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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 167 64
Rank change year-on-year +105 -103 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 487 164 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.34% 1.74% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 1.97% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 436 144 470
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,313 £50,000
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 £67,500
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 19,726 8,307 17,354
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 88.19% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 4,458 13,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,475 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 16 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 16 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 +86 256 £65,000 +1.96% 21
Yorkshire +50 160 £62,500 +2.04% 8
North East +2 71 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 113 (23.20%) AWS
2 95 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
3 87 (17.86%) Azure
3 87 (17.86%) Java
4 84 (17.25%) CI/CD
5 78 (16.02%) Agile
6 77 (15.81%) DevOps
7 74 (15.20%) C#
8 73 (14.99%) .NET
9 67 (13.76%) JavaScript
10 61 (12.53%) SQL
11 60 (12.32%) PHP
12 53 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (10.88%) TypeScript
13 50 (10.27%) Mentoring
13 50 (10.27%) Software Engineering
14 48 (9.86%) Microsoft
15 41 (8.42%) Serverless
16 40 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (7.80%) AI
18 36 (7.39%) GitHub
18 36 (7.39%) Laravel
19 35 (7.19%) React
20 33 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
20 33 (6.78%) Python
20 33 (6.78%) TDD
21 30 (6.16%) Clean Code
22 29 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
22 29 (5.95%) Roadmaps
22 29 (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 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.82%) IIS
4 2 (0.41%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.41%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.85%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (23.20%) AWS
2 87 (17.86%) Azure
3 41 (8.42%) Serverless
4 36 (7.39%) GitHub
5 33 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (5.34%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.87%) GCP
12 12 (2.46%) Boomi
12 12 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
12 12 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.05%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Broadband
3 1 (0.21%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.13%) MySQL
2 20 (4.11%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.29%) Power BI
6 10 (2.05%) MariaDB
6 10 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.05%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.41%) GIS
12 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (5.54%) Git
2 15 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.08%) JIRA
3 9 (1.85%) GitLab
4 5 (1.03%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.62%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.62%) fastlane
6 3 (0.62%) Maven
6 3 (0.62%) Postman
6 3 (0.62%) Selenium
6 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.41%) Gradle
7 2 (0.41%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.41%) JUnit
7 2 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.41%) Spock
7 2 (0.41%) Xcode
7 2 (0.41%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.41%) YouTrack
General
1 35 (7.19%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.37%) Finance
3 21 (4.31%) Banking
4 20 (4.11%) Retail
5 19 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.70%) Marketing
7 12 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.26%) Law
9 8 (1.64%) Legal
10 6 (1.23%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.82%) Back Office
13 2 (0.41%) Games
13 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.41%) Police
13 2 (0.41%) Publishing
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.21%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.99%) .NET
2 36 (7.39%) Laravel
3 35 (7.19%) React
4 29 (5.95%) Spring
5 28 (5.75%) Spring Boot
6 27 (5.54%) Node.js
7 25 (5.13%) AngularJS
8 23 (4.72%) REST
9 20 (4.11%) CSS
9 20 (4.11%) HTML
10 18 (3.70%) Middleware
10 18 (3.70%) Vue
11 16 (3.29%) .NET Core
11 16 (3.29%) JSON
11 16 (3.29%) RESTful
12 15 (3.08%) SOAP
13 14 (2.87%) EDI
13 14 (2.87%) XML
14 12 (2.46%) ASP.NET
15 10 (2.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 16 (3.29%) Mobile App
3 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.23%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.82%) Derivative
8 4 (0.82%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.62%) IoT
9 3 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.41%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.41%) CMDB
10 2 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.41%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.26%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.44%) Android
3 5 (1.03%) Linux
4 2 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (17.25%) CI/CD
3 78 (16.02%) Agile
4 77 (15.81%) DevOps
5 53 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (10.27%) Mentoring
6 50 (10.27%) Software Engineering
7 40 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (7.80%) AI
9 33 (6.78%) TDD
10 30 (6.16%) Clean Code
11 29 (5.95%) Roadmaps
12 28 (5.75%) Microservices
13 26 (5.34%) Test Automation
14 25 (5.13%) Front End Development
15 24 (4.93%) Collaborative Working
16 20 (4.11%) B2B
17 19 (3.90%) API Development
17 19 (3.90%) Scrum
17 19 (3.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.86%) Java
2 74 (15.20%) C#
3 67 (13.76%) JavaScript
4 61 (12.53%) SQL
5 60 (12.32%) PHP
6 53 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 33 (6.78%) Python
8 15 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.46%) C++
10 8 (1.64%) Swift
11 4 (0.82%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.82%) Groovy
11 4 (0.82%) SOQL
12 3 (0.62%) Ruby
12 3 (0.62%) Rust
12 3 (0.62%) Scala
12 3 (0.62%) SOSL
13 2 (0.41%) Bicep
13 2 (0.41%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (4.72%) SC Cleared
1 23 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.23%) Degree
4 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.41%) HND
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.46%) TickIT
2 10 (2.05%) QA
3 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.82%) WCAG
5 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (5.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 48 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.64%) Splunk
4 7 (1.44%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.03%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.62%) Cognos
6 3 (0.62%) IBM
7 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.41%) Google
7 2 (0.41%) Intapp
7 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.41%) webMethods
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe
8 1 (0.21%) Apple
8 1 (0.21%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.21%) NEC
8 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle
8 1 (0.21%) Pega