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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 154 56
Rank change year-on-year +83 -98 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 500 155 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.08% 1.70% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 1.93% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 446 128 278
10th Percentile £49,000 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,825 £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 22,201 8,014 12,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 87.84% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,195 4,365 6,612
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
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 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -4.17%

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 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 16 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 +61 260 £67,500 +3.85% 18
Yorkshire +42 142 £61,250 -9.26% 20
North East +10 98 £70,996 +9.22% 10
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 106 (21.20%) C#
2 94 (18.80%) Agile
3 92 (18.40%) .NET
4 91 (18.20%) Azure
5 89 (17.80%) AWS
5 89 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 88 (17.60%) Java
7 80 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 66 (13.20%) DevOps
9 63 (12.60%) JavaScript
9 63 (12.60%) Mentoring
10 60 (12.00%) TypeScript
11 58 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (11.20%) Software Engineering
13 54 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (10.80%) Python
14 51 (10.20%) Microsoft
14 51 (10.20%) SQL
15 50 (10.00%) AI
16 46 (9.20%) PHP
16 46 (9.20%) TDD
17 45 (9.00%) Front End Development
18 43 (8.60%) React
19 37 (7.40%) Docker
19 37 (7.40%) HTML
20 36 (7.20%) Test Automation
21 34 (6.80%) CSS
22 33 (6.60%) Serverless
23 32 (6.40%) Kotlin
23 32 (6.40%) 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 15 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.00%) CMS
3 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (0.60%) IIS
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.60%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
4 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 91 (18.20%) Azure
2 89 (17.80%) AWS
3 33 (6.60%) Serverless
4 28 (5.60%) GitHub
5 25 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.20%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.00%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (2.40%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.40%) SaaS
14 11 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.60%) GCP
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 16 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.80%) DynamoDB
5 11 (2.20%) MariaDB
6 10 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.20%) Power BI
9 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.80%) Redis
11 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.40%) GIS
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 20 (4.00%) Git
2 11 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.60%) GitLab
4 6 (1.20%) JIRA
5 5 (1.00%) Maven
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%) Bitbucket
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%) Spock
8 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 41 (8.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.80%) Public Sector
3 28 (5.60%) Finance
4 19 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.60%) Banking
6 16 (3.20%) Retail
7 12 (2.40%) Marketing
8 10 (2.00%) Legal
9 9 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.60%) Publishing
11 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.40%) Back Office
12 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Games
12 2 (0.40%) iGaming
12 2 (0.40%) Law
12 2 (0.40%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (18.40%) .NET
2 43 (8.60%) React
3 37 (7.40%) HTML
4 34 (6.80%) CSS
5 28 (5.60%) Laravel
5 28 (5.60%) Node.js
6 27 (5.40%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.20%) REST
7 26 (5.20%) Spring
8 24 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 23 (4.60%) RESTful
10 21 (4.20%) .NET Core
11 14 (2.80%) Terraform
12 13 (2.60%) Middleware
12 13 (2.60%) React Native
12 13 (2.60%) Swagger
13 11 (2.20%) ASP.NET
14 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (2.00%) SOAP
14 10 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.20%) Mobile App
3 13 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.20%) Online Gambling
6 10 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.80%) Derivative
10 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) IoT
10 3 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.40%) CMDB
11 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.40%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.40%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
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 94 (18.80%) Agile
2 89 (17.80%) CI/CD
3 80 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (13.20%) DevOps
5 63 (12.60%) Mentoring
6 58 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (11.20%) Software Engineering
8 54 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (10.00%) AI
10 46 (9.20%) TDD
11 45 (9.00%) Front End Development
12 36 (7.20%) Test Automation
13 32 (6.40%) Microservices
14 31 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (6.00%) Clean Code
16 24 (4.80%) API Development
16 24 (4.80%) User Experience
17 23 (4.60%) Roadmaps
17 23 (4.60%) Scrum
18 22 (4.40%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 106 (21.20%) C#
2 88 (17.60%) Java
3 63 (12.60%) JavaScript
4 60 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 54 (10.80%) Python
6 51 (10.20%) SQL
7 46 (9.20%) PHP
8 32 (6.40%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.40%) C++
10 10 (2.00%) Go
11 6 (1.20%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.00%) C
13 4 (0.80%) Bicep
13 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.60%) Rust
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) SOQL
14 3 (0.60%) SOSL
14 3 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (3.80%) SC Cleared
1 19 (3.80%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.20%) Degree
3 9 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.20%) QA
3 15 (3.00%) WCAG
4 7 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.80%) TickIT
6 2 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (7.40%) Docker
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 51 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.60%) 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%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.20%) YouTube