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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 119 78
Rank change year-on-year +18 -41 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 233 167 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 2.24% 3.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.41% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 207 108 372
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,375 £43,381
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £74,375 £65,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -6.90%

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 11,922 6,925 12,642
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 92.90% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,351 3,542 10,336
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,775 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +24 126 £62,500 +8.70% 53
Yorkshire -18 81 £62,500 +13.65% 45
North East 0 26 £70,000 +19.15% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 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 57 (24.46%) Azure
2 55 (23.61%) .NET
3 52 (22.32%) JavaScript
4 49 (21.03%) Agile
4 49 (21.03%) C#
4 49 (21.03%) CI/CD
5 41 (17.60%) AWS
6 34 (14.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (14.59%) Mentoring
7 33 (14.16%) React
8 32 (13.73%) CSS
8 32 (13.73%) SQL
9 29 (12.45%) HTML
10 28 (12.02%) Front End Development
11 27 (11.59%) DevOps
11 27 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (11.16%) .NET Core
12 26 (11.16%) PHP
12 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (10.73%) Docker
13 25 (10.73%) Git
14 24 (10.30%) Test Automation
15 23 (9.87%) Java
15 23 (9.87%) Software Engineering
16 21 (9.01%) Microsoft
17 20 (8.58%) SQL Server
18 19 (8.15%) Clean Code
18 19 (8.15%) Microservices
18 19 (8.15%) TDD
19 18 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.72%) CMS
2 3 (1.29%) WordPress
3 2 (0.86%) IIS
3 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.43%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (24.46%) Azure
2 41 (17.60%) AWS
3 17 (7.30%) Serverless
4 14 (6.01%) SaaS
5 13 (5.58%) GCP
6 12 (5.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (4.29%) GitHub
8 8 (3.43%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) HTTP
2 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) Broadband
3 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.58%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.72%) MySQL
5 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (10.73%) Git
2 8 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.15%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.72%) GitLab
5 3 (1.29%) JIRA
5 3 (1.29%) Maven
5 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.86%) JUnit
6 2 (0.86%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.86%) Selenium
6 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) Protractor
7 1 (0.43%) XCUITest
General
1 23 (9.87%) Marketing
2 19 (8.15%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.43%) Law
3 8 (3.43%) Legal
4 7 (3.00%) Finance
5 6 (2.58%) Retail
6 4 (1.72%) Games
7 3 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.29%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.43%) Automotive
8 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.43%) Publishing
8 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.61%) .NET
2 33 (14.16%) React
3 32 (13.73%) CSS
4 29 (12.45%) HTML
5 26 (11.16%) .NET Core
6 15 (6.44%) ASP.NET
7 14 (6.01%) Spring Boot
8 13 (5.58%) Spring
9 12 (5.15%) Node.js
10 11 (4.72%) REST
11 10 (4.29%) Laravel
12 9 (3.86%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.86%) RESTful
13 8 (3.43%) Jest
13 8 (3.43%) Vue
14 7 (3.00%) Flask
15 6 (2.58%) .NET Framework
15 6 (2.58%) Hibernate
16 5 (2.15%) ASP.NET Web API
16 5 (2.15%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.01%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.15%) NHS
6 3 (1.29%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.86%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.86%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.43%) Social Media
8 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.15%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.29%) Android
2 3 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.03%) Agile
1 49 (21.03%) CI/CD
2 34 (14.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (14.59%) Mentoring
3 28 (12.02%) Front End Development
4 27 (11.59%) DevOps
4 27 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (10.30%) Test Automation
7 23 (9.87%) Software Engineering
8 19 (8.15%) Clean Code
8 19 (8.15%) Microservices
8 19 (8.15%) TDD
9 18 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.30%) Containerisation
11 14 (6.01%) Collaborative Culture
12 13 (5.58%) User Experience
13 12 (5.15%) Business Analysis
13 12 (5.15%) Business Transformation
13 12 (5.15%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.32%) JavaScript
2 49 (21.03%) C#
3 32 (13.73%) SQL
4 26 (11.16%) PHP
5 23 (9.87%) Java
6 17 (7.30%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.87%) Python
8 7 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.72%) Swift
10 3 (1.29%) C++
11 2 (0.86%) Bash
11 2 (0.86%) Erlang
11 2 (0.86%) Groovy
11 2 (0.86%) R
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Delphi
12 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (5.15%) DBS Check
2 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.86%) Degree
4 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.58%) QA
System Software
1 25 (10.73%) Docker
2 7 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) cPanel
3 3 (1.29%) Plesk
4 2 (0.86%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.15%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.43%) Intapp
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe
5 1 (0.43%) Google
5 1 (0.43%) OpenAI