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 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 163 60
Rank change year-on-year +97 -103 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 502 155 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.09% 1.63% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 1.87% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 454 129 301
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 £75,188 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,200 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -8.13%

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 22,364 8,291 13,084
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 87.26% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,303 4,321 7,443
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
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% -7.62%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.22% - -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 28 September 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 September 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 +73 266 £70,000 +7.69% 63
Yorkshire +48 142 £63,750 -1.92% 22
North East +14 94 £70,000 +7.69% 15
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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.

1 100 (19.92%) AWS
2 97 (19.32%) Java
3 95 (18.92%) Azure
3 95 (18.92%) C#
4 90 (17.93%) Agile
5 84 (16.73%) CI/CD
6 78 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 75 (14.94%) .NET
8 69 (13.75%) DevOps
9 64 (12.75%) TypeScript
10 63 (12.55%) Mentoring
11 62 (12.35%) JavaScript
12 58 (11.55%) Microsoft
12 58 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (11.55%) SQL
13 50 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (9.96%) PHP
13 50 (9.96%) Software Engineering
14 43 (8.57%) AI
14 43 (8.57%) Front End Development
14 43 (8.57%) React
15 40 (7.97%) Python
15 40 (7.97%) TDD
16 36 (7.17%) HTML
17 35 (6.97%) Docker
17 35 (6.97%) Serverless
18 34 (6.77%) GitHub
18 34 (6.77%) REST
19 33 (6.57%) CSS
20 32 (6.37%) Laravel

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
1 100 (19.92%) AWS
2 95 (18.92%) Azure
3 35 (6.97%) Serverless
4 34 (6.77%) GitHub
5 29 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (5.58%) Power Platform
7 27 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (2.59%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.39%) Boomi
13 12 (2.39%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.99%) GCP
14 10 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
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 18 (3.59%) DynamoDB
3 15 (2.99%) Relational Database
3 15 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.79%) Power BI
4 14 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.19%) MariaDB
6 7 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.80%) Redis
8 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.40%) GIS
9 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
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%) 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%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.40%) Xcode
8 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 40 (7.97%) Social Skills
2 30 (5.98%) Public Sector
3 28 (5.58%) Finance
4 26 (5.18%) Retail
5 23 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.38%) 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 3 (0.60%) Back Office
10 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Law
11 2 (0.40%) Police
12 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.20%) Games
12 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.94%) .NET
2 43 (8.57%) React
3 36 (7.17%) HTML
4 34 (6.77%) REST
5 33 (6.57%) CSS
6 32 (6.37%) Laravel
7 31 (6.18%) AngularJS
7 31 (6.18%) Node.js
7 31 (6.18%) Spring
8 29 (5.78%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.18%) Middleware
10 19 (3.78%) .NET Core
11 18 (3.59%) RESTful
11 18 (3.59%) SOAP
12 16 (3.19%) React Native
12 16 (3.19%) Terraform
12 16 (3.19%) XML
13 15 (2.99%) EDI
13 15 (2.99%) JSON
14 12 (2.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.18%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.59%) Online Gambling
6 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.80%) Derivative
8 3 (0.60%) IoT
8 3 (0.60%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.40%) CMDB
9 2 (0.40%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
9 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 90 (17.93%) Agile
2 84 (16.73%) CI/CD
3 78 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (13.75%) DevOps
5 63 (12.55%) Mentoring
6 58 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (9.96%) Software Engineering
8 43 (8.57%) AI
8 43 (8.57%) Front End Development
9 40 (7.97%) TDD
10 31 (6.18%) Microservices
11 29 (5.78%) Collaborative Working
11 29 (5.78%) Roadmaps
12 28 (5.58%) Clean Code
12 28 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
12 28 (5.58%) Test Automation
13 23 (4.58%) API Development
13 23 (4.58%) API Integration
13 23 (4.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.32%) Java
2 95 (18.92%) C#
3 64 (12.75%) TypeScript
4 62 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 58 (11.55%) SQL
6 50 (9.96%) PHP
7 40 (7.97%) Python
8 25 (4.98%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.39%) C++
10 8 (1.59%) Go
11 7 (1.39%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.00%) C
13 4 (0.80%) SOQL
14 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.60%) Groovy
14 3 (0.60%) Rust
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) SOSL
14 3 (0.60%) Swift
14 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (3.98%) SC Cleared
1 20 (3.98%) Security Cleared
2 11 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (1.99%) Degree
4 7 (1.39%) 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
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