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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 144 59
Rank change year-on-year +77 -85 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 267 104 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.08% 2.04% 3.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 2.31% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 223 90 199
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,150 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,692 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.44% +7.22% -8.77%

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 12,069 4,501 7,165
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 88.10% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,924 2,266 4,352
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 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +23 160 £67,249 +3.46% 43
Cheshire +23 52 £73,500 +22.50% 11
Merseyside +10 27 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Lancashire +27 26 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 (25.09%) Azure
2 62 (23.22%) C#
2 62 (23.22%) CI/CD
3 55 (20.60%) DevOps
4 52 (19.48%) Agile
5 48 (17.98%) AWS
6 47 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (17.23%) Mentoring
7 46 (17.23%) Microsoft
8 41 (15.36%) SQL
9 39 (14.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (14.61%) Java
10 37 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (12.73%) JavaScript
12 33 (12.36%) .NET
12 33 (12.36%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.36%) TypeScript
13 32 (11.99%) AI
14 31 (11.61%) REST
15 27 (10.11%) Front End Development
16 26 (9.74%) Collaborative Working
17 25 (9.36%) Power Platform
17 25 (9.36%) React
18 24 (8.99%) HTML
19 23 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
19 23 (8.61%) Python
19 23 (8.61%) Roadmaps
20 22 (8.24%) TDD
20 22 (8.24%) Test Automation
21 21 (7.87%) API Integration

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 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.12%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.12%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Kentico
5 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.09%) Azure
2 48 (17.98%) AWS
3 25 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.87%) GitHub
6 18 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.74%) Serverless
7 13 (4.87%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.49%) Boomi
9 11 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.12%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.75%) PowerApps
11 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.00%) GCP
13 6 (2.25%) SaaS
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) HTTP
2 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.24%) Power BI
2 12 (4.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.37%) MySQL
4 9 (3.37%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.12%) Redis
7 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.74%) Git
2 14 (5.24%) JIRA
3 6 (2.25%) GitLab
4 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.50%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.50%) Maven
5 3 (1.12%) Ant
5 3 (1.12%) Postman
5 3 (1.12%) Selenium
5 3 (1.12%) Storybook
6 2 (0.75%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.75%) JUnit
6 2 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.75%) Spock
6 2 (0.75%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.75%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 29 (10.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (7.49%) Banking
2 20 (7.49%) Marketing
3 17 (6.37%) Retail
4 14 (5.24%) Finance
5 9 (3.37%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.62%) Legal
6 7 (2.62%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.87%) Publishing
8 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.75%) Police
10 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Games
10 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Law
10 1 (0.37%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.36%) .NET
2 31 (11.61%) REST
3 25 (9.36%) React
4 24 (8.99%) HTML
5 21 (7.87%) CSS
5 21 (7.87%) Middleware
6 18 (6.74%) SOAP
7 16 (5.99%) XML
8 15 (5.62%) EDI
8 15 (5.62%) JSON
8 15 (5.62%) Node.js
9 13 (4.87%) Spring
9 13 (4.87%) Terraform
10 11 (4.12%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.12%) React Native
10 11 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (3.37%) Vue
13 8 (3.00%) .NET Core
13 8 (3.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.62%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.00%) Online Gambling
7 7 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.50%) Derivative
11 3 (1.12%) IoT
11 3 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.37%) Animation
13 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.37%) EPoS
13 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.37%) PropTech
13 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.75%) Android
2 9 (3.37%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.22%) CI/CD
2 55 (20.60%) DevOps
3 52 (19.48%) Agile
4 47 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (17.23%) Mentoring
6 39 (14.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.36%) Software Engineering
9 32 (11.99%) AI
10 27 (10.11%) Front End Development
11 26 (9.74%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (8.61%) Roadmaps
13 22 (8.24%) TDD
13 22 (8.24%) Test Automation
14 21 (7.87%) API Integration
14 21 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (7.49%) API Development
15 20 (7.49%) CRM
16 19 (7.12%) B2B
17 17 (6.37%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.22%) C#
2 41 (15.36%) SQL
3 39 (14.61%) Java
4 34 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.61%) Python
7 9 (3.37%) C++
7 9 (3.37%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.62%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.25%) PHP
10 5 (1.87%) C
11 4 (1.50%) SOQL
12 3 (1.12%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.12%) Go
12 3 (1.12%) Ruby
12 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 3 (1.12%) SOSL
12 3 (1.12%) Swift
13 2 (0.75%) Groovy
13 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
1 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (1.12%) Degree
1 3 (1.12%) SC Cleared
1 3 (1.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.49%) TickIT
2 7 (2.62%) QA
3 6 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (6.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.75%) Packer
2 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.37%) Splunk
4 4 (1.50%) NEC
5 3 (1.12%) Adobe
5 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.12%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.12%) webMethods
6 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.75%) Apple
6 2 (0.75%) Google
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.37%) Cognos
7 1 (0.37%) IBM
7 1 (0.37%) New Relic
7 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.37%) Pega
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) YouTube