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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 124 77
Rank change year-on-year +39 -47 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 345 138 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.06% 2.13% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 2.33% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 305 113 411
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,381
25th Percentile £58,500 £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 £73,750 £69,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £76,250
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 15,312 5,933 15,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 91.70% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,911 3,776 12,367
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,700 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.59% -9.13%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +29 185 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Yorkshire +9 122 £65,000 +13.04% 13
North East -7 38 £68,750 -12.97% 8
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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 77 (22.32%) Azure
2 71 (20.58%) AWS
3 66 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (18.26%) JavaScript
5 62 (17.97%) .NET
5 62 (17.97%) CI/CD
6 61 (17.68%) Agile
7 55 (15.94%) C#
8 53 (15.36%) SQL
9 50 (14.49%) Java
10 49 (14.20%) DevOps
11 40 (11.59%) PHP
12 38 (11.01%) React
13 37 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (10.14%) Mentoring
15 34 (9.86%) Microsoft
16 33 (9.57%) TypeScript
17 32 (9.28%) Git
17 32 (9.28%) Software Engineering
18 30 (8.70%) Front End Development
18 30 (8.70%) Serverless
19 27 (7.83%) CSS
20 26 (7.54%) .NET Core
21 24 (6.96%) HTML
21 24 (6.96%) Python
22 23 (6.67%) Docker
22 23 (6.67%) Node.js
23 22 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
23 22 (6.38%) Spring Boot
23 22 (6.38%) TDD

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 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.87%) CMS
2 3 (0.87%) WordPress
3 2 (0.58%) IIS
3 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.90%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.87%) Shopify
3 2 (0.58%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.32%) Azure
2 71 (20.58%) AWS
3 30 (8.70%) Serverless
4 20 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (5.80%) GitHub
5 17 (4.93%) Amazon S3
6 16 (4.64%) GCP
7 14 (4.06%) SaaS
8 13 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.48%) Power Platform
10 11 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.03%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (2.03%) Apigee
13 7 (2.03%) Boomi
14 6 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.16%) HTTP
2 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.93%) NoSQL
1 17 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 12 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.61%) Power BI
6 8 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.03%) MySQL
8 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (9.28%) Git
2 10 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.61%) JIRA
4 5 (1.45%) GitLab
4 5 (1.45%) PHPUnit
5 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.58%) Maven
6 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.58%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.29%) fastlane
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) NUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Protractor
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 26 (7.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (6.67%) Marketing
3 21 (6.09%) Finance
4 17 (4.93%) Retail
5 10 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.90%) Law
6 9 (2.61%) Banking
6 9 (2.61%) Legal
7 5 (1.45%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.16%) Games
8 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.58%) Back Office
9 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.29%) Automotive
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.97%) .NET
2 38 (11.01%) React
3 27 (7.83%) CSS
4 26 (7.54%) .NET Core
5 24 (6.96%) HTML
6 23 (6.67%) Node.js
7 22 (6.38%) Spring Boot
8 21 (6.09%) Spring
9 19 (5.51%) Laravel
9 19 (5.51%) REST
10 17 (4.93%) ASP.NET
11 16 (4.64%) AngularJS
12 15 (4.35%) Vue
13 10 (2.90%) RESTful
14 9 (2.61%) Flask
15 8 (2.32%) JSON
15 8 (2.32%) XML
16 7 (2.03%) EDI
16 7 (2.03%) Middleware
16 7 (2.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.06%) Mobile App
2 12 (3.48%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.03%) NHS
5 5 (1.45%) Educational Technology
5 5 (1.45%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.29%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.29%) Lidar
9 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.29%) Social Media
9 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.45%) Android
3 3 (0.87%) Windows
4 2 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (17.97%) CI/CD
3 61 (17.68%) Agile
4 49 (14.20%) DevOps
5 37 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 32 (9.28%) Software Engineering
8 30 (8.70%) Front End Development
9 22 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (6.38%) TDD
10 20 (5.80%) Test Automation
11 19 (5.51%) Clean Code
11 19 (5.51%) Microservices
11 19 (5.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (4.35%) B2B
12 15 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (4.06%) Containerisation
13 14 (4.06%) Roadmaps
14 13 (3.77%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (3.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (18.26%) JavaScript
2 55 (15.94%) C#
3 53 (15.36%) SQL
4 50 (14.49%) Java
5 40 (11.59%) PHP
6 33 (9.57%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.96%) Python
8 13 (3.77%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.03%) Swift
10 3 (0.87%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) Bash
11 2 (0.58%) Groovy
11 2 (0.58%) R
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.29%) Delphi
12 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.29%) SOQL
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (3.48%) SC Cleared
1 12 (3.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (1.74%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.58%) Degree
3 2 (0.58%) HND
4 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.03%) TickIT
2 6 (1.74%) QA
3 2 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (6.67%) Docker
2 9 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.61%) Terraform
3 3 (0.87%) cPanel
3 3 (0.87%) Plesk
4 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.19%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.32%) Intapp
4 2 (0.58%) Cognos
4 2 (0.58%) IBM
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle
5 1 (0.29%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.29%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.29%) Google
5 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.29%) Pega