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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 82 77
Rank change year-on-year -32 -5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 179 267 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.69% 2.81% 3.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.97% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 159 146 227
10th Percentile £52,480 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £75,000 £76,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

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 9,404 8,980 7,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.55% 94.35% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,393 4,330 5,693
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,634
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,055 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -2.81% -1.90%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +5 112 £60,000 - 120
Yorkshire -37 54 £70,000 +27.29% 94
North East -16 15 £65,000 +20.93% 31
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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 48 (26.82%) Mentoring
2 47 (26.26%) Agile
2 47 (26.26%) Azure
2 47 (26.26%) C#
3 46 (25.70%) .NET
4 35 (19.55%) CI/CD
5 33 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 33 (18.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 31 (17.32%) AWS
6 31 (17.32%) Test Automation
7 29 (16.20%) DevOps
8 28 (15.64%) CSS
8 28 (15.64%) React
9 26 (14.53%) SQL
10 25 (13.97%) HTML
11 24 (13.41%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (13.41%) Java
12 22 (12.29%) Docker
12 22 (12.29%) Salesforce
13 21 (11.73%) .NET Core
13 21 (11.73%) Business Analysis
13 21 (11.73%) Microsoft
13 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (11.73%) Process Improvement
14 20 (11.17%) DBS Check
14 20 (11.17%) Git
14 20 (11.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
14 20 (11.17%) TDD
15 19 (10.61%) Microservices

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 (2.23%) CMS
2 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.68%) WordPress
3 2 (1.12%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 2 (1.12%) Magento
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Odoo
2 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.56%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 47 (26.26%) Azure
2 31 (17.32%) AWS
3 20 (11.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 10 (5.59%) SaaS
5 9 (5.03%) GCP
5 9 (5.03%) Serverless
6 8 (4.47%) GitHub
7 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.12%) npm
11 1 (0.56%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) HTTP
2 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.79%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.12%) Power BI
5 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (11.17%) Git
2 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) JUnit
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) Mockito
5 1 (0.56%) Protractor
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (16.20%) Marketing
2 20 (11.17%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.47%) Retail
4 7 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.91%) Finance
5 6 (3.35%) Games
5 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.79%) Legal
7 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Law
8 2 (1.12%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.70%) .NET
2 28 (15.64%) CSS
2 28 (15.64%) React
3 25 (13.97%) HTML
4 21 (11.73%) .NET Core
5 14 (7.82%) Spring
6 13 (7.26%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.70%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.59%) RESTful
9 8 (4.47%) .NET Framework
9 8 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.47%) REST
10 7 (3.91%) Node.js
11 6 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (2.79%) Django
12 5 (2.79%) Flask
12 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
12 5 (2.79%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.23%) Jest
13 4 (2.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.03%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.79%) IoT
4 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.23%) NHS
5 3 (1.68%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) iPad
6 2 (1.12%) iPhone
6 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.68%) Android
2 3 (1.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.82%) Mentoring
2 47 (26.26%) Agile
3 35 (19.55%) CI/CD
4 33 (18.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 31 (17.32%) Test Automation
6 29 (16.20%) DevOps
7 24 (13.41%) Collaborative Culture
8 21 (11.73%) Business Analysis
8 21 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (11.73%) Process Improvement
9 20 (11.17%) TDD
10 19 (10.61%) Microservices
11 18 (10.06%) Business Transformation
11 18 (10.06%) Clean Code
12 16 (8.94%) Front End Development
12 16 (8.94%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (7.82%) Software Engineering
14 13 (7.26%) Containerisation
15 10 (5.59%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.26%) C#
2 33 (18.44%) JavaScript
3 26 (14.53%) SQL
4 24 (13.41%) Java
5 15 (8.38%) Python
5 15 (8.38%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.70%) PHP
7 9 (5.03%) Kotlin
8 7 (3.91%) Go
8 7 (3.91%) Scala
9 6 (3.35%) C++
9 6 (3.35%) Ruby
10 5 (2.79%) Elixir
11 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.12%) Erlang
11 2 (1.12%) R
11 2 (1.12%) Swift
11 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 20 (11.17%) DBS Check
2 7 (3.91%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.68%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (12.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.47%) Terraform
3 3 (1.68%) cPanel
3 3 (1.68%) Plesk
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (12.29%) Salesforce
2 21 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.23%) Oracle
5 2 (1.12%) Infor
5 2 (1.12%) Intapp
5 2 (1.12%) Lotus
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe
6 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.56%) Google
6 1 (0.56%) IBM
6 1 (0.56%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.56%) Sparx
6 1 (0.56%) Splunk
6 1 (0.56%) Workday