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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 176 60
Rank change year-on-year +118 -116 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 510 139 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.52% 1.64% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 1.87% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 452 120 516
10th Percentile £49,000 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
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 19,121 7,451 18,703
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 87.98% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13,949 3,808 14,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +92 261 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Yorkshire +63 176 £62,500 +4.17% 7
North East +14 73 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 108 (21.18%) AWS
2 95 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 88 (17.25%) Azure
4 87 (17.06%) Java
5 83 (16.27%) CI/CD
6 77 (15.10%) Agile
7 75 (14.71%) .NET
7 75 (14.71%) DevOps
8 70 (13.73%) C#
9 69 (13.53%) JavaScript
10 63 (12.35%) SQL
11 57 (11.18%) PHP
12 50 (9.80%) TypeScript
13 49 (9.61%) Mentoring
13 49 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (9.22%) Software Engineering
15 45 (8.82%) Serverless
16 44 (8.63%) Microsoft
17 35 (6.86%) AI
17 35 (6.86%) React
18 34 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (6.67%) GitHub
18 34 (6.67%) TDD
19 31 (6.08%) Front End Development
19 31 (6.08%) Git
19 31 (6.08%) Spring
19 31 (6.08%) Spring Boot
20 30 (5.88%) Clean Code
20 30 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
20 30 (5.88%) Laravel

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 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.98%) IIS
2 5 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.76%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.59%) Shopify
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.18%) AWS
2 88 (17.25%) Azure
3 45 (8.82%) Serverless
4 34 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (6.67%) GitHub
5 27 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 22 (4.31%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.75%) GCP
12 12 (2.35%) Boomi
12 12 (2.35%) SaaS
13 10 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.76%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.39%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.20%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.51%) MySQL
2 21 (4.12%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.94%) Power BI
6 14 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.96%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.39%) GIS
15 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 31 (6.08%) Git
2 18 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.94%) JIRA
4 10 (1.96%) GitLab
5 5 (0.98%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.59%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.59%) fastlane
7 3 (0.59%) Maven
7 3 (0.59%) Postman
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Gradle
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Spock
8 2 (0.39%) Xcode
8 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
8 2 (0.39%) YouTrack
General
1 30 (5.88%) Social Skills
2 28 (5.49%) Finance
3 22 (4.31%) Marketing
4 21 (4.12%) Banking
5 20 (3.92%) Retail
6 18 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.96%) Law
9 7 (1.37%) Legal
10 6 (1.18%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.78%) Back Office
11 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.39%) Games
13 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.71%) .NET
2 35 (6.86%) React
3 31 (6.08%) Spring
3 31 (6.08%) Spring Boot
4 30 (5.88%) Laravel
5 28 (5.49%) Node.js
6 27 (5.29%) REST
7 26 (5.10%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.73%) .NET Core
9 18 (3.53%) CSS
9 18 (3.53%) Middleware
10 17 (3.33%) HTML
11 16 (3.14%) JSON
11 16 (3.14%) Vue
12 15 (2.94%) ASP.NET
12 15 (2.94%) RESTful
12 15 (2.94%) SOAP
13 13 (2.55%) XML
14 12 (2.35%) EDI
15 10 (1.96%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.92%) Cloud Native
1 20 (3.92%) Mobile App
2 16 (3.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.76%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.18%) Legacy Code
8 5 (0.98%) Educational Technology
8 5 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.98%) NHS
9 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.78%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.59%) Derivative
10 3 (0.59%) IoT
11 2 (0.39%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.39%) CMDB
11 2 (0.39%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.39%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.16%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.18%) Android
3 5 (0.98%) Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (18.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (16.27%) CI/CD
3 77 (15.10%) Agile
4 75 (14.71%) DevOps
5 49 (9.61%) Mentoring
5 49 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (9.22%) Software Engineering
7 35 (6.86%) AI
8 34 (6.67%) TDD
9 31 (6.08%) Front End Development
10 30 (5.88%) Clean Code
10 30 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (5.69%) Roadmaps
12 25 (4.90%) Test Automation
13 24 (4.71%) Microservices
14 21 (4.12%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (3.73%) Scrum
15 19 (3.73%) SDLC
15 19 (3.73%) Secure Coding
16 18 (3.53%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.06%) Java
2 70 (13.73%) C#
3 69 (13.53%) JavaScript
4 63 (12.35%) SQL
5 57 (11.18%) PHP
6 50 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 30 (5.88%) Python
8 16 (3.14%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.35%) C++
10 8 (1.57%) Swift
11 5 (0.98%) Groovy
12 4 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.78%) SOQL
13 3 (0.59%) Bash
13 3 (0.59%) Ruby
13 3 (0.59%) Rust
13 3 (0.59%) Scala
13 3 (0.59%) SOSL
14 2 (0.39%) Bicep
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (4.31%) SC Cleared
1 22 (4.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.18%) Degree
4 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.39%) HND
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.35%) TickIT
2 8 (1.57%) QA
3 5 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.39%) SLA
5 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (5.69%) Docker
2 7 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 44 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.14%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.57%) Splunk
4 7 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.18%) Intapp
6 5 (0.98%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.59%) Cognos
7 3 (0.59%) IBM
8 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.39%) Google
9 1 (0.20%) Apple
9 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Pega