Backend Developer Jobs in the North West

Backend Developer
England > North West

The median Backend Developer salary in the North West is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 252 271
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 13 45 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 40 17
10th Percentile £44,600 £43,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,313 £48,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.22% +35.00%
75th Percentile £66,563 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £65,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%

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 6,951 10,668 6,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 95.25% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 7,891 3,949
10th Percentile £24,750 £27,500 £30,138
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £40,804
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for Backend Developer 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +58 11 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Merseyside +25 1 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Cheshire -8 1 - - 2
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 5 (38.46%) .NET
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Git
3 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Docker
4 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
4 4 (30.77%) RESTful
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) MySQL
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Java
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) C#
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
5 3 (23.08%) Linux
5 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (23.08%) IBM
5 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
5 3 (23.08%) Spring
5 3 (23.08%) Degree
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills

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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.69%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Mocha
2 1 (7.69%) NUnit
2 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Sinon.JS
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Games
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) RESTful
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
4 2 (15.38%) LAMP
4 2 (15.38%) Laravel
4 2 (15.38%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (15.38%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) CSS
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) Memcached
5 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (7.69%) Symfony
5 1 (7.69%) WinForms
5 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) OOP
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Functional Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) AppDynamics
1 3 (23.08%) Bloomberg
1 3 (23.08%) IBM
1 3 (23.08%) Moogsoft
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) PayPal
3 1 (7.69%) Zend