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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 153 77
Rank change year-on-year +77 -76 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 431 137 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.35% 1.81% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 2.00% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 379 116 414
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,491
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,875
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 17,028 6,837 16,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 90.14% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,460 3,828 12,789
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,225 £27,200
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 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 11 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 +80 237 £65,000 +8.33% 33
Yorkshire +29 146 £65,000 +18.18% 18
North East -7 48 £60,000 -13.67% 12
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 87 (20.19%) AWS
2 85 (19.72%) Azure
3 81 (18.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 75 (17.40%) CI/CD
5 71 (16.47%) Agile
6 69 (16.01%) .NET
6 69 (16.01%) Java
7 67 (15.55%) C#
8 66 (15.31%) JavaScript
9 65 (15.08%) DevOps
10 62 (14.39%) SQL
11 48 (11.14%) PHP
12 45 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (10.21%) Mentoring
14 41 (9.51%) Microsoft
15 39 (9.05%) TypeScript
16 36 (8.35%) Software Engineering
17 35 (8.12%) React
17 35 (8.12%) Serverless
18 34 (7.89%) Git
19 30 (6.96%) Front End Development
20 29 (6.73%) Node.js
20 29 (6.73%) TDD
21 28 (6.50%) .NET Core
21 28 (6.50%) GitHub
21 28 (6.50%) REST
22 27 (6.26%) Docker
22 27 (6.26%) Spring
22 27 (6.26%) Spring Boot
23 26 (6.03%) Clean Code

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 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.93%) IIS
3 3 (0.70%) CMS
4 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.46%) WordPress
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.32%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.70%) Shopify
3 2 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (20.19%) AWS
2 85 (19.72%) Azure
3 35 (8.12%) Serverless
4 28 (6.50%) GitHub
5 23 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.64%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.94%) Power Platform
10 16 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.48%) GCP
12 14 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (3.25%) SaaS
13 12 (2.78%) Boomi
14 10 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.86%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (1.86%) Apigee
16 7 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.18%) DynamoDB
1 18 (4.18%) SQL Server
1 18 (4.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 17 (3.94%) NoSQL
3 14 (3.25%) Power BI
4 13 (3.02%) MySQL
4 13 (3.02%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.93%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.23%) GIS
9 1 (0.23%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (7.89%) Git
2 14 (3.25%) Jenkins
2 14 (3.25%) JIRA
3 7 (1.62%) GitLab
4 5 (1.16%) PHPUnit
5 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.70%) fastlane
7 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.46%) Maven
7 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.46%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.23%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.23%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.23%) Gradle
8 1 (0.23%) JUnit
8 1 (0.23%) NUnit
8 1 (0.23%) Spock
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Xcode
General
1 29 (6.73%) Social Skills
2 25 (5.80%) Marketing
3 24 (5.57%) Finance
3 24 (5.57%) Retail
4 17 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.94%) Banking
5 10 (2.32%) Law
6 9 (2.09%) Legal
7 8 (1.86%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.39%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.70%) Back Office
10 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Games
11 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.01%) .NET
2 35 (8.12%) React
3 29 (6.73%) Node.js
4 28 (6.50%) .NET Core
4 28 (6.50%) REST
5 27 (6.26%) Spring
5 27 (6.26%) Spring Boot
6 24 (5.57%) CSS
7 23 (5.34%) Laravel
8 21 (4.87%) AngularJS
9 20 (4.64%) HTML
10 19 (4.41%) ASP.NET
11 16 (3.71%) Middleware
12 15 (3.48%) JSON
13 14 (3.25%) SOAP
13 14 (3.25%) Vue
14 13 (3.02%) XML
15 12 (2.78%) EDI
15 12 (2.78%) RESTful
16 9 (2.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.18%) Mobile App
2 17 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.62%) NHS
7 6 (1.39%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.16%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.16%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.70%) IoT
10 2 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.46%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.23%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.23%) Lidar
11 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.23%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.23%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.55%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.39%) Android
3 2 (0.46%) Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (18.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 75 (17.40%) CI/CD
3 71 (16.47%) Agile
4 65 (15.08%) DevOps
5 45 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (10.21%) Mentoring
7 36 (8.35%) Software Engineering
8 30 (6.96%) Front End Development
9 29 (6.73%) TDD
10 26 (6.03%) Clean Code
10 26 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (5.34%) Test Automation
12 21 (4.87%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (4.87%) Microservices
13 20 (4.64%) API Integration
13 20 (4.64%) B2B
13 20 (4.64%) Roadmaps
14 16 (3.71%) Release Management
15 15 (3.48%) Fintech
16 14 (3.25%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.01%) Java
2 67 (15.55%) C#
3 66 (15.31%) JavaScript
4 62 (14.39%) SQL
5 48 (11.14%) PHP
6 39 (9.05%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.10%) Python
8 14 (3.25%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.86%) Swift
10 5 (1.16%) C++
11 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.70%) Groovy
11 3 (0.70%) SOQL
12 2 (0.46%) Bash
12 2 (0.46%) Bicep
12 2 (0.46%) SOSL
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.23%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (3.94%) SC Cleared
1 17 (3.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.70%) Degree
5 2 (0.46%) HND
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.78%) TickIT
2 5 (1.16%) QA
3 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.46%) SLA
3 2 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (6.26%) Docker
2 9 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.78%) Terraform
3 2 (0.46%) cPanel
3 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.46%) Plesk
Vendors
1 41 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.02%) Salesforce
3 8 (1.86%) Intapp
4 3 (0.70%) Splunk
5 2 (0.46%) Cognos
5 2 (0.46%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.46%) Google
5 2 (0.46%) IBM
6 1 (0.23%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.23%) Apple
6 1 (0.23%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.23%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle
6 1 (0.23%) Pega