Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 645 1,757 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.73% 14.07% 14.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.57% 14.81% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 517 1,212 941
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,520 11,867 7,444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.86% 95.03% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,048 6,305 5,658
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -15 356 £60,000 +14.29% 486
Yorkshire -23 221 £56,250 +12.50% 154
North East -20 70 £50,000 -6.76% 54
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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.

1 216 (33.49%) Azure
2 209 (32.40%) JavaScript
3 196 (30.39%) Agile
4 195 (30.23%) AWS
5 176 (27.29%) .NET
6 164 (25.43%) C#
6 164 (25.43%) SQL
7 138 (21.40%) DevOps
7 138 (21.40%) Mentoring
8 132 (20.47%) CSS
9 126 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (18.76%) HTML
11 114 (17.67%) CI/CD
12 110 (17.05%) Java
13 109 (16.90%) React
14 104 (16.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 102 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (15.19%) Microsoft
17 93 (14.42%) Clean Code
18 92 (14.26%) Python
19 91 (14.11%) Git
20 85 (13.18%) SQL Server
21 83 (12.87%) Microservices
22 78 (12.09%) TypeScript
23 76 (11.78%) Front End Development
24 75 (11.63%) Docker
25 69 (10.70%) Software Engineering
26 66 (10.23%) SaaS
27 65 (10.08%) Degree
28 62 (9.61%) RESTful

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 12 (1.86%) CMS
2 5 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (0.78%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
3 4 (0.62%) Camunda
3 4 (0.62%) Confluence
3 4 (0.62%) Headless CMS
3 4 (0.62%) IIS
3 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.62%) WordPress
4 3 (0.47%) nginx
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.31%) Drupal
5 2 (0.31%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.31%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Strapi
6 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) InVision
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Sketch
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.62%) Magento
3 3 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.47%) Shopify
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Odoo
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 216 (33.49%) Azure
2 195 (30.23%) AWS
3 66 (10.23%) SaaS
4 60 (9.30%) GitHub
5 49 (7.60%) Serverless
6 45 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (4.03%) GCP
9 19 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 16 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.02%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.86%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.50%) Internet
2 8 (1.24%) WPA
3 4 (0.62%) HTTP
3 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.31%) SSH
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (13.18%) SQL Server
2 47 (7.29%) MongoDB
3 42 (6.51%) MySQL
4 40 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (4.81%) NoSQL
6 29 (4.50%) Power BI
6 29 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.64%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.33%) Redis
9 15 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.93%) OLAP
13 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database 11g
13 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 91 (14.11%) Git
2 32 (4.96%) JIRA
3 19 (2.95%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.33%) GitLab
5 8 (1.24%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.62%) Postman
9 4 (0.62%) Selenium
9 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.62%) webpack
9 4 (0.62%) Xcode
10 3 (0.47%) JUnit
10 3 (0.47%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.31%) Mockito
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 145 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 56 (8.68%) Finance
3 36 (5.58%) Marketing
4 33 (5.12%) Games
5 29 (4.50%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.19%) Multimedia
7 22 (3.41%) Law
8 19 (2.95%) Retail
9 18 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.55%) Electronics
10 10 (1.55%) Legal
11 8 (1.24%) Banking
12 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.78%) Back Office
14 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Advertising
15 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.31%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (27.29%) .NET
2 132 (20.47%) CSS
3 121 (18.76%) HTML
4 109 (16.90%) React
5 62 (9.61%) RESTful
6 56 (8.68%) Node.js
7 51 (7.91%) REST
8 46 (7.13%) .NET Core
9 44 (6.82%) ASP.NET
10 36 (5.58%) AngularJS
11 35 (5.43%) Spring
11 35 (5.43%) Spring Boot
12 30 (4.65%) Vue
13 28 (4.34%) Blazor
14 27 (4.19%) .NET Framework
15 25 (3.88%) HTML5
16 23 (3.57%) CSS3
17 21 (3.26%) React Native
18 18 (2.79%) Web Services
19 17 (2.64%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.58%) Mobile App
2 27 (4.19%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 17 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.55%) Client/Server
6 10 (1.55%) IoT
7 9 (1.40%) Clustering
8 8 (1.24%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.78%) NHS
11 4 (0.62%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.62%) Online Games
11 4 (0.62%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.47%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.47%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.31%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.72%) Windows
2 22 (3.41%) Android
2 22 (3.41%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.86%) Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (30.39%) Agile
2 138 (21.40%) DevOps
2 138 (21.40%) Mentoring
3 126 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (17.67%) CI/CD
5 104 (16.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 102 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (14.42%) Clean Code
8 83 (12.87%) Microservices
9 76 (11.78%) Front End Development
10 69 (10.70%) Software Engineering
11 60 (9.30%) User Experience
12 59 (9.15%) TDD
13 58 (8.99%) Roadmaps
13 58 (8.99%) Test Automation
14 55 (8.53%) Computer Science
15 53 (8.22%) OOP
16 45 (6.98%) OO
17 44 (6.82%) AI
18 42 (6.51%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 209 (32.40%) JavaScript
2 164 (25.43%) C#
2 164 (25.43%) SQL
3 110 (17.05%) Java
4 92 (14.26%) Python
5 78 (12.09%) TypeScript
6 46 (7.13%) PHP
7 20 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.64%) C++
9 16 (2.48%) Go
10 14 (2.17%) Ruby
11 13 (2.02%) Kotlin
11 13 (2.02%) Scala
12 11 (1.71%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.24%) Elixir
13 8 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.09%) Delphi
14 7 (1.09%) Swift
15 6 (0.93%) C
16 5 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 65 (10.08%) Degree
2 34 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 30 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.34%) Azure Certification
4 28 (4.34%) SC Cleared
5 27 (4.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 27 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (3.26%) DBS Check
7 16 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (0.62%) PhD
9 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.12%) QA
2 23 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (6.51%) Terraform
2 39 (6.05%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.16%) cPanel
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Plesk
5 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.19%) Salesforce
3 17 (2.64%) Atlassian
3 17 (2.64%) Oracle
4 11 (1.71%) Google
5 10 (1.55%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.55%) Splunk
6 7 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 5 (0.78%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.62%) Adobe
8 4 (0.62%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.62%) IBM
8 4 (0.62%) Moogsoft
8 4 (0.62%) PayPal
8 4 (0.62%) Pega
8 4 (0.62%) WSO2
9 3 (0.47%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.47%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.31%) Dell
10 2 (0.31%) Infor