Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,012 992 2,065
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.41% 10.62% 15.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.01% 12.21% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,721 493 1,476
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,400 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.13% +5.00% -7.69%

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 22,328 8,126 12,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 87.03% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,250 4,341 7,582
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 23 September 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 23 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
North West +6 1,007 £55,000 -8.33% 311
Yorkshire +22 596 £57,500 -4.17% 173
North East +20 409 £61,250 +22.50% 86
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 419 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 379 (18.84%) .NET
3 355 (17.64%) Agile
3 355 (17.64%) C#
4 340 (16.90%) Azure
5 332 (16.50%) SQL
6 309 (15.36%) Microsoft
7 290 (14.41%) Java
8 279 (13.87%) JavaScript
9 275 (13.67%) TypeScript
10 262 (13.02%) CI/CD
11 254 (12.62%) DevOps
12 250 (12.43%) AWS
13 195 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
14 190 (9.44%) React
15 165 (8.20%) Software Engineering
16 161 (8.00%) Python
17 157 (7.80%) HTML
18 154 (7.65%) AI
19 151 (7.50%) AngularJS
20 148 (7.36%) .NET Core
20 148 (7.36%) Power Platform
21 146 (7.26%) Mentoring
22 145 (7.21%) CSS
23 142 (7.06%) Front End Development
24 137 (6.81%) Docker
25 136 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
26 130 (6.46%) ASP.NET
27 127 (6.31%) Microservices
28 123 (6.11%) Git

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 45 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.19%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.40%) IIS
7 7 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.099%) Apache
10 2 (0.099%) Confluence
10 2 (0.099%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.099%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.050%) CICS
11 1 (0.050%) JBoss
11 1 (0.050%) Kentico
11 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 19 (0.94%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Visualfiles
4 10 (0.50%) Shopify
5 8 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.099%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.050%) Magento
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 340 (16.90%) Azure
2 250 (12.43%) AWS
3 148 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 117 (5.82%) Serverless
5 110 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (4.72%) GitHub
7 91 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
9 75 (3.73%) Amazon S3
10 71 (3.53%) Power Automate
11 65 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
12 64 (3.18%) PowerApps
13 63 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
14 59 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
16 47 (2.34%) SaaS
17 40 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
20 33 (1.64%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.45%) Internet
2 7 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) Firewall
3 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.050%) Broadband
4 1 (0.050%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.050%) SNMP
4 1 (0.050%) SSL
4 1 (0.050%) VoIP
4 1 (0.050%) WAN
4 1 (0.050%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 98 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 87 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 70 (3.48%) Power BI
5 64 (3.18%) DynamoDB
6 51 (2.53%) MySQL
7 42 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 33 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.80%) MariaDB
16 15 (0.75%) Redis
16 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.40%) Tableau
18 7 (0.35%) Data Lake
19 6 (0.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 123 (6.11%) Git
2 60 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 37 (1.84%) GitLab
4 27 (1.34%) JIRA
5 20 (0.99%) Maven
6 16 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.60%) fastlane
9 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.35%) JUnit
10 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.35%) Xcode
11 6 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.30%) Gradle
12 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
13 4 (0.20%) NUnit
13 4 (0.20%) Spock
13 4 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 155 (7.70%) Social Skills
2 127 (6.31%) Finance
3 85 (4.22%) Public Sector
4 71 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (3.08%) Retail
6 57 (2.83%) Law
7 55 (2.73%) Marketing
8 34 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.34%) Banking
10 23 (1.14%) Legal
11 22 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 19 (0.94%) Games
13 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.50%) Advertising
14 10 (0.50%) Publishing
15 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.30%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.15%) Back Office
17 3 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (18.84%) .NET
2 190 (9.44%) React
3 157 (7.80%) HTML
4 151 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 148 (7.36%) .NET Core
6 145 (7.21%) CSS
7 130 (6.46%) ASP.NET
8 116 (5.77%) Node.js
9 104 (5.17%) REST
10 101 (5.02%) ASP.NET Core
11 93 (4.62%) Vue
12 91 (4.52%) RESTful
13 80 (3.98%) Spring
14 78 (3.88%) Spring Boot
15 66 (3.28%) Entity Framework
15 66 (3.28%) Laravel
16 46 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web API
17 44 (2.19%) Terraform
18 40 (1.99%) Middleware
19 34 (1.69%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 70 (3.48%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
3 57 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 40 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 36 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 18 (0.89%) Hedge funds
9 11 (0.55%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (0.50%) Online Gambling
11 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.40%) Contactless
12 8 (0.40%) EMV
12 8 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.89%) Android
2 25 (1.24%) Apple iOS
3 17 (0.84%) Linux
4 9 (0.45%) Windows
5 2 (0.099%) Unix
6 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 355 (17.64%) Agile
3 262 (13.02%) CI/CD
4 254 (12.62%) DevOps
5 195 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (8.20%) Software Engineering
7 154 (7.65%) AI
8 146 (7.26%) Mentoring
9 142 (7.06%) Front End Development
10 136 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (6.31%) Microservices
12 105 (5.22%) Business Intelligence
13 103 (5.12%) TDD
14 81 (4.03%) Clean Code
15 80 (3.98%) Collaborative Working
16 76 (3.78%) Web Development
17 75 (3.73%) Technical Leadership
18 71 (3.53%) Test Automation
19 68 (3.38%) Scrum
19 68 (3.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 355 (17.64%) C#
2 332 (16.50%) SQL
3 290 (14.41%) Java
4 279 (13.87%) JavaScript
5 275 (13.67%) TypeScript
6 161 (8.00%) Python
7 119 (5.91%) PHP
8 64 (3.18%) Kotlin
9 55 (2.73%) C++
10 27 (1.34%) Groovy
11 19 (0.94%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.89%) RPG
13 16 (0.80%) Rust
14 14 (0.70%) VB
15 12 (0.60%) Bash
15 12 (0.60%) C
15 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.60%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.55%) Go
16 11 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (4.77%) Security Cleared
2 86 (4.27%) SC Cleared
3 67 (3.33%) Degree
4 34 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 13 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (0.50%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.099%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.099%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.050%) ACCA
10 1 (0.050%) CIMA
10 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 48 (2.39%) QA
3 25 (1.24%) WCAG
4 20 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.60%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.099%) PMO
8 1 (0.050%) GDPR
8 1 (0.050%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 137 (6.81%) Docker
2 5 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.55%) HP Fortify
3 9 (0.45%) Ansible
4 4 (0.20%) Packer
5 3 (0.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.099%) Grafana
6 2 (0.099%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.050%) Argo
7 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.050%) logstash
7 1 (0.050%) Nagios
7 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.050%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 309 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.14%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 22 (1.09%) Google
5 19 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 18 (0.89%) Sage
7 17 (0.84%) IBM
8 13 (0.65%) Apple
8 13 (0.65%) Splunk
9 12 (0.60%) Adobe
10 11 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.40%) Cognos
11 8 (0.40%) Oracle
12 7 (0.35%) Facebook
12 7 (0.35%) HP
12 7 (0.35%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.30%) YouTube
14 5 (0.25%) Confluent