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 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 661 1,649 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.99% 13.42% 14.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.94% 14.19% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 537 1,113 915
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £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 £71,250 £74,500
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 8,322 11,622 7,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.03% 94.59% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,038 6,135 5,460
10th Percentile £26,463 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,283
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 £54,987 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.37% -4.17% -

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 24 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 24 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 -18 360 £60,000 +14.29% 180
Yorkshire -20 228 £54,000 +8.00% 84
North East -13 75 £50,000 -4.76% 31
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 235 (35.55%) JavaScript
2 233 (35.25%) Azure
3 208 (31.47%) AWS
4 197 (29.80%) Agile
5 186 (28.14%) .NET
6 172 (26.02%) C#
7 162 (24.51%) Mentoring
8 161 (24.36%) SQL
9 151 (22.84%) CSS
10 140 (21.18%) HTML
11 134 (20.27%) DevOps
12 130 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (17.85%) React
14 116 (17.55%) CI/CD
15 113 (17.10%) Microsoft
16 110 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 107 (16.19%) Git
18 106 (16.04%) Python
19 105 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
20 103 (15.58%) Java
21 94 (14.22%) Clean Code
22 91 (13.77%) SQL Server
23 81 (12.25%) Microservices
24 78 (11.80%) Docker
24 78 (11.80%) TypeScript
25 77 (11.65%) Front End Development
26 74 (11.20%) GitHub
27 72 (10.89%) Software Engineering
28 69 (10.44%) Degree
29 68 (10.29%) SaaS

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 (2.12%) CMS
2 7 (1.06%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.76%) WordPress
5 4 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.61%) Camunda
5 4 (0.61%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.61%) IIS
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) Drupal
7 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.61%) Magento
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Odoo
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 233 (35.25%) Azure
2 208 (31.47%) AWS
3 74 (11.20%) GitHub
4 68 (10.29%) SaaS
5 48 (7.26%) Serverless
6 40 (6.05%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.24%) GCP
9 21 (3.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 18 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (1.97%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 8 (1.21%) Amazon S3
17 8 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
18 7 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.05%) Internet
2 8 (1.21%) WPA
3 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.45%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) Intranet
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (13.77%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 42 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (6.20%) MySQL
5 32 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 25 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 24 (3.63%) Power BI
8 16 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.27%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.27%) Redis
9 15 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.91%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.91%) OLAP
13 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 107 (16.19%) Git
2 36 (5.45%) JIRA
3 19 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.57%) GitLab
5 8 (1.21%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.61%) Postman
9 4 (0.61%) Selenium
9 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.61%) webpack
9 4 (0.61%) Xcode
10 3 (0.45%) JUnit
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
11 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.30%) Grunt
11 2 (0.30%) Mockito
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 146 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.32%) Finance
3 40 (6.05%) Marketing
4 38 (5.75%) Multimedia
5 31 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.54%) Games
7 22 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (3.18%) Law
9 17 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.57%) Retail
10 12 (1.82%) Legal
11 10 (1.51%) Banking
11 10 (1.51%) Electronics
12 6 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.76%) Advertising
13 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.61%) Back Office
15 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (28.14%) .NET
2 151 (22.84%) CSS
3 140 (21.18%) HTML
4 118 (17.85%) React
5 57 (8.62%) Node.js
5 57 (8.62%) RESTful
6 52 (7.87%) .NET Core
7 51 (7.72%) REST
8 50 (7.56%) ASP.NET
9 37 (5.60%) AngularJS
10 32 (4.84%) .NET Framework
11 31 (4.69%) Spring
11 31 (4.69%) Spring Boot
11 31 (4.69%) Vue
12 28 (4.24%) Blazor
13 25 (3.78%) HTML5
14 23 (3.48%) CSS3
15 22 (3.33%) React Native
16 19 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
17 17 (2.57%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.45%) Mobile App
2 31 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 20 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.51%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.51%) IoT
9 8 (1.21%) Clustering
10 7 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.06%) NHS
11 6 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.76%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.61%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.61%) Online Games
13 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.45%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.45%) Onboarding
15 2 (0.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.63%) Windows
2 23 (3.48%) Android
2 23 (3.48%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.82%) Linux
4 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (29.80%) Agile
2 162 (24.51%) Mentoring
3 134 (20.27%) DevOps
4 130 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (17.55%) CI/CD
6 110 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 105 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 94 (14.22%) Clean Code
9 81 (12.25%) Microservices
10 77 (11.65%) Front End Development
11 72 (10.89%) Software Engineering
12 60 (9.08%) User Experience
13 58 (8.77%) Roadmaps
14 57 (8.62%) Computer Science
15 55 (8.32%) Test Automation
16 54 (8.17%) TDD
17 51 (7.72%) OOP
18 45 (6.81%) Containerisation
18 45 (6.81%) OO
19 44 (6.66%) AI
Programming Languages
1 235 (35.55%) JavaScript
2 172 (26.02%) C#
3 161 (24.36%) SQL
4 106 (16.04%) Python
5 103 (15.58%) Java
6 78 (11.80%) TypeScript
7 47 (7.11%) PHP
8 24 (3.63%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.57%) C++
10 16 (2.42%) Go
11 13 (1.97%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.97%) Ruby
11 13 (1.97%) Scala
12 10 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.21%) Delphi
13 8 (1.21%) Elixir
13 8 (1.21%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
14 7 (1.06%) Swift
15 5 (0.76%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (10.44%) Degree
2 43 (6.51%) AWS Certification
3 39 (5.90%) Azure Certification
4 38 (5.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 38 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.69%) Security Cleared
7 28 (4.24%) SC Cleared
8 25 (3.78%) DBS Check
9 20 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.30%) PhD
13 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.99%) QA
2 25 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.91%) GDPR
4 3 (0.45%) WCAG
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 78 (11.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (6.20%) Terraform
2 38 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.61%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.45%) cPanel
5 3 (0.45%) Plesk
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.39%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.03%) Oracle
5 11 (1.66%) Google
6 10 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.06%) Splunk
8 5 (0.76%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.61%) Adobe
9 4 (0.61%) Pega
9 4 (0.61%) WSO2
10 2 (0.30%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.30%) Dell
10 2 (0.30%) IBM
10 2 (0.30%) Infor
10 2 (0.30%) Informatica
10 2 (0.30%) Lotus
10 2 (0.30%) SAP
10 2 (0.30%) Xamarin