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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 78 87
Rank change year-on-year -43 +9 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 160 289 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.53% 2.93% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 3.09% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 142 164 200
10th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £48,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 9,157 9,343 6,540
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.47% 94.67% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,110 4,586 5,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,068 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -11 105 £60,000 - 36
Yorkshire -53 46 £67,500 +22.73% 18
North East -34 11 £65,000 +18.18% 14
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 49 (30.63%) Mentoring
2 45 (28.13%) Agile
3 43 (26.88%) C#
4 40 (25.00%) .NET
5 38 (23.75%) Azure
6 34 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 33 (20.63%) Test Automation
8 31 (19.38%) CI/CD
9 30 (18.75%) AWS
10 29 (18.13%) DevOps
11 27 (16.88%) JavaScript
12 25 (15.63%) CSS
12 25 (15.63%) React
13 24 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (15.00%) Salesforce
14 23 (14.38%) Business Analysis
14 23 (14.38%) HTML
14 23 (14.38%) Java
14 23 (14.38%) Process Improvement
15 22 (13.75%) DBS Check
15 22 (13.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 21 (13.13%) Clean Code
16 21 (13.13%) Docker
16 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (12.50%) Roadmaps
17 20 (12.50%) TDD
18 19 (11.88%) Microsoft
19 18 (11.25%) .NET Core
19 18 (11.25%) Business Transformation
19 18 (11.25%) Microservices

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 3 (1.88%) CMS
1 3 (1.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) HCL Notes
2 2 (1.25%) IIS
2 2 (1.25%) WordPress
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (1.25%) Magento
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Odoo
3 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.63%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.75%) Azure
2 30 (18.75%) AWS
3 22 (13.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 8 (5.00%) GCP
4 8 (5.00%) SaaS
4 8 (5.00%) Serverless
5 7 (4.38%) GitHub
6 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.25%) npm
10 1 (0.63%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.63%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) HTTP
2 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.25%) Power BI
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Git
2 3 (1.88%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.88%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.25%) JIRA
3 2 (1.25%) JUnit
3 2 (1.25%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) Mockito
4 1 (0.63%) Protractor
4 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (17.50%) Marketing
2 19 (11.88%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.00%) Finance
4 7 (4.38%) Retail
5 6 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.75%) Games
5 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Legal
7 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Law
8 2 (1.25%) Back Office
8 2 (1.25%) Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Automotive
9 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.63%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (25.00%) .NET
2 25 (15.63%) CSS
2 25 (15.63%) React
3 23 (14.38%) HTML
4 18 (11.25%) .NET Core
5 12 (7.50%) Spring
5 12 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.25%) RESTful
7 8 (5.00%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.38%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (3.75%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.75%) Node.js
9 6 (3.75%) REST
10 5 (3.13%) Blazor
10 5 (3.13%) Django
10 5 (3.13%) Flask
10 5 (3.13%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.50%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.50%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.38%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.13%) IoT
3 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.88%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.25%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.25%) iPad
5 2 (1.25%) iPhone
5 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.63%) Multi-touch
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.88%) Android
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.63%) Mentoring
2 45 (28.13%) Agile
3 34 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (20.63%) Test Automation
5 31 (19.38%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.13%) DevOps
7 24 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 23 (14.38%) Business Analysis
8 23 (14.38%) Process Improvement
9 21 (13.13%) Clean Code
9 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 20 (12.50%) TDD
11 18 (11.25%) Business Transformation
11 18 (11.25%) Microservices
12 14 (8.75%) Containerisation
13 13 (8.13%) Software Engineering
14 12 (7.50%) Front End Development
14 12 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (7.50%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 43 (26.88%) C#
2 27 (16.88%) JavaScript
3 23 (14.38%) Java
4 18 (11.25%) SQL
5 14 (8.75%) Python
5 14 (8.75%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.38%) Go
7 7 (4.38%) PHP
8 6 (3.75%) C++
8 6 (3.75%) Ruby
8 6 (3.75%) Scala
9 5 (3.13%) Elixir
10 2 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.25%) Erlang
10 2 (1.25%) R
10 2 (1.25%) Swift
10 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.63%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) DBS Check
2 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.88%) Degree
4 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (13.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.63%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) cPanel
3 3 (1.88%) Plesk
4 1 (0.63%) Grafana
4 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 19 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.13%) Oracle
5 2 (1.25%) Infor
5 2 (1.25%) Lotus
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe
6 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.63%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) IBM
6 1 (0.63%) Intapp
6 1 (0.63%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.63%) Sparx
6 1 (0.63%) Splunk
6 1 (0.63%) Workday