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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 161 60
Rank change year-on-year +99 -101 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 504 170 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.35% 1.78% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.02% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 447 147 389
10th Percentile £49,000 £49,746 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -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 20,384 8,423 14,941
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 88.43% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,853 4,546 10,704
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
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 31 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 31 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 +86 272 £67,500 +3.85% 26
Yorkshire +60 161 £62,500 -3.85% 11
North East +5 71 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 121 (24.01%) AWS
2 100 (19.84%) Azure
3 92 (18.25%) CI/CD
3 92 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 92 (18.25%) Java
4 89 (17.66%) Agile
5 81 (16.07%) C#
5 81 (16.07%) DevOps
6 76 (15.08%) .NET
7 71 (14.09%) JavaScript
8 64 (12.70%) SQL
9 63 (12.50%) TypeScript
10 62 (12.30%) PHP
11 56 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 56 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (10.32%) Microsoft
13 50 (9.92%) Software Engineering
14 46 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (8.53%) Serverless
16 42 (8.33%) AI
17 40 (7.94%) React
18 39 (7.74%) Python
19 37 (7.34%) TDD
20 36 (7.14%) GitHub
20 36 (7.14%) Laravel
21 34 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
22 33 (6.55%) Clean Code
23 31 (6.15%) Microservices
23 31 (6.15%) Node.js
24 30 (5.95%) Azure DevOps

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 10 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.79%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.40%) WordPress
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (24.01%) AWS
2 100 (19.84%) Azure
3 43 (8.53%) Serverless
4 36 (7.14%) GitHub
5 34 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.37%) GCP
11 14 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
13 12 (2.38%) Boomi
13 12 (2.38%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.18%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Firewall
1 3 (0.60%) HTTP
1 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.96%) MySQL
2 21 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.17%) Power BI
4 16 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.98%) MariaDB
5 10 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.40%) GIS
13 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (5.75%) Git
2 15 (2.98%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.98%) JIRA
3 9 (1.79%) GitLab
4 5 (0.99%) Maven
4 5 (0.99%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.60%) fastlane
6 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) Storybook
6 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Gradle
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.40%) Spock
7 2 (0.40%) Xcode
7 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 41 (8.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.75%) Finance
3 23 (4.56%) Banking
4 20 (3.97%) Retail
5 19 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.37%) Marketing
6 17 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.79%) Law
8 7 (1.39%) Legal
8 7 (1.39%) Publishing
9 6 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.19%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.79%) Back Office
12 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Games
12 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.40%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.08%) .NET
2 40 (7.94%) React
3 36 (7.14%) Laravel
4 31 (6.15%) Node.js
5 29 (5.75%) AngularJS
5 29 (5.75%) Spring
6 28 (5.56%) HTML
6 28 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 27 (5.36%) REST
8 26 (5.16%) CSS
9 20 (3.97%) RESTful
10 18 (3.57%) Middleware
11 17 (3.37%) Vue
12 16 (3.17%) JSON
12 16 (3.17%) XML
13 15 (2.98%) .NET Core
13 15 (2.98%) EDI
13 15 (2.98%) React Native
13 15 (2.98%) SOAP
14 13 (2.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.37%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.39%) Legacy Code
7 4 (0.79%) Derivative
7 4 (0.79%) Educational Technology
7 4 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.60%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.60%) IoT
8 3 (0.60%) NHS
9 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.40%) CMDB
9 2 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.98%) Apple iOS
2 13 (2.58%) Android
3 5 (0.99%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (18.25%) CI/CD
1 92 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 89 (17.66%) Agile
3 81 (16.07%) DevOps
4 56 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 56 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (9.92%) Software Engineering
6 46 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (8.33%) AI
8 37 (7.34%) TDD
9 33 (6.55%) Clean Code
10 31 (6.15%) Microservices
11 29 (5.75%) Roadmaps
11 29 (5.75%) Test Automation
12 28 (5.56%) Front End Development
13 25 (4.96%) Collaborative Working
14 24 (4.76%) Scrum
15 23 (4.56%) SDLC
16 22 (4.37%) API Development
17 21 (4.17%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.25%) Java
2 81 (16.07%) C#
3 71 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 64 (12.70%) SQL
5 63 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 62 (12.30%) PHP
7 39 (7.74%) Python
8 17 (3.37%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.38%) C++
10 9 (1.79%) Swift
11 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.79%) Groovy
11 4 (0.79%) SOQL
12 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
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%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (5.16%) SC Cleared
1 26 (5.16%) Security Cleared
2 15 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.19%) Degree
4 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.40%) HND
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.38%) TickIT
2 11 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.18%) QA
3 8 (1.59%) WCAG
4 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (5.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 52 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.79%) Splunk
4 7 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.79%) Google
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Apple
7 3 (0.60%) Cognos
7 3 (0.60%) IBM
7 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.60%) NEC
7 3 (0.60%) webMethods
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Pega