The data describes the total numbers of employed and self-employed programmers and software development professionals in the UK from 2011 to 2017. In 2017, there were 292 thousand programmers and software development professionals in employment in the UK.
Of course there are always supporting roles when it comes to professional IT occupations. In this case, there are almost 198 thousand support roles in the software and services sector. These are broken down further by the occupation itself.
There have been over 100 thousand professional employees outside of the creative industries in terms of software development.
