Senior Developer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 76 112
Rank change year-on-year -119 +36 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 137 535 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.22% 3.07% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 3.24% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 116 415 281
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,528 £48,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +3.45%

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 10,310 16,534 15,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.96% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 12,788 8,257
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 2025.

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 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 -130 83 £60,000 - 120
Yorkshire -47 42 £55,000 - 33
North East +33 12 £69,500 +26.36% 20
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Senior 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 Developer in the job title.

1 60 (43.80%) Agile
2 58 (42.34%) JavaScript
3 53 (38.69%) .NET
4 51 (37.23%) C#
5 47 (34.31%) Azure
5 47 (34.31%) AWS
6 46 (33.58%) React
7 43 (31.39%) CI/CD
8 40 (29.20%) DevOps
9 32 (23.36%) CSS
10 31 (22.63%) TypeScript
11 30 (21.90%) HTML
11 30 (21.90%) Docker
11 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
12 28 (20.44%) SQL Server
13 27 (19.71%) PHP
13 27 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (19.71%) .NET Core
14 26 (18.98%) AngularJS
15 25 (18.25%) MySQL
15 25 (18.25%) SQL
15 25 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (16.06%) User Experience
16 22 (16.06%) Microservices
16 22 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (15.33%) Serverless
18 20 (14.60%) Software Engineering
18 20 (14.60%) TDD
19 19 (13.87%) Vue
20 18 (13.14%) Mentoring

Senior 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 6 (4.38%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.46%) CMS
3 2 (1.46%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
4 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.73%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Magento
1 10 (7.30%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (6.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.31%) AWS
1 47 (34.31%) Azure
2 21 (15.33%) Serverless
3 17 (12.41%) SaaS
4 16 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (10.95%) GCP
6 10 (7.30%) GitHub
7 9 (6.57%) Power Platform
7 9 (6.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.19%) NuGet
12 2 (1.46%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) Internet
2 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.73%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.44%) SQL Server
2 25 (18.25%) MySQL
3 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.84%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.11%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.92%) Power BI
8 3 (2.19%) Data Hub
8 3 (2.19%) Event Store
8 3 (2.19%) Metadata
8 3 (2.19%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.19%) SQL CLR
8 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 17 (12.41%) Git
2 11 (8.03%) JIRA
3 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.19%) NUnit
3 3 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.46%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.73%) git-flow
5 1 (0.73%) GitLab
5 1 (0.73%) Gradle
5 1 (0.73%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.73%) Maven
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.73%) Protractor
5 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.68%) Finance
3 12 (8.76%) Marketing
4 11 (8.03%) Games
4 11 (8.03%) Retail
5 9 (6.57%) Back Office
6 5 (3.65%) Law
7 4 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.19%) Legal
9 2 (1.46%) Electronics
9 2 (1.46%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (38.69%) .NET
2 46 (33.58%) React
3 32 (23.36%) CSS
4 30 (21.90%) HTML
5 27 (19.71%) .NET Core
6 26 (18.98%) AngularJS
7 19 (13.87%) Vue
8 14 (10.22%) .NET Framework
9 13 (9.49%) REST
10 12 (8.76%) ASP.NET Web API
10 12 (8.76%) jQuery
10 12 (8.76%) RESTful
11 11 (8.03%) ASP.NET
12 10 (7.30%) Node.js
13 9 (6.57%) Blazor
13 9 (6.57%) Entity Framework
13 9 (6.57%) Kafka
13 9 (6.57%) XML
14 8 (5.84%) GraphQL
14 8 (5.84%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.19%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.19%) CMDB
5 3 (2.19%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.19%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.46%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.46%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.73%) Life Science
7 1 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) Linux
2 3 (2.19%) Android
2 3 (2.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.80%) Agile
2 43 (31.39%) CI/CD
3 40 (29.20%) DevOps
4 27 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (16.06%) Microservices
6 22 (16.06%) User Experience
7 20 (14.60%) Software Engineering
7 20 (14.60%) TDD
8 18 (13.14%) E-Commerce
8 18 (13.14%) Mentoring
8 18 (13.14%) OOP
9 17 (12.41%) SDLC
10 16 (11.68%) Front End Development
11 15 (10.95%) Test Automation
12 14 (10.22%) Design Patterns
12 14 (10.22%) UX Design
13 12 (8.76%) B2B
13 12 (8.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 58 (42.34%) JavaScript
2 51 (37.23%) C#
3 31 (22.63%) TypeScript
4 27 (19.71%) PHP
5 25 (18.25%) SQL
6 15 (10.95%) Python
7 14 (10.22%) Java
8 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.46%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.46%) Bicep
9 2 (1.46%) Go
9 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.73%) F#
10 1 (0.73%) Haskell
10 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.73%) Ruby
10 1 (0.73%) Swift
10 1 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (8.03%) Degree
2 10 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.19%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.73%) IEC 62304
2 1 (0.73%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 30 (21.90%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.11%) Terraform
3 3 (2.19%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.73%) Ansible
5 1 (0.73%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.76%) New Relic
3 9 (6.57%) Adobe
4 3 (2.19%) Google
4 3 (2.19%) Oracle
4 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.19%) Twitter
4 3 (2.19%) VMware
5 2 (1.46%) Pega
5 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.73%) Intel
6 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.73%) Zend