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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 121 77
Rank change year-on-year +38 -44 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 304 134 481
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 2.10% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.28% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 267 107 407
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,500 £75,500
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 14,005 5,889 14,886
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.15% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,986 3,761 11,963
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 March 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 31 March 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 +31 161 £65,000 +9.24% 40
Yorkshire +12 110 £63,750 +10.87% 34
North East +2 33 £60,000 -24.05% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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 67 (22.04%) Azure
2 64 (21.05%) .NET
3 63 (20.72%) JavaScript
4 62 (20.39%) AWS
5 60 (19.74%) CI/CD
6 57 (18.75%) Agile
6 57 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (18.09%) C#
8 44 (14.47%) SQL
9 40 (13.16%) DevOps
10 39 (12.83%) Java
11 37 (12.17%) PHP
11 37 (12.17%) React
12 35 (11.51%) Mentoring
13 31 (10.20%) Software Engineering
14 30 (9.87%) CSS
14 30 (9.87%) Front End Development
14 30 (9.87%) Git
15 29 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (9.21%) TypeScript
17 27 (8.88%) .NET Core
17 27 (8.88%) HTML
17 27 (8.88%) Serverless
18 24 (7.89%) Docker
18 24 (7.89%) Python
18 24 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 23 (7.57%) Microsoft
20 22 (7.24%) Test Automation
21 21 (6.91%) TDD
22 20 (6.58%) Clean Code

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 3 (0.99%) CMS
1 3 (0.99%) WordPress
2 2 (0.66%) IIS
2 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.29%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.99%) Shopify
3 2 (0.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (22.04%) Azure
2 62 (20.39%) AWS
3 27 (8.88%) Serverless
4 17 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (4.93%) GCP
6 14 (4.61%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.28%) SaaS
8 11 (3.62%) GitHub
9 10 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.64%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.64%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.32%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.95%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.30%) MySQL
7 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.66%) Power BI
10 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.33%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (9.87%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
3 5 (1.64%) PHPUnit
4 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.66%) Maven
5 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.66%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.33%) fastlane
6 1 (0.33%) JUnit
6 1 (0.33%) NUnit
6 1 (0.33%) Protractor
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 21 (6.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.25%) Finance
3 18 (5.92%) Marketing
4 10 (3.29%) Law
5 9 (2.96%) Legal
5 9 (2.96%) Retail
6 7 (2.30%) Banking
7 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.32%) Games
7 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.32%) Retail Banking
8 3 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Back Office
9 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.05%) .NET
2 37 (12.17%) React
3 30 (9.87%) CSS
4 27 (8.88%) .NET Core
4 27 (8.88%) HTML
5 20 (6.58%) Node.js
6 17 (5.59%) ASP.NET
7 16 (5.26%) Laravel
7 16 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.93%) Spring
8 15 (4.93%) Vue
9 11 (3.62%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.62%) REST
10 10 (3.29%) Flask
10 10 (3.29%) RESTful
11 7 (2.30%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.30%) Jest
12 6 (1.97%) SwiftUI
13 5 (1.64%) Classic ASP
13 5 (1.64%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.28%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.30%) NHS
4 5 (1.64%) Educational Technology
4 5 (1.64%) Legacy Code
5 3 (0.99%) Client/Server
5 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.66%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.33%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.33%) Lidar
7 1 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.33%) Social Media
7 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.29%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.64%) Android
3 3 (0.99%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (19.74%) CI/CD
2 57 (18.75%) Agile
2 57 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 40 (13.16%) DevOps
4 35 (11.51%) Mentoring
5 31 (10.20%) Software Engineering
6 30 (9.87%) Front End Development
7 29 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (7.24%) Test Automation
10 21 (6.91%) TDD
11 20 (6.58%) Clean Code
11 20 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (6.58%) Microservices
12 16 (5.26%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (5.26%) Containerisation
13 15 (4.93%) User Experience
14 13 (4.28%) SDLC
15 12 (3.95%) Fintech
15 12 (3.95%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (20.72%) JavaScript
2 55 (18.09%) C#
3 44 (14.47%) SQL
4 39 (12.83%) Java
5 37 (12.17%) PHP
6 28 (9.21%) TypeScript
7 24 (7.89%) Python
8 13 (4.28%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.30%) Swift
10 3 (0.99%) C++
11 2 (0.66%) Bash
11 2 (0.66%) Groovy
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) Scala
12 1 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.33%) Delphi
12 1 (0.33%) Erlang
12 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (3.29%) SC Cleared
1 10 (3.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (2.63%) DBS Check
3 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.66%) Degree
4 2 (0.66%) HND
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.97%) QA
2 2 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (7.89%) Docker
2 8 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.96%) Terraform
3 3 (0.99%) cPanel
3 3 (0.99%) Plesk
4 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (7.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.63%) Intapp
2 8 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.66%) Cognos
3 2 (0.66%) IBM
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle
4 1 (0.33%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.33%) DevExpress
4 1 (0.33%) Google
4 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.33%) Pega