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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 83 77
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 105 142 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.76% 2.64% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 2.82% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 95 112 96
10th Percentile £51,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,875
Median % change year-on-year - -1.44% -2.60%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

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 5,132 5,031 3,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.85% 93.43% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,719 2,722 2,555
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,769 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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
Manchester -4 64 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Cheshire +25 39 £60,000 +17.07% 7
Lancashire 0 2 £67,500 +22.73% 10
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, 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 38 (36.19%) Mentoring
2 37 (35.24%) Agile
3 32 (30.48%) Test Automation
4 31 (29.52%) C#
5 30 (28.57%) .NET
5 30 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 29 (27.62%) Azure
7 24 (22.86%) DevOps
8 23 (21.90%) Salesforce
9 22 (20.95%) Business Analysis
9 22 (20.95%) DBS Check
9 22 (20.95%) Process Improvement
9 22 (20.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 21 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 21 (20.00%) Clean Code
11 20 (19.05%) AWS
12 19 (18.10%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (17.14%) Business Transformation
14 17 (16.19%) JavaScript
15 16 (15.24%) Roadmaps
16 15 (14.29%) .NET Core
16 15 (14.29%) Docker
16 15 (14.29%) TDD
17 14 (13.33%) Java
17 14 (13.33%) Microservices
17 14 (13.33%) SQL Server
18 13 (12.38%) CSS
18 13 (12.38%) Git
18 13 (12.38%) HTML
18 13 (12.38%) Microsoft

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 2 (1.90%) WordPress
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Magento
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Odoo
2 1 (0.95%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.62%) Azure
2 22 (20.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 20 (19.05%) AWS
4 8 (7.62%) GCP
4 8 (7.62%) SaaS
5 4 (3.81%) GitHub
5 4 (3.81%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.81%) Serverless
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.95%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.95%) npm
8 1 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) HTTP
2 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.90%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.95%) JUnit
4 1 (0.95%) Maven
4 1 (0.95%) Protractor
4 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 26 (24.76%) Marketing
2 8 (7.62%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.71%) Finance
4 4 (3.81%) Games
5 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Back Office
6 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Law
6 2 (1.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Automotive
7 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.95%) Publishing
7 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.57%) .NET
2 15 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 13 (12.38%) CSS
3 13 (12.38%) HTML
3 13 (12.38%) React
4 8 (7.62%) RESTful
5 7 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 7 (6.67%) Spring
5 7 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET
7 5 (4.76%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.81%) Node.js
8 4 (3.81%) REST
9 3 (2.86%) Akka
9 3 (2.86%) Akka.NET
9 3 (2.86%) Blazor
9 3 (2.86%) QML
9 3 (2.86%) Qt
9 3 (2.86%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (4.76%) IoT
2 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.90%) e-Learning
4 2 (1.90%) NHS
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.95%) iPad
5 1 (0.95%) iPhone
5 1 (0.95%) Life Science
5 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.95%) Multi-touch
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.90%) Android
3 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.19%) Mentoring
2 37 (35.24%) Agile
3 32 (30.48%) Test Automation
4 30 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (22.86%) DevOps
6 22 (20.95%) Business Analysis
6 22 (20.95%) Process Improvement
7 21 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 21 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 19 (18.10%) Collaborative Culture
9 18 (17.14%) Business Transformation
10 16 (15.24%) Roadmaps
11 15 (14.29%) TDD
12 14 (13.33%) Microservices
13 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (11.43%) Product Roadmap
15 11 (10.48%) Containerisation
16 9 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
17 8 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
17 8 (7.62%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.52%) C#
2 17 (16.19%) JavaScript
3 14 (13.33%) Java
4 10 (9.52%) SQL
5 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.71%) Ruby
7 5 (4.76%) Elixir
7 5 (4.76%) Go
7 5 (4.76%) Python
8 3 (2.86%) C++
8 3 (2.86%) PHP
9 2 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.90%) Erlang
9 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.95%) Scala
10 1 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) DBS Check
2 3 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.95%) PhD
3 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.76%) Terraform
3 3 (2.86%) cPanel
3 3 (2.86%) Plesk
4 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (21.90%) Salesforce
2 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe
4 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.95%) Google
4 1 (0.95%) IBM
4 1 (0.95%) Moogsoft
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle
4 1 (0.95%) Splunk