Senior Developer Jobs in Manchester

Senior Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Developer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 83 42
Rank change year-on-year +24 -41 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 155 107 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.76% 3.50% 6.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.98% 3.69% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 116 94 234
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £69,250 £72,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £83,375 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,875 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +1.46% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,898 2,900 5,311
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 94.96% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,179 2,120 3,713
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £31,971
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,006 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Manchester

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 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
Altrincham - 6 £60,000 - 3
Stockport -3 5 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Salford -10 3 £60,000 -11.11%
Senior Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 48 (30.97%) React
2 45 (29.03%) Agile
3 43 (27.74%) JavaScript
3 43 (27.74%) AWS
4 41 (26.45%) Azure
5 38 (24.52%) Software Engineering
6 34 (21.94%) .NET
7 30 (19.35%) CSS
7 30 (19.35%) PHP
7 30 (19.35%) HTML
8 29 (18.71%) C#
8 29 (18.71%) TDD
9 25 (16.13%) MySQL
10 24 (15.48%) DevOps
11 23 (14.84%) OOP
11 23 (14.84%) Design Patterns
11 23 (14.84%) CI/CD
12 22 (14.19%) SQL
13 21 (13.55%) Social Skills
14 20 (12.90%) E-Commerce
14 20 (12.90%) MVC
15 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
15 19 (12.26%) Finance
15 19 (12.26%) Symfony
16 18 (11.61%) Web Development
16 18 (11.61%) Linux
16 18 (11.61%) GCP
16 18 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
17 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (10.32%) Mentoring

Senior Developer 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 16 (10.32%) Apache
1 16 (10.32%) nginx
2 2 (1.29%) CMS
2 2 (1.29%) Drupal
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.65%) Appian
3 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Magento
1 4 (2.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.74%) AWS
2 41 (26.45%) Azure
3 18 (11.61%) GCP
4 14 (9.03%) Datadog
5 11 (7.10%) SaaS
6 7 (4.52%) Serverless
7 5 (3.23%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (3.23%) GitHub
8 4 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.29%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.29%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.29%) Sentry
11 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.13%) MySQL
2 10 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.29%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.29%) Event Store
8 2 (1.29%) Redis
9 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.65%) Power BI
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (9.68%) PHPUnit
2 4 (2.58%) GitLab
3 3 (1.94%) Git
4 2 (1.29%) Maven
4 2 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.29%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) Storybook
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (13.55%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.26%) Finance
3 16 (10.32%) Retail
4 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.23%) Marketing
6 4 (2.58%) Banking
7 3 (1.94%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.29%) Automotive
8 2 (1.29%) Games
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (30.97%) React
2 34 (21.94%) .NET
3 30 (19.35%) CSS
3 30 (19.35%) HTML
4 19 (12.26%) Symfony
5 15 (9.68%) REST
6 14 (9.03%) LAMP
6 14 (9.03%) LEMP Stack
7 12 (7.74%) Node.js
8 11 (7.10%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.10%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (6.45%) Kafka
9 10 (6.45%) RESTful
10 9 (5.81%) .NET Core
10 9 (5.81%) Ruby on Rails
10 9 (5.81%) Web Services
11 8 (5.16%) .NET Framework
12 7 (4.52%) Entity Framework
12 7 (4.52%) Laravel
13 6 (3.87%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.58%) Private Cloud
2 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.58%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (1.29%) e-Learning
3 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.29%) PropTech
4 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.65%) Hackathon
4 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
4 1 (0.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.61%) Linux
2 5 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.03%) Agile
2 38 (24.52%) Software Engineering
3 29 (18.71%) TDD
4 24 (15.48%) DevOps
5 23 (14.84%) CI/CD
5 23 (14.84%) Design Patterns
5 23 (14.84%) OOP
6 20 (12.90%) E-Commerce
6 20 (12.90%) MVC
7 18 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (11.61%) Web Development
8 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.32%) Mentoring
9 16 (10.32%) Scrum
10 13 (8.39%) Clean Code
11 12 (7.74%) Microservices
12 9 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (5.81%) User Experience
13 8 (5.16%) Kanban
14 7 (4.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 43 (27.74%) JavaScript
2 30 (19.35%) PHP
3 29 (18.71%) C#
4 22 (14.19%) SQL
5 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.39%) Python
7 12 (7.74%) Java
8 10 (6.45%) C++
9 9 (5.81%) Ruby
10 3 (1.94%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.94%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.94%) Swift
11 2 (1.29%) Go
12 1 (0.65%) SOQL
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) SC Cleared
1 12 (7.74%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.58%) Degree
4 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.58%) QA
System Software
1 13 (8.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.74%) Kubernetes
1 12 (7.74%) Terraform
2 6 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.29%) Packer
3 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (9.03%) Google
2 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.52%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.58%) New Relic
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle
5 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.65%) Quadient