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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 84 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 192 254 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.78% 2.79% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.97% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 164 137 249
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

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 9,556 8,552 8,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,571 4,030 6,496
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +8 113 £60,000 - 44
Yorkshire -40 56 £65,000 +18.20% 30
North East -5 25 £65,000 +20.93% 19
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 55 (28.65%) Azure
2 52 (27.08%) .NET
3 51 (26.56%) C#
4 49 (25.52%) Agile
5 46 (23.96%) Mentoring
6 39 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 39 (20.31%) JavaScript
7 33 (17.19%) AWS
7 33 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (16.15%) React
9 30 (15.63%) CSS
9 30 (15.63%) SQL
9 30 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 29 (15.10%) DevOps
11 27 (14.06%) HTML
12 25 (13.02%) .NET Core
13 24 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
14 23 (11.98%) Docker
14 23 (11.98%) Java
14 23 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (11.98%) SQL Server
15 22 (11.46%) Git
15 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
15 22 (11.46%) Salesforce
16 21 (10.94%) Process Improvement
17 20 (10.42%) Business Analysis
17 20 (10.42%) DBS Check
17 20 (10.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 19 (9.90%) Business Transformation
18 19 (9.90%) Front End Development

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 (2.08%) CMS
2 3 (1.56%) IIS
2 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.56%) WordPress
3 2 (1.04%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Odoo
2 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.52%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.65%) Azure
2 33 (17.19%) AWS
3 20 (10.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 13 (6.77%) SaaS
5 12 (6.25%) Serverless
6 9 (4.69%) GCP
6 9 (4.69%) GitHub
7 6 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.60%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.04%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) HTTP
2 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.65%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.04%) Power BI
5 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (11.46%) Git
2 6 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.04%) GitLab
5 2 (1.04%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) JUnit
5 2 (1.04%) Maven
5 2 (1.04%) Selenium
5 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Mockito
6 1 (0.52%) Protractor
General
1 31 (16.15%) Marketing
2 21 (10.94%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.17%) Legal
4 7 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.65%) Retail
5 5 (2.60%) Finance
5 5 (2.60%) Games
5 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Banking
7 2 (1.04%) Law
7 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Back Office
8 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.52%) Publishing
8 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.08%) .NET
2 31 (16.15%) React
3 30 (15.63%) CSS
4 27 (14.06%) HTML
5 25 (13.02%) .NET Core
6 16 (8.33%) ASP.NET
7 15 (7.81%) Spring
7 15 (7.81%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.21%) RESTful
9 9 (4.69%) Node.js
9 9 (4.69%) REST
10 8 (4.17%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.65%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.65%) Jest
12 6 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (3.13%) Flask
13 5 (2.60%) Django
13 5 (2.60%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.60%) Hibernate
14 4 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.60%) IoT
6 4 (2.08%) NHS
7 3 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.04%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.52%) iPad
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.52%) Agile
2 46 (23.96%) Mentoring
3 39 (20.31%) CI/CD
4 33 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 30 (15.63%) Test Automation
6 29 (15.10%) DevOps
7 24 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
8 23 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.94%) Process Improvement
10 20 (10.42%) Business Analysis
11 19 (9.90%) Business Transformation
11 19 (9.90%) Front End Development
12 18 (9.38%) TDD
13 17 (8.85%) Microservices
14 15 (7.81%) Clean Code
14 15 (7.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (7.81%) Software Engineering
15 14 (7.29%) Roadmaps
16 13 (6.77%) Containerisation
17 11 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.56%) C#
2 39 (20.31%) JavaScript
3 30 (15.63%) SQL
4 23 (11.98%) Java
5 17 (8.85%) Python
6 15 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.29%) PHP
8 7 (3.65%) Go
8 7 (3.65%) Scala
9 6 (3.13%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.60%) C++
10 5 (2.60%) Elixir
10 5 (2.60%) Ruby
11 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.04%) Erlang
11 2 (1.04%) R
11 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) Delphi
12 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (10.42%) DBS Check
2 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.56%) Degree
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.77%) QA
System Software
1 23 (11.98%) Docker
2 7 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.56%) cPanel
3 3 (1.56%) Plesk
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
1 22 (11.46%) Salesforce
2 6 (3.13%) Intapp
3 4 (2.08%) Oracle
4 2 (1.04%) Lotus
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe
5 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.52%) Google
5 1 (0.52%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.52%) Splunk