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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 6
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 860 849 2,073
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.92% 10.66% 16.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.74% 11.47% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 682 512 1,870
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11,107 7,401 11,798
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.36% 92.94% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,756 3,677 9,680
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,620 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,900 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -14 422 £57,500 +9.52% 210
Yorkshire -4 329 £50,000 - 139
North East -2 109 £59,000 +12.38% 55
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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.

1 272 (31.63%) Azure
2 262 (30.47%) JavaScript
3 247 (28.72%) AWS
4 196 (22.79%) .NET
5 192 (22.33%) Agile
6 179 (20.81%) C#
7 173 (20.12%) Mentoring
8 161 (18.72%) CSS
9 154 (17.91%) CI/CD
10 153 (17.79%) HTML
11 149 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 148 (17.21%) Git
12 148 (17.21%) SQL
13 138 (16.05%) React
14 134 (15.58%) Python
15 131 (15.23%) DevOps
15 131 (15.23%) Microsoft
16 122 (14.19%) Java
17 116 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
18 108 (12.56%) Docker
19 107 (12.44%) GitHub
20 102 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
21 94 (10.93%) Software Engineering
22 90 (10.47%) AWS Certification
23 89 (10.35%) Serverless
24 86 (10.00%) SQL Server
25 85 (9.88%) .NET Core
26 83 (9.65%) Front End Development
26 83 (9.65%) TypeScript
27 75 (8.72%) Microservices

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 (1.40%) CMS
2 11 (1.28%) OpenStack
2 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.81%) OpenEdge
4 5 (0.58%) nginx
4 5 (0.58%) WordPress
5 4 (0.47%) Confluence
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.35%) JBoss
6 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.16%) Shopify
2 8 (0.93%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.12%) Magento
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 272 (31.63%) Azure
2 247 (28.72%) AWS
3 107 (12.44%) GitHub
4 89 (10.35%) Serverless
5 56 (6.51%) SaaS
6 49 (5.70%) Amazon S3
7 46 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.77%) AWS Step Functions
10 40 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (3.95%) Power Platform
12 32 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (2.91%) GCP
14 24 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.21%) Apigee
17 18 (2.09%) Amazon ECR
18 14 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.44%) Internet
2 5 (0.58%) HTTP
3 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) Broadband
4 2 (0.23%) Intranet
4 2 (0.23%) SSH
4 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.12%) DNS
5 1 (0.12%) MQTT
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 41 (4.77%) DynamoDB
2 41 (4.77%) NoSQL
3 37 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (3.37%) MySQL
5 27 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.09%) Power BI
7 14 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.81%) Redis
9 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.47%) OLAP
11 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 148 (17.21%) Git
2 44 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.07%) JIRA
4 27 (3.14%) GitLab
5 22 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.33%) Maven
6 20 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.35%) JUnit
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.23%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.23%) Subversion
9 2 (0.23%) Xcode
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 124 (14.42%) Social Skills
2 66 (7.67%) Multimedia
3 58 (6.74%) Finance
4 35 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.37%) Marketing
6 25 (2.91%) Games
7 19 (2.21%) Law
8 17 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (1.86%) Legal
10 11 (1.28%) Banking
11 10 (1.16%) Retail
12 9 (1.05%) Electronics
13 6 (0.70%) Advertising
13 6 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.35%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.35%) Local Government
16 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (22.79%) .NET
2 161 (18.72%) CSS
3 153 (17.79%) HTML
4 138 (16.05%) React
5 85 (9.88%) .NET Core
6 66 (7.67%) ASP.NET
7 62 (7.21%) AngularJS
8 53 (6.16%) Node.js
9 50 (5.81%) Spring Boot
10 47 (5.47%) REST
11 43 (5.00%) Vue
12 42 (4.88%) RESTful
13 38 (4.42%) Spring
14 32 (3.72%) .NET Framework
15 30 (3.49%) Laravel
16 27 (3.14%) Jest
17 24 (2.79%) Flask
18 22 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
19 21 (2.44%) Blazor
20 18 (2.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.19%) Mobile App
2 33 (3.84%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 8 (0.93%) Client/Server
9 7 (0.81%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.81%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.47%) IoT
12 4 (0.47%) NHS
12 4 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.35%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.35%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.35%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.35%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.51%) Apple iOS
2 11 (1.28%) Android
2 11 (1.28%) Linux
3 7 (0.81%) Windows
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (22.33%) Agile
2 173 (20.12%) Mentoring
3 154 (17.91%) CI/CD
4 149 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 131 (15.23%) DevOps
6 116 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (10.93%) Software Engineering
9 83 (9.65%) Front End Development
10 75 (8.72%) Microservices
11 63 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
12 59 (6.86%) Clean Code
13 53 (6.16%) Containerisation
14 45 (5.23%) TDD
15 44 (5.12%) AI
15 44 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (5.12%) User Experience
16 40 (4.65%) Test Automation
17 39 (4.53%) SDLC
18 37 (4.30%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 262 (30.47%) JavaScript
2 179 (20.81%) C#
3 148 (17.21%) SQL
4 134 (15.58%) Python
5 122 (14.19%) Java
6 83 (9.65%) TypeScript
7 64 (7.44%) PHP
8 26 (3.02%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.09%) Bash
10 17 (1.98%) Groovy
11 16 (1.86%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.16%) C++
13 7 (0.81%) Go
13 7 (0.81%) Scala
14 5 (0.58%) ANSI SQL
14 5 (0.58%) Delphi
14 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.47%) VB
15 4 (0.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 90 (10.47%) AWS Certification
2 66 (7.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 65 (7.56%) Azure Certification
4 63 (7.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 47 (5.47%) Degree
6 23 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (2.09%) DBS Check
7 18 (2.09%) Security Cleared
8 14 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.51%) SC Cleared
10 10 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.12%) ACCA
12 1 (0.12%) CIMA
12 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.09%) Accessibility
2 16 (1.86%) QA
3 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.23%) SLA
3 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (12.56%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.77%) Terraform
2 35 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.09%) HP Fortify
4 10 (1.16%) Ansible
5 3 (0.35%) cPanel
5 3 (0.35%) Plesk
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.23%) Nagios
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 131 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.37%) Atlassian
3 25 (2.91%) Oracle
4 21 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.28%) ServiceNow
6 8 (0.93%) Intapp
6 8 (0.93%) JDA
7 7 (0.81%) Progress
8 6 (0.70%) UiPath
9 5 (0.58%) Google
10 4 (0.47%) Calypso
10 4 (0.47%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.47%) Pega
10 4 (0.47%) WSO2
11 3 (0.35%) Adobe
11 3 (0.35%) Cognos
11 3 (0.35%) Foundry
11 3 (0.35%) IBM
11 3 (0.35%) SAP
11 3 (0.35%) Splunk