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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 66 83
Rank change year-on-year -66 +17 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 144 369 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 3.16% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 3.35% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 126 218 212
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,454
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £71,750
% change year-on-year +3.70% -5.92% -1.03%

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 8,231 11,013 6,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.92% 94.40% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,950 5,696 5,370
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,842
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 December 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 1 December 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 -19 95 £65,000 +8.33% 37
Yorkshire -57 42 £67,500 +12.50% 19
North East -34 9 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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 45 (31.25%) Mentoring
2 42 (29.17%) Agile
3 35 (24.31%) C#
4 33 (22.92%) .NET
5 32 (22.22%) Azure
5 32 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 32 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 31 (21.53%) AWS
7 28 (19.44%) DevOps
8 26 (18.06%) Java
9 24 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 23 (15.97%) Clean Code
10 23 (15.97%) Collaborative Culture
10 23 (15.97%) React
10 23 (15.97%) Salesforce
11 22 (15.28%) Business Analysis
11 22 (15.28%) JavaScript
11 22 (15.28%) Process Improvement
12 21 (14.58%) DBS Check
12 21 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (14.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 20 (13.89%) Docker
14 19 (13.19%) CSS
14 19 (13.19%) HTML
14 19 (13.19%) Roadmaps
14 19 (13.19%) TDD
15 17 (11.81%) Business Transformation
16 16 (11.11%) Microservices
16 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
16 16 (11.11%) SQL

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 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.39%) HCL Notes
2 2 (1.39%) IIS
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.39%) WordPress
3 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.39%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.39%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (1.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.69%) Odoo
3 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.22%) Azure
2 31 (21.53%) AWS
3 21 (14.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 8 (5.56%) GCP
4 8 (5.56%) Serverless
5 7 (4.86%) GitHub
6 6 (4.17%) SaaS
7 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.39%) npm
10 1 (0.69%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.69%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.69%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) HTTP
2 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (1.39%) Power BI
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (10.42%) Git
2 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) JUnit
3 2 (1.39%) Selenium
3 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) Maven
4 1 (0.69%) Mockito
4 1 (0.69%) Protractor
4 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (17.36%) Marketing
2 20 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.25%) Finance
4 8 (5.56%) Games
5 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Retail
7 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Back Office
8 2 (1.39%) Banking
8 2 (1.39%) Law
8 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.92%) .NET
2 23 (15.97%) React
3 19 (13.19%) CSS
3 19 (13.19%) HTML
4 13 (9.03%) .NET Core
5 12 (8.33%) Spring
5 12 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.25%) RESTful
7 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.17%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.17%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (4.17%) Node.js
9 5 (3.47%) Blazor
9 5 (3.47%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.78%) Amazon Corretto
10 4 (2.78%) Django
10 4 (2.78%) Flask
11 3 (2.08%) Bootstrap
11 3 (2.08%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.47%) IoT
1 5 (3.47%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.78%) e-Learning
3 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.39%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.39%) iPad
4 2 (1.39%) iPhone
4 2 (1.39%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Life Science
5 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.69%) Multi-touch
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.08%) Android
3 2 (1.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (31.25%) Mentoring
2 42 (29.17%) Agile
3 32 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 32 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 28 (19.44%) DevOps
5 24 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 23 (15.97%) Clean Code
6 23 (15.97%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (15.28%) Business Analysis
7 22 (15.28%) Process Improvement
8 21 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.19%) Roadmaps
9 19 (13.19%) TDD
10 17 (11.81%) Business Transformation
11 16 (11.11%) Microservices
12 13 (9.03%) Containerisation
12 13 (9.03%) Software Engineering
13 12 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
14 11 (7.64%) Front End Development
14 11 (7.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.31%) C#
2 26 (18.06%) Java
3 22 (15.28%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.11%) SQL
5 14 (9.72%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.03%) Python
7 8 (5.56%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.86%) Go
9 6 (4.17%) Ruby
9 6 (4.17%) Scala
10 5 (3.47%) C++
10 5 (3.47%) Elixir
11 4 (2.78%) PHP
12 2 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.39%) Erlang
12 2 (1.39%) R
12 2 (1.39%) Swift
12 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.69%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) DBS Check
2 6 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.94%) Terraform
3 3 (2.08%) cPanel
3 3 (2.08%) Plesk
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (15.97%) Salesforce
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.47%) Oracle
5 2 (1.39%) Infor
5 2 (1.39%) Lotus
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.69%) Google
6 1 (0.69%) IBM
6 1 (0.69%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.69%) Sparx
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) Workday