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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 163 57
Rank change year-on-year +98 -106 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 506 169 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.31% 1.76% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 2.00% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 448 143 376
10th Percentile £49,000 £49,242 £48,875
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 £65,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -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 20,780 8,465 14,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 88.37% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,153 4,567 9,870
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -8.90%
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 8 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 8 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 +91 277 £67,500 +3.85% 32
Yorkshire +55 157 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North East +4 72 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 121 (23.91%) AWS
2 102 (20.16%) Azure
3 96 (18.97%) Java
4 95 (18.77%) CI/CD
5 92 (18.18%) Agile
5 92 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 83 (16.40%) DevOps
7 82 (16.21%) C#
8 76 (15.02%) .NET
9 67 (13.24%) JavaScript
10 65 (12.85%) SQL
11 63 (12.45%) TypeScript
12 61 (12.06%) PHP
13 58 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (11.26%) Mentoring
15 55 (10.87%) Microsoft
16 48 (9.49%) Software Engineering
17 47 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (8.50%) Serverless
19 42 (8.30%) AI
20 40 (7.91%) Python
21 38 (7.51%) React
22 37 (7.31%) GitHub
22 37 (7.31%) TDD
23 35 (6.92%) Laravel
24 34 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
25 33 (6.52%) Clean Code
25 33 (6.52%) Node.js
26 32 (6.32%) Docker
27 31 (6.13%) HTML

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 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.79%) CMS
3 4 (0.79%) IIS
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.59%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.99%) Visualfiles
2 4 (0.79%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (23.91%) AWS
2 102 (20.16%) Azure
3 43 (8.50%) Serverless
4 37 (7.31%) GitHub
5 34 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (5.73%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.16%) GCP
9 16 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.57%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (2.57%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.37%) Boomi
13 12 (2.37%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Firewall
1 3 (0.59%) HTTP
1 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.55%) MySQL
2 22 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.16%) Power BI
4 16 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.98%) MariaDB
5 10 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.78%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.58%) 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 3 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.59%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.40%) GIS
12 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (5.53%) Git
2 15 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.96%) JIRA
3 9 (1.78%) GitLab
4 5 (0.99%) Maven
5 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.79%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.59%) fastlane
6 3 (0.59%) Postman
6 3 (0.59%) Selenium
6 3 (0.59%) Storybook
6 3 (0.59%) 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 43 (8.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (6.92%) Finance
3 24 (4.74%) Banking
4 21 (4.15%) Retail
5 20 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.56%) Marketing
7 8 (1.58%) Publishing
8 7 (1.38%) Law
8 7 (1.38%) Legal
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%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.40%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.02%) .NET
2 38 (7.51%) React
3 35 (6.92%) Laravel
4 33 (6.52%) Node.js
5 31 (6.13%) HTML
5 31 (6.13%) Spring
6 30 (5.93%) AngularJS
6 30 (5.93%) Spring Boot
7 28 (5.53%) CSS
8 27 (5.34%) REST
9 21 (4.15%) RESTful
10 19 (3.75%) Middleware
11 17 (3.36%) XML
12 16 (3.16%) JSON
12 16 (3.16%) SOAP
12 16 (3.16%) Vue
13 15 (2.96%) .NET Core
13 15 (2.96%) EDI
13 15 (2.96%) React Native
14 13 (2.57%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.38%) Legacy Code
8 4 (0.79%) Derivative
8 4 (0.79%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.59%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.59%) IoT
9 3 (0.59%) NHS
10 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.40%) Online Gambling
10 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 14 (2.77%) Android
3 5 (0.99%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (18.77%) CI/CD
2 92 (18.18%) Agile
2 92 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 83 (16.40%) DevOps
4 58 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (11.26%) Mentoring
6 48 (9.49%) Software Engineering
7 47 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (8.30%) AI
9 37 (7.31%) TDD
10 33 (6.52%) Clean Code
11 31 (6.13%) Microservices
12 29 (5.73%) Roadmaps
12 29 (5.73%) Test Automation
13 27 (5.34%) Front End Development
14 25 (4.94%) Collaborative Working
14 25 (4.94%) Scrum
15 23 (4.55%) SDLC
16 22 (4.35%) API Development
17 21 (4.15%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.97%) Java
2 82 (16.21%) C#
3 67 (13.24%) JavaScript
4 65 (12.85%) SQL
5 63 (12.45%) TypeScript
6 61 (12.06%) PHP
7 40 (7.91%) Python
8 20 (3.95%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.37%) C++
10 9 (1.78%) Swift
11 5 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.79%) Groovy
12 4 (0.79%) SOQL
13 3 (0.59%) DataWeave
13 3 (0.59%) Ruby
13 3 (0.59%) Rust
13 3 (0.59%) Scala
13 3 (0.59%) SOSL
14 2 (0.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (5.14%) SC Cleared
1 26 (5.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.19%) Degree
4 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.59%) 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 (2.37%) Accessibility
1 12 (2.37%) TickIT
2 11 (2.17%) QA
3 9 (1.78%) WCAG
4 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (6.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 55 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.96%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.78%) Splunk
4 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
5 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.79%) Google
6 4 (0.79%) NEC
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe
7 3 (0.59%) Apple
7 3 (0.59%) Cognos
7 3 (0.59%) IBM
7 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.59%) 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