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 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 712 1,059 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.77% 11.19% 15.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.63% 11.85% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 560 642 1,002
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,914 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 9,328 8,935 7,171
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.66% 94.38% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,337 4,298 5,666
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,055 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -2.81% -1.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,407 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 30 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 30 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 -16 347 £60,000 +15.38% 743
Yorkshire -2 277 £52,500 +5.00% 576
North East -9 90 £50,000 -4.76% 125
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 260 (36.52%) Azure
2 250 (35.11%) JavaScript
3 233 (32.72%) AWS
4 197 (27.67%) Agile
5 182 (25.56%) .NET
5 182 (25.56%) Mentoring
6 166 (23.31%) C#
6 166 (23.31%) CSS
7 154 (21.63%) HTML
8 147 (20.65%) SQL
9 141 (19.80%) Git
10 140 (19.66%) DevOps
11 133 (18.68%) CI/CD
12 128 (17.98%) Microsoft
12 128 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (17.98%) React
13 127 (17.84%) Python
14 111 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 102 (14.33%) GitHub
16 100 (14.04%) Java
17 98 (13.76%) Docker
18 91 (12.78%) SQL Server
19 85 (11.94%) Microservices
20 82 (11.52%) Clean Code
21 78 (10.96%) TypeScript
22 77 (10.81%) AWS Certification
23 76 (10.67%) Front End Development
24 70 (9.83%) Serverless
25 69 (9.69%) .NET Core

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 (1.97%) CMS
2 10 (1.40%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.84%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.84%) WordPress
4 4 (0.56%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.56%) Camunda
4 4 (0.56%) nginx
5 3 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.28%) Drupal
6 2 (0.28%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.28%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 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 8 (1.12%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.28%) Magento
3 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Odoo
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 260 (36.52%) Azure
2 233 (32.72%) AWS
3 102 (14.33%) GitHub
4 70 (9.83%) Serverless
5 60 (8.43%) SaaS
6 35 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 29 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (3.93%) GCP
11 23 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (2.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 16 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.83%) Amazon EventBridge
15 13 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.57%) Internet
2 5 (0.70%) HTTP
3 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.28%) Intranet
4 2 (0.28%) SSH
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
5 1 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (12.78%) SQL Server
2 45 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (5.34%) MySQL
3 38 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.65%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.51%) DynamoDB
5 25 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.67%) Power BI
7 14 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.26%) Redis
10 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.84%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.84%) OLAP
11 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database 12c
14 2 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (19.80%) Git
2 35 (4.92%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.92%) JIRA
3 22 (3.09%) GitLab
4 15 (2.11%) SonarQube
5 12 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.40%) Maven
7 6 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.56%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.42%) JUnit
9 3 (0.42%) Selenium
9 3 (0.42%) webpack
9 3 (0.42%) Xcode
10 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.28%) Grunt
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.28%) Storybook
General
1 137 (19.24%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.71%) Multimedia
3 44 (6.18%) Finance
4 41 (5.76%) Marketing
5 30 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.65%) Games
7 22 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (2.95%) Retail
9 20 (2.81%) Law
10 11 (1.54%) Legal
11 10 (1.40%) Banking
12 8 (1.12%) Electronics
13 7 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.70%) Advertising
15 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.56%) Back Office
17 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (25.56%) .NET
2 166 (23.31%) CSS
3 154 (21.63%) HTML
4 128 (17.98%) React
5 69 (9.69%) .NET Core
6 65 (9.13%) ASP.NET
7 54 (7.58%) RESTful
8 52 (7.30%) Node.js
8 52 (7.30%) REST
9 44 (6.18%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.90%) Spring Boot
11 40 (5.62%) Spring
12 38 (5.34%) .NET Framework
13 34 (4.78%) Vue
14 28 (3.93%) Blazor
15 23 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
16 21 (2.95%) Laravel
17 20 (2.81%) Flask
18 18 (2.53%) Django
18 18 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.78%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.63%) Mobile App
3 28 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.83%) 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%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.70%) Clustering
13 5 (0.70%) Legacy Code
14 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.42%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.42%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.42%) Online Games
15 3 (0.42%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.81%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.39%) Android
3 12 (1.69%) Windows
4 9 (1.26%) Linux
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (27.67%) Agile
2 182 (25.56%) Mentoring
3 140 (19.66%) DevOps
4 133 (18.68%) CI/CD
5 128 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 111 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (11.94%) Microservices
8 82 (11.52%) Clean Code
9 76 (10.67%) Front End Development
10 62 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
10 62 (8.71%) Software Engineering
11 55 (7.72%) Containerisation
12 52 (7.30%) Roadmaps
13 49 (6.88%) Computer Science
13 49 (6.88%) User Experience
14 48 (6.74%) TDD
14 48 (6.74%) Test Automation
15 47 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
16 42 (5.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 250 (35.11%) JavaScript
2 166 (23.31%) C#
3 147 (20.65%) SQL
4 127 (17.84%) Python
5 100 (14.04%) Java
6 78 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 58 (8.15%) PHP
8 25 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.25%) Go
10 15 (2.11%) Scala
11 14 (1.97%) C++
12 13 (1.83%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.26%) Ruby
15 8 (1.12%) Elixir
16 7 (0.98%) ANSI SQL
16 7 (0.98%) Bash
16 7 (0.98%) Delphi
16 7 (0.98%) Groovy
17 6 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 77 (10.81%) AWS Certification
2 61 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 60 (8.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 60 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 57 (8.01%) Degree
5 24 (3.37%) DBS Check
6 23 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 21 (2.95%) Security Cleared
8 19 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.53%) SC Cleared
10 13 (1.83%) 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 22 (3.09%) 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 (13.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (6.32%) Terraform
2 38 (5.34%) 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 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.93%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.65%) Atlassian
4 22 (3.09%) Oracle
5 8 (1.12%) JDA
6 7 (0.98%) MuleSoft
6 7 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.84%) Google
8 5 (0.70%) Adobe
8 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.56%) Pega
9 4 (0.56%) WSO2
10 3 (0.42%) Splunk
10 3 (0.42%) UiPath
11 2 (0.28%) Foundry
11 2 (0.28%) Intapp
11 2 (0.28%) Peregrine
11 2 (0.28%) SAP
11 2 (0.28%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.28%) Xamarin