Senior Jobs in Manchester

Senior
North West > Manchester

The median Senior salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 907 686 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.29% 14.31% 15.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.32% 15.51% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 640 441 585
10th Percentile £42,450 £46,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,313 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,125 £86,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 4,951 4,423 5,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 92.24% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 2,600 3,591
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £40,750
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 £82,221 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 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
Salford +37 38 £45,000 -33.33% 11
Stockport +37 22 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Bolton - 8 £30,150 - 5
Rochdale - 7 £32,500 - 1
Altrincham -1 6 £67,500 +61.50% 4
Wigan +7 1 - - 2
Bury - 1 £65,000 - 1
Cheadle - 1 - -
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 287 (31.64%) Agile
2 237 (26.13%) AWS
3 198 (21.83%) Software Engineering
4 182 (20.07%) Mentoring
5 179 (19.74%) Azure
6 158 (17.42%) Coaching
7 153 (16.87%) DevOps
8 144 (15.88%) Social Skills
9 138 (15.21%) Finance
10 124 (13.67%) Degree
11 122 (13.45%) SQL
12 113 (12.46%) Python
13 104 (11.47%) JavaScript
14 100 (11.03%) React
15 97 (10.69%) Terraform
16 90 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
16 90 (9.92%) C#
16 90 (9.92%) Microsoft
16 90 (9.92%) CI/CD
17 84 (9.26%) .NET
18 82 (9.04%) Analytics
19 81 (8.93%) Kubernetes
20 79 (8.71%) TDD
21 78 (8.60%) Java
22 76 (8.38%) Public Sector
23 65 (7.17%) Linux
24 63 (6.95%) Project Management
24 63 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
25 62 (6.84%) TypeScript
25 62 (6.84%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior 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 22 (2.43%) ArcGIS
2 18 (1.98%) GeoServer
3 14 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.21%) SAS
6 10 (1.10%) CMS
7 8 (0.88%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.66%) Tuxedo
9 5 (0.55%) Confluence
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Apache
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) Jetty
12 1 (0.11%) Kentico
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.55%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.44%) Maya
4 4 (0.44%) Sketch
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.99%) Magento
2 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 237 (26.13%) AWS
2 179 (19.74%) Azure
3 47 (5.18%) GCP
4 43 (4.74%) Amazon S3
5 38 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (4.08%) SaaS
7 36 (3.97%) Power Platform
8 31 (3.42%) IBM Cloud
9 30 (3.31%) Amazon ECR
9 30 (3.31%) OCI
9 30 (3.31%) Route 53
10 26 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (2.65%) GitHub
12 22 (2.43%) Serverless
13 21 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (1.76%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.54%) WAN
2 22 (2.43%) Network Security
3 19 (2.09%) SD-WAN
4 18 (1.98%) DNS
5 12 (1.32%) Firewall
6 10 (1.10%) LAN
7 8 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (0.88%) DHCP
7 8 (0.88%) SSL
7 8 (0.88%) VPN
8 7 (0.77%) WLAN
9 6 (0.66%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.66%) HTTP
9 6 (0.66%) IPsec
9 6 (0.66%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.66%) TETRA
9 6 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.44%) RS-232
10 4 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
10 4 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (4.30%) MySQL
3 37 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.43%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.09%) GIS
7 19 (2.09%) Power BI
7 19 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (1.98%) Big Data
8 18 (1.98%) QGIS
9 17 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.43%) Oracle Database
12 12 (1.32%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.99%) Metadata
14 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
14 8 (0.88%) Tableau
15 7 (0.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (6.28%) Git
2 25 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.65%) GitLab
4 11 (1.21%) Appium
4 11 (1.21%) JIRA
5 8 (0.88%) LabVIEW
6 7 (0.77%) Gradle
7 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.55%) webpack
8 4 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.44%) Subversion
9 3 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.33%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.22%) Maven
10 2 (0.22%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 144 (15.88%) Social Skills
2 138 (15.21%) Finance
3 76 (8.38%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.50%) Retail
6 52 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (3.97%) Banking
