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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 167 57
Rank change year-on-year +97 -110 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 496 153 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.05% 1.59% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 1.82% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 448 127 292
10th Percentile £49,000 £53,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,850 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 22,421 8,391 12,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 87.28% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,309 4,327 7,207
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,850 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +74 259 £70,000 +7.69% 89
Yorkshire +38 142 £65,000 - 61
North East +17 95 £70,000 +7.69% 35
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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 97 (19.56%) C#
2 96 (19.35%) AWS
3 95 (19.15%) Java
4 92 (18.55%) Agile
5 91 (18.35%) Azure
6 85 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 76 (15.32%) .NET
7 76 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 63 (12.70%) DevOps
8 63 (12.70%) Mentoring
9 62 (12.50%) TypeScript
10 61 (12.30%) JavaScript
11 56 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (10.89%) Microsoft
12 54 (10.89%) SQL
13 52 (10.48%) Software Engineering
14 50 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (9.88%) PHP
16 44 (8.87%) AI
16 44 (8.87%) Front End Development
17 43 (8.67%) React
18 41 (8.27%) Python
19 40 (8.06%) TDD
20 36 (7.26%) Docker
20 36 (7.26%) HTML
21 34 (6.85%) Serverless
22 33 (6.65%) CSS
23 32 (6.45%) GitHub
23 32 (6.45%) Microservices
23 32 (6.45%) REST

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 12 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.01%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 96 (19.35%) AWS
2 91 (18.35%) Azure
3 34 (6.85%) Serverless
4 32 (6.45%) GitHub
5 26 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (5.04%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.83%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (2.62%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.42%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.81%) Boomi
14 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.23%) MySQL
2 17 (3.43%) DynamoDB
3 15 (3.02%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.22%) MariaDB
5 11 (2.22%) Power BI
6 10 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.81%) Redis
10 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.40%) GIS
11 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.20%) Chroma
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.20%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.44%) Git
2 13 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.22%) JIRA
4 8 (1.61%) GitLab
5 5 (1.01%) Maven
6 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.60%) Ant
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Storybook
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) fastlane
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.40%) Spock
8 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 38 (7.66%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 27 (5.44%) Finance
4 22 (4.44%) Retail
5 21 (4.23%) Banking
6 20 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (3.43%) Marketing
8 8 (1.61%) Legal
8 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.61%) Publishing
9 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.40%) Back Office
10 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.40%) Law
10 2 (0.40%) Police
10 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.20%) Games
11 1 (0.20%) iGaming
11 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.32%) .NET
2 43 (8.67%) React
3 36 (7.26%) HTML
4 33 (6.65%) CSS
5 32 (6.45%) REST
6 31 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 31 (6.25%) Laravel
7 30 (6.05%) Spring
8 29 (5.85%) Node.js
9 28 (5.65%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.23%) .NET Core
11 19 (3.83%) RESTful
12 18 (3.63%) Middleware
13 16 (3.23%) React Native
13 16 (3.23%) Terraform
14 15 (3.02%) SOAP
15 13 (2.62%) XML
16 12 (2.42%) EDI
16 12 (2.42%) JSON
16 12 (2.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.04%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.43%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.61%) Online Gambling
6 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.81%) Derivative
9 3 (0.60%) IoT
9 3 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.40%) CMDB
10 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.40%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.02%) Android
2 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.21%) Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Windows
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (18.55%) Agile
2 85 (17.14%) CI/CD
3 76 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (12.70%) DevOps
4 63 (12.70%) Mentoring
5 56 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (10.48%) Software Engineering
7 50 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (8.87%) AI
8 44 (8.87%) Front End Development
9 40 (8.06%) TDD
10 32 (6.45%) Microservices
11 29 (5.85%) Clean Code
11 29 (5.85%) Test Automation
12 28 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (5.24%) Collaborative Working
13 26 (5.24%) Roadmaps
14 24 (4.84%) API Development
15 23 (4.64%) Scrum
16 22 (4.44%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.56%) C#
2 95 (19.15%) Java
3 62 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 61 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 54 (10.89%) SQL
6 49 (9.88%) PHP
7 41 (8.27%) Python
8 27 (5.44%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.42%) C++
10 9 (1.81%) Go
11 7 (1.41%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.01%) C
13 4 (0.81%) SOQL
14 3 (0.60%) Groovy
14 3 (0.60%) Ruby
14 3 (0.60%) Rust
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) SOSL
14 3 (0.60%) Swift
14 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (3.63%) SC Cleared
1 18 (3.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (2.02%) Degree
3 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.63%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.02%) WCAG
3 14 (2.82%) QA
4 9 (1.81%) TickIT
5 6 (1.21%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (7.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.40%) Packer
2 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.20%) logstash
3 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.64%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.81%) Splunk
4 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.81%) NEC
6 4 (0.81%) Sage
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Apple
7 3 (0.60%) Google
7 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.60%) webMethods
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Cognos
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) YouTube