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 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 189 185
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +118
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 27 40 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.55% 0.58% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.61% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17 35 12
10th Percentile £50,300 - £42,688
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £53,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £74,625
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 4,454 6,604 3,867
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 95.10% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,558 3,686 2,950
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,475 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,842
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -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 2 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 2 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
Manchester +13 13 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Cheshire +7 13 £67,500 +28.57%
Merseyside -15 1 £40,000 -20.00%
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 20 (74.07%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 9 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) QA
5 9 (33.33%) SQL
5 9 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 8 (29.63%) Elixir
6 8 (29.63%) Git
6 8 (29.63%) Go
6 8 (29.63%) Java
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 8 (29.63%) Ruby
7 7 (25.93%) .NET
7 7 (25.93%) Azure
8 6 (22.22%) C#
8 6 (22.22%) Clean Code
8 6 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
8 6 (22.22%) REST
9 5 (18.52%) API Development
9 5 (18.52%) GitLab
9 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
9 5 (18.52%) RESTful
9 5 (18.52%) SaaS
9 5 (18.52%) Scrum

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 (14.81%) Camunda
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) CMS
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
3 1 (3.70%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) SaaS
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (14.81%) MySQL
1 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) 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 7 (25.93%) .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 3 (11.11%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
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%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 9 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
7 6 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 6 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (18.52%) API Development
8 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
8 5 (18.52%) Scrum
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Microservices
9 4 (14.81%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Secure Coding
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 6 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) PHP
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Python
6 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 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) 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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) PayPal