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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 141 76
Rank change year-on-year +62 -65 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 420 137 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.29% 1.87% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 2.08% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 368 116 415
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,528
25th Percentile £58,500 £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 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 16,930 6,593 15,921
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 89.79% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,167 3,773 12,725
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,275 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 8 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 8 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 +68 233 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Yorkshire +28 141 £65,000 +18.18% 22
North East -2 46 £63,750 -8.27% 14
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 82 (19.52%) AWS
2 81 (19.29%) Azure
3 79 (18.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 70 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 68 (16.19%) .NET
5 68 (16.19%) Agile
6 66 (15.71%) Java
7 65 (15.48%) JavaScript
8 64 (15.24%) C#
9 61 (14.52%) SQL
10 60 (14.29%) DevOps
11 46 (10.95%) PHP
12 43 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 41 (9.76%) Microsoft
15 39 (9.29%) TypeScript
16 36 (8.57%) React
17 35 (8.33%) Software Engineering
18 34 (8.10%) Serverless
19 33 (7.86%) Git
20 31 (7.38%) Front End Development
21 29 (6.90%) Node.js
22 27 (6.43%) .NET Core
22 27 (6.43%) GitHub
23 26 (6.19%) REST
23 26 (6.19%) Spring
23 26 (6.19%) Spring Boot
23 26 (6.19%) TDD
24 25 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
24 25 (5.95%) Docker

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 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.71%) CMS
2 3 (0.71%) IIS
3 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.48%) WordPress
4 1 (0.24%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.38%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.71%) Shopify
3 2 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (19.52%) AWS
2 81 (19.29%) Azure
3 34 (8.10%) Serverless
4 27 (6.43%) GitHub
5 23 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (3.57%) GCP
11 14 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (3.33%) SaaS
12 12 (2.86%) Boomi
13 10 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (1.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (1.90%) Apigee
15 6 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.24%) Broadband
1 1 (0.24%) Firewall
1 1 (0.24%) HTTP
1 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.29%) DynamoDB
1 18 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 17 (4.05%) NoSQL
2 17 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.33%) Power BI
4 12 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.62%) MySQL
6 8 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.71%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) GIS
11 1 (0.24%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (7.86%) Git
2 14 (3.33%) JIRA
3 12 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.43%) GitLab
5 5 (1.19%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.48%) Maven
7 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.48%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.24%) fastlane
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) NUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Spock
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 26 (6.19%) Marketing
3 24 (5.71%) Finance
3 24 (5.71%) Retail
4 16 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.57%) Banking
6 10 (2.38%) Law
7 9 (2.14%) Legal
8 6 (1.43%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.43%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.71%) Back Office
9 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Games
10 2 (0.48%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.19%) .NET
2 36 (8.57%) React
3 29 (6.90%) Node.js
4 27 (6.43%) .NET Core
5 26 (6.19%) REST
5 26 (6.19%) Spring
5 26 (6.19%) Spring Boot
6 24 (5.71%) CSS
7 22 (5.24%) Laravel
8 20 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 20 (4.76%) HTML
9 18 (4.29%) ASP.NET
10 14 (3.33%) JSON
10 14 (3.33%) Middleware
10 14 (3.33%) Vue
11 13 (3.10%) SOAP
11 13 (3.10%) XML
12 12 (2.86%) EDI
13 10 (2.38%) RESTful
14 8 (1.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.81%) Cloud Native
1 16 (3.81%) Enterprise Cloud
2 15 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.67%) NHS
6 6 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.19%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.71%) IoT
9 2 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.48%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.24%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.24%) Lidar
10 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.24%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.24%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.19%) Android
3 2 (0.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (18.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 70 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 68 (16.19%) Agile
4 60 (14.29%) DevOps
5 43 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 35 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 31 (7.38%) Front End Development
9 26 (6.19%) TDD
10 25 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (5.24%) Clean Code
12 21 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (5.00%) Microservices
13 20 (4.76%) B2B
13 20 (4.76%) Test Automation
14 19 (4.52%) Roadmaps
15 17 (4.05%) API Integration
16 15 (3.57%) Release Management
17 14 (3.33%) CRM
17 14 (3.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.71%) Java
2 65 (15.48%) JavaScript
3 64 (15.24%) C#
4 61 (14.52%) SQL
5 46 (10.95%) PHP
6 39 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.00%) Python
8 13 (3.10%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.67%) Swift
10 5 (1.19%) C++
11 3 (0.71%) Groovy
12 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.48%) Bash
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) SOQL
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.24%) R
13 1 (0.24%) Scala
13 1 (0.24%) SOSL
13 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (4.05%) SC Cleared
1 17 (4.05%) Security Cleared
2 8 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.71%) Degree
5 2 (0.48%) HND
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.86%) TickIT
2 4 (0.95%) QA
3 2 (0.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (5.95%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.62%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) cPanel
3 2 (0.48%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.48%) Plesk
Vendors
1 41 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.10%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.90%) Intapp
4 2 (0.48%) Cognos
4 2 (0.48%) IBM
4 2 (0.48%) Splunk
5 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.24%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.24%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.24%) Google
5 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle
5 1 (0.24%) Pega