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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 174 62
Rank change year-on-year +118 -112 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 509 134 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.60% 1.67% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% 1.87% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 450 116 504
10th Percentile £48,975 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -0.41%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £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 18,477 7,154 18,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 89.20% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13,391 3,679 14,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,220 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +101 257 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Yorkshire +63 184 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North East +13 68 £65,288 -9.95% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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.

1 104 (20.43%) AWS
2 93 (18.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 86 (16.90%) Azure
4 82 (16.11%) Java
5 81 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 77 (15.13%) .NET
6 77 (15.13%) Agile
7 74 (14.54%) DevOps
8 73 (14.34%) JavaScript
9 70 (13.75%) C#
10 64 (12.57%) SQL
11 60 (11.79%) PHP
12 49 (9.63%) Mentoring
12 49 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (9.23%) Software Engineering
13 47 (9.23%) TypeScript
14 43 (8.45%) Microsoft
15 41 (8.06%) Serverless
16 34 (6.68%) React
17 33 (6.48%) Front End Development
17 33 (6.48%) TDD
18 31 (6.09%) Git
19 30 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
19 30 (5.89%) GitHub
19 30 (5.89%) Node.js
19 30 (5.89%) Spring
20 29 (5.70%) Clean Code
20 29 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
20 29 (5.70%) Laravel
20 29 (5.70%) Spring Boot

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 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.98%) IIS
3 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.77%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.59%) Shopify
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (20.43%) AWS
2 86 (16.90%) Azure
3 41 (8.06%) Serverless
4 30 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (5.89%) GitHub
5 27 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (4.52%) Amazon S3
8 21 (4.13%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (3.34%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.75%) SaaS
11 13 (2.55%) GCP
12 12 (2.36%) Boomi
13 10 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (1.57%) Apigee
14 8 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.39%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.32%) MySQL
2 21 (4.13%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.95%) Power BI
7 13 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.96%) MariaDB
9 8 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.59%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.39%) GIS
15 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 31 (6.09%) Git
2 16 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.95%) JIRA
4 10 (1.96%) GitLab
5 5 (0.98%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.59%) fastlane
7 3 (0.59%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Spock
8 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.20%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.20%) NUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Selenium
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 32 (6.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (5.70%) Finance
3 22 (4.32%) Retail
4 21 (4.13%) Banking
4 21 (4.13%) Marketing
5 19 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.96%) Law
6 10 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.77%) Legal
8 6 (1.18%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.79%) Back Office
9 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.59%) Games
11 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Police
12 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.13%) .NET
2 34 (6.68%) React
3 30 (5.89%) Node.js
3 30 (5.89%) Spring
4 29 (5.70%) Laravel
4 29 (5.70%) Spring Boot
5 28 (5.50%) REST
6 26 (5.11%) AngularJS
7 24 (4.72%) .NET Core
8 20 (3.93%) CSS
9 18 (3.54%) HTML
9 18 (3.54%) Middleware
10 17 (3.34%) ASP.NET
11 16 (3.14%) JSON
12 15 (2.95%) SOAP
12 15 (2.95%) Vue
13 13 (2.55%) RESTful
13 13 (2.55%) XML
14 12 (2.36%) EDI
15 9 (1.77%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.32%) Mobile App
2 19 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.18%) Legacy Code
6 5 (0.98%) Educational Technology
6 5 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (0.98%) Hedge funds
6 5 (0.98%) NHS
7 4 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.59%) IoT
9 2 (0.39%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.39%) CMDB
9 2 (0.39%) Derivative
9 2 (0.39%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.39%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.16%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.18%) Android
3 4 (0.79%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (18.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 81 (15.91%) CI/CD
3 77 (15.13%) Agile
4 74 (14.54%) DevOps
5 49 (9.63%) Mentoring
5 49 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (9.23%) Software Engineering
7 33 (6.48%) Front End Development
7 33 (6.48%) TDD
8 29 (5.70%) Clean Code
8 29 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (5.30%) AI
9 27 (5.30%) Roadmaps
10 26 (5.11%) Test Automation
11 22 (4.32%) Microservices
12 21 (4.13%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (3.73%) API Integration
13 19 (3.73%) B2B
14 18 (3.54%) Scrum
15 17 (3.34%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (16.11%) Java
2 73 (14.34%) JavaScript
3 70 (13.75%) C#
4 64 (12.57%) SQL
5 60 (11.79%) PHP
6 47 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.30%) Python
8 15 (2.95%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.96%) C++
10 8 (1.57%) Swift
11 5 (0.98%) Groovy
12 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.79%) SOQL
13 3 (0.59%) Bash
13 3 (0.59%) Ruby
13 3 (0.59%) SOSL
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.39%) Rust
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (3.93%) SC Cleared
1 20 (3.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
3 5 (0.98%) Degree
4 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.39%) HND
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.36%) TickIT
2 7 (1.38%) QA
3 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.39%) SLA
5 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (5.30%) Docker
2 9 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.75%) Terraform
3 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 43 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.14%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.57%) Intapp
4 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.18%) Splunk
6 3 (0.59%) Cognos
6 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.59%) IBM
7 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.39%) Google
8 1 (0.20%) Apple
8 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle
8 1 (0.20%) Pega