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 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 60 96
Rank change year-on-year -96 +36 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 153 423 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 3.39% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 3.57% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 129 267 226
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -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 8,394 11,863 7,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.87% 95.14% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,765 6,323 5,880
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,745
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 -71 105 £65,000 +8.33% 45
Yorkshire -61 43 £72,000 +26.32% 25
North East -40 7 £65,000 +26.21% 12
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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 55 (35.95%) Agile
2 42 (27.45%) Mentoring
3 40 (26.14%) AWS
4 35 (22.88%) .NET
4 35 (22.88%) DevOps
4 35 (22.88%) Test Automation
5 33 (21.57%) C#
6 31 (20.26%) CI/CD
6 31 (20.26%) Java
7 30 (19.61%) Azure
8 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (16.34%) Clean Code
11 24 (15.69%) React
11 24 (15.69%) TDD
12 23 (15.03%) Docker
13 22 (14.38%) JavaScript
13 22 (14.38%) Process Improvement
14 21 (13.73%) Collaborative Culture
14 21 (13.73%) Salesforce
15 20 (13.07%) Business Analysis
15 20 (13.07%) Roadmaps
15 20 (13.07%) SQL
16 19 (12.42%) DBS Check
16 19 (12.42%) Python
16 19 (12.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 19 (12.42%) TypeScript
17 18 (11.76%) Microservices
17 18 (11.76%) Serverless
17 18 (11.76%) Software Engineering

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 5 (3.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.31%) HCL Notes
2 2 (1.31%) IIS
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) nginx
3 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.31%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (1.31%) Magento
2 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Odoo
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.14%) AWS
2 30 (19.61%) Azure
3 19 (12.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 18 (11.76%) Serverless
5 15 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.88%) SaaS
7 7 (4.58%) GCP
8 6 (3.92%) GitHub
9 4 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.31%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.31%) npm
11 2 (1.31%) NuGet
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) HTTP
1 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.15%) DynamoDB
2 12 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.61%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.61%) GIS
4 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.31%) MySQL
6 2 (1.31%) Power BI
6 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (9.80%) Git
2 3 (1.96%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) JUnit
4 1 (0.65%) Maven
4 1 (0.65%) Mocha
4 1 (0.65%) Mockito
4 1 (0.65%) NUnit
4 1 (0.65%) Protractor
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) Sinon.JS
4 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (18.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.03%) Marketing
3 17 (11.11%) Finance
4 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.19%) Games
6 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.58%) Retail
8 4 (2.61%) Back Office
9 3 (1.96%) Legal
10 2 (1.31%) Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Law
10 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Publishing
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.88%) .NET
2 24 (15.69%) React
3 17 (11.11%) CSS
3 17 (11.11%) HTML
4 15 (9.80%) RESTful
5 12 (7.84%) .NET Core
5 12 (7.84%) Spring
5 12 (7.84%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.23%) Amazon Corretto
6 8 (5.23%) Blazor
7 7 (4.58%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.58%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (4.58%) Node.js
8 6 (3.92%) .NET Framework
8 6 (3.92%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.27%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.27%) REST
9 5 (3.27%) Web Services
10 4 (2.61%) Vue
11 3 (1.96%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) e-Learning
2 6 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.27%) IoT
4 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.31%) iPad
5 2 (1.31%) iPhone
5 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) Life Science
6 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.65%) Multi-touch
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.27%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.61%) Android
2 4 (2.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.95%) Agile
2 42 (27.45%) Mentoring
3 35 (22.88%) DevOps
3 35 (22.88%) Test Automation
4 31 (20.26%) CI/CD
5 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (16.34%) Clean Code
8 24 (15.69%) TDD
9 22 (14.38%) Process Improvement
10 21 (13.73%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (13.07%) Business Analysis
11 20 (13.07%) Roadmaps
12 18 (11.76%) Microservices
12 18 (11.76%) Software Engineering
13 15 (9.80%) Business Transformation
14 14 (9.15%) Front End Development
14 14 (9.15%) User Experience
15 11 (7.19%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (7.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.57%) C#
2 31 (20.26%) Java
3 22 (14.38%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.07%) SQL
5 19 (12.42%) Python
5 19 (12.42%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.23%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.58%) Go
7 7 (4.58%) Ruby
8 6 (3.92%) PHP
9 5 (3.27%) Elixir
9 5 (3.27%) Scala
10 4 (2.61%) C++
11 3 (1.96%) Swift
12 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.31%) Erlang
12 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (12.42%) DBS Check
2 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.27%) Degree
4 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) QA
2 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (15.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) cPanel
3 1 (0.65%) Plesk
3 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (13.73%) Salesforce
2 16 (10.46%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.92%) Oracle
5 4 (2.61%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.61%) Google
5 4 (2.61%) IBM
5 4 (2.61%) Moogsoft
5 4 (2.61%) Splunk
6 3 (1.96%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.31%) Infor
7 2 (1.31%) Lotus
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe
8 1 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.65%) PayPal
8 1 (0.65%) Sparx
8 1 (0.65%) Workday