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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 165 55
Rank change year-on-year +101 -110 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 502 171 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.32% 1.78% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.45% 2.02% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 444 145 377
10th Percentile £49,000 £49,494 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -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 20,491 8,482 14,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 88.42% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 14,933 4,577 10,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,284
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,507 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.39% -2.99% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 4 August 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 August 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 +83 274 £67,500 +3.85% 27
Yorkshire +52 157 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East +3 71 £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 4 August 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.

1 119 (23.71%) AWS
2 99 (19.72%) Azure
3 93 (18.53%) CI/CD
4 92 (18.33%) Java
5 91 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 88 (17.53%) Agile
7 81 (16.14%) C#
7 81 (16.14%) DevOps
8 75 (14.94%) .NET
9 67 (13.35%) JavaScript
10 63 (12.55%) SQL
11 61 (12.15%) PHP
11 61 (12.15%) TypeScript
12 57 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (10.96%) Mentoring
13 55 (10.96%) Microsoft
14 47 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (9.36%) Software Engineering
15 42 (8.37%) AI
15 42 (8.37%) Serverless
16 39 (7.77%) Python
17 38 (7.57%) React
18 37 (7.37%) TDD
19 36 (7.17%) GitHub
20 35 (6.97%) Laravel
21 33 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
21 33 (6.57%) Clean Code
22 31 (6.18%) Node.js
23 30 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
23 30 (5.98%) Docker

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 11 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.80%) CMS
3 4 (0.80%) IIS
4 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (23.71%) AWS
2 99 (19.72%) Azure
3 42 (8.37%) Serverless
4 36 (7.17%) GitHub
5 33 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (5.78%) Power Platform
8 21 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (4.18%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (2.99%) GCP
11 14 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (2.59%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.39%) Boomi
13 12 (2.39%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Firewall
1 3 (0.60%) HTTP
1 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.58%) MySQL
2 21 (4.18%) DynamoDB
3 18 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (3.19%) Power BI
5 15 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.99%) MariaDB
6 10 (1.99%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.40%) GIS
13 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (5.58%) Git
2 15 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.99%) JIRA
3 9 (1.79%) GitLab
4 5 (1.00%) Maven
5 4 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.80%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.60%) fastlane
6 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) Storybook
6 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Gradle
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.40%) Spock
7 2 (0.40%) Xcode
7 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.40%) YouTrack
General
1 42 (8.37%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.77%) Finance
3 23 (4.58%) Banking
4 20 (3.98%) Retail
5 19 (3.78%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (3.39%) Marketing
8 8 (1.59%) Publishing
9 7 (1.39%) Law
9 7 (1.39%) Legal
10 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.20%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.80%) Back Office
13 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.40%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.94%) .NET
2 38 (7.57%) React
3 35 (6.97%) Laravel
4 31 (6.18%) Node.js
5 30 (5.98%) HTML
6 29 (5.78%) AngularJS
6 29 (5.78%) Spring
7 28 (5.58%) CSS
7 28 (5.58%) Spring Boot
8 26 (5.18%) REST
9 20 (3.98%) RESTful
10 18 (3.59%) Middleware
11 16 (3.19%) JSON
11 16 (3.19%) Vue
11 16 (3.19%) XML
12 15 (2.99%) .NET Core
12 15 (2.99%) EDI
12 15 (2.99%) React Native
12 15 (2.99%) SOAP
13 13 (2.59%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.78%) Mobile App
3 16 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.39%) Legacy Code
8 4 (0.80%) Derivative
8 4 (0.80%) Educational Technology
8 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.60%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.60%) IoT
9 3 (0.60%) NHS
10 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.40%) CMDB
10 2 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.19%) Apple iOS
2 14 (2.79%) Android
3 5 (1.00%) Linux
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (18.53%) CI/CD
2 91 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 88 (17.53%) Agile
4 81 (16.14%) DevOps
5 57 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (10.96%) Mentoring
7 47 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (9.36%) Software Engineering
8 42 (8.37%) AI
9 37 (7.37%) TDD
10 33 (6.57%) Clean Code
11 29 (5.78%) Microservices
11 29 (5.78%) Roadmaps
11 29 (5.78%) Test Automation
12 27 (5.38%) Front End Development
13 25 (4.98%) Collaborative Working
14 24 (4.78%) Scrum
15 22 (4.38%) API Development
15 22 (4.38%) SDLC
16 21 (4.18%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.33%) Java
2 81 (16.14%) C#
3 67 (13.35%) JavaScript
4 63 (12.55%) SQL
5 61 (12.15%) PHP
5 61 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 39 (7.77%) Python
7 18 (3.59%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.39%) C++
9 9 (1.79%) Swift
10 4 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.80%) Groovy
10 4 (0.80%) SOQL
11 3 (0.60%) DataWeave
11 3 (0.60%) Ruby
11 3 (0.60%) Rust
11 3 (0.60%) Scala
11 3 (0.60%) SOSL
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (5.18%) SC Cleared
1 26 (5.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (1.20%) Degree
4 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.40%) HND
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.39%) Accessibility
1 12 (2.39%) TickIT
2 11 (2.19%) QA
3 9 (1.79%) WCAG
4 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (5.98%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 55 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.79%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.79%) Splunk
4 7 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.80%) Google
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Apple
7 3 (0.60%) Cognos
7 3 (0.60%) IBM
7 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.60%) NEC
7 3 (0.60%) webMethods
8 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.20%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.20%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Pega