Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 140 58
Rank change year-on-year +84 -82 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 265 108 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.33% 2.11% 3.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.45% 2.34% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 218 97 272
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,725 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -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 10,807 4,610 9,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.99% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,112 2,406 6,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +42 166 £65,000 - 17
Cheshire +49 63 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Lancashire +27 18 £70,000 +36.60% 6
Merseyside -1 18 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 68 (25.66%) CI/CD
2 65 (24.53%) Azure
3 62 (23.40%) DevOps
4 54 (20.38%) AWS
5 50 (18.87%) C#
6 49 (18.49%) Agile
6 49 (18.49%) Full-Stack Development
7 42 (15.85%) Mentoring
8 41 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (15.09%) Microsoft
9 40 (15.09%) SQL
10 38 (14.34%) Java
11 37 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (12.08%) .NET
12 32 (12.08%) Software Engineering
13 31 (11.70%) TypeScript
14 30 (11.32%) AI
15 26 (9.81%) JavaScript
15 26 (9.81%) TDD
16 25 (9.43%) GitHub
17 24 (9.06%) Power Platform
18 23 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (8.68%) REST
19 21 (7.92%) B2B
19 21 (7.92%) Collaborative Working
19 21 (7.92%) Test Automation
20 20 (7.55%) Roadmaps
20 20 (7.55%) Serverless
21 19 (7.17%) Python
21 19 (7.17%) Technical Leadership

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 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.51%) IIS
3 3 (1.13%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.13%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.02%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.75%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.53%) Azure
2 54 (20.38%) AWS
3 25 (9.43%) GitHub
4 24 (9.06%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.55%) Serverless
7 13 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.53%) Boomi
9 10 (3.77%) GCP
10 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (3.40%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (3.02%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.26%) SaaS
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.66%) Power BI
2 12 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.02%) MySQL
4 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.13%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.79%) Git
2 14 (5.28%) JIRA
3 5 (1.89%) GitLab
4 4 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.13%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.13%) Postman
5 3 (1.13%) Selenium
6 2 (0.75%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.75%) JUnit
6 2 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.75%) Maven
6 2 (0.75%) Spock
6 2 (0.75%) Storybook
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.75%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.75%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) NUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 27 (10.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.68%) Finance
3 22 (8.30%) Banking
4 17 (6.42%) Marketing
5 16 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.28%) Retail
7 9 (3.40%) Law
8 6 (2.26%) Legal
8 6 (2.26%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.51%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.13%) Publishing
12 2 (0.75%) Police
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Back Office
13 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.38%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.08%) .NET
2 23 (8.68%) REST
3 18 (6.79%) HTML
3 18 (6.79%) Middleware
3 18 (6.79%) React
4 17 (6.42%) CSS
5 16 (6.04%) JSON
6 15 (5.66%) EDI
6 15 (5.66%) Node.js
6 15 (5.66%) SOAP
6 15 (5.66%) XML
7 14 (5.28%) Spring
8 12 (4.53%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (3.02%) RESTful
10 7 (2.64%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.64%) Vue
11 6 (2.26%) Kafka
11 6 (2.26%) React Native
11 6 (2.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 15 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.66%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.51%) Derivative
8 3 (1.13%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Animation
10 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.38%) EPoS
10 1 (0.38%) Lidar
10 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.38%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.38%) PropTech
10 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.53%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.40%) Android
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.66%) CI/CD
2 62 (23.40%) DevOps
3 49 (18.49%) Agile
3 49 (18.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 42 (15.85%) Mentoring
5 41 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (12.08%) Software Engineering
8 30 (11.32%) AI
9 26 (9.81%) TDD
10 21 (7.92%) B2B
10 21 (7.92%) Collaborative Working
10 21 (7.92%) Test Automation
11 20 (7.55%) Roadmaps
12 19 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (6.79%) API Development
13 18 (6.79%) Clean Code
13 18 (6.79%) CRM
14 17 (6.42%) API Integration
15 16 (6.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.87%) C#
2 40 (15.09%) SQL
3 38 (14.34%) Java
4 31 (11.70%) TypeScript
5 26 (9.81%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.17%) Python
7 9 (3.40%) C++
8 8 (3.02%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.64%) PHP
9 7 (2.64%) Swift
10 4 (1.51%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.51%) SOQL
11 3 (1.13%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.13%) Ruby
11 3 (1.13%) Scala
11 3 (1.13%) SOSL
12 2 (0.75%) Bicep
12 2 (0.75%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (1.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.75%) HND
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.53%) TickIT
2 8 (3.02%) QA
3 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.75%) SLA
4 2 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (5.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.66%) Terraform
2 10 (3.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.40%) Splunk
3 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.13%) Cognos
4 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.13%) IBM
4 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.13%) webMethods
5 2 (0.75%) Adobe
5 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.75%) Google
5 2 (0.75%) NEC
6 1 (0.38%) Apple
6 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.38%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.38%) New Relic
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle
6 1 (0.38%) Pega
6 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow