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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 93 74
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 201 238 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 2.67% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 2.85% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 172 125 314
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £43,491
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,461 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -10.00%

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 10,165 8,351 10,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.91% 93.54% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,038 3,927 8,375
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,850 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +18 117 £60,000 - 43
Yorkshire -47 59 £65,000 +18.19% 19
North East -11 25 £70,000 +33.33% 13
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 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 56 (27.86%) Azure
2 51 (25.37%) .NET
3 48 (23.88%) C#
4 46 (22.89%) Agile
5 43 (21.39%) Mentoring
6 40 (19.90%) CI/CD
7 38 (18.91%) JavaScript
8 36 (17.91%) AWS
9 32 (15.92%) React
10 31 (15.42%) CSS
10 31 (15.42%) SQL
10 31 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (14.43%) DevOps
12 28 (13.93%) HTML
12 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
13 26 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (12.44%) .NET Core
15 24 (11.94%) Docker
16 23 (11.44%) Java
17 22 (10.95%) Git
17 22 (10.95%) Microsoft
17 22 (10.95%) SQL Server
18 21 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
19 20 (9.95%) Front End Development
19 20 (9.95%) Salesforce
20 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Development
20 19 (9.45%) Process Improvement
21 18 (8.96%) Business Analysis
21 18 (8.96%) Business Transformation
21 18 (8.96%) DBS Check

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 4 (1.99%) CMS
2 3 (1.49%) IIS
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) WordPress
3 2 (1.00%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Visualfiles
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.00%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.86%) Azure
2 36 (17.91%) AWS
3 18 (8.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 13 (6.47%) SaaS
4 13 (6.47%) Serverless
5 10 (4.98%) GCP
5 10 (4.98%) GitHub
6 6 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.49%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.49%) Datadog
9 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.99%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.00%) Power BI
6 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (10.95%) Git
2 6 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.99%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.00%) GitLab
5 2 (1.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) JUnit
5 2 (1.00%) Maven
5 2 (1.00%) Selenium
5 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) Mockito
6 1 (0.50%) Protractor
General
1 29 (14.43%) Marketing
2 22 (10.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.98%) Legal
4 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.48%) Retail
5 5 (2.49%) Finance
5 5 (2.49%) Games
6 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.49%) Law
6 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.00%) Banking
7 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.50%) Automotive
8 1 (0.50%) Back Office
8 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.50%) Publishing
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (25.37%) .NET
2 32 (15.92%) React
3 31 (15.42%) CSS
4 28 (13.93%) HTML
5 25 (12.44%) .NET Core
6 16 (7.96%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.97%) Spring
7 14 (6.97%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.98%) Node.js
8 10 (4.98%) RESTful
9 9 (4.48%) REST
10 8 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.48%) Jest
12 6 (2.99%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (2.99%) Flask
12 6 (2.99%) Hibernate
12 6 (2.99%) Laravel
13 5 (2.49%) Django
13 5 (2.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.97%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.99%) IoT
5 4 (1.99%) NHS
6 3 (1.49%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.50%) Life Science
8 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.49%) Windows
2 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.89%) Agile
2 43 (21.39%) Mentoring
3 40 (19.90%) CI/CD
4 31 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 29 (14.43%) DevOps
6 28 (13.93%) Test Automation
7 26 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (10.45%) Collaborative Culture
9 20 (9.95%) Front End Development
10 19 (9.45%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (9.45%) Process Improvement
11 18 (8.96%) Business Analysis
11 18 (8.96%) Business Transformation
12 17 (8.46%) Microservices
13 16 (7.96%) Clean Code
13 16 (7.96%) Software Engineering
13 16 (7.96%) TDD
14 14 (6.97%) Containerisation
15 13 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (6.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.88%) C#
2 38 (18.91%) JavaScript
3 31 (15.42%) SQL
4 23 (11.44%) Java
5 17 (8.46%) PHP
6 14 (6.97%) Python
6 14 (6.97%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.99%) Go
8 5 (2.49%) C++
8 5 (2.49%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.49%) Scala
9 4 (1.99%) Elixir
9 4 (1.99%) Ruby
10 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.00%) Erlang
10 2 (1.00%) R
10 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.50%) Delphi
11 1 (0.50%) Groovy
11 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (8.96%) DBS Check
2 6 (2.99%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.49%) Degree
4 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.97%) QA
System Software
1 24 (11.94%) Docker
2 7 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.48%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) cPanel
3 3 (1.49%) Plesk
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.95%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.98%) Intapp
4 4 (1.99%) Oracle
5 2 (1.00%) Lotus
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe
6 1 (0.50%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.50%) Google
6 1 (0.50%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.50%) Splunk