Senior Jobs in Cheshire

Senior
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior salary in Cheshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 64 161 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.13% 9.78% 10.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.54% 10.14% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 29 134 55
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £48,306 £49,000 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.58% +5.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,400 £75,000 £94,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.58% - +4.35%

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 607 1,587 782
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.13% 96.42% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 253 1,179 470
10th Percentile - £25,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 +2 8 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Warrington +2 7 £48,306 -15.99% 18
Knutsford +7 4 £74,500 -29.05% 7
Macclesfield +1 2 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Middlewich 0 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Ellesmere Port -5 2 - -
Chester -2 1 - - 10
Northwich -7 1 £40,000 +6.67%
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 34 (53.13%) AWS
2 33 (51.56%) Agile
3 29 (45.31%) Linux
3 29 (45.31%) Azure
3 29 (45.31%) Microservices
4 28 (43.75%) Mentoring
5 27 (42.19%) Python
6 26 (40.63%) JavaScript
6 26 (40.63%) .NET
6 26 (40.63%) Software Engineering
6 26 (40.63%) GCP
7 24 (37.50%) Java
8 22 (34.38%) Machine Learning
8 22 (34.38%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (32.81%) Node.js
9 21 (32.81%) AWS Certification
9 21 (32.81%) Rust
9 21 (32.81%) Go
9 21 (32.81%) Scrum
9 21 (32.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (32.81%) Cloud Security
10 20 (31.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 20 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (31.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (31.25%) DV Cleared
10 20 (31.25%) Security Cleared
10 20 (31.25%) C++
10 20 (31.25%) User Experience
10 20 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (31.25%) Data Engineering

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:

Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) AWS
2 29 (45.31%) Azure
3 26 (40.63%) GCP
4 5 (7.81%) NuGet
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.25%) Serverless
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.69%) SaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.56%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.19%) TCP/IP
2 7 (10.94%) Firewall
3 6 (9.38%) DHCP
3 6 (9.38%) DNS
3 6 (9.38%) LAN
3 6 (9.38%) WAN
4 5 (7.81%) Broadband
5 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.56%) Modbus
5 1 (1.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
1 2 (3.13%) MySQL
1 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Mocha
3 1 (1.56%) Sinon.JS
General
1 20 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.81%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Back Office
5 3 (4.69%) Finance
5 3 (4.69%) Front Office
6 2 (3.13%) Games
6 2 (3.13%) Legal
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Cantonese Language
7 1 (1.56%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.63%) .NET
2 21 (32.81%) Node.js
3 5 (7.81%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.81%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
4 4 (6.25%) Kafka
4 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.25%) RESTful
5 3 (4.69%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.69%) OAuth
5 3 (4.69%) React
6 2 (3.13%) CSS
6 2 (3.13%) HTML
6 2 (3.13%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.13%) OpenID
6 2 (3.13%) REST
6 2 (3.13%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 2 (3.13%) WebGL
7 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.56%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (31.25%) Cyberattack
2 20 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.13%) Animation
3 2 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.13%) PMI
4 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.56%) SCADA
4 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (45.31%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 2 (3.13%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Agile
2 29 (45.31%) Microservices
3 28 (43.75%) Mentoring
4 26 (40.63%) Software Engineering
5 22 (34.38%) Machine Learning
6 21 (32.81%) Cloud Security
6 21 (32.81%) Scrum
6 21 (32.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (31.25%) Data Engineering
7 20 (31.25%) User Experience
8 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.94%) DevOps
10 7 (10.94%) Project Management
11 5 (7.81%) Creative Thinking
12 4 (6.25%) Clean Code
12 4 (6.25%) CQRS
12 4 (6.25%) IT Strategy
12 4 (6.25%) ITIL
12 4 (6.25%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 26 (40.63%) JavaScript
3 24 (37.50%) Java
4 21 (32.81%) Go
4 21 (32.81%) Rust
5 20 (31.25%) C++
6 7 (10.94%) C#
7 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.25%) Bash
8 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.69%) SQL
10 2 (3.13%) HLSL
11 1 (1.56%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.56%) PHP
11 1 (1.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) AWS Certification
2 20 (31.25%) AWS Certified Developer
2 20 (31.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 20 (31.25%) DV Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) PhD
5 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) PMP
5 2 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.56%) ACCA
6 1 (1.56%) CCAB
6 1 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) CIMA
6 1 (1.56%) CIPFA
6 1 (1.56%) HNC
6 1 (1.56%) HND
6 1 (1.56%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) SCCM
2 4 (6.25%) SCOM
2 4 (6.25%) SCOrch
3 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Google
2 3 (4.69%) VMware
3 2 (3.13%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.56%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.56%) Rockwell
4 1 (1.56%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) Siemens