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 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,987 1,033 2,375
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.80% 10.80% 15.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.33% 12.26% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 525 1,875
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 21,297 8,426 14,431
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 88.13% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 15,552 4,593 9,653
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 23 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 23 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 +4 1,004 £55,000 -8.33% 108
Yorkshire +22 610 £57,500 -4.17% 54
North East +22 373 £57,500 +4.55% 53
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 458 (23.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 398 (20.03%) .NET
3 364 (18.32%) Azure
4 359 (18.07%) C#
5 358 (18.02%) SQL
6 356 (17.92%) Agile
7 307 (15.45%) Java
8 297 (14.95%) Microsoft
9 281 (14.14%) CI/CD
10 280 (14.09%) TypeScript
11 279 (14.04%) JavaScript
12 271 (13.64%) AWS
13 268 (13.49%) DevOps
14 197 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
15 194 (9.76%) React
16 166 (8.35%) Software Engineering
17 163 (8.20%) Python
18 158 (7.95%) HTML
19 152 (7.65%) AI
20 151 (7.60%) AngularJS
20 151 (7.60%) CSS
21 148 (7.45%) Mentoring
22 144 (7.25%) Microservices
23 141 (7.10%) Front End Development
24 140 (7.05%) .NET Core
25 138 (6.95%) PHP
26 133 (6.69%) ASP.NET
26 133 (6.69%) Power Platform
27 131 (6.59%) Docker
28 129 (6.49%) 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 35 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.26%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.40%) IIS
6 7 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
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%) JBoss
9 2 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.050%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 14 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 11 (0.55%) Shopify
2 11 (0.55%) Visualfiles
3 7 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 364 (18.32%) Azure
2 271 (13.64%) AWS
3 133 (6.69%) Power Platform
4 125 (6.29%) Serverless
5 117 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (4.98%) GitHub
7 94 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
9 74 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.42%) Power Automate
11 66 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 60 (3.02%) PowerApps
14 57 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
15 56 (2.82%) SaaS
16 54 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (1.66%) Azure AI
20 32 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.65%) Internet
2 9 (0.45%) Broadband
3 7 (0.35%) HTTP
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) SSL
6 1 (0.050%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 104 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 68 (3.42%) Power BI
4 67 (3.37%) DynamoDB
5 52 (2.62%) MySQL
6 45 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.86%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.75%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.60%) Redis
15 10 (0.50%) Tableau
16 7 (0.35%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 126 (6.34%) Git
2 65 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 33 (1.66%) GitLab
4 27 (1.36%) JIRA
5 21 (1.06%) Maven
6 18 (0.91%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.65%) fastlane
9 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.35%) Xcode
12 6 (0.30%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.30%) Gradle
12 6 (0.30%) JUnit
12 6 (0.30%) NUnit
12 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
14 4 (0.20%) Spock
14 4 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 140 (7.05%) Finance
2 139 (7.00%) Social Skills
3 64 (3.22%) Public Sector
4 63 (3.17%) Law
4 63 (3.17%) Retail
5 60 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (2.67%) Marketing
7 32 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.56%) Banking
9 27 (1.36%) Games
10 24 (1.21%) Legal
11 17 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.60%) Advertising
12 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.45%) Publishing
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.35%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.20%) Back Office
16 4 (0.20%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (20.03%) .NET
2 194 (9.76%) React
3 158 (7.95%) HTML
4 151 (7.60%) AngularJS
4 151 (7.60%) CSS
5 140 (7.05%) .NET Core
6 133 (6.69%) ASP.NET
7 129 (6.49%) Node.js
8 104 (5.23%) ASP.NET Core
9 103 (5.18%) REST
10 102 (5.13%) RESTful
10 102 (5.13%) Vue
11 80 (4.03%) Spring
11 80 (4.03%) Spring Boot
12 73 (3.67%) Laravel
13 69 (3.47%) Entity Framework
14 48 (2.42%) ASP.NET Web API
15 41 (2.06%) Terraform
16 35 (1.76%) Blazor
17 34 (1.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.18%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
3 48 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 41 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 17 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 15 (0.75%) Social Media
10 11 (0.55%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.50%) Legacy Code
12 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.40%) Contactless
13 8 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.47%) Android
2 32 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.75%) Linux
4 8 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (23.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 356 (17.92%) Agile
3 281 (14.14%) CI/CD
4 268 (13.49%) DevOps
5 197 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (8.35%) Software Engineering
7 152 (7.65%) AI
8 148 (7.45%) Mentoring
9 144 (7.25%) Microservices
10 141 (7.10%) Front End Development
11 119 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (5.03%) Business Intelligence
12 100 (5.03%) TDD
13 91 (4.58%) Clean Code
14 82 (4.13%) Web Development
15 73 (3.67%) Scrum
16 72 (3.62%) Analytics
16 72 (3.62%) SDLC
17 69 (3.47%) Technical Leadership
17 69 (3.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 359 (18.07%) C#
2 358 (18.02%) SQL
3 307 (15.45%) Java
4 280 (14.09%) TypeScript
5 279 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 163 (8.20%) Python
7 138 (6.95%) PHP
8 69 (3.47%) Kotlin
9 56 (2.82%) C++
10 29 (1.46%) Groovy
11 15 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.75%) RPG
11 15 (0.75%) Swift
12 14 (0.70%) Bash
12 14 (0.70%) Rust
13 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.60%) VB
15 10 (0.50%) Scala
16 7 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 87 (4.38%) Security Cleared
2 83 (4.18%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.22%) Degree
4 35 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.10%) HND
12 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.050%) ACCA
13 1 (0.050%) CIMA
13 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.57%) Accessibility
2 46 (2.32%) QA
3 21 (1.06%) WCAG
4 18 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.60%) 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 (0.050%) GDPR
8 1 (0.050%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (6.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.65%) HP Fortify
3 8 (0.40%) Ansible
4 2 (0.10%) Kibana
4 2 (0.10%) Packer
5 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.050%) Nagios
5 1 (0.050%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 297 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 37 (1.86%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.21%) Google
4 20 (1.01%) ServiceNow
5 19 (0.96%) IBM
6 17 (0.86%) Dynatrace
7 16 (0.81%) Sage
8 14 (0.70%) Apple
9 12 (0.60%) Cognos
9 12 (0.60%) Splunk
10 10 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.50%) Oracle
11 9 (0.45%) Adobe
12 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.40%) Facebook
13 7 (0.35%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.30%) Pega
14 6 (0.30%) Sony
14 6 (0.30%) Yahoo!