Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 148 63
Rank change year-on-year +91 -85 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 277 111 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.28% 2.12% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 2.36% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 224 96 227
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £57,375 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
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 11,567 4,711 8,053
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 90.02% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,641 2,442 5,492
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,482
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +35 171 £67,249 +3.46% 10
Cheshire +31 59 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Merseyside +6 24 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Lancashire +31 23 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 (25.63%) Azure
2 66 (23.83%) CI/CD
3 63 (22.74%) DevOps
4 53 (19.13%) Agile
4 53 (19.13%) AWS
4 53 (19.13%) C#
5 47 (16.97%) Microsoft
6 45 (16.25%) Mentoring
7 43 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 42 (15.16%) Java
8 42 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (14.80%) SQL
10 38 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (12.27%) TypeScript
12 31 (11.19%) AI
13 30 (10.83%) .NET
13 30 (10.83%) Software Engineering
14 27 (9.75%) JavaScript
14 27 (9.75%) REST
15 26 (9.39%) Power Platform
16 24 (8.66%) GitHub
16 24 (8.66%) TDD
17 23 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (8.30%) Collaborative Working
17 23 (8.30%) Front End Development
18 22 (7.94%) HTML
18 22 (7.94%) Python
18 22 (7.94%) Roadmaps
18 22 (7.94%) Test Automation
19 21 (7.58%) Technical Leadership

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 11 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.08%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.08%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.08%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.72%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.63%) Azure
2 53 (19.13%) AWS
3 26 (9.39%) Power Platform
4 24 (8.66%) GitHub
5 23 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.50%) Serverless
7 13 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.33%) Boomi
9 11 (3.97%) GCP
9 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (3.97%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.61%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.17%) SaaS
13 5 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.81%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.44%) HTTP
2 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.42%) Power BI
2 12 (4.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.25%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.53%) MySQL
4 7 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.72%) Redis
8 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.14%) Git
2 14 (5.05%) JIRA
3 5 (1.81%) GitLab
4 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.08%) Maven
5 3 (1.08%) Postman
5 3 (1.08%) Selenium
5 3 (1.08%) Storybook
6 2 (0.72%) Ant
6 2 (0.72%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.72%) JUnit
6 2 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.72%) Spock
6 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.72%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 30 (10.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.30%) Banking
2 23 (8.30%) Finance
3 19 (6.86%) Marketing
4 16 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.78%) Retail
5 7 (2.53%) Legal
5 7 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.17%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.81%) Publishing
8 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.08%) Law
9 2 (0.72%) Police
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.83%) .NET
2 27 (9.75%) REST
3 22 (7.94%) HTML
4 20 (7.22%) Middleware
5 19 (6.86%) CSS
6 17 (6.14%) Node.js
6 17 (6.14%) SOAP
7 16 (5.78%) React
7 16 (5.78%) XML
8 15 (5.42%) EDI
8 15 (5.42%) JSON
8 15 (5.42%) Terraform
9 14 (5.05%) Spring
10 12 (4.33%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.97%) React Native
12 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (3.25%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.89%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (2.89%) RESTful
14 8 (2.89%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.78%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.05%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.44%) Derivative
7 4 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.44%) Online Gambling
8 3 (1.08%) IoT
8 3 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Animation
10 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.36%) EPoS
10 1 (0.36%) Lidar
10 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.36%) PropTech
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.69%) Apple iOS
2 11 (3.97%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.83%) CI/CD
2 63 (22.74%) DevOps
3 53 (19.13%) Agile
4 45 (16.25%) Mentoring
5 43 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 42 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (11.19%) AI
9 30 (10.83%) Software Engineering
10 24 (8.66%) TDD
11 23 (8.30%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (8.30%) Front End Development
12 22 (7.94%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.94%) Test Automation
13 21 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (7.22%) B2B
14 20 (7.22%) CRM
15 19 (6.86%) API Development
15 19 (6.86%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (6.50%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.13%) C#
2 42 (15.16%) Java
3 41 (14.80%) SQL
4 34 (12.27%) TypeScript
5 27 (9.75%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.94%) Python
7 9 (3.25%) C++
8 8 (2.89%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.53%) PHP
10 6 (2.17%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.81%) Swift
12 4 (1.44%) SOQL
13 3 (1.08%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.08%) Go
13 3 (1.08%) Ruby
13 3 (1.08%) Scala
13 3 (1.08%) SOSL
14 2 (0.72%) Bicep
14 2 (0.72%) C
14 2 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (1.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.72%) HND
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.33%) TickIT
2 8 (2.89%) QA
3 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.44%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (5.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.33%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.25%) Splunk
4 4 (1.44%) NEC
5 3 (1.08%) Adobe
5 3 (1.08%) Cognos
5 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.08%) Google
5 3 (1.08%) IBM
5 3 (1.08%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.08%) webMethods
6 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.72%) Apple
7 1 (0.36%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.36%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.36%) New Relic
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle
7 1 (0.36%) Pega
7 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow