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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 635 1,531 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.75% 12.96% 14.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.68% 13.73% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 505 1,009 895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,620 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,273 11,153 7,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.95% 94.43% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,993 5,794 5,386
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -18 337 £60,000 +14.29% 148
Yorkshire -20 230 £52,500 +5.00% 67
North East -20 70 £50,000 -2.91% 27
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 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.

1 230 (36.22%) Azure
2 229 (36.06%) JavaScript
3 206 (32.44%) AWS
4 188 (29.61%) Agile
5 179 (28.19%) .NET
6 163 (25.67%) C#
7 162 (25.51%) Mentoring
8 150 (23.62%) SQL
9 149 (23.46%) CSS
10 137 (21.57%) HTML
11 134 (21.10%) DevOps
12 122 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (18.27%) React
14 113 (17.80%) CI/CD
15 112 (17.64%) Microsoft
16 110 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 109 (17.17%) Git
18 108 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
19 103 (16.22%) Python
20 101 (15.91%) Java
21 90 (14.17%) SQL Server
22 87 (13.70%) Clean Code
23 81 (12.76%) Microservices
24 80 (12.60%) Docker
24 80 (12.60%) GitHub
25 73 (11.50%) TypeScript
26 69 (10.87%) Front End Development
27 64 (10.08%) Degree
28 63 (9.92%) SaaS
29 59 (9.29%) Roadmaps

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 12 (1.89%) CMS
2 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.94%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.63%) Anypoint
3 4 (0.63%) Camunda
3 4 (0.63%) Headless CMS
3 4 (0.63%) IIS
3 4 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.47%) Confluence
4 3 (0.47%) WordPress
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.31%) Drupal
5 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.31%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.63%) Magento
1 4 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) Shopify
3 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Odoo
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 230 (36.22%) Azure
2 206 (32.44%) AWS
3 80 (12.60%) GitHub
4 63 (9.92%) SaaS
5 51 (8.03%) Serverless
6 34 (5.35%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (4.25%) GCP
9 21 (3.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 18 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.20%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.57%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.42%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (1.26%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.77%) Internet
2 7 (1.10%) WPA
3 3 (0.47%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Intranet
4 2 (0.31%) SSH
4 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (14.17%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (6.30%) MongoDB
4 38 (5.98%) MySQL
5 33 (5.20%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.99%) Power BI
8 15 (2.36%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.05%) Redis
11 7 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.94%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.94%) OLAP
12 6 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 109 (17.17%) Git
2 33 (5.20%) JIRA
3 24 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.68%) GitLab
5 10 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.79%) Maven
9 4 (0.63%) JUnit
9 4 (0.63%) Postman
9 4 (0.63%) Selenium
9 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.63%) webpack
10 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.47%) Xcode
11 2 (0.31%) gulp
11 2 (0.31%) Mockito
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 141 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 56 (8.82%) Finance
3 42 (6.61%) Multimedia
4 38 (5.98%) Marketing
5 27 (4.25%) Games
5 27 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (3.15%) Law
8 16 (2.52%) Retail
9 13 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.89%) Legal
11 10 (1.57%) Banking
12 8 (1.26%) Electronics
13 6 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.79%) Advertising
14 5 (0.79%) Back Office
14 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (28.19%) .NET
2 149 (23.46%) CSS
3 137 (21.57%) HTML
4 116 (18.27%) React
5 58 (9.13%) Node.js
6 54 (8.50%) .NET Core
7 53 (8.35%) RESTful
8 52 (8.19%) ASP.NET
9 47 (7.40%) REST
10 40 (6.30%) AngularJS
11 39 (6.14%) Spring
12 38 (5.98%) Spring Boot
13 34 (5.35%) .NET Framework
14 29 (4.57%) Blazor
14 29 (4.57%) Vue
15 20 (3.15%) HTML5
16 19 (2.99%) CSS3
17 18 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
17 18 (2.83%) React Native
18 16 (2.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 29 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.57%) IoT
9 8 (1.26%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.26%) Clustering
10 7 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.94%) NHS
12 4 (0.63%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.63%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.47%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.47%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.47%) Online Games
13 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.31%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.15%) Apple iOS
2 19 (2.99%) Windows
3 17 (2.68%) Android
4 9 (1.42%) Linux
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (29.61%) Agile
2 162 (25.51%) Mentoring
3 134 (21.10%) DevOps
4 122 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 110 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 108 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (13.70%) Clean Code
9 81 (12.76%) Microservices
10 69 (10.87%) Front End Development
11 59 (9.29%) Roadmaps
11 59 (9.29%) Software Engineering
12 52 (8.19%) Computer Science
13 51 (8.03%) User Experience
14 50 (7.87%) Test Automation
15 49 (7.72%) Containerisation
16 48 (7.56%) TDD
17 45 (7.09%) OOP
18 44 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
19 43 (6.77%) AI
Programming Languages
1 229 (36.06%) JavaScript
2 163 (25.67%) C#
3 150 (23.62%) SQL
4 103 (16.22%) Python
5 101 (15.91%) Java
6 73 (11.50%) TypeScript
7 44 (6.93%) PHP
8 22 (3.46%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.52%) C++
9 16 (2.52%) Go
10 13 (2.05%) Scala
11 12 (1.89%) Ruby
12 11 (1.73%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.26%) Delphi
14 8 (1.26%) Elixir
14 8 (1.26%) VB.NET
15 7 (1.10%) ANSI SQL
16 5 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (10.08%) Degree
2 50 (7.87%) AWS Certification
3 43 (6.77%) Azure Certification
4 42 (6.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.25%) Security Cleared
6 25 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.94%) DBS Check
7 24 (3.78%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.31%) PhD
12 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.57%) QA
2 21 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.63%) GDPR
4 3 (0.47%) WCAG
5 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (12.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (6.46%) Terraform
2 38 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.42%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.47%) cPanel
5 3 (0.47%) Plesk
6 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.25%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.46%) Atlassian
4 19 (2.99%) Oracle
5 10 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.26%) Google
6 8 (1.26%) JDA
7 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.94%) Splunk
9 5 (0.79%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.63%) Adobe
10 4 (0.63%) Pega
10 4 (0.63%) WSO2
11 2 (0.31%) Dell
11 2 (0.31%) IBM
11 2 (0.31%) Infor
11 2 (0.31%) Informatica
11 2 (0.31%) Lotus
11 2 (0.31%) SAP
11 2 (0.31%) Xamarin