8 22 (2.43%) Law
9 21 (2.32%) Legal
10 19 (2.09%) Health Technology
11 16 (1.76%) Games
11 16 (1.76%) Marketing
11 16 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.10%) Automotive
13 10 (1.10%) Electronics
13 10 (1.10%) Local Government
13 10 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (11.03%) React
2 84 (9.26%) .NET
3 48 (5.29%) CSS
4 45 (4.96%) Node.js
5 41 (4.52%) HTML
6 38 (4.19%) RESTful
7 30 (3.31%) .NET Core
7 30 (3.31%) Kafka
8 26 (2.87%) AngularJS
8 26 (2.87%) Laravel
8 26 (2.87%) REST
9 22 (2.43%) JSON
10 20 (2.21%) Spring
11 18 (1.98%) Leaflet
11 18 (1.98%) OpenLayers
11 18 (1.98%) PostGIS
12 16 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.32%) ASP.NET
14 11 (1.21%) GraphQL
14 11 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.52%) Data Centre
2 38 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (4.08%) Blockchain
4 34 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.42%) e-Learning
6 29 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.98%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.98%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.54%) Blog
12 14 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
13 13 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.32%) PropTech
14 12 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.10%) Cloud Native
16 9 (0.99%) IoT
16 9 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.17%) Linux
2 43 (4.74%) Windows
3 15 (1.65%) Android
4 12 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.66%) Unix
6 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (31.64%) Agile
2 198 (21.83%) Software Engineering
3 182 (20.07%) Mentoring
4 158 (17.42%) Coaching
5 153 (16.87%) DevOps
6 90 (9.92%) CI/CD
6 90 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (9.04%) Analytics
8 79 (8.71%) TDD
9 63 (6.95%) Project Management
10 62 (6.84%) Artificial Intelligence
10 62 (6.84%) Computer Science
11 60 (6.62%) Roadmaps
12 59 (6.50%) Actionable Insight
12 59 (6.50%) Test Automation
13 53 (5.84%) Containerisation
14 50 (5.51%) Design Patterns
15 49 (5.40%) Full Stack Development
16 47 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
17 45 (4.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 122 (13.45%) SQL
2 113 (12.46%) Python
3 104 (11.47%) JavaScript
4 90 (9.92%) C#
5 78 (8.60%) Java
6 62 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 40 (4.41%) PHP
8 22 (2.43%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.65%) C
9 15 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.54%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.10%) Go
11 10 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.88%) R
13 7 (0.77%) Rust
14 6 (0.66%) COBOL
14 6 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.66%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 5 (0.55%) C++
15 5 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 124 (13.67%) Degree
2 54 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 45 (4.96%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 22 (2.43%) CCNP
8 15 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.54%) CCNA
9 14 (1.54%) JNCIA
9 14 (1.54%) JNCIP
10 11 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.21%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.88%) CCIE
12 7 (0.77%) CISSP
13 6 (0.66%) ACCA
13 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.66%) CISA
13 6 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.31%) QA
2 27 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.43%) WCAG
5 11 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.21%) NIST
6 8 (0.88%) GDPR
7 7 (0.77%) PMO
7 7 (0.77%) SLA
8 5 (0.55%) GMP
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) IFRS
9 4 (0.44%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.44%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 53 (5.84%) Docker
2 24 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.98%) Firmware
4 6 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (10.69%) Terraform
2 81 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.42%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.54%) Ansible
5 13 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.88%) Stealthwatch
7 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.55%) CASB
9 5 (0.55%) WSUS
10 3 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.11%) Grafana
11 1 (0.11%) Icinga
11 1 (0.11%) Nagios
11 1 (0.11%) Puppet
11 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.52%) IBM
3 40 (4.41%) Cisco
4 33 (3.64%) Google
5 31 (3.42%) Oracle
5 31 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 30 (3.31%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.09%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.98%) ESRI
9 16 (1.76%) Juniper
10 15 (1.65%) Adobe
10 15 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.43%) Apple
11 13 (1.43%) CA
11 13 (1.43%) Meraki
12 11 (1.21%) Databricks
12 11 (1.21%) SAP
12 11 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.10%) VMware