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 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 21 5
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,700 890 2,887
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.70% 11.50% 16.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.34% 12.83% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,434 414 2,527
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,813 £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 £66,000 £65,000
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 18,197 6,938 16,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 89.66% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,507 3,465 13,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +4.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,550
England median annual salary £55,250 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -3.91% +8.49% -12.83%

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 24 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 24 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 -5 878 £55,000 - 146
Yorkshire +24 587 £55,000 -8.33% 98
North East +23 235 £59,000 +4.42% 65
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 362 (21.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 302 (17.76%) .NET
2 302 (17.76%) Azure
3 287 (16.88%) Java
4 284 (16.71%) AWS
5 270 (15.88%) Agile
6 265 (15.59%) C#
7 262 (15.41%) SQL
8 254 (14.94%) JavaScript
9 232 (13.65%) CI/CD
10 219 (12.88%) DevOps
11 185 (10.88%) TypeScript
12 181 (10.65%) Microsoft
13 170 (10.00%) Python
14 157 (9.24%) React
15 154 (9.06%) Mentoring
16 144 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
17 143 (8.41%) Serverless
17 143 (8.41%) Software Engineering
18 141 (8.29%) Front End Development
19 139 (8.18%) Git
20 135 (7.94%) Docker
21 133 (7.82%) PHP
22 129 (7.59%) CSS
23 124 (7.29%) AngularJS
24 121 (7.12%) HTML
25 114 (6.71%) Microservices
26 110 (6.47%) SQL Server
27 108 (6.35%) .NET Core
28 103 (6.06%) 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 (1.18%) CMS
2 17 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.65%) WordPress
4 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.53%) OpenEdge
5 9 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.35%) JBoss
7 5 (0.29%) Appian
7 5 (0.29%) IIS
8 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) Confluence
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.059%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.059%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.06%) Visualfiles
2 16 (0.94%) Shopify
3 10 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 7 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.12%) Magento
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 302 (17.76%) Azure
2 284 (16.71%) AWS
3 143 (8.41%) Serverless
4 103 (6.06%) GitHub
5 102 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 97 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
7 90 (5.29%) Amazon S3
8 84 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 74 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 69 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
10 69 (4.06%) Power Platform
10 69 (4.06%) SaaS
11 47 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
12 44 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 41 (2.41%) Apigee
13 41 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
14 40 (2.35%) Amazon ECR
15 29 (1.71%) Power Automate
16 28 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.82%) Internet
2 11 (0.65%) Broadband
3 4 (0.24%) HTTP
4 3 (0.18%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.12%) Firewall
5 2 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.059%) DNS
6 1 (0.059%) VoIP
6 1 (0.059%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 85 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 54 (3.18%) Power BI
4 51 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 46 (2.71%) MySQL
6 38 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 35 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (1.35%) MongoDB
12 15 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.59%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.41%) Tableau
17 6 (0.35%) Power Query
18 5 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
18 5 (0.29%) Star Schema
19 4 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 139 (8.18%) Git
2 81 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 50 (2.94%) GitLab
4 35 (2.06%) Cypress.io
5 34 (2.00%) Maven
5 34 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.82%) JIRA
7 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.41%) fastlane
8 7 (0.41%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.35%) NUnit
9 6 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.29%) JUnit
11 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.24%) Spock
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.18%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 115 (6.76%) Finance
2 98 (5.76%) Social Skills
3 61 (3.59%) Law
4 51 (3.00%) Retail
5 48 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 46 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (2.00%) Marketing
8 32 (1.88%) Multimedia
9 27 (1.59%) Banking
10 25 (1.47%) Games
11 24 (1.41%) Legal
12 19 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.47%) Advertising
13 8 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.41%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.29%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.29%) Back Office
16 4 (0.24%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.18%) Local Government
18 2 (0.12%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (17.76%) .NET
2 157 (9.24%) React
3 129 (7.59%) CSS
4 124 (7.29%) AngularJS
5 121 (7.12%) HTML
6 108 (6.35%) .NET Core
7 102 (6.00%) Node.js
8 89 (5.24%) ASP.NET
9 88 (5.18%) Spring Boot
10 75 (4.41%) REST
11 74 (4.35%) Vue
12 73 (4.29%) Spring
13 69 (4.06%) RESTful
14 57 (3.35%) Laravel
15 41 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
16 37 (2.18%) .NET Framework
17 36 (2.12%) Gherkin
17 36 (2.12%) Jest
18 29 (1.71%) Entity Framework
19 26 (1.53%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.12%) Mobile App
2 44 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
3 36 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 24 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 24 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.00%) Hedge funds
8 16 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 14 (0.82%) Legacy Code
10 12 (0.71%) Social Media
11 9 (0.53%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.47%) Contactless
12 8 (0.47%) EMV
12 8 (0.47%) Smartcard
13 7 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.35%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.35%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.65%) Android
2 23 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.59%) Linux
4 5 (0.29%) Windows
5 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (21.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 270 (15.88%) Agile
3 232 (13.65%) CI/CD
4 219 (12.88%) DevOps
5 154 (9.06%) Mentoring
6 144 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (8.41%) Software Engineering
8 141 (8.29%) Front End Development
9 114 (6.71%) Microservices
10 97 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (5.59%) Clean Code
12 91 (5.35%) AI
13 74 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
14 68 (4.00%) TDD
14 68 (4.00%) Web Development
15 65 (3.82%) SDLC
16 53 (3.12%) User Experience
17 52 (3.06%) Scrum
18 51 (3.00%) Analytics
18 51 (3.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 287 (16.88%) Java
2 265 (15.59%) C#
3 262 (15.41%) SQL
4 254 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 185 (10.88%) TypeScript
6 170 (10.00%) Python
7 133 (7.82%) PHP
8 52 (3.06%) Kotlin
9 42 (2.47%) Groovy
10 40 (2.35%) C++
11 31 (1.82%) Bash
12 16 (0.94%) VB
13 11 (0.65%) Swift
13 11 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.53%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.29%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.29%) Bicep
17 4 (0.24%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 66 (3.88%) AWS Certification
2 64 (3.76%) Security Cleared
3 57 (3.35%) SC Cleared
4 36 (2.12%) Degree
5 34 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 23 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.41%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.24%) 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 (0.059%) ACCA
16 1 (0.059%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 22 (1.29%) QA
3 15 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.71%) TickIT
5 6 (0.35%) WCAG
6 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.059%) GDPR
System Software
1 135 (7.94%) Docker
2 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.059%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.59%) Terraform
3 30 (1.76%) HP Fortify
4 9 (0.53%) Ansible
5 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.12%) Kibana
5 2 (0.12%) Nagios
5 2 (0.12%) Packer
5 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 181 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.59%) ServiceNow
3 23 (1.35%) Oracle
4 19 (1.12%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.71%) Cognos
6 10 (0.59%) IBM
7 9 (0.53%) Sage
7 9 (0.53%) Splunk
8 8 (0.47%) AppDynamics
8 8 (0.47%) Intapp
8 8 (0.47%) JDA
9 7 (0.41%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.41%) Google
9 7 (0.41%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.41%) Progress
10 6 (0.35%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.35%) Pega
11 5 (0.29%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.29%) SAP
11 5 (0.29%) UiPath