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 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 62 94
Rank change year-on-year -64 +32 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 103 227 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.18% 3.21% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 3.37% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 87 184 108
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,625 £78,250
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 4,191 6,726 4,044
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.70% 95.24% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 3,790 3,101
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,550 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.63% -4.17% -

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -34 63 £65,000 +8.33% 38
Cheshire 0 35 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Lancashire -35 3 £65,000 - 18
Merseyside -29 2 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 October 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 43 (41.75%) Agile
2 36 (34.95%) Mentoring
3 32 (31.07%) Test Automation
4 30 (29.13%) AWS
4 30 (29.13%) DevOps
5 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
6 24 (23.30%) Java
7 23 (22.33%) Clean Code
7 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (21.36%) .NET
9 21 (20.39%) Docker
9 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (20.39%) Salesforce
10 20 (19.42%) Azure
10 20 (19.42%) C#
10 20 (19.42%) Process Improvement
10 20 (19.42%) TDD
11 19 (18.45%) Business Analysis
11 19 (18.45%) DBS Check
11 19 (18.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 16 (15.53%) Roadmaps
13 15 (14.56%) Business Transformation
13 15 (14.56%) Kubernetes
14 14 (13.59%) Collaborative Culture
14 14 (13.59%) JavaScript
14 14 (13.59%) Microservices
14 14 (13.59%) TypeScript
15 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (12.62%) React
15 13 (12.62%) 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 2 (1.94%) CMS
2 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.97%) Apache
2 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.97%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Magento
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Odoo
2 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.13%) AWS
2 20 (19.42%) Azure
3 19 (18.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (12.62%) Serverless
5 10 (9.71%) SaaS
6 6 (5.83%) GCP
7 5 (4.85%) GitHub
8 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.94%) NuGet
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.97%) Contentful
11 1 (0.97%) npm
11 1 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.97%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) HTTP
1 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.68%) DynamoDB
1 11 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.88%) GIS
3 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.91%) Power BI
5 2 (1.94%) MySQL
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.97%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.97%) Metadata
6 1 (0.97%) Redis
6 1 (0.97%) SQL CLR
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) Git
2 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.91%) JIRA
3 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.97%) GitLab
4 1 (0.97%) JUnit
4 1 (0.97%) Maven
4 1 (0.97%) Mocha
4 1 (0.97%) NUnit
4 1 (0.97%) Protractor
4 1 (0.97%) Selenium
4 1 (0.97%) Sinon.JS
General
1 22 (21.36%) Marketing
2 17 (16.50%) Finance
3 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.71%) Games
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Back Office
6 4 (3.88%) Retail
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.94%) Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Automotive
9 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Law
9 1 (0.97%) Legal
9 1 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.36%) .NET
2 13 (12.62%) React
3 12 (11.65%) RESTful
4 10 (9.71%) .NET Core
5 9 (8.74%) Spring
5 9 (8.74%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.77%) Amazon Corretto
7 7 (6.80%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.83%) Node.js
8 6 (5.83%) REST
9 5 (4.85%) Blazor
9 5 (4.85%) CSS
9 5 (4.85%) HTML
9 5 (4.85%) Web Services
10 4 (3.88%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.88%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.91%) Akka
11 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) e-Learning
2 5 (4.85%) IoT
3 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.97%) iPad
5 1 (0.97%) iPhone
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.97%) Multi-touch
5 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Android
3 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (41.75%) Agile
2 36 (34.95%) Mentoring
3 32 (31.07%) Test Automation
4 30 (29.13%) DevOps
5 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
6 23 (22.33%) Clean Code
6 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (19.42%) Process Improvement
8 20 (19.42%) TDD
9 19 (18.45%) Business Analysis
10 16 (15.53%) Roadmaps
11 15 (14.56%) Business Transformation
12 14 (13.59%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (13.59%) Microservices
13 11 (10.68%) Front End Development
13 11 (10.68%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (10.68%) Product Roadmap
13 11 (10.68%) Software Engineering
14 10 (9.71%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.30%) Java
2 20 (19.42%) C#
3 14 (13.59%) JavaScript
3 14 (13.59%) TypeScript
4 12 (11.65%) SQL
5 10 (9.71%) Python
6 7 (6.80%) Ruby
7 5 (4.85%) Elixir
7 5 (4.85%) Go
7 5 (4.85%) PHP
8 2 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.94%) Erlang
8 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.94%) Swift
9 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (18.45%) DBS Check
2 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.85%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) PhD
3 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.88%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.88%) Google
3 4 (3.88%) IBM
3 4 (3.88%) Moogsoft
3 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.88%) Splunk
4 3 (2.91%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.97%) PayPal
5 1 (0.97%) VMware