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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 663 1,561 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.04% 13.00% 14.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.00% 13.76% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 534 1,033 904
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,620 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,275 £74,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 8,290 11,344 7,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.01% 94.45% 96.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,039 5,928 5,396
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -17 357 £60,000 +14.29% 177
Yorkshire -21 235 £52,500 +5.00% 84
North East -17 73 £50,000 -4.76% 36
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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.

1 243 (36.65%) Azure
2 238 (35.90%) JavaScript
3 215 (32.43%) AWS
4 202 (30.47%) Agile
5 188 (28.36%) .NET
6 173 (26.09%) C#
7 166 (25.04%) Mentoring
8 162 (24.43%) SQL
9 155 (23.38%) CSS
10 143 (21.57%) HTML
11 139 (20.97%) DevOps
12 129 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
13 122 (18.40%) CI/CD
14 120 (18.10%) Microsoft
14 120 (18.10%) React
15 113 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (17.04%) Git
16 112 (16.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 111 (16.74%) Python
18 106 (15.99%) Java
19 93 (14.03%) SQL Server
20 89 (13.42%) Clean Code
21 85 (12.82%) Microservices
22 84 (12.67%) Docker
23 81 (12.22%) GitHub
24 77 (11.61%) TypeScript
25 73 (11.01%) Front End Development
26 69 (10.41%) Degree
27 68 (10.26%) Software Engineering
28 66 (9.95%) SaaS

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 (1.81%) CMS
2 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.90%) Umbraco
3 5 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.60%) Camunda
4 4 (0.60%) Confluence
4 4 (0.60%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.60%) IIS
4 4 (0.60%) WordPress
5 3 (0.45%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.30%) Drupal
6 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.60%) Magento
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Odoo
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 243 (36.65%) Azure
2 215 (32.43%) AWS
3 81 (12.22%) GitHub
4 66 (9.95%) SaaS
5 54 (8.14%) Serverless
6 38 (5.73%) Power Platform
7 31 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.22%) GCP
9 21 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (2.26%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (1.81%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.66%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.49%) Internet
2 7 (1.06%) WPA
3 3 (0.45%) HTTP
3 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.30%) Intranet
4 2 (0.30%) SSH
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.15%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (14.03%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (6.33%) MySQL
4 40 (6.03%) MongoDB
5 34 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 27 (4.07%) Relational Database
7 22 (3.32%) Power BI
8 18 (2.71%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.26%) Redis
9 15 (2.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.90%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.90%) OLAP
12 5 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.75%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 113 (17.04%) Git
2 36 (5.43%) JIRA
3 24 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.71%) GitLab
5 10 (1.51%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.75%) Maven
9 4 (0.60%) JUnit
9 4 (0.60%) Postman
9 4 (0.60%) Selenium
9 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.60%) webpack
10 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.45%) Xcode
11 2 (0.30%) Grunt
11 2 (0.30%) Mockito
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 143 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.75%) Finance
3 42 (6.33%) Multimedia
4 39 (5.88%) Marketing
5 31 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.07%) Games
7 23 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (3.02%) Law
9 17 (2.56%) Retail
10 16 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.81%) Legal
12 10 (1.51%) Banking
13 9 (1.36%) Electronics
14 6 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.75%) Advertising
15 5 (0.75%) Back Office
15 5 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (28.36%) .NET
2 155 (23.38%) CSS
3 143 (21.57%) HTML
4 120 (18.10%) React
5 59 (8.90%) Node.js
6 56 (8.45%) .NET Core
6 56 (8.45%) RESTful
7 55 (8.30%) ASP.NET
8 49 (7.39%) REST
9 40 (6.03%) AngularJS
10 39 (5.88%) Spring
11 38 (5.73%) Spring Boot
12 35 (5.28%) .NET Framework
13 30 (4.52%) Blazor
13 30 (4.52%) Vue
14 22 (3.32%) HTML5
15 21 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
15 21 (3.17%) CSS3
16 20 (3.02%) React Native
17 17 (2.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.43%) Mobile App
2 33 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.51%) IoT
9 9 (1.36%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.21%) Clustering
11 7 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.90%) NHS
13 4 (0.60%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.60%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.60%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.45%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.45%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.45%) Online Games
15 2 (0.30%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.32%) Windows
2 21 (3.17%) Android
2 21 (3.17%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.81%) Linux
4 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (30.47%) Agile
2 166 (25.04%) Mentoring
3 139 (20.97%) DevOps
4 129 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (18.40%) CI/CD
6 113 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 112 (16.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 89 (13.42%) Clean Code
9 85 (12.82%) Microservices
10 73 (11.01%) Front End Development
11 68 (10.26%) Software Engineering
12 59 (8.90%) Roadmaps
13 57 (8.60%) Computer Science
14 55 (8.30%) User Experience
15 52 (7.84%) Test Automation
16 50 (7.54%) TDD
17 49 (7.39%) Containerisation
18 48 (7.24%) OOP
19 45 (6.79%) AI
19 45 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 238 (35.90%) JavaScript
2 173 (26.09%) C#
3 162 (24.43%) SQL
4 111 (16.74%) Python
5 106 (15.99%) Java
6 77 (11.61%) TypeScript
7 50 (7.54%) PHP
8 23 (3.47%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.41%) C++
9 16 (2.41%) Go
10 13 (1.96%) Ruby
10 13 (1.96%) Scala
11 12 (1.81%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.66%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.21%) Delphi
13 8 (1.21%) Elixir
13 8 (1.21%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
15 6 (0.90%) Swift
16 5 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 69 (10.41%) Degree
2 50 (7.54%) AWS Certification
3 43 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 42 (6.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.22%) Security Cleared
7 25 (3.77%) DBS Check
7 25 (3.77%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.30%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.37%) QA
2 25 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.75%) GDPR
4 3 (0.45%) WCAG
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 84 (12.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (6.33%) Terraform
2 40 (6.03%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.36%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.45%) cPanel
5 3 (0.45%) Plesk
6 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.22%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.32%) Atlassian
4 21 (3.17%) Oracle
5 10 (1.51%) Google
5 10 (1.51%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 6 (0.90%) Splunk
8 5 (0.75%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.60%) Adobe
9 4 (0.60%) JDA
9 4 (0.60%) Pega
9 4 (0.60%) WSO2
10 2 (0.30%) Dell
10 2 (0.30%) IBM
10 2 (0.30%) Infor
10 2 (0.30%) Informatica
10 2 (0.30%) Lotus
10 2 (0.30%) SAP
10 2 (0.30%) Xamarin