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 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 992 2,161 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.57% 15.39% 13.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.14% 16.20% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 490 1,557 1,025
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,219
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
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 8,173 13,337 8,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.10% 94.99% 93.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 7,948 6,358
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,734 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +1.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -11 725 £60,000 +14.29% 249
Yorkshire -29 206 £60,000 +14.29% 163
North East -19 63 £50,000 -9.09% 64
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 574 (57.86%) Agile
2 483 (48.69%) Java
3 451 (45.46%) Python
4 449 (45.26%) Docker
5 447 (45.06%) Finance
6 441 (44.46%) OOP
7 426 (42.94%) OO
8 423 (42.64%) Design Patterns
9 421 (42.44%) Security Cleared
10 414 (41.73%) Analytical Skills
11 408 (41.13%) C++
12 405 (40.83%) Android
13 403 (40.63%) Go
14 400 (40.32%) Linux
15 398 (40.12%) Line Management
16 397 (40.02%) Mathematics
17 394 (39.72%) Android Development
18 390 (39.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 389 (39.21%) Ansible
20 388 (39.11%) DV Cleared
20 388 (39.11%) VPN
20 388 (39.11%) DNS
20 388 (39.11%) Cyberattack
21 210 (21.17%) Azure
22 198 (19.96%) SQL
23 168 (16.94%) .NET
24 164 (16.53%) JavaScript
25 162 (16.33%) C#
26 159 (16.03%) AWS
27 138 (13.91%) SQL Server

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.01%) CMS
1 10 (1.01%) Confluence
2 9 (0.91%) IIS
3 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.40%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.40%) Apache
4 4 (0.40%) Camunda
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) WordPress
6 2 (0.20%) Drupal
6 2 (0.20%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.20%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.10%) Strapi
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.10%) InVision
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
5 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.40%) Magento
3 2 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.10%) Odoo
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.10%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 210 (21.17%) Azure
2 159 (16.03%) AWS
3 59 (5.95%) SaaS
4 48 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 35 (3.53%) Serverless
6 31 (3.13%) GitHub
7 25 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (2.22%) GCP
9 15 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 11 (1.11%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (1.01%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (0.71%) Azure Functions
14 7 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 388 (39.11%) DNS
1 388 (39.11%) VPN
2 11 (1.11%) Internet
3 8 (0.81%) WPA
4 3 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
6 1 (0.10%) AMQP
6 1 (0.10%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.10%) Broadband
6 1 (0.10%) Intranet
6 1 (0.10%) MQTT
6 1 (0.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (13.91%) SQL Server
2 54 (5.44%) MySQL
3 51 (5.14%) MongoDB
4 43 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 35 (3.53%) Power BI
6 18 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (1.11%) Redis
10 11 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.71%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.50%) Metadata
14 5 (0.50%) OLAP
14 5 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 64 (6.45%) Git
2 20 (2.02%) JIRA
3 14 (1.41%) GitLab
4 8 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.40%) Postman
8 4 (0.40%) Selenium
8 4 (0.40%) webpack
8 4 (0.40%) Xcode
9 3 (0.30%) Android Studio
9 3 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.30%) JMeter
9 3 (0.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.20%) Grunt
10 2 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.20%) Mockito
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 447 (45.06%) Finance
2 414 (41.73%) Analytical Skills
3 390 (39.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 109 (10.99%) Social Skills
5 30 (3.02%) Marketing
6 29 (2.92%) Law
7 24 (2.42%) Games
8 23 (2.32%) Public Sector
9 21 (2.12%) Retail
10 17 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.11%) Back Office
11 11 (1.11%) Legal
12 10 (1.01%) Multimedia
13 8 (0.81%) Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Electronics
15 4 (0.40%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.20%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.20%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (16.94%) .NET
2 97 (9.78%) CSS
3 91 (9.17%) React
4 86 (8.67%) HTML
5 58 (5.85%) Node.js
6 53 (5.34%) RESTful
7 52 (5.24%) .NET Core
8 51 (5.14%) ASP.NET
9 47 (4.74%) REST
10 32 (3.23%) .NET Framework
11 30 (3.02%) AngularJS
12 28 (2.82%) HTML5
13 27 (2.72%) Blazor
14 24 (2.42%) CSS3
14 24 (2.42%) Web Services
15 23 (2.32%) Spring
15 23 (2.32%) Spring Boot
16 20 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
17 19 (1.92%) jQuery
18 18 (1.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 388 (39.11%) Cyberattack
2 31 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 24 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.32%) Cloud Native
5 15 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.21%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.01%) Clustering
7 10 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (0.91%) Client/Server
8 9 (0.91%) CMDB
8 9 (0.91%) IoT
9 8 (0.81%) e-Learning
9 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.60%) NHS
12 4 (0.40%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.40%) Online Games
12 4 (0.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 405 (40.83%) Android
2 400 (40.32%) Linux
3 25 (2.52%) Windows
4 18 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (57.86%) Agile
2 441 (44.46%) OOP
3 426 (42.94%) OO
4 423 (42.64%) Design Patterns
5 398 (40.12%) Line Management
6 397 (40.02%) Mathematics
7 394 (39.72%) Android Development
8 129 (13.00%) DevOps
9 117 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 89 (8.97%) Mentoring
12 86 (8.67%) CI/CD
13 79 (7.96%) Clean Code
14 78 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (7.06%) Microservices
16 66 (6.65%) Software Engineering
17 63 (6.35%) User Experience
18 60 (6.05%) Front End Development
19 56 (5.65%) Roadmaps
20 49 (4.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 483 (48.69%) Java
2 451 (45.46%) Python
3 408 (41.13%) C++
4 403 (40.63%) Go
5 198 (19.96%) SQL
6 164 (16.53%) JavaScript
7 162 (16.33%) C#
8 75 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 54 (5.44%) T-SQL
10 48 (4.84%) PHP
11 15 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.51%) Ruby
12 13 (1.31%) Scala
13 9 (0.91%) VB.NET
14 8 (0.81%) Elixir
14 8 (0.81%) Swift
15 7 (0.71%) C
16 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 421 (42.44%) Security Cleared
2 388 (39.11%) DV Cleared
3 56 (5.65%) Degree
4 49 (4.94%) DBS Check
5 38 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.40%) PhD
11 3 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.92%) QA
2 14 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.20%) WCAG
5 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.10%) GRC
System Software
1 449 (45.26%) Docker
2 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 389 (39.21%) Ansible
2 32 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.22%) Terraform
4 4 (0.40%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.42%) Salesforce
3 20 (2.02%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.41%) Oracle
5 13 (1.31%) Splunk
6 9 (0.91%) Google
7 8 (0.81%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.40%) Adobe
8 4 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.40%) IBM
8 4 (0.40%) Moogsoft
8 4 (0.40%) PayPal
8 4 (0.40%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.30%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.30%) Informatica
9 3 (0.30%) VMware
10 2 (0.20%) Dell
10 2 (0.20%) Infor
10 2 (0.20%) Lotus
10 2 (0.20%) OpenAI