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 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 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 1,903 1,008 3,141
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.21% 11.02% 16.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.73% 12.51% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 519 2,684
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
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 £67,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
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 19,559 8,055 17,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 88.08% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,247 4,291 13,668
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,010 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -12.50%

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 6 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 6 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 +9 977 £55,000 -4.35% 149
Yorkshire +25 599 £55,000 -8.33% 93
North East +20 327 £55,500 +0.91% 68
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 455 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 376 (19.76%) .NET
3 344 (18.08%) Azure
4 333 (17.50%) C#
5 332 (17.45%) Agile
6 328 (17.24%) SQL
7 318 (16.71%) Java
8 272 (14.29%) AWS
9 262 (13.77%) Microsoft
10 260 (13.66%) CI/CD
11 258 (13.56%) DevOps
12 257 (13.50%) JavaScript
13 247 (12.98%) TypeScript
14 190 (9.98%) React
15 178 (9.35%) Software Engineering
16 170 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
17 160 (8.41%) Python
18 154 (8.09%) AngularJS
19 146 (7.67%) Front End Development
20 144 (7.57%) AI
20 144 (7.57%) Mentoring
21 143 (7.51%) .NET Core
22 139 (7.30%) Serverless
23 134 (7.04%) PHP
24 133 (6.99%) Microservices
25 130 (6.83%) Docker
26 127 (6.67%) ASP.NET
27 125 (6.57%) HTML
28 124 (6.52%) CSS
29 114 (5.99%) 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 25 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.00%) CMS
3 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.58%) WordPress
5 7 (0.37%) OpenEdge
6 6 (0.32%) IIS
7 5 (0.26%) Appian
7 5 (0.26%) JBoss
8 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.16%) Confluence
10 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.053%) Apache
11 1 (0.053%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.053%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.053%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.053%) Elementor
2 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.95%) Visualfiles
2 13 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.58%) Shopify
5 8 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 344 (18.08%) Azure
2 272 (14.29%) AWS
3 139 (7.30%) Serverless
4 105 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
5 104 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 97 (5.10%) GitHub
8 92 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
9 81 (4.26%) Amazon S3
10 75 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 67 (3.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 66 (3.47%) SaaS
13 56 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
14 52 (2.73%) Power Automate
15 46 (2.42%) PowerApps
16 41 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (1.94%) Amazon ECR
18 37 (1.94%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.79%) Internet
2 11 (0.58%) Broadband
3 3 (0.16%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) HTTP
5 1 (0.053%) SSL
5 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.053%) VoIP
5 1 (0.053%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 98 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 79 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 78 (4.10%) DynamoDB
5 64 (3.36%) Power BI
6 48 (2.52%) MySQL
7 41 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 26 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.58%) Tableau
17 10 (0.53%) MariaDB
18 8 (0.42%) RDBMS
19 7 (0.37%) Star Schema
20 6 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 108 (5.68%) Git
2 80 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 47 (2.47%) GitLab
4 31 (1.63%) Cypress.io
4 31 (1.63%) JIRA
5 30 (1.58%) Maven
5 30 (1.58%) SonarQube
6 13 (0.68%) fastlane
7 8 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.37%) Xcode
9 6 (0.32%) Gradle
9 6 (0.32%) NUnit
9 6 (0.32%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.26%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.26%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.26%) Selenium
11 4 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.21%) Spock
11 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 148 (7.78%) Finance
2 113 (5.94%) Social Skills
3 72 (3.78%) Law
4 57 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.94%) Retail
6 52 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.05%) Marketing
8 30 (1.58%) Banking
9 27 (1.42%) Games
10 26 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.31%) Legal
12 16 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.74%) Advertising
14 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.37%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.37%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.21%) Back Office
17 4 (0.21%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.16%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (19.76%) .NET
2 190 (9.98%) React
3 154 (8.09%) AngularJS
4 143 (7.51%) .NET Core
5 127 (6.67%) ASP.NET
6 125 (6.57%) HTML
7 124 (6.52%) CSS
8 114 (5.99%) Node.js
9 108 (5.68%) Vue
10 98 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
11 96 (5.04%) RESTful
12 85 (4.47%) Spring Boot
13 82 (4.31%) REST
14 72 (3.78%) Spring
15 69 (3.63%) Laravel
16 63 (3.31%) Entity Framework
17 44 (2.31%) ASP.NET Web API
18 35 (1.84%) Gherkin
19 34 (1.79%) Blazor
20 32 (1.68%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.26%) Mobile App
2 61 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
3 38 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 35 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 29 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (0.89%) Hedge funds
8 17 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 16 (0.84%) Social Media
10 12 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (0.63%) Legacy Code
11 9 (0.47%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.42%) Contactless
12 8 (0.42%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.42%) EMV
12 8 (0.42%) Smartcard
12 8 (0.42%) Social Network
13 7 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.84%) Android
2 27 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.79%) Linux
4 6 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 332 (17.45%) Agile
3 260 (13.66%) CI/CD
4 258 (13.56%) DevOps
5 178 (9.35%) Software Engineering
6 170 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (7.67%) Front End Development
8 144 (7.57%) AI
8 144 (7.57%) Mentoring
9 133 (6.99%) Microservices
10 101 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (4.99%) Business Intelligence
12 94 (4.94%) TDD
13 93 (4.89%) Clean Code
14 75 (3.94%) Analytics
15 72 (3.78%) Web Development
16 70 (3.68%) SDLC
17 63 (3.31%) Workflow
18 62 (3.26%) Scrum
18 62 (3.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 333 (17.50%) C#
2 328 (17.24%) SQL
3 318 (16.71%) Java
4 257 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 247 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 160 (8.41%) Python
7 134 (7.04%) PHP
8 58 (3.05%) Kotlin
9 54 (2.84%) C++
10 42 (2.21%) Groovy
11 28 (1.47%) Bash
12 15 (0.79%) Swift
13 13 (0.68%) Rust
13 13 (0.68%) VB
14 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.53%) Scala
16 9 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 76 (3.99%) Security Cleared
2 69 (3.63%) SC Cleared
3 53 (2.79%) Degree
4 36 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 22 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.42%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.11%) ACCA
14 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.11%) CIMA
14 2 (0.11%) HND
15 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 33 (1.73%) QA
3 18 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.63%) TickIT
5 11 (0.58%) WCAG
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.11%) PMO
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.053%) GDPR
8 1 (0.053%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 130 (6.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.05%) Terraform
3 26 (1.37%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.11%) Kibana
5 2 (0.11%) Packer
6 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.053%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.053%) Nagios
6 1 (0.053%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 262 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 30 (1.58%) ServiceNow
3 29 (1.52%) Salesforce
4 17 (0.89%) Google
4 17 (0.89%) IBM
4 17 (0.89%) Oracle
5 15 (0.79%) Cognos
5 15 (0.79%) Dynatrace
6 12 (0.63%) Apple
6 12 (0.63%) Sage
7 11 (0.58%) Splunk
8 8 (0.42%) AppDynamics
8 8 (0.42%) Facebook
9 7 (0.37%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.32%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.32%) Pega
10 6 (0.32%) SAP
10 6 (0.32%) Sony
10 6 (0.32%) Yahoo!
11 5 (0.26%) Progress