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 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 116 78
Rank change year-on-year +21 -38 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 254 151 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.88% 2.09% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 2.25% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 226 104 373
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,875 £43,381
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £74,688 £65,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.76% -11.49%

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 12,186 6,712 12,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 92.76% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,529 3,487 10,418
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
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% -9.84%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +29 139 £65,000 +13.04% 53
Yorkshire -3 89 £63,750 +18.06% 41
North East -3 26 £70,000 +19.15% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 March 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 60 (23.62%) Azure
2 58 (22.83%) .NET
2 58 (22.83%) JavaScript
3 55 (21.65%) CI/CD
4 54 (21.26%) Agile
5 51 (20.08%) C#
6 49 (19.29%) AWS
7 43 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (14.57%) Mentoring
8 37 (14.57%) SQL
9 36 (14.17%) React
10 32 (12.60%) CSS
10 32 (12.60%) DevOps
11 30 (11.81%) Front End Development
11 30 (11.81%) Java
12 29 (11.42%) HTML
12 29 (11.42%) PHP
12 29 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (11.02%) Git
14 27 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (10.63%) Software Engineering
15 26 (10.24%) .NET Core
15 26 (10.24%) Docker
16 25 (9.84%) Test Automation
17 23 (9.06%) TDD
17 23 (9.06%) TypeScript
18 21 (8.27%) Clean Code
18 21 (8.27%) Microsoft
18 21 (8.27%) Serverless
19 20 (7.87%) 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 (1.57%) CMS
2 3 (1.18%) WordPress
3 2 (0.79%) IIS
3 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.18%) Shopify
3 2 (0.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (23.62%) Azure
2 49 (19.29%) AWS
3 21 (8.27%) Serverless
4 15 (5.91%) GCP
5 14 (5.51%) SaaS
6 13 (5.12%) GitHub
7 12 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 9 (3.54%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.36%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (1.97%) ChatGPT
13 4 (1.57%) Datadog
13 4 (1.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (1.57%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) HTTP
2 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) Broadband
3 1 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.12%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.76%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (1.97%) MySQL
5 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.39%) Power BI
8 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (11.02%) Git
2 9 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.97%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.97%) GitLab
4 3 (1.18%) JIRA
4 3 (1.18%) Maven
4 3 (1.18%) PHPUnit
4 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.79%) JUnit
5 2 (0.79%) Selenium
5 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.39%) Mockito
6 1 (0.39%) Protractor
6 1 (0.39%) XCUITest
General
1 23 (9.06%) Marketing
2 21 (8.27%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.72%) Finance
4 8 (3.15%) Law
4 8 (3.15%) Legal
5 7 (2.76%) Retail
6 4 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.57%) Games
6 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.39%) Automotive
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.39%) Publishing
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (22.83%) .NET
2 36 (14.17%) React
3 32 (12.60%) CSS
4 29 (11.42%) HTML
5 26 (10.24%) .NET Core
6 17 (6.69%) Node.js
7 16 (6.30%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.91%) ASP.NET
8 15 (5.91%) Spring
9 12 (4.72%) Laravel
10 11 (4.33%) REST
10 11 (4.33%) Vue
11 10 (3.94%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.54%) RESTful
13 8 (3.15%) Jest
14 7 (2.76%) Flask
15 6 (2.36%) .NET Framework
15 6 (2.36%) Hibernate
16 5 (1.97%) ASP.NET Web API
16 5 (1.97%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.51%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.36%) NHS
6 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.18%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.79%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.39%) Social Media
9 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.97%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.18%) Android
2 3 (1.18%) Windows
3 2 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (21.65%) CI/CD
2 54 (21.26%) Agile
3 43 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (14.57%) Mentoring
5 32 (12.60%) DevOps
6 30 (11.81%) Front End Development
7 29 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (10.63%) Software Engineering
9 25 (9.84%) Test Automation
10 23 (9.06%) TDD
11 21 (8.27%) Clean Code
12 20 (7.87%) Microservices
13 19 (7.48%) Containerisation
13 19 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.30%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (5.12%) SDLC
15 13 (5.12%) User Experience
16 12 (4.72%) Business Transformation
16 12 (4.72%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (22.83%) JavaScript
2 51 (20.08%) C#
3 37 (14.57%) SQL
4 30 (11.81%) Java
5 29 (11.42%) PHP
6 23 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.09%) Python
8 9 (3.54%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.57%) Swift
10 3 (1.18%) C++
11 2 (0.79%) Bash
11 2 (0.79%) Erlang
11 2 (0.79%) Groovy
11 2 (0.79%) R
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) Delphi
12 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (4.72%) DBS Check
2 7 (2.76%) SC Cleared
2 7 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.79%) Degree
3 2 (0.79%) HND
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.36%) QA
2 2 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (10.24%) Docker
2 7 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) cPanel
3 3 (1.18%) Plesk
4 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.72%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.15%) Intapp
4 2 (0.79%) Cognos
4 2 (0.79%) IBM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe
5 1 (0.39%) Google
5 1 (0.39%) OpenAI