Junior Jobs in the North West

Junior
England > North West

The median Junior salary in the North West is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 149 217
Rank change year-on-year -80 +68 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 62 156 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.77% 1.58% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.67% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50 148 75
10th Percentile £29,575 £22,925 £21,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £24,000 £25,927
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £27,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £32,813 £41,375
90th Percentile £61,250 £37,500 £49,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 7,357 9,353 6,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.63% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,011 7,192 4,022
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the North West

Junior
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior in the North West.

Salary trend for Junior in the North West

Junior
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in the North West

Junior
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Lancashire -74 28 £50,000 +78.57% 19
Manchester -5 20 £37,000 +33.33% 61
Merseyside +29 7 £32,500 +22.64% 22
Cumbria -67 4 £56,250 +134.38% 3
Cheshire -19 3 £32,000 +16.36% 11
Junior
England

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Junior 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 North West region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 43 (69.35%) Social Skills
2 31 (50.00%) WAN
2 31 (50.00%) Cisco
2 31 (50.00%) Firewall
3 25 (40.32%) CCNA
3 25 (40.32%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (40.32%) Juniper
3 25 (40.32%) LAN
3 25 (40.32%) JNCIA
4 24 (38.71%) Fortinet
4 24 (38.71%) Presentation Skills
4 24 (38.71%) Aruba
4 24 (38.71%) Presales
5 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (35.48%) Palo Alto
7 14 (22.58%) Degree
8 10 (16.13%) Computer Science
8 10 (16.13%) Windows
8 10 (16.13%) Azure
8 10 (16.13%) Customer Experience
9 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (14.52%) SQL
9 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
10 8 (12.90%) Electronics
10 8 (12.90%) UML
10 8 (12.90%) Mathematics
10 8 (12.90%) Physics
10 8 (12.90%) Aerospace
10 8 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (11.29%) Mentoring

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.61%) Moodle
1 1 (1.61%) Totara
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Simulink
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) AWS
3 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (3.23%) AWS IoT
3 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.61%) Boomi
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.61%) Figma
4 1 (1.61%) GCP
4 1 (1.61%) iPaaS
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.61%) PaaS
4 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (50.00%) Firewall
1 31 (50.00%) WAN
2 25 (40.32%) LAN
3 7 (11.29%) DNS
3 7 (11.29%) VPN
4 6 (9.68%) MPLS
5 2 (3.23%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (1.61%) DHCP
6 1 (1.61%) Network Security
6 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.61%) VLAN
6 1 (1.61%) VoIP
6 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Big Data
1 2 (3.23%) Power BI
1 2 (3.23%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.61%) Power Query
2 1 (1.61%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.61%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.61%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (1.61%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Postman
2 1 (1.61%) YouTrack
General
1 43 (69.35%) Social Skills
2 24 (38.71%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Aerospace
3 8 (12.90%) Electronics
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Marketing
6 3 (4.84%) Retail
7 2 (3.23%) Law
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (1.61%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) CSS
1 4 (6.45%) HTML
2 3 (4.84%) .NET
2 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.23%) NestJS
3 2 (3.23%) Node.js
3 2 (3.23%) React
3 2 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) JSP
4 1 (1.61%) Kafka
4 1 (1.61%) Middleware
4 1 (1.61%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (1.61%) Web Services
4 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.23%) IoT
2 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.61%) Tandem
3 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Presales
2 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (16.13%) Computer Science
3 10 (16.13%) Customer Experience
4 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (12.90%) Mathematics
5 8 (12.90%) Physics
5 8 (12.90%) UML
6 7 (11.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
6 7 (11.29%) ITIL
6 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
6 7 (11.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 7 (11.29%) PLM
6 7 (11.29%) Project Management
6 7 (11.29%) SysML
6 7 (11.29%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (6.45%) Data Analysis
7 4 (6.45%) Software Engineering
8 3 (4.84%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
2 7 (11.29%) MATLAB
3 4 (6.45%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) PHP
4 3 (4.84%) Python
5 2 (3.23%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) Ada
6 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.61%) Rust
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (40.32%) CCNA
1 25 (40.32%) Cisco Certification
1 25 (40.32%) JNCIA
2 14 (22.58%) Degree
3 8 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.61%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Hyper-V
1 6 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.23%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Proxmox
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) Puppet
2 2 (3.23%) Salt
2 2 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Cisco
2 25 (40.32%) Juniper
3 24 (38.71%) Aruba
3 24 (38.71%) Fortinet
4 22 (35.48%) Palo Alto
5 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
6 7 (11.29%) IBM
7 6 (9.68%) VMware
8 1 (1.61%) Databricks
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) Facebook
8 1 (1.61%) Google
8 1 (1.61%) Informatica
8 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.61%) Ubiquiti