Junior Jobs in the North of England

Junior
England > North of England

The median Junior salary in the North of England is £40,101 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 175 260
Rank change year-on-year -22 +85 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 111 245 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.01% 1.42% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.49% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 94 222 130
10th Percentile £26,975 £22,500 £22,825
25th Percentile £30,313 £24,313 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £29,000 £30,289
Median % change year-on-year +38.28% -4.26% -6.80%
75th Percentile £50,313 £36,125 £39,938
90th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £47,500
England median annual salary £36,000 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% -

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 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the North of England

Junior
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Junior in the North of England

Junior
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in the North of England

Junior
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 Junior within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -60 57 £46,250 +65.18% 71
Yorkshire +49 47 £32,500 - 22
North East +43 7 £28,500 +2.70% 17
Junior
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 69 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 41 (36.94%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (36.94%) Degree
3 30 (27.03%) Firewall
3 30 (27.03%) WAN
3 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (26.13%) Cisco
5 27 (24.32%) Computer Science
6 26 (23.42%) LAN
7 25 (22.52%) UML
7 25 (22.52%) CCNA
7 25 (22.52%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (22.52%) Juniper
7 25 (22.52%) JNCIA
7 25 (22.52%) Mathematics
7 25 (22.52%) Physics
7 25 (22.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (21.62%) Presales
8 24 (21.62%) Aruba
8 24 (21.62%) Fortinet
8 24 (21.62%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (20.72%) Electronics
9 23 (20.72%) Aerospace
10 22 (19.82%) Palo Alto
11 21 (18.92%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 21 (18.92%) Rational DOORS
11 21 (18.92%) PLM
11 21 (18.92%) Teamcenter
11 21 (18.92%) SysML
11 21 (18.92%) MATLAB

Junior 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 4 (3.60%) Apache
2 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) IIS
3 1 (0.90%) Moodle
3 1 (0.90%) Totara
Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Simulink
2 2 (1.80%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.41%) AWS
2 13 (11.71%) Azure
3 6 (5.41%) SaaS
4 3 (2.70%) Figma
4 3 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.80%) AWS IoT
5 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.90%) Boomi
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.90%) GCP
6 1 (0.90%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.03%) Firewall
1 30 (27.03%) WAN
2 26 (23.42%) LAN
3 6 (5.41%) DNS
4 5 (4.50%) Unified Communications
4 5 (4.50%) VPN
5 4 (3.60%) MPLS
6 3 (2.70%) VoIP
7 2 (1.80%) Broadband
7 2 (1.80%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.90%) BGP
8 1 (0.90%) DHCP
8 1 (0.90%) FTP
8 1 (0.90%) Network Security
8 1 (0.90%) OSPF
8 1 (0.90%) VLAN
8 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.70%) Big Data
3 2 (1.80%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Power BI
4 1 (0.90%) Power Query
4 1 (0.90%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (3.60%) Eclipse
2 4 (3.60%) Eclipse RCP
3 3 (2.70%) Git
4 2 (1.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.90%) Postman
5 1 (0.90%) YouTrack
5 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Presentation Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Aerospace
3 23 (20.72%) Electronics
4 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.70%) Finance
6 3 (2.70%) Law
6 3 (2.70%) Marketing
6 3 (2.70%) Retail
6 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) CSS
1 12 (10.81%) HTML
2 11 (9.91%) Node.js
3 9 (8.11%) React
4 7 (6.31%) .NET
5 6 (5.41%) RESTful
6 4 (3.60%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.60%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.60%) JSP
6 4 (3.60%) Middleware
6 4 (3.60%) REST
7 3 (2.70%) Vue
8 2 (1.80%) Laravel
8 2 (1.80%) NestJS
8 2 (1.80%) Sass
9 1 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.90%) Bootstrap
9 1 (0.90%) Kafka
9 1 (0.90%) Redux
9 1 (0.90%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
2 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
2 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.80%) IoT
3 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.80%) NHS
3 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.90%) Robotics
4 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Windows
2 8 (7.21%) Linux
3 5 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.94%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (24.32%) Computer Science
4 25 (22.52%) Mathematics
4 25 (22.52%) Physics
4 25 (22.52%) UML
5 24 (21.62%) Presales
6 21 (18.92%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 21 (18.92%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 21 (18.92%) PLM
6 21 (18.92%) Project Management
6 21 (18.92%) SysML
6 21 (18.92%) Systems Engineering
7 16 (14.41%) Software Engineering
8 13 (11.71%) Customer Service
9 10 (9.01%) Mentoring
10 9 (8.11%) Agile
10 9 (8.11%) Customer Experience
11 8 (7.21%) DevOps
11 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) JavaScript
1 21 (18.92%) MATLAB
2 17 (15.32%) SQL
3 12 (10.81%) C#
3 12 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.21%) Java
5 6 (5.41%) PHP
5 6 (5.41%) Python
6 4 (3.60%) Ada
6 4 (3.60%) Rust
7 3 (2.70%) Groovy
8 2 (1.80%) C++
8 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.80%) VB
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.90%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 41 (36.94%) Degree
2 25 (22.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 25 (22.52%) CCNA
2 25 (22.52%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (22.52%) JNCIA
3 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.50%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) NIST
4 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.80%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.90%) NCSC
5 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
1 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
1 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (7.21%) Terraform
2 4 (3.60%) Proxmox
3 2 (1.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.80%) Puppet
3 2 (1.80%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (26.13%) Cisco
2 25 (22.52%) Juniper
3 24 (21.62%) Aruba
3 24 (21.62%) Fortinet
4 22 (19.82%) Palo Alto
5 21 (18.92%) IBM
6 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.60%) VMware
8 2 (1.80%) Adobe
9 1 (0.90%) Databricks
9 1 (0.90%) Dell
9 1 (0.90%) Google
9 1 (0.90%) Informatica
9 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.90%) Ubiquiti