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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 116 81
Rank change year-on-year +30 -35 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 298 132 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.97% 2.08% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 2.25% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 262 105 404
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £76,500 £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 13,794 5,857 14,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.19% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,818 3,706 11,869
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,700 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +32 158 £65,000 +9.24% 40
Yorkshire -2 108 £62,500 +13.64% 34
North East -4 32 £63,750 -8.27% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 March 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 65 (21.81%) .NET
1 65 (21.81%) Azure
2 62 (20.81%) JavaScript
3 60 (20.13%) CI/CD
4 59 (19.80%) AWS
5 57 (19.13%) Agile
6 55 (18.46%) C#
6 55 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 42 (14.09%) SQL
8 38 (12.75%) DevOps
9 37 (12.42%) PHP
10 36 (12.08%) Java
10 36 (12.08%) React
11 34 (11.41%) Mentoring
12 31 (10.40%) Software Engineering
13 30 (10.07%) CSS
13 30 (10.07%) Front End Development
13 30 (10.07%) Git
14 28 (9.40%) .NET Core
14 28 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (9.06%) HTML
16 26 (8.72%) Serverless
16 26 (8.72%) TypeScript
17 25 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 24 (8.05%) Docker
19 23 (7.72%) Microsoft
19 23 (7.72%) Python
20 22 (7.38%) Test Automation
21 21 (7.05%) Clean Code
21 21 (7.05%) Microservices

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 3 (1.01%) CMS
1 3 (1.01%) WordPress
2 2 (0.67%) IIS
2 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.36%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.01%) Shopify
3 2 (0.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (21.81%) Azure
2 59 (19.80%) AWS
3 26 (8.72%) Serverless
4 16 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (4.70%) GCP
6 13 (4.36%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.36%) SaaS
7 11 (3.69%) GitHub
8 9 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (2.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.68%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.68%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.34%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.34%) HTTP
2 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.03%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.69%) DynamoDB
4 8 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.35%) MySQL
6 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.67%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (10.07%) Git
2 7 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.68%) GitLab
3 5 (1.68%) PHPUnit
4 3 (1.01%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.67%) JIRA
5 2 (0.67%) Maven
5 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.67%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.34%) fastlane
6 1 (0.34%) JUnit
6 1 (0.34%) NUnit
6 1 (0.34%) Protractor
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 21 (7.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.38%) Finance
3 18 (6.04%) Marketing
4 10 (3.36%) Law
5 9 (3.02%) Legal
6 8 (2.68%) Retail
7 6 (2.01%) Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.34%) Games
8 4 (1.34%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.81%) .NET
2 36 (12.08%) React
3 30 (10.07%) CSS
4 28 (9.40%) .NET Core
5 27 (9.06%) HTML
6 19 (6.38%) Node.js
7 17 (5.70%) ASP.NET
8 16 (5.37%) Laravel
8 16 (5.37%) Spring Boot
9 15 (5.03%) Spring
9 15 (5.03%) Vue
10 11 (3.69%) AngularJS
10 11 (3.69%) REST
11 10 (3.36%) Flask
11 10 (3.36%) RESTful
12 7 (2.35%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.35%) Jest
13 6 (2.01%) SwiftUI
14 5 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
14 5 (1.68%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.36%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.35%) NHS
5 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.68%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.34%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.01%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.01%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.67%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.34%) Lidar
10 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.34%) Social Media
10 1 (0.34%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.36%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.68%) Android
3 3 (1.01%) Windows
4 2 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (20.13%) CI/CD
2 57 (19.13%) Agile
3 55 (18.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (12.75%) DevOps
5 34 (11.41%) Mentoring
6 31 (10.40%) Software Engineering
7 30 (10.07%) Front End Development
8 28 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (7.38%) Test Automation
11 21 (7.05%) Clean Code
11 21 (7.05%) Microservices
11 21 (7.05%) TDD
12 20 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (5.70%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (5.70%) Containerisation
14 15 (5.03%) User Experience
15 13 (4.36%) SDLC
16 12 (4.03%) Fintech
16 12 (4.03%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (20.81%) JavaScript
2 55 (18.46%) C#
3 42 (14.09%) SQL
4 37 (12.42%) PHP
5 36 (12.08%) Java
6 26 (8.72%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.72%) Python
8 12 (4.03%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.35%) Swift
10 3 (1.01%) C++
11 2 (0.67%) Bash
11 2 (0.67%) Erlang
11 2 (0.67%) Groovy
11 2 (0.67%) R
11 2 (0.67%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) Delphi
12 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (3.02%) SC Cleared
1 9 (3.02%) Security Cleared
2 8 (2.68%) DBS Check
3 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.67%) Degree
4 2 (0.67%) HND
5 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.01%) QA
2 2 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (8.05%) Docker
2 8 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.01%) cPanel
3 3 (1.01%) Plesk
4 2 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (7.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.68%) Intapp
2 8 (2.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.67%) Cognos
3 2 (0.67%) IBM
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle
4 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.34%) DevExpress
4 1 (0.34%) Google
4 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.34%) Pega