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 6 January 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 89 82
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 178 252 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.68% 2.73% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.90% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 155 133 231
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -6.67%

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 9,389 8,677 7,554
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.58% 94.01% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,398 4,127 5,971
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,803
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -1.47% -3.23%
75th Percentile £67,375 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

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 6 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 6 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 +10 105 £60,000 - 41
Yorkshire -38 52 £65,000 +18.19% 28
North East -14 23 £65,000 +20.93% 24
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 51 (28.65%) Azure
2 49 (27.53%) C#
3 48 (26.97%) .NET
4 45 (25.28%) Agile
4 45 (25.28%) Mentoring
5 37 (20.79%) CI/CD
6 35 (19.66%) JavaScript
7 32 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (17.42%) AWS
9 29 (16.29%) CSS
9 29 (16.29%) React
9 29 (16.29%) Test Automation
10 28 (15.73%) DevOps
10 28 (15.73%) SQL
11 26 (14.61%) HTML
12 24 (13.48%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (12.92%) .NET Core
14 22 (12.36%) Docker
14 22 (12.36%) Java
14 22 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (11.80%) Git
15 21 (11.80%) Microsoft
15 21 (11.80%) Salesforce
15 21 (11.80%) SQL Server
16 20 (11.24%) Business Analysis
16 20 (11.24%) Process Improvement
17 19 (10.67%) DBS Check
17 19 (10.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 19 (10.67%) TDD
18 18 (10.11%) Business Transformation

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 (2.25%) CMS
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) WordPress
3 2 (1.12%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.12%) Shopify
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.56%) Odoo
2 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.56%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.65%) Azure
2 31 (17.42%) AWS
3 19 (10.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 10 (5.62%) SaaS
4 10 (5.62%) Serverless
5 9 (5.06%) GCP
5 9 (5.06%) GitHub
6 5 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.12%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) HTTP
2 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.80%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.93%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.12%) Power BI
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (11.80%) Git
2 5 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) JUnit
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) Mockito
5 1 (0.56%) Protractor
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (16.85%) Marketing
2 20 (11.24%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.93%) Legal
3 7 (3.93%) Retail
4 6 (3.37%) Finance
4 6 (3.37%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.81%) Games
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Banking
7 2 (1.12%) Law
7 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Automotive
8 1 (0.56%) Back Office
8 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.56%) Publishing
8 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.97%) .NET
2 29 (16.29%) CSS
2 29 (16.29%) React
3 26 (14.61%) HTML
4 23 (12.92%) .NET Core
5 15 (8.43%) Spring
6 14 (7.87%) ASP.NET
6 14 (7.87%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.62%) RESTful
8 9 (5.06%) Node.js
8 9 (5.06%) REST
9 8 (4.49%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.93%) .NET Framework
11 6 (3.37%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (2.81%) Django
12 5 (2.81%) Flask
12 5 (2.81%) GraphQL
12 5 (2.81%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.81%) Jest
13 4 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.06%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.81%) IoT
4 4 (2.25%) NHS
5 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.56%) iPad
7 1 (0.56%) iPhone
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.69%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Android
2 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.28%) Agile
1 45 (25.28%) Mentoring
2 37 (20.79%) CI/CD
3 32 (17.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (16.29%) Test Automation
5 28 (15.73%) DevOps
6 24 (13.48%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (11.24%) Business Analysis
8 20 (11.24%) Process Improvement
9 19 (10.67%) TDD
10 18 (10.11%) Business Transformation
10 18 (10.11%) Microservices
11 17 (9.55%) Front End Development
12 15 (8.43%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.87%) Clean Code
13 14 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (7.30%) Containerisation
15 12 (6.74%) Software Engineering
16 10 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.53%) C#
2 35 (19.66%) JavaScript
3 28 (15.73%) SQL
4 22 (12.36%) Java
5 15 (8.43%) Python
5 15 (8.43%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.30%) PHP
7 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.93%) Go
8 7 (3.93%) Scala
9 5 (2.81%) C++
9 5 (2.81%) Elixir
9 5 (2.81%) Ruby
10 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.12%) Erlang
10 2 (1.12%) R
10 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Delphi
11 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (10.67%) DBS Check
2 8 (4.49%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) QA
System Software
1 22 (12.36%) Docker
2 6 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.93%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) cPanel
3 3 (1.69%) Plesk
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) Microsoft
1 21 (11.80%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.25%) Intapp
2 4 (2.25%) Oracle
3 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.12%) Lotus
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe
5 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.56%) Google
5 1 (0.56%) IBM
5 1 (0.56%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.56%) Sparx
5 1 (0.56%) Splunk
5 1 (0.56%) Workday