Senior Software Developer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Software Developer
England > North of England

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 352 403
Rank change year-on-year +53 +51 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 11 51 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 39 34
10th Percentile £53,650 £51,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £122,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £112,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -

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 10,015 16,408 15,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 94.97% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,796 12,696 8,279
10th Percentile £26,125 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the North of England

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the North of England

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the North of England

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +8 5 £59,000 -15.71% 17
Yorkshire +52 3 £60,000 - 4
North East +43 3 £115,000 +76.92% 3
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) C#
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
5 4 (36.36%) .NET Core
5 4 (36.36%) SDLC
5 4 (36.36%) React
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
6 3 (27.27%) OOP
6 3 (27.27%) Python
6 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
6 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
6 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Hedge funds
6 3 (27.27%) Fintech
6 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (27.27%) Serverless
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
7 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 2 (18.18%) Vue

Senior Software 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 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Serverless
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Azure WebJobs
3 1 (9.09%) Contentful
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (9.09%) Electronics
1 1 (9.09%) Legal
1 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (9.09%) Publishing
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Core
2 4 (36.36%) React
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
4 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Middleware
4 2 (18.18%) Vue
4 2 (18.18%) WPF
5 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (9.09%) Blazor
5 1 (9.09%) Express.js
5 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (9.09%) Jest
5 1 (9.09%) Next.js
5 1 (9.09%) React Native
5 1 (9.09%) Redux
5 1 (9.09%) SignalR
5 1 (9.09%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
1 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Hedge funds
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Fintech
4 3 (27.27%) OOP
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) UX Design
6 1 (9.09%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) IEC 62304
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Intel
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft