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 £69,305 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 165 58
Rank change year-on-year +95 -107 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 500 153 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.07% 1.60% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.83% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 451 127 295
10th Percentile £49,000 £53,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,850 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 22,397 8,356 12,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 87.27% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 16,328 4,302 7,304
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,063 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,675
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +71 262 £70,000 +7.69% 67
Yorkshire +51 145 £65,000 - 28
North East +15 93 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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 98 (19.60%) AWS
2 95 (19.00%) C#
3 94 (18.80%) Azure
3 94 (18.80%) Java
4 91 (18.20%) Agile
5 84 (16.80%) CI/CD
6 78 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 76 (15.20%) .NET
8 66 (13.20%) DevOps
9 63 (12.60%) Mentoring
9 63 (12.60%) TypeScript
10 62 (12.40%) JavaScript
11 57 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (11.20%) Microsoft
13 55 (11.00%) SQL
14 52 (10.40%) Software Engineering
15 50 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (10.00%) PHP
16 44 (8.80%) AI
16 44 (8.80%) Front End Development
16 44 (8.80%) React
17 40 (8.00%) Python
17 40 (8.00%) TDD
18 36 (7.20%) Docker
18 36 (7.20%) HTML
19 34 (6.80%) GitHub
19 34 (6.80%) REST
19 34 (6.80%) Serverless
20 33 (6.60%) CSS
21 32 (6.40%) AngularJS

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 12 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.60%) AWS
2 94 (18.80%) Azure
3 34 (6.80%) GitHub
3 34 (6.80%) Serverless
4 28 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.40%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (2.60%) Power Automate
11 12 (2.40%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.20%) Boomi
13 10 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.80%) GCP
14 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) HTTP
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.20%) MySQL
2 17 (3.40%) DynamoDB
3 15 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.60%) Power BI
6 12 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (2.20%) MariaDB
8 7 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) Redis
11 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.40%) GIS
12 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.20%) Chroma
13 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.40%) Git
2 14 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.60%) JIRA
4 8 (1.60%) GitLab
5 5 (1.00%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.60%) Ant
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Storybook
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) fastlane
8 2 (0.40%) Gradle
8 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.40%) Xcode
8 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 39 (7.80%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.20%) Public Sector
3 28 (5.60%) Finance
4 24 (4.80%) Retail
5 22 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.20%) Banking
7 19 (3.80%) Marketing
8 8 (1.60%) Legal
8 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.60%) Publishing
9 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.40%) Back Office
10 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.40%) Law
10 2 (0.40%) Police
10 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.20%) Games
11 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.20%) .NET
2 44 (8.80%) React
3 36 (7.20%) HTML
4 34 (6.80%) REST
5 33 (6.60%) CSS
6 32 (6.40%) AngularJS
6 32 (6.40%) Laravel
7 31 (6.20%) Spring
8 30 (6.00%) Node.js
9 29 (5.80%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.20%) .NET Core
11 20 (4.00%) Middleware
12 19 (3.80%) RESTful
13 17 (3.40%) SOAP
14 16 (3.20%) React Native
14 16 (3.20%) Terraform
15 15 (3.00%) XML
16 14 (2.80%) EDI
16 14 (2.80%) JSON
17 12 (2.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.40%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (1.60%) Online Gambling
6 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.80%) Derivative
8 3 (0.60%) IoT
8 3 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.40%) CMDB
9 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.40%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Android
2 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.20%) Linux
4 4 (0.80%) Windows
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.20%) Agile
2 84 (16.80%) CI/CD
3 78 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (13.20%) DevOps
5 63 (12.60%) Mentoring
6 57 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (10.40%) Software Engineering
8 50 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (8.80%) AI
9 44 (8.80%) Front End Development
10 40 (8.00%) TDD
11 32 (6.40%) Microservices
12 29 (5.80%) Test Automation
13 28 (5.60%) Clean Code
13 28 (5.60%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (5.60%) Roadmaps
13 28 (5.60%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (4.80%) API Development
15 23 (4.60%) API Integration
15 23 (4.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 95 (19.00%) C#
2 94 (18.80%) Java
3 63 (12.60%) TypeScript
4 62 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 55 (11.00%) SQL
6 50 (10.00%) PHP
7 40 (8.00%) Python
8 27 (5.40%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.40%) C++
10 8 (1.60%) Go
11 7 (1.40%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.00%) C
13 4 (0.80%) SOQL
14 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.60%) Groovy
14 3 (0.60%) Rust
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) SOSL
14 3 (0.60%) Swift
14 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (3.80%) SC Cleared
1 19 (3.80%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (2.00%) Degree
3 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.00%) WCAG
3 13 (2.60%) QA
4 11 (2.20%) TickIT
5 6 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (7.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.40%) Packer
2 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.20%) logstash
3 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.60%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.80%) Splunk
4 7 (1.40%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.80%) NEC
6 4 (0.80%) Sage
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Apple
7 3 (0.60%) Google
7 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.60%) webMethods
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Cognos
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.20%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) YouTube