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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 17 3
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,887 1,028 2,946
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.09% 10.95% 16.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.60% 12.43% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 535 2,496
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £33,875
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 £60,000 £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 19,666 8,267 17,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 88.08% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,319 4,425 13,140
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,144
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,150 £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 11 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 11 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 +9 966 £55,000 -4.35% 124
Yorkshire +20 596 £55,000 -8.33% 79
North East +15 325 £55,000 - 60
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 455 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 366 (19.40%) .NET
3 335 (17.75%) Agile
3 335 (17.75%) Azure
4 329 (17.44%) SQL
5 325 (17.22%) C#
6 318 (16.85%) Java
7 277 (14.68%) AWS
8 264 (13.99%) CI/CD
9 263 (13.94%) Microsoft
10 259 (13.73%) DevOps
11 256 (13.57%) JavaScript
12 254 (13.46%) TypeScript
13 190 (10.07%) React
14 176 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
15 175 (9.27%) Software Engineering
16 157 (8.32%) Python
17 155 (8.21%) AngularJS
18 146 (7.74%) Front End Development
19 144 (7.63%) AI
20 142 (7.53%) Mentoring
21 140 (7.42%) Serverless
22 137 (7.26%) .NET Core
23 134 (7.10%) PHP
24 132 (7.00%) Microservices
25 131 (6.94%) Docker
26 129 (6.84%) HTML
27 127 (6.73%) CSS
28 122 (6.47%) ASP.NET
29 116 (6.15%) 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 (0.64%) 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%) Apache
10 1 (0.053%) nginx
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.053%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.053%) Elementor
2 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.95%) Visualfiles
2 13 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 12 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.58%) Shopify
5 8 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 335 (17.75%) Azure
2 277 (14.68%) AWS
3 140 (7.42%) Serverless
4 108 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 106 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
6 104 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (5.25%) GitHub
8 93 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
9 83 (4.40%) Amazon S3
10 76 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 68 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 60 (3.18%) SaaS
13 59 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
14 54 (2.86%) Power Automate
15 49 (2.60%) PowerApps
16 43 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
18 40 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
19 37 (1.96%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.79%) 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
5 1 (0.053%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 91 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 80 (4.24%) MongoDB
4 79 (4.19%) DynamoDB
5 64 (3.39%) Power BI
6 52 (2.76%) MySQL
7 43 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 39 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 27 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.64%) MariaDB
17 11 (0.58%) Tableau
18 8 (0.42%) RDBMS
19 7 (0.37%) Star Schema
20 6 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 109 (5.78%) Git
2 80 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 47 (2.49%) GitLab
4 31 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 31 (1.64%) JIRA
5 30 (1.59%) Maven
5 30 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 13 (0.69%) fastlane
7 8 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.37%) Xcode
9 6 (0.32%) Gradle
9 6 (0.32%) NUnit
9 6 (0.32%) PHPUnit
9 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.26%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.26%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.26%) Selenium
11 4 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.21%) Spock
11 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 147 (7.79%) Finance
2 119 (6.31%) Social Skills
3 73 (3.87%) Law
4 58 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.97%) Retail
6 52 (2.76%) Public Sector
7 38 (2.01%) Marketing
8 30 (1.59%) Banking
9 28 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (1.43%) Games
11 24 (1.27%) Legal
12 16 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.74%) Advertising
14 12 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.37%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.32%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.26%) Tech for Good
19 4 (0.21%) Back Office
20 2 (0.11%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (19.40%) .NET
2 190 (10.07%) React
3 155 (8.21%) AngularJS
4 137 (7.26%) .NET Core
5 129 (6.84%) HTML
6 127 (6.73%) CSS
7 122 (6.47%) ASP.NET
8 116 (6.15%) Node.js
9 109 (5.78%) Vue
10 99 (5.25%) ASP.NET Core
11 96 (5.09%) RESTful
12 86 (4.56%) Spring Boot
13 81 (4.29%) REST
14 73 (3.87%) Spring
15 72 (3.82%) Laravel
16 65 (3.44%) Entity Framework
17 46 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
18 35 (1.85%) Gherkin
19 34 (1.80%) LINQ
20 33 (1.75%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.24%) Mobile App
2 62 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
3 37 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 36 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 17 (0.90%) Hedge funds
9 16 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 16 (0.85%) Social Media
10 14 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.64%) Legacy Code
13 9 (0.48%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.48%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.42%) Contactless
14 8 (0.42%) EMV
14 8 (0.42%) Smartcard
15 7 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.37%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.85%) Android
2 27 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 15 (0.79%) Linux
4 6 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 335 (17.75%) Agile
3 264 (13.99%) CI/CD
4 259 (13.73%) DevOps
5 176 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (9.27%) Software Engineering
7 146 (7.74%) Front End Development
8 144 (7.63%) AI
9 142 (7.53%) Mentoring
10 132 (7.00%) Microservices
11 104 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (5.03%) TDD
13 94 (4.98%) Business Intelligence
14 92 (4.88%) Clean Code
15 75 (3.97%) Analytics
16 71 (3.76%) Web Development
17 69 (3.66%) SDLC
18 63 (3.34%) User Experience
19 62 (3.29%) Scrum
19 62 (3.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 329 (17.44%) SQL
2 325 (17.22%) C#
3 318 (16.85%) Java
4 256 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 254 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 157 (8.32%) Python
7 134 (7.10%) PHP
8 59 (3.13%) Kotlin
9 53 (2.81%) C++
10 42 (2.23%) Groovy
11 28 (1.48%) Bash
12 15 (0.79%) Swift
13 13 (0.69%) Rust
14 12 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.64%) 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 (4.19%) Security Cleared
2 72 (3.82%) SC Cleared
3 53 (2.81%) Degree
4 36 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 22 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.11%) ACCA
14 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.11%) CIMA
14 2 (0.11%) HND
14 2 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 32 (1.70%) QA
3 18 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.64%) TickIT
4 12 (0.64%) WCAG
5 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 2 (0.11%) PMO
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.053%) GDPR
7 1 (0.053%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (6.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.07%) Terraform
3 26 (1.38%) 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
1 263 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.64%) ServiceNow
3 28 (1.48%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.01%) Google
5 17 (0.90%) IBM
6 16 (0.85%) Oracle
7 15 (0.79%) Cognos
7 15 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 12 (0.64%) Apple
8 12 (0.64%) 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