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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 180 76
Rank change year-on-year +111 -104 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 479 126 536
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.43% 1.63% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.61% 1.82% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 422 108 450
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,381
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,875 £75,000 £75,000
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 18,335 6,931 16,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 89.64% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,647 3,429 13,200
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,501
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +87 251 £65,000 +8.33% 29
Yorkshire +56 169 £65,000 +19.82% 19
North East +6 59 £60,000 -17.24% 13
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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 (20.88%) AWS
2 88 (18.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 85 (17.75%) Azure
4 84 (17.54%) CI/CD
5 81 (16.91%) Java
6 77 (16.08%) Agile
7 74 (15.45%) JavaScript
8 71 (14.82%) DevOps
9 70 (14.61%) .NET
10 67 (13.99%) C#
11 62 (12.94%) SQL
12 53 (11.06%) PHP
13 48 (10.02%) Mentoring
13 48 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (8.98%) TypeScript
15 41 (8.56%) Software Engineering
16 39 (8.14%) Microsoft
16 39 (8.14%) Serverless
17 33 (6.89%) Front End Development
17 33 (6.89%) Git
17 33 (6.89%) React
18 32 (6.68%) TDD
19 31 (6.47%) Clean Code
19 31 (6.47%) Spring
20 30 (6.26%) Docker
20 30 (6.26%) Node.js
20 30 (6.26%) REST
20 30 (6.26%) Spring Boot
21 29 (6.05%) GitHub
21 29 (6.05%) Test Automation

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 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.04%) IIS
3 3 (0.63%) CMS
4 2 (0.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.09%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 100 (20.88%) AWS
2 85 (17.75%) Azure
3 39 (8.14%) Serverless
4 29 (6.05%) GitHub
5 26 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (4.38%) Amazon S3
8 19 (3.97%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.92%) GCP
11 14 (2.92%) SaaS
12 12 (2.51%) Boomi
13 10 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (1.67%) Apigee
14 8 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 2 (0.42%) HTTP
2 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.38%) MySQL
2 20 (4.18%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.97%) DynamoDB
4 18 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.92%) Power BI
6 14 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.09%) MariaDB
8 8 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.42%) GIS
12 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (6.89%) Git
2 16 (3.34%) Jenkins
2 16 (3.34%) JIRA
3 10 (2.09%) GitLab
4 5 (1.04%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.63%) fastlane
6 3 (0.63%) Maven
7 2 (0.42%) JUnit
7 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.42%) Spock
7 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.42%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.21%) Gradle
8 1 (0.21%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.21%) NUnit
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) Xcode
General
1 33 (6.89%) Social Skills
2 25 (5.22%) Finance
3 24 (5.01%) Retail
4 22 (4.59%) Marketing
5 20 (4.18%) Banking
6 18 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.30%) Law
8 10 (2.09%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.88%) Legal
10 6 (1.25%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.84%) Back Office
11 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.63%) Games
13 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.61%) .NET
2 33 (6.89%) React
3 31 (6.47%) Spring
4 30 (6.26%) Node.js
4 30 (6.26%) REST
4 30 (6.26%) Spring Boot
5 27 (5.64%) .NET Core
6 25 (5.22%) AngularJS
7 23 (4.80%) CSS
7 23 (4.80%) Laravel
8 19 (3.97%) HTML
9 18 (3.76%) ASP.NET
9 18 (3.76%) Middleware
10 16 (3.34%) JSON
11 15 (3.13%) SOAP
12 14 (2.92%) Vue
13 13 (2.71%) XML
14 12 (2.51%) EDI
14 12 (2.51%) RESTful
15 9 (1.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.38%) Mobile App
2 18 (3.76%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.34%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.88%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.25%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.04%) Educational Technology
7 5 (1.04%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.04%) NHS
8 3 (0.63%) IoT
8 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.42%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.42%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.42%) CMDB
9 2 (0.42%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.42%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.30%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.25%) Android
3 2 (0.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (18.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (17.54%) CI/CD
3 77 (16.08%) Agile
4 71 (14.82%) DevOps
5 48 (10.02%) Mentoring
5 48 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (8.56%) Software Engineering
7 33 (6.89%) Front End Development
8 32 (6.68%) TDD
9 31 (6.47%) Clean Code
10 29 (6.05%) Test Automation
11 28 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (5.22%) Roadmaps
13 22 (4.59%) API Integration
13 22 (4.59%) Microservices
14 20 (4.18%) B2B
14 20 (4.18%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (3.55%) AI
15 17 (3.55%) Release Management
15 17 (3.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 81 (16.91%) Java
2 74 (15.45%) JavaScript
3 67 (13.99%) C#
4 62 (12.94%) SQL
5 53 (11.06%) PHP
6 43 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 24 (5.01%) Python
8 15 (3.13%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.67%) C++
9 8 (1.67%) Swift
10 5 (1.04%) Groovy
11 4 (0.84%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.84%) SOQL
12 3 (0.63%) Bash
12 3 (0.63%) Ruby
12 3 (0.63%) SOSL
13 2 (0.42%) Bicep
13 2 (0.42%) Scala
14 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (4.18%) SC Cleared
1 20 (4.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
4 4 (0.84%) Degree
5 2 (0.42%) HND
6 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.51%) TickIT
2 8 (1.67%) QA
3 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (6.26%) Docker
2 9 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.71%) Terraform
3 2 (0.42%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 39 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.67%) Intapp
4 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.25%) Splunk
6 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.42%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.42%) Cognos
7 2 (0.42%) Google
7 2 (0.42%) IBM
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle
8 1 (0.21%) Apple
8 1 (0.21%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.21%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.21%) Pega