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 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 160 63
Rank change year-on-year +105 -97 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 504 144 619
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.48% 1.64% 3.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 1.88% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 447 125 499
10th Percentile £49,000 £44,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
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 19,199 7,680 18,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 87.59% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,990 3,992 13,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +95 257 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Yorkshire +68 174 £62,500 +4.17% 5
North East +12 73 £70,000 -3.45% 6
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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.

1 108 (21.43%) AWS
2 94 (18.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 87 (17.26%) Azure
4 86 (17.06%) Java
5 84 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 77 (15.28%) Agile
7 76 (15.08%) DevOps
8 71 (14.09%) .NET
9 68 (13.49%) C#
9 68 (13.49%) JavaScript
10 62 (12.30%) SQL
11 56 (11.11%) PHP
12 51 (10.12%) TypeScript
13 50 (9.92%) Mentoring
13 50 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 46 (9.13%) Microsoft
16 45 (8.93%) Serverless
17 36 (7.14%) AI
18 35 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
18 35 (6.94%) GitHub
18 35 (6.94%) React
19 34 (6.75%) TDD
20 32 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
20 32 (6.35%) Laravel
21 30 (5.95%) Clean Code
21 30 (5.95%) Front End Development
21 30 (5.95%) Git
21 30 (5.95%) Python
21 30 (5.95%) 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 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.43%) AWS
2 87 (17.26%) Azure
3 45 (8.93%) Serverless
4 35 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (6.94%) GitHub
5 27 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.37%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.37%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.78%) GCP
12 12 (2.38%) Boomi
13 10 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
13 10 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.98%) SaaS
14 9 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.59%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.56%) MySQL
2 22 (4.37%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.98%) Power BI
6 13 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.18%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.98%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.40%) GIS
14 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 30 (5.95%) Git
2 17 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.98%) JIRA
4 10 (1.98%) GitLab
5 5 (0.99%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.60%) fastlane
7 3 (0.60%) Maven
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.40%) Spock
8 2 (0.40%) Xcode
8 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
8 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 30 (5.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (5.56%) Finance
3 21 (4.17%) Banking
3 21 (4.17%) Marketing
4 20 (3.97%) Retail
5 18 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.18%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.98%) Law
8 7 (1.39%) Legal
9 6 (1.19%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.79%) Back Office
10 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.40%) Games
11 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.40%) Police
12 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (14.09%) .NET
2 35 (6.94%) React
3 32 (6.35%) Laravel
4 30 (5.95%) Spring
4 30 (5.95%) Spring Boot
5 27 (5.36%) Node.js
6 26 (5.16%) AngularJS
6 26 (5.16%) REST
7 19 (3.77%) CSS
8 18 (3.57%) HTML
8 18 (3.57%) Middleware
9 17 (3.37%) .NET Core
10 16 (3.17%) JSON
10 16 (3.17%) RESTful
10 16 (3.17%) Vue
11 15 (2.98%) SOAP
12 14 (2.78%) ASP.NET
13 13 (2.58%) XML
14 12 (2.38%) EDI
15 10 (1.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.97%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.19%) Legacy Code
6 6 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (0.99%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.79%) Derivative
8 4 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.79%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.60%) IoT
9 3 (0.60%) NHS
10 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.40%) CMDB
10 2 (0.40%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.18%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.19%) Android
3 5 (0.99%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (18.65%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 77 (15.28%) Agile
4 76 (15.08%) DevOps
5 50 (9.92%) Mentoring
5 50 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (9.33%) Software Engineering
7 36 (7.14%) AI
8 34 (6.75%) TDD
9 32 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (5.95%) Clean Code
10 30 (5.95%) Front End Development
11 29 (5.75%) Roadmaps
12 26 (5.16%) Test Automation
13 24 (4.76%) Microservices
14 21 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (3.77%) Scrum
15 19 (3.77%) Secure Coding
16 18 (3.57%) B2B
16 18 (3.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 86 (17.06%) Java
2 68 (13.49%) C#
2 68 (13.49%) JavaScript
3 62 (12.30%) SQL
4 56 (11.11%) PHP
5 51 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.95%) Python
7 16 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.38%) C++
9 8 (1.59%) Swift
10 5 (0.99%) Groovy
11 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.79%) SOQL
12 3 (0.60%) Bash
12 3 (0.60%) Ruby
12 3 (0.60%) Rust
12 3 (0.60%) Scala
12 3 (0.60%) SOSL
13 2 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (4.37%) SC Cleared
1 22 (4.37%) Security Cleared
2 14 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.19%) Degree
4 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.40%) HND
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.38%) TickIT
2 8 (1.59%) QA
3 5 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) SLA
5 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (5.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.98%) Terraform
3 2 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 46 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.59%) Splunk
4 7 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.19%) Intapp
6 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.60%) Cognos
7 3 (0.60%) IBM
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.40%) Google
9 1 (0.20%) Apple
9 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Pega