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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 158 65
Rank change year-on-year +96 -93 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 487 170 591
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.35% 1.81% 3.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 2.06% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 436 150 471
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,669 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -3.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%

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 19,666 8,267 17,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 88.08% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,319 4,425 13,140
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,144
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,150 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +82 256 £65,000 +4.00% 30
Yorkshire +56 162 £62,500 - 9
North East +8 69 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 111 (22.79%) AWS
2 94 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 87 (17.86%) Azure
4 86 (17.66%) Java
5 83 (17.04%) CI/CD
6 78 (16.02%) Agile
7 77 (15.81%) DevOps
8 70 (14.37%) .NET
8 70 (14.37%) C#
9 67 (13.76%) JavaScript
10 60 (12.32%) SQL
11 58 (11.91%) PHP
12 52 (10.68%) TypeScript
13 50 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (10.06%) Software Engineering
15 48 (9.86%) Mentoring
16 47 (9.65%) Microsoft
17 43 (8.83%) Serverless
18 37 (7.60%) AI
18 37 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 35 (7.19%) GitHub
19 35 (7.19%) Laravel
19 35 (7.19%) React
20 34 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
21 33 (6.78%) TDD
22 30 (6.16%) Clean Code
23 29 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
23 29 (5.95%) Python
23 29 (5.95%) Roadmaps
23 29 (5.95%) Spring

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 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.82%) IIS
4 2 (0.41%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.41%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.85%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (22.79%) AWS
2 87 (17.86%) Azure
3 43 (8.83%) Serverless
4 35 (7.19%) GitHub
5 34 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 23 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.87%) GCP
13 12 (2.46%) Boomi
13 12 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.05%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) Broadband
3 1 (0.21%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.13%) MySQL
2 21 (4.31%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.29%) Power BI
6 10 (2.05%) MariaDB
6 10 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.85%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.41%) GIS
12 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.21%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 28 (5.75%) Git
2 16 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.08%) JIRA
4 10 (2.05%) GitLab
5 5 (1.03%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.62%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.62%) fastlane
7 3 (0.62%) Maven
7 3 (0.62%) Postman
7 3 (0.62%) Selenium
8 2 (0.41%) Gradle
8 2 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.41%) Spock
8 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.41%) Xcode
8 2 (0.41%) XCUITest
8 2 (0.41%) YouTrack
General
1 34 (6.98%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.37%) Finance
3 21 (4.31%) Banking
4 20 (4.11%) Retail
5 18 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.70%) Marketing
6 12 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.26%) Law
8 6 (1.23%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.03%) Legal
9 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.82%) Back Office
11 2 (0.41%) Games
11 2 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.41%) Police
12 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.21%) Publishing
12 1 (0.21%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.37%) .NET
2 35 (7.19%) Laravel
2 35 (7.19%) React
3 29 (5.95%) Spring
3 29 (5.95%) Spring Boot
4 26 (5.34%) Node.js
5 25 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 24 (4.93%) REST
7 20 (4.11%) CSS
8 19 (3.90%) HTML
9 18 (3.70%) Middleware
9 18 (3.70%) Vue
10 16 (3.29%) .NET Core
10 16 (3.29%) JSON
10 16 (3.29%) RESTful
11 15 (3.08%) SOAP
12 14 (2.87%) EDI
13 13 (2.67%) XML
14 11 (2.26%) ASP.NET
15 10 (2.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.23%) Legacy Code
8 4 (0.82%) Derivative
8 4 (0.82%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.62%) IoT
9 3 (0.62%) NHS
10 2 (0.41%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.41%) CMDB
10 2 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.41%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.26%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.23%) Android
3 5 (1.03%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (17.04%) CI/CD
3 78 (16.02%) Agile
4 77 (15.81%) DevOps
5 50 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (10.06%) Software Engineering
7 48 (9.86%) Mentoring
8 37 (7.60%) AI
8 37 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (6.78%) TDD
10 30 (6.16%) Clean Code
11 29 (5.95%) Roadmaps
12 26 (5.34%) Front End Development
13 25 (5.13%) Microservices
13 25 (5.13%) Test Automation
14 22 (4.52%) Collaborative Working
15 20 (4.11%) B2B
16 18 (3.70%) Scrum
16 18 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (3.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 86 (17.66%) Java
2 70 (14.37%) C#
3 67 (13.76%) JavaScript
4 60 (12.32%) SQL
5 58 (11.91%) PHP
6 52 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.95%) Python
8 15 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.46%) C++
10 8 (1.64%) Swift
11 5 (1.03%) Groovy
12 4 (0.82%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.82%) SOQL
13 3 (0.62%) Bash
13 3 (0.62%) Ruby
13 3 (0.62%) Rust
13 3 (0.62%) Scala
13 3 (0.62%) SOSL
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
14 2 (0.41%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 23 (4.72%) SC Cleared
1 23 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.23%) Degree
4 5 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.41%) HND
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.46%) TickIT
2 8 (1.64%) QA
3 6 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.62%) WCAG
5 2 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (5.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.08%) Terraform
3 2 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 47 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.64%) Splunk
4 7 (1.44%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.03%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.62%) Cognos
6 3 (0.62%) IBM
6 3 (0.62%) Intapp
7 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.41%) Google
7 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.41%) webMethods
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%) Oracle
8 1 (0.21%) Pega