Developer Job Trends in the North East

Developer
England > North East

The median Developer salary in the North East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 25 4
Rank change year-on-year +23 -21 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 399 60 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 12.03% 6.43% 18.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.16% 7.54% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 341 51 169
10th Percentile £42,500 £26,750 £33,900
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 3,033 796 1,346
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 85.32% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 502 858
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,087 £24,988
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,750 £61,998
90th Percentile £91,375 £74,926 £78,368
England median annual salary £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% - -8.33%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Developer job vacancy trend in the North East

Developer
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North East.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North East

Developer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Developer in the North East

Developer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +15 364 £60,000 +9.09% 51
Durham +11 34 £65,000 +78.08% 9
Northumberland - 1 £55,000 - 2
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 121 (30.33%) .NET
2 95 (23.81%) C#
3 94 (23.56%) Java
4 87 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 83 (20.80%) Agile
6 80 (20.05%) Azure
7 71 (17.79%) TypeScript
8 63 (15.79%) SQL
9 55 (13.78%) Microservices
10 54 (13.53%) .NET Core
10 54 (13.53%) Software Engineering
11 52 (13.03%) Microsoft
12 48 (12.03%) CI/CD
13 42 (10.53%) JavaScript
14 39 (9.77%) AWS
14 39 (9.77%) Security Cleared
15 38 (9.52%) React
16 37 (9.27%) CSS
16 37 (9.27%) DevOps
16 37 (9.27%) HTML
16 37 (9.27%) SC Cleared
16 37 (9.27%) TDD
17 36 (9.02%) Fintech
18 35 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
19 34 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (8.52%) RESTful
20 33 (8.27%) ASP.NET
21 32 (8.02%) MongoDB
21 32 (8.02%) Python
22 31 (7.77%) ASP.NET Core

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.01%) CMS
2 5 (1.25%) WordPress
3 3 (0.75%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (4.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 80 (20.05%) Azure
2 39 (9.77%) AWS
3 25 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (6.02%) GitHub
5 15 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (3.01%) Serverless
7 11 (2.76%) Firebase
8 9 (2.26%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.25%) Google Play
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.00%) Kong
11 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) Broadband
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 32 (8.02%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.75%) Power BI
7 6 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.50%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.25%) MySQL
9 4 (1.00%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.00%) GIS
9 4 (1.00%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.00%) Tableau
10 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) Big Data
11 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.76%) Git
2 12 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.76%) fastlane
4 6 (1.50%) Xcode
5 5 (1.25%) Android Studio
5 5 (1.25%) Crashlytics
5 5 (1.25%) GitLab
5 5 (1.25%) Gradle
6 2 (0.50%) JIRA
6 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (13.78%) Finance
2 35 (8.77%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.27%) Social Skills
4 19 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.51%) Games
7 7 (1.75%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.50%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.00%) Legal
9 4 (1.00%) Marketing
10 3 (0.75%) Banking
11 2 (0.50%) Law
11 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Billing
12 1 (0.25%) Polish Language
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
12 1 (0.25%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.25%) Ukrainian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (30.33%) .NET
2 54 (13.53%) .NET Core
3 38 (9.52%) React
4 37 (9.27%) CSS
4 37 (9.27%) HTML
5 34 (8.52%) RESTful
6 33 (8.27%) ASP.NET
7 31 (7.77%) ASP.NET Core
8 29 (7.27%) AngularJS
9 25 (6.27%) Vue
10 23 (5.76%) Node.js
11 20 (5.01%) REST
12 18 (4.51%) Entity Framework
13 17 (4.26%) LINQ
14 11 (2.76%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (2.26%) .NET Framework
15 9 (2.26%) GraphQL
16 8 (2.01%) Flask
17 7 (1.75%) HTML5
17 7 (1.75%) SubSonic
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (4.51%) Hedge funds
3 17 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.76%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.50%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.50%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.25%) AS400
11 1 (0.25%) CMDB
11 1 (0.25%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.25%) iSeries
11 1 (0.25%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.26%) Linux
2 7 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.50%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (20.80%) Agile
3 55 (13.78%) Microservices
4 54 (13.53%) Software Engineering
5 48 (12.03%) CI/CD
6 37 (9.27%) DevOps
6 37 (9.27%) TDD
7 36 (9.02%) Fintech
8 34 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (7.52%) AI
9 30 (7.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 28 (7.02%) User Experience
11 27 (6.77%) Scrum
12 25 (6.27%) Analytics
12 25 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (5.76%) Computer Science
13 23 (5.76%) Front End Development
13 23 (5.76%) Mentoring
14 22 (5.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (23.81%) C#
2 94 (23.56%) Java
3 71 (17.79%) TypeScript
4 63 (15.79%) SQL
5 42 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 32 (8.02%) Python
7 15 (3.76%) C++
8 14 (3.51%) Rust
9 7 (1.75%) PHP
9 7 (1.75%) Swift
10 5 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.25%) Scala
11 2 (0.50%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.25%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.25%) Perl
12 1 (0.25%) RPG
12 1 (0.25%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.76%) Degree
4 13 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 20 (5.01%) QA
3 14 (3.51%) WCAG
4 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (7.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.25%) CloudHub
2 1 (0.25%) Grafana
2 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 52 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.76%) Dynatrace
3 7 (1.75%) IBM
3 7 (1.75%) Sage
4 6 (1.50%) Apple
5 5 (1.25%) Google
6 4 (1.00%) Confluent
6 4 (1.00%) Databricks
7 3 (0.75%) Foundry
8 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) Aderant
9 1 (0.25%) Infor
9 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.25%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.25%) Sitecore