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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 83 78
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 188 250 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.77% 2.75% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 2.92% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 161 132 251
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,865 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

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 9,424 8,550 8,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.56% 94.06% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,469 4,023 6,549
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,483 £67,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £81,713 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

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 January 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 January 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 +22 110 £60,000 - 40
Yorkshire -38 56 £65,000 +18.20% 32
North East -12 24 £62,500 +16.28% 14
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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 53 (28.19%) Azure
2 51 (27.13%) .NET
3 50 (26.60%) C#
4 46 (24.47%) Agile
4 46 (24.47%) Mentoring
5 38 (20.21%) JavaScript
6 37 (19.68%) CI/CD
7 33 (17.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (17.02%) AWS
9 30 (15.96%) React
9 30 (15.96%) Test Automation
10 29 (15.43%) CSS
10 29 (15.43%) SQL
11 28 (14.89%) DevOps
12 26 (13.83%) HTML
13 25 (13.30%) .NET Core
14 24 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
15 23 (12.23%) SQL Server
16 22 (11.70%) Docker
16 22 (11.70%) Java
16 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
16 22 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (11.70%) Salesforce
17 21 (11.17%) Git
17 21 (11.17%) Process Improvement
18 20 (10.64%) Business Analysis
18 20 (10.64%) DBS Check
18 20 (10.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 19 (10.11%) Business Transformation
20 18 (9.57%) Front End Development

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 (2.13%) CMS
2 3 (1.60%) IIS
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) WordPress
3 2 (1.06%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.06%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (1.06%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Odoo
2 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.53%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.19%) Azure
2 32 (17.02%) AWS
3 20 (10.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 12 (6.38%) SaaS
5 10 (5.32%) Serverless
6 9 (4.79%) GCP
6 9 (4.79%) GitHub
7 5 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.06%) Datadog
10 2 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.06%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.13%) HTTP
2 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.06%) Power BI
5 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (11.17%) Git
2 5 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.06%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) JUnit
4 2 (1.06%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) Mockito
5 1 (0.53%) Protractor
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (16.49%) Marketing
2 20 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.72%) Legal
3 7 (3.72%) Retail
4 5 (2.66%) Finance
4 5 (2.66%) Games
4 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.06%) Banking
6 2 (1.06%) Law
6 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.53%) Automotive
7 1 (0.53%) Back Office
7 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.53%) Publishing
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.13%) .NET
2 30 (15.96%) React
3 29 (15.43%) CSS
4 26 (13.83%) HTML
5 25 (13.30%) .NET Core
6 16 (8.51%) ASP.NET
7 15 (7.98%) Spring
8 14 (7.45%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.32%) RESTful
10 9 (4.79%) Node.js
11 8 (4.26%) REST
12 7 (3.72%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.72%) AngularJS
13 6 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (3.19%) Flask
13 6 (3.19%) Jest
14 5 (2.66%) Django
14 5 (2.66%) GraphQL
14 5 (2.66%) Hibernate
15 4 (2.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.85%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.66%) IoT
5 4 (2.13%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Life Science
8 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.53%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.47%) Agile
1 46 (24.47%) Mentoring
2 37 (19.68%) CI/CD
3 33 (17.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 30 (15.96%) Test Automation
5 28 (14.89%) DevOps
6 24 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (11.17%) Process Improvement
9 20 (10.64%) Business Analysis
10 19 (10.11%) Business Transformation
11 18 (9.57%) Front End Development
12 17 (9.04%) Microservices
12 17 (9.04%) TDD
13 15 (7.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (7.98%) Software Engineering
14 14 (7.45%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.45%) Roadmaps
15 13 (6.91%) Containerisation
16 10 (5.32%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 50 (26.60%) C#
2 38 (20.21%) JavaScript
3 29 (15.43%) SQL
4 22 (11.70%) Java
5 17 (9.04%) Python
6 14 (7.45%) PHP
6 14 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.72%) Go
7 7 (3.72%) Scala
8 6 (3.19%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.66%) C++
9 5 (2.66%) Elixir
9 5 (2.66%) Ruby
10 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.06%) Erlang
10 2 (1.06%) R
10 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.53%) Delphi
11 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (10.64%) DBS Check
2 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.60%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) QA
System Software
1 22 (11.70%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.72%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) cPanel
3 3 (1.60%) Plesk
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
1 22 (11.70%) Salesforce
2 5 (2.66%) Intapp
3 4 (2.13%) Oracle
4 2 (1.06%) Lotus
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe
5 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.53%) Google
5 1 (0.53%) IBM
5 1 (0.53%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.53%) Splunk