- 4Deliveroo 2 open roles
- 5Monzo2 open roles
- 6Extrac.ai1 open role
- 7Delta Capita1 open role
- 8Checkout.com1 open role
- 9Galaxydigitalservices1 open role
- 10Deliveroo1 open role
What United Kingdom employers ask for
Share of the 43 most recent backend developer postings that mention each skill. Read it as a checklist for your resume.
- creativity33%
- gitlab26%
- go5%
- microservices5%
- adaptability2%
- machine-learning2%
- event-driven2%
- klarna2%
- rails2%
- ios2%
- android2%
- compensation2%
Where these roles are, inside United Kingdom
Locations exactly as the employers wrote them on the posting.
- 1London18 roles
- 2Remote, United Kingdom6 roles
- 3UK3 roles
- 4Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)2 roles
- 5London, England, United Kingdom2 roles
- 6Remote, Canada; Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom2 roles
- 7Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom2 roles
- 8United Kingdom2 roles
Recently posted
The newest backend developer openings in the feed for United Kingdom.
Principal Backend Developer
Waracle
London, England, United KingdomBack End Developer (Java)
Delta Capita
Ipswich, England, United KingdomBackend Engineer - Platform Security
Spotify
LondonSenior Backend Engineer - Ledger Platform
iwoca
LondonBackend Engineer - Repeats
iwoca
LondonSenior Backend Engineer - Customer Operations Platform
iwoca
LondonVP, Senior Backend Developer - Blockchain Infrastructure
Galaxydigitalservices
LondonSenior Backend Engineer - Payments
Pleo
RemoteDenmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UKSenior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales
M Kopa
LondonBackend Engineer - Acquisition Technology
iwoca
LondonFullstack Developer with Backend Focus
BLP Digital AG
UKMid-level Golang Engineer
Checkout.com
London
Backend Developers in other markets
The same role, counted the same way, everywhere else we have coverage.
- 1Germany79 open
- 2United States62 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?
- 43 right now, 35% 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, iwoca, Freetrade, Deliveroo , Monzo. GitLab alone has 10 open backend developer roles.
- What skills do United Kingdom employers ask backend developers for?
- Across 43 recent postings, the most requested are creativity (33% of ads), gitlab (26% of ads), go (5% of ads), microservices (5% of ads), adaptability (2% 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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