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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 58 91
Rank change year-on-year -65 +33 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 160 419 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.63% 3.37% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 3.55% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 136 264 222
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,484
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 £73,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -8.45% -2.07%

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 8,627 11,805 7,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.82% 94.97% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,098 6,223 5,570
10th Percentile £26,250 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,225 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -23 107 £65,000 +8.33% 72
Yorkshire -59 46 £67,500 +18.42% 20
North East -44 9 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 54 (33.75%) Agile
2 45 (28.13%) Mentoring
3 38 (23.75%) AWS
3 38 (23.75%) Test Automation
4 37 (23.13%) .NET
5 36 (22.50%) C#
5 36 (22.50%) DevOps
6 33 (20.63%) CI/CD
7 31 (19.38%) Azure
7 31 (19.38%) Java
7 31 (19.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (15.63%) TDD
10 24 (15.00%) Clean Code
10 24 (15.00%) Docker
10 24 (15.00%) Process Improvement
10 24 (15.00%) React
11 23 (14.38%) Salesforce
12 22 (13.75%) Business Analysis
12 22 (13.75%) JavaScript
13 21 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
13 21 (13.13%) DBS Check
13 21 (13.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 21 (13.13%) SQL
14 19 (11.88%) Microservices
14 19 (11.88%) Roadmaps
15 18 (11.25%) CSS
15 18 (11.25%) HTML
15 18 (11.25%) Kubernetes
15 18 (11.25%) Python

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 5 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.25%) HCL Notes
2 2 (1.25%) IIS
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (1.25%) Magento
2 2 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Odoo
3 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.75%) AWS
2 31 (19.38%) Azure
3 21 (13.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 15 (9.38%) Serverless
5 12 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.63%) SaaS
7 7 (4.38%) GCP
7 7 (4.38%) GitHub
8 4 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.25%) npm
10 2 (1.25%) NuGet
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.63%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) HTTP
1 4 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.88%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.38%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.88%) GIS
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.25%) MySQL
6 2 (1.25%) Power BI
6 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Git
2 3 (1.88%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) GitLab
3 2 (1.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.25%) JUnit
3 2 (1.25%) Selenium
3 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) Mocha
4 1 (0.63%) Mockito
4 1 (0.63%) NUnit
4 1 (0.63%) Protractor
4 1 (0.63%) Sinon.JS
4 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.63%) Marketing
3 16 (10.00%) Finance
4 11 (6.88%) Games
5 10 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.75%) Retail
8 3 (1.88%) Back Office
8 3 (1.88%) Legal
9 2 (1.25%) Banking
9 2 (1.25%) Law
9 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.13%) .NET
2 24 (15.00%) React
3 18 (11.25%) CSS
3 18 (11.25%) HTML
4 15 (9.38%) RESTful
5 13 (8.13%) .NET Core
5 13 (8.13%) Spring
5 13 (8.13%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.38%) Amazon Corretto
6 7 (4.38%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.38%) Blazor
6 7 (4.38%) Node.js
7 6 (3.75%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.75%) ASP.NET
7 6 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (3.13%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.13%) REST
8 5 (3.13%) Web Services
9 4 (2.50%) Django
9 4 (2.50%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.38%) e-Learning
2 6 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.13%) IoT
4 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) iPad
6 2 (1.25%) iPhone
6 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.63%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Android
1 4 (2.50%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.75%) Agile
2 45 (28.13%) Mentoring
3 38 (23.75%) Test Automation
4 36 (22.50%) DevOps
5 33 (20.63%) CI/CD
6 31 (19.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (15.63%) TDD
9 24 (15.00%) Clean Code
9 24 (15.00%) Process Improvement
10 22 (13.75%) Business Analysis
11 21 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (11.88%) Microservices
12 19 (11.88%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.25%) Software Engineering
14 17 (10.63%) Business Transformation
15 14 (8.75%) Front End Development
16 13 (8.13%) Containerisation
16 13 (8.13%) User Experience
17 11 (6.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.50%) C#
2 31 (19.38%) Java
3 22 (13.75%) JavaScript
4 21 (13.13%) SQL
5 18 (11.25%) Python
5 18 (11.25%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.38%) Go
7 7 (4.38%) Ruby
8 6 (3.75%) Scala
9 5 (3.13%) C++
9 5 (3.13%) Elixir
9 5 (3.13%) PHP
10 3 (1.88%) Swift
11 2 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.25%) Erlang
11 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.63%) Delphi
12 1 (0.63%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (13.13%) DBS Check
2 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) cPanel
3 1 (0.63%) Grafana
3 1 (0.63%) Plesk
3 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (14.38%) Salesforce
2 17 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.38%) Oracle
5 4 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.50%) Google
5 4 (2.50%) IBM
5 4 (2.50%) Moogsoft
5 4 (2.50%) Splunk
6 3 (1.88%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.25%) Infor
7 2 (1.25%) Lotus
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe
8 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.63%) PayPal
8 1 (0.63%) Sparx
8 1 (0.63%) Workday