Developer Jobs in the North of England

Developer
England > North of England

The median Developer salary in the North of England is £52,084 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,878 2,105 3,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.45% 12.29% 20.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.32% 13.73% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 1,450 2,700
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.84% +12.73%

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 16,612 15,336 17,476
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 89.55% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 8,134 11,009
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,975
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,544 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Developer in the North of England

Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in the North of England

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 Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +11 1,708 £52,500 -4.55% 316
Yorkshire +16 914 £50,000 -4.76% 147
North East +6 256 £50,000 -9.09% 63
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 1,000 (34.75%) .NET
2 995 (34.57%) C#
3 981 (34.09%) JavaScript
4 795 (27.62%) Azure
5 770 (26.75%) Agile
6 701 (24.36%) Full Stack Development
7 628 (21.82%) SQL
8 529 (18.38%) HTML
9 487 (16.92%) CSS
10 483 (16.78%) Microsoft
11 456 (15.84%) Social Skills
12 452 (15.71%) AngularJS
13 447 (15.53%) SQL Server
14 439 (15.25%) React
15 414 (14.38%) AWS
16 371 (12.89%) PHP
17 362 (12.58%) MVC
18 353 (12.27%) .NET Core
18 353 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
19 350 (12.16%) ASP.NET
20 345 (11.99%) DevOps
21 319 (11.08%) Node.js
22 312 (10.84%) Microservices
23 294 (10.22%) TDD
24 291 (10.11%) Degree
25 288 (10.01%) .NET Framework
26 278 (9.66%) ASP.NET Web API
27 272 (9.45%) Software Engineering
28 270 (9.38%) Vue
29 266 (9.24%) MySQL

