Junior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Junior Developer
England > North West

The median Junior Developer salary in the North West is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 216 189
Rank change year-on-year +15 -27 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 6 14 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.20% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 14
10th Percentile £30,500 - £31,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £20,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £27,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -38.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 -
England median annual salary £35,000 £30,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% -

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 4,417 6,615 3,782
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 95.19% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 3,690 2,903
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,938 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,250
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Junior Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Junior 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 Junior Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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 +36 4 £37,500 +7.14% 7
Lancashire - 2 £32,500 - 3
Junior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Junior 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 Junior Developer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) Electron
4 1 (16.67%) Facebook

Junior 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) React
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Electron
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Laravel
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (16.67%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
3 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Facebook
2 1 (16.67%) Google