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 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 3 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,720 978 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.24% 12.70% 18.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.22% 14.19% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 764 1,255
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
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 £82,500 £85,000
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 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 9,439 6,893 9,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 89.48% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,252 4,020 5,351
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
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 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 18 May 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 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
Manchester +9 950 £55,000 -4.35% 201
Cheshire +14 298 £52,500 -10.64% 57
Merseyside +28 234 £50,000 +17.65% 36
Lancashire +13 174 £50,000 - 29
Cumbria +31 60 £50,000 +25.00% 7
Developer
England

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

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 West region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 577 (33.55%) C#
2 575 (33.43%) JavaScript
3 549 (31.92%) .NET
4 478 (27.79%) Agile
5 438 (25.47%) Azure
6 393 (22.85%) SQL
7 389 (22.62%) Full Stack Development
8 323 (18.78%) HTML
9 303 (17.62%) CSS
10 279 (16.22%) React
11 266 (15.47%) Microsoft
12 257 (14.94%) SQL Server
13 253 (14.71%) AWS
14 242 (14.07%) Social Skills
15 240 (13.95%) AngularJS
16 231 (13.43%) DevOps
17 222 (12.91%) MVC
18 217 (12.62%) ASP.NET
19 202 (11.74%) TDD
20 190 (11.05%) Java
20 190 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
21 188 (10.93%) Node.js
22 185 (10.76%) PHP
23 184 (10.70%) Vue
24 181 (10.52%) .NET Core
25 179 (10.41%) Degree
26 164 (9.53%) Software Engineering
27 162 (9.42%) REST
28 156 (9.07%) User Experience
29 154 (8.95%) Web Development

