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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 160 63
Rank change year-on-year +96 -97 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 481 169 587
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.31% 1.79% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 2.04% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 431 149 469
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%

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 19,743 8,302 17,367
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 88.08% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14,372 4,461 13,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,250 £79,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +69 252 £65,000 +4.00% 38
Yorkshire +52 160 £62,500 - 10
North East +2 69 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 111 (23.08%) AWS
2 95 (19.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 86 (17.88%) Azure
4 85 (17.67%) Java
5 81 (16.84%) CI/CD
6 76 (15.80%) DevOps
7 75 (15.59%) Agile
8 70 (14.55%) C#
9 69 (14.35%) .NET
10 66 (13.72%) JavaScript
11 60 (12.47%) SQL
12 58 (12.06%) PHP
13 52 (10.81%) TypeScript
14 49 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (10.19%) Software Engineering
15 48 (9.98%) Mentoring
16 47 (9.77%) Microsoft
17 41 (8.52%) Serverless
18 37 (7.69%) AI
19 36 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 36 (7.48%) GitHub
20 35 (7.28%) Laravel
20 35 (7.28%) React
21 33 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
22 32 (6.65%) TDD
23 30 (6.24%) Python
24 29 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
24 29 (6.03%) Clean Code
24 29 (6.03%) Roadmaps
24 29 (6.03%) Spring

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 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.83%) IIS
4 2 (0.42%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.42%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.87%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (23.08%) AWS
2 86 (17.88%) Azure
3 41 (8.52%) Serverless
4 36 (7.48%) GitHub
5 33 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (5.20%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.91%) GCP
12 12 (2.49%) Boomi
12 12 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
12 12 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.08%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Broadband
3 1 (0.21%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.20%) MySQL
2 20 (4.16%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.33%) Power BI
6 10 (2.08%) MariaDB
6 10 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.87%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.83%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.42%) GIS
13 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (5.61%) Git
2 15 (3.12%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.12%) JIRA
3 9 (1.87%) GitLab
4 5 (1.04%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.62%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.62%) fastlane
6 3 (0.62%) Postman
6 3 (0.62%) Selenium
7 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.42%) Gradle
7 2 (0.42%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.42%) JUnit
7 2 (0.42%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.42%) Maven
7 2 (0.42%) Spock
7 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.42%) Xcode
7 2 (0.42%) XCUITest
General
1 33 (6.86%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.44%) Finance
3 21 (4.37%) Banking
4 20 (4.16%) Retail
5 18 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.74%) Marketing
6 12 (2.49%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.29%) Law
8 6 (1.25%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.04%) Legal
9 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.83%) Back Office
11 2 (0.42%) Games
11 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.42%) Police
12 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.21%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (14.35%) .NET
2 35 (7.28%) Laravel
2 35 (7.28%) React
3 29 (6.03%) Spring
4 28 (5.82%) Spring Boot
5 26 (5.41%) Node.js
6 24 (4.99%) AngularJS
7 23 (4.78%) REST
8 19 (3.95%) CSS
9 18 (3.74%) HTML
9 18 (3.74%) Middleware
9 18 (3.74%) Vue
10 16 (3.33%) .NET Core
10 16 (3.33%) JSON
10 16 (3.33%) RESTful
11 15 (3.12%) SOAP
12 14 (2.91%) EDI
13 13 (2.70%) XML
14 12 (2.49%) ASP.NET
15 10 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.16%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 16 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 9 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.25%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.83%) Derivative
8 4 (0.83%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.83%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.62%) IoT
9 3 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.42%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.42%) CMDB
10 2 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.42%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.42%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.29%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.46%) Android
3 5 (1.04%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (19.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 81 (16.84%) CI/CD
3 76 (15.80%) DevOps
4 75 (15.59%) Agile
5 49 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (10.19%) Software Engineering
6 48 (9.98%) Mentoring
7 37 (7.69%) AI
8 36 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (6.65%) TDD
10 29 (6.03%) Clean Code
10 29 (6.03%) Roadmaps
11 26 (5.41%) Microservices
12 25 (5.20%) Front End Development
12 25 (5.20%) Test Automation
13 22 (4.57%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (4.16%) B2B
15 18 (3.74%) API Integration
15 18 (3.74%) Scrum
15 18 (3.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 85 (17.67%) Java
2 70 (14.55%) C#
3 66 (13.72%) JavaScript
4 60 (12.47%) SQL
5 58 (12.06%) PHP
6 52 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 30 (6.24%) Python
8 15 (3.12%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.49%) C++
10 8 (1.66%) Swift
11 4 (0.83%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.83%) Groovy
11 4 (0.83%) SOQL
12 3 (0.62%) Ruby
12 3 (0.62%) Rust
12 3 (0.62%) Scala
12 3 (0.62%) SOSL
13 2 (0.42%) Bash
13 2 (0.42%) Bicep
13 2 (0.42%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 23 (4.78%) SC Cleared
1 23 (4.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.25%) Degree
4 4 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.42%) HND
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.49%) TickIT
2 8 (1.66%) QA
3 6 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.62%) WCAG
5 2 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (5.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 47 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.12%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.66%) Splunk
4 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.62%) Cognos
6 3 (0.62%) IBM
7 2 (0.42%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.42%) Google
7 2 (0.42%) Intapp
7 2 (0.42%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.42%) webMethods
8 1 (0.21%) Apple
8 1 (0.21%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle
8 1 (0.21%) Pega