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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,990 1,041 2,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.91% 10.77% 15.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.43% 12.19% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 533 1,877
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 21,110 8,539 14,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 88.34% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,396 4,601 9,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +4 1,002 £55,000 -8.33% 172
Yorkshire +24 623 £57,500 -4.17% 96
North East +19 365 £56,500 +2.73% 87
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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.

1 460 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 402 (20.20%) .NET
3 360 (18.09%) Azure
4 359 (18.04%) Agile
4 359 (18.04%) C#
5 353 (17.74%) SQL
6 312 (15.68%) Java
7 296 (14.87%) Microsoft
8 285 (14.32%) CI/CD
9 280 (14.07%) JavaScript
9 280 (14.07%) TypeScript
10 277 (13.92%) AWS
11 273 (13.72%) DevOps
12 200 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
12 200 (10.05%) React
13 168 (8.44%) Software Engineering
14 164 (8.24%) Python
15 157 (7.89%) HTML
16 155 (7.79%) AI
17 153 (7.69%) AngularJS
18 150 (7.54%) CSS
19 148 (7.44%) Mentoring
20 144 (7.24%) Microservices
21 143 (7.19%) Front End Development
22 141 (7.09%) PHP
23 140 (7.04%) .NET Core
24 134 (6.73%) Docker
25 133 (6.68%) Power Platform
26 132 (6.63%) ASP.NET
27 131 (6.58%) Serverless

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 34 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.26%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.40%) IIS
6 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) Appian
7 4 (0.20%) JBoss
7 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.10%) CICS
9 2 (0.10%) Confluence
9 2 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.050%) nginx
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.050%) Elementor
2 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.65%) Visualfiles
3 12 (0.60%) Shopify
4 11 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.10%) Magento
7 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 360 (18.09%) Azure
2 277 (13.92%) AWS
3 133 (6.68%) Power Platform
4 131 (6.58%) Serverless
5 116 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
7 99 (4.97%) GitHub
8 86 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
9 79 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
10 68 (3.42%) Power Automate
11 67 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 60 (3.02%) PowerApps
13 59 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (2.76%) SaaS
15 53 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
16 41 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
18 33 (1.66%) Azure AI
19 31 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.65%) Internet
2 9 (0.45%) Broadband
3 7 (0.35%) HTTP
4 3 (0.15%) Firewall
4 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.050%) SSL
6 1 (0.050%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 104 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.27%) MongoDB
3 72 (3.62%) DynamoDB
4 68 (3.42%) Power BI
5 52 (2.61%) MySQL
6 46 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.75%) MariaDB
13 12 (0.60%) Redis
14 10 (0.50%) Tableau
15 7 (0.35%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 127 (6.38%) Git
2 70 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.91%) GitLab
4 28 (1.41%) JIRA
5 25 (1.26%) Maven
6 22 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.65%) fastlane
9 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.35%) Xcode
12 6 (0.30%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.30%) Gradle
12 6 (0.30%) JUnit
12 6 (0.30%) NUnit
12 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.25%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 146 (7.34%) Finance
2 143 (7.19%) Social Skills
3 65 (3.27%) Law
4 62 (3.12%) Public Sector
4 62 (3.12%) Retail
5 61 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.56%) Marketing
7 32 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.56%) Banking
9 26 (1.31%) Games
10 25 (1.26%) Legal
11 18 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.60%) Advertising
12 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.45%) Publishing
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.35%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.20%) Back Office
16 4 (0.20%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (20.20%) .NET
2 200 (10.05%) React
3 157 (7.89%) HTML
4 153 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 150 (7.54%) CSS
6 140 (7.04%) .NET Core
7 132 (6.63%) ASP.NET
8 128 (6.43%) Node.js
9 104 (5.23%) ASP.NET Core
10 103 (5.18%) Vue
11 102 (5.13%) RESTful
12 101 (5.08%) REST
13 81 (4.07%) Spring Boot
14 77 (3.87%) Spring
15 75 (3.77%) Laravel
16 69 (3.47%) Entity Framework
17 48 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
18 35 (1.76%) Blazor
19 34 (1.71%) .NET Framework
19 34 (1.71%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
3 46 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 40 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 17 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 16 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 15 (0.75%) Social Media
11 11 (0.55%) Data Structures
11 11 (0.55%) Legacy Code
12 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.40%) Contactless
13 8 (0.40%) EMV
13 8 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.36%) Android
2 33 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.75%) Linux
4 8 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (23.12%) Full-Stack Development
2 359 (18.04%) Agile
3 285 (14.32%) CI/CD
4 273 (13.72%) DevOps
5 200 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (8.44%) Software Engineering
7 155 (7.79%) AI
8 148 (7.44%) Mentoring
9 144 (7.24%) Microservices
10 143 (7.19%) Front End Development
11 119 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (5.03%) Business Intelligence
13 99 (4.97%) TDD
14 98 (4.92%) Clean Code
15 83 (4.17%) Web Development
16 76 (3.82%) SDLC
17 74 (3.72%) Scrum
18 73 (3.67%) Analytics
19 69 (3.47%) Workflow
20 68 (3.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 359 (18.04%) C#
2 353 (17.74%) SQL
3 312 (15.68%) Java
4 280 (14.07%) JavaScript
4 280 (14.07%) TypeScript
5 164 (8.24%) Python
6 141 (7.09%) PHP
7 70 (3.52%) Kotlin
8 56 (2.81%) C++
9 33 (1.66%) Groovy
10 18 (0.90%) Bash
11 16 (0.80%) Swift
12 15 (0.75%) RPG
13 14 (0.70%) Rust
14 13 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.60%) VB
16 10 (0.50%) Scala
17 7 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 87 (4.37%) Security Cleared
2 83 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.17%) Degree
4 36 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.10%) HND
12 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.050%) ACCA
13 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (2.46%) Accessibility
2 45 (2.26%) QA
3 19 (0.95%) WCAG
4 17 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.60%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.10%) PMO
7 2 (0.10%) SLA
8 1 (0.050%) GDPR
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 134 (6.73%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.16%) Terraform
3 17 (0.85%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.40%) Ansible
5 2 (0.10%) Kibana
5 2 (0.10%) Packer
6 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.050%) Nagios
6 1 (0.050%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 296 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.66%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.21%) Google
4 22 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 19 (0.95%) IBM
6 17 (0.85%) Dynatrace
7 16 (0.80%) Sage
8 14 (0.70%) Apple
9 12 (0.60%) Cognos
9 12 (0.60%) Splunk
10 11 (0.55%) Oracle
11 10 (0.50%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.40%) Facebook
13 7 (0.35%) Adobe
13 7 (0.35%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.30%) Pega
14 6 (0.30%) Sony
14 6 (0.30%) Yahoo!