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 £69,305 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 162 59
Rank change year-on-year +91 -103 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 502 155 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.09% 1.62% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 1.86% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 453 129 294
10th Percentile £49,000 £53,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,800 £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 22,380 8,342 12,913
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 87.38% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,344 4,289 7,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £38,890
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 £78,725
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 1 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 1 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 +72 263 £70,000 +7.69% 67
Yorkshire +47 145 £65,000 - 29
North East +15 94 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 97 (19.32%) AWS
2 95 (18.92%) C#
2 95 (18.92%) Java
3 94 (18.73%) Azure
4 91 (18.13%) Agile
5 83 (16.53%) CI/CD
6 79 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 76 (15.14%) .NET
8 67 (13.35%) DevOps
9 62 (12.35%) JavaScript
9 62 (12.35%) Mentoring
9 62 (12.35%) TypeScript
10 58 (11.55%) Microsoft
10 58 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (11.16%) SQL
12 51 (10.16%) Software Engineering
13 50 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (9.96%) PHP
14 44 (8.76%) Front End Development
15 43 (8.57%) AI
15 43 (8.57%) React
16 40 (7.97%) TDD
17 39 (7.77%) Python
18 36 (7.17%) HTML
19 35 (6.97%) Docker
19 35 (6.97%) REST
20 34 (6.77%) GitHub
20 34 (6.77%) Serverless
21 33 (6.57%) CSS
22 32 (6.37%) AngularJS

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 12 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 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 97 (19.32%) AWS
2 94 (18.73%) Azure
3 34 (6.77%) GitHub
3 34 (6.77%) Serverless
4 29 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.58%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (3.78%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (2.59%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.39%) Boomi
12 12 (2.39%) PowerApps
13 11 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (1.79%) GCP
15 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
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 (4.18%) MySQL
2 17 (3.39%) DynamoDB
3 15 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.79%) Power BI
4 14 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (2.19%) MariaDB
7 7 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.80%) Redis
9 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.40%) GIS
10 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (4.18%) Git
2 14 (2.79%) JIRA
3 13 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.39%) GitLab
5 5 (1.00%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
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%) 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%) Xcode
8 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 40 (7.97%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.18%) Public Sector
3 28 (5.58%) Finance
4 25 (4.98%) Retail
5 23 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.18%) Banking
7 20 (3.98%) Marketing
8 8 (1.59%) Legal
8 8 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.59%) Publishing
9 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.40%) Back Office
10 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.40%) Law
10 2 (0.40%) Police
10 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.20%) Games
11 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.14%) .NET
2 43 (8.57%) React
3 36 (7.17%) HTML
4 35 (6.97%) REST
5 33 (6.57%) CSS
6 32 (6.37%) AngularJS
6 32 (6.37%) Laravel
7 31 (6.18%) Spring
8 30 (5.98%) Node.js
9 29 (5.78%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.18%) .NET Core
10 21 (4.18%) Middleware
11 19 (3.78%) RESTful
12 18 (3.59%) SOAP
13 16 (3.19%) React Native
13 16 (3.19%) XML
14 15 (2.99%) EDI
14 15 (2.99%) JSON
14 15 (2.99%) Terraform
15 12 (2.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.98%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.59%) Online Gambling
7 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.80%) Derivative
9 3 (0.60%) IoT
9 3 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.40%) CMDB
10 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.40%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.99%) Android
2 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.20%) Linux
4 4 (0.80%) Windows
5 2 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.13%) Agile
2 83 (16.53%) CI/CD
3 79 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (13.35%) DevOps
5 62 (12.35%) Mentoring
6 58 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (10.16%) Software Engineering
8 50 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (8.76%) Front End Development
10 43 (8.57%) AI
11 40 (7.97%) TDD
12 31 (6.18%) Microservices
13 29 (5.78%) Collaborative Working
13 29 (5.78%) Roadmaps
13 29 (5.78%) Test Automation
14 28 (5.58%) Clean Code
14 28 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (4.78%) API Development
15 24 (4.78%) API Integration
16 23 (4.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 95 (18.92%) C#
1 95 (18.92%) Java
2 62 (12.35%) JavaScript
2 62 (12.35%) TypeScript
3 56 (11.16%) SQL
4 50 (9.96%) PHP
5 39 (7.77%) Python
6 27 (5.38%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.39%) C++
8 8 (1.59%) Go
9 7 (1.39%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.00%) C
11 4 (0.80%) SOQL
12 3 (0.60%) Groovy
12 3 (0.60%) Ruby
12 3 (0.60%) Rust
12 3 (0.60%) Scala
12 3 (0.60%) SOSL
12 3 (0.60%) Swift
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (3.78%) SC Cleared
1 19 (3.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (1.99%) Degree
3 7 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.99%) WCAG
3 13 (2.59%) QA
4 12 (2.39%) TickIT
5 6 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (6.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.38%) 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 58 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.58%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.79%) Splunk
4 7 (1.39%) 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%) 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%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) YouTube