Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £55,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,992 1,039 2,371
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.89% 10.84% 15.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.41% 12.28% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 531 1,882
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +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 21,170 8,464 14,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 88.30% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15,420 4,569 9,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
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 20 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 20 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 +3 1,005 £55,000 -8.33% 178
Yorkshire +22 615 £57,500 -4.17% 94
North East +21 372 £57,500 +4.55% 89
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 456 (22.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 400 (20.08%) .NET
3 363 (18.22%) Azure
4 360 (18.07%) C#
5 358 (17.97%) Agile
6 357 (17.92%) SQL
7 311 (15.61%) Java
8 298 (14.96%) Microsoft
9 282 (14.16%) CI/CD
10 281 (14.11%) JavaScript
11 280 (14.06%) TypeScript
12 273 (13.70%) AWS
13 270 (13.55%) DevOps
14 198 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
15 195 (9.79%) React
16 167 (8.38%) Software Engineering
17 164 (8.23%) Python
18 158 (7.93%) HTML
19 155 (7.78%) AI
20 152 (7.63%) AngularJS
21 151 (7.58%) CSS
22 148 (7.43%) Mentoring
23 144 (7.23%) Microservices
24 143 (7.18%) Front End Development
25 140 (7.03%) .NET Core
25 140 (7.03%) PHP
26 134 (6.73%) Power Platform
27 133 (6.68%) ASP.NET
28 132 (6.63%) Docker
29 130 (6.53%) 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 35 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.26%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.40%) IIS
6 7 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) Appian
8 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.15%) JBoss
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%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.050%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 14 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.60%) Visualfiles
3 11 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 11 (0.55%) Shopify
4 7 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
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
1 363 (18.22%) Azure
2 273 (13.70%) AWS
3 134 (6.73%) Power Platform
4 128 (6.43%) Serverless
5 117 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (5.02%) GitHub
7 97 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
8 83 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
9 77 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 69 (3.46%) Power Automate
11 68 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
12 65 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (3.06%) PowerApps
14 58 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
15 57 (2.86%) SaaS
16 54 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
17 41 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (1.66%) Azure AI
20 32 (1.61%) 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 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 104 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.27%) MongoDB
3 70 (3.51%) DynamoDB
4 68 (3.41%) Power BI
5 52 (2.61%) MySQL
6 45 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.86%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (0.95%) 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 66 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.71%) GitLab
4 27 (1.36%) JIRA
5 22 (1.10%) Maven
6 19 (0.95%) Cypress.io
7 17 (0.85%) 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
14 4 (0.20%) Spock
14 4 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 143 (7.18%) Finance
2 141 (7.08%) Social Skills
3 64 (3.21%) Law
4 63 (3.16%) Public Sector
4 63 (3.16%) Retail
5 61 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.61%) Marketing
7 32 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.56%) Banking
9 26 (1.31%) Games
10 25 (1.26%) Legal
11 17 (0.85%) 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
1 400 (20.08%) .NET
2 195 (9.79%) React
3 158 (7.93%) HTML
4 152 (7.63%) AngularJS
5 151 (7.58%) CSS
6 140 (7.03%) .NET Core
7 133 (6.68%) ASP.NET
8 130 (6.53%) Node.js
9 104 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
10 103 (5.17%) REST
11 102 (5.12%) RESTful
11 102 (5.12%) Vue
12 80 (4.02%) Spring Boot
13 79 (3.97%) Spring
14 73 (3.66%) Laravel
15 69 (3.46%) Entity Framework
16 48 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
17 42 (2.11%) Terraform
18 36 (1.81%) Blazor
19 34 (1.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 47 (2.36%) Cloud Native
4 41 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (1.76%) 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
12 10 (0.50%) Legacy Code
13 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.40%) Contactless
14 8 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.41%) Android
2 33 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.75%) Linux
4 8 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (22.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 358 (17.97%) Agile
3 282 (14.16%) CI/CD
4 270 (13.55%) DevOps
5 198 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (8.38%) Software Engineering
7 155 (7.78%) AI
8 148 (7.43%) Mentoring
9 144 (7.23%) Microservices
10 143 (7.18%) Front End Development
11 120 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (5.07%) TDD
13 100 (5.02%) Business Intelligence
14 94 (4.72%) Clean Code
15 81 (4.07%) Web Development
16 74 (3.71%) SDLC
17 73 (3.66%) Analytics
17 73 (3.66%) Scrum
18 69 (3.46%) Workflow
19 68 (3.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 360 (18.07%) C#
2 357 (17.92%) SQL
3 311 (15.61%) Java
4 281 (14.11%) JavaScript
5 280 (14.06%) TypeScript
6 164 (8.23%) Python
7 140 (7.03%) PHP
8 72 (3.61%) Kotlin
9 56 (2.81%) C++
10 30 (1.51%) Groovy
11 16 (0.80%) Swift
12 15 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.75%) Bash
12 15 (0.75%) RPG
13 14 (0.70%) Rust
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 64 (3.21%) Degree
4 35 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (0.60%) 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%) HND
12 2 (0.10%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.050%) ACCA
13 1 (0.050%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.050%) CIMA
13 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 45 (2.26%) QA
3 21 (1.05%) WCAG
4 18 (0.90%) 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
1 132 (6.63%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.70%) HP Fortify
3 8 (0.40%) Ansible
4 2 (0.10%) Kibana
4 2 (0.10%) Packer
5 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.050%) Nagios
5 1 (0.050%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 298 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (1.76%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.20%) Google
4 20 (1.00%) 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 10 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.50%) Oracle
11 8 (0.40%) Adobe
11 8 (0.40%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.40%) Facebook
12 7 (0.35%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.30%) Pega
13 6 (0.30%) Sony
13 6 (0.30%) Yahoo!