Senior Developer Jobs in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 February 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -93 +8 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 100 281 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.32% 3.98% 5.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 4.20% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 76 206 270
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,940 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -8.78% +5.71%

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 7,075 6,696 7,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 94.82% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,798 5,235 4,436
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +3.33%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -32 77 £60,000 - 22
Lancashire -41 10 £53,119 +6.24% 4
Merseyside -12 9 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Cheshire +13 3 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Cumbria -83 1 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 19 February 2025, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 (38.00%) .NET
2 36 (36.00%) React
3 35 (35.00%) Agile
4 32 (32.00%) JavaScript
5 31 (31.00%) Azure
6 29 (29.00%) DevOps
6 29 (29.00%) C#
7 26 (26.00%) AWS
7 26 (26.00%) CI/CD
8 25 (25.00%) HTML
8 25 (25.00%) CSS
9 22 (22.00%) TDD
9 22 (22.00%) TypeScript
10 19 (19.00%) OOP
11 18 (18.00%) PHP
11 18 (18.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (17.00%) MySQL
13 16 (16.00%) SQL
13 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
13 16 (16.00%) .NET Core
14 15 (15.00%) Finance
14 15 (15.00%) Design Patterns
15 14 (14.00%) E-Commerce
15 14 (14.00%) GCP
15 14 (14.00%) SOLID
15 14 (14.00%) SaaS
16 13 (13.00%) Docker
16 13 (13.00%) LAMP
16 13 (13.00%) Web Development
16 13 (13.00%) Git

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.00%) Apache
1 8 (8.00%) nginx
2 1 (1.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.00%) Magento
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.00%) Azure
2 26 (26.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.00%) GCP
3 14 (14.00%) SaaS
4 8 (8.00%) Datadog
5 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.00%) GitHub
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.00%) Sentry
8 2 (2.00%) Serverless
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.00%) Contentful
9 1 (1.00%) Figma
9 1 (1.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) MySQL
2 6 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.00%) Event Store
5 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Redis
6 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) PHPUnit
3 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.00%) JIRA
4 4 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.00%) GitLab
6 2 (2.00%) NUnit
6 2 (2.00%) Vagrant
6 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.00%) git-flow
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (15.00%) Finance
2 12 (12.00%) Retail
2 12 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Games
4 5 (5.00%) Marketing
4 5 (5.00%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Electronics
5 3 (3.00%) Law
5 3 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Automotive
7 1 (1.00%) Back Office
7 1 (1.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (38.00%) .NET
2 36 (36.00%) React
3 25 (25.00%) CSS
3 25 (25.00%) HTML
4 16 (16.00%) .NET Core
5 13 (13.00%) LAMP
6 12 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 10 (10.00%) LEMP Stack
7 10 (10.00%) Symfony
8 8 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (8.00%) jQuery
8 8 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (7.00%) Node.js
10 6 (6.00%) .NET Framework
10 6 (6.00%) Entity Framework
10 6 (6.00%) Flutter
10 6 (6.00%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.00%) RESTful
11 5 (5.00%) MassTransit
11 5 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.00%) Sports Betting
3 3 (3.00%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.00%) Hackathon
4 2 (2.00%) Life Science
4 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.00%) NHS
5 1 (1.00%) Tandem
5 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) Agile
2 29 (29.00%) DevOps
3 26 (26.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (22.00%) TDD
5 19 (19.00%) OOP
6 18 (18.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 15 (15.00%) Design Patterns
9 14 (14.00%) E-Commerce
9 14 (14.00%) SOLID
10 13 (13.00%) Web Development
11 12 (12.00%) Microservices
11 12 (12.00%) Pair Programming
12 11 (11.00%) Scrum
12 11 (11.00%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.00%) Computer Science
13 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.00%) MVC
14 9 (9.00%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (9.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.00%) JavaScript
2 29 (29.00%) C#
3 22 (22.00%) TypeScript
4 18 (18.00%) PHP
5 16 (16.00%) SQL
6 8 (8.00%) Java
7 5 (5.00%) Ruby
8 4 (4.00%) Apex Code
9 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.00%) Python
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.00%) SOQL
10 1 (1.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) Degree
1 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.00%) ACCA
4 3 (3.00%) CIMA
4 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) IEC 62304
1 3 (3.00%) ISO 13485
1 3 (3.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.00%) Packer
4 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Google
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) New Relic
3 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.00%) Cognos
4 3 (3.00%) IBM
4 3 (3.00%) Intel
4 3 (3.00%) Pega
4 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.00%) Twitter
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle