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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,996 1,033 2,380
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 8.76% 10.82% 15.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.29% 12.29% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,712 522 1,856
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +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 21,484 8,405 14,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 88.03% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,697 4,600 9,619
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% -7.97%
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 26 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 26 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 +5 1,001 £55,000 -8.33% 78
Yorkshire +21 613 £60,000 - 50
North East +19 382 £57,500 +9.52% 43
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 455 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 398 (19.94%) .NET
3 361 (18.09%) Azure
4 359 (17.99%) C#
5 358 (17.94%) SQL
6 354 (17.74%) Agile
7 303 (15.18%) Java
8 297 (14.88%) Microsoft
9 282 (14.13%) JavaScript
9 282 (14.13%) TypeScript
10 273 (13.68%) CI/CD
11 268 (13.43%) AWS
12 265 (13.28%) DevOps
13 192 (9.62%) React
14 191 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 166 (8.32%) Software Engineering
16 163 (8.17%) Python
17 162 (8.12%) HTML
18 155 (7.77%) CSS
19 151 (7.57%) AngularJS
20 150 (7.52%) Mentoring
21 148 (7.41%) AI
22 145 (7.26%) Front End Development
22 145 (7.26%) Microservices
23 141 (7.06%) .NET Core
24 138 (6.91%) PHP
25 135 (6.76%) Power Platform
26 133 (6.66%) ASP.NET
27 132 (6.61%) Node.js
28 131 (6.56%) Docker

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 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.30%) CMS
3 15 (0.75%) WordPress
4 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.40%) IIS
6 4 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.15%) Appian
7 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.10%) CICS
8 2 (0.10%) Confluence
8 2 (0.10%) JBoss
8 2 (0.10%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 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 11 (0.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 11 (0.55%) Shopify
2 11 (0.55%) Visualfiles
3 9 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 361 (18.09%) Azure
2 268 (13.43%) AWS
3 135 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 123 (6.16%) Serverless
5 117 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (4.91%) GitHub
7 94 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
9 74 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.41%) Power Automate
11 65 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 60 (3.01%) PowerApps
14 57 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
15 55 (2.76%) SaaS
16 53 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (1.65%) Azure AI
20 32 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.65%) Internet
2 7 (0.35%) HTTP
3 5 (0.25%) Broadband
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 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
1 104 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 69 (3.46%) Power BI
4 67 (3.36%) DynamoDB
5 52 (2.61%) MySQL
6 44 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 25 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 22 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.75%) MariaDB
15 12 (0.60%) Redis
16 10 (0.50%) Tableau
17 7 (0.35%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 126 (6.31%) Git
2 65 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 33 (1.65%) GitLab
4 27 (1.35%) JIRA
5 21 (1.05%) Maven
6 18 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.80%) 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
1 140 (7.01%) Finance
1 140 (7.01%) Social Skills
2 69 (3.46%) Public Sector
3 63 (3.16%) Law
3 63 (3.16%) Retail
4 61 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (2.66%) Marketing
6 30 (1.50%) Banking
7 28 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.20%) Legal
9 23 (1.15%) Games
10 17 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 12 (0.60%) Advertising
11 12 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.45%) Publishing
13 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.35%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.30%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.20%) Back Office
16 4 (0.20%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (19.94%) .NET
2 192 (9.62%) React
3 162 (8.12%) HTML
4 155 (7.77%) CSS
5 151 (7.57%) AngularJS
6 141 (7.06%) .NET Core
7 133 (6.66%) ASP.NET
8 132 (6.61%) Node.js
9 104 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
10 102 (5.11%) REST
10 102 (5.11%) RESTful
10 102 (5.11%) Vue
11 79 (3.96%) Spring
11 79 (3.96%) Spring Boot
12 73 (3.66%) Laravel
13 69 (3.46%) Entity Framework
14 48 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 40 (2.00%) Terraform
16 35 (1.75%) Blazor
17 34 (1.70%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 78 (3.91%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 48 (2.40%) Cloud Native
4 39 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 17 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (0.85%) Hedge funds
8 14 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (0.55%) Data Structures
9 11 (0.55%) Social Media
10 9 (0.45%) Algorithms
10 9 (0.45%) Legacy Code
11 8 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (0.40%) Contactless
11 8 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (0.40%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.15%) Android
2 30 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.75%) Linux
4 8 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 354 (17.74%) Agile
3 273 (13.68%) CI/CD
4 265 (13.28%) DevOps
5 191 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (8.32%) Software Engineering
7 150 (7.52%) Mentoring
8 148 (7.41%) AI
9 145 (7.26%) Front End Development
9 145 (7.26%) Microservices
10 123 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (5.11%) Business Intelligence
11 102 (5.11%) TDD
12 91 (4.56%) Clean Code
13 82 (4.11%) Web Development
14 72 (3.61%) Analytics
14 72 (3.61%) SDLC
14 72 (3.61%) Technical Leadership
15 71 (3.56%) Scrum
16 68 (3.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 359 (17.99%) C#
2 358 (17.94%) SQL
3 303 (15.18%) Java
4 282 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 282 (14.13%) TypeScript
5 163 (8.17%) Python
6 138 (6.91%) PHP
7 64 (3.21%) Kotlin
8 56 (2.81%) C++
9 29 (1.45%) Groovy
10 16 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.75%) RPG
12 14 (0.70%) Bash
12 14 (0.70%) Rust
13 13 (0.65%) Swift
13 13 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.60%) VB
15 10 (0.50%) Scala
16 7 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (4.41%) Security Cleared
2 84 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.21%) Degree
4 35 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (1.05%) 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%) CIMA
13 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (2.76%) Accessibility
2 46 (2.30%) QA
3 25 (1.25%) 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%) GRC
8 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (6.56%) 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 13 (0.65%) 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
1 297 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 39 (1.95%) 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%) Adobe
10 10 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.50%) Oracle
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!