Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 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 75 88 185
Rank change year-on-year +13 +97 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 71 137 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.29% 2.67% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.65% 2.82% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 55 97 46
10th Percentile £55,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £54,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £82,625 £72,000 £75,313
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,779 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.23% +7.83%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Senior Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - - 3
Bury - 1 - - 6
Cheadle - 1 - -
Dukinfield - 1 - -
Heywood - 1 - -
Oldham - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 £55,000 - 1
Stalybridge - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 - -
Senior Software Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 47 (66.20%) AWS
3 41 (57.75%) JavaScript
4 38 (53.52%) Agile
5 37 (52.11%) Python
6 34 (47.89%) Node.js
7 33 (46.48%) Azure
7 33 (46.48%) Java
8 30 (42.25%) TypeScript
8 30 (42.25%) Mentoring
8 30 (42.25%) React
9 29 (40.85%) .NET
10 28 (39.44%) GCP
11 27 (38.03%) Machine Learning
12 25 (35.21%) Linux
13 24 (33.80%) Cloud Security
14 23 (32.39%) C++
15 21 (29.58%) Finance
15 21 (29.58%) Microservices
16 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
17 18 (25.35%) RESTful
17 18 (25.35%) Scrum
18 17 (23.94%) Go
18 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (22.54%) CI/CD
19 16 (22.54%) Docker
19 16 (22.54%) User Experience
19 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
19 16 (22.54%) Rust
19 16 (22.54%) TDD

Senior Software Engineer 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 2 (2.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.41%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 47 (66.20%) AWS
2 33 (46.48%) Azure
3 28 (39.44%) GCP
4 10 (14.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.23%) Apigee
6 3 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.41%) AWS IoT
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Wireless
2 2 (2.82%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Spanner
2 8 (11.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.86%) MySQL
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.41%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Git
2 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) JUnit
3 3 (4.23%) Maven
3 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.82%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.41%) Storybook
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (29.58%) Finance
2 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (19.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (18.31%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Aerospace
6 6 (8.45%) Electronics
6 6 (8.45%) Retail
6 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
7 5 (7.04%) Social Skills
8 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.23%) Automotive
10 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (47.89%) Node.js
2 30 (42.25%) React
3 29 (40.85%) .NET
4 18 (25.35%) RESTful
5 13 (18.31%) Spring Boot
6 9 (12.68%) AngularJS
6 9 (12.68%) CSS
6 9 (12.68%) HTML
6 9 (12.68%) REST
6 9 (12.68%) Web Services
7 7 (9.86%) Vue
8 5 (7.04%) Laravel
9 4 (5.63%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.63%) .NET Framework
9 4 (5.63%) XML
10 3 (4.23%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.23%) NestJS
10 3 (4.23%) Spring
11 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET
11 2 (2.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Cyberattack
2 14 (19.72%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (19.72%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (14.08%) Public Cloud
4 8 (11.27%) Algorithms
5 6 (8.45%) Device Driver
5 6 (8.45%) IoT
6 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.41%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.41%) NHS
8 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.21%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Android
2 5 (7.04%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 38 (53.52%) Agile
3 30 (42.25%) Mentoring
4 27 (38.03%) Machine Learning
5 24 (33.80%) Cloud Security
6 21 (29.58%) Microservices
7 18 (25.35%) Scrum
8 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (22.54%) CI/CD
9 16 (22.54%) TDD
9 16 (22.54%) User Experience
10 14 (19.72%) Data Engineering
10 14 (19.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
12 12 (16.90%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (15.49%) Continuous Deployment
13 11 (15.49%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (14.08%) Coaching
15 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
16 8 (11.27%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (57.75%) JavaScript
2 37 (52.11%) Python
3 33 (46.48%) Java
4 30 (42.25%) TypeScript
5 23 (32.39%) C++
6 17 (23.94%) Go
7 16 (22.54%) Rust
8 10 (14.08%) C#
9 8 (11.27%) C
10 6 (8.45%) PHP
11 4 (5.63%) SQL
12 1 (1.41%) Ruby
12 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) AWS Certification
2 14 (19.72%) AWS Certified Developer
2 14 (19.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 14 (19.72%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Google
2 7 (9.86%) Ping Identity
3 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint