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 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 148 56
Rank change year-on-year +92 -92 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 258 97 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.33% 1.99% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.23% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 217 87 304
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £71,250 £77,500
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 10,450 4,341 10,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.01% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7,887 2,205 7,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +44 158 £65,000 +4.00% 6
Cheshire +52 65 £68,750 +14.58% 3
Merseyside -6 18 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Lancashire +36 17 £70,000 +37.55% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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 63 (24.42%) Azure
2 62 (24.03%) CI/CD
3 56 (21.71%) DevOps
4 46 (17.83%) C#
4 46 (17.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (17.44%) AWS
6 44 (17.05%) Agile
7 39 (15.12%) Mentoring
7 39 (15.12%) SQL
8 36 (13.95%) Microsoft
9 34 (13.18%) .NET
9 34 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (12.79%) Java
11 31 (12.02%) Software Engineering
12 29 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (10.08%) AI
14 25 (9.69%) GitHub
14 25 (9.69%) TDD
14 25 (9.69%) TypeScript
15 23 (8.91%) REST
16 21 (8.14%) Power Platform
16 21 (8.14%) Roadmaps
16 21 (8.14%) Serverless
17 20 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (7.75%) JavaScript
17 20 (7.75%) Test Automation
18 18 (6.98%) B2B
18 18 (6.98%) Git
18 18 (6.98%) Middleware
19 17 (6.59%) Collaborative Working

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 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.49%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 63 (24.42%) Azure
2 45 (17.44%) AWS
3 25 (9.69%) GitHub
4 21 (8.14%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.14%) Serverless
5 20 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.65%) Boomi
8 10 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.49%) GCP
10 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (2.71%) SaaS
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.33%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.94%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.94%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.43%) Power BI
2 12 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.33%) MySQL
5 4 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.98%) Git
2 14 (5.43%) JIRA
3 5 (1.94%) GitLab
4 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.16%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.16%) Postman
5 3 (1.16%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.78%) JUnit
6 2 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.78%) Spock
6 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.78%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) fastlane
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 22 (8.53%) Finance
2 21 (8.14%) Banking
3 19 (7.36%) Marketing
4 17 (6.59%) Social Skills
5 16 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.43%) Retail
7 9 (3.49%) Law
8 6 (2.33%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.55%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.78%) Police
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.18%) .NET
2 23 (8.91%) REST
3 18 (6.98%) Middleware
4 16 (6.20%) JSON
4 16 (6.20%) React
5 15 (5.81%) SOAP
5 15 (5.81%) Spring
6 13 (5.04%) CSS
6 13 (5.04%) Node.js
6 13 (5.04%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.04%) XML
7 12 (4.65%) EDI
7 12 (4.65%) HTML
8 9 (3.49%) ASP.NET
9 8 (3.10%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.33%) OpenAPI
10 6 (2.33%) RESTful
10 6 (2.33%) Swagger
10 6 (2.33%) SwiftUI
11 5 (1.94%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.20%) Enterprise Cloud
1 16 (6.20%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.55%) Derivative
7 4 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.16%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) Animation
10 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.39%) EPoS
10 1 (0.39%) Lidar
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.39%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.88%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.94%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.03%) CI/CD
2 56 (21.71%) DevOps
3 46 (17.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (17.05%) Agile
5 39 (15.12%) Mentoring
6 34 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.02%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (10.08%) AI
10 25 (9.69%) TDD
11 21 (8.14%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.75%) Test Automation
13 18 (6.98%) B2B
14 17 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (6.59%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (6.20%) API Integration
15 16 (6.20%) CRM
16 15 (5.81%) Clean Code
16 15 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (5.81%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.83%) C#
2 39 (15.12%) SQL
3 33 (12.79%) Java
4 25 (9.69%) TypeScript
5 20 (7.75%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.65%) Python
7 9 (3.49%) C++
8 7 (2.71%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.71%) Swift
9 4 (1.55%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.55%) SOQL
10 3 (1.16%) PHP
10 3 (1.16%) Ruby
10 3 (1.16%) Scala
10 3 (1.16%) SOSL
11 2 (0.78%) Bicep
11 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (1.94%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.78%) HND
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.65%) TickIT
2 5 (1.94%) QA
3 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (6.20%) Docker
2 5 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.81%) Terraform
2 11 (4.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.10%) Salesforce
2 8 (3.10%) Splunk
3 3 (1.16%) Cognos
3 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.16%) IBM
4 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.39%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.39%) Google
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle
5 1 (0.39%) Pega
5 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow