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 3 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 811 938 2,036
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.84% 11.06% 16.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.68% 11.85% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 638 535 1,840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,555 7,918 11,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 93.37% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,315 3,754 9,539
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,050 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,073 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -14 402 £57,500 +9.52% 200
Yorkshire -2 304 £50,000 - 123
North East -1 105 £60,000 +14.29% 53
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 February 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.

1 277 (34.16%) Azure
2 254 (31.32%) JavaScript
3 239 (29.47%) AWS
4 197 (24.29%) .NET
5 192 (23.67%) Agile
6 181 (22.32%) C#
7 168 (20.72%) Mentoring
8 161 (19.85%) CSS
9 150 (18.50%) HTML
10 146 (18.00%) CI/CD
10 146 (18.00%) Git
11 143 (17.63%) SQL
12 134 (16.52%) React
13 133 (16.40%) Full-Stack Development
14 132 (16.28%) Python
15 130 (16.03%) DevOps
16 127 (15.66%) Microsoft
17 115 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
18 109 (13.44%) Java
19 106 (13.07%) GitHub
20 103 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
20 103 (12.70%) Docker
21 90 (11.10%) SQL Server
22 87 (10.73%) AWS Certification
23 85 (10.48%) Serverless
23 85 (10.48%) Software Engineering
24 84 (10.36%) .NET Core
25 82 (10.11%) Front End Development
26 79 (9.74%) TypeScript
27 75 (9.25%) Microservices

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 13 (1.60%) CMS
2 11 (1.36%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.86%) OpenEdge
5 5 (0.62%) nginx
5 5 (0.62%) WordPress
6 4 (0.49%) Confluence
6 4 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.37%) Apache
7 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.37%) JBoss
8 2 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.23%) Shopify
2 5 (0.62%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) Magento
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 277 (34.16%) Azure
2 239 (29.47%) AWS
3 106 (13.07%) GitHub
4 85 (10.48%) Serverless
5 58 (7.15%) SaaS
6 44 (5.43%) Amazon S3
7 41 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (3.95%) Power Platform
12 30 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (3.08%) GCP
14 23 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
16 15 (1.85%) Apigee
16 15 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 14 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.89%) Internet
2 5 (0.62%) HTTP
3 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.25%) Intranet
4 2 (0.25%) SSH
4 2 (0.25%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.12%) DNS
5 1 (0.12%) MQTT
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 39 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 36 (4.44%) DynamoDB
3 36 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.70%) MySQL
5 27 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.85%) Power BI
8 11 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (0.86%) Redis
10 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.49%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.49%) OLAP
13 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 146 (18.00%) Git
2 39 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.07%) JIRA
4 23 (2.84%) GitLab
5 19 (2.34%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.10%) Maven
6 17 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.37%) JUnit
8 3 (0.37%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) Xcode
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 126 (15.54%) Social Skills
2 66 (8.14%) Multimedia
3 58 (7.15%) Finance
4 30 (3.70%) Marketing
4 30 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 22 (2.71%) Games
6 17 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (1.73%) Law
7 14 (1.73%) Legal
8 11 (1.36%) Retail
9 10 (1.23%) Electronics
10 8 (0.99%) Banking
11 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.62%) Advertising
13 4 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.37%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.37%) Local Government
14 3 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (24.29%) .NET
2 161 (19.85%) CSS
3 150 (18.50%) HTML
4 134 (16.52%) React
5 84 (10.36%) .NET Core
6 69 (8.51%) ASP.NET
7 57 (7.03%) AngularJS
8 49 (6.04%) Node.js
8 49 (6.04%) REST
9 46 (5.67%) Spring Boot
10 42 (5.18%) RESTful
11 40 (4.93%) Vue
12 37 (4.56%) Spring
13 34 (4.19%) .NET Framework
14 29 (3.58%) Laravel
15 24 (2.96%) Jest
16 23 (2.84%) ASP.NET Core
16 23 (2.84%) Blazor
16 23 (2.84%) Flask
17 18 (2.22%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.32%) Mobile App
2 33 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 8 (0.99%) Client/Server
8 7 (0.86%) AI Agents
8 7 (0.86%) Legacy Code
9 6 (0.74%) IoT
10 5 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.49%) Clustering
11 4 (0.49%) NHS
12 3 (0.37%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.37%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.37%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.37%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.85%) Apple iOS
2 11 (1.36%) Android
2 11 (1.36%) Linux
3 8 (0.99%) Windows
4 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (23.67%) Agile
2 168 (20.72%) Mentoring
3 146 (18.00%) CI/CD
4 133 (16.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 130 (16.03%) DevOps
6 115 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (10.48%) Software Engineering
9 82 (10.11%) Front End Development
10 75 (9.25%) Microservices
11 63 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
12 61 (7.52%) Clean Code
13 51 (6.29%) Containerisation
14 47 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (5.67%) TDD
16 45 (5.55%) User Experience
17 42 (5.18%) AI
18 40 (4.93%) Computer Science
18 40 (4.93%) Test Automation
19 35 (4.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 254 (31.32%) JavaScript
2 181 (22.32%) C#
3 143 (17.63%) SQL
4 132 (16.28%) Python
5 109 (13.44%) Java
6 79 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 62 (7.64%) PHP
8 26 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.85%) Bash
10 14 (1.73%) Groovy
11 13 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.48%) C++
13 10 (1.23%) Scala
14 9 (1.11%) Go
15 5 (0.62%) ANSI SQL
15 5 (0.62%) Delphi
15 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.49%) Swift
16 4 (0.49%) VB
16 4 (0.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 87 (10.73%) AWS Certification
2 64 (7.89%) Azure Certification
2 64 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 63 (7.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 50 (6.17%) Degree
5 23 (2.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 19 (2.34%) DBS Check
6 19 (2.34%) Security Cleared
7 14 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 13 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 13 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) ACCA
11 1 (0.12%) CIMA
11 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 17 (2.10%) QA
3 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.25%) SLA
3 2 (0.25%) WCAG
4 1 (0.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 103 (12.70%) Docker
2 7 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (5.43%) Terraform
2 35 (4.32%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.85%) HP Fortify
4 10 (1.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.37%) cPanel
5 3 (0.37%) Plesk
5 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.25%) Nagios
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 127 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.58%) Atlassian
3 23 (2.84%) Oracle
4 22 (2.71%) Salesforce
5 8 (0.99%) Intapp
5 8 (0.99%) JDA
6 7 (0.86%) Progress
7 6 (0.74%) UiPath
8 5 (0.62%) Google
9 4 (0.49%) Calypso
9 4 (0.49%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.49%) IBM
9 4 (0.49%) Pega
9 4 (0.49%) Splunk
9 4 (0.49%) WSO2
10 3 (0.37%) Adobe
10 3 (0.37%) Cognos
10 3 (0.37%) Foundry
10 3 (0.37%) SAP
11 2 (0.25%) Informatica