Software Developer Jobs in the North of England

Software Developer
England > North of England

The median Software Developer salary in the North of England is £41,000 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 64 125 240
Rank change year-on-year +61 +115 -163
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 462 365 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.22% 2.11% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.61% 2.22% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 66 306 160
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile - £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% -10.00% +22.22%
75th Percentile £52,063 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.48% -6.96% +4.55%

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%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Software Developer in the North of England

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Software Developer in the North of England

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 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 +60 431 £41,000 -18.00% 76
Yorkshire -8 25 £49,500 +4.21% 27
North East +18 6 £81,250 +80.56% 14
Software Developer
England

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

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

1 436 (94.37%) Agile
2 420 (90.91%) OOP
3 417 (90.26%) OO
3 417 (90.26%) Java
4 394 (85.28%) Python
5 392 (84.85%) Design Patterns
6 391 (84.63%) Docker
7 390 (84.42%) Go
7 390 (84.42%) C++
7 390 (84.42%) Security Cleared
8 389 (84.20%) Android
8 389 (84.20%) Linux
8 389 (84.20%) Finance
8 389 (84.20%) Android Development
8 389 (84.20%) Line Management
9 388 (83.98%) Analytical Skills
9 388 (83.98%) Ansible
9 388 (83.98%) Cyberattack
9 388 (83.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 388 (83.98%) VPN
9 388 (83.98%) DNS
9 388 (83.98%) Mathematics
9 388 (83.98%) DV Cleared
10 60 (12.99%) C#
11 50 (10.82%) SQL Server
12 44 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (8.66%) Degree
14 39 (8.44%) Software Engineering
15 35 (7.58%) .NET
16 29 (6.28%) ITIL

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 2 (0.43%) CMS
2 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
2 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Magento
1 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (5.19%) Azure
2 9 (1.95%) GitHub
3 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (0.87%) Power Platform
4 3 (0.65%) AWS
4 3 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (0.65%) Serverless
5 2 (0.43%) Azure Functions
5 2 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.22%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.22%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (0.22%) Contentful
6 1 (0.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 388 (83.98%) DNS
1 388 (83.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.87%) Power BI
3 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.43%) MySQL
4 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
1 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
2 3 (0.65%) Git
3 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.43%) JIRA
3 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 389 (84.20%) Finance
2 388 (83.98%) Analytical Skills
2 388 (83.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (2.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (1.52%) Manufacturing
5 6 (1.30%) Retail
6 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.43%) Electronics
7 2 (0.43%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.22%) Automotive
8 1 (0.22%) Legal
8 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.58%) .NET
2 21 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 20 (4.33%) ASP.NET
4 16 (3.46%) .NET Framework
5 15 (3.25%) React
6 10 (2.16%) CSS
6 10 (2.16%) Entity Framework
6 10 (2.16%) HTML
7 8 (1.73%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (1.52%) Bootstrap
9 6 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.30%) LINQ
9 6 (1.30%) NHibernate
10 4 (0.87%) RESTful
11 3 (0.65%) Blazor
11 3 (0.65%) WPF
12 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (0.43%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.43%) Next.js
12 2 (0.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 388 (83.98%) Cyberattack
2 25 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
4 3 (0.65%) Client/Server
4 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
4 3 (0.65%) Hedge funds
4 3 (0.65%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.43%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.22%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.22%) IoT
6 1 (0.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 389 (84.20%) Android
1 389 (84.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (94.37%) Agile
2 420 (90.91%) OOP
3 417 (90.26%) OO
4 392 (84.85%) Design Patterns
5 389 (84.20%) Android Development
5 389 (84.20%) Line Management
6 388 (83.98%) Mathematics
7 44 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (8.44%) Software Engineering
9 29 (6.28%) ITIL
10 28 (6.06%) Architectural Design
10 28 (6.06%) Business Analysis
10 28 (6.06%) Service Delivery
11 25 (5.41%) Information Management
12 13 (2.81%) MVC
13 9 (1.95%) CI/CD
14 8 (1.73%) DevOps
14 8 (1.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (1.73%) SDLC
15 7 (1.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 417 (90.26%) Java
2 394 (85.28%) Python
3 390 (84.42%) C++
3 390 (84.42%) Go
4 60 (12.99%) C#
5 25 (5.41%) SQL
6 12 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.87%) PHP
8 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.22%) C
9 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 390 (84.42%) Security Cleared
2 388 (83.98%) DV Cleared
3 40 (8.66%) Degree
4 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.22%) IEC 62304
1 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
1 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 391 (84.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 388 (83.98%) Ansible
2 2 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (6.28%) Oracle
2 19 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.22%) Intel
3 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.22%) SAP
3 1 (0.22%) Xamarin