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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 February 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 99 74
Rank change year-on-year -8 -25 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 220 198 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.70% 2.56% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.76% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 195 119 367
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £43,381
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,730 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £74,375 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -6.90%

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 11,632 7,177 12,042
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 92.79% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,142 3,587 9,862
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,161 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +4 117 £62,500 +5.93% 46
Yorkshire -19 77 £62,500 +13.64% 32
North East -14 26 £70,000 +29.63% 10
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 February 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 55 (25.00%) Azure
2 52 (23.64%) .NET
3 49 (22.27%) JavaScript
4 47 (21.36%) C#
5 46 (20.91%) Agile
6 44 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 39 (17.73%) AWS
8 33 (15.00%) React
9 32 (14.55%) CSS
9 32 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (14.55%) Mentoring
10 30 (13.64%) SQL
11 29 (13.18%) HTML
12 28 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (11.82%) .NET Core
14 25 (11.36%) DevOps
14 25 (11.36%) Front End Development
14 25 (11.36%) PHP
15 24 (10.91%) Docker
15 24 (10.91%) Git
15 24 (10.91%) Test Automation
16 23 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (10.45%) Software Engineering
17 21 (9.55%) Java
17 21 (9.55%) Microsoft
18 20 (9.09%) SQL Server
19 18 (8.18%) Clean Code
19 18 (8.18%) Microservices
20 17 (7.73%) TDD
21 16 (7.27%) Containerisation

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 4 (1.82%) CMS
2 3 (1.36%) WordPress
3 2 (0.91%) IIS
3 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.36%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.00%) Azure
2 39 (17.73%) AWS
3 15 (6.82%) Serverless
4 13 (5.91%) SaaS
4 13 (5.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 12 (5.45%) GCP
6 10 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (4.55%) GitHub
7 8 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (1.82%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.36%) Datadog
11 3 (1.36%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.91%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.82%) HTTP
2 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) Broadband
3 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.73%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.36%) MySQL
6 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.45%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (10.91%) Git
2 8 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.27%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.82%) GitLab
5 3 (1.36%) JIRA
5 3 (1.36%) Maven
5 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.91%) JUnit
6 2 (0.91%) Selenium
6 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) Mockito
7 1 (0.45%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.45%) Protractor
7 1 (0.45%) XCUITest
General
1 24 (10.91%) Marketing
2 20 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.64%) Legal
4 7 (3.18%) Finance
4 7 (3.18%) Law
5 6 (2.73%) Retail
6 4 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.82%) Games
7 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.45%) Automotive
8 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.45%) Publishing
8 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.64%) .NET
2 33 (15.00%) React
3 32 (14.55%) CSS
4 29 (13.18%) HTML
5 26 (11.82%) .NET Core
6 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET
7 13 (5.91%) Spring Boot
8 12 (5.45%) Spring
9 10 (4.55%) Node.js
9 10 (4.55%) REST
10 9 (4.09%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.09%) Laravel
10 9 (4.09%) RESTful
11 8 (3.64%) Jest
12 7 (3.18%) Flask
12 7 (3.18%) Vue
13 6 (2.73%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.73%) Hibernate
14 5 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (2.27%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.91%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.27%) NHS
6 3 (1.36%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.91%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.45%) Life Science
8 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.36%) Windows
2 2 (0.91%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.91%) Agile
2 44 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 32 (14.55%) Mentoring
4 28 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (11.36%) DevOps
5 25 (11.36%) Front End Development
6 24 (10.91%) Test Automation
7 23 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (10.45%) Software Engineering
8 18 (8.18%) Clean Code
8 18 (8.18%) Microservices
9 17 (7.73%) TDD
10 16 (7.27%) Containerisation
10 16 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (6.36%) Collaborative Culture
12 13 (5.91%) Business Analysis
12 13 (5.91%) Business Transformation
12 13 (5.91%) Process Improvement
12 13 (5.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.27%) JavaScript
2 47 (21.36%) C#
3 30 (13.64%) SQL
4 25 (11.36%) PHP
5 21 (9.55%) Java
6 15 (6.82%) Python
6 15 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.36%) C++
8 3 (1.36%) Scala
9 2 (0.91%) Bash
9 2 (0.91%) Erlang
9 2 (0.91%) Groovy
9 2 (0.91%) R
9 2 (0.91%) Swift
10 1 (0.45%) Delphi
10 1 (0.45%) Go
10 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (5.91%) DBS Check
2 6 (2.73%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.73%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.91%) Degree
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.73%) QA
System Software
1 24 (10.91%) Docker
2 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.36%) cPanel
2 3 (1.36%) Plesk
2 3 (1.36%) Terraform
3 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.91%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.64%) Intapp
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe
5 1 (0.45%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAI