Developer Jobs in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £52,084 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,808 2,169 3,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.28% 12.39% 20.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.13% 13.85% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,424 1,489 2,738
10th Percentile £33,150 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,050 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,395 15,661 17,312
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 89.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,676 8,279 11,110
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 1,672 £52,084 -5.30% 338
Yorkshire +15 890 £50,000 -4.76% 142
North East +4 246 £50,000 -9.09% 50
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 972 (34.62%) .NET
2 969 (34.51%) C#
3 954 (33.97%) JavaScript
4 767 (27.31%) Azure
5 744 (26.50%) Agile
6 677 (24.11%) Full Stack Development
7 630 (22.44%) SQL
8 513 (18.27%) HTML
9 472 (16.81%) CSS
10 471 (16.77%) Microsoft
11 456 (16.24%) Social Skills
12 442 (15.74%) AngularJS
13 441 (15.71%) SQL Server
14 430 (15.31%) React
15 408 (14.53%) AWS
16 363 (12.93%) PHP
17 358 (12.75%) MVC
17 358 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
18 349 (12.43%) ASP.NET
19 345 (12.29%) .NET Core
20 334 (11.89%) DevOps
21 316 (11.25%) Node.js
22 293 (10.43%) Degree
22 293 (10.43%) Microservices
23 280 (9.97%) TDD
24 274 (9.76%) .NET Framework
25 267 (9.51%) Software Engineering
26 265 (9.44%) Vue
27 262 (9.33%) ASP.NET Web API
28 261 (9.29%) Java

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 62 (2.21%) WordPress
2 59 (2.10%) CMS
3 53 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 33 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 29 (1.03%) IIS
6 27 (0.96%) Apache
7 16 (0.57%) OpenEdge
8 14 (0.50%) Confluence
9 8 (0.28%) SAS
10 7 (0.25%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.21%) nginx
12 5 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.14%) Drupal
13 4 (0.14%) Mendix
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
15 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.036%) concrete5
Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.43%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.14%) Maya
6 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (1.57%) Shopify
2 33 (1.18%) Magento
3 32 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.82%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.25%) BPCS
7 7 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.071%) Demantra
10 2 (0.071%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle ASCP
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 2 (0.071%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.071%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 767 (27.31%) Azure
2 408 (14.53%) AWS
3 233 (8.30%) Power Platform
4 168 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
5 129 (4.59%) Serverless
6 115 (4.10%) SaaS
7 109 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
8 83 (2.96%) Power Automate
9 75 (2.67%) PowerApps
10 67 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
11 60 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 58 (2.07%) Azure Functions
12 58 (2.07%) GitHub
13 48 (1.71%) Azure API Management
14 43 (1.53%) IBM Cloud
15 41 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.32%) GCP
18 30 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
19 29 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.82%) Internet
2 13 (0.46%) Wireless
3 12 (0.43%) Broadband
4 9 (0.32%) DNS
4 9 (0.32%) Intranet
5 8 (0.28%) HTTP
6 7 (0.25%) Mobile Broadband
7 5 (0.18%) MQTT
7 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.14%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.14%) Firewall
8 4 (0.14%) SSL
9 3 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.071%) FTP
10 2 (0.071%) RS-232
11 1 (0.036%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.036%) Skype
11 1 (0.036%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (15.71%) SQL Server
2 258 (9.19%) MySQL
3 161 (5.73%) Power BI
4 158 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 113 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 106 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 92 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 84 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 73 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (1.75%) Tableau
11 45 (1.60%) DB2
12 44 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 43 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 42 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (1.25%) Power Query
16 28 (1.00%) DynamoDB
17 26 (0.93%) Oracle Database
17 26 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
18 25 (0.89%) Redis
19 24 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 238 (8.48%) Git
2 57 (2.03%) Visual Studio
3 54 (1.92%) JIRA
4 34 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 28 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 26 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 24 (0.85%) GitLab
7 24 (0.85%) Jasmine
8 23 (0.82%) PHPUnit
9 16 (0.57%) Gradle
9 16 (0.57%) JUnit
9 16 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
9 16 (0.57%) Mockito
10 15 (0.53%) IntelliJ
10 15 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.46%) Xcode
12 12 (0.43%) Appium
13 11 (0.39%) NUnit
14 10 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 456 (16.24%) Social Skills
