Developer Jobs in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 5 17
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 952 2,907 2,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.09% 16.46% 12.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.78% 17.33% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 476 2,507 1,440
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,084 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -5.30% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.50%

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 10,842 16,774 15,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.98% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,975 8,066
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Developer 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -21 726 £55,000 +4.76% 542
Yorkshire -32 175 £57,500 +15.00% 204
North East -25 51 £57,000 +14.00% 97
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 596 (62.61%) Agile
2 474 (49.79%) OOP
3 467 (49.05%) Java
4 455 (47.79%) OO
4 455 (47.79%) Docker
5 443 (46.53%) Python
6 440 (46.22%) Finance
7 428 (44.96%) Design Patterns
8 413 (43.38%) Security Cleared
9 411 (43.17%) Linux
10 407 (42.75%) Analytical Skills
11 402 (42.23%) Line Management
12 400 (42.02%) C++
13 397 (41.70%) Android
14 395 (41.49%) Android Development
15 394 (41.39%) Go
15 394 (41.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 393 (41.28%) Ansible
16 393 (41.28%) Mathematics
17 389 (40.86%) DV Cleared
18 388 (40.76%) VPN
18 388 (40.76%) DNS
18 388 (40.76%) Cyberattack
19 213 (22.37%) C#
20 195 (20.48%) JavaScript
21 192 (20.17%) SQL Server
22 191 (20.06%) SQL
23 189 (19.85%) .NET
24 184 (19.33%) Azure
25 178 (18.70%) Problem-Solving

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 34 (3.57%) CMS
2 20 (2.10%) Umbraco
3 18 (1.89%) Confluence
4 8 (0.84%) WordPress
5 7 (0.74%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) IIS
6 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.53%) nginx
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Kentico
10 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.89%) Magento
2 10 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.74%) Shopify
5 4 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.21%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.11%) Odoo
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 184 (19.33%) Azure
2 117 (12.29%) AWS
3 47 (4.94%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.47%) Serverless
5 32 (3.36%) GitHub
5 32 (3.36%) SaaS
6 27 (2.84%) GCP
7 23 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.68%) Power Automate
10 15 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (1.58%) PowerApps
11 9 (0.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 8 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (0.53%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (0.53%) Azure Functions
15 5 (0.53%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 388 (40.76%) DNS
1 388 (40.76%) VPN
2 21 (2.21%) Intranet
3 10 (1.05%) Internet
4 6 (0.63%) Broadband
5 4 (0.42%) 5G
5 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.32%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.11%) RTP
7 1 (0.11%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (20.17%) SQL Server
2 70 (7.35%) MySQL
3 37 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.26%) Power BI
5 29 (3.05%) MongoDB
6 25 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.05%) Redis
9 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.84%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.53%) Tableau
13 4 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.42%) OLAP
13 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.32%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 58 (6.09%) Git
2 22 (2.31%) JIRA
3 11 (1.16%) webpack
4 10 (1.05%) Babel
5 9 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.63%) GitLab
7 6 (0.63%) Jasmine
8 5 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (0.42%) Selenium
10 3 (0.32%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.32%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.32%) JMeter
10 3 (0.32%) NUnit
11 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.21%) JDeveloper
11 2 (0.21%) JUnit
11 2 (0.21%) Maven
11 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 440 (46.22%) Finance
2 407 (42.75%) Analytical Skills
3 394 (41.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 122 (12.82%) Social Skills
5 32 (3.36%) Law
6 27 (2.84%) Marketing
7 26 (2.73%) Retail
8 17 (1.79%) Games
9 14 (1.47%) Back Office
10 13 (1.37%) Advertising
11 12 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.05%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.95%) Legal
14 8 (0.84%) Automotive
15 4 (0.42%) Banking
16 3 (0.32%) Electronics
16 3 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.32%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (19.85%) .NET
2 136 (14.29%) CSS
3 123 (12.92%) HTML
3 123 (12.92%) React
4 73 (7.67%) .NET Core
5 53 (5.57%) ASP.NET
6 49 (5.15%) AngularJS
7 47 (4.94%) .NET Framework
7 47 (4.94%) REST
7 47 (4.94%) RESTful
8 42 (4.41%) HTML5
8 42 (4.41%) jQuery
9 39 (4.10%) Node.js
10 32 (3.36%) Vue
11 26 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
12 24 (2.52%) WinForms
13 21 (2.21%) Entity Framework
14 20 (2.10%) Web Services
15 18 (1.89%) Laravel
15 18 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 388 (40.76%) Cyberattack
2 30 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 24 (2.52%) Mobile App
4 21 (2.21%) NHS
5 16 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 14 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 14 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.05%) CMDB
9 9 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 8 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.63%) Hedge funds
11 6 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.53%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.53%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.42%) Blog
13 4 (0.42%) Social Media
13 4 (0.42%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 411 (43.17%) Linux
2 397 (41.70%) Android
3 11 (1.16%) Windows
4 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (62.61%) Agile
2 474 (49.79%) OOP
3 455 (47.79%) OO
4 428 (44.96%) Design Patterns
5 402 (42.23%) Line Management
6 395 (41.49%) Android Development
7 393 (41.28%) Mathematics
8 178 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
9 103 (10.82%) DevOps
10 96 (10.08%) CI/CD
11 93 (9.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 85 (8.93%) Software Engineering
13 67 (7.04%) User Experience
14 64 (6.72%) Front End Development
15 63 (6.62%) Web Development
16 62 (6.51%) Microservices
17 55 (5.78%) Clean Code
18 52 (5.46%) Computer Science
18 52 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 47 (4.94%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 467 (49.05%) Java
2 443 (46.53%) Python
3 400 (42.02%) C++
4 394 (41.39%) Go
5 213 (22.37%) C#
6 195 (20.48%) JavaScript
7 191 (20.06%) SQL
8 89 (9.35%) TypeScript
9 71 (7.46%) PHP
10 51 (5.36%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.74%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.53%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.42%) Bash
14 4 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.32%) Groovy
15 3 (0.32%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.21%) C
16 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 413 (43.38%) Security Cleared
2 389 (40.86%) DV Cleared
3 114 (11.97%) Degree
4 37 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.78%) DBS Check
6 18 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.42%) ACCA
8 4 (0.42%) CIMA
9 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.73%) Accessibility
2 19 (2.00%) GDPR
2 19 (2.00%) WCAG
3 14 (1.47%) QA
4 5 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) GRC
6 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 455 (47.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 393 (41.28%) Ansible
2 31 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.42%) Terraform
4 4 (0.42%) HAProxy
4 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.32%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) cPanel
6 1 (0.11%) Kibana
6 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 113 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.89%) Oracle
3 19 (2.00%) HP
4 13 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.26%) Adobe
5 12 (1.26%) New Relic
6 8 (0.84%) Google
6 8 (0.84%) SAP
7 6 (0.63%) IBM
7 6 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.63%) Splunk
8 4 (0.42%) Cognos
9 3 (0.32%) Sage
9 3 (0.32%) Twitter
9 3 (0.32%) VMware
10 2 (0.21%) ANSYS
10 2 (0.21%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.21%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.11%) Telerik