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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 91 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 207 216 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.71% 2.61% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 2.80% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 181 116 354
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £43,381
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,865 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £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% -6.90%

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 10,805 7,704 11,792
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.16% 93.19% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,473 3,756 9,702
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +25 115 £60,000 +1.69% 37
Yorkshire -43 66 £65,000 +18.18% 19
North East -8 26 £70,000 +38.61% 8
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 (27.05%) Azure
2 49 (23.67%) .NET
3 46 (22.22%) C#
4 44 (21.26%) Agile
5 43 (20.77%) JavaScript
6 40 (19.32%) CI/CD
7 38 (18.36%) AWS
8 37 (17.87%) Mentoring
9 33 (15.94%) React
10 30 (14.49%) CSS
10 30 (14.49%) SQL
11 29 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (13.04%) HTML
13 25 (12.08%) .NET Core
13 25 (12.08%) DevOps
13 25 (12.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 25 (12.08%) Test Automation
14 24 (11.59%) Docker
15 23 (11.11%) Java
16 22 (10.63%) Front End Development
16 22 (10.63%) Git
16 22 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (10.14%) PHP
17 21 (10.14%) Software Engineering
18 20 (9.66%) Microsoft
19 19 (9.18%) SQL Server
20 18 (8.70%) Microservices
21 17 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
22 16 (7.73%) Clean Code
22 16 (7.73%) Salesforce

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 (1.93%) CMS
2 3 (1.45%) WordPress
3 2 (0.97%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.97%) Shopify
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.05%) Azure
2 38 (18.36%) AWS
3 15 (7.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 14 (6.76%) SaaS
5 13 (6.28%) Serverless
6 12 (5.80%) GCP
7 9 (4.35%) GitHub
8 7 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.45%) Datadog
12 3 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.93%) HTTP
2 3 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
3 1 (0.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.86%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.93%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.93%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.45%) MySQL
5 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.97%) Power BI
7 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (10.63%) Git
2 6 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.93%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.97%) GitLab
5 2 (0.97%) JIRA
5 2 (0.97%) JUnit
5 2 (0.97%) Maven
5 2 (0.97%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) Mockito
6 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Protractor
6 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (12.56%) Marketing
2 20 (9.66%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.86%) Legal
4 7 (3.38%) Finance
5 6 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.90%) Games
5 6 (2.90%) Retail
6 5 (2.42%) Law
7 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.97%) Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Automotive
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.67%) .NET
2 33 (15.94%) React
3 30 (14.49%) CSS
4 27 (13.04%) HTML
5 25 (12.08%) .NET Core
6 14 (6.76%) ASP.NET
6 14 (6.76%) Spring
6 14 (6.76%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.83%) Node.js
7 10 (4.83%) REST
8 9 (4.35%) RESTful
9 8 (3.86%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.86%) Laravel
10 7 (3.38%) Jest
11 6 (2.90%) .NET Framework
11 6 (2.90%) Flask
11 6 (2.90%) Hibernate
11 6 (2.90%) Vue
12 5 (2.42%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (2.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.28%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.93%) NHS
6 3 (1.45%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.97%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.48%) IoT
8 1 (0.48%) Life Science
8 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.48%) Social Media
8 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.26%) Agile
2 40 (19.32%) CI/CD
3 37 (17.87%) Mentoring
4 29 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (12.08%) DevOps
5 25 (12.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (12.08%) Test Automation
6 22 (10.63%) Front End Development
6 22 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (10.14%) Software Engineering
8 18 (8.70%) Microservices
9 17 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (7.73%) Clean Code
10 16 (7.73%) TDD
11 15 (7.25%) Business Analysis
11 15 (7.25%) Business Transformation
11 15 (7.25%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.25%) Process Improvement
12 12 (5.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.22%) C#
2 43 (20.77%) JavaScript
3 30 (14.49%) SQL
4 23 (11.11%) Java
5 21 (10.14%) PHP
6 15 (7.25%) Python
6 15 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.42%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.93%) Scala
9 3 (1.45%) C++
9 3 (1.45%) Go
10 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.97%) Erlang
10 2 (0.97%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) Elixir
11 1 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (7.25%) DBS Check
2 6 (2.90%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.45%) Degree
4 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.38%) QA
System Software
1 24 (11.59%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.42%) Terraform
3 3 (1.45%) cPanel
3 3 (1.45%) Plesk
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.73%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.86%) Intapp
4 2 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe
5 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.48%) Google
5 1 (0.48%) IBM
5 1 (0.48%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.48%) Splunk