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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 667 1,164 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.37% 11.79% 14.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.28% 12.46% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 525 734 844
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,620 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 9,157 9,343 6,540
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.47% 94.67% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,110 4,586 5,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,068 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -18 334 £60,000 +14.29% 232
Yorkshire -8 257 £54,000 +8.00% 124
North East -15 78 £50,000 -4.76% 50
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 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.

1 241 (36.13%) JavaScript
2 238 (35.68%) Azure
3 220 (32.98%) AWS
4 196 (29.39%) Agile
5 179 (26.84%) .NET
6 174 (26.09%) Mentoring
7 161 (24.14%) C#
8 154 (23.09%) CSS
9 143 (21.44%) HTML
10 141 (21.14%) SQL
11 137 (20.54%) DevOps
12 127 (19.04%) CI/CD
13 126 (18.89%) Git
13 126 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (18.29%) React
15 121 (18.14%) Microsoft
16 115 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
17 112 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (16.79%) Python
18 95 (14.24%) Java
19 90 (13.49%) Docker
19 90 (13.49%) GitHub
20 88 (13.19%) SQL Server
21 86 (12.89%) Clean Code
22 85 (12.74%) Microservices
23 76 (11.39%) TypeScript
24 68 (10.19%) Front End Development
25 67 (10.04%) SaaS
26 64 (9.60%) .NET Core
26 64 (9.60%) AWS Certification

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 13 (1.95%) CMS
2 9 (1.35%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.90%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.60%) Camunda
6 3 (0.45%) Confluence
6 3 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.45%) WordPress
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) Drupal
7 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
7 2 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
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%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.60%) Shopify
2 3 (0.45%) Magento
2 3 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Odoo
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 238 (35.68%) Azure
2 220 (32.98%) AWS
3 90 (13.49%) GitHub
4 67 (10.04%) SaaS
5 64 (9.60%) Serverless
6 34 (5.10%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (4.05%) GCP
9 24 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 19 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 15 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (1.80%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.65%) Internet
2 5 (0.75%) HTTP
3 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.45%) WPA
5 2 (0.30%) Intranet
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.19%) SQL Server
2 46 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (5.85%) MySQL
4 36 (5.40%) NoSQL
5 31 (4.65%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.90%) Relational Database
7 20 (3.00%) DynamoDB
8 18 (2.70%) Power BI
9 14 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.50%) Redis
12 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.90%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.90%) OLAP
13 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
16 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 126 (18.89%) Git
2 36 (5.40%) JIRA
3 30 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.85%) GitLab
5 12 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 9 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.05%) Maven
8 6 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.60%) Postman
10 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.60%) webpack
11 3 (0.45%) JUnit
11 3 (0.45%) Selenium
11 3 (0.45%) Xcode
12 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.30%) Grunt
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.30%) Storybook
General
1 139 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 50 (7.50%) Multimedia
3 48 (7.20%) Finance
4 39 (5.85%) Marketing
5 28 (4.20%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.90%) Games
7 22 (3.30%) Law
8 21 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (2.85%) Retail
10 12 (1.80%) Legal
11 10 (1.50%) Banking
12 9 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.20%) Electronics
14 6 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.75%) Advertising
15 5 (0.75%) Back Office
15 5 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (26.84%) .NET
2 154 (23.09%) CSS
3 143 (21.44%) HTML
4 122 (18.29%) React
5 64 (9.60%) .NET Core
6 56 (8.40%) ASP.NET
7 55 (8.25%) RESTful
8 53 (7.95%) Node.js
9 52 (7.80%) REST
10 42 (6.30%) AngularJS
11 40 (6.00%) Spring Boot
12 39 (5.85%) Spring
13 35 (5.25%) .NET Framework
14 32 (4.80%) Vue
15 29 (4.35%) Blazor
16 21 (3.15%) ASP.NET Core
17 18 (2.70%) Laravel
18 17 (2.55%) CSS3
18 17 (2.55%) Flask
18 17 (2.55%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.25%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.80%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.50%) IoT
9 9 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.90%) Clustering
11 6 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.90%) NHS
12 5 (0.75%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.60%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.45%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.45%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.45%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.00%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.55%) Android
3 14 (2.10%) Windows
4 10 (1.50%) Linux
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (29.39%) Agile
2 174 (26.09%) Mentoring
3 137 (20.54%) DevOps
4 127 (19.04%) CI/CD
5 126 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 112 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (12.89%) Clean Code
9 85 (12.74%) Microservices
10 68 (10.19%) Front End Development
11 59 (8.85%) Roadmaps
11 59 (8.85%) Software Engineering
12 54 (8.10%) Containerisation
13 52 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (7.80%) User Experience
14 50 (7.50%) Computer Science
14 50 (7.50%) Test Automation
15 48 (7.20%) TDD
16 45 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 40 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 241 (36.13%) JavaScript
2 161 (24.14%) C#
3 141 (21.14%) SQL
4 112 (16.79%) Python
5 95 (14.24%) Java
6 76 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 49 (7.35%) PHP
8 25 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.40%) Go
10 14 (2.10%) C++
11 13 (1.95%) Scala
12 11 (1.65%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.50%) Ruby
13 10 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.20%) Delphi
14 8 (1.20%) Elixir
15 7 (1.05%) ANSI SQL
16 5 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.75%) Swift
17 4 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 64 (9.60%) AWS Certification
2 61 (9.15%) Degree
3 51 (7.65%) Azure Certification
4 50 (7.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 50 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (3.90%) DBS Check
6 24 (3.60%) Security Cleared
7 23 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 21 (3.15%) SC Cleared
9 20 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.30%) PhD
14 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.35%) QA
2 22 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.45%) WCAG
4 2 (0.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (13.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (6.60%) Terraform
2 38 (5.70%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.50%) Ansible
4 5 (0.75%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.60%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.45%) cPanel
6 3 (0.45%) Plesk
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.75%) Atlassian
4 23 (3.45%) Oracle
5 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.20%) JDA
7 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.90%) Google
9 5 (0.75%) Adobe
9 5 (0.75%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.60%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) WSO2
11 3 (0.45%) Splunk
12 2 (0.30%) Dell
12 2 (0.30%) Infor
12 2 (0.30%) Informatica
12 2 (0.30%) Lotus
12 2 (0.30%) SAP
12 2 (0.30%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.30%) Xamarin