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 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 329 328
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 48 47 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.36% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.41% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 32 44 70
10th Percentile - £48,775 £44,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £67,600
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +12.50%

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 15,505 11,528 18,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 88.81% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,970 7,461 11,427
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £28,189
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Yorkshire +58 26 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North West -11 14 £65,000 +13.04% 3
North East -7 8 £55,000 -15.38% 4
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 26 July 2024, 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 18 (37.50%) .NET
2 17 (35.42%) C#
3 9 (18.75%) Agile
3 9 (18.75%) Azure
4 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.67%) Java
5 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) Docker
6 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 6 (12.50%) AWS
7 5 (10.42%) Micro Focus
7 5 (10.42%) Eclipse
7 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
7 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.42%) COBOL
7 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET
7 5 (10.42%) Linux
7 5 (10.42%) EDI
7 5 (10.42%) OSGi
7 5 (10.42%) Time Management
7 5 (10.42%) Spring
7 5 (10.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 5 (10.42%) Front End Development
7 5 (10.42%) GDPR
7 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.33%) RESTful

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 (2.08%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) NuGet
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) JetBrains Rider
2 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.17%) Banking
2 2 (4.17%) Finance
2 2 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (37.50%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET
3 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (10.42%) EDI
3 5 (10.42%) OSGi
3 5 (10.42%) Spring
4 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (8.33%) RESTful
5 3 (6.25%) CSS
5 3 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 3 (6.25%) HTML
5 3 (6.25%) React
5 3 (6.25%) REST
5 3 (6.25%) Web Services
6 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.17%) Vue
7 1 (2.08%) Flutter
7 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Podcast
1 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Agile
2 7 (14.58%) DevOps
2 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
3 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (10.42%) Front End Development
3 5 (10.42%) Time Management
4 4 (8.33%) Bioinformatics
4 4 (8.33%) Data Science
4 4 (8.33%) Informatics
4 4 (8.33%) Microservices
4 4 (8.33%) TDD
5 3 (6.25%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 3 (6.25%) MVC
5 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.25%) Product Requirements
5 3 (6.25%) Refactoring
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) C#
2 8 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (10.42%) COBOL
3 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 3 (6.25%) Go
4 3 (6.25%) Python
4 3 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (2.08%) PHP
5 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Micro Focus
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) Xamarin