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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 176 60
Rank change year-on-year +117 -116 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 509 139 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.53% 1.66% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 1.89% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 449 120 527
10th Percentile £49,000 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,438 £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 18,983 7,372 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 88.29% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 13,830 3,765 14,637
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
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% -12.86%

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 21 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 21 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 +98 259 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Yorkshire +67 177 £62,500 +4.17% 8
North East +10 73 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 (21.22%) AWS
2 94 (18.47%) Full-Stack Development
3 88 (17.29%) Azure
4 86 (16.90%) Java
5 83 (16.31%) CI/CD
6 79 (15.52%) Agile
7 77 (15.13%) DevOps
8 75 (14.73%) .NET
9 70 (13.75%) C#
9 70 (13.75%) JavaScript
10 65 (12.77%) SQL
11 56 (11.00%) PHP
12 51 (10.02%) TypeScript
13 50 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (9.63%) Mentoring
15 47 (9.23%) Software Engineering
16 44 (8.64%) Serverless
17 43 (8.45%) Microsoft
18 36 (7.07%) React
19 34 (6.68%) GitHub
19 34 (6.68%) TDD
20 33 (6.48%) AI
20 33 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
21 32 (6.29%) Front End Development
21 32 (6.29%) Git
22 31 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
22 31 (6.09%) Python
22 31 (6.09%) Spring
23 30 (5.89%) Clean Code
23 30 (5.89%) Docker

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 (1.77%) 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 (1.77%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.59%) Shopify
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.22%) AWS
2 88 (17.29%) Azure
3 44 (8.64%) Serverless
4 34 (6.68%) GitHub
5 33 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 22 (4.32%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.54%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.55%) GCP
13 12 (2.36%) Boomi
13 12 (2.36%) SaaS
14 10 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
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 22 (4.32%) DynamoDB
1 22 (4.32%) MySQL
2 18 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 17 (3.34%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.95%) Power BI
5 14 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.55%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.96%) MariaDB
8 8 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.39%) GIS
14 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (6.29%) Git
2 17 (3.34%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.95%) JIRA
4 10 (1.96%) GitLab
5 5 (0.98%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.59%) fastlane
7 3 (0.59%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.39%) Gradle
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) Postman
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Spock
8 2 (0.39%) Xcode
8 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.20%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (6.29%) Social Skills
2 28 (5.50%) Finance
3 22 (4.32%) Marketing
4 21 (4.13%) Banking
4 21 (4.13%) Retail
5 18 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.16%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.96%) Law
8 8 (1.57%) Legal
9 6 (1.18%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.79%) Back Office
10 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.59%) Games
11 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.39%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Police
13 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.73%) .NET
2 36 (7.07%) React
3 31 (6.09%) Spring
4 30 (5.89%) Spring Boot
5 29 (5.70%) Laravel
5 29 (5.70%) Node.js
6 27 (5.30%) REST
7 26 (5.11%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.73%) .NET Core
8 19 (3.73%) CSS
9 18 (3.54%) HTML
9 18 (3.54%) Middleware
10 16 (3.14%) JSON
10 16 (3.14%) Vue
11 15 (2.95%) ASP.NET
11 15 (2.95%) SOAP
12 14 (2.75%) RESTful
13 13 (2.55%) XML
14 12 (2.36%) EDI
15 10 (1.96%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.93%) Cloud Native
1 20 (3.93%) Mobile App
2 16 (3.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.38%) 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%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.98%) NHS
9 4 (0.79%) 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%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.39%) Web Conferencing
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 94 (18.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (16.31%) CI/CD
3 79 (15.52%) Agile
4 77 (15.13%) DevOps
5 50 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (9.63%) Mentoring
7 47 (9.23%) Software Engineering
8 34 (6.68%) TDD
9 33 (6.48%) AI
10 32 (6.29%) Front End Development
11 31 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (5.89%) Clean Code
13 28 (5.50%) Roadmaps
14 26 (5.11%) Test Automation
15 25 (4.91%) Microservices
16 21 (4.13%) Collaborative Working
17 19 (3.73%) Scrum
18 18 (3.54%) API Integration
18 18 (3.54%) B2B
18 18 (3.54%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 86 (16.90%) Java
2 70 (13.75%) C#
2 70 (13.75%) JavaScript
3 65 (12.77%) SQL
4 56 (11.00%) PHP
5 51 (10.02%) TypeScript
6 31 (6.09%) Python
7 16 (3.14%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.36%) C++
9 8 (1.57%) Swift
10 5 (0.98%) Groovy
11 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.79%) SOQL
12 3 (0.59%) Bash
12 3 (0.59%) Ruby
12 3 (0.59%) Rust
12 3 (0.59%) Scala
12 3 (0.59%) SOSL
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (4.32%) SC Cleared
1 22 (4.32%) Security Cleared
2 13 (2.55%) 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 (2.36%) 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 30 (5.89%) Docker
2 8 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.95%) Terraform
3 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 43 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.14%) Salesforce
3 7 (1.38%) Intapp
3 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
3 7 (1.38%) Splunk
4 4 (0.79%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.59%) Cognos
5 3 (0.59%) IBM
6 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.20%) Apple
7 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle
7 1 (0.20%) Pega