2 231 (8.23%) Finance
3 147 (5.24%) Public Sector
4 125 (4.45%) Law
5 118 (4.20%) Retail
6 110 (3.92%) Marketing
7 103 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (3.17%) Games
9 82 (2.92%) Manufacturing
10 42 (1.50%) Legal
11 41 (1.46%) Banking
12 37 (1.32%) Advertising
12 37 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (1.03%) Automotive
14 29 (1.03%) Tech for Good
15 27 (0.96%) Health Technology
16 21 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 16 (0.57%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.46%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 972 (34.62%) .NET
2 513 (18.27%) HTML
3 472 (16.81%) CSS
4 442 (15.74%) AngularJS
5 430 (15.31%) React
6 349 (12.43%) ASP.NET
7 345 (12.29%) .NET Core
8 316 (11.25%) Node.js
9 274 (9.76%) .NET Framework
10 265 (9.44%) Vue
11 262 (9.33%) ASP.NET Web API
12 238 (8.48%) Laravel
13 235 (8.37%) RESTful
14 219 (7.80%) Entity Framework
15 209 (7.44%) REST
16 193 (6.87%) ASP.NET MVC
17 153 (5.45%) HTML5
18 151 (5.38%) jQuery
19 150 (5.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 136 (4.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (5.20%) Greenfield Project
2 79 (2.81%) Mobile App
3 57 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 50 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 46 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 45 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (1.53%) Blockchain
7 43 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (1.21%) IoT
8 34 (1.21%) NHS
9 32 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 26 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (0.89%) Social Media
13 23 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
14 22 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (0.71%) Animation
16 17 (0.61%) iPhone
16 17 (0.61%) Social Network
17 15 (0.53%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 166 (5.91%) Linux
2 118 (4.20%) Windows
3 97 (3.45%) Android
4 95 (3.38%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.78%) Unix
6 16 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.32%) VMS
9 8 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.071%) AIX
10 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.071%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (26.50%) Agile
2 677 (24.11%) Full Stack Development
3 358 (12.75%) MVC
3 358 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
4 334 (11.89%) DevOps
5 293 (10.43%) Microservices
6 280 (9.97%) TDD
7 267 (9.51%) Software Engineering
8 253 (9.01%) Web Development
9 227 (8.08%) User Experience
10 209 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
11 200 (7.12%) Mentoring
12 184 (6.55%) Front End Development
13 173 (6.16%) Design Patterns
14 168 (5.98%) Unit Testing
15 166 (5.91%) CI/CD
16 165 (5.88%) Scrum
17 158 (5.63%) OO
18 155 (5.52%) Computer Science
19 146 (5.20%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 969 (34.51%) C#
2 954 (33.97%) JavaScript
3 630 (22.44%) SQL
4 363 (12.93%) PHP
5 261 (9.29%) Java
6 254 (9.05%) TypeScript
7 166 (5.91%) Python
8 99 (3.53%) T-SQL
9 58 (2.07%) C++
10 57 (2.03%) VB.NET
11 34 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 32 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 30 (1.07%) Swift
14 29 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 27 (0.96%) Ruby
16 27 (0.96%) VB
17 23 (0.82%) Go
18 20 (0.71%) Delphi
19 17 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 293 (10.43%) Degree
2 120 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (2.39%) Security Cleared
4 61 (2.17%) SC Cleared
5 22 (0.78%) DBS Check
6 19 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.28%) PhD
11 6 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.21%) HND
11 6 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.14%) CIPD
13 2 (0.071%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.071%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.071%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.036%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.036%) HNC
14 1 (0.036%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.17%) QA
2 27 (0.96%) GDPR
3 22 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.11%) WCAG
7 2 (0.071%) HL7
7 2 (0.071%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.071%) WAI
8 1 (0.036%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.036%) NIST
System Software
1 180 (6.41%) Docker
2 8 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.14%) Firmware
3 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.036%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 70 (2.49%) Terraform
3 4 (0.14%) Ansible
3 4 (0.14%) Rancher
4 2 (0.071%) Grafana
4 2 (0.071%) Kibana
5 1 (0.036%) Istio
5 1 (0.036%) Kiali
5 1 (0.036%) Oozie
5 1 (0.036%) Plesk
5 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.036%) Puppet
Vendors
1 471 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.96%) Oracle
3 81 (2.88%) Google
4 56 (1.99%) IBM
5 47 (1.67%) Facebook
6 43 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 31 (1.10%) Adobe
8 23 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 22 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 20 (0.71%) Apple
10 20 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.50%) Progress
11 14 (0.50%) Sony
11 14 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.36%) Cadence
12 10 (0.36%) F5
12 10 (0.36%) SAP
13 9 (0.32%) Sitecore
13 9 (0.32%) Synopsys
13 9 (0.32%) Xamarin