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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 164 62
Rank change year-on-year +103 -102 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 495 163 561
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.35% 1.73% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 1.96% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 443 144 443
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,734
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 19,922 8,327 16,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 88.20% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,527 4,486 12,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%

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 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 20 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 +81 261 £65,000 +4.00% 26
Yorkshire +63 161 £62,500 - 9
North East +14 73 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 116 (23.43%) AWS
2 98 (19.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 94 (18.99%) Azure
4 87 (17.58%) Java
5 85 (17.17%) CI/CD
6 83 (16.77%) Agile
7 78 (15.76%) C#
7 78 (15.76%) DevOps
8 75 (15.15%) .NET
9 69 (13.94%) JavaScript
10 62 (12.53%) SQL
11 61 (12.32%) PHP
12 58 (11.72%) TypeScript
13 54 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (10.51%) Mentoring
15 50 (10.10%) Microsoft
15 50 (10.10%) Software Engineering
16 42 (8.48%) Serverless
17 40 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (8.08%) React
18 39 (7.88%) AI
19 37 (7.47%) Python
20 36 (7.27%) GitHub
20 36 (7.27%) Laravel
21 35 (7.07%) TDD
22 34 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
23 31 (6.26%) Clean Code
24 29 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
24 29 (5.86%) Microservices
25 28 (5.66%) 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 9 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.81%) IIS
3 2 (0.40%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.40%) CMS
3 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.62%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.61%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.43%) AWS
2 94 (18.99%) Azure
3 42 (8.48%) Serverless
4 36 (7.27%) GitHub
5 34 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (5.45%) Power Platform
8 21 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (4.04%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.03%) GCP
11 14 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.42%) Boomi
14 11 (2.22%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.02%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) Firewall
1 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.05%) MySQL
2 21 (4.24%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (3.43%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.23%) Power BI
6 10 (2.02%) MariaDB
6 10 (2.02%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.81%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
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 28 (5.66%) Git
2 15 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.03%) JIRA
3 9 (1.82%) GitLab
4 5 (1.01%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.61%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.61%) fastlane
6 3 (0.61%) Maven
6 3 (0.61%) Postman
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.40%) Gradle
7 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
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
General
1 36 (7.27%) Social Skills
2 32 (6.46%) Finance
3 22 (4.44%) Banking
4 20 (4.04%) Retail
5 19 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.43%) Marketing
7 14 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.02%) Law
9 7 (1.41%) Legal
10 6 (1.21%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.81%) Back Office
13 3 (0.61%) Publishing
14 2 (0.40%) Games
14 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.40%) Police
15 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.15%) .NET
2 40 (8.08%) React
3 36 (7.27%) Laravel
4 28 (5.66%) Spring
5 27 (5.45%) Node.js
5 27 (5.45%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.25%) AngularJS
7 25 (5.05%) REST
8 23 (4.65%) HTML
9 22 (4.44%) CSS
10 18 (3.64%) Middleware
10 18 (3.64%) RESTful
10 18 (3.64%) Vue
11 16 (3.23%) .NET Core
11 16 (3.23%) JSON
12 15 (3.03%) SOAP
12 15 (3.03%) XML
13 14 (2.83%) EDI
14 13 (2.63%) ASP.NET
15 12 (2.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.24%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.43%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.81%) Derivative
10 4 (0.81%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.81%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
11 3 (0.61%) NHS
12 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.40%) CMDB
12 2 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.42%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.82%) Android
3 6 (1.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (19.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (17.17%) CI/CD
3 83 (16.77%) Agile
4 78 (15.76%) DevOps
5 54 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (10.51%) Mentoring
7 50 (10.10%) Software Engineering
8 40 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (7.88%) AI
10 35 (7.07%) TDD
11 31 (6.26%) Clean Code
12 29 (5.86%) Microservices
13 28 (5.66%) Roadmaps
14 26 (5.25%) Front End Development
14 26 (5.25%) Test Automation
15 24 (4.85%) Collaborative Working
16 23 (4.65%) Scrum
17 20 (4.04%) API Development
17 20 (4.04%) B2B
17 20 (4.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.58%) Java
2 78 (15.76%) C#
3 69 (13.94%) JavaScript
4 62 (12.53%) SQL
5 61 (12.32%) PHP
6 58 (11.72%) TypeScript
7 37 (7.47%) Python
8 15 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.42%) C++
10 8 (1.62%) Swift
11 4 (0.81%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.81%) Groovy
11 4 (0.81%) SOQL
12 3 (0.61%) Ruby
12 3 (0.61%) Rust
12 3 (0.61%) Scala
12 3 (0.61%) SOSL
13 2 (0.40%) Bash
13 2 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 25 (5.05%) SC Cleared
1 25 (5.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.21%) Degree
4 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.40%) 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 (2.42%) TickIT
2 10 (2.02%) QA
3 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.01%) WCAG
5 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (5.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.03%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 50 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.83%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.82%) Splunk
4 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.61%) Cognos
6 3 (0.61%) Google
6 3 (0.61%) IBM
7 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.40%) Apple
7 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.40%) NEC
7 2 (0.40%) webMethods
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe
8 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.20%) Intapp
8 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle
8 1 (0.20%) Pega