Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £55,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,010 954 1,868
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.37% 10.01% 14.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.04% 11.46% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 470 1,300
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -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 22,234 8,327 12,481
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 87.37% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,138 4,354 6,812
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +5 992 £55,000 -8.33% 245
Yorkshire +22 594 £55,000 -8.33% 150
North East +22 424 £61,250 +22.50% 70
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 371 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 367 (18.26%) .NET
3 349 (17.36%) Agile
4 348 (17.31%) C#
5 316 (15.72%) Microsoft
6 310 (15.42%) Azure
7 306 (15.22%) SQL
8 273 (13.58%) JavaScript
9 271 (13.48%) Java
10 261 (12.99%) TypeScript
11 256 (12.74%) CI/CD
12 235 (11.69%) DevOps
13 231 (11.49%) AWS
14 194 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
15 182 (9.05%) React
16 167 (8.31%) Software Engineering
17 166 (8.26%) AI
18 155 (7.71%) Power Platform
19 154 (7.66%) HTML
20 148 (7.36%) Python
21 142 (7.06%) .NET Core
22 140 (6.97%) Mentoring
23 139 (6.92%) CSS
24 134 (6.67%) AngularJS
25 133 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
25 133 (6.62%) Docker
25 133 (6.62%) Front End Development
26 121 (6.02%) Git
27 118 (5.87%) ASP.NET
27 118 (5.87%) 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 53 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 19 (0.95%) CMS
3 16 (0.80%) WordPress
4 11 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.40%) IIS
6 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.20%) Apache
9 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.100%) Confluence
10 2 (0.100%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.100%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.100%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.050%) CICS
11 1 (0.050%) JBoss
11 1 (0.050%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 22 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.55%) Visualfiles
4 8 (0.40%) Shopify
5 7 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.100%) Magento
9 2 (0.100%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.100%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.100%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.050%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 310 (15.42%) Azure
2 231 (11.49%) AWS
3 155 (7.71%) Power Platform
4 104 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (4.88%) Serverless
6 89 (4.43%) GitHub
7 76 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (3.73%) Power Automate
9 73 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
10 69 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 68 (3.38%) PowerApps
12 67 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
14 47 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 46 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
16 42 (2.09%) SaaS
17 38 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
18 36 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.45%) Internet
2 6 (0.30%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) Firewall
3 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.050%) Broadband
4 1 (0.050%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.050%) SNMP
4 1 (0.050%) SSL
4 1 (0.050%) VoIP
4 1 (0.050%) WAN
4 1 (0.050%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.27%) SQL Server
2 97 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (4.63%) MongoDB
4 65 (3.23%) Power BI
5 51 (2.54%) DynamoDB
6 46 (2.29%) MySQL
7 41 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.49%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 16 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.80%) MariaDB
15 15 (0.75%) Redis
16 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.40%) Data Lake
18 7 (0.35%) Power Query
18 7 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (6.02%) Git
2 53 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.94%) GitLab
4 15 (0.75%) JIRA
4 15 (0.75%) Maven
5 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
5 12 (0.60%) fastlane
6 10 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.35%) JUnit
8 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.35%) Xcode
9 6 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.30%) Gradle
10 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
11 4 (0.20%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.20%) Gatling
11 4 (0.20%) Spock
11 4 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 155 (7.71%) Social Skills
2 119 (5.92%) Finance
3 98 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 67 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.74%) Law
6 50 (2.49%) Retail
7 48 (2.39%) Marketing
8 39 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.54%) Legal
10 27 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.09%) Banking
12 21 (1.04%) Games
13 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.55%) Publishing
15 10 (0.50%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.40%) Advertising
17 7 (0.35%) Tech for Good
18 5 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
19 3 (0.15%) Back Office
20 2 (0.100%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (18.26%) .NET
2 182 (9.05%) React
3 154 (7.66%) HTML
4 142 (7.06%) .NET Core
5 139 (6.92%) CSS
6 134 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 118 (5.87%) ASP.NET
8 107 (5.32%) Node.js
9 98 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
10 95 (4.73%) REST
11 84 (4.18%) RESTful
12 80 (3.98%) Vue
13 72 (3.58%) Spring
14 67 (3.33%) Spring Boot
15 66 (3.28%) Entity Framework
16 57 (2.84%) Laravel
17 46 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web API
18 43 (2.14%) Middleware
19 37 (1.84%) Terraform
20 34 (1.69%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (3.38%) Mobile App
2 63 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 58 (2.89%) Cloud Native
4 38 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (1.29%) Online Gambling
9 24 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (0.70%) Hedge funds
11 13 (0.65%) Onboarding
12 10 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.45%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (0.45%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.40%) Contactless
14 8 (0.40%) EMV
14 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
15 6 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.99%) Android
2 23 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.75%) Linux
4 9 (0.45%) Windows
5 2 (0.100%) Unix
6 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 349 (17.36%) Agile
3 256 (12.74%) CI/CD
4 235 (11.69%) DevOps
5 194 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (8.31%) Software Engineering
7 166 (8.26%) AI
8 140 (6.97%) Mentoring
9 133 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (6.62%) Front End Development
10 118 (5.87%) Microservices
11 103 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
12 101 (5.02%) TDD
13 81 (4.03%) Collaborative Working
14 80 (3.98%) Technical Leadership
15 77 (3.83%) Clean Code
16 74 (3.68%) Test Automation
17 73 (3.63%) Workflow
18 72 (3.58%) Web Development
19 65 (3.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 348 (17.31%) C#
2 306 (15.22%) SQL
3 273 (13.58%) JavaScript
4 271 (13.48%) Java
5 261 (12.99%) TypeScript
6 148 (7.36%) Python
7 108 (5.37%) PHP
8 71 (3.53%) Kotlin
9 54 (2.69%) C++
10 21 (1.04%) Groovy
11 20 (1.00%) RPG
12 19 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.80%) Rust
14 14 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.65%) Go
16 12 (0.60%) C
16 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.60%) VB
17 10 (0.50%) Scala
17 10 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (4.28%) Security Cleared
2 77 (3.83%) SC Cleared
3 68 (3.38%) Degree
4 36 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 11 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.15%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.100%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.050%) ACCA
12 1 (0.050%) CIMA
12 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.050%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 51 (2.54%) QA
3 25 (1.24%) WCAG
4 23 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.25%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.100%) PMO
8 1 (0.050%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 133 (6.62%) Docker
2 7 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.100%) Firmware
4 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.35%) HP Fortify
3 4 (0.20%) Ansible
4 3 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.100%) Argo
5 2 (0.100%) Grafana
5 2 (0.100%) Packer
5 2 (0.100%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.100%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.050%) Kibana
6 1 (0.050%) logstash
6 1 (0.050%) Nagios
6 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 316 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 41 (2.04%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 22 (1.09%) Google
5 20 (1.00%) Dynatrace
6 17 (0.85%) Sage
7 13 (0.65%) Apple
7 13 (0.65%) IBM
7 13 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 13 (0.65%) Splunk
8 12 (0.60%) Adobe
9 9 (0.45%) HP
9 9 (0.45%) SAP
10 7 (0.35%) Cognos
10 7 (0.35%) Facebook
10 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.30%) Confluent
11 6 (0.30%) YouTube
12 5 (0.25%) Yahoo!
12 5 (0.25%) Zoho