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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 170 61
Rank change year-on-year +99 -109 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 490 151 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.04% 1.60% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 1.84% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 440 124 281
10th Percentile £49,000 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,925 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 22,167 8,224 12,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 87.25% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 16,148 4,341 6,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +64 254 £70,000 +7.69% 53
Yorkshire +40 137 £60,000 -14.29% 33
North East +13 99 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 99 (20.20%) C#
2 91 (18.57%) Agile
3 89 (18.16%) AWS
4 88 (17.96%) Java
5 84 (17.14%) .NET
6 82 (16.73%) Azure
6 82 (16.73%) CI/CD
7 74 (15.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 62 (12.65%) JavaScript
9 60 (12.24%) Mentoring
10 59 (12.04%) TypeScript
11 58 (11.84%) DevOps
12 54 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (10.41%) Software Engineering
14 49 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (10.00%) Python
14 49 (10.00%) SQL
15 48 (9.80%) Microsoft
16 47 (9.59%) AI
16 47 (9.59%) PHP
17 45 (9.18%) Front End Development
18 43 (8.78%) TDD
19 41 (8.37%) React
20 37 (7.55%) HTML
21 36 (7.35%) Docker
22 34 (6.94%) CSS
23 32 (6.53%) Microservices
24 31 (6.33%) Kotlin
25 30 (6.12%) Clean Code
25 30 (6.12%) Serverless

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 12 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.02%) CMS
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.61%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.61%) IIS
4 3 (0.61%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.61%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 89 (18.16%) AWS
2 82 (16.73%) Azure
3 30 (6.12%) Serverless
4 27 (5.51%) GitHub
5 23 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.27%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 12 (2.45%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.24%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (2.24%) SaaS
13 10 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.82%) HTTP
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.29%) MySQL
2 15 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 13 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.24%) MariaDB
6 8 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.43%) Power BI
8 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.82%) Redis
11 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.61%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.41%) GIS
13 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.20%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.08%) Git
2 11 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.63%) GitLab
4 7 (1.43%) JIRA
5 5 (1.02%) Maven
6 4 (0.82%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.61%) Ant
7 3 (0.61%) Postman
7 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 3 (0.61%) Storybook
7 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Gradle
8 2 (0.41%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.41%) Spock
8 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.41%) Xcode
8 2 (0.41%) YouTrack
General
1 36 (7.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.94%) Public Sector
3 26 (5.31%) Finance
4 18 (3.67%) Banking
5 17 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.47%) Retail
6 13 (2.65%) Marketing
7 10 (2.04%) Legal
8 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.63%) Publishing
9 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.41%) Back Office
10 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.41%) Games
10 2 (0.41%) iGaming
10 2 (0.41%) Law
10 2 (0.41%) Police
11 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.20%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.14%) .NET
2 41 (8.37%) React
3 37 (7.55%) HTML
4 34 (6.94%) CSS
5 29 (5.92%) Laravel
6 27 (5.51%) AngularJS
6 27 (5.51%) Node.js
6 27 (5.51%) REST
7 26 (5.31%) Spring
8 24 (4.90%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.29%) .NET Core
10 20 (4.08%) RESTful
11 14 (2.86%) Middleware
11 14 (2.86%) React Native
11 14 (2.86%) Terraform
12 12 (2.45%) Swagger
13 11 (2.24%) ASP.NET
13 11 (2.24%) SOAP
14 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.27%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.24%) Online Gambling
5 10 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.82%) Derivative
8 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.61%) IoT
9 3 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.41%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.41%) CMDB
10 2 (0.41%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.41%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.41%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.41%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.04%) Android
2 9 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.22%) Linux
4 4 (0.82%) Windows
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.57%) Agile
2 82 (16.73%) CI/CD
3 74 (15.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 60 (12.24%) Mentoring
5 58 (11.84%) DevOps
6 54 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (10.41%) Software Engineering
8 49 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (9.59%) AI
10 45 (9.18%) Front End Development
11 43 (8.78%) TDD
12 32 (6.53%) Microservices
13 30 (6.12%) Clean Code
13 30 (6.12%) Test Automation
14 28 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (4.69%) API Development
15 23 (4.69%) Scrum
16 22 (4.49%) Design Patterns
16 22 (4.49%) Roadmaps
16 22 (4.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.20%) C#
2 88 (17.96%) Java
3 62 (12.65%) JavaScript
4 59 (12.04%) TypeScript
5 49 (10.00%) Python
5 49 (10.00%) SQL
6 47 (9.59%) PHP
7 31 (6.33%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.45%) C++
9 10 (2.04%) Go
10 6 (1.22%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.02%) C
12 3 (0.61%) Groovy
12 3 (0.61%) Ruby
12 3 (0.61%) Rust
12 3 (0.61%) Scala
12 3 (0.61%) SOQL
12 3 (0.61%) SOSL
12 3 (0.61%) Swift
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (3.67%) SC Cleared
1 18 (3.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.04%) Degree
3 9 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.06%) QA
2 15 (3.06%) WCAG
3 6 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.02%) TickIT
5 1 (0.20%) GRC
5 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.41%) Packer
2 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.20%) logstash
3 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.67%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.84%) Splunk
4 7 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.82%) NEC
6 4 (0.82%) Sage
7 3 (0.61%) Adobe
7 3 (0.61%) Apple
7 3 (0.61%) Google
7 3 (0.61%) MuleSoft
7 3 (0.61%) webMethods
8 2 (0.41%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle
9 1 (0.20%) Cognos
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) New Relic
9 1 (0.20%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) YouTube