Developer Jobs in the North West

Developer
England > North West

The median Developer salary in the North West is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,841 941 1,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.25% 12.73% 18.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.18% 14.27% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 735 1,240
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £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 £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 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 +9 1,027 £55,000 -4.35% 201
Cheshire +11 318 £51,000 -13.19% 44
Merseyside +35 258 £50,000 +17.65% 35
Lancashire +13 174 £50,000 - 23
Cumbria +32 62 £50,000 +25.00% 3
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 608 (33.03%) C#
2 599 (32.54%) JavaScript
3 584 (31.72%) .NET
4 494 (26.83%) Agile
5 459 (24.93%) Azure
6 409 (22.22%) SQL
7 407 (22.11%) Full Stack Development
8 333 (18.09%) HTML
9 312 (16.95%) CSS
10 287 (15.59%) React
11 272 (14.77%) Microsoft
11 272 (14.77%) AWS
12 261 (14.18%) SQL Server
13 244 (13.25%) DevOps
13 244 (13.25%) Social Skills
14 243 (13.20%) AngularJS
15 226 (12.28%) MVC
16 221 (12.00%) ASP.NET
17 206 (11.19%) TDD
18 201 (10.92%) Java
19 200 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
20 193 (10.48%) Node.js
21 192 (10.43%) PHP
22 186 (10.10%) .NET Core
22 186 (10.10%) Vue
23 177 (9.61%) Software Engineering
24 174 (9.45%) Degree
25 167 (9.07%) User Experience
26 166 (9.02%) REST
27 159 (8.64%) TypeScript

