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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,960 1,040 2,358
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.08% 10.85% 15.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.57% 12.27% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 538 1,951
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 20,484 8,476 14,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.41% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,913 4,580 10,101
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +8 995 £55,000 -6.78% 151
Yorkshire +20 615 £55,000 -8.33% 86
North East +15 350 £55,000 - 57
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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.

1 470 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
2 399 (20.36%) .NET
3 355 (18.11%) Agile
4 354 (18.06%) Azure
4 354 (18.06%) C#
5 341 (17.40%) SQL
6 318 (16.22%) Java
7 290 (14.80%) Microsoft
8 283 (14.44%) AWS
8 283 (14.44%) CI/CD
9 280 (14.29%) JavaScript
10 277 (14.13%) TypeScript
11 270 (13.78%) DevOps
12 206 (10.51%) React
13 194 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
14 175 (8.93%) Software Engineering
15 164 (8.37%) Python
16 156 (7.96%) AI
17 155 (7.91%) AngularJS
18 152 (7.76%) HTML
18 152 (7.76%) Mentoring
19 147 (7.50%) CSS
20 144 (7.35%) Front End Development
21 141 (7.19%) Microservices
21 141 (7.19%) PHP
22 140 (7.14%) .NET Core
23 134 (6.84%) Serverless
24 133 (6.79%) Docker
25 130 (6.63%) ASP.NET
26 127 (6.48%) 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 33 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.17%) CMS
3 15 (0.77%) WordPress
4 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.41%) IIS
6 5 (0.26%) Appian
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) JBoss
7 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.10%) CICS
9 2 (0.10%) Confluence
9 2 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.051%) nginx
10 1 (0.051%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.051%) Elementor
2 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.82%) Visualfiles
2 14 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.61%) Shopify
4 11 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.10%) Magento
8 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.051%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 354 (18.06%) Azure
2 283 (14.44%) AWS
3 134 (6.84%) Serverless
4 127 (6.48%) Power Platform
5 115 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
7 97 (4.95%) GitHub
8 88 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
9 80 (4.08%) Amazon S3
10 69 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
11 68 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (3.32%) Power Automate
13 60 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 59 (3.01%) PowerApps
15 58 (2.96%) SaaS
16 50 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
17 41 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (1.68%) Amazon ECR
19 33 (1.68%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.66%) Internet
2 11 (0.56%) Broadband
3 5 (0.26%) HTTP
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.051%) SSL
6 1 (0.051%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 96 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 85 (4.34%) MongoDB
4 73 (3.72%) DynamoDB
5 68 (3.47%) Power BI
6 53 (2.70%) MySQL
7 45 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 37 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 30 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (0.71%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.51%) Redis
17 10 (0.51%) Tableau
18 8 (0.41%) RDBMS
19 6 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 123 (6.28%) Git
2 74 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.14%) GitLab
4 30 (1.53%) JIRA
5 28 (1.43%) Maven
6 25 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 23 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.66%) fastlane
9 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.36%) Xcode
12 6 (0.31%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.31%) Gradle
12 6 (0.31%) JUnit
12 6 (0.31%) NUnit
13 5 (0.26%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.26%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.26%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.26%) Selenium
13 5 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 143 (7.30%) Finance
2 136 (6.94%) Social Skills
3 71 (3.62%) Law
4 62 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.16%) Public Sector
5 60 (3.06%) Retail
6 46 (2.35%) Marketing
7 34 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (1.68%) Banking
9 27 (1.38%) Games
10 26 (1.33%) Legal
11 19 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 13 (0.66%) Advertising
13 12 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.46%) Publishing
15 8 (0.41%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.36%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.31%) Tech for Good
18 4 (0.20%) Back Office
18 4 (0.20%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (20.36%) .NET
2 206 (10.51%) React
3 155 (7.91%) AngularJS
4 152 (7.76%) HTML
5 147 (7.50%) CSS
6 140 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 130 (6.63%) ASP.NET
8 127 (6.48%) Node.js
9 106 (5.41%) Vue
10 104 (5.31%) ASP.NET Core
11 102 (5.20%) RESTful
12 95 (4.85%) REST
13 82 (4.18%) Spring Boot
14 75 (3.83%) Spring
15 74 (3.78%) Laravel
16 68 (3.47%) Entity Framework
17 47 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
18 34 (1.73%) Blazor
18 34 (1.73%) LINQ
19 33 (1.68%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.13%) Mobile App
2 60 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
3 44 (2.24%) Cloud Native
4 40 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 17 (0.87%) Social Media
8 16 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 11 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 11 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 9 (0.46%) Algorithms
10 9 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.41%) Contactless
11 8 (0.41%) EMV
11 8 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (0.41%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.30%) Android
2 31 (1.58%) Apple iOS
3 13 (0.66%) Linux
4 7 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
2 355 (18.11%) Agile
3 283 (14.44%) CI/CD
4 270 (13.78%) DevOps
5 194 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (8.93%) Software Engineering
7 156 (7.96%) AI
8 152 (7.76%) Mentoring
9 144 (7.35%) Front End Development
10 141 (7.19%) Microservices
11 119 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (5.10%) TDD
13 98 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
14 96 (4.90%) Clean Code
15 80 (4.08%) SDLC
15 80 (4.08%) Web Development
16 73 (3.72%) Analytics
17 72 (3.67%) Scrum
18 68 (3.47%) Workflow
19 67 (3.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 354 (18.06%) C#
2 341 (17.40%) SQL
3 318 (16.22%) Java
4 280 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 277 (14.13%) TypeScript
6 164 (8.37%) Python
7 141 (7.19%) PHP
8 61 (3.11%) Kotlin
9 55 (2.81%) C++
10 36 (1.84%) Groovy
11 21 (1.07%) Bash
12 16 (0.82%) Swift
13 14 (0.71%) Rust
14 13 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.61%) VB
16 10 (0.51%) Scala
17 8 (0.41%) RPG
18 7 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (4.34%) Security Cleared
2 81 (4.13%) SC Cleared
3 61 (3.11%) Degree
4 36 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 16 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.10%) HND
13 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.051%) ACCA
14 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 41 (2.09%) QA
3 19 (0.97%) WCAG
4 16 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.61%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.10%) PMO
7 2 (0.10%) SLA
8 1 (0.051%) GDPR
8 1 (0.051%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 133 (6.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.14%) Terraform
3 20 (1.02%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.10%) Kibana
5 2 (0.10%) Packer
6 1 (0.051%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.051%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.051%) Nagios
6 1 (0.051%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 290 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.68%) ServiceNow
3 31 (1.58%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.17%) Google
5 18 (0.92%) IBM
6 17 (0.87%) Dynatrace
7 15 (0.77%) Sage
8 14 (0.71%) Apple
8 14 (0.71%) Oracle
9 12 (0.61%) Cognos
9 12 (0.61%) Splunk
10 9 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.41%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.41%) Facebook
12 7 (0.36%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.36%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.31%) Pega
13 6 (0.31%) Sony
13 6 (0.31%) Yahoo!
14 5 (0.26%) SAP