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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,780 941 3,103
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.96% 11.73% 16.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.54% 13.09% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 458 2,702
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
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 18,653 7,191 17,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.66% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,147 3,611 13,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +5 916 £56,250 +2.27% 161
Yorkshire +23 603 £55,000 -8.33% 89
North East +18 261 £57,500 +4.55% 61
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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.

1 376 (21.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 312 (17.53%) .NET
3 304 (17.08%) Java
4 294 (16.52%) Azure
5 281 (15.79%) AWS
6 273 (15.34%) C#
7 272 (15.28%) Agile
7 272 (15.28%) SQL
8 249 (13.99%) JavaScript
9 238 (13.37%) CI/CD
10 227 (12.75%) DevOps
11 206 (11.57%) TypeScript
12 184 (10.34%) Microsoft
13 169 (9.49%) Python
14 165 (9.27%) React
15 155 (8.71%) Mentoring
16 153 (8.60%) Front End Development
16 153 (8.60%) Software Engineering
17 148 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
18 143 (8.03%) Serverless
19 137 (7.70%) PHP
20 131 (7.36%) AngularJS
20 131 (7.36%) Docker
21 123 (6.91%) CSS
22 122 (6.85%) Git
23 121 (6.80%) Microservices
24 114 (6.40%) HTML
25 106 (5.96%) .NET Core
25 106 (5.96%) SQL Server
26 105 (5.90%) AI

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 (1.12%) CMS
2 19 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.67%) WordPress
4 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.51%) OpenEdge
6 6 (0.34%) JBoss
6 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.28%) Appian
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.17%) Apache
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Confluence
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.056%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.056%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.01%) Visualfiles
2 16 (0.90%) Shopify
3 11 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 294 (16.52%) Azure
2 281 (15.79%) AWS
3 143 (8.03%) Serverless
4 103 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
5 97 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
5 97 (5.45%) GitHub
6 86 (4.83%) Amazon S3
7 83 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (4.38%) Power Platform
9 74 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 71 (3.99%) SaaS
12 45 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
12 45 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (2.25%) Amazon ECR
14 40 (2.25%) Apigee
15 36 (2.02%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.18%) Internet
2 11 (0.62%) Broadband
3 3 (0.17%) HTTP
3 3 (0.17%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) SSL
4 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.056%) VoIP
5 1 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.61%) DynamoDB
3 56 (3.15%) Power BI
4 47 (2.64%) NoSQL
5 45 (2.53%) MySQL
6 41 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 28 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.56%) MariaDB
14 8 (0.45%) Tableau
15 7 (0.39%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.34%) Power Query
16 6 (0.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (6.85%) Git
2 81 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 50 (2.81%) GitLab
4 34 (1.91%) Cypress.io
5 33 (1.85%) Maven
5 33 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.80%) JIRA
7 10 (0.56%) fastlane
8 9 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.39%) PHPUnit
10 6 (0.34%) NUnit
11 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.22%) Android Studio
12 4 (0.22%) Crashlytics
12 4 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.22%) Gradle
12 4 (0.22%) JUnit
12 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.22%) Xcode
General
1 125 (7.02%) Finance
2 100 (5.62%) Social Skills
3 61 (3.43%) Law
4 53 (2.98%) Retail
5 50 (2.81%) Public Sector
6 49 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (2.19%) Marketing
8 28 (1.57%) Banking
9 26 (1.46%) Games
10 25 (1.40%) Legal
11 22 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.24%) Multimedia
12 9 (0.51%) Advertising
12 9 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.45%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.39%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.22%) Back Office
15 4 (0.22%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.22%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.17%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (17.53%) .NET
2 165 (9.27%) React
3 131 (7.36%) AngularJS
4 123 (6.91%) CSS
5 114 (6.40%) HTML
6 106 (5.96%) .NET Core
7 103 (5.79%) Node.js
8 85 (4.78%) ASP.NET
9 84 (4.72%) Spring Boot
10 80 (4.49%) Vue
11 79 (4.44%) REST
12 69 (3.88%) Spring
13 67 (3.76%) RESTful
14 63 (3.54%) Laravel
15 41 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
16 36 (2.02%) Gherkin
16 36 (2.02%) Jest
17 35 (1.97%) .NET Framework
18 33 (1.85%) Entity Framework
19 29 (1.63%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.38%) Mobile App
2 45 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
3 36 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 34 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (1.57%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (0.96%) Hedge funds
9 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 14 (0.79%) Legacy Code
11 12 (0.67%) Social Media
12 9 (0.51%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.45%) Contactless
13 8 (0.45%) EMV
13 8 (0.45%) Smartcard
14 7 (0.39%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.39%) IoT
15 6 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.74%) Android
2 25 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.67%) Linux
4 4 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (21.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 272 (15.28%) Agile
3 238 (13.37%) CI/CD
4 227 (12.75%) DevOps
5 155 (8.71%) Mentoring
6 153 (8.60%) Front End Development
6 153 (8.60%) Software Engineering
7 148 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (6.80%) Microservices
9 105 (5.90%) AI
10 99 (5.56%) Clean Code
11 93 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (4.49%) Business Intelligence
13 68 (3.82%) TDD
13 68 (3.82%) Web Development
14 66 (3.71%) SDLC
15 58 (3.26%) Analytics
15 58 (3.26%) Test Automation
16 56 (3.15%) User Experience
17 54 (3.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 304 (17.08%) Java
2 273 (15.34%) C#
3 272 (15.28%) SQL
4 249 (13.99%) JavaScript
5 206 (11.57%) TypeScript
6 169 (9.49%) Python
7 137 (7.70%) PHP
8 57 (3.20%) Kotlin
9 44 (2.47%) C++
10 43 (2.42%) Groovy
11 31 (1.74%) Bash
12 16 (0.90%) VB
13 13 (0.73%) Swift
14 12 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.51%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.28%) Bicep
17 5 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (3.60%) Security Cleared
2 57 (3.20%) SC Cleared
3 52 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 37 (2.08%) Degree
5 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 19 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.11%) HND
12 2 (0.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.056%) ACCA
13 1 (0.056%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.57%) Accessibility
1 28 (1.57%) QA
2 17 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 12 (0.67%) TickIT
4 8 (0.45%) WCAG
5 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 2 (0.11%) PMO
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.056%) GDPR
7 1 (0.056%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (7.36%) Docker
2 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.056%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.42%) Terraform
3 29 (1.63%) HP Fortify
4 9 (0.51%) Ansible
5 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.11%) Kibana
5 2 (0.11%) Nagios
5 2 (0.11%) Packer
5 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 184 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.52%) ServiceNow
3 26 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.07%) Oracle
5 13 (0.73%) Cognos
6 11 (0.62%) IBM
7 10 (0.56%) Dynatrace
7 10 (0.56%) Splunk
8 9 (0.51%) Google
8 9 (0.51%) Sage
9 8 (0.45%) AppDynamics
9 8 (0.45%) Intapp
10 7 (0.39%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.39%) Progress
11 6 (0.34%) Apple
11 6 (0.34%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.34%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.34%) Pega
12 5 (0.28%) SAP
12 5 (0.28%) UiPath