Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 140 60
Rank change year-on-year +71 -80 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 262 105 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.02% 2.01% 3.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 2.28% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 221 90 196
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,150 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 12,119 4,600 7,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 87.99% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,927 2,262 4,224
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +22 156 £67,249 +3.46% 55
Cheshire +25 47 £73,500 +22.50% 7
Merseyside +18 29 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Lancashire +34 27 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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 65 (24.81%) Azure
2 63 (24.05%) CI/CD
3 62 (23.66%) C#
4 53 (20.23%) Agile
5 52 (19.85%) DevOps
6 47 (17.94%) AWS
7 46 (17.56%) Mentoring
7 46 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (16.79%) Microsoft
9 41 (15.65%) Java
9 41 (15.65%) SQL
10 37 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (13.74%) Software Engineering
12 35 (13.36%) .NET
12 35 (13.36%) JavaScript
13 34 (12.98%) AI
14 33 (12.60%) TypeScript
15 30 (11.45%) REST
16 28 (10.69%) Front End Development
17 27 (10.31%) React
18 25 (9.54%) Collaborative Working
19 24 (9.16%) HTML
19 24 (9.16%) Power Platform
19 24 (9.16%) Python
20 22 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
20 22 (8.40%) Roadmaps
20 22 (8.40%) Test Automation
21 21 (8.02%) API Integration
21 21 (8.02%) CSS

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 11 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.15%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Kentico
5 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.81%) Azure
2 47 (17.94%) AWS
3 24 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.02%) GitHub
6 18 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.87%) Serverless
7 12 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.20%) Boomi
8 11 (4.20%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.82%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.82%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.67%) GCP
13 6 (2.29%) SaaS
14 5 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.91%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) HTTP
2 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.96%) Power BI
2 12 (4.58%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (3.44%) MySQL
4 9 (3.44%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.15%) Redis
7 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.38%) Chroma
8 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) Git
2 13 (4.96%) JIRA
3 7 (2.67%) GitLab
4 5 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.53%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.53%) Maven
6 3 (1.15%) Ant
6 3 (1.15%) Postman
6 3 (1.15%) Selenium
6 3 (1.15%) Storybook
7 2 (0.76%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.76%) JUnit
7 2 (0.76%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.76%) Spock
7 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.76%) YouTrack
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 28 (10.69%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.25%) Marketing
4 17 (6.49%) Banking
5 15 (5.73%) Retail
6 13 (4.96%) Finance
7 10 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.91%) Publishing
11 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Police
11 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.36%) .NET
2 30 (11.45%) REST
3 27 (10.31%) React
4 24 (9.16%) HTML
5 21 (8.02%) CSS
6 20 (7.63%) Middleware
7 17 (6.49%) SOAP
8 15 (5.73%) XML
9 14 (5.34%) EDI
9 14 (5.34%) JSON
9 14 (5.34%) Node.js
10 13 (4.96%) Spring
10 13 (4.96%) Terraform
11 12 (4.58%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.58%) React Native
12 11 (4.20%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (3.82%) Vue
14 9 (3.44%) .NET Core
15 8 (3.05%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.73%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (3.05%) Online Gambling
6 7 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.53%) Derivative
10 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 3 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.38%) Animation
12 1 (0.38%) EPoS
12 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.38%) PropTech
12 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.44%) Android
2 8 (3.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.05%) CI/CD
2 53 (20.23%) Agile
3 52 (19.85%) DevOps
4 46 (17.56%) Mentoring
4 46 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (13.74%) Software Engineering
7 34 (12.98%) AI
8 28 (10.69%) Front End Development
9 25 (9.54%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (8.40%) Roadmaps
10 22 (8.40%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.02%) API Integration
11 21 (8.02%) TDD
11 21 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (7.25%) API Development
12 19 (7.25%) CRM
13 18 (6.87%) B2B
13 18 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.66%) C#
2 41 (15.65%) Java
2 41 (15.65%) SQL
3 35 (13.36%) JavaScript
4 33 (12.60%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.16%) Python
6 9 (3.44%) C++
6 9 (3.44%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.67%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.29%) PHP
9 5 (1.91%) C
10 4 (1.53%) SOQL
11 3 (1.15%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.15%) Go
11 3 (1.15%) Ruby
11 3 (1.15%) Scala
11 3 (1.15%) SOSL
11 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.76%) Groovy
12 2 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (1.53%) Degree
2 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.15%) SC Cleared
2 3 (1.15%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.20%) TickIT
2 8 (3.05%) QA
3 6 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.53%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (6.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.76%) Packer
2 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.73%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.44%) Splunk
4 4 (1.53%) NEC
5 3 (1.15%) Adobe
5 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.15%) webMethods
6 2 (0.76%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.76%) Apple
6 2 (0.76%) Google
6 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle
7 1 (0.38%) Cognos
7 1 (0.38%) IBM
7 1 (0.38%) Mistral
7 1 (0.38%) New Relic
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) YouTube