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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 148 56
Rank change year-on-year +93 -92 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 258 90 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.38% 1.91% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.16% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 219 81 311
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £71,250 £76,250
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 10,218 4,174 10,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 88.66% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,702 2,050 8,152
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,775 £78,500
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +42 155 £65,000 +6.12% 17
Cheshire +50 66 £66,250 +10.42% 3
Merseyside -1 21 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Lancashire +35 16 £70,000 +37.55% 7
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 (25.97%) Azure
2 57 (22.09%) CI/CD
3 53 (20.54%) DevOps
4 48 (18.60%) C#
5 45 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (17.05%) Agile
7 43 (16.67%) AWS
8 41 (15.89%) SQL
9 40 (15.50%) .NET
10 37 (14.34%) Mentoring
11 32 (12.40%) Microsoft
12 31 (12.02%) Java
12 31 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (11.63%) Software Engineering
14 26 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (9.69%) TDD
16 24 (9.30%) GitHub
16 24 (9.30%) TypeScript
17 23 (8.91%) REST
18 22 (8.53%) AI
19 20 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (7.75%) Roadmaps
20 19 (7.36%) JavaScript
20 19 (7.36%) Serverless
20 19 (7.36%) Test Automation
21 18 (6.98%) B2B
21 18 (6.98%) Git
21 18 (6.98%) Middleware
21 18 (6.98%) Power Platform
22 17 (6.59%) Collaborative Working

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 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.55%) IIS
2 4 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 9 (3.49%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.97%) Azure
2 43 (16.67%) AWS
3 24 (9.30%) GitHub
4 20 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.36%) Serverless
6 18 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 13 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.65%) Boomi
9 10 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.49%) SaaS
11 8 (3.10%) GCP
12 7 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.94%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.43%) Power BI
1 14 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.94%) MySQL
5 4 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.98%) Git
2 14 (5.43%) JIRA
3 5 (1.94%) GitLab
4 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.78%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) JUnit
5 2 (0.78%) Postman
5 2 (0.78%) Selenium
5 2 (0.78%) Spock
5 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.39%) fastlane
6 1 (0.39%) Gradle
6 1 (0.39%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.39%) NUnit
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.39%) Xcode
6 1 (0.39%) YouTrack
General
1 22 (8.53%) Finance
2 21 (8.14%) Banking
3 19 (7.36%) Marketing
4 18 (6.98%) Social Skills
5 16 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.43%) Retail
7 9 (3.49%) Law
8 6 (2.33%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
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
11 1 (0.39%) Police
11 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.50%) .NET
2 23 (8.91%) REST
3 18 (6.98%) Middleware
4 17 (6.59%) React
5 16 (6.20%) JSON
6 15 (5.81%) SOAP
7 14 (5.43%) Spring
8 13 (5.04%) ASP.NET
8 13 (5.04%) Node.js
8 13 (5.04%) XML
9 12 (4.65%) .NET Core
9 12 (4.65%) CSS
9 12 (4.65%) EDI
9 12 (4.65%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.26%) HTML
11 7 (2.71%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.33%) SwiftUI
13 5 (1.94%) OpenAPI
13 5 (1.94%) Swagger
13 5 (1.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.98%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.20%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (5.04%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.16%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Derivative
9 2 (0.78%) NHS
9 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) Animation
10 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.39%) EPoS
10 1 (0.39%) Lidar
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.39%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.88%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.94%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (22.09%) CI/CD
2 53 (20.54%) DevOps
3 45 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 44 (17.05%) Agile
5 37 (14.34%) Mentoring
6 31 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (11.63%) Software Engineering
8 26 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.69%) TDD
10 22 (8.53%) AI
11 20 (7.75%) Roadmaps
12 19 (7.36%) Test Automation
13 18 (6.98%) B2B
14 17 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (6.20%) API Integration
16 15 (5.81%) Clean Code
16 15 (5.81%) CRM
16 15 (5.81%) Front End Development
16 15 (5.81%) Release Management
17 14 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.60%) C#
2 41 (15.89%) SQL
3 31 (12.02%) Java
4 24 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.65%) Python
7 8 (3.10%) C++
8 7 (2.71%) Swift
9 6 (2.33%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.94%) PHP
11 4 (1.55%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.55%) SOQL
12 3 (1.16%) Ruby
12 3 (1.16%) SOSL
13 2 (0.78%) Bicep
13 2 (0.78%) Groovy
13 2 (0.78%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (1.94%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.78%) HND
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.65%) TickIT
2 5 (1.94%) QA
3 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (5.81%) Docker
2 9 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.81%) Terraform
2 10 (3.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.10%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.71%) Splunk
4 3 (1.16%) Cognos
4 3 (1.16%) IBM
5 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.39%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.39%) Google
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle
6 1 (0.39%) Pega
6 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow