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 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 661 1,682 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.90% 13.71% 14.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.88% 14.47% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 532 1,146 928
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,390 11,621 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.55% 94.74% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,044 6,071 5,587
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -17 358 £60,000 +14.29% 313
Yorkshire -23 232 £55,000 +10.00% 130
North East -18 73 £50,000 -4.76% 39
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, 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.

1 226 (34.19%) Azure
1 226 (34.19%) JavaScript
2 203 (30.71%) AWS
3 197 (29.80%) Agile
4 179 (27.08%) .NET
5 166 (25.11%) C#
6 164 (24.81%) SQL
7 153 (23.15%) Mentoring
8 143 (21.63%) CSS
9 136 (20.57%) DevOps
10 132 (19.97%) HTML
11 127 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (17.70%) CI/CD
13 113 (17.10%) React
14 108 (16.34%) Microsoft
15 106 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (16.04%) Python
16 104 (15.73%) Java
17 103 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
17 103 (15.58%) Git
18 92 (13.92%) Clean Code
19 88 (13.31%) SQL Server
20 81 (12.25%) Microservices
21 77 (11.65%) TypeScript
22 76 (11.50%) Docker
22 76 (11.50%) Front End Development
23 72 (10.89%) GitHub
24 70 (10.59%) Software Engineering
25 69 (10.44%) Degree
26 67 (10.14%) SaaS

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 12 (1.82%) CMS
2 5 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (0.76%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.61%) Anypoint
3 4 (0.61%) Camunda
3 4 (0.61%) Confluence
3 4 (0.61%) Headless CMS
3 4 (0.61%) IIS
3 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.61%) WordPress
4 3 (0.45%) nginx
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.30%) Drupal
5 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.30%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.61%) Magento
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Odoo
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 226 (34.19%) Azure
2 203 (30.71%) AWS
3 72 (10.89%) GitHub
4 67 (10.14%) SaaS
5 49 (7.41%) Serverless
6 45 (6.81%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.93%) GCP
9 21 (3.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 18 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (1.97%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.82%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
18 7 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.90%) Internet
2 8 (1.21%) WPA
3 4 (0.61%) HTTP
3 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.30%) SSH
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.15%) Broadband
5 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.66%) MongoDB
3 41 (6.20%) MySQL
4 40 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 28 (4.24%) Power BI
7 27 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (2.42%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.27%) Redis
10 15 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.91%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.91%) OLAP
13 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 103 (15.58%) Git
2 36 (5.45%) JIRA
3 19 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.57%) GitLab
5 8 (1.21%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.61%) Postman
9 4 (0.61%) Selenium
9 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.61%) webpack
9 4 (0.61%) Xcode
10 3 (0.45%) JUnit
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
11 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.30%) Grunt
11 2 (0.30%) Mockito
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 148 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 56 (8.47%) Finance
3 38 (5.75%) Marketing
4 37 (5.60%) Multimedia
5 31 (4.69%) Games
6 30 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 24 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (3.33%) Law
9 18 (2.72%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.42%) Retail
11 10 (1.51%) Banking
11 10 (1.51%) Electronics
11 10 (1.51%) Legal
12 6 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.76%) Advertising
13 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.61%) Back Office
14 4 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (27.08%) .NET
2 143 (21.63%) CSS
3 132 (19.97%) HTML
4 113 (17.10%) React
5 59 (8.93%) RESTful
6 56 (8.47%) Node.js
7 51 (7.72%) REST
8 48 (7.26%) .NET Core
9 46 (6.96%) ASP.NET
10 37 (5.60%) AngularJS
11 31 (4.69%) Spring
11 31 (4.69%) Spring Boot
11 31 (4.69%) Vue
12 28 (4.24%) .NET Framework
13 27 (4.08%) Blazor
14 25 (3.78%) HTML5
15 23 (3.48%) CSS3
16 21 (3.18%) React Native
17 17 (2.57%) ASP.NET Core
17 17 (2.57%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.30%) Mobile App
2 31 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.51%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.51%) IoT
9 8 (1.21%) Clustering
10 7 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.91%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.76%) NHS
13 4 (0.61%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.61%) Online Games
13 4 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.45%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.45%) Onboarding
15 2 (0.30%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.63%) Windows
2 22 (3.33%) Android
2 22 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 11 (1.66%) Linux
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (29.80%) Agile
2 153 (23.15%) Mentoring
3 136 (20.57%) DevOps
4 127 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (17.70%) CI/CD
6 106 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (13.92%) Clean Code
9 81 (12.25%) Microservices
10 76 (11.50%) Front End Development
11 70 (10.59%) Software Engineering
12 58 (8.77%) Computer Science
12 58 (8.77%) User Experience
13 57 (8.62%) TDD
13 57 (8.62%) Test Automation
14 56 (8.47%) Roadmaps
15 53 (8.02%) OOP
16 46 (6.96%) OO
17 44 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
17 44 (6.66%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 226 (34.19%) JavaScript
2 166 (25.11%) C#
3 164 (24.81%) SQL
4 106 (16.04%) Python
5 104 (15.73%) Java
6 77 (11.65%) TypeScript
7 45 (6.81%) PHP
8 24 (3.63%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.57%) C++
10 16 (2.42%) Go
11 14 (2.12%) Ruby
12 13 (1.97%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.97%) Scala
13 11 (1.66%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.21%) Elixir
14 8 (1.21%) VB.NET
15 7 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
15 7 (1.06%) Delphi
15 7 (1.06%) Swift
16 5 (0.76%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (10.44%) Degree
2 41 (6.20%) AWS Certification
3 38 (5.75%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 37 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.69%) Security Cleared
7 28 (4.24%) SC Cleared
8 23 (3.48%) DBS Check
9 20 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.45%) PhD
12 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.99%) QA
2 23 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.30%) SLA
5 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (11.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (6.35%) Terraform
2 38 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.61%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.15%) cPanel
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) Plesk
5 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.39%) Salesforce
3 22 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 20 (3.03%) Oracle
5 11 (1.66%) Google
6 10 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.36%) Splunk
8 7 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.76%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.61%) Adobe
10 4 (0.61%) Pega
10 4 (0.61%) WSO2
11 3 (0.45%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.45%) IBM
11 3 (0.45%) Moogsoft
11 3 (0.45%) PayPal
12 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.30%) Infor
12 2 (0.30%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.30%) Xamarin