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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 21 5
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,624 928 2,841
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.54% 11.77% 16.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.19% 13.00% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 452 2,483
10th Percentile £39,301 £32,500 £33,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

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 17,675 7,136 16,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 90.48% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12,049 3,769 12,914
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -4 852 £55,000 - 165
Yorkshire +19 557 £55,000 -4.35% 121
North East +18 215 £59,000 +3.51% 76
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 347 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 301 (18.53%) Azure
3 298 (18.35%) .NET
4 275 (16.93%) AWS
5 274 (16.87%) Java
6 264 (16.26%) Agile
7 262 (16.13%) C#
8 260 (16.01%) SQL
9 251 (15.46%) JavaScript
10 220 (13.55%) CI/CD
11 209 (12.87%) DevOps
12 179 (11.02%) Microsoft
13 177 (10.90%) TypeScript
14 166 (10.22%) Python
15 159 (9.79%) React
16 155 (9.54%) Mentoring
17 141 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
18 139 (8.56%) Git
19 136 (8.37%) Front End Development
20 135 (8.31%) Software Engineering
21 133 (8.19%) Serverless
22 132 (8.13%) Docker
23 129 (7.94%) CSS
24 125 (7.70%) PHP
25 122 (7.51%) HTML
26 117 (7.20%) AngularJS
27 111 (6.83%) Microservices
28 108 (6.65%) .NET Core
29 104 (6.40%) SQL Server
30 100 (6.16%) GitHub

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 20 (1.23%) CMS
2 18 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.55%) OpenEdge
4 9 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 9 (0.55%) WordPress
5 6 (0.37%) JBoss
5 6 (0.37%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.31%) Appian
7 4 (0.25%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Apache
8 3 (0.18%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.12%) CICS
9 2 (0.12%) Confluence
10 1 (0.062%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.062%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.05%) Visualfiles
2 16 (0.99%) Shopify
3 9 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 301 (18.53%) Azure
2 275 (16.93%) AWS
3 133 (8.19%) Serverless
4 100 (6.16%) GitHub
5 96 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (5.36%) Amazon S3
8 80 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (4.37%) AWS Step Functions
10 68 (4.19%) SaaS
11 66 (4.06%) Power Platform
12 65 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 42 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
15 40 (2.46%) Apigee
16 39 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
17 28 (1.72%) Power Automate
18 27 (1.66%) GCP
18 27 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.97%) Internet
2 10 (0.62%) Broadband
3 4 (0.25%) HTTP
4 3 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.12%) Intranet
5 2 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.062%) DNS
6 1 (0.062%) Firewall
6 1 (0.062%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.05%) DynamoDB
3 53 (3.26%) Power BI
4 50 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 39 (2.40%) MySQL
6 35 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (1.42%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.43%) MariaDB
14 7 (0.43%) Tableau
15 6 (0.37%) Power Query
16 5 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.31%) Star Schema
17 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 139 (8.56%) Git
2 76 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.96%) GitLab
4 34 (2.09%) Cypress.io
4 34 (2.09%) Maven
4 34 (2.09%) SonarQube
5 30 (1.85%) JIRA
6 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.43%) PHPUnit
8 6 (0.37%) NUnit
9 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.31%) fastlane
9 5 (0.31%) JUnit
9 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.25%) Spock
10 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.18%) Selenium
12 2 (0.12%) MSTest
General
1 112 (6.90%) Finance
2 99 (6.10%) Social Skills
3 57 (3.51%) Law
4 49 (3.02%) Retail
5 45 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 44 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (2.03%) Marketing
7 33 (2.03%) Multimedia
8 26 (1.60%) Banking
9 25 (1.54%) Games
9 25 (1.54%) Legal
10 17 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.49%) Advertising
11 8 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.43%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.31%) Back Office
14 4 (0.25%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.18%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (18.35%) .NET
2 159 (9.79%) React
3 129 (7.94%) CSS
4 122 (7.51%) HTML
5 117 (7.20%) AngularJS
6 108 (6.65%) .NET Core
7 97 (5.97%) Node.js
8 93 (5.73%) ASP.NET
9 86 (5.30%) Spring Boot
10 72 (4.43%) Vue
11 71 (4.37%) Spring
12 70 (4.31%) REST
13 67 (4.13%) RESTful
14 55 (3.39%) Laravel
15 43 (2.65%) ASP.NET Core
16 39 (2.40%) .NET Framework
17 35 (2.16%) Jest
18 34 (2.09%) Gherkin
19 27 (1.66%) Entity Framework
20 25 (1.54%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 63 (3.88%) Mobile App
2 45 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
3 36 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 24 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 16 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 15 (0.92%) Legacy Code
10 14 (0.86%) Hedge funds
11 12 (0.74%) Social Media
12 9 (0.55%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.43%) Contactless
14 7 (0.43%) EMV
14 7 (0.43%) NHS
14 7 (0.43%) Smartcard
15 6 (0.37%) Educational Technology
16 5 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.48%) Android
2 21 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.62%) Linux
4 5 (0.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.062%) VMS
5 1 (0.062%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 264 (16.26%) Agile
3 220 (13.55%) CI/CD
4 209 (12.87%) DevOps
5 155 (9.54%) Mentoring
6 141 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
7 136 (8.37%) Front End Development
8 135 (8.31%) Software Engineering
9 111 (6.83%) Microservices
10 96 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (5.73%) Clean Code
12 88 (5.42%) AI
13 72 (4.43%) Business Intelligence
14 65 (4.00%) Web Development
15 64 (3.94%) TDD
16 63 (3.88%) SDLC
17 51 (3.14%) User Experience
18 49 (3.02%) Analytics
19 48 (2.96%) Scrum
20 47 (2.89%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 274 (16.87%) Java
2 262 (16.13%) C#
3 260 (16.01%) SQL
4 251 (15.46%) JavaScript
5 177 (10.90%) TypeScript
6 166 (10.22%) Python
7 125 (7.70%) PHP
8 47 (2.89%) Kotlin
9 40 (2.46%) Groovy
10 34 (2.09%) C++
11 31 (1.91%) Bash
12 16 (0.99%) VB
13 9 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.55%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.55%) Swift
13 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.31%) Bicep
16 4 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (4.13%) AWS Certification
2 62 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 55 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 34 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (1.97%) Degree
6 31 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 23 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.12%) HND
16 1 (0.062%) ACCA
16 1 (0.062%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.29%) Accessibility
2 18 (1.11%) QA
3 15 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.74%) TickIT
5 6 (0.37%) WCAG
6 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.062%) GDPR
System Software
1 132 (8.13%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.062%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (2.71%) Kubernetes
1 44 (2.71%) Terraform
2 30 (1.85%) HP Fortify
3 9 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.12%) cPanel
4 2 (0.12%) Kibana
4 2 (0.12%) Nagios
4 2 (0.12%) Packer
4 2 (0.12%) Plesk
4 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 179 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (1.35%) Oracle
3 20 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 19 (1.17%) Salesforce
5 11 (0.68%) Cognos
6 10 (0.62%) IBM
7 9 (0.55%) Sage
8 8 (0.49%) AppDynamics
8 8 (0.49%) Intapp
8 8 (0.49%) JDA
8 8 (0.49%) Splunk
9 7 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.43%) Progress
10 6 (0.37%) Google
10 6 (0.37%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.37%) Pega
11 5 (0.31%) SAP
11 5 (0.31%) UiPath
12 4 (0.25%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.25%) OpenAI