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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 676 1,599 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.15% 13.13% 14.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.11% 13.90% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 547 1,065 895
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,331 11,507 7,034
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.09% 94.48% 96.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,073 6,035 5,349
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -15 369 £60,000 +14.29% 165
Yorkshire -21 234 £52,500 +5.00% 74
North East -18 75 £50,000 -2.91% 32
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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.

1 242 (35.80%) Azure
2 239 (35.36%) JavaScript
3 212 (31.36%) AWS
4 202 (29.88%) Agile
5 191 (28.25%) .NET
6 179 (26.48%) C#
7 166 (24.56%) Mentoring
8 162 (23.96%) SQL
9 156 (23.08%) CSS
10 145 (21.45%) HTML
11 139 (20.56%) DevOps
12 132 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (17.75%) CI/CD
14 119 (17.60%) React
15 118 (17.46%) Microsoft
16 113 (16.72%) Git
17 112 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 110 (16.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 108 (15.98%) Python
20 104 (15.38%) Java
21 93 (13.76%) SQL Server
22 92 (13.61%) Clean Code
23 82 (12.13%) Microservices
24 81 (11.98%) Docker
25 80 (11.83%) TypeScript
26 78 (11.54%) GitHub
27 77 (11.39%) Front End Development
28 73 (10.80%) Software Engineering
29 69 (10.21%) Degree
29 69 (10.21%) SaaS

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 14 (2.07%) CMS
2 7 (1.04%) Umbraco
3 6 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.74%) WordPress
5 4 (0.59%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.59%) Camunda
5 4 (0.59%) Confluence
5 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.59%) IIS
5 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) Drupal
7 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.59%) Magento
3 3 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.44%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Odoo
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 242 (35.80%) Azure
2 212 (31.36%) AWS
3 78 (11.54%) GitHub
4 69 (10.21%) SaaS
5 51 (7.54%) Serverless
6 39 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 31 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.14%) GCP
9 21 (3.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 19 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (1.78%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.36%) Internet
2 8 (1.18%) WPA
3 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.44%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) Intranet
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (13.76%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.36%) MySQL
3 42 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 42 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 26 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.40%) Power BI
7 17 (2.51%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.22%) Redis
8 15 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.89%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.89%) OLAP
12 5 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.74%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (0.74%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 113 (16.72%) Git
2 36 (5.33%) JIRA
3 22 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.81%) GitLab
5 10 (1.48%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.74%) Maven
9 5 (0.74%) Selenium
9 5 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.59%) Postman
10 4 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.59%) webpack
10 4 (0.59%) Xcode
11 3 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.44%) JUnit
12 2 (0.30%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.30%) Mockito
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 146 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 59 (8.73%) Finance
3 41 (6.07%) Multimedia
4 40 (5.92%) Marketing
5 30 (4.44%) Games
5 30 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (3.11%) Law
8 17 (2.51%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.51%) Retail
9 12 (1.78%) Legal
10 10 (1.48%) Banking
10 10 (1.48%) Electronics
11 6 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.74%) Advertising
12 5 (0.74%) Back Office
12 5 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (28.25%) .NET
2 156 (23.08%) CSS
3 145 (21.45%) HTML
4 119 (17.60%) React
5 58 (8.58%) Node.js
6 57 (8.43%) RESTful
7 54 (7.99%) .NET Core
8 53 (7.84%) ASP.NET
9 52 (7.69%) REST
10 40 (5.92%) AngularJS
11 34 (5.03%) .NET Framework
11 34 (5.03%) Spring
11 34 (5.03%) Spring Boot
12 31 (4.59%) Vue
13 28 (4.14%) Blazor
14 25 (3.70%) HTML5
15 23 (3.40%) CSS3
16 22 (3.25%) React Native
17 20 (2.96%) ASP.NET Core
18 17 (2.51%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.33%) Mobile App
2 32 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.48%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.48%) IoT
9 8 (1.18%) Clustering
10 7 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.04%) NHS
11 6 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.74%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.59%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.59%) Online Games
13 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.44%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.44%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.55%) Windows
2 22 (3.25%) Android
2 22 (3.25%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.78%) Linux
4 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (29.88%) Agile
2 166 (24.56%) Mentoring
3 139 (20.56%) DevOps
4 132 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (17.75%) CI/CD
6 112 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (16.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (13.61%) Clean Code
9 82 (12.13%) Microservices
10 77 (11.39%) Front End Development
11 73 (10.80%) Software Engineering
12 61 (9.02%) User Experience
13 59 (8.73%) Computer Science
13 59 (8.73%) Roadmaps
14 54 (7.99%) TDD
14 54 (7.99%) Test Automation
15 51 (7.54%) OOP
16 45 (6.66%) AI
16 45 (6.66%) Containerisation
16 45 (6.66%) OO
Programming Languages
1 239 (35.36%) JavaScript
2 179 (26.48%) C#
3 162 (23.96%) SQL
4 108 (15.98%) Python
5 104 (15.38%) Java
6 80 (11.83%) TypeScript
7 51 (7.54%) PHP
8 23 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.51%) C++
10 16 (2.37%) Go
11 13 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.92%) Ruby
11 13 (1.92%) Scala
12 11 (1.63%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.18%) Delphi
13 8 (1.18%) Elixir
13 8 (1.18%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.04%) ANSI SQL
14 7 (1.04%) Swift
15 5 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (10.21%) Degree
2 47 (6.95%) AWS Certification
3 42 (6.21%) Azure Certification
4 41 (6.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 41 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (4.29%) Security Cleared
7 26 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 25 (3.70%) DBS Check
9 20 (2.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.30%) PhD
13 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.73%) QA
2 25 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.89%) GDPR
4 3 (0.44%) WCAG
5 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 81 (11.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (6.07%) Terraform
2 38 (5.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.33%) Ansible
4 4 (0.59%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.44%) cPanel
5 3 (0.44%) Plesk
6 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.29%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.25%) Atlassian
4 21 (3.11%) Oracle
5 11 (1.63%) Google
6 10 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.04%) Splunk
8 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.59%) Adobe
9 4 (0.59%) JDA
9 4 (0.59%) Pega
9 4 (0.59%) WSO2
10 2 (0.30%) Dell
10 2 (0.30%) IBM
10 2 (0.30%) Infor
10 2 (0.30%) Informatica
10 2 (0.30%) Lotus
10 2 (0.30%) SAP
10 2 (0.30%) Xamarin