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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 159 61
Rank change year-on-year +86 -98 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 494 154 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.06% 1.63% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.87% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 442 127 279
10th Percentile £49,000 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,850 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 22,174 8,234 12,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 87.33% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,199 4,359 6,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,375
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +67 257 £69,653 +7.16% 61
Yorkshire +40 139 £61,250 -9.26% 30
North East +17 98 £70,996 +9.22% 19
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 101 (20.45%) C#
2 91 (18.42%) Agile
3 89 (18.02%) AWS
4 88 (17.81%) Java
5 87 (17.61%) .NET
5 87 (17.61%) Azure
6 84 (17.00%) CI/CD
7 78 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 62 (12.55%) DevOps
8 62 (12.55%) JavaScript
9 61 (12.35%) Mentoring
10 59 (11.94%) TypeScript
11 55 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (11.13%) Software Engineering
12 52 (10.53%) Python
13 50 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (9.92%) AI
14 49 (9.92%) SQL
15 48 (9.72%) Microsoft
16 46 (9.31%) PHP
17 45 (9.11%) Front End Development
18 43 (8.70%) TDD
19 42 (8.50%) React
20 37 (7.49%) Docker
20 37 (7.49%) HTML
21 34 (6.88%) CSS
22 32 (6.48%) Kotlin
22 32 (6.48%) Microservices
22 32 (6.48%) Serverless
22 32 (6.48%) Test Automation

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 14 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.01%) CMS
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.61%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.61%) IIS
4 3 (0.61%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.61%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 89 (18.02%) AWS
2 87 (17.61%) Azure
3 32 (6.48%) Serverless
4 27 (5.47%) GitHub
5 25 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (4.45%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 14 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.83%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (2.43%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.43%) SaaS
13 11 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.62%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) HTTP
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.25%) MySQL
2 15 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.83%) DynamoDB
3 14 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.23%) MariaDB
5 8 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.42%) Power BI
7 6 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.81%) Redis
9 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.61%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.40%) GIS
11 1 (0.20%) Chroma
11 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.05%) Git
2 11 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.62%) GitLab
4 7 (1.42%) JIRA
5 5 (1.01%) Maven
6 4 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.61%) Ant
7 3 (0.61%) Postman
7 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) Storybook
7 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) fastlane
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.40%) Spock
8 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 38 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.88%) Public Sector
3 27 (5.47%) Finance
4 18 (3.64%) Banking
5 17 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.44%) Retail
6 13 (2.63%) Marketing
7 10 (2.02%) Legal
8 8 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.62%) Publishing
9 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.40%) Back Office
10 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.40%) Games
10 2 (0.40%) iGaming
10 2 (0.40%) Law
10 2 (0.40%) Police
11 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (17.61%) .NET
2 42 (8.50%) React
3 37 (7.49%) HTML
4 34 (6.88%) CSS
5 28 (5.67%) Laravel
5 28 (5.67%) Node.js
6 27 (5.47%) AngularJS
6 27 (5.47%) REST
7 26 (5.26%) Spring
8 24 (4.86%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.25%) .NET Core
9 21 (4.25%) RESTful
10 14 (2.83%) Middleware
10 14 (2.83%) Terraform
11 13 (2.63%) React Native
11 13 (2.63%) Swagger
12 11 (2.23%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.23%) SOAP
13 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (2.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.24%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (2.23%) Online Gambling
3 11 (2.23%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.81%) Derivative
7 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.61%) IoT
8 3 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.40%) CMDB
9 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.40%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.40%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.02%) Android
2 9 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.21%) Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Windows
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.42%) Agile
2 84 (17.00%) CI/CD
3 78 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 62 (12.55%) DevOps
5 61 (12.35%) Mentoring
6 55 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (11.13%) Software Engineering
7 50 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (9.92%) AI
9 45 (9.11%) Front End Development
10 43 (8.70%) TDD
11 32 (6.48%) Microservices
11 32 (6.48%) Test Automation
12 30 (6.07%) Clean Code
13 29 (5.87%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (4.86%) API Development
15 23 (4.66%) Roadmaps
15 23 (4.66%) Scrum
15 23 (4.66%) User Experience
16 22 (4.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.45%) C#
2 88 (17.81%) Java
3 62 (12.55%) JavaScript
4 59 (11.94%) TypeScript
5 52 (10.53%) Python
6 49 (9.92%) SQL
7 46 (9.31%) PHP
8 32 (6.48%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.43%) C++
10 10 (2.02%) Go
11 6 (1.21%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.01%) C
13 3 (0.61%) Groovy
13 3 (0.61%) Ruby
13 3 (0.61%) Rust
13 3 (0.61%) Scala
13 3 (0.61%) SOQL
13 3 (0.61%) SOSL
13 3 (0.61%) Swift
13 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (3.44%) SC Cleared
1 17 (3.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.02%) Degree
3 9 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.04%) QA
2 15 (3.04%) WCAG
3 6 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.01%) TickIT
5 1 (0.20%) GRC
5 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (7.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.40%) Packer
2 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.20%) logstash
3 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.64%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.82%) Splunk
4 7 (1.42%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.81%) NEC
6 4 (0.81%) Sage
7 3 (0.61%) Adobe
7 3 (0.61%) Apple
7 3 (0.61%) Google
7 3 (0.61%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.61%) webMethods
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Cognos
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.20%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) YouTube