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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,817 939 3,233
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.22% 11.71% 16.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.77% 13.13% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 460 2,810
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £34,490
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 £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 18,591 7,154 18,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 89.20% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13,489 3,679 14,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,220 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%

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 11 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 11 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 +8 933 £55,000 - 144
Yorkshire +23 604 £55,000 -8.33% 58
North East +20 280 £57,500 +4.55% 47
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 392 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 327 (18.00%) .NET
3 307 (16.90%) Java
4 306 (16.84%) Azure
5 292 (16.07%) C#
6 285 (15.69%) SQL
7 279 (15.35%) Agile
8 274 (15.08%) AWS
9 247 (13.59%) JavaScript
10 240 (13.21%) CI/CD
11 231 (12.71%) DevOps
12 213 (11.72%) TypeScript
13 199 (10.95%) Microsoft
14 170 (9.36%) Python
15 165 (9.08%) React
16 157 (8.64%) Software Engineering
17 152 (8.37%) Mentoring
18 151 (8.31%) Front End Development
19 147 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
20 141 (7.76%) PHP
21 137 (7.54%) Serverless
22 136 (7.48%) AngularJS
23 124 (6.82%) Docker
24 122 (6.71%) CSS
25 119 (6.55%) Microservices
26 118 (6.49%) Git
27 116 (6.38%) .NET Core
27 116 (6.38%) HTML
28 115 (6.33%) AI
29 108 (5.94%) 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 21 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 18 (0.99%) CMS
3 13 (0.72%) WordPress
4 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.50%) OpenEdge
6 6 (0.33%) JBoss
7 5 (0.28%) Appian
7 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.11%) Apache
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) CICS
9 2 (0.11%) Confluence
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.055%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.94%) Visualfiles
2 16 (0.88%) Shopify
3 13 (0.72%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 306 (16.84%) Azure
2 274 (15.08%) AWS
3 137 (7.54%) Serverless
4 101 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 97 (5.34%) GitHub
6 94 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
7 83 (4.57%) Amazon S3
8 79 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 70 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 70 (3.85%) SaaS
10 44 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (2.09%) Amazon ECR
13 38 (2.09%) Apigee
13 38 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 34 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (1.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.16%) Internet
2 11 (0.61%) 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 (0.055%) VoIP
5 1 (0.055%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 81 (4.46%) DynamoDB
3 57 (3.14%) Power BI
4 54 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 44 (2.42%) NoSQL
6 43 (2.37%) MySQL
7 41 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 38 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 30 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.55%) MariaDB
16 9 (0.50%) Tableau
17 6 (0.33%) Power Query
17 6 (0.33%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 118 (6.49%) Git
2 79 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.64%) GitLab
4 32 (1.76%) Cypress.io
5 31 (1.71%) Maven
5 31 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.65%) JIRA
7 12 (0.66%) fastlane
8 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.33%) NUnit
9 6 (0.33%) PHPUnit
10 5 (0.28%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.28%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.28%) Gradle
10 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.28%) Xcode
11 4 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.22%) JUnit
11 4 (0.22%) Spock
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (7.04%) Finance
2 101 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 63 (3.47%) Law
4 52 (2.86%) Retail
5 51 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (2.81%) Public Sector
6 39 (2.15%) Marketing
7 28 (1.54%) Banking
8 26 (1.43%) Games
8 26 (1.43%) Legal
9 24 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.10%) Multimedia
11 12 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.50%) Advertising
12 9 (0.50%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.39%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.22%) Back Office
14 4 (0.22%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.22%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.17%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (18.00%) .NET
2 165 (9.08%) React
3 136 (7.48%) AngularJS
4 122 (6.71%) CSS
5 116 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 116 (6.38%) HTML
6 108 (5.94%) Node.js
7 96 (5.28%) ASP.NET
8 87 (4.79%) Vue
9 82 (4.51%) Spring Boot
10 80 (4.40%) REST
11 74 (4.07%) RESTful
12 69 (3.80%) Spring
13 64 (3.52%) Laravel
14 52 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
15 41 (2.26%) Entity Framework
16 38 (2.09%) .NET Framework
17 34 (1.87%) Gherkin
17 34 (1.87%) Jest
18 28 (1.54%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.51%) Mobile App
2 48 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
3 36 (1.98%) Cloud Native
4 34 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (0.94%) Hedge funds
9 16 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 14 (0.77%) Legacy Code
11 13 (0.72%) Social Media
12 8 (0.44%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.44%) Contactless
12 8 (0.44%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.44%) EMV
12 8 (0.44%) Smartcard
13 7 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.39%) IoT
14 6 (0.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.82%) Android
2 26 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.66%) Linux
4 5 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 279 (15.35%) Agile
3 240 (13.21%) CI/CD
4 231 (12.71%) DevOps
5 157 (8.64%) Software Engineering
6 152 (8.37%) Mentoring
7 151 (8.31%) Front End Development
8 147 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (6.55%) Microservices
10 115 (6.33%) AI
11 100 (5.50%) Clean Code
12 94 (5.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 82 (4.51%) Business Intelligence
14 74 (4.07%) TDD
15 70 (3.85%) Web Development
16 64 (3.52%) SDLC
17 63 (3.47%) Analytics
18 60 (3.30%) Test Automation
19 57 (3.14%) Scrum
19 57 (3.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 307 (16.90%) Java
2 292 (16.07%) C#
3 285 (15.69%) SQL
4 247 (13.59%) JavaScript
5 213 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 170 (9.36%) Python
7 141 (7.76%) PHP
8 59 (3.25%) Kotlin
9 47 (2.59%) C++
10 41 (2.26%) Groovy
11 29 (1.60%) Bash
12 15 (0.83%) VB
13 14 (0.77%) Swift
14 12 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.39%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.39%) Rust
17 6 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (3.58%) Security Cleared
2 58 (3.19%) SC Cleared
3 46 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 40 (2.20%) Degree
5 27 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 21 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 17 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 11 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.39%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.11%) ACCA
15 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.11%) CIMA
15 2 (0.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (1.65%) Accessibility
2 28 (1.54%) QA
3 17 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.66%) TickIT
5 10 (0.55%) WCAG
6 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.11%) PMO
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.055%) GDPR
8 1 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (6.82%) Docker
2 9 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.20%) Terraform
3 27 (1.49%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.44%) 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
1 199 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.54%) ServiceNow
3 26 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.05%) Oracle
5 15 (0.83%) Cognos
6 13 (0.72%) IBM
7 12 (0.66%) Dynatrace
7 12 (0.66%) Google
8 10 (0.55%) Sage
8 10 (0.55%) Splunk
9 8 (0.44%) AppDynamics
9 8 (0.44%) Apple
9 8 (0.44%) Intapp
10 7 (0.39%) HubSpot
10 7 (0.39%) Progress
11 6 (0.33%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.33%) Pega
11 6 (0.33%) SAP
12 5 (0.28%) UiPath
12 5 (0.28%) Zoho