Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,290 629 2,695
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 7.71% 9.72% 16.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.42% 10.60% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 501 2,356
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,620 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
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 15,312 5,933 15,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 91.70% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,911 3,776 12,367
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,700 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.59% -9.13%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -11 668 £57,500 +8.49% 210
Yorkshire +15 472 £57,500 +9.52% 142
North East +11 150 £60,000 +7.62% 64
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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.

1 288 (22.33%) Azure
2 277 (21.47%) AWS
3 275 (21.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 269 (20.85%) JavaScript
5 258 (20.00%) .NET
6 237 (18.37%) Agile
7 226 (17.52%) C#
8 216 (16.74%) SQL
9 205 (15.89%) Java
10 198 (15.35%) CI/CD
11 167 (12.95%) Mentoring
12 166 (12.87%) DevOps
13 159 (12.33%) Microsoft
14 157 (12.17%) Python
15 152 (11.78%) CSS
15 152 (11.78%) Git
15 152 (11.78%) React
16 147 (11.40%) HTML
17 132 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
18 130 (10.08%) Serverless
19 128 (9.92%) TypeScript
20 122 (9.46%) Docker
21 119 (9.22%) Software Engineering
22 116 (8.99%) Front End Development
23 112 (8.68%) GitHub
24 102 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
25 98 (7.60%) PHP
26 96 (7.44%) .NET Core
27 92 (7.13%) Microservices
28 90 (6.98%) AngularJS

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 19 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.24%) CMS
3 9 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.54%) OpenEdge
5 6 (0.47%) JBoss
5 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.39%) Appian
6 5 (0.39%) WordPress
7 4 (0.31%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.23%) Apache
8 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.16%) CICS
9 2 (0.16%) Confluence
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.078%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.078%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.16%) Visualfiles
2 14 (1.09%) Shopify
3 7 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Magento
6 1 (0.078%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 288 (22.33%) Azure
2 277 (21.47%) AWS
3 130 (10.08%) Serverless
4 112 (8.68%) GitHub
5 84 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
6 78 (6.05%) Amazon S3
7 69 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (5.12%) SaaS
9 63 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 53 (4.11%) Power Platform
11 43 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
12 42 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
13 39 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (2.71%) Apigee
15 34 (2.64%) Amazon ECR
16 32 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (2.17%) GCP
18 26 (2.02%) Power Automate
18 26 (2.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.88%) Internet
2 10 (0.78%) Broadband
3 6 (0.47%) HTTP
4 4 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.16%) Intranet
5 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 1 (0.078%) DNS
6 1 (0.078%) SSH
6 1 (0.078%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 72 (5.58%) DynamoDB
3 52 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 38 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (2.95%) Power BI
5 34 (2.64%) MySQL
6 33 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 22 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.31%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Tableau
14 3 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.23%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.23%) DB2
Development Applications
1 152 (11.78%) Git
2 62 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.95%) GitLab
4 32 (2.48%) SonarQube
5 30 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.33%) Maven
6 28 (2.17%) JIRA
7 7 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.54%) PHPUnit
8 6 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.31%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.31%) NUnit
10 4 (0.31%) Selenium
11 3 (0.23%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.16%) JUnit
12 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.16%) Subversion
12 2 (0.16%) XCUITest
General
1 116 (8.99%) Social Skills
2 88 (6.82%) Finance
3 53 (4.11%) Multimedia
4 42 (3.26%) Law
5 35 (2.71%) Public Sector
6 30 (2.33%) Retail
7 28 (2.17%) Games
8 25 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (1.86%) Marketing
10 22 (1.71%) Legal
11 18 (1.40%) Banking
12 10 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.62%) Advertising
13 8 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.47%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.31%) Electronics
16 4 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.23%) Back Office
17 3 (0.23%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (20.00%) .NET
2 152 (11.78%) CSS
2 152 (11.78%) React
3 147 (11.40%) HTML
4 96 (7.44%) .NET Core
5 90 (6.98%) AngularJS
6 78 (6.05%) ASP.NET
7 77 (5.97%) Node.js
8 73 (5.66%) Spring Boot
9 66 (5.12%) Vue
10 60 (4.65%) RESTful
11 55 (4.26%) REST
12 51 (3.95%) Laravel
13 50 (3.88%) Spring
14 37 (2.87%) .NET Framework
15 35 (2.71%) Jest
16 32 (2.48%) Flask
17 29 (2.25%) Gherkin
18 28 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
19 23 (1.78%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.64%) Mobile App
2 36 (2.79%) Cloud Native
3 34 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.16%) Legacy Code
9 12 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (0.85%) Social Media
11 10 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.54%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.54%) NHS
13 6 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.47%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.31%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.63%) Android
2 18 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 11 (0.85%) Linux
4 6 (0.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.078%) VMS
5 1 (0.078%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (21.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 237 (18.37%) Agile
3 198 (15.35%) CI/CD
4 167 (12.95%) Mentoring
5 166 (12.87%) DevOps
6 132 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (9.22%) Software Engineering
8 116 (8.99%) Front End Development
9 102 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (7.13%) Microservices
11 78 (6.05%) Clean Code
12 62 (4.81%) AI
13 59 (4.57%) SDLC
14 57 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
15 52 (4.03%) Design Patterns
16 50 (3.88%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (3.88%) TDD
17 48 (3.72%) Containerisation
18 43 (3.33%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (3.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 269 (20.85%) JavaScript
2 226 (17.52%) C#
3 216 (16.74%) SQL
4 205 (15.89%) Java
5 157 (12.17%) Python
6 128 (9.92%) TypeScript
7 98 (7.60%) PHP
8 42 (3.26%) Kotlin
9 30 (2.33%) Groovy
10 29 (2.25%) Bash
11 13 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.85%) C++
13 10 (0.78%) VB
14 7 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.54%) Swift
15 5 (0.39%) Bicep
15 5 (0.39%) Delphi
15 5 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.23%) Scala
16 3 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 88 (6.82%) AWS Certification
2 54 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 51 (3.95%) Azure Certification
4 50 (3.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 41 (3.18%) Security Cleared
6 36 (2.79%) SC Cleared
7 28 (2.17%) Degree
8 22 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.23%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.16%) HND
15 1 (0.078%) ACCA
15 1 (0.078%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.63%) Accessibility
2 16 (1.24%) QA
3 7 (0.54%) TickIT
4 6 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.31%) SLA
6 2 (0.16%) WCAG
7 1 (0.078%) GDPR
System Software
1 122 (9.46%) Docker
2 9 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.078%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (3.95%) Terraform
2 34 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.25%) HP Fortify
4 9 (0.70%) Ansible
5 3 (0.23%) cPanel
5 3 (0.23%) Plesk
6 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.16%) Kibana
6 2 (0.16%) Nagios
6 2 (0.16%) Packer
6 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.078%) Grafana
Vendors
1 159 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.17%) Oracle
3 18 (1.40%) ServiceNow
4 14 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 12 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 10 (0.78%) IBM
7 9 (0.70%) Sage
8 8 (0.62%) Cognos
8 8 (0.62%) Intapp
8 8 (0.62%) JDA
9 7 (0.54%) Progress
10 6 (0.47%) Pega
11 5 (0.39%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.39%) UiPath
12 4 (0.31%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.31%) Calypso
12 4 (0.31%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.23%) Foundry
13 3 (0.23%) Google
13 3 (0.23%) Splunk