Developer Jobs in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £52,084 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,795 2,194 3,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.23% 12.47% 20.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.07% 13.94% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,415 1,502 2,782
10th Percentile £32,850 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £66,438
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,370 15,738 17,408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 89.42% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,667 8,315 11,202
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,169
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Developer 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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 1,665 £52,084 -5.30% 318
Yorkshire +15 887 £50,000 -4.76% 144
North East +3 243 £50,000 -9.09% 47
Developer
England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 968 (34.63%) .NET
2 964 (34.49%) C#
3 952 (34.06%) JavaScript
4 761 (27.23%) Azure
5 743 (26.58%) Agile
6 676 (24.19%) Full Stack Development
7 633 (22.65%) SQL
8 515 (18.43%) HTML
9 474 (16.96%) CSS
10 473 (16.92%) Microsoft
11 453 (16.21%) Social Skills
12 442 (15.81%) SQL Server
13 439 (15.71%) AngularJS
14 434 (15.53%) React
15 410 (14.67%) AWS
16 362 (12.95%) PHP
17 359 (12.84%) MVC
18 357 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
19 348 (12.45%) ASP.NET
20 345 (12.34%) .NET Core
21 335 (11.99%) DevOps
22 316 (11.31%) Node.js
23 293 (10.48%) Degree
23 293 (10.48%) Microservices
24 281 (10.05%) TDD
25 271 (9.70%) .NET Framework
26 267 (9.55%) Software Engineering
27 265 (9.48%) Vue
28 262 (9.37%) Java
29 257 (9.19%) MySQL

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 63 (2.25%) WordPress
2 59 (2.11%) CMS
3 54 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 33 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 29 (1.04%) IIS
6 27 (0.97%) Apache
7 16 (0.57%) OpenEdge
8 14 (0.50%) Confluence
9 8 (0.29%) Apache Solr
9 8 (0.29%) SAS
10 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.21%) nginx
11 5 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (0.18%) Drupal
11 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.14%) Mendix
13 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.036%) Anypoint
Applications
1 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.43%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.14%) Maya
6 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (1.57%) Shopify
2 32 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.14%) Magento
3 23 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.25%) BPCS
7 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.072%) Demantra
9 2 (0.072%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle ASCP
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.072%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.072%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.072%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 761 (27.23%) Azure
2 410 (14.67%) AWS
3 233 (8.34%) Power Platform
4 167 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 127 (4.54%) Serverless
6 115 (4.11%) SaaS
7 108 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
8 83 (2.97%) Power Automate
9 75 (2.68%) PowerApps
10 67 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 59 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 58 (2.08%) GitHub
13 57 (2.04%) Azure Functions
14 48 (1.72%) Azure API Management
15 43 (1.54%) IBM Cloud
16 40 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (1.32%) GCP
19 30 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.75%) Internet
2 13 (0.47%) Wireless
3 12 (0.43%) Broadband
4 9 (0.32%) DNS
4 9 (0.32%) Intranet
5 8 (0.29%) HTTP
6 7 (0.25%) Mobile Broadband
7 5 (0.18%) MQTT
7 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.14%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.14%) Firewall
8 4 (0.14%) SSL
9 3 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.072%) FTP
10 2 (0.072%) RS-232
11 1 (0.036%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.036%) Skype
11 1 (0.036%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 442 (15.81%) SQL Server
2 257 (9.19%) MySQL
3 162 (5.80%) Power BI
4 159 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 113 (4.04%) Relational Database
6 107 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 94 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 85 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 73 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (1.75%) Tableau
11 45 (1.61%) DB2
12 44 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 42 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (1.25%) Power Query
15 27 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 26 (0.93%) Oracle Database
16 26 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
17 25 (0.89%) Redis
18 24 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 237 (8.48%) Git
2 56 (2.00%) Visual Studio
3 53 (1.90%) JIRA
4 33 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 29 (1.04%) TeamCity
6 26 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 24 (0.86%) GitLab
7 24 (0.86%) Jasmine
8 23 (0.82%) PHPUnit
9 18 (0.64%) Gradle
10 17 (0.61%) JUnit
10 17 (0.61%) Mockito
11 16 (0.57%) IntelliJ
11 16 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
12 15 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.47%) Xcode
14 12 (0.43%) Appium
15 11 (0.39%) NUnit
16 10 (0.36%) Cypress.io
17 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 453 (16.21%) Social Skills
