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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,011 998 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.36% 10.48% 14.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.99% 12.02% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 499 1,459
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,558 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +4.17% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 22,380 8,305 13,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 87.18% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,329 4,382 7,534
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.97%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,224
England median annual salary £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 26 September 2026.

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 26 September 2026. 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 +4 1,006 £55,000 -8.33% 327
Yorkshire +23 591 £57,500 -4.17% 181
North East +22 414 £62,500 +25.00% 85
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 2026, 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.

1 413 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 375 (18.65%) .NET
3 354 (17.60%) C#
4 353 (17.55%) Agile
5 336 (16.71%) Azure
6 326 (16.21%) SQL
7 311 (15.46%) Microsoft
8 289 (14.37%) Java
9 276 (13.72%) JavaScript
10 271 (13.48%) TypeScript
11 260 (12.93%) CI/CD
12 252 (12.53%) DevOps
13 244 (12.13%) AWS
14 194 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
15 191 (9.50%) React
16 167 (8.30%) Software Engineering
17 159 (7.91%) Python
18 157 (7.81%) AI
19 152 (7.56%) HTML
20 149 (7.41%) Power Platform
21 145 (7.21%) .NET Core
21 145 (7.21%) AngularJS
22 144 (7.16%) Mentoring
23 140 (6.96%) CSS
24 139 (6.91%) Front End Development
25 136 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
26 132 (6.56%) Docker
27 129 (6.41%) ASP.NET
28 125 (6.22%) Git
28 125 (6.22%) Microservices

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 45 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.19%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.40%) IIS
7 7 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.099%) Confluence
10 2 (0.099%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.099%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.099%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.099%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.050%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 20 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Visualfiles
4 9 (0.45%) Shopify
5 8 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.099%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.050%) Magento
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 336 (16.71%) Azure
2 244 (12.13%) AWS
3 149 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 110 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
4 110 (5.47%) Serverless
5 92 (4.57%) GitHub
6 86 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
7 75 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
8 73 (3.63%) Amazon S3
9 70 (3.48%) Power Automate
10 65 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
12 63 (3.13%) PowerApps
13 53 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 50 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
15 46 (2.29%) SaaS
16 38 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
19 33 (1.64%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.45%) Internet
2 7 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) Firewall
3 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.050%) Broadband
4 1 (0.050%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.050%) SNMP
4 1 (0.050%) SSL
4 1 (0.050%) VoIP
4 1 (0.050%) WAN
4 1 (0.050%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 97 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 89 (4.43%) MongoDB
4 69 (3.43%) Power BI
5 58 (2.88%) DynamoDB
6 49 (2.44%) MySQL
7 44 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 29 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.80%) MariaDB
15 15 (0.75%) Redis
15 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.40%) Tableau
17 7 (0.35%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 125 (6.22%) Git
2 58 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 37 (1.84%) GitLab
4 26 (1.29%) JIRA
5 17 (0.85%) Maven
6 13 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.60%) fastlane
7 12 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.35%) JUnit
9 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.35%) Xcode
10 6 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.30%) Gradle
11 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
12 4 (0.20%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.20%) Spock
12 4 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 157 (7.81%) Social Skills
2 126 (6.27%) Finance
3 92 (4.57%) Public Sector
4 74 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (3.08%) Retail
6 56 (2.78%) Law
7 55 (2.73%) Marketing
8 36 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.34%) Banking
10 24 (1.19%) Legal
11 23 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 19 (0.94%) Games
13 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.50%) Publishing
15 9 (0.45%) Advertising
15 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.30%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (18.65%) .NET
2 191 (9.50%) React
3 152 (7.56%) HTML
4 145 (7.21%) .NET Core
4 145 (7.21%) AngularJS
5 140 (6.96%) CSS
6 129 (6.41%) ASP.NET
7 115 (5.72%) Node.js
8 107 (5.32%) REST
9 100 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
10 89 (4.43%) RESTful
11 85 (4.23%) Vue
12 80 (3.98%) Spring
13 75 (3.73%) Spring Boot
14 65 (3.23%) Entity Framework
15 63 (3.13%) Laravel
16 45 (2.24%) ASP.NET Web API
17 42 (2.09%) Terraform
18 41 (2.04%) Middleware
19 34 (1.69%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 71 (3.53%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
3 58 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 39 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 36 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (0.90%) Hedge funds
8 10 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (0.50%) Online Gambling
9 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
9 9 (0.45%) Data Structures
9 9 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (0.40%) Contactless
10 8 (0.40%) EMV
10 8 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.84%) Android
2 24 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 17 (0.85%) Linux
4 9 (0.45%) Windows
5 2 (0.099%) Unix
6 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 353 (17.55%) Agile
3 260 (12.93%) CI/CD
4 252 (12.53%) DevOps
5 194 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (8.30%) Software Engineering
7 157 (7.81%) AI
8 144 (7.16%) Mentoring
9 139 (6.91%) Front End Development
10 136 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (6.22%) Microservices
12 105 (5.22%) Business Intelligence
13 102 (5.07%) TDD
14 83 (4.13%) Collaborative Working
15 80 (3.98%) Clean Code
16 78 (3.88%) Technical Leadership
17 76 (3.78%) Web Development
18 72 (3.58%) Test Automation
19 69 (3.43%) Scrum
19 69 (3.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 354 (17.60%) C#
2 326 (16.21%) SQL
3 289 (14.37%) Java
4 276 (13.72%) JavaScript
5 271 (13.48%) TypeScript
6 159 (7.91%) Python
7 116 (5.77%) PHP
8 64 (3.18%) Kotlin
9 55 (2.73%) C++
10 24 (1.19%) Groovy
11 20 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.90%) RPG
13 16 (0.80%) Rust
14 14 (0.70%) VB
15 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.60%) C
16 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.60%) Go
17 10 (0.50%) Scala
17 10 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (4.77%) Security Cleared
2 86 (4.28%) SC Cleared
3 68 (3.38%) Degree
4 35 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 13 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.15%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.099%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.099%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.050%) ACCA
12 1 (0.050%) CIMA
12 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (2.93%) Accessibility
2 50 (2.49%) QA
3 25 (1.24%) WCAG
4 21 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.60%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.099%) PMO
8 1 (0.050%) GDPR
8 1 (0.050%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 132 (6.56%) Docker
2 6 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.45%) Ansible
3 8 (0.40%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.20%) Packer
5 3 (0.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.099%) Grafana
6 2 (0.099%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.050%) Argo
7 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.050%) logstash
7 1 (0.050%) Nagios
7 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 311 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.19%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 22 (1.09%) Google
5 20 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 18 (0.90%) Sage
7 17 (0.85%) IBM
8 13 (0.65%) Apple
8 13 (0.65%) Splunk
9 12 (0.60%) Adobe
10 11 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.40%) Cognos
11 8 (0.40%) HP
11 8 (0.40%) Oracle
12 7 (0.35%) Facebook
12 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.30%) Confluent
13 6 (0.30%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.30%) YouTube