Senior Developer Jobs in Cheshire

Senior Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior Developer salary in Cheshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 63 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 7 41 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.98% 2.68% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 2.77% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 31 19
10th Percentile £53,500 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -24.44% +8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £80,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 521 1,482 839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 72.87% 96.93% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 271 1,114 491
10th Percentile - £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,074 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.61% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,324 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Cheshire

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Cheshire

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Cheshire

Senior Developer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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
Crewe +8 6 £57,500 +33.72% 4
Senior Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Senior 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 Cheshire region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (42.86%) Entity Framework
3 3 (42.86%) CQRS
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) NuGet
3 3 (42.86%) React
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Next.js
4 2 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (28.57%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (28.57%) REST

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) NuGet
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Cantonese Language
2 1 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) Entity Framework
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (42.86%) React
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (28.57%) Next.js
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) CQRS
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Web Development
5 1 (14.29%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) B2B
5 1 (14.29%) B2C
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Development
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google