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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,415 965 2,740
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.78% 13.58% 16.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.45% 15.17% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 493 2,399
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,428
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 £75,800 £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 16,755 6,362 15,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 89.54% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,863 3,812 12,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
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 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 29 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 29 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 -14 747 £57,500 +4.55% 135
Yorkshire +13 501 £57,500 +2.22% 76
North East +10 167 £60,000 +7.62% 54
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 296 (20.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 284 (20.07%) Azure
3 272 (19.22%) AWS
4 257 (18.16%) .NET
5 256 (18.09%) JavaScript
6 233 (16.47%) Agile
7 229 (16.18%) C#
8 228 (16.11%) Java
9 218 (15.41%) SQL
10 193 (13.64%) CI/CD
11 174 (12.30%) DevOps
12 163 (11.52%) Python
13 161 (11.38%) Mentoring
13 161 (11.38%) Microsoft
14 155 (10.95%) React
15 143 (10.11%) TypeScript
16 142 (10.04%) Git
17 132 (9.33%) CSS
17 132 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
18 128 (9.05%) Serverless
19 127 (8.98%) HTML
20 126 (8.90%) Software Engineering
21 119 (8.41%) Front End Development
22 118 (8.34%) Docker
23 109 (7.70%) GitHub
24 107 (7.56%) PHP
25 98 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
26 96 (6.78%) Microservices
27 94 (6.64%) AngularJS
28 92 (6.50%) .NET Core

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 19 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.13%) CMS
3 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.64%) OpenEdge
4 9 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.42%) JBoss
6 5 (0.35%) Appian
6 5 (0.35%) WordPress
7 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.21%) Apache
8 3 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.14%) CICS
9 2 (0.14%) Confluence
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.071%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.071%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.071%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.20%) Shopify
2 16 (1.13%) Visualfiles
3 7 (0.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.071%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 284 (20.07%) Azure
2 272 (19.22%) AWS
3 128 (9.05%) Serverless
4 109 (7.70%) GitHub
5 91 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
7 82 (5.80%) Amazon S3
8 74 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 67 (4.73%) AWS Step Functions
10 64 (4.52%) SaaS
11 61 (4.31%) Power Platform
12 47 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
13 46 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
14 43 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
16 38 (2.69%) Apigee
17 37 (2.61%) Amazon ECR
18 28 (1.98%) Power Automate
18 28 (1.98%) PowerApps
19 26 (1.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.11%) Internet
2 10 (0.71%) Broadband
3 5 (0.35%) HTTP
4 4 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 2 (0.14%) SSL
6 1 (0.071%) DNS
6 1 (0.071%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 79 (5.58%) DynamoDB
3 50 (3.53%) NoSQL
4 47 (3.32%) Power BI
5 35 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.12%) MySQL
7 28 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 23 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.35%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.28%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.28%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.28%) Tableau
16 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.21%) Data Vault
16 3 (0.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 142 (10.04%) Git
2 66 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.97%) GitLab
4 34 (2.40%) SonarQube
5 33 (2.33%) JIRA
6 31 (2.19%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.19%) Maven
7 9 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.49%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.28%) NUnit
10 4 (0.28%) Selenium
11 3 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.14%) JUnit
12 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Subversion
12 2 (0.14%) XCUITest
General
1 105 (7.42%) Social Skills
2 93 (6.57%) Finance
3 49 (3.46%) Law
4 47 (3.32%) Multimedia
5 36 (2.54%) Public Sector
5 36 (2.54%) Retail
6 31 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (1.91%) Marketing
8 26 (1.84%) Games
9 23 (1.63%) Legal
10 20 (1.41%) Banking
11 11 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.57%) Advertising
12 8 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.49%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.21%) Electronics
15 3 (0.21%) Local Government
15 3 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (18.16%) .NET
2 155 (10.95%) React
3 132 (9.33%) CSS
4 127 (8.98%) HTML
5 94 (6.64%) AngularJS
6 92 (6.50%) .NET Core
7 89 (6.29%) Node.js
8 77 (5.44%) Spring Boot
9 73 (5.16%) ASP.NET
10 62 (4.38%) REST
11 58 (4.10%) Vue
12 56 (3.96%) Spring
13 54 (3.82%) Laravel
14 53 (3.75%) RESTful
15 37 (2.61%) .NET Framework
16 34 (2.40%) Jest
17 31 (2.19%) Gherkin
18 27 (1.91%) Flask
19 24 (1.70%) ASP.NET Core
20 23 (1.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (3.75%) Mobile App
2 36 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 14 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.99%) Legacy Code
10 12 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 11 (0.78%) Social Media
12 10 (0.71%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.49%) NHS
14 6 (0.42%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.42%) Educational Technology
15 5 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
16 4 (0.28%) AI Agents
16 4 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (0.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.55%) Android
2 19 (1.34%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.71%) Linux
4 6 (0.42%) Windows
5 1 (0.071%) VMS
5 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (20.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 233 (16.47%) Agile
3 193 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 174 (12.30%) DevOps
5 161 (11.38%) Mentoring
6 132 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (8.90%) Software Engineering
8 119 (8.41%) Front End Development
9 98 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 96 (6.78%) Microservices
11 78 (5.51%) Clean Code
12 67 (4.73%) AI
12 67 (4.73%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (4.03%) SDLC
14 50 (3.53%) TDD
15 47 (3.32%) Containerisation
15 47 (3.32%) Web Development
16 44 (3.11%) Cybersecurity
17 43 (3.04%) Design Patterns
18 39 (2.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 256 (18.09%) JavaScript
2 229 (16.18%) C#
3 228 (16.11%) Java
4 218 (15.41%) SQL
5 163 (11.52%) Python
6 143 (10.11%) TypeScript
7 107 (7.56%) PHP
8 43 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 32 (2.26%) Groovy
10 30 (2.12%) Bash
11 16 (1.13%) C++
12 13 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.92%) VB
13 7 (0.49%) Swift
14 6 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.28%) Bicep
15 4 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.28%) Delphi
15 4 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (5.72%) AWS Certification
2 53 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 48 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (3.18%) Azure Certification
4 45 (3.18%) SC Cleared
5 44 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 32 (2.26%) Degree
7 23 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.49%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.35%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.14%) HND
15 1 (0.071%) ACCA
15 1 (0.071%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 16 (1.13%) QA
3 12 (0.85%) TickIT
4 8 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.21%) SLA
6 2 (0.14%) WCAG
7 1 (0.071%) GDPR
System Software
1 118 (8.34%) Docker
2 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.071%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (3.18%) Terraform
2 37 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.12%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.57%) Ansible
5 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.14%) cPanel
5 2 (0.14%) Kibana
5 2 (0.14%) Nagios
5 2 (0.14%) Packer
5 2 (0.14%) Plesk
5 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.071%) Grafana
Vendors
1 161 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.91%) Oracle
3 20 (1.41%) ServiceNow
4 14 (0.99%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.71%) IBM
7 9 (0.64%) Cognos
7 9 (0.64%) Sage
8 8 (0.57%) Intapp
8 8 (0.57%) JDA
9 7 (0.49%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.49%) Progress
10 6 (0.42%) Pega
11 5 (0.35%) UiPath
12 4 (0.28%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.28%) Calypso
12 4 (0.28%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.21%) Databricks
13 3 (0.21%) Foundry
13 3 (0.21%) Google