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 £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 161 60
Rank change year-on-year +100 -101 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 513 169 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.29% 1.76% 3.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.00% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 453 142 362
10th Percentile £49,000 £49,116 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -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 21,170 8,464 14,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 88.30% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15,420 4,569 9,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +82 282 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Yorkshire +50 154 £62,500 -3.85% 16
North East +4 77 £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 20 August 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.

1 119 (23.20%) AWS
2 102 (19.88%) Azure
3 98 (19.10%) Java
4 94 (18.32%) Agile
4 94 (18.32%) CI/CD
5 87 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 81 (15.79%) C#
6 81 (15.79%) DevOps
7 73 (14.23%) .NET
8 66 (12.87%) TypeScript
9 64 (12.48%) SQL
10 63 (12.28%) JavaScript
11 60 (11.70%) Mentoring
11 60 (11.70%) PHP
12 57 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (10.92%) Microsoft
14 50 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (8.58%) Software Engineering
16 42 (8.19%) AI
16 42 (8.19%) Serverless
17 39 (7.60%) Python
17 39 (7.60%) TDD
18 38 (7.41%) GitHub
19 37 (7.21%) Node.js
20 36 (7.02%) Laravel
20 36 (7.02%) React
21 35 (6.82%) Front End Development
22 34 (6.63%) Microservices
23 33 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
23 33 (6.43%) Docker

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 11 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.78%) CMS
4 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.58%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.58%) IIS
4 3 (0.58%) WordPress
5 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.19%) Confluence
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.58%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 119 (23.20%) AWS
2 102 (19.88%) Azure
3 42 (8.19%) Serverless
4 38 (7.41%) GitHub
5 33 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (5.46%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 21 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (3.12%) GCP
12 14 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (2.34%) Boomi
14 12 (2.34%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (2.14%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) HTTP
2 3 (0.58%) Firewall
2 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.48%) MySQL
2 22 (4.29%) DynamoDB
3 17 (3.31%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (2.92%) Power BI
5 10 (1.95%) MariaDB
6 9 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.58%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.39%) GIS
12 2 (0.39%) Redis
13 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (5.07%) Git
2 14 (2.73%) JIRA
3 13 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.36%) GitLab
5 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.78%) Maven
5 4 (0.78%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.58%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.58%) fastlane
6 3 (0.58%) Postman
6 3 (0.58%) Selenium
6 3 (0.58%) Storybook
6 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.39%) Ant
7 2 (0.39%) Gradle
7 2 (0.39%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.39%) Spock
7 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.39%) YouTrack
General
1 41 (7.99%) Social Skills
2 35 (6.82%) Finance
3 26 (5.07%) Banking
4 22 (4.29%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.29%) Retail
5 19 (3.70%) Marketing
6 18 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (1.75%) Legal
8 8 (1.56%) Publishing
9 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.17%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.97%) Law
10 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.78%) Back Office
12 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Police
14 1 (0.19%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.19%) Games
14 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.19%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.23%) .NET
2 37 (7.21%) Node.js
3 36 (7.02%) Laravel
3 36 (7.02%) React
4 33 (6.43%) Spring
5 31 (6.04%) AngularJS
5 31 (6.04%) HTML
5 31 (6.04%) Spring Boot
6 29 (5.65%) REST
7 28 (5.46%) CSS
8 20 (3.90%) Middleware
8 20 (3.90%) RESTful
9 18 (3.51%) Terraform
10 17 (3.31%) SOAP
11 16 (3.12%) XML
12 15 (2.92%) EDI
12 15 (2.92%) JSON
12 15 (2.92%) React Native
12 15 (2.92%) Vue
13 14 (2.73%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.17%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.78%) Derivative
9 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.58%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.58%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.58%) IoT
10 3 (0.58%) Online Gambling
10 3 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.39%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.39%) CMDB
11 2 (0.39%) NHS
11 2 (0.39%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.31%) Apple iOS
2 15 (2.92%) Android
3 5 (0.97%) Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (18.32%) Agile
1 94 (18.32%) CI/CD
2 87 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
3 81 (15.79%) DevOps
4 60 (11.70%) Mentoring
5 57 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (8.58%) Software Engineering
8 42 (8.19%) AI
9 39 (7.60%) TDD
10 35 (6.82%) Front End Development
11 34 (6.63%) Microservices
12 32 (6.24%) Clean Code
13 29 (5.65%) Roadmaps
14 28 (5.46%) Test Automation
15 26 (5.07%) Collaborative Working
16 23 (4.48%) API Development
16 23 (4.48%) Scrum
17 22 (4.29%) SDLC
17 22 (4.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.10%) Java
2 81 (15.79%) C#
3 66 (12.87%) TypeScript
4 64 (12.48%) SQL
5 63 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 60 (11.70%) PHP
7 39 (7.60%) Python
8 23 (4.48%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.34%) C++
10 9 (1.75%) Swift
11 6 (1.17%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.78%) SOQL
13 3 (0.58%) DataWeave
13 3 (0.58%) Go
13 3 (0.58%) Groovy
13 3 (0.58%) Ruby
13 3 (0.58%) Rust
13 3 (0.58%) Scala
13 3 (0.58%) SOSL
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (5.07%) SC Cleared
1 26 (5.07%) Security Cleared
2 15 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.17%) Degree
4 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.58%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.58%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.39%) HND
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.73%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.34%) QA
2 12 (2.34%) TickIT
3 11 (2.14%) WCAG
4 5 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (6.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.31%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.75%) Splunk
4 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
5 5 (0.97%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.78%) Google
6 4 (0.78%) NEC
7 3 (0.58%) Adobe
7 3 (0.58%) Apple
7 3 (0.58%) Cognos
7 3 (0.58%) IBM
7 3 (0.58%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.58%) webMethods
8 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.19%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.19%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.19%) New Relic
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle
9 1 (0.19%) Pega