Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,014 989 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.36% 10.31% 14.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.00% 11.80% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,715 483 1,376
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -0.94%
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 22,383 8,378 12,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 87.31% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,277 4,321 7,190
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 1,003 £55,000 -8.33% 365
Yorkshire +21 590 £57,500 -4.17% 242
North East +25 421 £62,500 +25.00% 120
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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.

1 391 (19.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 366 (18.17%) .NET
3 349 (17.33%) Agile
4 348 (17.28%) C#
5 318 (15.79%) Azure
6 314 (15.59%) Microsoft
7 310 (15.39%) SQL
8 277 (13.75%) Java
9 272 (13.51%) JavaScript
10 263 (13.06%) TypeScript
11 254 (12.61%) CI/CD
12 235 (11.67%) DevOps
13 234 (11.62%) AWS
14 193 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
15 186 (9.24%) React
16 166 (8.24%) Software Engineering
17 160 (7.94%) AI
18 153 (7.60%) Python
19 151 (7.50%) HTML
19 151 (7.50%) Power Platform
20 146 (7.25%) .NET Core
21 143 (7.10%) Mentoring
22 137 (6.80%) AngularJS
23 136 (6.75%) CSS
23 136 (6.75%) Front End Development
24 131 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
24 131 (6.50%) Docker
25 122 (6.06%) ASP.NET
26 119 (5.91%) Git
27 117 (5.81%) Microservices

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 48 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 20 (0.99%) CMS
3 15 (0.74%) WordPress
4 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
4 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.40%) IIS
6 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.20%) Apache
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.099%) Confluence
9 2 (0.099%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.099%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.099%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.050%) CICS
10 1 (0.050%) JBoss
10 1 (0.050%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.050%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 21 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Visualfiles
4 10 (0.50%) Shopify
5 8 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.099%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.050%) Magento
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 318 (15.79%) Azure
2 234 (11.62%) AWS
3 151 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 105 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (4.97%) Serverless
6 89 (4.42%) GitHub
7 78 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (3.53%) Power Automate
9 69 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
11 67 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
12 66 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
13 64 (3.18%) PowerApps
14 48 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 47 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
16 42 (2.09%) SaaS
17 36 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
18 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.45%) Internet
2 6 (0.30%) HTTP
3 3 (0.15%) Firewall
3 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.050%) Broadband
4 1 (0.050%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.050%) SNMP
4 1 (0.050%) SSL
4 1 (0.050%) VoIP
4 1 (0.050%) WAN
4 1 (0.050%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (4.57%) MongoDB
4 63 (3.13%) Power BI
5 53 (2.63%) DynamoDB
6 45 (2.23%) MySQL
7 40 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.79%) MariaDB
15 15 (0.74%) Redis
16 14 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.35%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.35%) Tableau
18 6 (0.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 119 (5.91%) Git
2 54 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.89%) GitLab
4 19 (0.94%) JIRA
5 15 (0.74%) Maven
6 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.60%) fastlane
7 10 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.35%) JUnit
8 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.35%) Xcode
9 6 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.30%) Gradle
10 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.25%) Crashlytics
11 4 (0.20%) Spock
11 4 (0.20%) Storybook
12 3 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 153 (7.60%) Social Skills
2 122 (6.06%) Finance
3 94 (4.67%) Public Sector
4 69 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.73%) Law
6 54 (2.68%) Retail
7 51 (2.53%) Marketing
8 37 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (1.29%) Legal
10 24 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.14%) Banking
12 19 (0.94%) Games
13 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.50%) Publishing
15 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.40%) Advertising
17 6 (0.30%) Tech for Good
18 5 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
19 2 (0.099%) Documentation Skills
19 2 (0.099%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (18.17%) .NET
2 186 (9.24%) React
3 151 (7.50%) HTML
4 146 (7.25%) .NET Core
5 137 (6.80%) AngularJS
6 136 (6.75%) CSS
7 122 (6.06%) ASP.NET
8 109 (5.41%) Node.js
9 99 (4.92%) REST
10 98 (4.87%) ASP.NET Core
11 83 (4.12%) RESTful
12 81 (4.02%) Vue
13 76 (3.77%) Spring
14 70 (3.48%) Spring Boot
15 66 (3.28%) Entity Framework
16 59 (2.93%) Laravel
17 45 (2.23%) ASP.NET Web API
18 41 (2.04%) Middleware
19 38 (1.89%) Terraform
20 34 (1.69%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (3.43%) Mobile App
2 60 (2.98%) Cloud Native
2 60 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
3 38 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (1.84%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 20 (0.99%) Online Gambling
9 15 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 10 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (0.50%) Onboarding
11 9 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.40%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.40%) Contactless
12 8 (0.40%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.40%) EMV
12 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.79%) Android
2 23 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.74%) Linux
4 9 (0.45%) Windows
5 2 (0.099%) Unix
6 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (19.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 349 (17.33%) Agile
3 254 (12.61%) CI/CD
4 235 (11.67%) DevOps
5 193 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (8.24%) Software Engineering
7 160 (7.94%) AI
8 143 (7.10%) Mentoring
9 136 (6.75%) Front End Development
10 131 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (5.81%) Microservices
12 100 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
13 99 (4.92%) TDD
14 84 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
15 79 (3.92%) Technical Leadership
16 76 (3.77%) Clean Code
17 74 (3.67%) Web Development
18 72 (3.57%) Test Automation
19 69 (3.43%) Workflow
20 67 (3.33%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 348 (17.28%) C#
2 310 (15.39%) SQL
3 277 (13.75%) Java
4 272 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 263 (13.06%) TypeScript
6 153 (7.60%) Python
7 111 (5.51%) PHP
8 67 (3.33%) Kotlin
9 54 (2.68%) C++
10 21 (1.04%) Groovy
11 20 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 19 (0.94%) RPG
13 16 (0.79%) Rust
14 14 (0.70%) VB
15 13 (0.65%) Go
15 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.60%) C
17 11 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.50%) Scala
18 10 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (4.52%) Security Cleared
2 81 (4.02%) SC Cleared
3 67 (3.33%) Degree
4 35 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 12 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.15%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.099%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.050%) ACCA
11 1 (0.050%) CIMA
11 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.050%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 48 (2.38%) QA
3 25 (1.24%) WCAG
4 22 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.40%) TickIT
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 14443
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 7816
7 2 (0.099%) PMO
8 1 (0.050%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (6.50%) Docker
2 6 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.35%) HP Fortify
3 4 (0.20%) Ansible
4 2 (0.099%) Argo
4 2 (0.099%) Grafana
4 2 (0.099%) Packer
4 2 (0.099%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.050%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.050%) Kibana
5 1 (0.050%) logstash
5 1 (0.050%) Nagios
5 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 314 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.18%) Salesforce
3 24 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 22 (1.09%) Google
5 20 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 17 (0.84%) Sage
7 13 (0.65%) Apple
7 13 (0.65%) IBM
7 13 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 13 (0.65%) Splunk
8 12 (0.60%) Adobe
9 9 (0.45%) HP
10 8 (0.40%) Cognos
11 7 (0.35%) Facebook
11 7 (0.35%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.30%) Confluent
12 6 (0.30%) Oracle
12 6 (0.30%) SAP
12 6 (0.30%) YouTube
13 5 (0.25%) Sony