Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,328 878 2,724
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.64% 12.83% 16.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 14.17% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 492 2,387
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,375 £32,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 15,936 6,195 15,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.56% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10,291 3,794 12,570
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.04%

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 18 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 18 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 -14 691 £57,500 +4.55% 188
Yorkshire +12 484 £57,500 +4.55% 112
North East +12 153 £60,000 +7.62% 53
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 288 (21.69%) Azure
2 280 (21.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 278 (20.93%) AWS
4 270 (20.33%) JavaScript
5 256 (19.28%) .NET
6 237 (17.85%) Agile
7 225 (16.94%) C#
8 217 (16.34%) SQL
9 209 (15.74%) Java
10 196 (14.76%) CI/CD
11 170 (12.80%) DevOps
12 168 (12.65%) Mentoring
13 162 (12.20%) Microsoft
14 158 (11.90%) Python
15 156 (11.75%) React
16 154 (11.60%) Git
17 150 (11.30%) CSS
18 146 (10.99%) HTML
19 132 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
19 132 (9.94%) TypeScript
20 131 (9.86%) Serverless
21 122 (9.19%) Docker
22 119 (8.96%) Software Engineering
23 117 (8.81%) Front End Development
24 114 (8.58%) GitHub
25 101 (7.61%) PHP
26 99 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
27 95 (7.15%) Microservices
28 94 (7.08%) .NET Core
29 88 (6.63%) 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 20 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.28%) CMS
3 9 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.60%) OpenEdge
5 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.45%) JBoss
6 6 (0.45%) WordPress
7 5 (0.38%) Appian
8 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.23%) Apache
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 2 (0.15%) CICS
10 2 (0.15%) Confluence
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.075%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.075%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.075%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.20%) Shopify
1 16 (1.20%) Visualfiles
2 7 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) Magento
5 1 (0.075%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 288 (21.69%) Azure
2 278 (20.93%) AWS
3 131 (9.86%) Serverless
4 114 (8.58%) GitHub
5 87 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (5.95%) Amazon S3
8 72 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (4.82%) AWS Step Functions
9 64 (4.82%) SaaS
10 57 (4.29%) Power Platform
11 45 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
11 45 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
14 35 (2.64%) Apigee
15 34 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
16 28 (2.11%) GCP
16 28 (2.11%) Power Automate
16 28 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.77%) Internet
2 10 (0.75%) Broadband
3 5 (0.38%) HTTP
4 4 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.15%) Intranet
5 2 (0.15%) SSL
6 1 (0.075%) DNS
6 1 (0.075%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 75 (5.65%) DynamoDB
3 52 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.16%) Power BI
5 39 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.48%) MySQL
7 32 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 23 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.38%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.30%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.30%) Tableau
16 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.23%) DB2
16 3 (0.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 154 (11.60%) Git
2 63 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.94%) GitLab
4 33 (2.48%) SonarQube
5 31 (2.33%) JIRA
6 30 (2.26%) Maven
7 29 (2.18%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.53%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.30%) NUnit
10 4 (0.30%) Selenium
11 3 (0.23%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.15%) JUnit
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.15%) Subversion
12 2 (0.15%) XCUITest
General
1 114 (8.58%) Social Skills
2 89 (6.70%) Finance
3 53 (3.99%) Multimedia
4 46 (3.46%) Law
5 34 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 32 (2.41%) Retail
7 27 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (1.96%) Games
8 26 (1.96%) Marketing
9 22 (1.66%) Legal
10 19 (1.43%) Banking
11 10 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.60%) Advertising
12 8 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.53%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.23%) Electronics
16 3 (0.23%) Local Government
16 3 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (19.28%) .NET
2 156 (11.75%) React
3 150 (11.30%) CSS
4 146 (10.99%) HTML
5 94 (7.08%) .NET Core
6 88 (6.63%) AngularJS
7 80 (6.02%) Node.js
8 76 (5.72%) ASP.NET
9 73 (5.50%) Spring Boot
10 63 (4.74%) Vue
11 57 (4.29%) REST
12 56 (4.22%) RESTful
13 53 (3.99%) Laravel
14 52 (3.92%) Spring
15 37 (2.79%) .NET Framework
16 34 (2.56%) Jest
17 32 (2.41%) Flask
18 29 (2.18%) Gherkin
19 27 (2.03%) ASP.NET Core
20 23 (1.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.54%) Mobile App
2 36 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 26 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.13%) Legacy Code
9 13 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (0.83%) Social Media
11 8 (0.60%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.53%) NHS
13 6 (0.45%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.45%) Educational Technology
14 5 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
15 4 (0.30%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.23%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.43%) Android
2 16 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.75%) Linux
4 6 (0.45%) Windows
5 1 (0.075%) VMS
5 1 (0.075%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (21.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 237 (17.85%) Agile
3 196 (14.76%) CI/CD
4 170 (12.80%) DevOps
5 168 (12.65%) Mentoring
6 132 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (8.96%) Software Engineering
8 117 (8.81%) Front End Development
9 99 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (7.15%) Microservices
11 80 (6.02%) Clean Code
12 60 (4.52%) Business Intelligence
13 59 (4.44%) AI
14 56 (4.22%) SDLC
15 51 (3.84%) Design Patterns
16 50 (3.77%) Containerisation
16 50 (3.77%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (3.77%) TDD
17 48 (3.61%) Web Development
18 42 (3.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 270 (20.33%) JavaScript
2 225 (16.94%) C#
3 217 (16.34%) SQL
4 209 (15.74%) Java
5 158 (11.90%) Python
6 132 (9.94%) TypeScript
7 101 (7.61%) PHP
8 43 (3.24%) Kotlin
9 30 (2.26%) Groovy
10 29 (2.18%) Bash
11 13 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 12 (0.90%) VB
13 10 (0.75%) C++
14 7 (0.53%) Swift
15 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.38%) Delphi
17 4 (0.30%) Bicep
17 4 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (6.63%) AWS Certification
2 54 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (3.84%) Azure Certification
4 50 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 44 (3.31%) Security Cleared
6 38 (2.86%) SC Cleared
7 29 (2.18%) Degree
8 22 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.23%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.15%) HND
15 1 (0.075%) ACCA
15 1 (0.075%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.66%) Accessibility
2 16 (1.20%) QA
3 9 (0.68%) TickIT
4 6 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.30%) SLA
6 2 (0.15%) WCAG
7 1 (0.075%) GDPR
System Software
1 122 (9.19%) Docker
2 9 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.075%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (3.84%) Terraform
2 35 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.18%) HP Fortify
4 9 (0.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) cPanel
5 3 (0.23%) Plesk
6 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.15%) Nagios
6 2 (0.15%) Packer
6 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.075%) Grafana
Vendors
1 162 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.03%) Oracle
3 19 (1.43%) ServiceNow
4 13 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.90%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.75%) IBM
7 9 (0.68%) Sage
8 8 (0.60%) Cognos
8 8 (0.60%) Intapp
8 8 (0.60%) JDA
9 7 (0.53%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.53%) Progress
10 6 (0.45%) Pega
11 5 (0.38%) UiPath
12 4 (0.30%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.30%) Calypso
12 4 (0.30%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.23%) Foundry
13 3 (0.23%) Google
13 3 (0.23%) Splunk