Senior Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 160 73
Rank change year-on-year +89 -87 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 497 142 549
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.49% 1.81% 3.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 2.02% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 440 120 463
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £43,454
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

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 18,588 7,043 16,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 89.77% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,865 3,519 13,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -13.65%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior 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 Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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 +84 258 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Yorkshire +53 176 £63,750 +6.25% 9
North East +6 63 £60,000 -17.24% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2026, Senior 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 Senior Developer in the job title.

1 101 (20.32%) AWS
2 90 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 86 (17.30%) Azure
4 85 (17.10%) CI/CD
5 80 (16.10%) Java
6 79 (15.90%) Agile
7 76 (15.29%) JavaScript
8 75 (15.09%) .NET
9 74 (14.89%) DevOps
10 72 (14.49%) C#
11 64 (12.88%) SQL
12 55 (11.07%) PHP
13 52 (10.46%) Mentoring
14 48 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (9.26%) TypeScript
16 45 (9.05%) Software Engineering
17 42 (8.45%) Microsoft
18 40 (8.05%) Serverless
19 35 (7.04%) Front End Development
19 35 (7.04%) React
20 33 (6.64%) Git
20 33 (6.64%) TDD
21 31 (6.24%) REST
22 30 (6.04%) Clean Code
22 30 (6.04%) Node.js
22 30 (6.04%) Spring
23 29 (5.84%) Docker
23 29 (5.84%) GitHub
23 29 (5.84%) Spring Boot
23 29 (5.84%) Test Automation

Senior 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 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.01%) IIS
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
3 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.01%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (20.32%) AWS
2 86 (17.30%) Azure
3 40 (8.05%) Serverless
4 29 (5.84%) GitHub
5 28 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (4.43%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.23%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.22%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (3.02%) SaaS
13 13 (2.62%) GCP
14 12 (2.41%) Boomi
15 10 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.61%) Amazon ECR
16 8 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (1.61%) Apigee
16 8 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) Firewall
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.43%) MySQL
2 19 (3.82%) DynamoDB
2 19 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (3.02%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.02%) Power BI
4 15 (3.02%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.01%) MariaDB
6 8 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.40%) GIS
10 2 (0.40%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (6.64%) Git
2 16 (3.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.22%) JIRA
3 10 (2.01%) GitLab
4 5 (1.01%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.60%) fastlane
6 3 (0.60%) Maven
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.40%) Spock
7 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) NUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 33 (6.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (5.63%) Finance
3 24 (4.83%) Retail
4 23 (4.63%) Marketing
5 21 (4.23%) Banking
6 19 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.21%) Law
8 10 (2.01%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.81%) Legal
10 6 (1.21%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.80%) Back Office
11 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.60%) Games
13 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.20%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.09%) .NET
2 35 (7.04%) React
3 31 (6.24%) REST
4 30 (6.04%) Node.js
4 30 (6.04%) Spring
5 29 (5.84%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.23%) .NET Core
7 25 (5.03%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.83%) CSS
8 24 (4.83%) Laravel
9 20 (4.02%) HTML
10 18 (3.62%) Middleware
11 17 (3.42%) ASP.NET
12 16 (3.22%) JSON
13 15 (3.02%) SOAP
13 15 (3.02%) Vue
14 13 (2.62%) XML
15 12 (2.41%) EDI
15 12 (2.41%) RESTful
16 9 (1.81%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.43%) Mobile App
2 19 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.21%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.01%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.01%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.01%) NHS
8 3 (0.60%) IoT
8 3 (0.60%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.40%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.40%) CMDB
9 2 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.21%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.21%) Android
3 3 (0.60%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (18.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (17.10%) CI/CD
3 79 (15.90%) Agile
4 74 (14.89%) DevOps
5 52 (10.46%) Mentoring
6 48 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (9.05%) Software Engineering
8 35 (7.04%) Front End Development
9 33 (6.64%) TDD
10 30 (6.04%) Clean Code
11 29 (5.84%) Test Automation
12 28 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (5.43%) Roadmaps
14 22 (4.43%) AI
14 22 (4.43%) API Integration
14 22 (4.43%) Microservices
15 21 (4.23%) B2B
15 21 (4.23%) Collaborative Working
16 19 (3.82%) User Experience
17 17 (3.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (16.10%) Java
2 76 (15.29%) JavaScript
3 72 (14.49%) C#
4 64 (12.88%) SQL
5 55 (11.07%) PHP
6 46 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.23%) Python
8 15 (3.02%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.81%) C++
10 8 (1.61%) Swift
11 5 (1.01%) Groovy
12 4 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.80%) SOQL
13 3 (0.60%) Bash
13 3 (0.60%) Ruby
13 3 (0.60%) SOSL
14 2 (0.40%) Bicep
14 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.40%) Scala
15 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (4.02%) SC Cleared
1 20 (4.02%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.01%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
4 4 (0.80%) Degree
5 2 (0.40%) HND
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.41%) TickIT
2 8 (1.61%) QA
3 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) SLA
5 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (5.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 42 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.22%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.61%) Intapp
4 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.21%) Splunk
6 3 (0.60%) Cognos
6 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.60%) IBM
7 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.40%) Google
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle
8 1 (0.20%) Apple
8 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.20%) Pega