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 18 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
18 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 2,907 2,099 3,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.44% 12.46% 20.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.31% 13.92% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 1,439 2,659
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,853
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 £75,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.56% +10.91%

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 16,797 15,084 17,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 89.54% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,071 10,891
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,544 £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 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 18 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 18 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 1,720 £52,500 -4.55% 321
Yorkshire +15 925 £50,000 -4.76% 171
North East +6 262 £50,000 -9.09% 69
Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 1,016 (34.95%) .NET
2 1,011 (34.78%) C#
3 985 (33.88%) JavaScript
4 804 (27.66%) Azure
5 768 (26.42%) Agile
6 708 (24.36%) Full Stack Development
7 628 (21.60%) SQL
8 528 (18.16%) HTML
9 487 (16.75%) CSS
10 486 (16.72%) Microsoft
11 457 (15.72%) AngularJS
12 452 (15.55%) Social Skills
13 450 (15.48%) SQL Server
14 444 (15.27%) React
15 412 (14.17%) AWS
16 370 (12.73%) PHP
17 362 (12.45%) MVC
18 357 (12.28%) .NET Core
19 351 (12.07%) DevOps
20 350 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
21 349 (12.01%) ASP.NET
22 321 (11.04%) Node.js
23 317 (10.90%) Microservices
24 294 (10.11%) TDD
25 293 (10.08%) .NET Framework
26 289 (9.94%) Degree
27 281 (9.67%) ASP.NET Web API
28 276 (9.49%) Software Engineering
29 273 (9.39%) Vue
30 265 (9.12%) 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 63 (2.17%) CMS
2 62 (2.13%) WordPress
3 57 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.17%) Umbraco
5 29 (1.00%) IIS
6 27 (0.93%) Apache
7 16 (0.55%) Confluence
7 16 (0.55%) OpenEdge
8 8 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 8 (0.28%) SAS
9 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.21%) nginx
10 5 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.14%) Drupal
11 4 (0.14%) Mendix
11 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.069%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.41%) 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 (1.51%) Shopify
2 37 (1.27%) Magento
3 33 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
6 10 (0.34%) 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 (0.034%) Demantra
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle ASCP
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle EBS R12
12 1 (0.034%) Sage 200
12 1 (0.034%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 804 (27.66%) Azure
2 412 (14.17%) AWS
3 226 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 177 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
5 129 (4.44%) Serverless
6 122 (4.20%) SaaS
7 113 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
8 84 (2.89%) Power Automate
9 75 (2.58%) PowerApps
10 68 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
11 61 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 60 (2.06%) GitHub
13 59 (2.03%) Azure Functions
14 47 (1.62%) Azure API Management
15 43 (1.48%) IBM Cloud
16 42 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (1.24%) GCP
19 30 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
20 29 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.93%) 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 (0.034%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.034%) Skype
9 1 (0.034%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 450 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 265 (9.12%) MySQL
3 153 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 151 (5.19%) Power BI
5 113 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 108 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 96 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 78 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 70 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (1.58%) Tableau
11 45 (1.55%) DB2
11 45 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 37 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 34 (1.17%) Power Query
15 28 (0.96%) DynamoDB
16 24 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 24 (0.83%) Redis
17 23 (0.79%) Oracle Database
17 23 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 237 (8.15%) Git
2 58 (2.00%) Visual Studio
3 52 (1.79%) JIRA
4 32 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 29 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.86%) GitLab
6 25 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 23 (0.79%) Jasmine
7 23 (0.79%) PHPUnit
8 16 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
9 15 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.45%) Gradle
10 13 (0.45%) JUnit
10 13 (0.45%) Mockito
10 13 (0.45%) Xcode
11 12 (0.41%) Appium
11 12 (0.41%) IntelliJ
12 10 (0.34%) gulp
