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 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 126 74
Rank change year-on-year +44 -52 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 345 138 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.05% 2.11% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 2.30% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 305 113 411
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,381
25th Percentile £58,500 £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 £69,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £76,250
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 15,440 5,993 15,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 91.69% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,999 3,796 12,421
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.26%

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 14 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 14 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 +36 185 £65,000 +8.33% 37
Yorkshire +5 122 £65,000 +13.04% 11
North East -8 38 £68,750 -12.97% 10
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 (22.61%) Azure
2 72 (20.87%) AWS
3 66 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 62 (17.97%) .NET
4 62 (17.97%) CI/CD
4 62 (17.97%) JavaScript
5 61 (17.68%) Agile
6 55 (15.94%) C#
7 53 (15.36%) SQL
8 50 (14.49%) DevOps
8 50 (14.49%) Java
9 40 (11.59%) PHP
10 38 (11.01%) React
11 37 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (10.14%) Mentoring
13 34 (9.86%) Microsoft
14 32 (9.28%) Git
14 32 (9.28%) TypeScript
15 31 (8.99%) Software Engineering
16 30 (8.70%) Serverless
17 29 (8.41%) Front End Development
18 26 (7.54%) .NET Core
18 26 (7.54%) CSS
19 24 (6.96%) Python
20 23 (6.67%) Docker
20 23 (6.67%) HTML
20 23 (6.67%) Node.js
21 22 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
21 22 (6.38%) Spring Boot
22 21 (6.09%) Spring

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 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.87%) CMS
2 3 (0.87%) WordPress
3 2 (0.58%) IIS
3 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.90%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.87%) Shopify
3 2 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (22.61%) Azure
2 72 (20.87%) AWS
3 30 (8.70%) Serverless
4 20 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (5.80%) GitHub
5 17 (4.93%) Amazon S3
6 16 (4.64%) GCP
7 13 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (3.77%) SaaS
8 12 (3.48%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.03%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (2.03%) Apigee
12 7 (2.03%) Boomi
13 6 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) HTTP
1 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.93%) NoSQL
1 17 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 12 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.61%) Power BI
6 8 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.03%) MySQL
8 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (9.28%) Git
2 10 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.61%) JIRA
4 5 (1.45%) GitLab
4 5 (1.45%) PHPUnit
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.58%) Maven
6 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.58%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.29%) fastlane
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) NUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 26 (7.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (6.67%) Marketing
3 21 (6.09%) Finance
4 17 (4.93%) Retail
5 10 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.90%) Banking
5 10 (2.90%) Law
6 9 (2.61%) Legal
7 6 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.16%) Games
8 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.58%) Back Office
9 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.97%) .NET
2 38 (11.01%) React
3 26 (7.54%) .NET Core
3 26 (7.54%) CSS
4 23 (6.67%) HTML
4 23 (6.67%) Node.js
5 22 (6.38%) Spring Boot
6 21 (6.09%) Spring
7 19 (5.51%) Laravel
7 19 (5.51%) REST
8 17 (4.93%) ASP.NET
9 15 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 15 (4.35%) Vue
10 10 (2.90%) RESTful
11 9 (2.61%) Flask
12 8 (2.32%) JSON
12 8 (2.32%) XML
13 7 (2.03%) EDI
13 7 (2.03%) Middleware
13 7 (2.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.06%) Mobile App
2 12 (3.48%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.03%) NHS
5 5 (1.45%) Educational Technology
5 5 (1.45%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.29%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.29%) Lidar
9 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.29%) Social Media
9 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.45%) Android
3 3 (0.87%) Windows
4 2 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (17.97%) CI/CD
3 61 (17.68%) Agile
4 50 (14.49%) DevOps
5 37 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 31 (8.99%) Software Engineering
8 29 (8.41%) Front End Development
9 22 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (6.09%) TDD
11 19 (5.51%) Clean Code
11 19 (5.51%) Microservices
11 19 (5.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (5.51%) Test Automation
12 15 (4.35%) B2B
12 15 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (4.06%) Containerisation
13 14 (4.06%) Roadmaps
14 13 (3.77%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (3.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.97%) JavaScript
2 55 (15.94%) C#
3 53 (15.36%) SQL
4 50 (14.49%) Java
5 40 (11.59%) PHP
6 32 (9.28%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.96%) Python
8 13 (3.77%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.03%) Swift
10 3 (0.87%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) Bash
11 2 (0.58%) Groovy
11 2 (0.58%) R
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.29%) Delphi
12 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.29%) SOQL
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (3.48%) SC Cleared
1 12 (3.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (1.74%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.58%) Degree
3 2 (0.58%) HND
4 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.03%) TickIT
2 5 (1.45%) QA
3 2 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (6.67%) Docker
2 9 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.90%) Terraform
3 3 (0.87%) cPanel
3 3 (0.87%) Plesk
4 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.19%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.32%) Intapp
4 2 (0.58%) Cognos
4 2 (0.58%) IBM
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle
5 1 (0.29%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.29%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.29%) Google
5 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.29%) Pega