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 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 132 80
Rank change year-on-year +50 -52 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 396 139 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.17% 1.96% 2.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 2.19% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 346 116 413
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,454
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

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 16,838 6,359 15,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.63% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,907 3,811 12,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.13%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +61 223 £65,000 +8.33% 35
Yorkshire +9 131 £65,000 +13.04% 17
North East -9 42 £60,000 -13.67% 13
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 79 (19.95%) Azure
2 78 (19.70%) AWS
3 77 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (16.92%) CI/CD
5 65 (16.41%) Agile
6 64 (16.16%) Java
7 62 (15.66%) .NET
8 60 (15.15%) JavaScript
8 60 (15.15%) SQL
9 58 (14.65%) C#
9 58 (14.65%) DevOps
10 43 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (10.61%) PHP
12 40 (10.10%) Microsoft
13 39 (9.85%) Mentoring
14 38 (9.60%) TypeScript
15 36 (9.09%) React
16 34 (8.59%) Software Engineering
17 33 (8.33%) Serverless
18 32 (8.08%) Git
19 30 (7.58%) Front End Development
20 29 (7.32%) Node.js
21 28 (7.07%) GitHub
22 26 (6.57%) Spring Boot
22 26 (6.57%) TDD
23 25 (6.31%) Spring
24 24 (6.06%) .NET Core
24 24 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
24 24 (6.06%) REST
25 23 (5.81%) 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 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.76%) CMS
3 2 (0.51%) IIS
3 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.51%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.51%) WordPress
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.53%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.76%) Shopify
3 2 (0.51%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (19.95%) Azure
2 78 (19.70%) AWS
3 33 (8.33%) Serverless
4 28 (7.07%) GitHub
5 23 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (5.05%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.29%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.79%) GCP
11 14 (3.54%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (3.28%) SaaS
13 12 (3.03%) Boomi
14 11 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.02%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (2.02%) Apigee
16 6 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) HTTP
1 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.25%) Broadband
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 18 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 17 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 17 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.54%) Power BI
4 11 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (1.77%) MySQL
7 6 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.25%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (8.08%) Git
2 14 (3.54%) JIRA
3 13 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.26%) GitLab
4 5 (1.26%) PHPUnit
5 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.51%) Maven
6 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.51%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.25%) fastlane
7 1 (0.25%) JUnit
7 1 (0.25%) NUnit
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 29 (7.32%) Social Skills
2 26 (6.57%) Marketing
3 22 (5.56%) Retail
4 21 (5.30%) Finance
5 15 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.03%) Banking
7 10 (2.53%) Law
8 9 (2.27%) Legal
9 6 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.52%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.76%) Back Office
10 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Games
11 2 (0.51%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.66%) .NET
2 36 (9.09%) React
3 29 (7.32%) Node.js
4 26 (6.57%) Spring Boot
5 25 (6.31%) Spring
6 24 (6.06%) .NET Core
6 24 (6.06%) REST
7 23 (5.81%) CSS
8 21 (5.30%) Laravel
9 20 (5.05%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.80%) HTML
11 17 (4.29%) ASP.NET
12 14 (3.54%) Vue
13 13 (3.28%) JSON
13 13 (3.28%) XML
14 12 (3.03%) EDI
14 12 (3.03%) Middleware
14 12 (3.03%) SOAP
15 10 (2.53%) RESTful
16 8 (2.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 15 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.77%) NHS
7 6 (1.52%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.26%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.51%) IoT
10 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.25%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.25%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.25%) Social Media
11 1 (0.25%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.25%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.53%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.26%) Android
3 2 (0.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 67 (16.92%) CI/CD
3 65 (16.41%) Agile
4 58 (14.65%) DevOps
5 43 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (9.85%) Mentoring
7 34 (8.59%) Software Engineering
8 30 (7.58%) Front End Development
9 26 (6.57%) TDD
10 24 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (5.30%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (5.30%) Microservices
12 20 (5.05%) B2B
12 20 (5.05%) Test Automation
13 19 (4.80%) Roadmaps
14 18 (4.55%) Clean Code
15 17 (4.29%) API Integration
16 15 (3.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 14 (3.54%) CRM
17 14 (3.54%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.16%) Java
2 60 (15.15%) JavaScript
2 60 (15.15%) SQL
3 58 (14.65%) C#
4 42 (10.61%) PHP
5 38 (9.60%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.56%) Python
7 13 (3.28%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.77%) Swift
9 5 (1.26%) C++
10 2 (0.51%) Bash
10 2 (0.51%) Bicep
10 2 (0.51%) Groovy
10 2 (0.51%) Scala
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.25%) R
11 1 (0.25%) SOQL
11 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (4.29%) SC Cleared
1 17 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.26%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.76%) Degree
5 2 (0.51%) HND
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.03%) TickIT
2 4 (1.01%) QA
3 2 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (5.81%) Docker
2 9 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.53%) Terraform
3 2 (0.51%) cPanel
3 2 (0.51%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.51%) Plesk
4 1 (0.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.02%) Intapp
4 2 (0.51%) Cognos
4 2 (0.51%) IBM
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle
5 1 (0.25%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.25%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.25%) Google
5 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.25%) Pega