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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 164 61
Rank change year-on-year +103 -103 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 496 161 550
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.35% 1.71% 3.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 1.93% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 442 142 433
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,694 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,813 £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 £70,000 £68,750
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 19,967 8,329 16,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 88.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,550 4,482 11,842
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 £89,500 £80,000 £78,975
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 22 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 22 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 +87 263 £65,000 +1.96% 23
Yorkshire +50 161 £62,500 -1.96% 11
North East +4 72 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 (23.39%) AWS
2 96 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 95 (19.15%) Azure
4 88 (17.74%) Java
5 87 (17.54%) CI/CD
6 84 (16.94%) Agile
7 79 (15.93%) C#
7 79 (15.93%) DevOps
8 76 (15.32%) .NET
9 69 (13.91%) JavaScript
10 63 (12.70%) SQL
11 59 (11.90%) PHP
11 59 (11.90%) TypeScript
12 53 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (10.48%) Mentoring
14 51 (10.28%) Software Engineering
15 50 (10.08%) Microsoft
16 43 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (8.47%) Serverless
18 40 (8.06%) AI
19 39 (7.86%) React
20 38 (7.66%) Python
21 36 (7.26%) GitHub
21 36 (7.26%) TDD
22 34 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
22 34 (6.85%) Laravel
23 31 (6.25%) Clean Code
24 30 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
24 30 (6.05%) Microservices
25 28 (5.65%) 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 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.81%) IIS
3 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.40%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.61%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.39%) AWS
2 95 (19.15%) Azure
3 42 (8.47%) Serverless
4 36 (7.26%) GitHub
5 34 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (5.44%) Power Platform
8 21 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (4.23%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.02%) GCP
10 14 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (2.42%) Boomi
13 11 (2.22%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.02%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Firewall
1 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.84%) MySQL
2 21 (4.23%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.23%) Power BI
4 16 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.02%) MariaDB
5 10 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.81%) 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%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (5.65%) Git
2 15 (3.02%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.02%) JIRA
3 9 (1.81%) GitLab
4 5 (1.01%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.81%) Maven
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%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.40%) Gradle
7 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.40%) Spock
7 2 (0.40%) Storybook
7 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 38 (7.66%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.65%) Finance
3 22 (4.44%) Banking
4 20 (4.03%) Retail
5 19 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.43%) Marketing
7 14 (2.82%) 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
12 4 (0.81%) Publishing
13 2 (0.40%) Games
13 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.40%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.32%) .NET
2 39 (7.86%) React
3 34 (6.85%) Laravel
4 28 (5.65%) Node.js
4 28 (5.65%) Spring
5 27 (5.44%) AngularJS
5 27 (5.44%) Spring Boot
6 25 (5.04%) REST
7 23 (4.64%) HTML
8 22 (4.44%) CSS
9 19 (3.83%) RESTful
10 18 (3.63%) Middleware
11 17 (3.43%) Vue
12 16 (3.23%) .NET Core
12 16 (3.23%) JSON
13 15 (3.02%) EDI
13 15 (3.02%) SOAP
13 15 (3.02%) XML
14 13 (2.62%) ASP.NET
15 12 (2.42%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.43%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.21%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.81%) Derivative
9 4 (0.81%) Educational Technology
9 4 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.81%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.60%) IoT
10 3 (0.60%) NHS
11 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.40%) CMDB
11 2 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.42%) Apple iOS
2 10 (2.02%) Android
3 5 (1.01%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 87 (17.54%) CI/CD
3 84 (16.94%) Agile
4 79 (15.93%) DevOps
5 53 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (10.48%) Mentoring
7 51 (10.28%) Software Engineering
8 43 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (8.06%) AI
10 36 (7.26%) TDD
11 31 (6.25%) Clean Code
12 30 (6.05%) Microservices
13 28 (5.65%) Roadmaps
14 27 (5.44%) Front End Development
14 27 (5.44%) Test Automation
15 24 (4.84%) Collaborative Working
16 23 (4.64%) Scrum
17 21 (4.23%) API Development
17 21 (4.23%) B2B
17 21 (4.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 88 (17.74%) Java
2 79 (15.93%) C#
3 69 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 63 (12.70%) SQL
5 59 (11.90%) PHP
5 59 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 38 (7.66%) Python
7 15 (3.02%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.42%) C++
9 8 (1.61%) Swift
10 4 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.81%) Groovy
10 4 (0.81%) SOQL
11 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
11 3 (0.60%) Ruby
11 3 (0.60%) Rust
11 3 (0.60%) Scala
11 3 (0.60%) SOSL
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (5.04%) SC Cleared
1 25 (5.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.21%) Degree
4 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
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 11 (2.22%) QA
3 9 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.21%) WCAG
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (5.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.02%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 50 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.82%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.81%) Splunk
4 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.60%) Cognos
6 3 (0.60%) Google
6 3 (0.60%) IBM
6 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
6 3 (0.60%) webMethods
7 2 (0.40%) Adobe
7 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.40%) Apple
7 2 (0.40%) NEC
8 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.20%) New Relic
8 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle
8 1 (0.20%) Pega