Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 186 131
Rank change year-on-year +99 -55 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 137 58 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.69% 1.15% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 1.26% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 97 46 72
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,063 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £58,668
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.68% -2.22%
75th Percentile £72,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,779 £80,000 £76,247
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +5.65% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,836 4,616 5,488
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 91.77% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,745 2,696 3,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Salford - 4 - -
Senior Software Engineer
North West

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 Manchester region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 57 (41.61%) Agile
3 55 (40.15%) AWS
4 45 (32.85%) Azure
5 40 (29.20%) JavaScript
6 38 (27.74%) Python
7 35 (25.55%) DevOps
8 33 (24.09%) C#
9 32 (23.36%) Java
10 27 (19.71%) .NET
10 27 (19.71%) CSS
10 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
10 27 (19.71%) React
11 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.52%) SC Cleared
11 24 (17.52%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (16.79%) SQL
12 23 (16.79%) TypeScript
13 21 (15.33%) Actionable Insight
14 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
14 19 (13.87%) Microservices
14 19 (13.87%) Degree
14 19 (13.87%) Computer Science
14 19 (13.87%) Open Source
15 18 (13.14%) Leaflet
15 18 (13.14%) PostGIS
15 18 (13.14%) GIS
15 18 (13.14%) ESRI
15 18 (13.14%) ArcGIS
15 18 (13.14%) Web Development

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 18 (13.14%) ArcGIS
1 18 (13.14%) GeoServer
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.19%) JBoss
2 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.15%) AWS
2 45 (32.85%) Azure
3 7 (5.11%) Serverless
4 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.19%) GCP
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.46%) GitHub
7 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Ethernet
1 4 (2.92%) RS-232
1 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.14%) GIS
2 18 (13.14%) QGIS
3 11 (8.03%) MySQL
4 7 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.19%) Big Data
6 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 5 (3.65%) GitLab
2 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.92%) Subversion
4 3 (2.19%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.19%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.46%) Spinnaker
5 2 (1.46%) webpack
6 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.73%) Maven
6 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.76%) Finance
3 11 (8.03%) Retail
4 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.84%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Automotive
7 5 (3.65%) Legal
7 5 (3.65%) Retail Finance
8 4 (2.92%) Banking
9 3 (2.19%) Games
9 3 (2.19%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.46%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.73%) Electronics
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.71%) .NET
1 27 (19.71%) CSS
1 27 (19.71%) React
2 18 (13.14%) Leaflet
2 18 (13.14%) OpenLayers
2 18 (13.14%) PostGIS
3 15 (10.95%) .NET Core
4 14 (10.22%) RESTful
5 13 (9.49%) HTML
6 11 (8.03%) AngularJS
7 10 (7.30%) Kafka
8 9 (6.57%) Web Services
9 8 (5.84%) JSON
9 8 (5.84%) Node.js
9 8 (5.84%) Spring
10 7 (5.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (5.11%) Jest
11 5 (3.65%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (3.65%) Serverless Framework
11 5 (3.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.65%) IoT
3 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.73%) Android
3 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 57 (41.61%) Agile
3 35 (25.55%) DevOps
4 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (15.33%) Actionable Insight
6 19 (13.87%) Computer Science
6 19 (13.87%) Microservices
6 19 (13.87%) Open Source
7 18 (13.14%) Web Development
8 16 (11.68%) Mentoring
8 16 (11.68%) TDD
9 15 (10.95%) CI/CD
10 11 (8.03%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (8.03%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.30%) Software Architecture
12 9 (6.57%) Continuous Deployment
12 9 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (5.84%) Coaching
13 8 (5.84%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (5.11%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 40 (29.20%) JavaScript
2 38 (27.74%) Python
3 33 (24.09%) C#
4 32 (23.36%) Java
5 23 (16.79%) SQL
5 23 (16.79%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.30%) C
7 5 (3.65%) C++
8 3 (2.19%) PHP
8 3 (2.19%) Rust
8 3 (2.19%) Scala
9 2 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.73%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.73%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.87%) Degree
4 9 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.11%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.92%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Docker
1 6 (4.38%) Firmware
2 1 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (5.84%) Terraform
2 6 (4.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (13.14%) ESRI
2 6 (4.38%) F5
3 3 (2.19%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.73%) Xamarin