Backend Developer Jobs in the North West

Backend Developer
England > North West

The median Backend Developer salary in the North West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 268 315
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 42 22 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 39 17 11
10th Percentile £41,600 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 10,836 6,498 9,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 89.52% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,080 3,977 5,427
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 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
Manchester +8 16 £55,000 -18.52% 5
Cheshire - 13 £46,000 -
Merseyside - 13 £50,000 -
Backend Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 West region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 20 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 19 (45.24%) Software Testing
3 9 (21.43%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.05%) Agile
4 8 (19.05%) .NET
5 7 (16.67%) PHP
5 7 (16.67%) TDD
6 6 (14.29%) MySQL
6 6 (14.29%) Node.js
6 6 (14.29%) Docker
7 5 (11.90%) Fintech
7 5 (11.90%) Clean Code
7 5 (11.90%) Laravel
7 5 (11.90%) SaaS
8 4 (9.52%) SQL
8 4 (9.52%) C#
8 4 (9.52%) Python
8 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
8 4 (9.52%) Serverless
8 4 (9.52%) Kafka
9 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
9 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 3 (7.14%) React
9 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (7.14%) Terraform
9 3 (7.14%) Vue

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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) nginx
1 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) SaaS
3 4 (9.52%) Serverless
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) Datadog
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) MySQL
2 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.76%) DocumentDB
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) PHPUnit
1 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Health Technology
2 2 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (2.38%) Games
3 1 (2.38%) Legal
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) .NET
2 6 (14.29%) Node.js
3 5 (11.90%) Laravel
4 4 (9.52%) Kafka
5 3 (7.14%) React
5 3 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (7.14%) Vue
6 2 (4.76%) CSS
6 2 (4.76%) HTML
6 2 (4.76%) JSON
6 2 (4.76%) MSMQ
6 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.76%) Symfony
7 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.38%) LAMP
7 1 (2.38%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (2.38%) SOAP
7 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 19 (45.24%) Software Testing
3 8 (19.05%) Agile
4 7 (16.67%) TDD
5 5 (11.90%) Clean Code
5 5 (11.90%) Fintech
6 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.14%) Code Quality
7 3 (7.14%) Design Patterns
7 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.14%) OOP
7 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.76%) BDD
8 2 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (4.76%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.76%) Event-Driven
8 2 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (4.76%) Kanban
8 2 (4.76%) Scrum
8 2 (4.76%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 7 (16.67%) PHP
3 4 (9.52%) C#
3 4 (9.52%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.38%) Google
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft