Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 636 1,452 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.78% 12.90% 14.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.71% 13.68% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 505 953 878
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,619 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% - -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% +3.17%

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 8,246 10,614 6,836
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.89% 94.26% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,964 5,486 5,279
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,875
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -

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 3 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 3 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 -18 332 £60,000 +14.29% 263
Yorkshire -20 235 £51,250 +2.50% 115
North East -16 71 £50,000 -4.76% 57
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 233 (36.64%) JavaScript
2 229 (36.01%) Azure
3 207 (32.55%) AWS
4 185 (29.09%) Agile
5 176 (27.67%) .NET
6 168 (26.42%) Mentoring
7 160 (25.16%) C#
8 152 (23.90%) CSS
9 145 (22.80%) SQL
10 139 (21.86%) HTML
11 130 (20.44%) DevOps
12 123 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (18.40%) Microsoft
14 114 (17.92%) React
15 113 (17.77%) Git
16 111 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 110 (17.30%) CI/CD
18 108 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
18 108 (16.98%) Python
19 100 (15.72%) Java
20 88 (13.84%) SQL Server
21 86 (13.52%) Clean Code
22 84 (13.21%) GitHub
23 79 (12.42%) Microservices
24 78 (12.26%) Docker
25 72 (11.32%) TypeScript
26 68 (10.69%) Front End Development
27 63 (9.91%) Degree
27 63 (9.91%) SaaS
28 59 (9.28%) Software Engineering

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 11 (1.73%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.47%) Confluence
4 3 (0.47%) Headless CMS
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%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
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%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) Magento
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
1 229 (36.01%) Azure
2 207 (32.55%) AWS
3 84 (13.21%) GitHub
4 63 (9.91%) SaaS
5 51 (8.02%) Serverless
6 33 (5.19%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.93%) GCP
9 21 (3.30%) 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
13 13 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (1.42%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (1.42%) Power Automate
17 8 (1.26%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.70%) 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 88 (13.84%) SQL Server
2 42 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 38 (5.97%) MySQL
4 32 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 22 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.99%) Power BI
7 15 (2.36%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.73%) 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%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
14 3 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 113 (17.77%) Git
2 33 (5.19%) JIRA
3 24 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.67%) 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%) Grunt
11 2 (0.31%) Mockito
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 140 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.33%) Finance
3 48 (7.55%) Multimedia
4 37 (5.82%) Marketing
5 27 (4.25%) Games
5 27 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (3.14%) Law
8 16 (2.52%) Retail
9 13 (2.04%) 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
1 176 (27.67%) .NET
2 152 (23.90%) CSS
3 139 (21.86%) HTML
4 114 (17.92%) React
5 56 (8.81%) Node.js
6 52 (8.18%) .NET Core
7 51 (8.02%) RESTful
8 50 (7.86%) ASP.NET
9 44 (6.92%) REST
10 40 (6.29%) AngularJS
11 38 (5.97%) Spring
12 37 (5.82%) Spring Boot
13 35 (5.50%) .NET Framework
14 30 (4.72%) Vue
15 28 (4.40%) Blazor
16 19 (2.99%) HTML5
17 18 (2.83%) CSS3
18 17 (2.67%) React Native
19 16 (2.52%) ASP.NET Core
19 16 (2.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.72%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.57%) IoT
9 8 (1.26%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.10%) 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%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.14%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.67%) Android
2 17 (2.67%) Windows
3 9 (1.42%) Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (29.09%) Agile
2 168 (26.42%) Mentoring
3 130 (20.44%) DevOps
4 123 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 110 (17.30%) CI/CD
7 108 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (13.52%) Clean Code
9 79 (12.42%) Microservices
10 68 (10.69%) Front End Development
11 59 (9.28%) Software Engineering
12 58 (9.12%) Roadmaps
13 51 (8.02%) Computer Science
13 51 (8.02%) User Experience
14 50 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
14 50 (7.86%) Test Automation
15 49 (7.70%) Containerisation
16 47 (7.39%) TDD
17 44 (6.92%) OOP
18 41 (6.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 233 (36.64%) JavaScript
2 160 (25.16%) C#
3 145 (22.80%) SQL
4 108 (16.98%) Python
5 100 (15.72%) Java
6 72 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 44 (6.92%) PHP
8 22 (3.46%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.52%) C++
9 16 (2.52%) Go
10 13 (2.04%) 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 63 (9.91%) Degree
2 56 (8.81%) AWS Certification
3 49 (7.70%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 48 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.25%) Security Cleared
6 25 (3.93%) DBS Check
7 24 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (3.77%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.14%) 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 (4.56%) QA
2 22 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.47%) GDPR
3 3 (0.47%) WCAG
4 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (12.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (6.45%) Terraform
2 37 (5.82%) 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
1 117 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.25%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.46%) Atlassian
4 21 (3.30%) Oracle
5 10 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.26%) JDA
7 7 (1.10%) Google
7 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
8 5 (0.79%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.79%) Splunk
9 4 (0.63%) Adobe
9 4 (0.63%) Pega
9 4 (0.63%) WSO2
10 2 (0.31%) Dell
10 2 (0.31%) Infor
10 2 (0.31%) Informatica
10 2 (0.31%) Lotus
10 2 (0.31%) SAP
10 2 (0.31%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.31%) Xamarin