12 10 (0.34%) NUnit
13 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 452 (15.55%) Social Skills
2 231 (7.95%) Finance
3 151 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 123 (4.23%) Law
5 122 (4.20%) Retail
6 116 (3.99%) Marketing
7 103 (3.54%) Games
8 100 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
9 82 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 46 (1.58%) Legal
11 41 (1.41%) Banking
12 40 (1.38%) Advertising
13 36 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.10%) Automotive
15 32 (1.10%) Tech for Good
16 29 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 23 (0.79%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.65%) Aerospace
19 13 (0.45%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,016 (34.95%) .NET
2 528 (18.16%) HTML
3 487 (16.75%) CSS
4 457 (15.72%) AngularJS
5 444 (15.27%) React
6 357 (12.28%) .NET Core
7 349 (12.01%) ASP.NET
8 321 (11.04%) Node.js
9 293 (10.08%) .NET Framework
10 281 (9.67%) ASP.NET Web API
11 273 (9.39%) Vue
12 250 (8.60%) RESTful
13 241 (8.29%) Laravel
14 236 (8.12%) Entity Framework
15 218 (7.50%) REST
16 198 (6.81%) ASP.NET MVC
17 157 (5.40%) HTML5
18 153 (5.26%) jQuery
18 153 (5.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 136 (4.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 155 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
2 83 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 57 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 50 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 47 (1.62%) Blockchain
6 46 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 43 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (1.31%) IoT
9 37 (1.27%) NHS
10 31 (1.07%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.03%) Cloud Native
12 27 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (0.93%) Social Media
13 23 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
14 19 (0.65%) Animation
15 18 (0.62%) iPhone
15 18 (0.62%) Social Network
16 17 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 167 (5.74%) Linux
2 121 (4.16%) Windows
3 98 (3.37%) Android
4 96 (3.30%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.72%) Unix
6 16 (0.55%) 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 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (26.42%) Agile
2 708 (24.36%) Full Stack Development
3 362 (12.45%) MVC
4 351 (12.07%) DevOps
5 350 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
6 317 (10.90%) Microservices
7 294 (10.11%) TDD
8 276 (9.49%) Software Engineering
9 252 (8.67%) Web Development
10 233 (8.02%) User Experience
11 205 (7.05%) Mentoring
12 200 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
13 183 (6.30%) Front End Development
14 176 (6.05%) CI/CD
15 175 (6.02%) Design Patterns
16 171 (5.88%) Unit Testing
17 168 (5.78%) Scrum
18 162 (5.57%) OO
19 159 (5.47%) Computer Science
20 149 (5.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (34.78%) C#
2 985 (33.88%) JavaScript
3 628 (21.60%) SQL
4 370 (12.73%) PHP
5 260 (8.94%) Java
6 258 (8.88%) TypeScript
7 164 (5.64%) Python
8 97 (3.34%) T-SQL
9 63 (2.17%) C++
10 59 (2.03%) VB.NET
11 34 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 31 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 30 (1.03%) Ruby
13 30 (1.03%) Swift
14 29 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 27 (0.93%) VB
16 24 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 22 (0.76%) Go
18 21 (0.72%) Delphi
19 18 (0.62%) C
Qualifications
1 289 (9.94%) Degree
2 122 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 68 (2.34%) SC Cleared
5 25 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 20 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.28%) PhD
11 7 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.21%) CIPD
12 6 (0.21%) HND
12 6 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.069%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.069%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.034%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.13%) QA
2 26 (0.89%) GDPR
3 23 (0.79%) 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 (0.034%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.034%) NIST
8 1 (0.034%) WAI
System Software
1 179 (6.16%) 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 (0.034%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.034%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 73 (2.51%) Terraform
3 7 (0.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.14%) Rancher
5 2 (0.069%) Grafana
5 2 (0.069%) Kibana
6 1 (0.034%) Istio
6 1 (0.034%) Kiali
6 1 (0.034%) Oozie
6 1 (0.034%) Plesk
6 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 486 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 81 (2.79%) Oracle
3 79 (2.72%) Google
4 57 (1.96%) IBM
5 47 (1.62%) Facebook
6 43 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 32 (1.10%) Adobe
8 28 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 23 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 20 (0.69%) Apple
10 20 (0.69%) Salesforce
11 14 (0.48%) Progress
11 14 (0.48%) Sony
11 14 (0.48%) Yahoo!
12 12 (0.41%) SAP
13 10 (0.34%) Cadence
13 10 (0.34%) F5
13 10 (0.34%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.31%) Synopsys
14 9 (0.31%) Xamarin