Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 710 1,060 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.77% 11.16% 15.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.64% 11.85% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 557 643 1,000
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,829 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 9,292 8,946 7,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.62% 94.19% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,301 4,308 5,636
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,055 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -2.81% -1.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,642 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 of England.

Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
North West -16 345 £60,000 +14.83% 241
Yorkshire -2 276 £52,500 +5.00% 116
North East -8 91 £50,000 -4.76% 41
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, 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 of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 258 (36.34%) Azure
2 252 (35.49%) JavaScript
3 233 (32.82%) AWS
4 194 (27.32%) Agile
5 182 (25.63%) .NET
6 179 (25.21%) Mentoring
7 167 (23.52%) CSS
8 166 (23.38%) C#
9 156 (21.97%) HTML
10 148 (20.85%) SQL
11 145 (20.42%) Git
12 142 (20.00%) DevOps
13 139 (19.58%) CI/CD
14 129 (18.17%) React
15 127 (17.89%) Microsoft
15 127 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (17.89%) Python
16 115 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 111 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
18 104 (14.65%) GitHub
19 100 (14.08%) Docker
20 97 (13.66%) Java
21 91 (12.82%) SQL Server
22 84 (11.83%) Microservices
23 80 (11.27%) Clean Code
24 79 (11.13%) TypeScript
25 77 (10.85%) AWS Certification
26 76 (10.70%) Front End Development
27 71 (10.00%) Serverless
28 69 (9.72%) .NET Core

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (1.97%) CMS
2 10 (1.41%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.85%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.85%) WordPress
4 4 (0.56%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.56%) Camunda
4 4 (0.56%) nginx
5 3 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.28%) Drupal
6 2 (0.28%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) InVision
4 1 (0.14%) Sketch
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.13%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.28%) Magento
3 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Odoo
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 258 (36.34%) Azure
2 233 (32.82%) AWS
3 104 (14.65%) GitHub
4 71 (10.00%) Serverless
5 60 (8.45%) SaaS
6 35 (4.93%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 33 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.94%) GCP
10 25 (3.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 18 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (1.83%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.59%) Internet
2 5 (0.70%) HTTP
3 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.28%) Intranet
4 2 (0.28%) SSH
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.21%) MySQL
5 26 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 26 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.68%) Power BI
8 14 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.27%) Redis
11 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.85%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.85%) OLAP
12 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 145 (20.42%) Git
2 36 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.93%) JIRA
4 22 (3.10%) GitLab
5 15 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.41%) Maven
8 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.56%) Postman
9 4 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.42%) JUnit
10 3 (0.42%) Selenium
10 3 (0.42%) webpack
10 3 (0.42%) Xcode
11 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.28%) Grunt
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.28%) Storybook
General
1 137 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.73%) Multimedia
3 43 (6.06%) Finance
4 41 (5.77%) Marketing
5 30 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.80%) Games
7 22 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.82%) Law
8 20 (2.82%) Retail
9 11 (1.55%) Legal
10 10 (1.41%) Banking
11 8 (1.13%) Electronics
12 7 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.70%) Advertising
14 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.56%) Back Office
16 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (25.63%) .NET
2 167 (23.52%) CSS
3 156 (21.97%) HTML
4 129 (18.17%) React
5 69 (9.72%) .NET Core
6 64 (9.01%) ASP.NET
7 56 (7.89%) RESTful
8 53 (7.46%) Node.js
8 53 (7.46%) REST
9 46 (6.48%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.92%) Spring Boot
11 40 (5.63%) Spring
12 39 (5.49%) .NET Framework
13 34 (4.79%) Vue
14 28 (3.94%) Blazor
15 23 (3.24%) ASP.NET Core
16 21 (2.96%) Laravel
17 20 (2.82%) Flask
18 18 (2.54%) Django
18 18 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.79%) Mobile App
2 33 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.41%) IoT
9 9 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.13%) NHS
11 7 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.70%) Clustering
13 5 (0.70%) Legacy Code
14 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.42%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.42%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.42%) Online Games
15 3 (0.42%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.82%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.39%) Android
3 12 (1.69%) Windows
4 9 (1.27%) Linux
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (27.32%) Agile
2 179 (25.21%) Mentoring
3 142 (20.00%) DevOps
4 139 (19.58%) CI/CD
5 127 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 111 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 84 (11.83%) Microservices
9 80 (11.27%) Clean Code
10 76 (10.70%) Front End Development
11 62 (8.73%) Software Engineering
12 61 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
13 56 (7.89%) Containerisation
14 52 (7.32%) Roadmaps
15 49 (6.90%) Test Automation
16 48 (6.76%) User Experience
17 47 (6.62%) Computer Science
17 47 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (6.62%) TDD
18 42 (5.92%) AI
Programming Languages
1 252 (35.49%) JavaScript
2 166 (23.38%) C#
3 148 (20.85%) SQL
4 127 (17.89%) Python
5 97 (13.66%) Java
6 79 (11.13%) TypeScript
7 58 (8.17%) PHP
8 25 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.25%) Go
10 15 (2.11%) Scala
11 14 (1.97%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.83%) C++
13 10 (1.41%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.27%) Ruby
15 8 (1.13%) Elixir
16 7 (0.99%) ANSI SQL
16 7 (0.99%) Bash
16 7 (0.99%) Groovy
17 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.85%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 77 (10.85%) AWS Certification
2 61 (8.59%) Azure Certification
3 60 (8.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 60 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 55 (7.75%) Degree
5 24 (3.38%) DBS Check
6 23 (3.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 21 (2.96%) Security Cleared
8 18 (2.54%) SC Cleared
9 17 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.28%) PhD
14 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.38%) QA
2 21 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.42%) WCAG
4 2 (0.28%) GDPR
4 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (14.08%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (6.20%) Terraform
2 37 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.41%) Ansible
4 8 (1.13%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.56%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.42%) cPanel
6 3 (0.42%) Plesk
7 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Nagios
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 127 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.94%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.66%) Atlassian
4 23 (3.24%) Oracle
5 8 (1.13%) JDA
6 7 (0.99%) MuleSoft
7 6 (0.85%) Google
7 6 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.70%) Adobe
8 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.56%) Pega
9 4 (0.56%) WSO2
10 3 (0.42%) Splunk
10 3 (0.42%) UiPath
11 2 (0.28%) Foundry
11 2 (0.28%) Intapp
11 2 (0.28%) Peregrine
11 2 (0.28%) SAP
11 2 (0.28%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.28%) Xamarin