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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 144 62
Rank change year-on-year +82 -82 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 269 105 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.15% 2.04% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 2.29% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 219 92 206
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,350 £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% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 11,819 4,578 7,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 88.86% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,808 2,333 4,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £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 £78,482
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +32 163 £67,374 +3.65% 13
Cheshire +27 55 £71,750 +19.58% 5
Merseyside +7 27 £70,000 +7.69%
Lancashire +24 23 £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 10 September 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 71 (26.39%) Azure
2 64 (23.79%) CI/CD
3 59 (21.93%) DevOps
4 56 (20.82%) C#
5 51 (18.96%) Agile
6 49 (18.22%) AWS
7 47 (17.47%) Microsoft
8 44 (16.36%) Mentoring
8 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (15.24%) SQL
10 39 (14.50%) Java
11 38 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (11.52%) TypeScript
14 30 (11.15%) AI
15 29 (10.78%) .NET
15 29 (10.78%) JavaScript
15 29 (10.78%) REST
16 27 (10.04%) Software Engineering
17 26 (9.67%) Power Platform
18 25 (9.29%) Collaborative Working
19 23 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
19 23 (8.55%) Front End Development
20 22 (8.18%) GitHub
20 22 (8.18%) HTML
20 22 (8.18%) Python
20 22 (8.18%) Roadmaps
20 22 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
20 22 (8.18%) Test Automation
21 21 (7.81%) Middleware

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 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.12%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.39%) Azure
2 49 (18.22%) AWS
3 26 (9.67%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.18%) GitHub
6 18 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.95%) Serverless
8 13 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (4.46%) Boomi
10 11 (4.09%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.72%) GCP
11 10 (3.72%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.23%) SaaS
15 5 (1.86%) Amazon EventBridge
15 5 (1.86%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.58%) Power BI
2 12 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.35%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.97%) MySQL
4 8 (2.97%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.12%) Redis
7 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.32%) Git
2 14 (5.20%) JIRA
3 6 (2.23%) GitLab
4 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.49%) Maven
5 3 (1.12%) Ant
5 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.12%) Postman
5 3 (1.12%) Selenium
5 3 (1.12%) Storybook
6 2 (0.74%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.74%) JUnit
6 2 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.74%) Spock
6 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.74%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 30 (11.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.18%) Banking
3 20 (7.43%) Marketing
4 18 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.32%) Finance
5 17 (6.32%) Retail
6 8 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.60%) Legal
8 6 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.86%) Publishing
9 5 (1.86%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.78%) .NET
1 29 (10.78%) REST
2 22 (8.18%) HTML
3 21 (7.81%) Middleware
4 19 (7.06%) CSS
4 19 (7.06%) React
5 18 (6.69%) SOAP
6 16 (5.95%) XML
7 15 (5.58%) EDI
7 15 (5.58%) JSON
8 14 (5.20%) Node.js
8 14 (5.20%) Terraform
9 13 (4.83%) Spring
10 11 (4.09%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.09%) React Native
10 11 (4.09%) Spring Boot
11 10 (3.72%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (2.97%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (2.97%) RESTful
12 8 (2.97%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.95%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.83%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.60%) Online Gambling
6 7 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.49%) Derivative
10 3 (1.12%) IoT
10 3 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Animation
12 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.37%) EPoS
12 1 (0.37%) Lidar
12 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.37%) PropTech
12 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.83%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.09%) Android
3 2 (0.74%) Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.79%) CI/CD
2 59 (21.93%) DevOps
3 51 (18.96%) Agile
4 44 (16.36%) Mentoring
4 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (11.15%) AI
8 27 (10.04%) Software Engineering
9 25 (9.29%) Collaborative Working
10 23 (8.55%) Front End Development
11 22 (8.18%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (8.18%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.81%) TDD
13 20 (7.43%) API Integration
13 20 (7.43%) B2B
13 20 (7.43%) CRM
14 19 (7.06%) API Development
15 17 (6.32%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 56 (20.82%) C#
2 41 (15.24%) SQL
3 39 (14.50%) Java
4 31 (11.52%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.18%) Python
7 9 (3.35%) C++
8 8 (2.97%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.60%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.23%) PHP
11 5 (1.86%) Swift
12 4 (1.49%) C
12 4 (1.49%) SOQL
13 3 (1.12%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.12%) Go
13 3 (1.12%) Ruby
13 3 (1.12%) Scala
13 3 (1.12%) SOSL
14 2 (0.74%) Bicep
14 2 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
1 3 (1.12%) SC Cleared
1 3 (1.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.46%) TickIT
2 8 (2.97%) QA
3 6 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.58%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.35%) Splunk
4 4 (1.49%) NEC
5 3 (1.12%) Adobe
5 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.12%) Google
5 3 (1.12%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.12%) webMethods
6 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.74%) Apple
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.37%) Cognos
7 1 (0.37%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.37%) IBM
7 1 (0.37%) New Relic
7 1 (0.37%) Pega
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) YouTube