Senior Developer Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Developer salary in Manchester is £67,249 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 94 60
Rank change year-on-year +47 -34 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 180 79 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.63% 3.18% 3.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.78% 3.48% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 143 72 144
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,249 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73,461 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,750 £78,375
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,469 2,269 4,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 91.34% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,090 1,363 2,900
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,216 £83,163
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
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 Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Altrincham +3 9 £65,000 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £51,000 - 1
Oldham - 4 £67,500 - 1
Salford - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Senior Developer
North West

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 12 August 2026, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 61 (33.89%) CI/CD
2 47 (26.11%) Agile
3 46 (25.56%) AWS
3 46 (25.56%) DevOps
4 43 (23.89%) Java
5 39 (21.67%) Azure
6 38 (21.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (18.33%) Mentoring
8 31 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (16.67%) AI
10 29 (16.11%) TypeScript
11 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (15.00%) Software Engineering
13 24 (13.33%) TDD
14 23 (12.78%) JavaScript
15 22 (12.22%) C#
16 21 (11.67%) Python
17 20 (11.11%) Test Automation
18 19 (10.56%) .NET
18 19 (10.56%) Clean Code
18 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
19 18 (10.00%) Serverless
20 17 (9.44%) HTML
20 17 (9.44%) Node.js
20 17 (9.44%) React
21 16 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
21 16 (8.89%) SDLC
21 16 (8.89%) Terraform
22 15 (8.33%) Apple iOS
22 15 (8.33%) Git

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Visualfiles
2 4 (2.22%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.56%) AWS
2 39 (21.67%) Azure
3 18 (10.00%) Serverless
4 16 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.22%) GitHub
6 12 (6.67%) GCP
7 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Copilot
8 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 10 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.00%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.78%) ChatGPT
11 5 (2.78%) SaaS
12 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) HTTP
2 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.11%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.11%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.67%) Maven
3 3 (1.67%) Postman
3 3 (1.67%) Selenium
3 3 (1.67%) Storybook
4 2 (1.11%) GitLab
4 2 (1.11%) JIRA
4 2 (1.11%) JUnit
4 2 (1.11%) Spock
4 2 (1.11%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.56%) fastlane
5 1 (0.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 23 (12.78%) Finance
2 13 (7.22%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.11%) Banking
4 6 (3.33%) Retail Banking
5 5 (2.78%) Law
5 5 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.78%) Publishing
6 4 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Legal
8 1 (0.56%) Back Office
8 1 (0.56%) Games
8 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.56%) .NET
2 17 (9.44%) HTML
2 17 (9.44%) Node.js
2 17 (9.44%) React
3 15 (8.33%) Spring
4 14 (7.78%) CSS
5 13 (7.22%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.11%) React Native
7 10 (5.56%) REST
8 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (4.44%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (4.44%) SPFx
10 7 (3.89%) SwiftUI
11 6 (3.33%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.33%) Vue
12 4 (2.22%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.22%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.22%) Next.js
12 4 (2.22%) UIKit
12 4 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.67%) Online Gambling
7 3 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.11%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Animation
9 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.56%) EPoS
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.56%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 13 (7.22%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.89%) CI/CD
2 47 (26.11%) Agile
3 46 (25.56%) DevOps
4 38 (21.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (18.33%) Mentoring
6 31 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (16.67%) AI
8 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (15.00%) Software Engineering
10 24 (13.33%) TDD
11 20 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 19 (10.56%) Clean Code
13 16 (8.89%) SDLC
14 15 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
15 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (7.22%) Scrum
16 12 (6.67%) Code Quality
16 12 (6.67%) Design Patterns
17 10 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.89%) Java
2 29 (16.11%) TypeScript
3 23 (12.78%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.22%) C#
5 21 (11.67%) Python
6 11 (6.11%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.56%) SQL
8 9 (5.00%) C++
9 8 (4.44%) Swift
10 7 (3.89%) PHP
11 4 (2.22%) Apex Code
11 4 (2.22%) SOQL
12 3 (1.67%) Go
12 3 (1.67%) Ruby
12 3 (1.67%) Scala
12 3 (1.67%) SOSL
13 2 (1.11%) Groovy
14 1 (0.56%) Bicep
14 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (1.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.67%) WCAG
3 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 13 (7.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.89%) Terraform
2 11 (6.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.33%) Salesforce
2 6 (3.33%) Splunk
3 4 (2.22%) NEC
4 3 (1.67%) Adobe
4 3 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.11%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.11%) Apple
5 2 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (0.56%) New Relic
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow