Developer Job Trends 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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 4
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,980 1,038 2,363
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.02% 10.84% 15.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.53% 12.26% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,699 534 1,930
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 20,780 8,465 14,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 88.37% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,153 4,567 9,870
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +7 1,004 £55,000 -6.78% 150
Yorkshire +23 617 £55,000 -8.33% 75
North East +18 359 £55,000 - 56
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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.

1 465 (23.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 405 (20.45%) .NET
3 359 (18.13%) Agile
4 358 (18.08%) Azure
4 358 (18.08%) C#
5 350 (17.68%) SQL
6 317 (16.01%) Java
7 296 (14.95%) Microsoft
8 283 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 280 (14.14%) AWS
10 279 (14.09%) TypeScript
11 278 (14.04%) JavaScript
12 273 (13.79%) DevOps
13 202 (10.20%) React
14 196 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
15 173 (8.74%) Software Engineering
16 165 (8.33%) Python
17 156 (7.88%) AI
18 155 (7.83%) AngularJS
19 154 (7.78%) HTML
20 153 (7.73%) Mentoring
21 147 (7.42%) CSS
22 145 (7.32%) Front End Development
23 142 (7.17%) .NET Core
24 141 (7.12%) PHP
25 139 (7.02%) Microservices
26 136 (6.87%) Docker
27 134 (6.77%) Serverless
28 132 (6.67%) ASP.NET
29 130 (6.57%) Power Platform

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 34 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.16%) CMS
3 15 (0.76%) WordPress
4 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.45%) IIS
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.25%) Appian
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) JBoss
7 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.10%) CICS
9 2 (0.10%) Confluence
9 2 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.051%) Elementor
2 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 14 (0.71%) Visualfiles
2 12 (0.61%) Shopify
3 11 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.051%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 358 (18.08%) Azure
2 280 (14.14%) AWS
3 134 (6.77%) Serverless
4 130 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 116 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
7 99 (5.00%) GitHub
8 88 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
9 81 (4.09%) Amazon S3
10 70 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 69 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (3.38%) Power Automate
13 61 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 60 (3.03%) PowerApps
15 54 (2.73%) SaaS
16 52 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 38 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (1.67%) Azure AI
20 32 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.66%) Internet
2 9 (0.45%) Broadband
3 6 (0.30%) HTTP
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.051%) SSL
6 1 (0.051%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 101 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 85 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 74 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 68 (3.43%) Power BI
6 52 (2.63%) MySQL
7 45 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 37 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 29 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 26 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.76%) MariaDB
15 11 (0.56%) Redis
16 10 (0.51%) Tableau
17 7 (0.35%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 125 (6.31%) Git
2 73 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.02%) GitLab
4 28 (1.41%) JIRA
5 27 (1.36%) Maven
6 24 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 22 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.66%) fastlane
9 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.35%) Xcode
12 6 (0.30%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.30%) Gradle
12 6 (0.30%) JUnit
12 6 (0.30%) NUnit
12 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.25%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 147 (7.42%) Finance
2 141 (7.12%) Social Skills
3 68 (3.43%) Law
4 67 (3.38%) Public Sector
5 62 (3.13%) Retail
6 61 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (2.47%) Marketing
8 32 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.57%) Banking
10 25 (1.26%) Games
10 25 (1.26%) Legal
11 19 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.61%) Advertising
12 12 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.45%) Publishing
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.35%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.20%) Back Office
16 4 (0.20%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (20.45%) .NET
2 202 (10.20%) React
3 155 (7.83%) AngularJS
4 154 (7.78%) HTML
5 147 (7.42%) CSS
6 142 (7.17%) .NET Core
7 132 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 128 (6.46%) Node.js
9 104 (5.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 103 (5.20%) RESTful
10 103 (5.20%) Vue
11 96 (4.85%) REST
12 82 (4.14%) Spring Boot
13 76 (3.84%) Spring
14 74 (3.74%) Laravel
15 69 (3.48%) Entity Framework
16 48 (2.42%) ASP.NET Web API
17 36 (1.82%) Blazor
18 34 (1.72%) .NET Framework
18 34 (1.72%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.14%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 47 (2.37%) Cloud Native
4 39 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 17 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 16 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 15 (0.76%) Social Media
11 11 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 11 (0.56%) Legacy Code
12 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.40%) Contactless
13 8 (0.40%) EMV
13 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.27%) Android
2 32 (1.62%) Apple iOS
3 14 (0.71%) Linux
4 8 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (23.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 359 (18.13%) Agile
3 283 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 273 (13.79%) DevOps
5 196 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
6 173 (8.74%) Software Engineering
7 156 (7.88%) AI
8 153 (7.73%) Mentoring
9 145 (7.32%) Front End Development
10 139 (7.02%) Microservices
11 117 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (5.00%) TDD
13 98 (4.95%) Business Intelligence
14 97 (4.90%) Clean Code
15 83 (4.19%) Web Development
16 77 (3.89%) SDLC
17 73 (3.69%) Analytics
17 73 (3.69%) Scrum
18 69 (3.48%) Workflow
19 67 (3.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 358 (18.08%) C#
2 350 (17.68%) SQL
3 317 (16.01%) Java
4 279 (14.09%) TypeScript
5 278 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 165 (8.33%) Python
7 141 (7.12%) PHP
8 67 (3.38%) Kotlin
9 55 (2.78%) C++
10 35 (1.77%) Groovy
11 20 (1.01%) Bash
12 16 (0.81%) Swift
13 14 (0.71%) Rust
14 13 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.61%) VB
16 11 (0.56%) RPG
17 10 (0.51%) Scala
18 7 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 85 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 81 (4.09%) SC Cleared
3 62 (3.13%) Degree
4 36 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.10%) HND
11 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.051%) CIMA
12 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 43 (2.17%) QA
3 19 (0.96%) WCAG
4 17 (0.86%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.61%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.10%) PMO
7 2 (0.10%) SLA
8 1 (0.051%) GDPR
8 1 (0.051%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (6.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.17%) Terraform
3 19 (0.96%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.40%) Ansible
5 2 (0.10%) Kibana
5 2 (0.10%) Packer
6 1 (0.051%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.051%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.051%) Nagios
6 1 (0.051%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 296 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.67%) ServiceNow
3 32 (1.62%) Salesforce
4 24 (1.21%) Google
5 19 (0.96%) IBM
6 17 (0.86%) Dynatrace
7 15 (0.76%) Sage
8 14 (0.71%) Apple
9 12 (0.61%) Cognos
9 12 (0.61%) Oracle
9 12 (0.61%) Splunk
10 10 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.40%) Facebook
12 7 (0.35%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.30%) Pega
13 6 (0.30%) Sony
13 6 (0.30%) Yahoo!
14 5 (0.25%) Adobe