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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 141 53
Rank change year-on-year +85 -88 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 259 108 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.29% 2.11% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.35% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 215 97 284
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,725 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £75,000 £78,375
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 10,715 4,604 9,463
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 90.01% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,046 2,404 7,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 18 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 18 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 +42 163 £65,000 - 17
Cheshire +47 61 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Lancashire +25 18 £70,000 +36.60% 6
Merseyside -6 17 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 67 (25.87%) CI/CD
2 64 (24.71%) Azure
3 62 (23.94%) DevOps
4 53 (20.46%) AWS
5 49 (18.92%) Agile
5 49 (18.92%) C#
6 48 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 41 (15.83%) Mentoring
7 41 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.06%) Microsoft
8 39 (15.06%) SQL
9 38 (14.67%) Java
10 35 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.36%) Software Engineering
12 31 (11.97%) .NET
13 29 (11.20%) AI
13 29 (11.20%) TypeScript
14 25 (9.65%) GitHub
14 25 (9.65%) JavaScript
14 25 (9.65%) TDD
15 24 (9.27%) Power Platform
16 23 (8.88%) REST
17 22 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
18 21 (8.11%) Roadmaps
19 20 (7.72%) B2B
19 20 (7.72%) Collaborative Working
19 20 (7.72%) Serverless
19 20 (7.72%) Test Automation
20 19 (7.34%) Technical Leadership
21 18 (6.95%) Clean Code

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 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.54%) IIS
3 2 (0.77%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.77%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.71%) Azure
2 53 (20.46%) AWS
3 25 (9.65%) GitHub
4 24 (9.27%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.72%) Serverless
7 13 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.63%) Boomi
9 11 (4.25%) GCP
10 9 (3.47%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (3.47%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.09%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.32%) SaaS
14 5 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.93%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.77%) HTTP
2 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.79%) Power BI
2 12 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (3.86%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.09%) MySQL
4 8 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.95%) Git
2 14 (5.41%) JIRA
3 5 (1.93%) GitLab
4 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.16%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.16%) Postman
5 3 (1.16%) Selenium
6 2 (0.77%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.77%) JUnit
6 2 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.77%) Spock
6 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.77%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.77%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 25 (9.65%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.49%) Banking
2 22 (8.49%) Finance
3 17 (6.56%) Marketing
4 16 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.41%) Retail
6 9 (3.47%) Law
7 6 (2.32%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.93%) Legal
8 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.54%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.77%) Police
10 2 (0.77%) Publishing
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 Technology
11 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.97%) .NET
2 23 (8.88%) REST
3 18 (6.95%) Middleware
3 18 (6.95%) React
4 17 (6.56%) HTML
5 16 (6.18%) CSS
5 16 (6.18%) JSON
6 15 (5.79%) SOAP
6 15 (5.79%) Spring
6 15 (5.79%) XML
7 14 (5.41%) EDI
7 14 (5.41%) Node.js
8 13 (5.02%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (2.70%) RESTful
10 7 (2.70%) Vue
11 6 (2.32%) HTML5 Canvas
11 6 (2.32%) OpenAPI
11 6 (2.32%) Swagger
11 6 (2.32%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.18%) Enterprise Cloud
2 14 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.02%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.54%) Derivative
9 3 (1.16%) IoT
10 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Animation
11 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.39%) EPoS
11 1 (0.39%) Lidar
11 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.39%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.39%) PropTech
11 1 (0.39%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.86%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.70%) Android
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.87%) CI/CD
2 62 (23.94%) DevOps
3 49 (18.92%) Agile
4 48 (18.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (15.83%) Mentoring
5 41 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (12.36%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.20%) AI
9 25 (9.65%) TDD
10 21 (8.11%) Roadmaps
11 20 (7.72%) B2B
11 20 (7.72%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (7.72%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.34%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (6.95%) Clean Code
13 18 (6.95%) CRM
14 17 (6.56%) API Development
14 17 (6.56%) API Integration
15 16 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.92%) C#
2 39 (15.06%) SQL
3 38 (14.67%) Java
4 29 (11.20%) TypeScript
5 25 (9.65%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.95%) Python
7 9 (3.47%) C++
8 8 (3.09%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.70%) PHP
9 7 (2.70%) Swift
10 4 (1.54%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.54%) SOQL
11 3 (1.16%) Ruby
11 3 (1.16%) Scala
11 3 (1.16%) SOSL
12 2 (0.77%) Bicep
12 2 (0.77%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.77%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) Go
13 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (1.93%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.77%) HND
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.63%) TickIT
2 7 (2.70%) QA
3 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.79%) Terraform
2 11 (4.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.47%) Splunk
3 6 (2.32%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.16%) Cognos
4 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.16%) IBM
5 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.77%) Google
5 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.77%) NEC
5 2 (0.77%) webMethods
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe
6 1 (0.39%) Apple
6 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.39%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.39%) New Relic
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle
6 1 (0.39%) Pega
6 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow