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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,803 946 3,183
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.11% 11.60% 16.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.67% 12.94% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 465 2,766
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £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 18,651 7,312 18,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 89.63% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,349 3,702 14,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%

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 June 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 June 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 +8 923 £55,000 - 163
Yorkshire +23 609 £55,000 -8.33% 87
North East +19 271 £57,500 +4.55% 57
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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.

1 379 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
2 316 (17.53%) .NET
3 307 (17.03%) Java
4 296 (16.42%) Azure
5 283 (15.70%) AWS
6 274 (15.20%) Agile
6 274 (15.20%) C#
7 273 (15.14%) SQL
8 250 (13.87%) JavaScript
9 242 (13.42%) CI/CD
10 230 (12.76%) DevOps
11 209 (11.59%) TypeScript
12 184 (10.21%) Microsoft
13 172 (9.54%) Python
14 167 (9.26%) React
15 156 (8.65%) Software Engineering
16 155 (8.60%) Front End Development
16 155 (8.60%) Mentoring
17 147 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
18 144 (7.99%) Serverless
19 141 (7.82%) PHP
20 131 (7.27%) AngularJS
20 131 (7.27%) Docker
21 123 (6.82%) CSS
22 122 (6.77%) Git
22 122 (6.77%) Microservices
23 114 (6.32%) HTML
24 110 (6.10%) AI
25 106 (5.88%) .NET Core
25 106 (5.88%) SQL Server

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 (1.11%) CMS
2 19 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.67%) WordPress
4 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.50%) OpenEdge
6 6 (0.33%) JBoss
6 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.28%) Appian
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.17%) Apache
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Confluence
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.055%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.055%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) Visualfiles
2 16 (0.89%) Shopify
3 12 (0.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 296 (16.42%) Azure
2 283 (15.70%) AWS
3 144 (7.99%) Serverless
4 104 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 98 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
5 98 (5.44%) GitHub
6 87 (4.83%) Amazon S3
7 83 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (4.33%) Power Platform
9 76 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 71 (3.94%) SaaS
12 45 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
14 40 (2.22%) Apigee
15 36 (2.00%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (1.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.16%) Internet
2 11 (0.61%) Broadband
3 3 (0.17%) HTTP
3 3 (0.17%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.055%) VoIP
5 1 (0.055%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 56 (3.11%) Power BI
4 47 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 45 (2.50%) MySQL
6 41 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (1.61%) MongoDB
10 28 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.55%) MariaDB
14 9 (0.50%) Tableau
15 8 (0.44%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.33%) Power Query
16 6 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (6.77%) Git
2 83 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 50 (2.77%) GitLab
4 34 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 33 (1.83%) Maven
5 33 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.72%) JIRA
7 12 (0.67%) fastlane
8 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.39%) PHPUnit
10 6 (0.33%) NUnit
11 5 (0.28%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.28%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.28%) Gradle
11 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.28%) Xcode
12 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.22%) JUnit
12 4 (0.22%) Spock
12 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (6.99%) Finance
2 99 (5.49%) Social Skills
3 62 (3.44%) Law
4 53 (2.94%) Retail
5 52 (2.88%) Public Sector
6 49 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (2.16%) Marketing
8 28 (1.55%) Banking
9 26 (1.44%) Games
10 25 (1.39%) Legal
11 24 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.22%) Multimedia
13 11 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.50%) Advertising
15 8 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.39%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.22%) Back Office
17 4 (0.22%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.22%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.17%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (17.53%) .NET
2 167 (9.26%) React
3 131 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 123 (6.82%) CSS
5 114 (6.32%) HTML
6 106 (5.88%) .NET Core
7 104 (5.77%) Node.js
8 85 (4.71%) ASP.NET
9 84 (4.66%) Spring Boot
10 81 (4.49%) Vue
11 80 (4.44%) REST
12 69 (3.83%) RESTful
12 69 (3.83%) Spring
13 65 (3.61%) Laravel
14 41 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
15 36 (2.00%) Gherkin
15 36 (2.00%) Jest
16 35 (1.94%) .NET Framework
17 33 (1.83%) Entity Framework
18 30 (1.66%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.49%) Mobile App
2 45 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 38 (2.11%) Cloud Native
4 35 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (0.94%) Hedge funds
10 16 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 14 (0.78%) Legacy Code
12 12 (0.67%) Social Media
13 9 (0.50%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.44%) Contactless
14 8 (0.44%) EMV
14 8 (0.44%) Smartcard
15 7 (0.39%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.39%) IoT
16 6 (0.33%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.77%) Android
2 26 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 14 (0.78%) Linux
4 4 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
2 274 (15.20%) Agile
3 242 (13.42%) CI/CD
4 230 (12.76%) DevOps
5 156 (8.65%) Software Engineering
6 155 (8.60%) Front End Development
6 155 (8.60%) Mentoring
7 147 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (6.77%) Microservices
9 110 (6.10%) AI
10 101 (5.60%) Clean Code
11 92 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (4.49%) Business Intelligence
13 71 (3.94%) TDD
14 69 (3.83%) Web Development
15 66 (3.66%) SDLC
16 61 (3.38%) Analytics
17 60 (3.33%) Test Automation
18 58 (3.22%) User Experience
19 56 (3.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 307 (17.03%) Java
2 274 (15.20%) C#
3 273 (15.14%) SQL
4 250 (13.87%) JavaScript
5 209 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 172 (9.54%) Python
7 141 (7.82%) PHP
8 58 (3.22%) Kotlin
9 46 (2.55%) C++
10 43 (2.38%) Groovy
11 31 (1.72%) Bash
12 16 (0.89%) VB
13 14 (0.78%) Swift
14 12 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.44%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.33%) Rust
19 5 (0.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 64 (3.55%) Security Cleared
2 57 (3.16%) SC Cleared
3 52 (2.88%) AWS Certification
4 38 (2.11%) Degree
5 25 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.39%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.11%) ACCA
13 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.11%) CIMA
13 2 (0.11%) HND
14 1 (0.055%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (1.66%) Accessibility
2 28 (1.55%) QA
3 17 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.67%) TickIT
5 10 (0.55%) WCAG
6 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.11%) PMO
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.055%) GDPR
8 1 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (7.27%) Docker
2 9 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.055%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 44 (2.44%) Terraform
2 29 (1.61%) HP Fortify
3 9 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.11%) Kibana
4 2 (0.11%) Nagios
4 2 (0.11%) Packer
4 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 184 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.50%) Salesforce
2 27 (1.50%) ServiceNow
3 19 (1.05%) Oracle
4 14 (0.78%) Cognos
5 12 (0.67%) Dynatrace
5 12 (0.67%) IBM
6 10 (0.55%) Google
6 10 (0.55%) Splunk
7 9 (0.50%) Sage
8 8 (0.44%) AppDynamics
8 8 (0.44%) Intapp
9 7 (0.39%) Apple
9 7 (0.39%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.39%) Progress
10 6 (0.33%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.33%) Pega
10 6 (0.33%) SAP
11 5 (0.28%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.28%) UiPath