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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 121 72
Rank change year-on-year +28 -49 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 264 145 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.89% 2.09% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 2.26% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 235 110 397
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 12,668 6,422 13,832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.78% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,895 3,606 11,251
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 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 10 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 +25 145 £65,000 +11.59% 46
Yorkshire -4 93 £62,500 +13.65% 24
North East -8 26 £70,000 +21.74% 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 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 62 (23.48%) JavaScript
2 60 (22.73%) .NET
2 60 (22.73%) Azure
3 57 (21.59%) Agile
4 56 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 51 (19.32%) AWS
5 51 (19.32%) C#
6 46 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (14.39%) SQL
8 35 (13.26%) Mentoring
8 35 (13.26%) React
9 33 (12.50%) DevOps
9 33 (12.50%) PHP
10 32 (12.12%) CSS
11 30 (11.36%) Front End Development
11 30 (11.36%) Git
11 30 (11.36%) Java
12 29 (10.98%) HTML
12 29 (10.98%) Software Engineering
13 28 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (9.85%) .NET Core
15 26 (9.85%) Docker
16 23 (8.71%) Test Automation
16 23 (8.71%) TypeScript
17 22 (8.33%) TDD
18 21 (7.95%) Clean Code
18 21 (7.95%) Containerisation
18 21 (7.95%) Microservices
18 21 (7.95%) Microsoft

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 (1.52%) CMS
2 3 (1.14%) WordPress
3 2 (0.76%) IIS
3 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.79%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.14%) Shopify
3 2 (0.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.73%) Azure
2 51 (19.32%) AWS
3 21 (7.95%) Serverless
4 15 (5.68%) GCP
5 14 (5.30%) GitHub
5 14 (5.30%) SaaS
6 12 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (1.89%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.52%) Datadog
13 4 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (1.52%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.52%) HTTP
2 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) Broadband
3 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.65%) MySQL
5 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.38%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.38%) Power BI
9 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) Git
2 9 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.89%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.89%) GitLab
3 5 (1.89%) PHPUnit
4 3 (1.14%) JIRA
4 3 (1.14%) Maven
4 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.76%) JUnit
5 2 (0.76%) Selenium
5 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.38%) Protractor
6 1 (0.38%) XCUITest
General
1 21 (7.95%) Marketing
2 20 (7.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.92%) Finance
4 10 (3.79%) Law
5 8 (3.03%) Legal
6 7 (2.65%) Retail
7 4 (1.52%) Games
8 3 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.38%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.38%) Publishing
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (22.73%) .NET
2 35 (13.26%) React
3 32 (12.12%) CSS
4 29 (10.98%) HTML
5 26 (9.85%) .NET Core
6 18 (6.82%) Node.js
7 16 (6.06%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.68%) ASP.NET
8 15 (5.68%) Spring
9 14 (5.30%) Laravel
10 13 (4.92%) Vue
11 11 (4.17%) REST
12 10 (3.79%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.41%) RESTful
14 8 (3.03%) Flask
14 8 (3.03%) Jest
15 6 (2.27%) .NET Framework
15 6 (2.27%) Hibernate
16 5 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
16 5 (1.89%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.30%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.27%) NHS
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.76%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.38%) Life Science
9 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.89%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.14%) Android
2 3 (1.14%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (21.59%) Agile
2 56 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 46 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (13.26%) Mentoring
5 33 (12.50%) DevOps
6 30 (11.36%) Front End Development
7 29 (10.98%) Software Engineering
8 28 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (8.71%) Test Automation
11 22 (8.33%) TDD
12 21 (7.95%) Clean Code
12 21 (7.95%) Containerisation
12 21 (7.95%) Microservices
13 19 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.06%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (4.92%) User Experience
15 13 (4.92%) Web Development
16 12 (4.55%) Code Quality
16 12 (4.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.48%) JavaScript
2 51 (19.32%) C#
3 38 (14.39%) SQL
4 33 (12.50%) PHP
5 30 (11.36%) Java
6 23 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.20%) Python
8 9 (3.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.52%) Swift
10 3 (1.14%) C++
11 2 (0.76%) Bash
11 2 (0.76%) Erlang
11 2 (0.76%) Groovy
11 2 (0.76%) R
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Delphi
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (3.79%) DBS Check
2 7 (2.65%) SC Cleared
2 7 (2.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.76%) Degree
3 2 (0.76%) HND
4 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.27%) QA
2 2 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (9.85%) Docker
2 7 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.89%) Terraform
3 3 (1.14%) cPanel
3 3 (1.14%) Plesk
4 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.79%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.03%) Intapp
4 2 (0.76%) Cognos
4 2 (0.76%) IBM
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe
5 1 (0.38%) Google
5 1 (0.38%) OpenAI