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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,987 988 2,197
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.47% 10.50% 15.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.04% 12.04% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 485 1,607
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 21,969 8,206 13,444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 87.23% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,032 4,421 8,151
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% - -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +5 994 £55,000 -8.33% 177
Yorkshire +22 594 £60,000 - 105
North East +23 399 £60,000 +20.00% 69
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 433 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 376 (18.92%) .NET
3 349 (17.56%) C#
4 344 (17.31%) Azure
5 342 (17.21%) Agile
6 339 (17.06%) SQL
7 294 (14.80%) Microsoft
8 289 (14.54%) Java
9 274 (13.79%) TypeScript
10 269 (13.54%) JavaScript
11 255 (12.83%) CI/CD
12 254 (12.78%) DevOps
13 250 (12.58%) AWS
14 189 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
15 185 (9.31%) React
16 160 (8.05%) Python
17 159 (8.00%) Software Engineering
18 154 (7.75%) HTML
19 149 (7.50%) AngularJS
20 148 (7.45%) AI
21 146 (7.35%) CSS
22 145 (7.30%) .NET Core
23 144 (7.25%) Mentoring
24 140 (7.05%) Front End Development
25 136 (6.84%) Power Platform
26 131 (6.59%) Docker
26 131 (6.59%) Microservices
27 128 (6.44%) ASP.NET
27 128 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
28 126 (6.34%) 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 39 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.21%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.40%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.10%) Confluence
10 2 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.050%) Apache
11 1 (0.050%) Appian
11 1 (0.050%) CICS
11 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.050%) JBoss
11 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.050%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 16 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Visualfiles
4 10 (0.50%) Shopify
5 9 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.050%) Magento
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 344 (17.31%) Azure
2 250 (12.58%) AWS
3 136 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 119 (5.99%) Serverless
5 111 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (4.58%) GitHub
8 78 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
9 75 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 65 (3.27%) Power Automate
11 62 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (2.92%) PowerApps
13 56 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
15 50 (2.52%) SaaS
16 41 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
18 33 (1.66%) Azure AI
19 32 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.45%) Internet
2 7 (0.35%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) Firewall
3 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.050%) Broadband
5 1 (0.050%) SSL
5 1 (0.050%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 98 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 86 (4.33%) MongoDB
4 67 (3.37%) DynamoDB
4 67 (3.37%) Power BI
5 48 (2.42%) MySQL
6 40 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.75%) MariaDB
12 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (0.70%) Redis
14 10 (0.50%) Tableau
15 6 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 116 (5.84%) Git
2 59 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.71%) GitLab
4 28 (1.41%) JIRA
5 21 (1.06%) Maven
6 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.65%) fastlane
9 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.35%) Xcode
11 6 (0.30%) Gradle
11 6 (0.30%) JUnit
11 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
13 4 (0.20%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.20%) NUnit
13 4 (0.20%) Spock
13 4 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 145 (7.30%) Social Skills
2 134 (6.74%) Finance
3 75 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 65 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (3.07%) Law
5 61 (3.07%) Retail
6 55 (2.77%) Marketing
7 29 (1.46%) Banking
7 29 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.06%) Legal
9 19 (0.96%) Games
10 17 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 11 (0.55%) Advertising
13 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.45%) Publishing
14 6 (0.30%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.20%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.15%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (18.92%) .NET
2 185 (9.31%) React
3 154 (7.75%) HTML
4 149 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 146 (7.35%) CSS
6 145 (7.30%) .NET Core
7 128 (6.44%) ASP.NET
8 121 (6.09%) Node.js
9 100 (5.03%) ASP.NET Core
10 97 (4.88%) REST
11 96 (4.83%) Vue
12 92 (4.63%) RESTful
13 79 (3.98%) Spring
14 78 (3.93%) Spring Boot
15 67 (3.37%) Laravel
16 66 (3.32%) Entity Framework
17 46 (2.32%) ASP.NET Web API
18 40 (2.01%) Terraform
19 34 (1.71%) LINQ
20 33 (1.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.62%) Mobile App
2 60 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
3 54 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 39 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (1.86%) Product Ownership
6 36 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (0.91%) Hedge funds
8 12 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (0.50%) Data Structures
9 10 (0.50%) Online Gambling
10 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.40%) Contactless
11 8 (0.40%) EMV
11 8 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
12 7 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.91%) Android
2 27 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 16 (0.81%) Linux
4 8 (0.40%) Windows
5 1 (0.050%) Unix
5 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 342 (17.21%) Agile
3 255 (12.83%) CI/CD
4 254 (12.78%) DevOps
5 189 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (8.00%) Software Engineering
7 148 (7.45%) AI
8 144 (7.25%) Mentoring
9 140 (7.05%) Front End Development
10 131 (6.59%) Microservices
11 128 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (5.13%) Business Intelligence
13 100 (5.03%) TDD
14 84 (4.23%) Clean Code
15 78 (3.93%) Web Development
16 72 (3.62%) Collaborative Working
17 71 (3.57%) Technical Leadership
18 69 (3.47%) Analytics
19 67 (3.37%) Scrum
19 67 (3.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 349 (17.56%) C#
2 339 (17.06%) SQL
3 289 (14.54%) Java
4 274 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 269 (13.54%) JavaScript
6 160 (8.05%) Python
7 126 (6.34%) PHP
8 61 (3.07%) Kotlin
9 56 (2.82%) C++
10 28 (1.41%) Groovy
11 18 (0.91%) Apex Code
12 17 (0.86%) RPG
13 15 (0.75%) Rust
14 13 (0.65%) Bash
15 12 (0.60%) C
15 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.60%) Swift
15 12 (0.60%) VB
16 11 (0.55%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (4.63%) Security Cleared
2 85 (4.28%) SC Cleared
3 69 (3.47%) Degree
4 36 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.15%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.050%) ACCA
12 1 (0.050%) CIMA
12 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (2.77%) Accessibility
2 46 (2.32%) QA
3 25 (1.26%) WCAG
4 18 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.60%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.10%) PMO
8 1 (0.050%) GDPR
8 1 (0.050%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (6.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.60%) HP Fortify
3 8 (0.40%) Ansible
4 3 (0.15%) Kibana
4 3 (0.15%) Packer
5 2 (0.10%) Grafana
5 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.050%) Nagios
6 1 (0.050%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 294 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.16%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.21%) ServiceNow
4 23 (1.16%) Google
5 20 (1.01%) Sage
6 18 (0.91%) Dynatrace
7 17 (0.86%) IBM
8 14 (0.70%) Apple
9 12 (0.60%) Adobe
9 12 (0.60%) Splunk
10 10 (0.50%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.45%) Cognos
12 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.40%) Facebook
13 7 (0.35%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.35%) Oracle
14 6 (0.30%) Sony
14 6 (0.30%) Yahoo!
15 5 (0.25%) Zoho