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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 18 3
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,890 1,017 2,935
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.07% 10.81% 16.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.57% 12.27% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,625 526 2,484
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £33,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,625 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.03% +5.43% -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 19,742 8,288 17,378
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 88.07% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14,366 4,450 13,094
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +8 966 £55,000 -4.35% 289
Yorkshire +23 602 £55,000 -8.33% 223
North East +13 322 £55,000 - 108
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 459 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 371 (19.63%) .NET
3 332 (17.57%) Agile
4 331 (17.51%) SQL
5 328 (17.35%) Azure
6 326 (17.25%) C#
7 315 (16.67%) Java
8 274 (14.50%) AWS
9 265 (14.02%) Microsoft
10 262 (13.86%) CI/CD
11 257 (13.60%) JavaScript
12 256 (13.54%) DevOps
12 256 (13.54%) TypeScript
13 195 (10.32%) React
14 180 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
15 174 (9.21%) Software Engineering
16 159 (8.41%) Python
17 153 (8.10%) AngularJS
18 146 (7.72%) AI
19 142 (7.51%) Front End Development
19 142 (7.51%) Mentoring
20 136 (7.20%) .NET Core
21 135 (7.14%) Microservices
21 135 (7.14%) PHP
22 134 (7.09%) Serverless
23 128 (6.77%) Docker
23 128 (6.77%) HTML
24 125 (6.61%) CSS
25 123 (6.51%) ASP.NET
26 116 (6.14%) 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 27 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.06%) CMS
3 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.63%) WordPress
5 6 (0.32%) OpenEdge
6 5 (0.26%) Appian
6 5 (0.26%) IIS
6 5 (0.26%) JBoss
7 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.16%) Confluence
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.11%) CICS
9 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.053%) Apache
10 1 (0.053%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.053%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.053%) Elementor
4 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.01%) Visualfiles
2 13 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 11 (0.58%) Shopify
4 8 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.053%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 328 (17.35%) Azure
2 274 (14.50%) AWS
3 134 (7.09%) Serverless
4 111 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 104 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
7 97 (5.13%) GitHub
8 89 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
9 79 (4.18%) Amazon S3
10 72 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
12 61 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
13 58 (3.07%) SaaS
14 55 (2.91%) Power Automate
15 51 (2.70%) PowerApps
16 43 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 39 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (1.80%) Amazon ECR
18 34 (1.80%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.69%) Internet
2 11 (0.58%) Broadband
3 3 (0.16%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.11%) Firewall
4 2 (0.11%) HTTP
5 1 (0.053%) SSL
5 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.053%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 91 (4.81%) SQL Server
3 81 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 75 (3.97%) DynamoDB
5 65 (3.44%) Power BI
6 52 (2.75%) MySQL
7 43 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.01%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 26 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (0.63%) MariaDB
16 11 (0.58%) Tableau
17 8 (0.42%) RDBMS
18 7 (0.37%) Star Schema
19 6 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 107 (5.66%) Git
2 76 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.33%) GitLab
4 31 (1.64%) JIRA
5 28 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 28 (1.48%) Maven
6 27 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.69%) fastlane
8 8 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.37%) Xcode
10 6 (0.32%) Gradle
10 6 (0.32%) NUnit
10 6 (0.32%) PHPUnit
10 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.26%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.26%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.26%) Selenium
12 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 147 (7.78%) Finance
2 119 (6.30%) Social Skills
3 75 (3.97%) Law
4 58 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (3.07%) Retail
5 53 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 39 (2.06%) Marketing
7 30 (1.59%) Banking
8 28 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.43%) Games
9 27 (1.43%) Legal
10 17 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 13 (0.69%) Advertising
12 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.37%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.26%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.21%) Back Office
16 4 (0.21%) Multimedia
17 2 (0.11%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (19.63%) .NET
2 195 (10.32%) React
3 153 (8.10%) AngularJS
4 136 (7.20%) .NET Core
5 128 (6.77%) HTML
6 125 (6.61%) CSS
7 123 (6.51%) ASP.NET
8 116 (6.14%) Node.js
9 108 (5.71%) Vue
10 100 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
11 96 (5.08%) RESTful
12 83 (4.39%) Spring Boot
13 81 (4.29%) REST
14 73 (3.86%) Spring
15 72 (3.81%) Laravel
16 66 (3.49%) Entity Framework
17 46 (2.43%) ASP.NET Web API
18 34 (1.80%) LINQ
19 33 (1.75%) Blazor
20 32 (1.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 75 (3.97%) Mobile App
2 59 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
3 37 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 36 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 17 (0.90%) Hedge funds
8 16 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (0.85%) Social Media
9 14 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (0.58%) Legacy Code
10 11 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.48%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.48%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.42%) Contactless
12 8 (0.42%) EMV
12 8 (0.42%) Smartcard
13 7 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.37%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.90%) Android
2 27 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 14 (0.74%) Linux
4 6 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 332 (17.57%) Agile
3 262 (13.86%) CI/CD
4 256 (13.54%) DevOps
5 180 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 174 (9.21%) Software Engineering
7 146 (7.72%) AI
8 142 (7.51%) Front End Development
8 142 (7.51%) Mentoring
9 135 (7.14%) Microservices
10 106 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
11 94 (4.97%) TDD
12 92 (4.87%) Clean Code
13 75 (3.97%) Analytics
14 74 (3.92%) Web Development
15 69 (3.65%) SDLC
16 64 (3.39%) Workflow
17 63 (3.33%) Scrum
17 63 (3.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 331 (17.51%) SQL
2 326 (17.25%) C#
3 315 (16.67%) Java
4 257 (13.60%) JavaScript
5 256 (13.54%) TypeScript
6 159 (8.41%) Python
7 135 (7.14%) PHP
8 58 (3.07%) Kotlin
9 53 (2.80%) C++
10 39 (2.06%) Groovy
11 25 (1.32%) Bash
12 15 (0.79%) Swift
13 13 (0.69%) Rust
14 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.63%) VB
15 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.53%) Scala
16 9 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 79 (4.18%) Security Cleared
2 72 (3.81%) SC Cleared
3 54 (2.86%) Degree
4 36 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 19 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 19 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.37%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.11%) ACCA
12 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.11%) CIMA
12 2 (0.11%) HND
12 2 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 34 (1.80%) QA
3 18 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.69%) WCAG
5 12 (0.63%) TickIT
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.11%) PMO
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.053%) GDPR
8 1 (0.053%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (6.77%) Docker
2 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.06%) Terraform
3 23 (1.22%) HP Fortify
4 8 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.11%) Kibana
5 2 (0.11%) Packer
6 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.053%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.053%) Nagios
6 1 (0.053%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 265 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 32 (1.69%) ServiceNow
3 29 (1.53%) Salesforce
4 20 (1.06%) Google
5 17 (0.90%) IBM
6 16 (0.85%) Oracle
7 15 (0.79%) Cognos
7 15 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 12 (0.63%) Apple
8 12 (0.63%) Sage
9 11 (0.58%) Splunk
10 8 (0.42%) AppDynamics
10 8 (0.42%) Facebook
10 8 (0.42%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.37%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.32%) Pega
12 6 (0.32%) SAP
12 6 (0.32%) Sony
12 6 (0.32%) Yahoo!
13 5 (0.26%) Zoho