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 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 175 75
Rank change year-on-year +103 -100 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 467 125 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.41% 1.62% 2.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 1.81% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 411 107 424
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,381
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,875
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 18,034 6,922 16,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.81% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,348 3,482 12,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,024 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%

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 22 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 22 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 +89 247 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Yorkshire +52 165 £65,000 +21.50% 22
North East +10 55 £65,576 -9.55% 11
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 96 (20.56%) AWS
2 87 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 84 (17.99%) Azure
4 81 (17.34%) CI/CD
5 77 (16.49%) Java
6 76 (16.27%) Agile
7 72 (15.42%) JavaScript
8 71 (15.20%) DevOps
9 70 (14.99%) .NET
10 68 (14.56%) C#
11 60 (12.85%) SQL
12 52 (11.13%) PHP
13 47 (10.06%) Mentoring
14 45 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (8.99%) TypeScript
16 39 (8.35%) Microsoft
16 39 (8.35%) Software Engineering
17 37 (7.92%) Serverless
18 33 (7.07%) Front End Development
18 33 (7.07%) Git
18 33 (7.07%) React
19 31 (6.64%) TDD
20 30 (6.42%) Clean Code
20 30 (6.42%) Docker
20 30 (6.42%) Node.js
20 30 (6.42%) REST
21 29 (6.21%) Spring
22 28 (6.00%) .NET Core
22 28 (6.00%) GitHub
22 28 (6.00%) 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 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.07%) IIS
3 3 (0.64%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) Confluence
4 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.14%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.64%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 96 (20.56%) AWS
2 84 (17.99%) Azure
3 37 (7.92%) Serverless
4 28 (6.00%) GitHub
5 25 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (4.50%) Amazon S3
8 18 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (3.00%) SaaS
12 13 (2.78%) GCP
13 12 (2.57%) Boomi
14 10 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.71%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (1.71%) Apigee
16 7 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.64%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 2 (0.43%) HTTP
2 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.07%) DynamoDB
1 19 (4.07%) MySQL
1 19 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (3.43%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.00%) Power BI
4 14 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.93%) MariaDB
6 8 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.43%) GIS
10 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (7.07%) Git
2 16 (3.43%) JIRA
3 15 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.14%) GitLab
5 5 (1.07%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.64%) fastlane
7 3 (0.64%) Maven
8 2 (0.43%) JUnit
8 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.43%) Spock
8 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.43%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.21%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.21%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.21%) Gradle
9 1 (0.21%) NUnit
9 1 (0.21%) Xcode
General
1 31 (6.64%) Social Skills
2 25 (5.35%) Finance
3 24 (5.14%) Retail
4 22 (4.71%) Marketing
5 20 (4.28%) Banking
6 18 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.14%) Law
7 10 (2.14%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.93%) Legal
9 6 (1.28%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.86%) Back Office
10 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.64%) Games
12 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.99%) .NET
2 33 (7.07%) React
3 30 (6.42%) Node.js
3 30 (6.42%) REST
4 29 (6.21%) Spring
5 28 (6.00%) .NET Core
5 28 (6.00%) Spring Boot
6 24 (5.14%) AngularJS
6 24 (5.14%) CSS
7 23 (4.93%) Laravel
8 20 (4.28%) HTML
9 19 (4.07%) ASP.NET
10 18 (3.85%) Middleware
11 16 (3.43%) JSON
12 15 (3.21%) SOAP
13 14 (3.00%) Vue
14 13 (2.78%) XML
15 12 (2.57%) EDI
15 12 (2.57%) RESTful
16 9 (1.93%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.28%) Mobile App
2 17 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.43%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.28%) Legacy Code
9 5 (1.07%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.07%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.07%) NHS
10 3 (0.64%) IoT
10 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.43%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.43%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.43%) CMDB
11 2 (0.43%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.43%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.36%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.28%) Android
3 2 (0.43%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 81 (17.34%) CI/CD
3 76 (16.27%) Agile
4 71 (15.20%) DevOps
5 47 (10.06%) Mentoring
6 45 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (8.35%) Software Engineering
8 33 (7.07%) Front End Development
9 31 (6.64%) TDD
10 30 (6.42%) Clean Code
11 27 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (5.57%) Test Automation
13 23 (4.93%) Roadmaps
14 22 (4.71%) API Integration
15 21 (4.50%) Microservices
16 20 (4.28%) B2B
17 19 (4.07%) Collaborative Working
18 17 (3.64%) API Development
18 17 (3.64%) Release Management
18 17 (3.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.49%) Java
2 72 (15.42%) JavaScript
3 68 (14.56%) C#
4 60 (12.85%) SQL
5 52 (11.13%) PHP
6 42 (8.99%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.93%) Python
8 14 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.71%) Swift
10 7 (1.50%) C++
11 5 (1.07%) Groovy
12 4 (0.86%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.86%) SOQL
13 3 (0.64%) Bash
13 3 (0.64%) SOSL
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) Ruby
15 1 (0.21%) Scala
15 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 18 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 8 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.86%) Degree
5 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.43%) HND
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.57%) TickIT
2 6 (1.28%) QA
3 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.43%) SLA
5 2 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (6.42%) Docker
2 9 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.78%) Terraform
3 2 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 39 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.21%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.71%) Intapp
4 6 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.07%) Splunk
6 2 (0.43%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.43%) Cognos
6 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.43%) Google
6 2 (0.43%) IBM
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle
7 1 (0.21%) Apple
7 1 (0.21%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.21%) Pega