Senior Backend Developer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Backend Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 406 440
Rank change year-on-year +35 +34 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 13 22 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.075% 0.13% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.14% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 3
10th Percentile £50,000 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +51.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +3.85%

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 16,421 15,679 17,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 89.49% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,705 8,279 11,135
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,650 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in the North of England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in the North of England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Backend Developer in the North of England

Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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 0 7 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire +94 6 £60,000 -22.58% 1
Senior Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) MySQL
3 6 (46.15%) Node.js
3 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
3 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 6 (46.15%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (38.46%) Serverless
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
6 3 (23.08%) .NET
6 3 (23.08%) TDD
6 3 (23.08%) Docker
6 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
7 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
7 2 (15.38%) C#
7 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (15.38%) Linux
7 2 (15.38%) OOP
7 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 2 (15.38%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) React
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) SaaS
7 2 (15.38%) Kafka
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Telematics
8 1 (7.69%) nginx

Senior Backend 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) DocumentDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (7.69%) Automotive
1 1 (7.69%) Games
1 1 (7.69%) Retail
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) React
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) LAMP
4 1 (7.69%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (7.69%) MSMQ
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
2 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) OOP
3 2 (15.38%) Telematics
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.69%) Functional Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Kanban
4 1 (7.69%) MVC
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum
4 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google