Senior Jobs in Cheshire

Senior
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior salary in Cheshire is £60,000 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 16 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 147 86 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.60% 9.26% 11.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 10.37% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 121 55 36
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,483 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,250 £77,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,485 829 982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.24% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 477 530
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £24,963
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,074 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £72,500
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 Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

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

Salary histogram for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
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 within the Cheshire 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
Warrington -17 31 £60,000 +3.54% 22
Alderley Edge +8 13 £50,000 -13.04%
Chester -12 13 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Crewe +7 11 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Knutsford -10 8 £105,000 +13.51% 1
Northwich - 8 £37,500 - 4
Macclesfield -4 4 £58,750 -6.00% 1
Middlewich - 4 £40,000 - 2
Wilmslow -5 3 £56,460 +12.92% 2
Winsford - 2 £41,250 - 2
Widnes - 1 £50,000 -
Ellesmere Port - 1 £70,000 - 1
Frodsham - 1 - -
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Cheshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 40 (27.21%) Software Engineering
2 35 (23.81%) Agile
3 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (19.73%) Social Skills
5 26 (17.69%) AWS
6 25 (17.01%) JavaScript
6 25 (17.01%) Azure
7 23 (15.65%) Microsoft
8 18 (12.24%) Linux
9 17 (11.56%) PHP
9 17 (11.56%) C#
9 17 (11.56%) Mentoring
10 16 (10.88%) DevOps
10 16 (10.88%) .NET
11 15 (10.20%) Finance
11 15 (10.20%) Degree
11 15 (10.20%) Docker
12 14 (9.52%) Public Sector
12 14 (9.52%) Project Management
13 13 (8.84%) C++
13 13 (8.84%) SQL
14 11 (7.48%) Multithreading
14 11 (7.48%) VMware
14 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
15 10 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
15 10 (6.80%) Firewall
15 10 (6.80%) Test Automation
15 10 (6.80%) Hyper-V
15 10 (6.80%) REST
15 10 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.36%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.68%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.68%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.69%) AWS
2 25 (17.01%) Azure
3 7 (4.76%) SaaS
4 6 (4.08%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.08%) IBM Cloud
4 6 (4.08%) OCI
4 6 (4.08%) Route 53
5 5 (3.40%) NuGet
6 4 (2.72%) GCP
6 4 (2.72%) npm
7 2 (1.36%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.68%) IaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.80%) Firewall
2 9 (6.12%) LAN
2 9 (6.12%) WAN
3 7 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.08%) DHCP
4 6 (4.08%) DNS
4 6 (4.08%) MQTT
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (2.72%) IPv4
5 4 (2.72%) IPv6
6 1 (0.68%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.68%) Modbus
6 1 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.68%) SAN
6 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (4.08%) MySQL
2 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) OLAP
3 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) TeamCity
2 6 (4.08%) Git
3 5 (3.40%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (2.04%) JMeter
4 3 (2.04%) Selenium
5 2 (1.36%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.36%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) TestNG
General
1 29 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.20%) Finance
3 14 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.44%) Law
7 7 (4.76%) Health Technology
7 7 (4.76%) Retail
8 6 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.72%) Banking
10 4 (2.72%) Publishing
11 3 (2.04%) Electronics
11 3 (2.04%) Marketing
12 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.36%) Legal
13 1 (0.68%) Automotive
13 1 (0.68%) Back Office
13 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.88%) .NET
2 10 (6.80%) REST
3 6 (4.08%) .NET Framework
3 6 (4.08%) CSS
3 6 (4.08%) Laravel
3 6 (4.08%) React
3 6 (4.08%) Vue
4 5 (3.40%) Apache Thrift
4 5 (3.40%) Web Services
5 4 (2.72%) Node.js
5 4 (2.72%) React Native
6 3 (2.04%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.04%) EDI
7 2 (1.36%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.36%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.68%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.68%) Node-RED
8 1 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.08%) Blockchain
1 6 (4.08%) e-Learning
1 6 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (4.08%) IoT
2 5 (3.40%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.40%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.36%) FMCG
5 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.68%) FPGA
6 1 (0.68%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.68%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.68%) SCADA
6 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.24%) Linux
2 8 (5.44%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (3.40%) VMS
5 4 (2.72%) Android
5 4 (2.72%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.72%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.21%) Software Engineering
2 35 (23.81%) Agile
3 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (11.56%) Mentoring
5 16 (10.88%) DevOps
6 14 (9.52%) Project Management
7 11 (7.48%) Multithreading
8 10 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (6.80%) Test Automation
9 9 (6.12%) Embedded Software Development
9 9 (6.12%) Fintech
10 8 (5.44%) CRM
10 8 (5.44%) Decision-Making
10 8 (5.44%) SDLC
11 7 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (4.76%) Roadmaps
12 6 (4.08%) Clean Code
12 6 (4.08%) Containerisation
12 6 (4.08%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.01%) JavaScript
2 17 (11.56%) C#
2 17 (11.56%) PHP
3 13 (8.84%) C++
3 13 (8.84%) SQL
4 4 (2.72%) C
4 4 (2.72%) Java
4 4 (2.72%) Python
4 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Degree
2 6 (4.08%) HND
3 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.72%) CCNP
4 4 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.36%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.68%) HNC
6 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) ISO 9000
2 3 (2.04%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (10.20%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) Hyper-V
3 6 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.68%) Lustre
5 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.68%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.12%) Terraform
3 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.68%) Icinga
5 1 (0.68%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.48%) VMware
3 10 (6.80%) Google
4 8 (5.44%) Cisco
5 7 (4.76%) F5
5 7 (4.76%) IBM
6 6 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.08%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.72%) Aruba
7 4 (2.72%) Datto
7 4 (2.72%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.72%) HP
7 4 (2.72%) NETGEAR
7 4 (2.72%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.72%) SAP
7 4 (2.72%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (2.72%) Veeam
8 1 (0.68%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.68%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.68%) Siemens