Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 580 1,802 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.35% 14.18% 14.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.25% 14.93% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 459 1,248 972
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £36,318
25th Percentile £43,875 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £70,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,075 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 8,003 12,068 7,845
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.66% 94.99% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,445 6,479 5,968
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -29 331 £60,000 +14.29% 316
Yorkshire -26 187 £58,750 +17.50% 175
North East -22 64 £50,000 -8.68% 73
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 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.

1 196 (33.79%) Azure
2 185 (31.90%) JavaScript
3 182 (31.38%) Agile
4 169 (29.14%) .NET
5 168 (28.97%) AWS
6 159 (27.41%) SQL
7 158 (27.24%) C#
8 130 (22.41%) DevOps
9 116 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (19.31%) Mentoring
11 110 (18.97%) CSS
12 105 (18.10%) Java
13 103 (17.76%) CI/CD
14 99 (17.07%) HTML
15 96 (16.55%) React
16 95 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (16.03%) Clean Code
17 93 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
18 84 (14.48%) SQL Server
19 83 (14.31%) Microsoft
20 77 (13.28%) Microservices
21 75 (12.93%) TypeScript
22 73 (12.59%) Git
23 71 (12.24%) Python
24 66 (11.38%) Front End Development
25 64 (11.03%) Docker
26 62 (10.69%) SaaS
27 61 (10.52%) RESTful
27 61 (10.52%) Software Engineering
27 61 (10.52%) User Experience

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 (2.07%) CMS
2 6 (1.03%) Confluence
2 6 (1.03%) IIS
3 5 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.86%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.69%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.69%) Camunda
4 4 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.52%) nginx
5 3 (0.52%) WordPress
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.34%) Drupal
6 2 (0.34%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.34%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) Strapi
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.17%) InVision
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Sketch
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.52%) Magento
3 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.34%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Odoo
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 196 (33.79%) Azure
2 168 (28.97%) AWS
3 62 (10.69%) SaaS
4 43 (7.41%) GitHub
5 42 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 42 (7.24%) Serverless
6 25 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.14%) GCP
8 20 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 14 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (1.72%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.55%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.28%) Internet
2 8 (1.38%) WPA
3 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.34%) HTTP
4 2 (0.34%) SSH
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (14.48%) SQL Server
2 48 (8.28%) MongoDB
3 42 (7.24%) MySQL
4 37 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 29 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 28 (4.83%) Power BI
7 18 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (2.76%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.59%) Redis
9 15 (2.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.03%) OLAP
13 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.86%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 73 (12.59%) Git
2 34 (5.86%) JIRA
3 18 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.41%) GitLab
5 8 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.21%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.69%) Postman
8 4 (0.69%) Selenium
8 4 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.69%) webpack
8 4 (0.69%) Xcode
9 3 (0.52%) Android Studio
9 3 (0.52%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) Babel
10 2 (0.34%) gulp
10 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 129 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 59 (10.17%) Finance
3 37 (6.38%) Marketing
4 29 (5.00%) Games
5 28 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (3.97%) Law
8 20 (3.45%) Retail
9 19 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.93%) Multimedia
11 10 (1.72%) Banking
12 9 (1.55%) Electronics
12 9 (1.55%) Legal
13 6 (1.03%) Back Office
13 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.52%) Advertising
14 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (29.14%) .NET
2 110 (18.97%) CSS
3 99 (17.07%) HTML
4 96 (16.55%) React
5 61 (10.52%) RESTful
6 55 (9.48%) Node.js
7 53 (9.14%) REST
8 44 (7.59%) ASP.NET
9 41 (7.07%) .NET Core
10 33 (5.69%) AngularJS
10 33 (5.69%) Spring
10 33 (5.69%) Spring Boot
11 28 (4.83%) .NET Framework
12 26 (4.48%) Blazor
12 26 (4.48%) HTML5
13 24 (4.14%) CSS3
14 22 (3.79%) Vue
15 20 (3.45%) Web Services
16 18 (3.10%) React Native
17 17 (2.93%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.34%) Mobile App
2 26 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.90%) IoT
7 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.55%) Client/Server
8 9 (1.55%) Clustering
9 8 (1.38%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (0.86%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.86%) NHS
12 4 (0.69%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.69%) Online Games
12 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.52%) CMDB
13 3 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.97%) Windows
2 20 (3.45%) Android
2 20 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.07%) Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (31.38%) Agile
2 130 (22.41%) DevOps
3 116 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (19.31%) Mentoring
5 103 (17.76%) CI/CD
6 95 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (16.03%) Clean Code
7 93 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 77 (13.28%) Microservices
9 66 (11.38%) Front End Development
10 61 (10.52%) Software Engineering
10 61 (10.52%) User Experience
11 57 (9.83%) Roadmaps
12 56 (9.66%) TDD
13 53 (9.14%) Test Automation
14 52 (8.97%) Computer Science
15 47 (8.10%) OOP
16 45 (7.76%) AI
17 40 (6.90%) Code Quality
18 39 (6.72%) OO
Programming Languages
1 185 (31.90%) JavaScript
2 159 (27.41%) SQL
3 158 (27.24%) C#
4 105 (18.10%) Java
5 75 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 71 (12.24%) Python
7 42 (7.24%) PHP
8 20 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.76%) C++
9 16 (2.76%) Go
10 14 (2.41%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.41%) Ruby
11 13 (2.24%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.07%) Scala
13 8 (1.38%) Elixir
13 8 (1.38%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.21%) Swift
15 6 (1.03%) C
16 5 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (10.34%) Degree
2 31 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.62%) DBS Check
6 18 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 17 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (2.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.69%) PhD
10 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.52%) QA
2 17 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.03%) GDPR
4 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (11.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.52%) Terraform
3 8 (1.38%) Ansible
4 4 (0.69%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.66%) Salesforce
3 17 (2.93%) Atlassian
3 17 (2.93%) Oracle
4 13 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.90%) Google
5 11 (1.90%) Splunk
6 7 (1.21%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.69%) AppDynamics
7 4 (0.69%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.69%) IBM
7 4 (0.69%) Moogsoft
7 4 (0.69%) PayPal
7 4 (0.69%) Pega
7 4 (0.69%) WSO2
8 3 (0.52%) Adobe
8 3 (0.52%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.52%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.34%) Dell
9 2 (0.34%) Informatica