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 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 63 80
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 64 199 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.97% 3.88% 4.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% 4.10% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 60 156 151
10th Percentile £51,125 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,625 £53,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,625 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 1,943 4,853 4,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.55% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 3,746 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,017 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,375 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
Stockport +13 1 £56,500 - 4
Altrincham 0 1 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Senior Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Manchester region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 28 (43.75%) Agile
2 25 (39.06%) .NET
2 25 (39.06%) React
3 23 (35.94%) JavaScript
4 21 (32.81%) C#
4 21 (32.81%) AWS
5 20 (31.25%) Azure
6 17 (26.56%) TDD
7 16 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 16 (25.00%) TypeScript
7 16 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (23.44%) AngularJS
9 14 (21.88%) DevOps
9 14 (21.88%) .NET Core
9 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
10 13 (20.31%) OOP
11 12 (18.75%) CSS
11 12 (18.75%) HTML
11 12 (18.75%) SQL
11 12 (18.75%) SaaS
12 11 (17.19%) Git
12 11 (17.19%) Finance
12 11 (17.19%) SOLID
13 10 (15.63%) Games
13 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
14 9 (14.06%) MySQL
14 9 (14.06%) PHP
14 9 (14.06%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (14.06%) Docker
15 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement

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 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) AWS
2 20 (31.25%) Azure
3 12 (18.75%) SaaS
4 8 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.81%) Serverless
6 2 (3.13%) Contentful
6 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.06%) MySQL
3 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.69%) Data Hub
6 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.69%) Event Store
6 3 (4.69%) Metadata
6 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.69%) Power BI
6 3 (4.69%) SQL CLR
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) NUnit
2 3 (4.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 11 (17.19%) Finance
2 10 (15.63%) Games
3 8 (12.50%) Back Office
3 8 (12.50%) Retail
4 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Electronics
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.06%) .NET
1 25 (39.06%) React
2 15 (23.44%) AngularJS
3 14 (21.88%) .NET Core
4 12 (18.75%) CSS
4 12 (18.75%) HTML
5 9 (14.06%) ASP.NET Web API
6 8 (12.50%) Vue
7 7 (10.94%) jQuery
7 7 (10.94%) LAMP
7 7 (10.94%) Node.js
8 6 (9.38%) .NET Framework
9 5 (7.81%) Blazor
9 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
9 5 (7.81%) GraphQL
9 5 (7.81%) Kafka
10 3 (4.69%) Next.js
10 3 (4.69%) Redux
10 3 (4.69%) REST
10 3 (4.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Agile
2 17 (26.56%) TDD
3 16 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 14 (21.88%) DevOps
5 13 (20.31%) OOP
6 11 (17.19%) SOLID
7 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.50%) Kanban
8 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.50%) Microservices
8 8 (12.50%) SDLC
9 7 (10.94%) Design Patterns
9 7 (10.94%) E-Commerce
9 7 (10.94%) Front End Development
9 7 (10.94%) User Experience
10 6 (9.38%) Code Quality
10 6 (9.38%) Regression Testing
10 6 (9.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) JavaScript
2 21 (32.81%) C#
3 16 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 12 (18.75%) SQL
5 9 (14.06%) PHP
6 7 (10.94%) Java
6 7 (10.94%) Python
7 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.13%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
1 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) IEC 62304
1 1 (1.56%) ISO 13485
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) New Relic
2 3 (4.69%) Twitter
2 3 (4.69%) VMware
3 2 (3.13%) Pega
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) Intel
4 1 (1.56%) Zend