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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 168 74
Rank change year-on-year +98 -94 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 493 132 544
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.48% 1.70% 3.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 1.89% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 436 112 458
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £43,381
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £67,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 18,507 6,981 16,706
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 89.72% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,770 3,471 13,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £55,200 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.52% -13.65%

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 29 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 29 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 +92 256 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Yorkshire +47 175 £65,000 +18.18% 8
North East +12 62 £60,000 -17.24% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 101 (20.49%) AWS
2 90 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 86 (17.44%) Azure
4 85 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 80 (16.23%) Java
6 78 (15.82%) Agile
7 76 (15.42%) JavaScript
8 75 (15.21%) .NET
9 74 (15.01%) DevOps
10 72 (14.60%) C#
11 62 (12.58%) SQL
12 54 (10.95%) PHP
13 50 (10.14%) Mentoring
14 48 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (9.33%) TypeScript
16 44 (8.92%) Software Engineering
17 41 (8.32%) Microsoft
18 40 (8.11%) Serverless
19 35 (7.10%) Front End Development
19 35 (7.10%) React
20 33 (6.69%) Git
20 33 (6.69%) TDD
21 31 (6.29%) REST
22 30 (6.09%) Clean Code
22 30 (6.09%) Node.js
22 30 (6.09%) Spring
23 29 (5.88%) Docker
23 29 (5.88%) GitHub
23 29 (5.88%) Spring Boot
23 29 (5.88%) Test Automation

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 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.01%) IIS
3 3 (0.61%) CMS
3 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.41%) Confluence
4 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.03%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.61%) Shopify
3 2 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 101 (20.49%) AWS
2 86 (17.44%) Azure
3 40 (8.11%) Serverless
4 29 (5.88%) GitHub
5 28 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.26%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (3.04%) SaaS
13 13 (2.64%) GCP
14 12 (2.43%) Boomi
15 10 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
16 8 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (1.62%) Apigee
16 8 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.41%) Firewall
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.46%) MySQL
2 19 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 19 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (3.04%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.04%) Power BI
4 15 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.03%) MariaDB
6 8 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.41%) GIS
9 2 (0.41%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (6.69%) Git
2 16 (3.25%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.25%) JIRA
3 10 (2.03%) GitLab
4 5 (1.01%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.61%) fastlane
6 3 (0.61%) Maven
7 2 (0.41%) JUnit
7 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.41%) Spock
7 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.41%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.20%) NUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 33 (6.69%) Social Skills
2 27 (5.48%) Finance
3 24 (4.87%) Retail
4 22 (4.46%) Marketing
5 21 (4.26%) Banking
6 19 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.23%) Law
8 10 (2.03%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.83%) Legal
10 6 (1.22%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.81%) Back Office
11 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.61%) Games
13 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.21%) .NET
2 35 (7.10%) React
3 31 (6.29%) REST
4 30 (6.09%) Node.js
4 30 (6.09%) Spring
5 29 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.27%) .NET Core
7 25 (5.07%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.87%) CSS
9 23 (4.67%) Laravel
10 20 (4.06%) HTML
11 18 (3.65%) Middleware
12 17 (3.45%) ASP.NET
13 16 (3.25%) JSON
14 15 (3.04%) SOAP
14 15 (3.04%) Vue
15 13 (2.64%) XML
16 12 (2.43%) EDI
16 12 (2.43%) RESTful
17 9 (1.83%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.46%) Mobile App
2 19 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.25%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.22%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.01%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.01%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.01%) NHS
8 3 (0.61%) IoT
8 3 (0.61%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.41%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.41%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.41%) CMDB
9 2 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.23%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.22%) Android
3 2 (0.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (17.24%) CI/CD
3 78 (15.82%) Agile
4 74 (15.01%) DevOps
5 50 (10.14%) Mentoring
6 48 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (8.92%) Software Engineering
8 35 (7.10%) Front End Development
9 33 (6.69%) TDD
10 30 (6.09%) Clean Code
11 29 (5.88%) Test Automation
12 27 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (5.48%) Roadmaps
13 22 (4.46%) API Integration
13 22 (4.46%) Microservices
14 21 (4.26%) AI
14 21 (4.26%) B2B
14 21 (4.26%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (3.85%) User Experience
16 17 (3.45%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (16.23%) Java
2 76 (15.42%) JavaScript
3 72 (14.60%) C#
4 62 (12.58%) SQL
5 54 (10.95%) PHP
6 46 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 26 (5.27%) Python
8 15 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.62%) C++
9 8 (1.62%) Swift
10 5 (1.01%) Groovy
11 4 (0.81%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.81%) SOQL
12 3 (0.61%) Bash
12 3 (0.61%) Ruby
12 3 (0.61%) SOSL
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.41%) Scala
14 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (4.06%) SC Cleared
1 20 (4.06%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.01%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.61%) Degree
6 2 (0.41%) HND
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.43%) TickIT
2 8 (1.62%) QA
3 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.41%) SLA
5 2 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (5.88%) Docker
2 9 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.84%) Terraform
3 2 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 41 (8.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.25%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.62%) Intapp
4 7 (1.42%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.22%) Splunk
6 3 (0.61%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.41%) Cognos
7 2 (0.41%) Google
7 2 (0.41%) IBM
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle
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%) Pega