Senior Developer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 63 106
Rank change year-on-year -136 +43 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 157 641 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.23% 3.25% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 3.41% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 135 500 242
10th Percentile £45,950 £45,000 £48,025
25th Percentile £53,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £83,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,187 18,795 13,256
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.45% 95.15% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,946 13,977 7,840
10th Percentile £25,084 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +9.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,600 £80,800
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North of England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 -126 104 £61,250 +2.08% 225
Yorkshire -65 42 £60,000 +9.09% 83
North East +8 11 £65,000 +18.18% 25
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 76 (48.41%) Agile
2 60 (38.22%) AWS
3 50 (31.85%) CI/CD
4 49 (31.21%) JavaScript
5 47 (29.94%) .NET
6 44 (28.03%) React
7 43 (27.39%) C#
8 42 (26.75%) DevOps
9 41 (26.11%) Azure
10 36 (22.93%) TypeScript
10 36 (22.93%) Social Skills
11 34 (21.66%) Docker
12 31 (19.75%) Serverless
12 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (18.47%) SQL
14 28 (17.83%) Java
14 28 (17.83%) .NET Core
14 28 (17.83%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (15.92%) TDD
15 25 (15.92%) Software Engineering
15 25 (15.92%) CSS
15 25 (15.92%) Finance
16 24 (15.29%) Test Automation
16 24 (15.29%) Mentoring
16 24 (15.29%) Microservices
17 23 (14.65%) User Experience
17 23 (14.65%) Clean Code
17 23 (14.65%) SQL Server
17 23 (14.65%) HTML
18 22 (14.01%) Python

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.82%) Confluence
2 4 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) nginx
4 2 (1.27%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Magento
1 7 (4.46%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.82%) NetSuite
3 5 (3.18%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (1.27%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (1.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.22%) AWS
2 41 (26.11%) Azure
3 31 (19.75%) Serverless
4 28 (17.83%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (12.10%) SaaS
6 16 (10.19%) GCP
7 6 (3.82%) GitHub
7 6 (3.82%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.18%) NuGet
9 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.91%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) Internet
2 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.91%) HTTP
4 2 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.65%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.38%) MySQL
3 19 (12.10%) DynamoDB
4 10 (6.37%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.18%) GIS
6 5 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.55%) Power BI
8 3 (1.91%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.91%) Event Store
8 3 (1.91%) Metadata
8 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.19%) Git
2 8 (5.10%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) NUnit
3 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.64%) Gradle
5 1 (0.64%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Mocha
5 1 (0.64%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.64%) Protractor
5 1 (0.64%) Sinon.JS
General
1 36 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Finance
3 17 (10.83%) Games
4 14 (8.92%) Retail
5 11 (7.01%) Marketing
6 10 (6.37%) Back Office
7 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Law
9 2 (1.27%) Legal
9 2 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.64%) Electronics
10 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
10 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.94%) .NET
2 44 (28.03%) React
3 28 (17.83%) .NET Core
4 25 (15.92%) CSS
5 23 (14.65%) HTML
6 19 (12.10%) AngularJS
7 15 (9.55%) RESTful
8 13 (8.28%) Node.js
8 13 (8.28%) REST
9 12 (7.64%) .NET Framework
9 12 (7.64%) ASP.NET Web API
9 12 (7.64%) Vue
10 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET
10 10 (6.37%) Blazor
10 10 (6.37%) Entity Framework
10 10 (6.37%) Kafka
11 9 (5.73%) Amazon Corretto
11 9 (5.73%) GraphQL
12 8 (5.10%) Web Services
13 7 (4.46%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) e-Learning
2 8 (5.10%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.91%) CMDB
5 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.91%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.91%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.64%) Life Science
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.73%) Linux
2 3 (1.91%) Android
2 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (48.41%) Agile
2 50 (31.85%) CI/CD
3 42 (26.75%) DevOps
4 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (15.92%) Software Engineering
5 25 (15.92%) TDD
6 24 (15.29%) Mentoring
6 24 (15.29%) Microservices
6 24 (15.29%) Test Automation
7 23 (14.65%) Clean Code
7 23 (14.65%) User Experience
8 21 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (12.74%) OOP
10 19 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (11.46%) Front End Development
11 18 (11.46%) UX Design
12 16 (10.19%) SDLC
13 15 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (9.55%) Design Patterns
14 14 (8.92%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.21%) JavaScript
2 43 (27.39%) C#
3 36 (22.93%) TypeScript
4 29 (18.47%) SQL
5 28 (17.83%) Java
6 22 (14.01%) Python
7 21 (13.38%) PHP
8 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.27%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) Swift
10 1 (0.64%) F#
10 1 (0.64%) Haskell
10 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 12 (7.64%) Degree
2 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (3.82%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.91%) QA
2 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (21.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.92%) Terraform
3 3 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.64%) Ansible
5 1 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.73%) New Relic
3 8 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.82%) Adobe
4 6 (3.82%) Google
4 6 (3.82%) Oracle
5 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.55%) Splunk
6 3 (1.91%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.91%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.91%) IBM
6 3 (1.91%) Moogsoft
6 3 (1.91%) Twitter
6 3 (1.91%) VMware
7 2 (1.27%) Infor
8 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.64%) PayPal
8 1 (0.64%) Zend