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 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 713 1,082 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.67% 11.25% 14.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.55% 11.91% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 563 662 902
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 9,447 9,084 6,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.42% 94.42% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,428 4,376 5,401
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,475 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,749 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -17 347 £60,000 +14.29% 343
Yorkshire -2 281 £55,000 +10.00% 212
North East -9 87 £50,000 -4.76% 72
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 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.

1 252 (35.34%) Azure
2 249 (34.92%) JavaScript
3 228 (31.98%) AWS
4 199 (27.91%) Agile
5 183 (25.67%) .NET
6 178 (24.96%) Mentoring
7 167 (23.42%) C#
8 163 (22.86%) CSS
9 151 (21.18%) HTML
10 147 (20.62%) SQL
11 142 (19.92%) DevOps
12 135 (18.93%) Git
13 134 (18.79%) CI/CD
14 128 (17.95%) Microsoft
14 128 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (17.81%) React
16 123 (17.25%) Python
17 119 (16.69%) Full-Stack Development
18 112 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
19 100 (14.03%) Java
20 98 (13.74%) Docker
20 98 (13.74%) GitHub
21 88 (12.34%) SQL Server
22 86 (12.06%) Microservices
23 84 (11.78%) Clean Code
24 80 (11.22%) TypeScript
25 76 (10.66%) Front End Development
26 72 (10.10%) AWS Certification
27 70 (9.82%) Serverless
28 69 (9.68%) 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 14 (1.96%) CMS
2 10 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.26%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.84%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.84%) WordPress
5 4 (0.56%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.56%) Camunda
5 4 (0.56%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Confluence
6 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.28%) Drupal
7 2 (0.28%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) InVision
4 1 (0.14%) Sketch
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
4 2 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Odoo
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 252 (35.34%) Azure
2 228 (31.98%) AWS
3 98 (13.74%) GitHub
4 70 (9.82%) Serverless
5 69 (9.68%) SaaS
6 34 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.77%) Power Platform
7 30 (4.21%) Amazon S3
7 30 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (3.93%) GCP
9 23 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (2.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 16 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (7.85%) Internet
2 5 (0.70%) HTTP
3 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.28%) Intranet
4 2 (0.28%) SSH
4 2 (0.28%) WPA
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.14%) MQTT
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.34%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (5.47%) MySQL
4 38 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 26 (3.65%) DynamoDB
5 26 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 25 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 18 (2.52%) Power BI
8 14 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.26%) Redis
11 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.84%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.84%) OLAP
12 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
15 2 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 135 (18.93%) Git
2 35 (4.91%) JIRA
3 34 (4.77%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.09%) GitLab
5 15 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.40%) Maven
8 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.56%) Postman
9 4 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.56%) webpack
10 3 (0.42%) JUnit
10 3 (0.42%) Selenium
10 3 (0.42%) Xcode
11 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.28%) Grunt
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.28%) Storybook
General
1 139 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (7.85%) Multimedia
3 46 (6.45%) Finance
4 40 (5.61%) Marketing
5 29 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.65%) Games
7 22 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.09%) Law
8 21 (2.95%) Retail
9 11 (1.54%) Legal
10 10 (1.40%) Banking
11 8 (1.12%) Electronics
11 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.70%) Advertising
13 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.56%) Back Office
15 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (25.67%) .NET
2 163 (22.86%) CSS
3 151 (21.18%) HTML
4 127 (17.81%) React
5 67 (9.40%) .NET Core
6 62 (8.70%) ASP.NET
7 56 (7.85%) RESTful
8 52 (7.29%) Node.js
9 51 (7.15%) REST
10 47 (6.59%) AngularJS
11 43 (6.03%) Spring Boot
12 41 (5.75%) Spring
13 35 (4.91%) .NET Framework
14 34 (4.77%) Vue
15 28 (3.93%) Blazor
16 23 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
17 22 (3.09%) Laravel
18 20 (2.81%) Flask
19 18 (2.52%) Django
20 17 (2.38%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.49%) Mobile App
3 28 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.40%) IoT
9 9 (1.26%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.12%) NHS
11 7 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.70%) Clustering
13 5 (0.70%) Legacy Code
14 4 (0.56%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.42%) Hedge funds
15 3 (0.42%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.42%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.42%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.81%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.38%) Android
3 13 (1.82%) Windows
4 10 (1.40%) Linux
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (27.91%) Agile
2 178 (24.96%) Mentoring
3 142 (19.92%) DevOps
4 134 (18.79%) CI/CD
5 128 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (16.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 112 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (12.06%) Microservices
9 84 (11.78%) Clean Code
10 76 (10.66%) Front End Development
11 64 (8.98%) Software Engineering
12 57 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
13 56 (7.85%) Containerisation
14 53 (7.43%) Roadmaps
15 51 (7.15%) User Experience
16 50 (7.01%) Computer Science
17 48 (6.73%) Test Automation
18 47 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
18 47 (6.59%) TDD
19 41 (5.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 249 (34.92%) JavaScript
2 167 (23.42%) C#
3 147 (20.62%) SQL
4 123 (17.25%) Python
5 100 (14.03%) Java
6 80 (11.22%) TypeScript
7 59 (8.27%) PHP
8 25 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.24%) Go
10 15 (2.10%) Scala
11 14 (1.96%) C++
12 13 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.26%) Ruby
15 8 (1.12%) Delphi
15 8 (1.12%) Elixir
16 7 (0.98%) ANSI SQL
16 7 (0.98%) Bash
16 7 (0.98%) Groovy
17 5 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (10.10%) AWS Certification
2 60 (8.42%) Degree
3 56 (7.85%) Azure Certification
4 55 (7.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 55 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (3.37%) DBS Check
6 23 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (3.09%) Security Cleared
8 20 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.66%) SC Cleared
10 13 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.28%) PhD
14 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.51%) QA
2 23 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.42%) WCAG
4 2 (0.28%) GDPR
4 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (13.74%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (6.45%) Terraform
2 37 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.40%) Ansible
4 8 (1.12%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.56%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.42%) cPanel
6 3 (0.42%) Plesk
7 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Nagios
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 128 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.93%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.65%) Atlassian
4 22 (3.09%) Oracle
5 10 (1.40%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.12%) JDA
7 7 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.84%) Google
9 5 (0.70%) Adobe
9 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.56%) Pega
10 4 (0.56%) WSO2
11 3 (0.42%) Splunk
12 2 (0.28%) Dell
12 2 (0.28%) Infor
12 2 (0.28%) Informatica
12 2 (0.28%) Lotus
12 2 (0.28%) Peregrine
12 2 (0.28%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Xamarin