Developer Jobs in the North West

Developer
England > North West

The median Developer salary in the North West is £50,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 January 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 580 1,000 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.31% 18.48% 19.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.83% 19.44% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 417 840 1,038
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,084 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -9.42% +9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,908 £73,875 £82,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 7,410 5,145 7,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 95.07% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,825 3,801 4,610
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £29,285
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,967 £66,778 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £83,781
England median annual salary £59,823 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -8.00% +4.17%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Developer in the North West

Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in the North West

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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 January 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 -10 314 £55,000 - 247
Merseyside +2 89 £40,000 -15.79% 22
Cheshire -2 83 £47,500 -13.64% 55
Lancashire -70 49 £51,238 +2.48% 17
Cumbria -67 43 £41,000 -3.53% 8
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 2025, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 181 (31.21%) .NET
2 177 (30.52%) C#
3 175 (30.17%) Agile
4 170 (29.31%) CSS
5 165 (28.45%) JavaScript
6 164 (28.28%) HTML
7 143 (24.66%) SQL
8 137 (23.62%) Azure
9 131 (22.59%) Degree
10 126 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
11 119 (20.52%) React
12 118 (20.34%) SQL Server
13 100 (17.24%) Web Development
14 99 (17.07%) Social Skills
15 93 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
16 89 (15.34%) PHP
17 83 (14.31%) E-Commerce
17 83 (14.31%) Clean Code
18 80 (13.79%) Software Engineering
19 78 (13.45%) AWS
20 74 (12.76%) Microsoft
21 70 (12.07%) HTML5
21 70 (12.07%) CI/CD
22 66 (11.38%) OOP
23 65 (11.21%) TypeScript
24 63 (10.86%) DevOps
25 61 (10.52%) MySQL
26 57 (9.83%) CMS
27 56 (9.66%) .NET Core
28 54 (9.31%) Scrum

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 57 (9.83%) CMS
2 26 (4.48%) Umbraco
3 16 (2.76%) nginx
4 15 (2.59%) WordPress
5 12 (2.07%) Apache
6 8 (1.38%) CICS
7 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.03%) Confluence
9 4 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.69%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (5.86%) Magento
2 23 (3.97%) Shopify
3 7 (1.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.52%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.34%) BPCS
6 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Odoo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 137 (23.62%) Azure
2 78 (13.45%) AWS
3 43 (7.41%) GitHub
4 40 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 24 (4.14%) GCP
6 22 (3.79%) SaaS
7 20 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.59%) Serverless
9 13 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.07%) Datadog
11 8 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.21%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.21%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.86%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.86%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.86%) npm
14 5 (0.86%) OCI
14 5 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.48%) Intranet
2 3 (0.52%) Bluetooth
2 3 (0.52%) SMS
3 2 (0.34%) Internet
3 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 61 (10.52%) MySQL
3 24 (4.14%) Power BI
4 16 (2.76%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.55%) Redis
9 7 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.21%) FileMaker
10 6 (1.03%) MariaDB
10 6 (1.03%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.86%) Tableau
12 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.52%) Event Store
13 3 (0.52%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 44 (7.59%) Git
2 16 (2.76%) PHPUnit
3 15 (2.59%) Babel
3 15 (2.59%) webpack
4 13 (2.24%) Bitbucket
5 11 (1.90%) JIRA
6 8 (1.38%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.86%) Jasmine
7 5 (0.86%) Karma Test Runner
7 5 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.52%) GitLab
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
9 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.34%) NUnit
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 99 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 38 (6.55%) Finance
3 24 (4.14%) Multimedia
3 24 (4.14%) Retail
4 22 (3.79%) Legal
5 21 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.45%) Law
7 19 (3.28%) Marketing
8 8 (1.38%) Billing
8 8 (1.38%) Games
8 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.38%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.52%) Electronics
9 3 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.34%) Automotive
10 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.34%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.17%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (31.21%) .NET
2 170 (29.31%) CSS
3 164 (28.28%) HTML
4 119 (20.52%) React
5 70 (12.07%) HTML5
6 56 (9.66%) .NET Core
7 44 (7.59%) AngularJS
8 42 (7.24%) .NET Framework
9 40 (6.90%) RESTful
10 39 (6.72%) REST
11 37 (6.38%) Laravel
12 36 (6.21%) Vue
13 33 (5.69%) jQuery
14 32 (5.52%) ASP.NET
15 31 (5.34%) Web Services
16 29 (5.00%) CSS3
17 22 (3.79%) Node.js
18 20 (3.45%) Symfony
19 18 (3.10%) Tailwind CSS
20 17 (2.93%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.03%) Mobile App
2 30 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
3 28 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 27 (4.66%) NHS
5 12 (2.07%) IoT
6 10 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.55%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.55%) Sports Betting
8 8 (1.38%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.38%) Mainframe
9 5 (0.86%) FMCG
9 5 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.69%) CMDB
10 4 (0.69%) Hackathon
10 4 (0.69%) Home Automation
10 4 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.69%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.52%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.24%) Linux
2 15 (2.59%) Android
3 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.86%) Windows
5 3 (0.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (30.17%) Agile
2 126 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (17.24%) Web Development
4 93 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 83 (14.31%) Clean Code
5 83 (14.31%) E-Commerce
6 80 (13.79%) Software Engineering
7 70 (12.07%) CI/CD
8 66 (11.38%) OOP
9 63 (10.86%) DevOps
10 54 (9.31%) Front End Development
10 54 (9.31%) Microservices
10 54 (9.31%) Scrum
11 51 (8.79%) Computer Science
12 47 (8.10%) OO
13 42 (7.24%) TDD
14 41 (7.07%) Mentoring
15 40 (6.90%) MVC
16 38 (6.55%) Business Analysis
16 38 (6.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 177 (30.52%) C#
2 165 (28.45%) JavaScript
3 143 (24.66%) SQL
4 89 (15.34%) PHP
5 65 (11.21%) TypeScript
6 48 (8.28%) Java
6 48 (8.28%) Python
7 11 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.38%) Assembly Language
8 8 (1.38%) COBOL
8 8 (1.38%) JCL
8 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.21%) Ruby
10 6 (1.03%) C++
10 6 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 131 (22.59%) Degree
2 39 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 23 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.21%) ACCA
6 7 (1.21%) CIMA
7 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 27 (4.66%) GDPR
3 26 (4.48%) WCAG
4 19 (3.28%) QA
5 5 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.52%) IEC 62304
6 3 (0.52%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (6.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.24%) Terraform
3 10 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.52%) Galera Cluster
5 2 (0.34%) Packer
5 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.17%) cPanel
6 1 (0.17%) Grafana
6 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 74 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.72%) Oracle
3 29 (5.00%) Google
4 26 (4.48%) HP
5 11 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.55%) IBM
7 7 (1.21%) Cognos
8 6 (1.03%) New Relic
8 6 (1.03%) WooCommerce
9 5 (0.86%) Sage
9 5 (0.86%) SAP
10 4 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.52%) Intel
11 3 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.52%) Pega
11 3 (0.52%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.34%) Adobe
12 2 (0.34%) Cadence
12 2 (0.34%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.17%) SnapLogic