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 41 (2.38%) CMS
2 30 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.57%) WordPress
4 18 (1.05%) Apache
5 17 (0.99%) IIS
6 13 (0.76%) OpenEdge
7 8 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.41%) Confluence
9 6 (0.35%) SAS
10 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.12%) Mendix
12 2 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.058%) concrete5
13 1 (0.058%) Jetty
13 1 (0.058%) Kentico
Applications
1 17 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.23%) Maya
4 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (1.28%) Magento
1 22 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 18 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.76%) Shopify
4 12 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.41%) BPCS
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.058%) Demantra
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle ASCP
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.058%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 438 (25.47%) Azure
2 253 (14.71%) AWS
3 125 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 114 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (4.83%) Serverless
6 81 (4.71%) SaaS
7 67 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 57 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 53 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 52 (3.02%) Azure Functions
11 47 (2.73%) Azure API Management
12 46 (2.67%) GitHub
13 43 (2.50%) IBM Cloud
14 42 (2.44%) Power Automate
15 30 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 29 (1.69%) PowerApps
17 28 (1.63%) GCP
18 19 (1.10%) Google Play
19 17 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
20 13 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.57%) Internet
2 6 (0.35%) Intranet
3 4 (0.23%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.23%) Wireless
4 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.12%) Broadband
5 2 (0.12%) Mobile Broadband
5 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.058%) Firewall
6 1 (0.058%) HTTP
6 1 (0.058%) MQTT
6 1 (0.058%) RS-232
6 1 (0.058%) Skype
6 1 (0.058%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (14.94%) SQL Server
2 141 (8.20%) MySQL
3 116 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 82 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 78 (4.53%) Power BI
7 69 (4.01%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 45 (2.62%) Tableau
10 44 (2.56%) DB2
11 42 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.93%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
17 12 (0.70%) Power Query
18 11 (0.64%) Redis
19 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 123 (7.15%) Git
2 43 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 26 (1.51%) JIRA
4 22 (1.28%) PHPUnit
5 20 (1.16%) GitLab
5 20 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.16%) TeamCity
6 19 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.05%) Jasmine
8 12 (0.70%) Appium
8 12 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 12 (0.70%) JUnit
8 12 (0.70%) Mockito
9 11 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
10 10 (0.58%) NUnit
10 10 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.52%) Gradle
12 6 (0.35%) Dreamweaver
12 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 242 (14.07%) Social Skills
2 151 (8.78%) Finance
3 84 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 61 (3.55%) Manufacturing
5 60 (3.49%) Marketing
6 55 (3.20%) Games
7 52 (3.02%) Law
8 51 (2.97%) Retail
9 38 (2.21%) Legal
10 34 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (1.63%) Advertising
11 28 (1.63%) Banking
12 21 (1.22%) Automotive
13 17 (0.99%) Health Technology
14 15 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (0.64%) Tech for Good
15 11 (0.64%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.58%) Back Office
17 8 (0.47%) Military
18 7 (0.41%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (31.92%) .NET
2 323 (18.78%) HTML
3 303 (17.62%) CSS
4 279 (16.22%) React
5 240 (13.95%) AngularJS
6 217 (12.62%) ASP.NET
7 188 (10.93%) Node.js
8 184 (10.70%) Vue
9 181 (10.52%) .NET Core
10 162 (9.42%) REST
11 145 (8.43%) .NET Framework
12 136 (7.91%) Laravel
13 115 (6.69%) Entity Framework
13 115 (6.69%) HTML5
14 109 (6.34%) ASP.NET MVC
15 106 (6.16%) RESTful
16 105 (6.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 99 (5.76%) jQuery
18 95 (5.52%) Web Services
19 94 (5.47%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
2 51 (2.97%) Mobile App
3 47 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 46 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 45 (2.62%) Blockchain
6 43 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 39 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 37 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
10 20 (1.16%) IoT
11 18 (1.05%) Social Network
12 17 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 14 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.76%) NHS
15 12 (0.70%) PropTech
16 11 (0.64%) Management Information System
17 10 (0.58%) iSeries
17 10 (0.58%) Private Cloud
18 9 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 125 (7.27%) Linux
2 98 (5.70%) Windows
3 81 (4.71%) Android
4 79 (4.59%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.99%) Unix
6 13 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.23%) VMS
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (27.79%) Agile
2 389 (22.62%) Full Stack Development
3 231 (13.43%) DevOps
4 222 (12.91%) MVC
5 202 (11.74%) TDD
6 190 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (9.53%) Software Engineering
8 156 (9.07%) User Experience
9 154 (8.95%) Web Development
10 146 (8.49%) Design Patterns
11 139 (8.08%) Microservices
12 124 (7.21%) Unit Testing
13 115 (6.69%) Mentoring
14 113 (6.57%) Clean Code
15 112 (6.51%) Scrum
16 110 (6.40%) OOP
17 109 (6.34%) Front End Development
18 107 (6.22%) OO
19 99 (5.76%) CI/CD
20 98 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 577 (33.55%) C#
2 575 (33.43%) JavaScript
3 393 (22.85%) SQL
4 190 (11.05%) Java
5 185 (10.76%) PHP
6 151 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 112 (6.51%) Python
8 61 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 52 (3.02%) C++
10 32 (1.86%) VB.NET
11 22 (1.28%) Ruby
12 20 (1.16%) Go
12 20 (1.16%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.05%) VB
15 17 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.93%) C
17 15 (0.87%) Swift
18 13 (0.76%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 179 (10.41%) Degree
2 65 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 38 (2.21%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.47%) PhD
8 6 (0.35%) HND
9 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.17%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.12%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.058%) ACCA
13 1 (0.058%) CIMA
13 1 (0.058%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.058%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.84%) QA
2 16 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.64%) GDPR
4 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.17%) WCAG
5 2 (0.12%) HL7
6 1 (0.058%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.058%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (6.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.17%) Firmware
3 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.56%) Terraform
3 6 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.058%) Grafana
4 1 (0.058%) Kiali
4 1 (0.058%) Kibana
4 1 (0.058%) Plesk
Vendors
1 266 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.26%) IBM
3 48 (2.79%) Oracle
4 45 (2.62%) Google
5 43 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 39 (2.27%) Facebook
7 23 (1.34%) Adobe
8 20 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.76%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.58%) Apple
12 9 (0.52%) Progress
12 9 (0.52%) Sony
12 9 (0.52%) Yahoo!
13 8 (0.47%) Twitter
14 6 (0.35%) Actuate
14 6 (0.35%) Civica
14 6 (0.35%) Intapp
15 5 (0.29%) ESRI
15 5 (0.29%) Sitecore