Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 December 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 632 1,404 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.31% 12.91% 14.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 13.71% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 495 919 878
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,600 £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 8,691 10,241 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.83% 94.14% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,894 5,323 5,309
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,800 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,500
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 £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 8 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 8 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 -17 328 £60,000 +14.29% 426
Yorkshire -20 236 £52,500 +5.00% 274
North East -22 70 £50,000 -4.76% 88
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 235 (37.18%) JavaScript
2 228 (36.08%) Azure
3 204 (32.28%) AWS
4 184 (29.11%) Agile
5 173 (27.37%) .NET
6 168 (26.58%) Mentoring
7 159 (25.16%) C#
8 149 (23.58%) CSS
9 140 (22.15%) HTML
10 139 (21.99%) SQL
11 132 (20.89%) DevOps
12 122 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (18.67%) Microsoft
14 117 (18.51%) Git
15 115 (18.20%) CI/CD
16 113 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (17.72%) React
18 111 (17.56%) Full-Stack Development
19 108 (17.09%) Python
20 94 (14.87%) Java
21 86 (13.61%) SQL Server
22 84 (13.29%) Clean Code
22 84 (13.29%) GitHub
23 82 (12.97%) Microservices
24 79 (12.50%) Docker
25 69 (10.92%) TypeScript
26 65 (10.28%) Front End Development
26 65 (10.28%) SaaS
27 61 (9.65%) Degree
28 60 (9.49%) Roadmaps

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 11 (1.74%) CMS
2 7 (1.11%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.95%) Umbraco
4 4 (0.63%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.63%) Camunda
4 4 (0.63%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.47%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.47%) WordPress
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.32%) Drupal
6 2 (0.32%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.32%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.32%) IIS
6 2 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.47%) Magento
2 3 (0.47%) Shopify
3 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Odoo
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 228 (36.08%) Azure
2 204 (32.28%) AWS
3 84 (13.29%) GitHub
4 65 (10.28%) SaaS
5 53 (8.39%) Serverless
6 32 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.80%) GCP
9 21 (3.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (1.58%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.75%) Internet
2 4 (0.63%) HTTP
2 4 (0.63%) WPA
3 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.32%) Intranet
4 2 (0.32%) SSH
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (13.61%) SQL Server
2 42 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (5.54%) MongoDB
3 35 (5.54%) MySQL
4 34 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.85%) Power BI
7 15 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.58%) Redis
11 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.95%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.95%) OLAP
12 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
14 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
15 3 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (18.51%) Git
2 36 (5.70%) JIRA
3 25 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.69%) GitLab
5 10 (1.58%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.79%) Maven
9 4 (0.63%) JUnit
9 4 (0.63%) Postman
9 4 (0.63%) Selenium
9 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.63%) webpack
10 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.47%) Xcode
11 2 (0.32%) gulp
11 2 (0.32%) Mockito
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 136 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.59%) Finance
2 48 (7.59%) Multimedia
3 36 (5.70%) Marketing
4 27 (4.27%) Public Sector
5 25 (3.96%) Games
6 21 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.32%) Law
7 16 (2.53%) Retail
8 11 (1.74%) Legal
9 10 (1.58%) Banking
9 10 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.27%) Electronics
11 6 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.79%) Advertising
12 5 (0.79%) Back Office
12 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (27.37%) .NET
2 149 (23.58%) CSS
3 140 (22.15%) HTML
4 112 (17.72%) React
5 55 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 54 (8.54%) Node.js
7 52 (8.23%) RESTful
8 49 (7.75%) ASP.NET
9 47 (7.44%) REST
10 39 (6.17%) AngularJS
10 39 (6.17%) Spring
11 38 (6.01%) Spring Boot
12 35 (5.54%) .NET Framework
13 30 (4.75%) Vue
14 29 (4.59%) Blazor
15 18 (2.85%) ASP.NET Core
16 17 (2.69%) CSS3
16 17 (2.69%) HTML5
17 16 (2.53%) React Native
18 15 (2.37%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.06%) Mobile App
3 28 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.58%) IoT
9 9 (1.42%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.11%) Clustering
10 7 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.95%) NHS
12 4 (0.63%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.47%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.47%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.47%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.47%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.47%) Online Games
13 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.69%) Android
3 15 (2.37%) Windows
4 9 (1.42%) Linux
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (29.11%) Agile
2 168 (26.58%) Mentoring
3 132 (20.89%) DevOps
4 122 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (18.20%) CI/CD
6 113 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 111 (17.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 84 (13.29%) Clean Code
9 82 (12.97%) Microservices
10 65 (10.28%) Front End Development
11 60 (9.49%) Roadmaps
12 57 (9.02%) Software Engineering
13 51 (8.07%) Containerisation
13 51 (8.07%) Test Automation
13 51 (8.07%) User Experience
14 50 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (7.75%) Computer Science
15 49 (7.75%) TDD
16 42 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (6.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 235 (37.18%) JavaScript
2 159 (25.16%) C#
3 139 (21.99%) SQL
4 108 (17.09%) Python
5 94 (14.87%) Java
6 69 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 41 (6.49%) PHP
8 24 (3.80%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.53%) Go
10 13 (2.06%) C++
10 13 (2.06%) Scala
11 11 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.74%) Ruby
12 10 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.27%) Delphi
13 8 (1.27%) Elixir
14 7 (1.11%) ANSI SQL
15 5 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.79%) Swift
15 5 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (9.65%) Degree
2 57 (9.02%) AWS Certification
3 49 (7.75%) Azure Certification
4 48 (7.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 48 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (3.96%) DBS Check
5 25 (3.96%) Security Cleared
6 22 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 22 (3.48%) SC Cleared
7 20 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) PhD
11 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.59%) QA
2 22 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.47%) WCAG
4 2 (0.32%) GDPR
4 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (6.33%) Terraform
2 37 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.42%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.47%) cPanel
5 3 (0.47%) Plesk
6 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.27%) Salesforce
3 24 (3.80%) Atlassian
3 24 (3.80%) Oracle
4 10 (1.58%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.27%) JDA
6 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 6 (0.95%) Google
8 5 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.63%) Adobe
9 4 (0.63%) Pega
9 4 (0.63%) Splunk
9 4 (0.63%) WSO2
10 2 (0.32%) Dell
10 2 (0.32%) Infor
10 2 (0.32%) Informatica
10 2 (0.32%) Lotus
10 2 (0.32%) SAP
10 2 (0.32%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.32%) Xamarin