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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -13 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,193 555 2,608
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.66% 8.71% 16.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.41% 9.45% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 969 480 2,284
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,620 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £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 14,186 5,870 14,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 92.09% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9,139 3,754 12,016
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £69,195 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,800 £85,000 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 April 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 April 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 -9 599 £60,000 +14.29% 210
Yorkshire +19 453 £55,000 +10.00% 142
North East +12 141 £59,500 +13.33% 64
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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.

1 283 (23.72%) AWS
2 281 (23.55%) Azure
3 278 (23.30%) JavaScript
4 254 (21.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 245 (20.54%) .NET
6 233 (19.53%) Agile
7 214 (17.94%) C#
8 201 (16.85%) CI/CD
8 201 (16.85%) SQL
9 194 (16.26%) Java
10 174 (14.59%) Mentoring
11 161 (13.50%) DevOps
12 159 (13.33%) CSS
12 159 (13.33%) Git
13 155 (12.99%) Python
14 154 (12.91%) HTML
15 151 (12.66%) Microsoft
16 150 (12.57%) React
17 132 (11.06%) Serverless
18 130 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
19 128 (10.73%) Docker
20 120 (10.06%) TypeScript
21 118 (9.89%) Software Engineering
22 114 (9.56%) GitHub
23 110 (9.22%) Front End Development
24 104 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
25 98 (8.21%) Microservices
26 95 (7.96%) AWS Certification
27 91 (7.63%) AngularJS
28 89 (7.46%) PHP

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 18 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.09%) CMS
2 13 (1.09%) OpenStack
3 7 (0.59%) OpenEdge
4 6 (0.50%) JBoss
5 5 (0.42%) Appian
5 5 (0.42%) WordPress
6 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.25%) Apache
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
7 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.17%) CICS
8 2 (0.17%) Confluence
8 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.084%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.084%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) Visualfiles
2 12 (1.01%) Shopify
3 7 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.084%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 283 (23.72%) AWS
2 281 (23.55%) Azure
3 132 (11.06%) Serverless
4 114 (9.56%) GitHub
5 80 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (6.29%) Amazon S3
8 66 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 63 (5.28%) SaaS
10 60 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 45 (3.77%) Power Platform
12 42 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (2.68%) Apigee
16 31 (2.60%) Amazon ECR
17 26 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (2.18%) GCP
18 24 (2.01%) Power Automate
18 24 (2.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.78%) Internet
2 10 (0.84%) Broadband
3 5 (0.42%) HTTP
4 4 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.17%) Intranet
5 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.084%) DNS
6 1 (0.084%) SSH
6 1 (0.084%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.70%) DynamoDB
3 52 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 44 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 33 (2.77%) MySQL
7 30 (2.51%) Power BI
8 22 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.50%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.42%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.34%) Tableau
15 3 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.25%) DB2
15 3 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 159 (13.33%) Git
2 66 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.27%) GitLab
4 32 (2.68%) SonarQube
5 30 (2.51%) Cypress.io
6 29 (2.43%) JIRA
6 29 (2.43%) Maven
7 7 (0.59%) PHPUnit
8 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.34%) NUnit
10 4 (0.34%) Selenium
10 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.25%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.17%) JUnit
12 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.17%) Subversion
12 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 119 (9.97%) Social Skills
2 78 (6.54%) Finance
3 60 (5.03%) Multimedia
4 40 (3.35%) Public Sector
5 39 (3.27%) Law
6 29 (2.43%) Games
7 24 (2.01%) Marketing
7 24 (2.01%) Retail
8 22 (1.84%) Legal
9 18 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (1.34%) Banking
11 10 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.67%) Advertising
14 6 (0.50%) Electronics
15 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.42%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.25%) Local Government
17 3 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (20.54%) .NET
2 159 (13.33%) CSS
3 154 (12.91%) HTML
4 150 (12.57%) React
5 91 (7.63%) AngularJS
6 87 (7.29%) .NET Core
7 77 (6.45%) Node.js
8 75 (6.29%) Spring Boot
9 70 (5.87%) ASP.NET
10 66 (5.53%) Vue
11 58 (4.86%) RESTful
12 55 (4.61%) REST
13 51 (4.27%) Spring
14 44 (3.69%) Laravel
15 35 (2.93%) Jest
16 32 (2.68%) .NET Framework
16 32 (2.68%) Flask
17 29 (2.43%) ASP.NET Core
17 29 (2.43%) Gherkin
18 24 (2.01%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 45 (3.77%) Mobile App
2 36 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (2.85%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.26%) Legacy Code
9 13 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.92%) Social Media
11 10 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.59%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.59%) NHS
14 6 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.50%) Educational Technology
14 6 (0.50%) Hedge funds
15 4 (0.34%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.34%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.84%) Android
2 19 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.01%) Linux
4 7 (0.59%) Windows
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.084%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (21.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 233 (19.53%) Agile
3 201 (16.85%) CI/CD
4 174 (14.59%) Mentoring
5 161 (13.50%) DevOps
6 130 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (9.89%) Software Engineering
8 110 (9.22%) Front End Development
9 104 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 98 (8.21%) Microservices
11 77 (6.45%) Clean Code
12 62 (5.20%) AI
13 58 (4.86%) SDLC
14 57 (4.78%) Cybersecurity
15 54 (4.53%) Design Patterns
16 53 (4.44%) TDD
17 50 (4.19%) Containerisation
18 49 (4.11%) Business Intelligence
19 48 (4.02%) Infrastructure as Code
20 43 (3.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 278 (23.30%) JavaScript
2 214 (17.94%) C#
3 201 (16.85%) SQL
4 194 (16.26%) Java
5 155 (12.99%) Python
6 120 (10.06%) TypeScript
7 89 (7.46%) PHP
8 42 (3.52%) Kotlin
9 30 (2.51%) Groovy
10 29 (2.43%) Bash
11 18 (1.51%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.75%) C++
13 7 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.59%) Swift
14 6 (0.50%) VB
15 5 (0.42%) Bicep
15 5 (0.42%) Delphi
15 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
16 3 (0.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 95 (7.96%) AWS Certification
2 61 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 58 (4.86%) Azure Certification
4 57 (4.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 32 (2.68%) Degree
5 32 (2.68%) Security Cleared
6 27 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 22 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 11 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.17%) HND
15 1 (0.084%) ACCA
15 1 (0.084%) CIMA
15 1 (0.084%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.51%) Accessibility
2 16 (1.34%) QA
3 4 (0.34%) SLA
4 3 (0.25%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.25%) TickIT
5 2 (0.17%) WCAG
6 1 (0.084%) GDPR
System Software
1 128 (10.73%) Docker
2 8 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.084%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (4.78%) Terraform
2 37 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.43%) HP Fortify
4 15 (1.26%) Ansible
5 3 (0.25%) cPanel
5 3 (0.25%) Plesk
6 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Nagios
6 2 (0.17%) Packer
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.084%) Grafana
Vendors
1 151 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.35%) Oracle
3 18 (1.51%) Atlassian
3 18 (1.51%) ServiceNow
4 11 (0.92%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.84%) IBM
5 10 (0.84%) Pega
6 8 (0.67%) Intapp
6 8 (0.67%) JDA
7 7 (0.59%) Cognos
7 7 (0.59%) Progress
8 6 (0.50%) Sage
8 6 (0.50%) WSO2
9 5 (0.42%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.42%) UiPath
10 4 (0.34%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.34%) Calypso
10 4 (0.34%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.25%) Google
11 3 (0.25%) SAP