2 230 (8.23%) Finance
3 147 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 126 (4.51%) Law
5 118 (4.22%) Retail
6 111 (3.97%) Marketing
7 103 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (3.18%) Games
9 82 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.47%) Banking
11 40 (1.43%) Legal
12 37 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (1.29%) Advertising
14 33 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.04%) Automotive
15 29 (1.04%) Tech for Good
16 28 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 22 (0.79%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.54%) Aerospace
19 13 (0.47%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (34.63%) .NET
2 515 (18.43%) HTML
3 474 (16.96%) CSS
4 439 (15.71%) AngularJS
5 434 (15.53%) React
6 348 (12.45%) ASP.NET
7 345 (12.34%) .NET Core
8 316 (11.31%) Node.js
9 271 (9.70%) .NET Framework
10 265 (9.48%) Vue
11 257 (9.19%) ASP.NET Web API
12 238 (8.52%) Laravel
13 232 (8.30%) RESTful
14 216 (7.73%) Entity Framework
15 210 (7.51%) REST
16 193 (6.91%) ASP.NET MVC
17 154 (5.51%) HTML5
17 154 (5.51%) jQuery
18 149 (5.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 136 (4.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 145 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
2 78 (2.79%) Mobile App
3 57 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 50 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 47 (1.68%) Product Ownership
6 46 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (1.54%) Blockchain
7 43 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (1.22%) IoT
8 34 (1.22%) NHS
9 32 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 26 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (0.89%) Social Media
13 23 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
14 22 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (0.72%) Animation
16 17 (0.61%) iPhone
16 17 (0.61%) Social Network
17 15 (0.54%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 167 (5.97%) Linux
2 118 (4.22%) Windows
3 96 (3.43%) Android
4 94 (3.36%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.79%) Unix
6 16 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.32%) VMS
9 8 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.072%) AIX
10 2 (0.072%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.072%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (26.58%) Agile
2 676 (24.19%) Full Stack Development
3 359 (12.84%) MVC
4 357 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (11.99%) DevOps
6 293 (10.48%) Microservices
7 281 (10.05%) TDD
8 267 (9.55%) Software Engineering
9 252 (9.02%) Web Development
10 226 (8.09%) User Experience
11 210 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
12 199 (7.12%) Mentoring
13 186 (6.65%) Front End Development
14 174 (6.23%) Design Patterns
15 168 (6.01%) Unit Testing
16 165 (5.90%) Scrum
17 164 (5.87%) CI/CD
18 160 (5.72%) OO
19 155 (5.55%) Computer Science
20 145 (5.19%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 964 (34.49%) C#
2 952 (34.06%) JavaScript
3 633 (22.65%) SQL
4 362 (12.95%) PHP
5 262 (9.37%) Java
6 253 (9.05%) TypeScript
7 164 (5.87%) Python
8 99 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 57 (2.04%) C++
9 57 (2.04%) VB.NET
10 34 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 31 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.04%) Swift
13 28 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 27 (0.97%) Ruby
14 27 (0.97%) VB
15 23 (0.82%) Go
16 20 (0.72%) Delphi
17 17 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 293 (10.48%) Degree
2 121 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 66 (2.36%) Security Cleared
4 60 (2.15%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.75%) DBS Check
6 19 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.29%) PhD
11 6 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.21%) HND
11 6 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.14%) CIPD
13 2 (0.072%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.072%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.036%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.036%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.036%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.26%) QA
2 27 (0.97%) GDPR
3 22 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.11%) WCAG
7 2 (0.072%) HL7
7 2 (0.072%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.072%) WAI
8 1 (0.036%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.036%) NIST
System Software
1 183 (6.55%) Docker
2 8 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.14%) Firmware
3 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.036%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.036%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 69 (2.47%) Terraform
3 4 (0.14%) Ansible
3 4 (0.14%) Rancher
4 2 (0.072%) Grafana
4 2 (0.072%) Kibana
5 1 (0.036%) Istio
5 1 (0.036%) Kiali
5 1 (0.036%) Oozie
5 1 (0.036%) Plesk
5 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.036%) Puppet
Vendors
1 473 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 82 (2.93%) Oracle
3 80 (2.86%) Google
4 56 (2.00%) IBM
5 47 (1.68%) Facebook
6 43 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 31 (1.11%) Adobe
8 23 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 22 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 20 (0.72%) Apple
10 20 (0.72%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.50%) Progress
11 14 (0.50%) Sony
11 14 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.36%) Cadence
12 10 (0.36%) F5
12 10 (0.36%) SAP
12 10 (0.36%) Sitecore
12 10 (0.36%) Xamarin
13 9 (0.32%) Synopsys