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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 129 76
Rank change year-on-year +44 -53 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 360 141 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.04% 2.03% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 2.24% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 317 116 417
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,602
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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,500
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 16,209 6,304 15,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 90.68% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,445 3,814 12,514
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,716 £36,000
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 £84,100 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

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 21 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 21 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 +42 196 £65,000 +8.33% 41
Yorkshire +9 125 £65,000 +13.04% 13
North East -12 39 £70,000 -11.39% 10
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 (21.67%) Azure
2 73 (20.28%) AWS
3 68 (18.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (17.50%) CI/CD
5 62 (17.22%) Agile
6 61 (16.94%) JavaScript
7 60 (16.67%) .NET
8 57 (15.83%) C#
9 56 (15.56%) SQL
10 53 (14.72%) DevOps
11 51 (14.17%) Java
12 42 (11.67%) PHP
13 41 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (10.56%) React
15 37 (10.28%) Mentoring
15 37 (10.28%) Microsoft
16 34 (9.44%) TypeScript
17 32 (8.89%) Git
17 32 (8.89%) Serverless
18 31 (8.61%) Software Engineering
19 29 (8.06%) Front End Development
20 25 (6.94%) .NET Core
20 25 (6.94%) CSS
20 25 (6.94%) Node.js
21 24 (6.67%) GitHub
22 23 (6.39%) Python
23 22 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
23 22 (6.11%) Docker
23 22 (6.11%) HTML
23 22 (6.11%) REST

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 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.83%) CMS
2 3 (0.83%) WordPress
3 2 (0.56%) IIS
3 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.83%) Shopify
3 2 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (21.67%) Azure
2 73 (20.28%) AWS
3 32 (8.89%) Serverless
4 24 (6.67%) GitHub
5 22 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (5.28%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.44%) GCP
9 15 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 13 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (3.61%) SaaS
11 12 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (2.78%) Boomi
13 8 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (2.22%) Apigee
14 6 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.83%) HTTP
1 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.72%) DynamoDB
1 17 (4.72%) NoSQL
1 17 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (3.33%) Power BI
4 10 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (1.94%) MySQL
7 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (8.89%) Git
2 12 (3.33%) JIRA
3 10 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.39%) GitLab
4 5 (1.39%) PHPUnit
5 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.56%) Maven
6 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.56%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) fastlane
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) NUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 28 (7.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (6.94%) Marketing
3 21 (5.83%) Finance
4 19 (5.28%) Retail
5 13 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.78%) Banking
6 10 (2.78%) Law
7 9 (2.50%) Legal
8 6 (1.67%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.11%) Games
11 2 (0.56%) Back Office
11 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.67%) .NET
2 38 (10.56%) React
3 25 (6.94%) .NET Core
3 25 (6.94%) CSS
3 25 (6.94%) Node.js
4 22 (6.11%) HTML
4 22 (6.11%) REST
4 22 (6.11%) Spring Boot
5 21 (5.83%) Laravel
5 21 (5.83%) Spring
6 17 (4.72%) ASP.NET
7 16 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 15 (4.17%) Vue
9 11 (3.06%) JSON
9 11 (3.06%) XML
10 10 (2.78%) EDI
10 10 (2.78%) Middleware
10 10 (2.78%) RESTful
10 10 (2.78%) SOAP
11 9 (2.50%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.89%) Enterprise Cloud
1 14 (3.89%) Mobile App
2 13 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.94%) NHS
6 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.39%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.39%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.83%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.56%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.28%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.28%) Lidar
10 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.28%) Social Media
10 1 (0.28%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.78%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.39%) Android
3 3 (0.83%) Windows
4 2 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (18.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (17.50%) CI/CD
3 62 (17.22%) Agile
4 53 (14.72%) DevOps
5 41 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (10.28%) Mentoring
7 31 (8.61%) Software Engineering
8 29 (8.06%) Front End Development
9 22 (6.11%) TDD
10 21 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (5.56%) Microservices
12 19 (5.28%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (5.28%) Test Automation
13 18 (5.00%) B2B
13 18 (5.00%) Clean Code
14 17 (4.72%) Roadmaps
15 16 (4.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (4.17%) API Integration
17 14 (3.89%) Containerisation
18 13 (3.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.94%) JavaScript
2 57 (15.83%) C#
3 56 (15.56%) SQL
4 51 (14.17%) Java
5 42 (11.67%) PHP
6 34 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.39%) Python
8 13 (3.61%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.94%) Swift
10 3 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.56%) Bash
11 2 (0.56%) Groovy
11 2 (0.56%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.28%) R
12 1 (0.28%) SOQL
12 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (3.61%) SC Cleared
1 13 (3.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.39%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.56%) Degree
4 2 (0.56%) HND
5 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.78%) TickIT
2 5 (1.39%) QA
3 2 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (6.11%) Docker
2 9 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.78%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) cPanel
3 3 (0.83%) Plesk
4 2 (0.56%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.06%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.22%) Intapp
4 2 (0.56%) Cognos
4 2 (0.56%) IBM
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle
5 1 (0.28%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.28%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.28%) Google
5 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.28%) Pega