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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 95 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 212 210 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.69% 2.64% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.85% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 187 118 363
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £43,381
25th Percentile £57,125 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -8.78%

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 11,241 7,379 11,928
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.46% 92.93% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6,862 3,654 9,775
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,619 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,216 £83,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +12 115 £60,000 +4.35% 37
Yorkshire -30 71 £62,500 +13.64% 32
North East -7 26 £70,000 +29.63% 11
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 February 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 57 (26.89%) Azure
2 51 (24.06%) .NET
3 47 (22.17%) C#
4 46 (21.70%) JavaScript
5 43 (20.28%) Agile
6 40 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 39 (18.40%) AWS
8 34 (16.04%) Mentoring
9 31 (14.62%) CSS
9 31 (14.62%) React
9 31 (14.62%) SQL
10 29 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (13.21%) HTML
11 28 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (12.26%) .NET Core
13 24 (11.32%) DevOps
13 24 (11.32%) Docker
13 24 (11.32%) Test Automation
14 23 (10.85%) Front End Development
14 23 (10.85%) PHP
15 22 (10.38%) Git
15 22 (10.38%) Software Engineering
16 21 (9.91%) Microsoft
16 21 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (9.43%) Java
17 20 (9.43%) SQL Server
18 18 (8.49%) Microservices
19 16 (7.55%) Python
20 15 (7.08%) ASP.NET
20 15 (7.08%) 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 4 (1.89%) CMS
2 3 (1.42%) WordPress
3 2 (0.94%) IIS
3 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (26.89%) Azure
2 39 (18.40%) AWS
3 14 (6.60%) SaaS
3 14 (6.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 13 (6.13%) Serverless
5 12 (5.66%) GCP
6 8 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (3.77%) GitHub
7 7 (3.30%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.36%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.42%) Datadog
11 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) HTTP
2 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Broadband
3 1 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.42%) MySQL
5 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.94%) Power BI
7 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (10.38%) Git
2 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.36%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.42%) GitLab
4 3 (1.42%) Maven
4 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.94%) JUnit
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
5 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) Mockito
6 1 (0.47%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.47%) Protractor
General
1 25 (11.79%) Marketing
2 18 (8.49%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.77%) Legal
4 6 (2.83%) Finance
4 6 (2.83%) Games
4 6 (2.83%) Law
4 6 (2.83%) Retail
5 4 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Automotive
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.47%) Publishing
8 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (24.06%) .NET
2 31 (14.62%) CSS
2 31 (14.62%) React
3 28 (13.21%) HTML
4 26 (12.26%) .NET Core
5 15 (7.08%) ASP.NET
6 13 (6.13%) Spring Boot
7 12 (5.66%) Spring
8 10 (4.72%) Node.js
8 10 (4.72%) REST
9 9 (4.25%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.25%) RESTful
10 8 (3.77%) Jest
10 8 (3.77%) Laravel
11 7 (3.30%) Flask
12 6 (2.83%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.83%) Hibernate
12 6 (2.83%) Vue
13 5 (2.36%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (2.36%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.13%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.36%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.89%) NHS
6 3 (1.42%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.94%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.94%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Life Science
8 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Social Media
8 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.28%) Agile
2 40 (18.87%) CI/CD
3 34 (16.04%) Mentoring
4 29 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (11.32%) DevOps
6 24 (11.32%) Test Automation
7 23 (10.85%) Front End Development
8 22 (10.38%) Software Engineering
9 21 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (8.49%) Microservices
11 15 (7.08%) Clean Code
11 15 (7.08%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (7.08%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.08%) TDD
12 14 (6.60%) Business Analysis
12 14 (6.60%) Business Transformation
12 14 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (6.60%) Process Improvement
13 12 (5.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 47 (22.17%) C#
2 46 (21.70%) JavaScript
3 31 (14.62%) SQL
4 23 (10.85%) PHP
5 20 (9.43%) Java
6 16 (7.55%) Python
7 15 (7.08%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.42%) C++
9 3 (1.42%) Scala
10 2 (0.94%) Bash
10 2 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.94%) Erlang
10 2 (0.94%) Groovy
10 2 (0.94%) R
11 1 (0.47%) Delphi
11 1 (0.47%) Go
11 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
11 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (6.60%) DBS Check
2 6 (2.83%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.83%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (0.94%) Degree
4 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.83%) QA
System Software
1 24 (11.32%) Docker
2 7 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.89%) Terraform
3 3 (1.42%) cPanel
3 3 (1.42%) Plesk
4 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.08%) Salesforce
3 8 (3.77%) Intapp
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe
5 1 (0.47%) Google
5 1 (0.47%) OpenAI