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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 161 56
Rank change year-on-year +95 -105 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 498 167 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.18% 1.76% 3.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 2.00% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 441 139 351
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,450 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 21,570 8,359 14,125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 87.91% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 15,775 4,598 9,064
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,928 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +79 265 £70,000 +7.69% 49
Yorkshire +41 149 £62,500 -3.85% 30
North East +8 84 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 108 (21.69%) AWS
2 98 (19.68%) Azure
3 91 (18.27%) Java
4 89 (17.87%) Agile
5 82 (16.47%) CI/CD
6 81 (16.27%) C#
7 78 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 75 (15.06%) DevOps
9 71 (14.26%) .NET
10 63 (12.65%) TypeScript
11 60 (12.05%) Mentoring
12 58 (11.65%) JavaScript
13 57 (11.45%) Microsoft
13 57 (11.45%) SQL
14 56 (11.24%) PHP
15 54 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (8.63%) Software Engineering
18 37 (7.43%) AI
18 37 (7.43%) Front End Development
18 37 (7.43%) TDD
19 36 (7.23%) Python
19 36 (7.23%) Serverless
20 35 (7.03%) HTML
21 34 (6.83%) GitHub
21 34 (6.83%) Laravel
21 34 (6.83%) Node.js
22 33 (6.63%) React
23 32 (6.43%) CSS
23 32 (6.43%) Microservices

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 11 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.69%) AWS
2 98 (19.68%) Azure
3 36 (7.23%) Serverless
4 34 (6.83%) GitHub
5 30 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (5.62%) Power Platform
8 21 (4.22%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.61%) GCP
14 12 (2.41%) Boomi
14 12 (2.41%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (2.21%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
17 8 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.22%) DynamoDB
1 21 (4.22%) MySQL
2 15 (3.01%) Power BI
2 15 (3.01%) Relational Database
2 15 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (2.01%) MariaDB
4 9 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.40%) GIS
9 2 (0.40%) Redis
10 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 21 (4.22%) Git
2 14 (2.81%) JIRA
3 12 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.20%) GitLab
5 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.80%) Maven
6 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.60%) fastlane
6 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) Storybook
6 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Ant
7 2 (0.40%) Gradle
7 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.40%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Spock
7 2 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 40 (8.03%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.63%) Finance
3 26 (5.22%) Banking
4 25 (5.02%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.42%) Retail
6 19 (3.82%) Marketing
7 18 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.81%) Legal
9 8 (1.61%) Publishing
10 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.20%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.80%) Law
13 3 (0.60%) Back Office
13 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.40%) Police
15 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.20%) Games
15 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (14.26%) .NET
2 35 (7.03%) HTML
3 34 (6.83%) Laravel
3 34 (6.83%) Node.js
4 33 (6.63%) React
5 32 (6.43%) CSS
6 31 (6.22%) Spring
7 30 (6.02%) AngularJS
8 29 (5.82%) Spring Boot
9 28 (5.62%) REST
10 20 (4.02%) Middleware
10 20 (4.02%) RESTful
11 17 (3.41%) .NET Core
11 17 (3.41%) SOAP
11 17 (3.41%) Terraform
12 16 (3.21%) XML
13 15 (3.01%) EDI
13 15 (3.01%) JSON
13 15 (3.01%) React Native
14 12 (2.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.61%) Mobile App
3 14 (2.81%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.00%) Online Gambling
9 4 (0.80%) Derivative
9 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.80%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.60%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.60%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.60%) IoT
10 3 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.40%) CMDB
11 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.81%) Apple iOS
2 12 (2.41%) Android
3 5 (1.00%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (17.87%) Agile
2 82 (16.47%) CI/CD
3 78 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 75 (15.06%) DevOps
5 60 (12.05%) Mentoring
6 54 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (8.63%) Software Engineering
9 37 (7.43%) AI
9 37 (7.43%) Front End Development
9 37 (7.43%) TDD
10 32 (6.43%) Microservices
11 29 (5.82%) Roadmaps
12 28 (5.62%) Test Automation
13 27 (5.42%) Clean Code
13 27 (5.42%) Collaborative Working
13 27 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (4.62%) API Development
15 22 (4.42%) Scrum
15 22 (4.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.27%) Java
2 81 (16.27%) C#
3 63 (12.65%) TypeScript
4 58 (11.65%) JavaScript
5 57 (11.45%) SQL
6 56 (11.24%) PHP
7 36 (7.23%) Python
8 18 (3.61%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.41%) C++
10 6 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.20%) Swift
11 4 (0.80%) SOQL
12 3 (0.60%) C
12 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
12 3 (0.60%) Go
12 3 (0.60%) Groovy
12 3 (0.60%) Ruby
12 3 (0.60%) Rust
12 3 (0.60%) Scala
12 3 (0.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (5.02%) SC Cleared
1 25 (5.02%) Security Cleared
2 13 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.20%) Degree
4 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.01%) WCAG
3 13 (2.61%) QA
4 12 (2.41%) TickIT
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 31 (6.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.02%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.81%) Splunk
4 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.80%) Google
6 4 (0.80%) NEC
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Apple
7 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.60%) webMethods
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.40%) Sage
9 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.20%) Cognos
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Pega