Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 135 58
Rank change year-on-year +78 -77 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 272 117 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.36% 2.27% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.51% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 223 103 246
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,798 £49,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,500 £75,000
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 10,991 4,662 8,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 90.42% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,233 2,440 6,063
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,325 £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 30 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 30 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 +44 173 £65,000 - 22
Cheshire +41 62 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Lancashire +24 19 £70,000 +36.60% 5
Merseyside -6 18 £60,000 -7.69%
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 71 (26.10%) CI/CD
2 69 (25.37%) Azure
3 64 (23.53%) DevOps
4 54 (19.85%) AWS
5 53 (19.49%) C#
6 52 (19.12%) Agile
7 47 (17.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (16.18%) Mentoring
9 42 (15.44%) Microsoft
9 42 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (15.07%) Java
10 41 (15.07%) SQL
11 40 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (12.13%) .NET
12 33 (12.13%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.13%) TypeScript
13 32 (11.76%) AI
14 27 (9.93%) JavaScript
14 27 (9.93%) TDD
15 25 (9.19%) GitHub
15 25 (9.19%) Power Platform
15 25 (9.19%) REST
16 23 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (8.46%) Test Automation
17 21 (7.72%) B2B
17 21 (7.72%) Collaborative Working
17 21 (7.72%) Python
17 21 (7.72%) Roadmaps
18 20 (7.35%) HTML
18 20 (7.35%) Serverless

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 10 (3.68%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.47%) IIS
4 3 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.10%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.10%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (1.10%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.37%) Azure
2 54 (19.85%) AWS
3 25 (9.19%) GitHub
3 25 (9.19%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.35%) Serverless
6 14 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.41%) Boomi
9 11 (4.04%) GCP
10 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.31%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.21%) SaaS
14 5 (1.84%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) HTTP
1 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.51%) Power BI
2 12 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.57%) MySQL
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (6.99%) Git
2 14 (5.15%) JIRA
3 5 (1.84%) GitLab
4 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.10%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.10%) Maven
5 3 (1.10%) Postman
5 3 (1.10%) Selenium
5 3 (1.10%) 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%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.74%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 29 (10.66%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.93%) Finance
3 23 (8.46%) Banking
4 17 (6.25%) Marketing
5 16 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.15%) Retail
7 8 (2.94%) Law
8 6 (2.21%) Legal
8 6 (2.21%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.84%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.84%) Publishing
10 4 (1.47%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.74%) 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%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.13%) .NET
2 25 (9.19%) REST
3 20 (7.35%) HTML
4 18 (6.62%) CSS
4 18 (6.62%) Middleware
5 17 (6.25%) React
6 16 (5.88%) JSON
6 16 (5.88%) Node.js
6 16 (5.88%) XML
7 15 (5.51%) EDI
7 15 (5.51%) SOAP
8 14 (5.15%) Spring
9 12 (4.41%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.04%) React Native
11 9 (3.31%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (2.94%) RESTful
13 7 (2.57%) HTML5 Canvas
13 7 (2.57%) SPFx
13 7 (2.57%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 16 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
1 16 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 11 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.47%) Derivative
5 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.10%) IoT
7 2 (0.74%) Online Gambling
7 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.74%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.37%) Animation
8 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.37%) EPoS
8 1 (0.37%) Lidar
8 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.37%) PropTech
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.15%) Apple iOS
2 12 (4.41%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.10%) CI/CD
2 64 (23.53%) DevOps
3 52 (19.12%) Agile
4 47 (17.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (16.18%) Mentoring
6 42 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.13%) Software Engineering
9 32 (11.76%) AI
10 27 (9.93%) TDD
11 23 (8.46%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.72%) B2B
12 21 (7.72%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (7.72%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.99%) API Development
13 19 (6.99%) Clean Code
13 19 (6.99%) CRM
13 19 (6.99%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (6.62%) API Integration
14 18 (6.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.49%) C#
2 41 (15.07%) Java
2 41 (15.07%) SQL
3 33 (12.13%) TypeScript
4 27 (9.93%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.72%) Python
6 9 (3.31%) C++
6 9 (3.31%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.94%) Swift
8 6 (2.21%) PHP
9 4 (1.47%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.47%) SOQL
10 3 (1.10%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.10%) Ruby
10 3 (1.10%) Scala
10 3 (1.10%) SOSL
11 2 (0.74%) Bicep
11 2 (0.74%) Go
11 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (1.84%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.10%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.74%) HND
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.41%) TickIT
2 8 (2.94%) QA
3 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.10%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (5.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.51%) Terraform
2 10 (3.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.31%) Splunk
3 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.10%) Adobe
4 3 (1.10%) Cognos
4 3 (1.10%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.10%) Google
4 3 (1.10%) IBM
4 3 (1.10%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.10%) NEC
4 3 (1.10%) webMethods
5 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.37%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.37%) New Relic
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle
6 1 (0.37%) Pega
6 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow