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 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 691 1,089 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.54% 11.26% 14.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.42% 11.93% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 546 668 840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 9,316 9,131 6,467
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.11% 94.41% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,298 4,405 5,074
10th Percentile £27,838 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,225 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 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 21 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 -16 342 £60,000 +14.29% 197
Yorkshire -5 267 £55,000 +10.00% 106
North East -10 84 £50,000 -4.76% 49
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 252 (36.47%) Azure
2 248 (35.89%) JavaScript
3 228 (33.00%) AWS
4 199 (28.80%) Agile
5 184 (26.63%) .NET
6 180 (26.05%) Mentoring
7 167 (24.17%) C#
8 163 (23.59%) CSS
9 151 (21.85%) HTML
10 144 (20.84%) SQL
11 139 (20.12%) DevOps
12 133 (19.25%) Git
13 132 (19.10%) CI/CD
14 129 (18.67%) Microsoft
15 127 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
16 126 (18.23%) React
17 120 (17.37%) Python
18 118 (17.08%) Full-Stack Development
19 112 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
20 97 (14.04%) GitHub
21 95 (13.75%) Docker
21 95 (13.75%) Java
22 91 (13.17%) SQL Server
23 87 (12.59%) Microservices
24 84 (12.16%) Clean Code
25 78 (11.29%) TypeScript
26 73 (10.56%) Front End Development
27 72 (10.42%) AWS Certification
28 69 (9.99%) .NET Core
29 68 (9.84%) 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 (2.03%) CMS
2 10 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.30%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.87%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.58%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.58%) Camunda
5 4 (0.58%) nginx
5 4 (0.58%) WordPress
6 3 (0.43%) Confluence
6 3 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.29%) Drupal
7 2 (0.29%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) InVision
4 1 (0.14%) Sketch
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.58%) Shopify
2 3 (0.43%) Magento
3 2 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Odoo
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 252 (36.47%) Azure
2 228 (33.00%) AWS
3 97 (14.04%) GitHub
4 68 (9.84%) SaaS
4 68 (9.84%) Serverless
5 34 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 28 (4.05%) Amazon S3
6 28 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (4.05%) GCP
7 26 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
9 21 (3.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (3.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 20 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (2.03%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.10%) Internet
2 5 (0.72%) HTTP
3 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.29%) Intranet
4 2 (0.29%) SSH
4 2 (0.29%) WPA
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (13.17%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (5.64%) MySQL
4 37 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 24 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 18 (2.60%) Power BI
9 14 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.45%) Redis
12 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.87%) OLAP
13 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database 12c
16 2 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 133 (19.25%) Git
2 35 (5.07%) JIRA
3 33 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.18%) GitLab
5 15 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.45%) Maven
8 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.58%) Postman
9 4 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.58%) webpack
10 3 (0.43%) JUnit
10 3 (0.43%) Selenium
10 3 (0.43%) Xcode
11 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.29%) Grunt
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 137 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 55 (7.96%) Multimedia
3 46 (6.66%) Finance
4 39 (5.64%) Marketing
5 28 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.62%) Games
7 22 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.18%) Law
8 20 (2.89%) Retail
9 11 (1.59%) Legal
10 10 (1.45%) Banking
11 8 (1.16%) Electronics
11 8 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.72%) Advertising
13 5 (0.72%) Back Office
13 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (26.63%) .NET
2 163 (23.59%) CSS
3 151 (21.85%) HTML
4 126 (18.23%) React
5 69 (9.99%) .NET Core
6 63 (9.12%) ASP.NET
7 57 (8.25%) RESTful
8 52 (7.53%) Node.js
8 52 (7.53%) REST
9 45 (6.51%) AngularJS
10 43 (6.22%) Spring Boot
11 40 (5.79%) Spring
12 36 (5.21%) .NET Framework
13 33 (4.78%) Vue
14 30 (4.34%) Blazor
15 23 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
16 20 (2.89%) Laravel
17 19 (2.75%) Flask
18 18 (2.60%) Django
19 17 (2.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.07%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.78%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.45%) IoT
9 9 (1.30%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.87%) Clustering
11 6 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.87%) NHS
12 5 (0.72%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.58%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.43%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.43%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.43%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.43%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.89%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.46%) Android
3 13 (1.88%) Windows
4 10 (1.45%) Linux
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (28.80%) Agile
2 180 (26.05%) Mentoring
3 139 (20.12%) DevOps
4 132 (19.10%) CI/CD
5 127 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (17.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 112 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (12.59%) Microservices
9 84 (12.16%) Clean Code
10 73 (10.56%) Front End Development
11 61 (8.83%) Software Engineering
12 57 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
13 56 (8.10%) Containerisation
13 56 (8.10%) Roadmaps
14 50 (7.24%) Computer Science
14 50 (7.24%) User Experience
15 48 (6.95%) Test Automation
16 47 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (6.80%) TDD
17 42 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 248 (35.89%) JavaScript
2 167 (24.17%) C#
3 144 (20.84%) SQL
4 120 (17.37%) Python
5 95 (13.75%) Java
6 78 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.53%) PHP
8 25 (3.62%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.32%) Go
10 14 (2.03%) C++
11 13 (1.88%) Scala
12 11 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.30%) Ruby
15 8 (1.16%) Delphi
15 8 (1.16%) Elixir
16 7 (1.01%) ANSI SQL
16 7 (1.01%) Bash
16 7 (1.01%) Groovy
17 5 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (10.42%) AWS Certification
2 61 (8.83%) Degree
3 56 (8.10%) Azure Certification
4 55 (7.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 55 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (3.62%) DBS Check
6 23 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (3.18%) Security Cleared
8 20 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.75%) SC Cleared
10 13 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.29%) PhD
14 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.91%) QA
2 22 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.43%) WCAG
4 2 (0.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 95 (13.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (6.66%) Terraform
2 37 (5.35%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.45%) Ansible
4 8 (1.16%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.58%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.43%) cPanel
6 3 (0.43%) Plesk
7 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Nagios
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 129 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.20%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.76%) Atlassian
4 22 (3.18%) Oracle
5 10 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.16%) JDA
7 7 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.87%) Google
9 5 (0.72%) Adobe
9 5 (0.72%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.58%) Pega
10 4 (0.58%) WSO2
11 3 (0.43%) Splunk
12 2 (0.29%) Dell
12 2 (0.29%) Infor
12 2 (0.29%) Informatica
12 2 (0.29%) Lotus
12 2 (0.29%) Peregrine
12 2 (0.29%) SAP
12 2 (0.29%) Xamarin