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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 18 3
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,916 1,012 2,691
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.11% 10.73% 15.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.61% 12.17% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,648 521 2,256
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 19,947 8,315 16,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 88.19% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,535 4,478 11,850
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £79,000
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +9 982 £55,000 -4.35% 97
Yorkshire +23 601 £55,000 -8.33% 60
North East +16 333 £55,000 - 53
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 466 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 383 (19.99%) .NET
3 343 (17.90%) Azure
4 341 (17.80%) C#
5 338 (17.64%) Agile
6 332 (17.33%) SQL
7 313 (16.34%) Java
8 277 (14.46%) AWS
9 272 (14.20%) Microsoft
10 266 (13.88%) CI/CD
11 264 (13.78%) JavaScript
12 262 (13.67%) TypeScript
13 259 (13.52%) DevOps
14 202 (10.54%) React
15 186 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
16 179 (9.34%) Software Engineering
17 165 (8.61%) Python
18 152 (7.93%) AI
19 151 (7.88%) AngularJS
20 147 (7.67%) Mentoring
21 141 (7.36%) Front End Development
22 138 (7.20%) Microservices
22 138 (7.20%) PHP
23 136 (7.10%) .NET Core
23 136 (7.10%) HTML
24 132 (6.89%) CSS
24 132 (6.89%) Serverless
25 127 (6.63%) ASP.NET
26 126 (6.58%) Docker
27 119 (6.21%) 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 28 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.15%) CMS
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.63%) WordPress
5 7 (0.37%) IIS
6 5 (0.26%) Appian
6 5 (0.26%) JBoss
7 4 (0.21%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.16%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.10%) CICS
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.052%) Apache
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.052%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.052%) Elementor
4 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.94%) Visualfiles
2 13 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 12 (0.63%) Shopify
4 8 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 2 (0.10%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 343 (17.90%) Azure
2 277 (14.46%) AWS
3 132 (6.89%) Serverless
4 116 (6.05%) Power Platform
5 109 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
7 96 (5.01%) GitHub
8 85 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
9 76 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 66 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
13 58 (3.03%) Power Automate
13 58 (3.03%) SaaS
14 53 (2.77%) PowerApps
15 44 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
17 32 (1.67%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.68%) Internet
2 11 (0.57%) Broadband
3 3 (0.16%) Firewall
3 3 (0.16%) HTTP
3 3 (0.16%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.052%) SSL
5 1 (0.052%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 94 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 82 (4.28%) MongoDB
4 73 (3.81%) DynamoDB
5 65 (3.39%) Power BI
6 52 (2.71%) MySQL
7 43 (2.24%) Relational Database
8 36 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.68%) MariaDB
15 11 (0.57%) Tableau
16 8 (0.42%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.42%) Redis
17 7 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (5.79%) Git
2 73 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.19%) GitLab
4 31 (1.62%) JIRA
5 28 (1.46%) Maven
6 26 (1.36%) Cypress.io
7 25 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.68%) fastlane
9 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.37%) Xcode
12 6 (0.31%) Gradle
12 6 (0.31%) NUnit
12 6 (0.31%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.26%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.26%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.26%) Selenium
14 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 149 (7.78%) Finance
2 125 (6.52%) Social Skills
3 73 (3.81%) Law
4 59 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (2.97%) Retail
6 54 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 38 (1.98%) Marketing
8 32 (1.67%) Banking
9 30 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (1.41%) Legal
11 26 (1.36%) Games
12 17 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.68%) Advertising
14 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.37%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.31%) Tech for Good
18 5 (0.26%) Publishing
19 4 (0.21%) Back Office
19 4 (0.21%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (19.99%) .NET
2 202 (10.54%) React
3 151 (7.88%) AngularJS
4 136 (7.10%) .NET Core
4 136 (7.10%) HTML
5 132 (6.89%) CSS
6 127 (6.63%) ASP.NET
7 119 (6.21%) Node.js
8 108 (5.64%) Vue
9 103 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 99 (5.17%) RESTful
11 84 (4.38%) REST
12 80 (4.18%) Spring Boot
13 74 (3.86%) Laravel
14 72 (3.76%) Spring
15 68 (3.55%) Entity Framework
16 46 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
17 34 (1.77%) LINQ
18 33 (1.72%) Blazor
19 32 (1.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.07%) Mobile App
2 58 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 38 (1.98%) Cloud Native
4 37 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 34 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (1.62%) Product Ownership
8 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (0.84%) Hedge funds
8 16 (0.84%) Social Media
9 15 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (0.57%) Legacy Code
10 11 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.47%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.47%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.42%) Contactless
12 8 (0.42%) EMV
12 8 (0.42%) Smartcard
13 7 (0.37%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.14%) Android
2 29 (1.51%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.78%) Linux
4 7 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 338 (17.64%) Agile
3 266 (13.88%) CI/CD
4 259 (13.52%) DevOps
5 186 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (9.34%) Software Engineering
7 152 (7.93%) AI
8 147 (7.67%) Mentoring
9 141 (7.36%) Front End Development
10 138 (7.20%) Microservices
11 111 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (5.11%) TDD
13 94 (4.91%) Clean Code
14 93 (4.85%) Business Intelligence
15 78 (4.07%) Web Development
16 74 (3.86%) Analytics
17 73 (3.81%) SDLC
18 69 (3.60%) Scrum
19 67 (3.50%) Workflow
20 63 (3.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 341 (17.80%) C#
2 332 (17.33%) SQL
3 313 (16.34%) Java
4 264 (13.78%) JavaScript
5 262 (13.67%) TypeScript
6 165 (8.61%) Python
7 138 (7.20%) PHP
8 57 (2.97%) Kotlin
9 54 (2.82%) C++
10 37 (1.93%) Groovy
11 22 (1.15%) Bash
12 15 (0.78%) Swift
13 14 (0.73%) Rust
14 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.63%) VB
15 10 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.52%) Scala
16 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 79 (4.12%) Security Cleared
2 74 (3.86%) SC Cleared
3 56 (2.92%) Degree
4 37 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 17 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.10%) ACCA
13 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.10%) CIMA
13 2 (0.10%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.10%) HND
13 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 36 (1.88%) QA
3 18 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.84%) WCAG
5 12 (0.63%) TickIT
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.10%) PMO
7 2 (0.10%) SLA
8 1 (0.052%) GDPR
8 1 (0.052%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (6.58%) Docker
2 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.04%) Terraform
3 21 (1.10%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.10%) Kibana
5 2 (0.10%) Packer
6 1 (0.052%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.052%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.052%) Nagios
6 1 (0.052%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 272 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.62%) ServiceNow
3 28 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.15%) Google
5 19 (0.99%) IBM
6 16 (0.84%) Oracle
7 15 (0.78%) Cognos
7 15 (0.78%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.68%) Apple
9 12 (0.63%) Sage
9 12 (0.63%) Splunk
10 9 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.42%) Facebook
12 7 (0.37%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.31%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.31%) Pega
13 6 (0.31%) SAP
13 6 (0.31%) Sony
13 6 (0.31%) Yahoo!