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 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 84 86
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 168 273 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.59% 2.84% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 3.00% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 150 151 205
10th Percentile £53,625 £48,750 £48,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,750 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 9,328 9,085 6,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 94.41% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,330 4,376 5,249
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £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% - -

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 24 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 24 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 +3 106 £60,000 - 64
Yorkshire -35 50 £70,000 +27.29% 52
North East -24 14 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 46 (27.38%) Agile
3 45 (26.79%) C#
4 43 (25.60%) .NET
4 43 (25.60%) Azure
5 34 (20.24%) CI/CD
6 33 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (18.45%) AWS
7 31 (18.45%) JavaScript
7 31 (18.45%) Test Automation
8 29 (17.26%) DevOps
9 28 (16.67%) CSS
10 27 (16.07%) React
11 25 (14.88%) HTML
12 24 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (13.69%) Java
13 23 (13.69%) SQL
14 22 (13.10%) Salesforce
15 21 (12.50%) Business Analysis
15 21 (12.50%) Docker
15 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (12.50%) Process Improvement
16 20 (11.90%) .NET Core
16 20 (11.90%) DBS Check
16 20 (11.90%) Microsoft
16 20 (11.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 19 (11.31%) Clean Code
17 19 (11.31%) Git
17 19 (11.31%) Microservices
17 19 (11.31%) SQL Server

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 (2.38%) CMS
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.19%) IIS
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.19%) WordPress
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.19%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 2 (1.19%) Magento
1 2 (1.19%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Odoo
2 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.60%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.60%) Azure
2 31 (18.45%) AWS
3 20 (11.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 9 (5.36%) GCP
4 9 (5.36%) SaaS
5 8 (4.76%) GitHub
5 8 (4.76%) Serverless
6 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.19%) npm
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.60%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.60%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) HTTP
2 3 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.19%) Power BI
3 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (11.31%) Git
2 3 (1.79%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.19%) JIRA
3 2 (1.19%) JUnit
3 2 (1.19%) Selenium
4 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) Maven
4 1 (0.60%) Mockito
4 1 (0.60%) Protractor
4 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (16.07%) Marketing
2 20 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.36%) Retail
4 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.17%) Finance
5 6 (3.57%) Games
5 6 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.98%) Legal
7 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.79%) Law
8 2 (1.19%) Back Office
8 2 (1.19%) Banking
8 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Automotive
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) Publishing
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.60%) .NET
2 28 (16.67%) CSS
3 27 (16.07%) React
4 25 (14.88%) HTML
5 20 (11.90%) .NET Core
6 13 (7.74%) Spring
7 12 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.95%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.95%) RESTful
9 8 (4.76%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.17%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (4.17%) Node.js
10 7 (4.17%) REST
11 5 (2.98%) Blazor
11 5 (2.98%) Django
11 5 (2.98%) Flask
11 5 (2.98%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.98%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.38%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.98%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.98%) IoT
3 3 (1.79%) Client/Server
3 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.19%) iPad
4 2 (1.19%) iPhone
4 2 (1.19%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.19%) NHS
5 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.60%) Multi-touch
5 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.79%) Android
2 3 (1.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 46 (27.38%) Agile
3 34 (20.24%) CI/CD
4 33 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 31 (18.45%) Test Automation
6 29 (17.26%) DevOps
7 24 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 21 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (12.50%) Process Improvement
9 19 (11.31%) Clean Code
9 19 (11.31%) Microservices
9 19 (11.31%) TDD
10 18 (10.71%) Business Transformation
11 17 (10.12%) Roadmaps
12 15 (8.93%) Front End Development
13 13 (7.74%) Containerisation
13 13 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (7.74%) Software Engineering
14 10 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.79%) C#
2 31 (18.45%) JavaScript
3 23 (13.69%) Java
3 23 (13.69%) SQL
4 15 (8.93%) Python
4 15 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.36%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.76%) PHP
7 7 (4.17%) Go
7 7 (4.17%) Scala
8 6 (3.57%) C++
8 6 (3.57%) Ruby
9 5 (2.98%) Elixir
10 2 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.19%) Erlang
10 2 (1.19%) R
10 2 (1.19%) Swift
10 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.60%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) DBS Check
2 7 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.79%) cPanel
3 3 (1.79%) Plesk
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (13.10%) Salesforce
2 20 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle
5 2 (1.19%) Infor
5 2 (1.19%) Intapp
5 2 (1.19%) Lotus
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe
6 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.60%) Sparx
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) Workday