Backend Developer Job Trends in the North West

Backend Developer
England > North West

The median Backend Developer salary in the North West is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 200 196
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 27 42 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.52% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.57% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 38 15
10th Percentile £50,300 - £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 4,541 7,387 4,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.14% 95.28% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,291 4,562 3,210
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the North West

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in the North West

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the North West

Backend Developer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Manchester +16 13 £61,250 +16.67% 10
Cheshire -6 13 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Merseyside -16 1 £40,000 -20.00% 1
Backend Developer
England

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Backend 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 West region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 20 (74.07%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) QA
5 9 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 9 (33.33%) SQL
5 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 9 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 9 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 8 (29.63%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (29.63%) IoT
6 8 (29.63%) Go
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (29.63%) Elixir
6 8 (29.63%) .NET
6 8 (29.63%) Java
6 8 (29.63%) Ruby
7 7 (25.93%) Git
7 7 (25.93%) Azure
7 7 (25.93%) C#
8 6 (22.22%) REST
8 6 (22.22%) Clean Code
8 6 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (18.52%) Terraform
9 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
9 5 (18.52%) GitLab

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (14.81%) Camunda
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) nginx
2 1 (3.70%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.70%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) GitLab
3 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket
3 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) SonarQube
3 4 (14.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) Mocha
4 1 (3.70%) NUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Sinon.JS
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 6 (22.22%) REST
3 5 (18.52%) RESTful
4 4 (14.81%) Spring
4 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
4 4 (14.81%) Web Services
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.70%) Blazor
6 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) LAMP
6 1 (3.70%) Laravel
6 1 (3.70%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (3.70%) Memcached
6 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.70%) Vue
6 1 (3.70%) WinForms
6 1 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Clustering
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 9 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 9 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) Product Roadmap
7 6 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 6 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (18.52%) API Development
8 5 (18.52%) Microservices
8 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
8 5 (18.52%) Scrum
9 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
9 4 (14.81%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 8 (29.63%) Elixir
2 8 (29.63%) Go
2 8 (29.63%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) Ruby
3 7 (25.93%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) AppDynamics
1 4 (14.81%) IBM
1 4 (14.81%) Moogsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) PayPal