Senior Developer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer salary in the North of England is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 71 81
Rank change year-on-year -55 +10 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 247 361 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.00% 3.58% 4.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 3.74% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 131 278 424
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £49,730 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £85,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,652 9,655 15,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 95.64% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,409 7,295 8,771
10th Percentile £33,000 £27,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,260 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,890 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £59,823 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -8.00% +4.17%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 20 January 2025.

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 20 January 2025. 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 -82 114 £60,000 - 87
Yorkshire -7 94 £55,000 - 17
North East +13 40 £52,500 -4.55% 8
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 20 January 2025, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 79 (31.98%) Agile
2 76 (30.77%) .NET
3 68 (27.53%) JavaScript
3 68 (27.53%) Azure
4 62 (25.10%) C#
5 60 (24.29%) React
6 43 (17.41%) HTML
6 43 (17.41%) CSS
7 40 (16.19%) Scala
8 39 (15.79%) DevOps
9 37 (14.98%) PHP
10 36 (14.57%) CI/CD
11 33 (13.36%) Social Skills
12 32 (12.96%) MySQL
13 31 (12.55%) TypeScript
14 29 (11.74%) Microservices
14 29 (11.74%) SQL
15 28 (11.34%) Software Engineering
15 28 (11.34%) AWS
15 28 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (10.53%) TDD
17 24 (9.72%) .NET Framework
17 24 (9.72%) Finance
17 24 (9.72%) Scrum
17 24 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
18 23 (9.31%) Web Development
18 23 (9.31%) Docker
18 23 (9.31%) Mentoring
19 22 (8.91%) E-Commerce
19 22 (8.91%) Design Patterns

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.86%) Apache
1 12 (4.86%) nginx
2 3 (1.21%) Appian
2 3 (1.21%) CMS
3 2 (0.81%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 7 (2.83%) Magento
1 7 (2.83%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (2.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 68 (27.53%) Azure
2 28 (11.34%) AWS
3 17 (6.88%) GCP
4 13 (5.26%) SaaS
5 12 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.86%) Datadog
6 10 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (3.64%) GitHub
8 6 (2.43%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.62%) Serverless
10 3 (1.21%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) Azure App Service
11 2 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.43%) Internet
2 3 (1.21%) Bluetooth
2 3 (1.21%) Broadband
3 2 (0.81%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.96%) MySQL
2 17 (6.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.05%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.21%) Event Store
6 3 (1.21%) Redis
7 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (7.69%) Git
2 12 (4.86%) PHPUnit
3 7 (2.83%) Bitbucket
3 7 (2.83%) JIRA
4 5 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.21%) GitLab
7 2 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.81%) Subversion
7 2 (0.81%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.40%) git-flow
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (13.36%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.72%) Finance
3 16 (6.48%) Marketing
3 16 (6.48%) Retail
4 13 (5.26%) Games
5 6 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.02%) Law
6 5 (2.02%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.21%) Banking
7 3 (1.21%) Electronics
8 2 (0.81%) Advertising
8 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.40%) Automotive
9 1 (0.40%) Back Office
9 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (30.77%) .NET
2 60 (24.29%) React
3 43 (17.41%) CSS
3 43 (17.41%) HTML
4 24 (9.72%) .NET Framework
5 20 (8.10%) .NET Core
6 18 (7.29%) Entity Framework
7 17 (6.88%) AngularJS
8 15 (6.07%) ASP.NET
8 15 (6.07%) Symfony
9 14 (5.67%) LAMP
9 14 (5.67%) LEMP Stack
9 14 (5.67%) Vue
10 12 (4.86%) ASP.NET Web API
10 12 (4.86%) Blazor
10 12 (4.86%) Laravel
10 12 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (4.45%) React Native
11 11 (4.45%) RESTful
11 11 (4.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.07%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.64%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.24%) 3D Graphics
3 8 (3.24%) Augmented Reality
3 8 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.24%) Virtual Reality
4 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.21%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.21%) Hackathon
5 3 (1.21%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.21%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.81%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.40%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.40%) Life Science
7 1 (0.40%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (1.62%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.98%) Agile
2 39 (15.79%) DevOps
3 36 (14.57%) CI/CD
4 29 (11.74%) Microservices
5 28 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (11.34%) Software Engineering
6 26 (10.53%) TDD
7 24 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (9.72%) Scrum
8 23 (9.31%) Mentoring
8 23 (9.31%) Web Development
9 22 (8.91%) Design Patterns
9 22 (8.91%) E-Commerce
10 21 (8.50%) MVC
10 21 (8.50%) OOP
11 20 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (7.29%) Code Quality
13 17 (6.88%) Computer Science
13 17 (6.88%) Front End Development
13 17 (6.88%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.53%) JavaScript
2 62 (25.10%) C#
3 40 (16.19%) Scala
4 37 (14.98%) PHP
5 31 (12.55%) TypeScript
6 29 (11.74%) SQL
7 13 (5.26%) Java
8 11 (4.45%) C++
9 7 (2.83%) Python
9 7 (2.83%) Ruby
10 6 (2.43%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.21%) VB
12 3 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.81%) Bicep
13 2 (0.81%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.81%) Swift
14 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (6.88%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.48%) Degree
3 13 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.83%) ACCA
5 7 (2.83%) CIMA
6 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.62%) QA
2 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.21%) IEC 62304
2 3 (1.21%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 23 (9.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.83%) Terraform
3 6 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.81%) Packer
4 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.86%) Google
3 11 (4.45%) New Relic
4 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.83%) Cognos
6 7 (2.83%) IBM
7 6 (2.43%) Adobe
8 3 (1.21%) Intel
8 3 (1.21%) Pega
9 2 (0.81%) Oracle
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Twitter