Backend Developer Jobs in the North of England

Backend Developer
England > North of England

The median Backend Developer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 387 421
Rank change year-on-year +59 +34 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 58 38 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 55 30 25
10th Percentile £40,800 £47,875 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £60,469 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% +27.91%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 16,989 15,062 17,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 89.50% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,134 8,047 10,963
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,446 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in the North of England

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Backend Developer in the North of England

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in the North of England

Backend Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
North West +13 35 £53,750 -20.37% 6
Yorkshire +89 22 £57,500 -25.81% 2
North East -6 1 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 of England region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 28 (48.28%) Software Engineering
2 22 (37.93%) AWS
3 17 (29.31%) Agile
4 16 (27.59%) Software Testing
4 16 (27.59%) .NET
5 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
5 12 (20.69%) MySQL
5 12 (20.69%) C#
5 12 (20.69%) SQL
5 12 (20.69%) Node.js
6 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
6 11 (18.97%) PHP
7 10 (17.24%) OO
8 9 (15.52%) TDD
8 9 (15.52%) Laravel
8 9 (15.52%) Microservices
8 9 (15.52%) Clean Code
9 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.79%) Serverless
9 8 (13.79%) Docker
9 8 (13.79%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (12.07%) Terraform
10 7 (12.07%) API Development
10 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (12.07%) DynamoDB
10 7 (12.07%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (10.34%) Azure
11 6 (10.34%) Waterfall
11 6 (10.34%) RESTful
11 6 (10.34%) OAuth

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (1.72%) Apache
1 1 (1.72%) nginx
1 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) Serverless
3 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.34%) Azure
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (6.90%) SaaS
7 3 (5.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.72%) BigCommerce
9 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.72%) Datadog
9 1 (1.72%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) MySQL
2 7 (12.07%) DynamoDB
3 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Subversion
4 1 (1.72%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Marketing
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Automotive
6 1 (1.72%) Games
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) .NET
2 12 (20.69%) Node.js
3 9 (15.52%) Laravel
4 6 (10.34%) OAuth
4 6 (10.34%) RESTful
5 5 (8.62%) CSS
6 4 (6.90%) Kafka
7 3 (5.17%) HTML
7 3 (5.17%) React
7 3 (5.17%) REST
7 3 (5.17%) Vue
8 2 (3.45%) CakePHP
8 2 (3.45%) JSON
8 2 (3.45%) MSMQ
8 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.45%) Symfony
9 1 (1.72%) GraphQL
9 1 (1.72%) jQuery
9 1 (1.72%) SOAP
9 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.45%) Graphic Design
2 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Software Engineering
2 17 (29.31%) Agile
3 16 (27.59%) Software Testing
4 10 (17.24%) OO
5 9 (15.52%) Clean Code
5 9 (15.52%) Microservices
5 9 (15.52%) TDD
6 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.07%) API Development
7 7 (12.07%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (10.34%) Waterfall
9 5 (8.62%) Fintech
9 5 (8.62%) OOP
9 5 (8.62%) People Management
9 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.90%) Design Patterns
10 4 (6.90%) E-Commerce
10 4 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (6.90%) SOLID
11 3 (5.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) C#
1 12 (20.69%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) JavaScript
2 11 (18.97%) PHP
3 4 (6.90%) Java
4 3 (5.17%) Python
4 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.72%) Go
5 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.72%) Google