Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 68 87
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 107 211 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.12% 3.08% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 3.25% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 92 171 102
10th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £48,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 4,450 6,492 3,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.07% 94.69% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,668 3,592 2,809
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,444
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -15 64 £65,000 +8.33% 46
Cheshire +28 39 £60,000 +17.07% 14
Lancashire -8 2 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Merseyside -22 2 £52,500 -19.23% 3
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, 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 41 (38.32%) Agile
2 40 (37.38%) Mentoring
3 33 (30.84%) Test Automation
4 28 (26.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (25.23%) AWS
5 27 (25.23%) DevOps
6 26 (24.30%) .NET
6 26 (24.30%) Azure
6 26 (24.30%) C#
7 24 (22.43%) CI/CD
7 24 (22.43%) Clean Code
8 22 (20.56%) Process Improvement
8 22 (20.56%) Salesforce
9 21 (19.63%) Business Analysis
9 21 (19.63%) DBS Check
9 21 (19.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 20 (18.69%) Java
10 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (16.82%) Collaborative Culture
11 18 (16.82%) Docker
12 17 (15.89%) Business Transformation
12 17 (15.89%) JavaScript
12 17 (15.89%) TDD
13 16 (14.95%) Git
13 16 (14.95%) React
14 14 (13.08%) Roadmaps
15 13 (12.15%) Kubernetes
15 13 (12.15%) Microservices
16 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
16 12 (11.21%) SQL

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 2 (1.87%) WordPress
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Magento
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Odoo
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.23%) AWS
2 26 (24.30%) Azure
3 21 (19.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 9 (8.41%) GCP
4 9 (8.41%) SaaS
5 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.48%) Serverless
6 4 (3.74%) GitHub
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.87%) NuGet
8 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.93%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) HTTP
1 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.93%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.87%) GIS
5 2 (1.87%) MySQL
5 2 (1.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (14.95%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.87%) JIRA
3 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) Maven
4 1 (0.93%) Mocha
4 1 (0.93%) NUnit
4 1 (0.93%) Protractor
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
4 1 (0.93%) Sinon.JS
General
1 27 (25.23%) Marketing
2 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.21%) Finance
4 7 (6.54%) Games
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Back Office
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.87%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
7 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.30%) .NET
2 16 (14.95%) React
3 11 (10.28%) .NET Core
3 11 (10.28%) CSS
3 11 (10.28%) HTML
3 11 (10.28%) RESTful
4 8 (7.48%) Spring
4 8 (7.48%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.67%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.67%) Amazon Corretto
5 5 (4.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (4.67%) Node.js
5 5 (4.67%) REST
6 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.74%) Blazor
6 4 (3.74%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.74%) Web Services
7 3 (2.80%) Akka
7 3 (2.80%) Laravel
7 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.67%) e-Learning
1 5 (4.67%) IoT
2 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.87%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.87%) NHS
3 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.93%) iPad
4 1 (0.93%) iPhone
4 1 (0.93%) Life Science
4 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.93%) Multi-touch
4 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.74%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Android
3 2 (1.87%) Windows
4 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.32%) Agile
2 40 (37.38%) Mentoring
3 33 (30.84%) Test Automation
4 28 (26.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (25.23%) DevOps
6 24 (22.43%) CI/CD
6 24 (22.43%) Clean Code
7 22 (20.56%) Process Improvement
8 21 (19.63%) Business Analysis
9 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.82%) Collaborative Culture
11 17 (15.89%) Business Transformation
11 17 (15.89%) TDD
12 14 (13.08%) Roadmaps
13 13 (12.15%) Microservices
14 11 (10.28%) Front End Development
14 11 (10.28%) Product Roadmap
15 10 (9.35%) Containerisation
16 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (8.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.30%) C#
2 20 (18.69%) Java
3 17 (15.89%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.21%) SQL
5 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.48%) Python
7 7 (6.54%) Ruby
8 5 (4.67%) Elixir
8 5 (4.67%) Go
8 5 (4.67%) PHP
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.87%) Erlang
9 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.87%) Swift
10 1 (0.93%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) DBS Check
2 5 (4.67%) Degree
3 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.35%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (16.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.41%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) cPanel
3 3 (2.80%) Plesk
4 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (20.56%) Salesforce
2 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.74%) Google
3 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.80%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.80%) IBM
4 3 (2.80%) Moogsoft
4 3 (2.80%) Splunk
5 2 (1.87%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) PayPal