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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 157 58
Rank change year-on-year +94 -99 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 512 167 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.25% 1.75% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.99% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 453 139 361
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,450 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 21,484 8,405 14,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 88.03% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,697 4,600 9,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +91 277 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Yorkshire +48 156 £63,750 -1.92% 10
North East +2 79 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 117 (22.85%) AWS
2 101 (19.73%) Azure
3 96 (18.75%) Java
4 95 (18.55%) Agile
5 89 (17.38%) CI/CD
6 87 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
7 81 (15.82%) C#
8 80 (15.63%) DevOps
9 73 (14.26%) .NET
10 70 (13.67%) TypeScript
11 65 (12.70%) JavaScript
12 63 (12.30%) SQL
13 62 (12.11%) Mentoring
14 60 (11.72%) PHP
15 57 (11.13%) Microsoft
16 54 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
17 51 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (8.79%) Software Engineering
19 40 (7.81%) AI
19 40 (7.81%) Node.js
19 40 (7.81%) Serverless
19 40 (7.81%) TDD
20 39 (7.62%) Front End Development
21 38 (7.42%) Python
22 37 (7.23%) GitHub
22 37 (7.23%) Laravel
23 36 (7.03%) React
24 35 (6.84%) HTML
25 34 (6.64%) Microservices
26 33 (6.45%) AWS Lambda

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 11 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.78%) CMS
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.59%) IIS
4 3 (0.59%) WordPress
5 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.39%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 117 (22.85%) AWS
2 101 (19.73%) Azure
3 40 (7.81%) Serverless
4 37 (7.23%) GitHub
5 33 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (5.47%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.30%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (2.93%) GCP
13 14 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (2.34%) Boomi
14 12 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (2.34%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (2.15%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) HTTP
2 3 (0.59%) Firewall
2 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.49%) MySQL
2 22 (4.30%) DynamoDB
3 16 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (2.93%) Power BI
5 10 (1.95%) MariaDB
6 9 (1.76%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.59%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.39%) GIS
11 2 (0.39%) Redis
12 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 25 (4.88%) Git
2 14 (2.73%) JIRA
3 13 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.37%) GitLab
5 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.78%) Maven
5 4 (0.78%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.59%) fastlane
6 3 (0.59%) Postman
6 3 (0.59%) Selenium
6 3 (0.59%) Storybook
6 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) Ant
7 2 (0.39%) Gradle
7 2 (0.39%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.39%) Spock
7 2 (0.39%) YouTrack
General
1 41 (8.01%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.64%) Finance
3 26 (5.08%) Banking
3 26 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.30%) Retail
5 19 (3.71%) Marketing
6 18 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (1.76%) Legal
8 8 (1.56%) Publishing
9 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.17%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.78%) Back Office
11 4 (0.78%) Law
12 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.20%) Games
14 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.26%) .NET
2 40 (7.81%) Node.js
3 37 (7.23%) Laravel
4 36 (7.03%) React
5 35 (6.84%) HTML
6 32 (6.25%) CSS
6 32 (6.25%) Spring
7 31 (6.05%) AngularJS
8 30 (5.86%) Spring Boot
9 28 (5.47%) REST
10 20 (3.91%) Middleware
10 20 (3.91%) RESTful
11 17 (3.32%) SOAP
11 17 (3.32%) Terraform
12 16 (3.13%) XML
13 15 (2.93%) .NET Core
13 15 (2.93%) EDI
13 15 (2.93%) JSON
13 15 (2.93%) React Native
13 15 (2.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.52%) Mobile App
3 14 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.78%) Derivative
9 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.78%) Online Gambling
10 3 (0.59%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.59%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.59%) IoT
10 3 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.39%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.39%) CMDB
11 2 (0.39%) NHS
11 2 (0.39%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.73%) Apple iOS
2 12 (2.34%) Android
3 5 (0.98%) Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (18.55%) Agile
2 89 (17.38%) CI/CD
3 87 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 80 (15.63%) DevOps
5 62 (12.11%) Mentoring
6 54 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (8.79%) Software Engineering
9 40 (7.81%) AI
9 40 (7.81%) TDD
10 39 (7.62%) Front End Development
11 34 (6.64%) Microservices
12 30 (5.86%) Roadmaps
13 29 (5.66%) Clean Code
14 28 (5.47%) Test Automation
15 27 (5.27%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (5.08%) Collaborative Working
17 23 (4.49%) API Development
18 22 (4.30%) Scrum
18 22 (4.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.75%) Java
2 81 (15.82%) C#
3 70 (13.67%) TypeScript
4 65 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 63 (12.30%) SQL
6 60 (11.72%) PHP
7 38 (7.42%) Python
8 21 (4.10%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.34%) C++
10 6 (1.17%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.17%) Swift
11 4 (0.78%) SOQL
12 3 (0.59%) DataWeave
12 3 (0.59%) Go
12 3 (0.59%) Groovy
12 3 (0.59%) Ruby
12 3 (0.59%) Rust
12 3 (0.59%) Scala
12 3 (0.59%) SOSL
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (5.08%) SC Cleared
1 26 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 15 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.17%) Degree
4 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.39%) HND
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.52%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.93%) WCAG
3 13 (2.54%) QA
4 12 (2.34%) TickIT
5 5 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.39%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.91%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.76%) Splunk
4 7 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 5 (0.98%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.78%) Google
6 4 (0.78%) NEC
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe
7 3 (0.59%) Apple
7 3 (0.59%) Cognos
7 3 (0.59%) IBM
7 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.59%) webMethods
8 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Pega