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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 142 64
Rank change year-on-year +69 -78 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 256 106 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.99% 2.08% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 2.37% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 213 90 189
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,475 £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% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 11,982 4,476 6,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 87.75% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,792 2,277 3,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +8.18% -2.70% -5.79%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +20 161 £66,124 +1.73% 52
Cheshire +14 37 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Merseyside +17 28 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Lancashire +36 27 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 62 (24.22%) C#
2 61 (23.83%) CI/CD
3 55 (21.48%) Azure
4 53 (20.70%) Agile
5 46 (17.97%) DevOps
6 45 (17.58%) AWS
7 43 (16.80%) Mentoring
8 42 (16.41%) .NET
9 40 (15.63%) Java
9 40 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (14.84%) AI
10 38 (14.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (14.45%) Software Engineering
12 35 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (13.67%) JavaScript
12 35 (13.67%) Microsoft
13 34 (13.28%) SQL
14 33 (12.89%) TypeScript
15 30 (11.72%) Python
16 29 (11.33%) Front End Development
17 26 (10.16%) React
18 25 (9.77%) HTML
19 23 (8.98%) REST
19 23 (8.98%) Test Automation
20 22 (8.59%) CSS
21 21 (8.20%) TDD
21 21 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
22 19 (7.42%) API Development
22 19 (7.42%) Docker
23 18 (7.03%) Azure DevOps

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 12 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.17%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.17%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Kentico
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 55 (21.48%) Azure
2 45 (17.58%) AWS
3 18 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (7.03%) Power Platform
3 18 (7.03%) Serverless
4 17 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.08%) GitHub
6 11 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.30%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.91%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
7 10 (3.91%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.73%) GCP
9 7 (2.73%) SaaS
10 6 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.95%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) HTTP
2 3 (1.17%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.52%) MySQL
2 9 (3.52%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.73%) Power BI
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.17%) Redis
7 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.39%) Chroma
8 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (6.64%) Git
2 7 (2.73%) GitLab
2 7 (2.73%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.56%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.56%) Maven
5 3 (1.17%) Ant
5 3 (1.17%) Postman
5 3 (1.17%) Selenium
5 3 (1.17%) Storybook
6 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.78%) JUnit
6 2 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.78%) Spock
6 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 25 (9.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (5.47%) Banking
3 13 (5.08%) Marketing
4 12 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.30%) Finance
6 9 (3.52%) Retail
7 8 (3.13%) Legal
7 8 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.95%) Publishing
9 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Games
9 2 (0.78%) iGaming
9 2 (0.78%) Police
10 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Law
10 1 (0.39%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.41%) .NET
2 26 (10.16%) React
3 25 (9.77%) HTML
4 23 (8.98%) REST
5 22 (8.59%) CSS
6 14 (5.47%) Middleware
6 14 (5.47%) Spring
7 13 (5.08%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.69%) Node.js
8 12 (4.69%) React Native
8 12 (4.69%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.30%) SOAP
9 11 (4.30%) Terraform
10 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (3.91%) Vue
11 9 (3.52%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.52%) Next.js
11 9 (3.52%) RESTful
11 9 (3.52%) XML
12 8 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.47%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.30%) Online Gambling
4 9 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.56%) Derivative
8 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) IoT
9 3 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.78%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.39%) PropTech
11 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.52%) Android
2 8 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.83%) CI/CD
2 53 (20.70%) Agile
3 46 (17.97%) DevOps
4 43 (16.80%) Mentoring
5 40 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (14.84%) AI
6 38 (14.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (14.45%) Software Engineering
8 35 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (11.33%) Front End Development
10 23 (8.98%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.20%) TDD
11 21 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (7.42%) API Development
13 18 (7.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (6.64%) Design Patterns
14 17 (6.64%) Roadmaps
14 17 (6.64%) Translating Business Requirements
15 16 (6.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.22%) C#
2 40 (15.63%) Java
3 35 (13.67%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.28%) SQL
5 33 (12.89%) TypeScript
6 30 (11.72%) Python
7 11 (4.30%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.52%) C++
9 6 (2.34%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.34%) PHP
10 5 (1.95%) C
11 3 (1.17%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.17%) Go
11 3 (1.17%) Ruby
11 3 (1.17%) Scala
11 3 (1.17%) SOQL
11 3 (1.17%) SOSL
11 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Bicep
12 2 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (1.56%) Degree
2 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (1.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.91%) QA
2 6 (2.34%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.95%) TickIT
4 4 (1.56%) WCAG
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (7.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.78%) Packer
2 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.69%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.52%) Splunk
4 4 (1.56%) NEC
5 3 (1.17%) Adobe
5 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.17%) webMethods
6 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.78%) Apple
6 2 (0.78%) Google
6 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.39%) Cognos
7 1 (0.39%) IBM
7 1 (0.39%) Mistral
7 1 (0.39%) New Relic
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) YouTube