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 62 (2.15%) WordPress
2 60 (2.08%) CMS
3 56 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 29 (1.01%) IIS
6 27 (0.94%) Apache
7 16 (0.56%) OpenEdge
8 14 (0.49%) Confluence
9 8 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 8 (0.28%) SAS
10 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.21%) nginx
11 5 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.14%) Drupal
12 4 (0.14%) Mendix
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.069%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.42%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.14%) Maya
7 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.10%) Sketch
9 2 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 44 (1.53%) Shopify
2 36 (1.25%) Magento
3 33 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.24%) BPCS
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.10%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.069%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.069%) SAP MII
11 2 (0.069%) SystmOne
12 1 (0.035%) Demantra
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle ASCP
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS R12
12 1 (0.035%) Sage 200
12 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 795 (27.62%) Azure
2 414 (14.38%) AWS
3 227 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 171 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
5 130 (4.52%) Serverless
6 122 (4.24%) SaaS
7 111 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
8 84 (2.92%) Power Automate
9 75 (2.61%) PowerApps
10 67 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 60 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 60 (2.08%) GitHub
12 59 (2.05%) Azure Functions
13 47 (1.63%) Azure API Management
14 43 (1.49%) IBM Cloud
15 42 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (1.29%) GCP
17 30 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
17 30 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.91%) Internet
2 13 (0.45%) Broadband
2 13 (0.45%) Wireless
3 9 (0.31%) DNS
3 9 (0.31%) Intranet
4 8 (0.28%) HTTP
4 8 (0.28%) Mobile Broadband
5 6 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.14%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.14%) Firewall
6 4 (0.14%) MQTT
6 4 (0.14%) SSL
7 3 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.069%) FTP
8 2 (0.069%) RS-232
9 1 (0.035%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.035%) Skype
9 1 (0.035%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (15.53%) SQL Server
2 266 (9.24%) MySQL
3 154 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
4 153 (5.32%) Power BI
5 114 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 108 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 95 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 78 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 70 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
10 50 (1.74%) Tableau
11 46 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (1.56%) DB2
13 44 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 34 (1.18%) Power Query
16 29 (1.01%) DynamoDB
17 24 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 24 (0.83%) Redis
18 23 (0.80%) Oracle Database
18 23 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 238 (8.27%) Git
2 57 (1.98%) Visual Studio
3 51 (1.77%) JIRA
4 33 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 26 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.87%) GitLab
7 24 (0.83%) Jasmine
8 23 (0.80%) PHPUnit
9 16 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
10 15 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (0.49%) Gradle
11 14 (0.49%) JUnit
11 14 (0.49%) Mockito
12 13 (0.45%) IntelliJ
12 13 (0.45%) Xcode
13 12 (0.42%) Appium
14 10 (0.35%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.35%) NUnit
15 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 456 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 230 (7.99%) Finance
3 149 (5.18%) Public Sector
4 123 (4.27%) Law
5 118 (4.10%) Retail
6 114 (3.96%) Marketing
7 102 (3.54%) Games
8 101 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
9 82 (2.85%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.56%) Legal
11 41 (1.42%) Banking
12 40 (1.39%) Advertising
13 36 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.11%) Tech for Good
16 30 (1.04%) Automotive
17 29 (1.01%) Health Technology
18 23 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.66%) Aerospace
20 13 (0.45%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,000 (34.75%) .NET
2 529 (18.38%) HTML
3 487 (16.92%) CSS
4 452 (15.71%) AngularJS
5 439 (15.25%) React
6 353 (12.27%) .NET Core
7 350 (12.16%) ASP.NET
8 319 (11.08%) Node.js
9 288 (10.01%) .NET Framework
10 278 (9.66%) ASP.NET Web API
11 270 (9.38%) Vue
12 249 (8.65%) RESTful
13 242 (8.41%) Laravel
14 233 (8.10%) Entity Framework
15 219 (7.61%) REST
16 198 (6.88%) ASP.NET MVC
17 158 (5.49%) HTML5
18 153 (5.32%) jQuery
18 153 (5.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 136 (4.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 153 (5.32%) Greenfield Project
2 83 (2.88%) Mobile App
3 57 (1.98%) Data Structures
4 50 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 47 (1.63%) Blockchain
6 45 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 44 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 38 (1.32%) IoT
10 34 (1.18%) NHS
11 31 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.01%) Cloud Native
13 26 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (0.90%) Social Media
14 22 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
15 19 (0.66%) Animation
16 18 (0.63%) iPhone
17 17 (0.59%) Social Network
18 16 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 167 (5.80%) Linux
2 121 (4.20%) Windows
3 98 (3.41%) Android
4 96 (3.34%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.73%) Unix
6 16 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.31%) VMS
8 9 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
10 2 (0.069%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (26.75%) Agile
2 701 (24.36%) Full Stack Development
3 362 (12.58%) MVC
4 353 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
5 345 (11.99%) DevOps
6 312 (10.84%) Microservices
7 294 (10.22%) TDD
8 272 (9.45%) Software Engineering
9 251 (8.72%) Web Development
10 232 (8.06%) User Experience
11 205 (7.12%) Mentoring
12 202 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
13 180 (6.25%) Front End Development
14 173 (6.01%) Design Patterns
14 173 (6.01%) Unit Testing
15 171 (5.94%) CI/CD
16 169 (5.87%) Scrum
17 162 (5.63%) OO
18 157 (5.46%) Computer Science
19 148 (5.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 995 (34.57%) C#
2 981 (34.09%) JavaScript
3 628 (21.82%) SQL
4 371 (12.89%) PHP
5 261 (9.07%) Java
6 258 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 165 (5.73%) Python
8 99 (3.44%) T-SQL
9 62 (2.15%) C++
10 59 (2.05%) VB.NET
11 34 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 31 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 30 (1.04%) Swift
14 29 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.01%) Ruby
15 27 (0.94%) VB
16 24 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.76%) Go
18 21 (0.73%) Delphi
19 18 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 291 (10.11%) Degree
2 120 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 67 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 22 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 20 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.28%) PhD
11 7 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.21%) HND
12 6 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.14%) CIPD
14 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.069%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.069%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.035%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.13%) QA
2 26 (0.90%) GDPR
3 23 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.24%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.10%) WCAG
7 2 (0.069%) HL7
7 2 (0.069%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.035%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.035%) NIST
8 1 (0.035%) WAI
System Software
1 180 (6.25%) Docker
2 8 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.035%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.035%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 73 (2.54%) Terraform
3 7 (0.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.14%) Rancher
5 2 (0.069%) Grafana
5 2 (0.069%) Kibana
6 1 (0.035%) Istio
6 1 (0.035%) Kiali
6 1 (0.035%) Oozie
6 1 (0.035%) Plesk
6 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 483 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 81 (2.81%) Oracle
3 79 (2.74%) Google
4 57 (1.98%) IBM
5 47 (1.63%) Facebook
6 43 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 32 (1.11%) Adobe
8 27 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 23 (0.80%) MuleSoft
10 20 (0.69%) Apple
10 20 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.49%) Progress
11 14 (0.49%) Sony
11 14 (0.49%) Yahoo!
12 12 (0.42%) SAP
13 10 (0.35%) Cadence
13 10 (0.35%) F5
14 9 (0.31%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.31%) Synopsys
14 9 (0.31%) Xamarin