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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 132 78
Rank change year-on-year +50 -54 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 384 139 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.12% 1.96% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 2.19% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 336 116 414
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,491
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £84,375 £77,500 £75,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

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 16,699 6,356 15,795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 89.52% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,808 3,817 12,614
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.06%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +57 214 £65,000 +8.33% 38
Yorkshire +8 129 £65,000 +13.04% 22
North East -15 41 £70,000 -11.39% 14
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 78 (20.31%) Azure
2 76 (19.79%) AWS
3 74 (19.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (16.93%) Agile
5 64 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 61 (15.89%) .NET
7 59 (15.36%) JavaScript
7 59 (15.36%) SQL
8 58 (15.10%) C#
8 58 (15.10%) Java
9 56 (14.58%) DevOps
10 43 (11.20%) PHP
11 42 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (10.42%) Microsoft
13 38 (9.90%) TypeScript
14 37 (9.64%) Mentoring
14 37 (9.64%) React
15 34 (8.85%) Software Engineering
16 32 (8.33%) Git
16 32 (8.33%) Serverless
17 29 (7.55%) Front End Development
18 28 (7.29%) Node.js
19 27 (7.03%) GitHub
20 25 (6.51%) .NET Core
21 24 (6.25%) REST
21 24 (6.25%) TDD
22 23 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
22 23 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
22 23 (5.99%) CSS
22 23 (5.99%) Spring Boot

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 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.78%) CMS
3 2 (0.52%) IIS
3 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.52%) WordPress
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.60%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.78%) Shopify
3 2 (0.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (20.31%) Azure
2 76 (19.79%) AWS
3 32 (8.33%) Serverless
4 27 (7.03%) GitHub
5 23 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.43%) Power Platform
9 15 (3.91%) GCP
10 14 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.65%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (3.39%) SaaS
12 12 (3.13%) Boomi
13 11 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (2.08%) Apigee
15 6 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) HTTP
1 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.69%) DynamoDB
2 17 (4.43%) NoSQL
2 17 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (3.65%) Power BI
4 10 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (1.82%) MySQL
7 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (8.33%) Git
2 14 (3.65%) JIRA
3 11 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.30%) GitLab
4 5 (1.30%) PHPUnit
5 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.52%) Maven
7 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.52%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.26%) fastlane
8 1 (0.26%) JUnit
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 29 (7.55%) Social Skills
2 26 (6.77%) Marketing
3 21 (5.47%) Finance
3 21 (5.47%) Retail
4 15 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.86%) Banking
6 10 (2.60%) Law
7 9 (2.34%) Legal
8 6 (1.56%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.30%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.04%) Games
11 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Back Office
12 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.89%) .NET
2 37 (9.64%) React
3 28 (7.29%) Node.js
4 25 (6.51%) .NET Core
5 24 (6.25%) REST
6 23 (5.99%) CSS
6 23 (5.99%) Spring Boot
7 22 (5.73%) Laravel
7 22 (5.73%) Spring
8 19 (4.95%) HTML
9 18 (4.69%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.43%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.65%) Vue
12 13 (3.39%) JSON
12 13 (3.39%) XML
13 12 (3.13%) EDI
13 12 (3.13%) Middleware
13 12 (3.13%) SOAP
14 10 (2.60%) RESTful
15 8 (2.08%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
2 15 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.82%) NHS
7 5 (1.30%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.30%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.78%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.78%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.52%) IoT
9 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.26%) Lidar
10 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.26%) Social Media
10 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.60%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.30%) Android
3 3 (0.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (19.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 65 (16.93%) Agile
3 64 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 56 (14.58%) DevOps
5 42 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (9.64%) Mentoring
7 34 (8.85%) Software Engineering
8 29 (7.55%) Front End Development
9 24 (6.25%) TDD
10 23 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (5.47%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (5.47%) Microservices
12 20 (5.21%) B2B
12 20 (5.21%) Test Automation
13 19 (4.95%) Roadmaps
14 17 (4.43%) API Integration
14 17 (4.43%) Clean Code
15 15 (3.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (3.65%) CRM
16 14 (3.65%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (15.36%) JavaScript
1 59 (15.36%) SQL
2 58 (15.10%) C#
2 58 (15.10%) Java
3 43 (11.20%) PHP
4 38 (9.90%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.73%) Python
6 13 (3.39%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.82%) Swift
8 4 (1.04%) C++
9 2 (0.52%) Bash
9 2 (0.52%) Groovy
9 2 (0.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) Delphi
10 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.26%) R
10 1 (0.26%) SOQL
10 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 16 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 8 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.30%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.52%) Degree
4 2 (0.52%) HND
5 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.13%) TickIT
2 5 (1.30%) QA
3 2 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.47%) Docker
2 9 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.34%) Terraform
3 2 (0.52%) cPanel
3 2 (0.52%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.52%) Plesk
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.08%) Intapp
4 2 (0.52%) Cognos
4 2 (0.52%) IBM
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.26%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.26%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.26%) Google
5 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.26%) Pega