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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 116 75
Rank change year-on-year +30 -41 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 337 135 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.06% 2.11% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 2.31% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 298 110 412
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,417
25th Percentile £57,750 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,875 £77,750 £76,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

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 14,984 5,855 15,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 91.73% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,697 3,800 12,299
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,460 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +34 179 £65,000 +9.24% 40
Yorkshire +9 120 £65,000 +13.04% 34
North East -7 38 £68,750 -12.97% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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 74 (21.96%) Azure
2 69 (20.47%) AWS
3 65 (19.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (18.69%) .NET
4 63 (18.69%) JavaScript
5 62 (18.40%) CI/CD
6 61 (18.10%) Agile
7 55 (16.32%) C#
8 51 (15.13%) SQL
9 47 (13.95%) DevOps
9 47 (13.95%) Java
10 39 (11.57%) PHP
11 38 (11.28%) React
12 36 (10.68%) Mentoring
13 35 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (9.50%) Microsoft
14 32 (9.50%) Software Engineering
15 31 (9.20%) Git
15 31 (9.20%) TypeScript
16 30 (8.90%) Front End Development
17 29 (8.61%) CSS
18 28 (8.31%) Serverless
19 27 (8.01%) .NET Core
20 26 (7.72%) HTML
21 25 (7.42%) Python
22 24 (7.12%) Docker
23 22 (6.53%) Node.js
24 21 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
24 21 (6.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 21 (6.23%) TDD

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 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.89%) CMS
2 3 (0.89%) WordPress
3 2 (0.59%) IIS
3 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.97%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.89%) Shopify
3 2 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.96%) Azure
2 69 (20.47%) AWS
3 28 (8.31%) Serverless
4 18 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (5.04%) GitHub
6 16 (4.75%) GCP
7 15 (4.45%) Amazon S3
8 13 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (3.86%) SaaS
9 10 (2.97%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) HTTP
2 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.04%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.86%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.97%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.08%) MySQL
6 7 (2.08%) Power BI
7 5 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.30%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (9.20%) Git
2 10 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.08%) JIRA
4 5 (1.48%) GitLab
4 5 (1.48%) PHPUnit
5 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.59%) Maven
6 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.59%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) fastlane
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) NUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Protractor
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 25 (7.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (6.53%) Marketing
3 21 (6.23%) Finance
4 15 (4.45%) Retail
5 10 (2.97%) Law
6 9 (2.67%) Banking
6 9 (2.67%) Legal
7 8 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.48%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.19%) Games
9 4 (1.19%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.59%) Back Office
10 2 (0.59%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.30%) Automotive
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (18.69%) .NET
2 38 (11.28%) React
3 29 (8.61%) CSS
4 27 (8.01%) .NET Core
5 26 (7.72%) HTML
6 22 (6.53%) Node.js
7 20 (5.93%) Spring Boot
8 19 (5.64%) Spring
9 18 (5.34%) Laravel
10 17 (5.04%) ASP.NET
11 16 (4.75%) REST
12 15 (4.45%) Vue
13 14 (4.15%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.97%) Flask
14 10 (2.97%) RESTful
15 7 (2.08%) .NET Framework
15 7 (2.08%) Jest
16 6 (1.78%) JSON
16 6 (1.78%) SwiftUI
16 6 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.86%) Mobile App
2 11 (3.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.08%) NHS
5 5 (1.48%) Educational Technology
5 5 (1.48%) Legacy Code
6 3 (0.89%) Client/Server
6 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.89%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.59%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.30%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.30%) Lidar
8 1 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.30%) Social Media
8 1 (0.30%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.97%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.48%) Android
3 3 (0.89%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (19.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (18.40%) CI/CD
3 61 (18.10%) Agile
4 47 (13.95%) DevOps
5 36 (10.68%) Mentoring
6 35 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (9.50%) Software Engineering
8 30 (8.90%) Front End Development
9 21 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (6.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (6.23%) TDD
9 21 (6.23%) Test Automation
10 20 (5.93%) Clean Code
10 20 (5.93%) Microservices
11 16 (4.75%) Containerisation
12 14 (4.15%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (4.15%) User Experience
13 13 (3.86%) SDLC
14 12 (3.56%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (3.56%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 63 (18.69%) JavaScript
2 55 (16.32%) C#
3 51 (15.13%) SQL
4 47 (13.95%) Java
5 39 (11.57%) PHP
6 31 (9.20%) TypeScript
7 25 (7.42%) Python
8 13 (3.86%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.08%) Swift
10 3 (0.89%) C++
11 2 (0.59%) Bash
11 2 (0.59%) Groovy
11 2 (0.59%) R
11 2 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) Delphi
12 1 (0.30%) Erlang
12 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (3.56%) SC Cleared
1 12 (3.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.08%) DBS Check
3 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.59%) Degree
4 2 (0.59%) HND
5 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.78%) QA
2 5 (1.48%) TickIT
3 2 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (7.12%) Docker
2 9 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.97%) Terraform
3 3 (0.89%) cPanel
3 3 (0.89%) Plesk
4 2 (0.59%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.97%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.37%) Intapp
4 2 (0.59%) Cognos
4 2 (0.59%) IBM
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle
5 1 (0.30%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.30%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.30%) Google
5 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.30%) Pega