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 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,146 555 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.64% 8.69% 16.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.40% 9.41% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 919 474 2,229
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 13,646 5,896 14,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.37% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,655 3,692 11,782
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £67,563 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -9 568 £60,000 +14.29% 210
Yorkshire +19 448 £55,000 +10.00% 142
North East +13 130 £58,500 +6.36% 64
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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.

1 283 (24.69%) JavaScript
2 270 (23.56%) Azure
3 269 (23.47%) AWS
4 239 (20.86%) .NET
5 230 (20.07%) Full-Stack Development
6 223 (19.46%) Agile
7 207 (18.06%) C#
8 197 (17.19%) CI/CD
9 189 (16.49%) SQL
10 178 (15.53%) Java
11 173 (15.10%) Mentoring
12 157 (13.70%) CSS
13 155 (13.53%) Git
14 152 (13.26%) DevOps
14 152 (13.26%) HTML
15 149 (13.00%) React
16 146 (12.74%) Python
17 142 (12.39%) Microsoft
18 135 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
19 123 (10.73%) Docker
20 121 (10.56%) Serverless
21 115 (10.03%) Software Engineering
21 115 (10.03%) TypeScript
22 110 (9.60%) GitHub
23 109 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
24 107 (9.34%) Front End Development
25 94 (8.20%) AWS Certification
26 90 (7.85%) Microservices
27 88 (7.68%) .NET Core
27 88 (7.68%) PHP

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 18 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.22%) CMS
3 12 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.61%) OpenEdge
5 6 (0.52%) JBoss
6 5 (0.44%) Appian
6 5 (0.44%) WordPress
7 4 (0.35%) Confluence
7 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) Apache
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.087%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.22%) Visualfiles
2 12 (1.05%) Shopify
3 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.087%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 270 (23.56%) Azure
2 269 (23.47%) AWS
3 121 (10.56%) Serverless
4 110 (9.60%) GitHub
5 71 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
5 71 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 61 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (5.32%) SaaS
8 57 (4.97%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (3.75%) Power Platform
10 41 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.62%) Apigee
14 29 (2.53%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (2.09%) GCP
16 23 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.01%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.97%) Internet
2 10 (0.87%) Broadband
3 5 (0.44%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.17%) Intranet
5 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.087%) DNS
6 1 (0.087%) SSH
6 1 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.50%) DynamoDB
3 49 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.71%) MySQL
7 27 (2.36%) Power BI
8 20 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.70%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.35%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.35%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.26%) DB2
13 3 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.26%) Redis
13 3 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (13.53%) Git
2 59 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.23%) GitLab
4 36 (3.14%) JIRA
5 29 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 29 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 28 (2.44%) Maven
7 7 (0.61%) PHPUnit
8 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.35%) Selenium
8 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.17%) JUnit
10 2 (0.17%) NUnit
10 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.17%) Subversion
10 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 125 (10.91%) Social Skills
2 77 (6.72%) Finance
3 60 (5.24%) Multimedia
4 39 (3.40%) Law
5 37 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 30 (2.62%) Games
7 22 (1.92%) Marketing
8 21 (1.83%) Legal
9 17 (1.48%) Retail
10 14 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.13%) Banking
12 10 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.70%) Advertising
15 6 (0.52%) Electronics
16 4 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.35%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.26%) Local Government
17 3 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (20.86%) .NET
2 157 (13.70%) CSS
3 152 (13.26%) HTML
4 149 (13.00%) React
5 88 (7.68%) .NET Core
6 82 (7.16%) AngularJS
7 75 (6.54%) Node.js
8 68 (5.93%) ASP.NET
8 68 (5.93%) Spring Boot
9 63 (5.50%) Vue
10 54 (4.71%) RESTful
11 47 (4.10%) REST
12 45 (3.93%) Spring
13 43 (3.75%) Laravel
14 35 (3.05%) Jest
15 31 (2.71%) Flask
16 30 (2.62%) .NET Framework
17 28 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
17 28 (2.44%) Gherkin
18 24 (2.09%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 42 (3.66%) Mobile App
2 34 (2.97%) Cloud Native
3 29 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (1.57%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.13%) Legacy Code
9 12 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.96%) Social Media
11 8 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.61%) NHS
13 6 (0.52%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.52%) Educational Technology
13 6 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.44%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.35%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
16 3 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.83%) Android
2 18 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.87%) Linux
4 7 (0.61%) Windows
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (20.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 223 (19.46%) Agile
3 197 (17.19%) CI/CD
4 173 (15.10%) Mentoring
5 152 (13.26%) DevOps
6 135 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (10.03%) Software Engineering
8 109 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (9.34%) Front End Development
10 90 (7.85%) Microservices
11 75 (6.54%) Clean Code
12 62 (5.41%) AI
13 57 (4.97%) Cybersecurity
14 54 (4.71%) SDLC
15 51 (4.45%) Containerisation
16 50 (4.36%) Design Patterns
17 47 (4.10%) TDD
18 46 (4.01%) Business Intelligence
19 45 (3.93%) ITIL
20 44 (3.84%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 283 (24.69%) JavaScript
2 207 (18.06%) C#
3 189 (16.49%) SQL
4 178 (15.53%) Java
5 146 (12.74%) Python
6 115 (10.03%) TypeScript
7 88 (7.68%) PHP
8 40 (3.49%) Kotlin
9 29 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 28 (2.44%) Bash
11 27 (2.36%) Groovy
12 9 (0.79%) C++
13 7 (0.61%) Swift
14 6 (0.52%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.44%) Delphi
15 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.44%) VB
16 4 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
17 3 (0.26%) Bicep
17 3 (0.26%) XAML
Qualifications
1 94 (8.20%) AWS Certification
2 61 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 58 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 43 (3.75%) Degree
6 25 (2.18%) Security Cleared
7 23 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 21 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (1.75%) SC Cleared
10 16 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (0.96%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.17%) HND
14 2 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.087%) ACCA
15 1 (0.087%) CIMA
15 1 (0.087%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.57%) Accessibility
2 14 (1.22%) QA
3 4 (0.35%) SLA
4 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 123 (10.73%) Docker
2 8 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.087%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (4.36%) Terraform
2 32 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.44%) HP Fortify
4 10 (0.87%) Ansible
5 3 (0.26%) cPanel
5 3 (0.26%) Plesk
6 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.17%) Nagios
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.087%) Grafana
Vendors
1 142 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.53%) Atlassian
3 27 (2.36%) Oracle
4 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
5 11 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.70%) Intapp
6 8 (0.70%) JDA
6 8 (0.70%) Pega
7 7 (0.61%) Cognos
7 7 (0.61%) Progress
8 6 (0.52%) IBM
8 6 (0.52%) Sage
9 5 (0.44%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.44%) UiPath
9 5 (0.44%) WSO2
10 4 (0.35%) Calypso
11 3 (0.26%) Foundry
11 3 (0.26%) Google
11 3 (0.26%) Splunk
12 2 (0.17%) DevExpress