Backend Developer Job Trends in the North West

Backend Developer
England > North West

The median Backend Developer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 195 182
Rank change year-on-year +34 -13 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 25 41 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.50% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.62% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 11
10th Percentile £50,300 - £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £56,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% -27.59% +7.41%

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 4,392 6,605 3,685
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.98% 94.48% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,651 3,699 2,791
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £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 £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend 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 23 November 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 23 November 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
Cheshire +19 13 £67,500 +28.57% 1
Manchester +31 11 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Merseyside -9 1 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Backend Developer
England

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, Backend 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 West region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) Agile
3 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (36.00%) Code Quality
4 9 (36.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (36.00%) QA
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) Elixir
5 8 (32.00%) Go
5 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (32.00%) Product Roadmap
5 8 (32.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (32.00%) Ruby
6 7 (28.00%) .NET
6 7 (28.00%) Azure
6 7 (28.00%) SQL
6 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (24.00%) C#
7 6 (24.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (24.00%) Critical Thinking
7 6 (24.00%) Git
7 6 (24.00%) Java
7 6 (24.00%) REST
8 5 (20.00%) API Development
8 5 (20.00%) GitLab
8 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 5 (20.00%) SaaS
8 5 (20.00%) Terraform
8 5 (20.00%) Windows

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.00%) Camunda
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Solr
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) SaaS
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Mocha
4 1 (4.00%) NUnit
4 1 (4.00%) Sinon.JS
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) Node.js
3 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.00%) JSON
5 1 (4.00%) LAMP
5 1 (4.00%) Laravel
5 1 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (4.00%) Memcached
5 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) Agile
3 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (36.00%) Code Quality
4 9 (36.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (32.00%) Product Roadmap
5 8 (32.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (24.00%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (20.00%) API Development
8 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
9 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
9 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (16.00%) Microservices
9 4 (16.00%) Secure Coding
9 4 (16.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Elixir
1 8 (32.00%) Go
1 8 (32.00%) Ruby
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) C#
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Python
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (8.00%) IBM
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Moogsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) PayPal