Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 109 67
Rank change year-on-year +25 -42 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 115 103 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.62% 2.16% 3.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 2.36% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 108 75 194
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £69,063 £67,500 £67,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £75,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -6.90%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 6,135 4,359 6,251
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.40% 91.21% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 2,311 5,154
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,620 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the North West

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
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 Senior Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Manchester +7 70 £65,000 +9.24% 24
Cheshire +14 38 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Merseyside -13 7 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 North West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 45 (39.13%) Azure
2 38 (33.04%) .NET
3 35 (30.43%) C#
4 31 (26.96%) Agile
5 24 (20.87%) Mentoring
6 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 21 (18.26%) .NET Core
8 20 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 18 (15.65%) SQL
9 18 (15.65%) SQL Server
10 16 (13.91%) AWS
10 16 (13.91%) CSS
10 16 (13.91%) HTML
10 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
10 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
10 16 (13.91%) Salesforce
11 15 (13.04%) Business Analysis
11 15 (13.04%) Business Transformation
11 15 (13.04%) Clean Code
11 15 (13.04%) DBS Check
11 15 (13.04%) DevOps
11 15 (13.04%) Process Improvement
11 15 (13.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (12.17%) ASP.NET
12 14 (12.17%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (11.30%) Git
13 13 (11.30%) React
14 11 (9.57%) Containerisation
14 11 (9.57%) Docker

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (2.61%) WordPress
2 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
2 1 (0.87%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (39.13%) Azure
2 16 (13.91%) AWS
3 15 (13.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 10 (8.70%) SaaS
5 9 (7.83%) GCP
6 4 (3.48%) GitHub
6 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.61%) Serverless
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.87%) npm
9 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) HTTP
2 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.74%) Power BI
4 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Git
2 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.87%) JUnit
4 1 (0.87%) Maven
4 1 (0.87%) Protractor
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 21 (18.26%) Marketing
2 8 (6.96%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.35%) Law
4 4 (3.48%) Finance
5 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Games
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Automotive
7 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.87%) Publishing
7 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (33.04%) .NET
2 21 (18.26%) .NET Core
3 16 (13.91%) CSS
3 16 (13.91%) HTML
4 14 (12.17%) ASP.NET
5 13 (11.30%) React
6 8 (6.96%) Spring
6 8 (6.96%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.22%) RESTful
8 5 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (4.35%) Laravel
9 4 (3.48%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.61%) Akka
10 3 (2.61%) Akka.NET
10 3 (2.61%) QML
10 3 (2.61%) Qt
10 3 (2.61%) REST
10 3 (2.61%) STL
11 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.09%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.48%) NHS
5 3 (2.61%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.87%) IoT
7 1 (0.87%) Life Science
7 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.61%) Windows
2 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.96%) Agile
2 24 (20.87%) Mentoring
3 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 23 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 20 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 15 (13.04%) Business Analysis
5 15 (13.04%) Business Transformation
5 15 (13.04%) Clean Code
5 15 (13.04%) DevOps
5 15 (13.04%) Process Improvement
6 14 (12.17%) Collaborative Culture
7 11 (9.57%) Containerisation
7 11 (9.57%) Microservices
7 11 (9.57%) TDD
8 10 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 9 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.96%) Front End Development
11 7 (6.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.43%) C#
2 18 (15.65%) SQL
3 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.70%) Java
5 7 (6.09%) PHP
6 4 (3.48%) Python
6 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.61%) C++
8 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.74%) Erlang
9 1 (0.87%) Elixir
9 1 (0.87%) Go
9 1 (0.87%) Ruby
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
9 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) DBS Check
2 3 (2.61%) Degree
3 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.87%) PhD
3 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) QA
System Software
1 11 (9.57%) Docker
2 7 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) cPanel
2 3 (2.61%) Plesk
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
1 16 (13.91%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.87%) Adobe
2 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
2 1 (0.87%) Google
2 1 (0.87%) IBM
2 1 (0.87%) Moogsoft
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle
2 1 (0.87%) Splunk