Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,472 955 2,763
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.93% 13.08% 16.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.60% 14.58% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 479 2,415
10th Percentile £36,340 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,158
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £52,084
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +5.60% -5.30%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,050 £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 17,118 6,549 15,822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 89.71% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,123 3,822 12,641
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 6 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 6 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 -13 777 £57,500 +4.55% 180
Yorkshire +15 517 £55,000 -4.35% 126
North East +14 178 £60,000 +6.19% 87
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 305 (20.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 279 (18.95%) Azure
3 268 (18.21%) AWS
4 261 (17.73%) .NET
5 249 (16.92%) JavaScript
6 243 (16.51%) Java
7 237 (16.10%) Agile
8 227 (15.42%) C#
8 227 (15.42%) SQL
9 198 (13.45%) CI/CD
10 180 (12.23%) DevOps
11 165 (11.21%) Python
12 160 (10.87%) Microsoft
13 155 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 152 (10.33%) React
15 146 (9.92%) TypeScript
16 141 (9.58%) Git
17 132 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
18 127 (8.63%) CSS
18 127 (8.63%) Serverless
19 126 (8.56%) Software Engineering
20 122 (8.29%) HTML
21 121 (8.22%) Front End Development
22 120 (8.15%) Docker
23 112 (7.61%) PHP
24 105 (7.13%) GitHub
25 100 (6.79%) Microservices
26 97 (6.59%) AngularJS
27 94 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
28 93 (6.32%) Node.js

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 19 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.15%) CMS
3 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.61%) OpenEdge
4 9 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.41%) JBoss
5 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.41%) WordPress
6 5 (0.34%) Appian
7 3 (0.20%) Apache
7 3 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) CICS
8 2 (0.14%) Confluence
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.068%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.068%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Shopify
1 16 (1.09%) Visualfiles
2 8 (0.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 279 (18.95%) Azure
2 268 (18.21%) AWS
3 127 (8.63%) Serverless
4 105 (7.13%) GitHub
5 92 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 87 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
7 83 (5.64%) Amazon S3
8 77 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 68 (4.62%) AWS Step Functions
10 63 (4.28%) SaaS
11 61 (4.14%) Power Platform
12 49 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 43 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (2.65%) Apigee
15 39 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
16 38 (2.58%) Amazon ECR
17 27 (1.83%) GCP
18 26 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (1.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.72%) Internet
2 10 (0.68%) Broadband
3 4 (0.27%) HTTP
4 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) SSL
6 1 (0.068%) DNS
6 1 (0.068%) Firewall
6 1 (0.068%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.43%) DynamoDB
3 50 (3.40%) NoSQL
4 48 (3.26%) Power BI
5 37 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.24%) MySQL
7 31 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.41%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.34%) Star Schema
16 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Tableau
17 3 (0.20%) Data Vault
17 3 (0.20%) MariaDB
17 3 (0.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 141 (9.58%) Git
2 70 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.92%) GitLab
4 34 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 33 (2.24%) JIRA
6 32 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 31 (2.11%) Maven
8 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.48%) PHPUnit
10 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.34%) NUnit
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.27%) Selenium
13 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.14%) JUnit
14 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.14%) Subversion
14 2 (0.14%) XCUITest
General
1 101 (6.86%) Social Skills
2 99 (6.73%) Finance
3 53 (3.60%) Law
4 43 (2.92%) Multimedia
4 43 (2.92%) Retail
5 37 (2.51%) Public Sector
6 32 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (1.97%) Marketing
8 23 (1.56%) Legal
9 21 (1.43%) Banking
9 21 (1.43%) Games
10 13 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.61%) Advertising
12 8 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.48%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.27%) Back Office
14 4 (0.27%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.20%) Local Government
15 3 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (17.73%) .NET
2 152 (10.33%) React
3 127 (8.63%) CSS
4 122 (8.29%) HTML
5 97 (6.59%) AngularJS
6 93 (6.32%) Node.js
7 90 (6.11%) .NET Core
8 81 (5.50%) Spring Boot
9 74 (5.03%) ASP.NET
10 63 (4.28%) REST
11 61 (4.14%) Spring
12 56 (3.80%) Vue
13 54 (3.67%) Laravel
14 52 (3.53%) RESTful
15 37 (2.51%) .NET Framework
16 34 (2.31%) Jest
17 32 (2.17%) Gherkin
18 27 (1.83%) Flask
19 25 (1.70%) ASP.NET Core
20 23 (1.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.67%) Mobile App
2 36 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
3 34 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 24 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 20 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 16 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.02%) Legacy Code
8 11 (0.75%) Hedge funds
8 11 (0.75%) Social Media
9 10 (0.68%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.48%) NHS
11 6 (0.41%) Educational Technology
11 6 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.34%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.34%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.34%) IoT
13 4 (0.27%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.36%) Android
2 17 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.68%) Linux
4 5 (0.34%) Windows
5 1 (0.068%) VMS
5 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (20.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 237 (16.10%) Agile
3 198 (13.45%) CI/CD
4 180 (12.23%) DevOps
5 155 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 132 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (8.56%) Software Engineering
8 121 (8.22%) Front End Development
9 100 (6.79%) Microservices
10 94 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (5.50%) Clean Code
12 72 (4.89%) AI
13 66 (4.48%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (3.87%) SDLC
15 54 (3.67%) Web Development
16 53 (3.60%) TDD
17 47 (3.19%) Containerisation
18 41 (2.79%) Cybersecurity
19 40 (2.72%) Design Patterns
19 40 (2.72%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 249 (16.92%) JavaScript
2 243 (16.51%) Java
3 227 (15.42%) C#
3 227 (15.42%) SQL
4 165 (11.21%) Python
5 146 (9.92%) TypeScript
6 112 (7.61%) PHP
7 44 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 33 (2.24%) Groovy
9 30 (2.04%) Bash
10 24 (1.63%) C++
11 14 (0.95%) VB
12 13 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.48%) Swift
14 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.34%) Bicep
15 5 (0.34%) Scala
16 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 77 (5.23%) AWS Certification
2 58 (3.94%) Security Cleared
3 50 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 30 (2.04%) Degree
8 23 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.41%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.14%) HND
16 1 (0.068%) ACCA
16 1 (0.068%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 16 (1.09%) QA
3 12 (0.82%) TickIT
4 10 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.20%) SLA
6 2 (0.14%) WCAG
7 1 (0.068%) GDPR
7 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 14443
7 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 120 (8.15%) Docker
2 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.068%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (2.92%) Terraform
2 39 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.04%) HP Fortify
4 9 (0.61%) Ansible
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.14%) cPanel
5 2 (0.14%) Kibana
5 2 (0.14%) Nagios
5 2 (0.14%) Packer
5 2 (0.14%) Plesk
5 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.068%) Grafana
Vendors
1 160 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.77%) Oracle
3 20 (1.36%) ServiceNow
4 16 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.68%) Cognos
6 10 (0.68%) IBM
7 9 (0.61%) Sage
8 8 (0.54%) Intapp
8 8 (0.54%) JDA
9 7 (0.48%) Progress
10 6 (0.41%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.41%) Pega
11 5 (0.34%) UiPath
12 4 (0.27%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.27%) Calypso
12 4 (0.27%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.20%) Databricks
13 3 (0.20%) Foundry
13 3 (0.20%) Google