Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,302 676 2,706
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.66% 10.34% 16.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.36% 11.29% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,081 499 2,365
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,620 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 15,582 5,986 15,514
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.56% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,049 3,786 12,426
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 15 April 2026.

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 15 April 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
North West -11 676 £57,500 +6.48% 191
Yorkshire +13 475 £57,500 +9.52% 107
North East +14 151 £60,000 +9.09% 56
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 April 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 of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 285 (21.89%) Azure
2 277 (21.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 275 (21.12%) AWS
4 268 (20.58%) JavaScript
5 256 (19.66%) .NET
6 234 (17.97%) Agile
7 225 (17.28%) C#
8 212 (16.28%) SQL
9 203 (15.59%) Java
10 194 (14.90%) CI/CD
11 167 (12.83%) DevOps
12 165 (12.67%) Mentoring
13 158 (12.14%) Microsoft
14 154 (11.83%) React
15 153 (11.75%) Python
16 152 (11.67%) Git
17 150 (11.52%) CSS
18 145 (11.14%) HTML
19 131 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
20 129 (9.91%) Serverless
20 129 (9.91%) TypeScript
21 119 (9.14%) Docker
22 118 (9.06%) Software Engineering
23 115 (8.83%) Front End Development
24 111 (8.53%) GitHub
25 100 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
26 99 (7.60%) PHP
27 96 (7.37%) .NET Core
28 92 (7.07%) Microservices
29 89 (6.84%) AngularJS

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 19 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.31%) CMS
3 9 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.54%) OpenEdge
5 6 (0.46%) JBoss
5 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.46%) WordPress
6 5 (0.38%) Appian
7 4 (0.31%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.23%) Apache
8 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) CICS
9 2 (0.15%) Confluence
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.077%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.077%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.077%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.077%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.23%) Visualfiles
2 15 (1.15%) Shopify
3 7 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Magento
6 1 (0.077%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 285 (21.89%) Azure
2 275 (21.12%) AWS
3 129 (9.91%) Serverless
4 111 (8.53%) GitHub
5 84 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
6 78 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 69 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (4.92%) SaaS
9 63 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
10 53 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 43 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
12 42 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
13 39 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (2.69%) Apigee
15 34 (2.61%) Amazon ECR
16 32 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (2.15%) GCP
18 26 (2.00%) Power Automate
18 26 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.84%) Internet
2 10 (0.77%) Broadband
3 5 (0.38%) HTTP
4 4 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.15%) Intranet
5 2 (0.15%) SSL
6 1 (0.077%) DNS
6 1 (0.077%) SSH
6 1 (0.077%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 72 (5.53%) DynamoDB
3 51 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 38 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (2.92%) Power BI
5 33 (2.53%) MySQL
6 32 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 22 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.38%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.31%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Tableau
14 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.23%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.23%) DB2
Development Applications
1 152 (11.67%) Git
2 62 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.92%) GitLab
4 32 (2.46%) SonarQube
5 30 (2.30%) Maven
6 29 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 28 (2.15%) JIRA
8 7 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.54%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.31%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.31%) NUnit
11 4 (0.31%) Selenium
12 3 (0.23%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.15%) JUnit
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.15%) Subversion
13 2 (0.15%) XCUITest
General
1 114 (8.76%) Social Skills
2 89 (6.84%) Finance
3 53 (4.07%) Multimedia
4 43 (3.30%) Law
5 33 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 29 (2.23%) Retail
7 27 (2.07%) Games
8 25 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (1.84%) Marketing
10 22 (1.69%) Legal
11 19 (1.46%) Banking
12 10 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.61%) Advertising
13 8 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.31%) Electronics
16 4 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.23%) Back Office
17 3 (0.23%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (19.66%) .NET
2 154 (11.83%) React
3 150 (11.52%) CSS
4 145 (11.14%) HTML
5 96 (7.37%) .NET Core
6 89 (6.84%) AngularJS
7 78 (5.99%) ASP.NET
8 77 (5.91%) Node.js
9 72 (5.53%) Spring Boot
10 64 (4.92%) Vue
11 58 (4.45%) RESTful
12 55 (4.22%) REST
13 53 (4.07%) Laravel
14 50 (3.84%) Spring
15 37 (2.84%) .NET Framework
16 34 (2.61%) Jest
17 31 (2.38%) Flask
18 29 (2.23%) Gherkin
19 27 (2.07%) ASP.NET Core
20 23 (1.77%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.61%) Mobile App
2 36 (2.76%) Cloud Native
3 34 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.15%) Legacy Code
8 12 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (0.84%) Social Media
10 8 (0.61%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.54%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.54%) NHS
12 6 (0.46%) Educational Technology
13 5 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.31%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.54%) Android
2 17 (1.31%) Apple iOS
3 11 (0.84%) Linux
4 6 (0.46%) Windows
5 1 (0.077%) VMS
5 1 (0.077%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (21.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 234 (17.97%) Agile
3 194 (14.90%) CI/CD
4 167 (12.83%) DevOps
5 165 (12.67%) Mentoring
6 131 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (9.06%) Software Engineering
8 115 (8.83%) Front End Development
9 100 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (7.07%) Microservices
11 80 (6.14%) Clean Code
12 59 (4.53%) AI
12 59 (4.53%) SDLC
13 57 (4.38%) Business Intelligence
14 51 (3.92%) Design Patterns
15 50 (3.84%) Cybersecurity
16 49 (3.76%) TDD
17 47 (3.61%) Containerisation
18 45 (3.46%) Web Development
19 41 (3.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 268 (20.58%) JavaScript
2 225 (17.28%) C#
3 212 (16.28%) SQL
4 203 (15.59%) Java
5 153 (11.75%) Python
6 129 (9.91%) TypeScript
7 99 (7.60%) PHP
8 42 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 30 (2.30%) Groovy
10 29 (2.23%) Bash
11 13 (1.00%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.84%) VB
13 10 (0.77%) C++
14 7 (0.54%) Swift
15 6 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.38%) Delphi
16 5 (0.38%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.31%) Bicep
18 3 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
18 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 88 (6.76%) AWS Certification
2 54 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 50 (3.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 42 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 37 (2.84%) SC Cleared
7 28 (2.15%) Degree
8 22 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.23%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.15%) HND
15 1 (0.077%) ACCA
15 1 (0.077%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 15 (1.15%) QA
3 7 (0.54%) TickIT
4 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.31%) SLA
6 2 (0.15%) WCAG
7 1 (0.077%) GDPR
System Software
1 119 (9.14%) Docker
2 9 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.077%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (3.84%) Terraform
2 32 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.23%) HP Fortify
4 9 (0.69%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) cPanel
5 3 (0.23%) Plesk
6 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.15%) Nagios
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.077%) Grafana
Vendors
1 158 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.07%) Oracle
3 18 (1.38%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.77%) IBM
7 9 (0.69%) Sage
8 8 (0.61%) Cognos
8 8 (0.61%) Intapp
8 8 (0.61%) JDA
9 7 (0.54%) Progress
10 6 (0.46%) Pega
11 5 (0.38%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.38%) UiPath
12 4 (0.31%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.31%) Calypso
12 4 (0.31%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.23%) Foundry
13 3 (0.23%) Google
13 3 (0.23%) Splunk