Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,260 571 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.68% 8.95% 16.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.41% 9.75% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 497 2,350
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,620 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +3.96% -8.18%
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 14,984 5,855 15,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 91.73% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,697 3,800 12,299
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,460 £78,750
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 9 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 9 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 -8 644 £57,500 +9.52% 210
Yorkshire +15 469 £57,500 +9.52% 142
North East +12 147 £60,000 +7.62% 64
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 285 (22.62%) Azure
2 283 (22.46%) AWS
3 275 (21.83%) JavaScript
4 269 (21.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 253 (20.08%) .NET
6 240 (19.05%) Agile
7 221 (17.54%) C#
8 209 (16.59%) SQL
9 204 (16.19%) Java
10 201 (15.95%) CI/CD
11 169 (13.41%) Mentoring
12 166 (13.17%) DevOps
13 158 (12.54%) Python
14 156 (12.38%) CSS
14 156 (12.38%) Git
15 155 (12.30%) Microsoft
16 152 (12.06%) React
17 151 (11.98%) HTML
18 134 (10.63%) Serverless
19 130 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
20 128 (10.16%) Docker
21 123 (9.76%) TypeScript
22 118 (9.37%) Front End Development
22 118 (9.37%) Software Engineering
23 113 (8.97%) GitHub
24 101 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
25 98 (7.78%) Microservices
26 95 (7.54%) .NET Core
27 93 (7.38%) PHP
28 92 (7.30%) AngularJS

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 19 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.35%) CMS
3 13 (1.03%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.56%) OpenEdge
5 6 (0.48%) JBoss
6 5 (0.40%) Appian
6 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.40%) WordPress
7 4 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.24%) Apache
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) CICS
9 2 (0.16%) Confluence
9 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.079%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.079%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.079%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Shopify
1 14 (1.11%) Visualfiles
2 7 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.079%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 285 (22.62%) Azure
2 283 (22.46%) AWS
3 134 (10.63%) Serverless
4 113 (8.97%) GitHub
5 82 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (6.03%) Amazon S3
8 69 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (5.16%) SaaS
10 61 (4.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 49 (3.89%) Power Platform
12 43 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (2.62%) Apigee
15 32 (2.54%) Amazon ECR
16 30 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.14%) GCP
18 26 (2.06%) Power Automate
18 26 (2.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.13%) Internet
2 10 (0.79%) Broadband
3 6 (0.48%) HTTP
4 4 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.16%) Intranet
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.079%) DNS
6 1 (0.079%) SSH
6 1 (0.079%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 52 (4.13%) NoSQL
4 44 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 34 (2.70%) MySQL
6 34 (2.70%) Power BI
7 22 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.40%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.32%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.32%) Tableau
14 3 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.24%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.24%) DB2
Development Applications
1 156 (12.38%) Git
2 67 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.02%) GitLab
4 32 (2.54%) SonarQube
5 30 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.38%) Maven
6 26 (2.06%) JIRA
7 7 (0.56%) PHPUnit
8 6 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.32%) NUnit
10 4 (0.32%) Selenium
11 3 (0.24%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.16%) JUnit
12 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.16%) Subversion
12 2 (0.16%) XCUITest
General
1 116 (9.21%) Social Skills
2 85 (6.75%) Finance
3 55 (4.37%) Multimedia
4 39 (3.10%) Law
4 39 (3.10%) Public Sector
5 28 (2.22%) Games
6 27 (2.14%) Retail
7 24 (1.90%) Marketing
8 22 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (1.75%) Legal
9 18 (1.43%) Banking
10 10 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.63%) Advertising
11 8 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.48%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.32%) Electronics
14 4 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.24%) Back Office
15 3 (0.24%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (20.08%) .NET
2 156 (12.38%) CSS
3 152 (12.06%) React
4 151 (11.98%) HTML
5 95 (7.54%) .NET Core
6 92 (7.30%) AngularJS
7 80 (6.35%) Node.js
8 77 (6.11%) ASP.NET
9 76 (6.03%) Spring Boot
10 67 (5.32%) Vue
11 59 (4.68%) RESTful
12 56 (4.44%) REST
13 52 (4.13%) Spring
14 50 (3.97%) Laravel
15 35 (2.78%) .NET Framework
15 35 (2.78%) Jest
16 34 (2.70%) Flask
17 29 (2.30%) Gherkin
18 28 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
19 24 (1.90%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 45 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 37 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (1.51%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.19%) Legacy Code
8 15 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (0.87%) Social Media
10 9 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.56%) NHS
12 6 (0.48%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.48%) Educational Technology
12 6 (0.48%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.32%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.32%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.24%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.67%) Android
2 18 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 11 (0.87%) Linux
4 6 (0.48%) Windows
5 1 (0.079%) VMS
5 1 (0.079%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (21.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 240 (19.05%) Agile
3 201 (15.95%) CI/CD
4 169 (13.41%) Mentoring
5 166 (13.17%) DevOps
6 130 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (9.37%) Front End Development
7 118 (9.37%) Software Engineering
8 101 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 98 (7.78%) Microservices
10 77 (6.11%) Clean Code
11 61 (4.84%) AI
12 58 (4.60%) SDLC
13 54 (4.29%) Design Patterns
14 53 (4.21%) Business Intelligence
14 53 (4.21%) TDD
15 52 (4.13%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (3.97%) Containerisation
17 47 (3.73%) Infrastructure as Code
18 42 (3.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 275 (21.83%) JavaScript
2 221 (17.54%) C#
3 209 (16.59%) SQL
4 204 (16.19%) Java
5 158 (12.54%) Python
6 123 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 93 (7.38%) PHP
8 42 (3.33%) Kotlin
9 30 (2.38%) Groovy
10 29 (2.30%) Bash
11 13 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 10 (0.79%) C++
13 8 (0.63%) VB
14 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.56%) Swift
15 5 (0.40%) Bicep
15 5 (0.40%) Delphi
15 5 (0.40%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 56 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 53 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 52 (4.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 40 (3.17%) Security Cleared
6 35 (2.78%) SC Cleared
7 27 (2.14%) Degree
8 22 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.16%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.16%) HND
16 1 (0.079%) ACCA
16 1 (0.079%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 15 (1.19%) QA
3 5 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.40%) TickIT
4 4 (0.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.16%) WCAG
6 1 (0.079%) GDPR
System Software
1 128 (10.16%) Docker
2 9 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.079%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (4.60%) Terraform
2 38 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.30%) HP Fortify
4 14 (1.11%) Ansible
5 3 (0.24%) cPanel
5 3 (0.24%) Plesk
6 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
6 2 (0.16%) Nagios
6 2 (0.16%) Packer
6 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.079%) Grafana
Vendors
1 155 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.14%) Oracle
3 18 (1.43%) ServiceNow
4 13 (1.03%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.95%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.79%) IBM
6 10 (0.79%) Pega
7 8 (0.63%) Intapp
7 8 (0.63%) JDA
7 8 (0.63%) Sage
8 7 (0.56%) Cognos
8 7 (0.56%) Progress
9 6 (0.48%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.48%) WSO2
10 5 (0.40%) UiPath
11 4 (0.32%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.32%) Calypso
11 4 (0.32%) DevExpress
12 3 (0.24%) Foundry
12 3 (0.24%) Google