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 39 (2.12%) CMS
2 32 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.63%) WordPress
4 18 (0.98%) Apache
5 17 (0.92%) IIS
6 13 (0.71%) OpenEdge
7 10 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 9 (0.49%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.33%) SAS
10 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.27%) Confluence
10 5 (0.27%) Drupal
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.11%) Mendix
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.054%) concrete5
12 1 (0.054%) Kentico
12 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.38%) Photoshop
3 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.22%) Maya
4 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 28 (1.52%) Magento
2 22 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 20 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
4 12 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.54%) Shopify
6 7 (0.38%) BPCS
7 6 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 1 (0.054%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 459 (24.93%) Azure
2 272 (14.77%) AWS
3 130 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (4.83%) SaaS
6 82 (4.45%) Serverless
7 73 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
8 57 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 52 (2.82%) Azure Functions
10 51 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 46 (2.50%) Azure API Management
12 44 (2.39%) GitHub
13 43 (2.34%) IBM Cloud
14 42 (2.28%) Power Automate
15 31 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 30 (1.63%) PowerApps
17 28 (1.52%) GCP
18 20 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
19 19 (1.03%) Google Play
20 17 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.58%) Internet
2 6 (0.33%) Intranet
3 4 (0.22%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.22%) Wireless
4 3 (0.16%) SSL
4 3 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.11%) Broadband
5 2 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
5 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.054%) DNS
6 1 (0.054%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.054%) Firewall
6 1 (0.054%) HTTP
6 1 (0.054%) MQTT
6 1 (0.054%) RS-232
6 1 (0.054%) Skype
6 1 (0.054%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (14.18%) SQL Server
2 152 (8.26%) MySQL
3 115 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 85 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 80 (4.35%) Power BI
6 68 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 53 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 45 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (2.39%) DB2
10 33 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (1.79%) Tableau
11 27 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 22 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 16 (0.87%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
15 13 (0.71%) Power Query
16 11 (0.60%) Redis
17 10 (0.54%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 128 (6.95%) Git
2 43 (2.34%) Visual Studio
3 25 (1.36%) JIRA
4 22 (1.20%) PHPUnit
5 20 (1.09%) GitLab
6 19 (1.03%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 18 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 16 (0.87%) Jasmine
9 12 (0.65%) Appium
10 11 (0.60%) IntelliJ
10 11 (0.60%) JUnit
10 11 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
10 11 (0.60%) Mockito
11 10 (0.54%) NUnit
11 10 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.43%) Gradle
13 6 (0.33%) Dreamweaver
13 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.27%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 244 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 155 (8.42%) Finance
3 84 (4.56%) Public Sector
4 64 (3.48%) Marketing
5 62 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 58 (3.15%) Law
7 57 (3.10%) Games
8 53 (2.88%) Retail
9 52 (2.82%) Legal
10 43 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
11 30 (1.63%) Advertising
12 28 (1.52%) Banking
13 24 (1.30%) Automotive
14 19 (1.03%) Health Technology
15 17 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.76%) Tech for Good
17 12 (0.65%) Back Office
17 12 (0.65%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.43%) Military
19 7 (0.38%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 584 (31.72%) .NET
2 333 (18.09%) HTML
3 312 (16.95%) CSS
4 287 (15.59%) React
5 243 (13.20%) AngularJS
6 221 (12.00%) ASP.NET
7 193 (10.48%) Node.js
8 186 (10.10%) .NET Core
8 186 (10.10%) Vue
9 166 (9.02%) REST
10 157 (8.53%) .NET Framework
11 136 (7.39%) Laravel
12 122 (6.63%) Entity Framework
13 121 (6.57%) HTML5
14 110 (5.98%) ASP.NET MVC
15 108 (5.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 106 (5.76%) RESTful
17 100 (5.43%) jQuery
18 99 (5.38%) Web Services
19 98 (5.32%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
2 59 (3.20%) Mobile App
3 47 (2.55%) Algorithms
4 46 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 45 (2.44%) Blockchain
6 43 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.09%) IoT
8 20 (1.09%) Social Network
9 19 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
10 18 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 15 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (0.76%) NHS
12 14 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.65%) PropTech
13 12 (0.65%) Social Media
14 11 (0.60%) Management Information System
14 11 (0.60%) Private Cloud
15 10 (0.54%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.79%) Linux
2 98 (5.32%) Windows
3 86 (4.67%) Android
4 85 (4.62%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.92%) Unix
6 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.22%) VMS
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.054%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (26.83%) Agile
2 407 (22.11%) Full Stack Development
3 244 (13.25%) DevOps
4 226 (12.28%) MVC
5 206 (11.19%) TDD
6 200 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
7 177 (9.61%) Software Engineering
8 167 (9.07%) User Experience
9 151 (8.20%) Web Development
10 148 (8.04%) Design Patterns
11 141 (7.66%) Microservices
12 124 (6.74%) Unit Testing
13 115 (6.25%) Clean Code
13 115 (6.25%) Mentoring
14 113 (6.14%) Scrum
15 108 (5.87%) OO
16 107 (5.81%) Front End Development
16 107 (5.81%) OOP
17 105 (5.70%) CI/CD
18 102 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 608 (33.03%) C#
2 599 (32.54%) JavaScript
3 409 (22.22%) SQL
4 201 (10.92%) Java
5 192 (10.43%) PHP
6 159 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 120 (6.52%) Python
8 62 (3.37%) T-SQL
9 57 (3.10%) C++
10 32 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 24 (1.30%) Ruby
12 21 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 21 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (1.03%) Go
13 19 (1.03%) Swift
14 18 (0.98%) VB
15 17 (0.92%) C
16 16 (0.87%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.71%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 174 (9.45%) Degree
2 70 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 38 (2.06%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.43%) PhD
8 6 (0.33%) HND
8 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.16%) BC Cleared
10 3 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.054%) ACCA
12 1 (0.054%) CIMA
12 1 (0.054%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.64%) QA
2 16 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.60%) GDPR
4 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.16%) WCAG
5 2 (0.11%) HL7
6 1 (0.054%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.054%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.054%) NIST
6 1 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 107 (5.81%) Docker
2 3 (0.16%) Firmware
2 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.054%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.34%) Terraform
3 5 (0.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.054%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.054%) Kiali
5 1 (0.054%) Kibana
5 1 (0.054%) Plesk
Vendors
1 272 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.04%) IBM
3 47 (2.55%) Oracle
4 45 (2.44%) Google
5 43 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 40 (2.17%) Facebook
7 30 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.25%) Adobe
9 20 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 13 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.54%) Apple
12 9 (0.49%) Progress
12 9 (0.49%) Sony
12 9 (0.49%) Twitter
12 9 (0.49%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.33%) Actuate
13 6 (0.33%) Civica
13 6 (0.33%) Intapp
14 5 (0.27%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.27%) ESRI