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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 146 58
Rank change year-on-year +83 -88 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 265 102 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.11% 1.99% 3.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 2.24% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 218 88 205
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,950 £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% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,250 £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 11,857 4,554 7,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 88.63% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,820 2,304 4,619
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 £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 14 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 14 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 +27 162 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Cheshire +24 52 £73,500 +22.50% 9
Merseyside +11 27 £70,000 +7.69%
Lancashire +31 23 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 68 (25.66%) Azure
2 60 (22.64%) CI/CD
3 57 (21.51%) DevOps
4 56 (21.13%) C#
5 51 (19.25%) Agile
6 48 (18.11%) AWS
7 46 (17.36%) Microsoft
8 45 (16.98%) Mentoring
9 44 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (15.09%) Java
10 40 (15.09%) SQL
11 37 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (11.70%) TypeScript
14 29 (10.94%) AI
14 29 (10.94%) JavaScript
15 28 (10.57%) .NET
15 28 (10.57%) REST
15 28 (10.57%) Software Engineering
16 26 (9.81%) Collaborative Working
17 25 (9.43%) Power Platform
18 23 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (8.68%) Front End Development
19 22 (8.30%) HTML
19 22 (8.30%) Python
20 21 (7.92%) GitHub
20 21 (7.92%) Middleware
20 21 (7.92%) Roadmaps
20 21 (7.92%) TDD
20 21 (7.92%) 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 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.13%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.13%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.51%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 68 (25.66%) Azure
2 48 (18.11%) AWS
3 25 (9.43%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.92%) GitHub
6 18 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (6.42%) Serverless
8 13 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (4.53%) Boomi
10 11 (4.15%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.77%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.40%) GCP
12 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.26%) SaaS
15 5 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
15 5 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) HTTP
2 3 (1.13%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.28%) Power BI
2 12 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.40%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.02%) MySQL
4 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.13%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.13%) Redis
7 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (6.04%) Git
2 14 (5.28%) JIRA
3 6 (2.26%) GitLab
4 4 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.51%) Maven
5 3 (1.13%) Ant
5 3 (1.13%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.13%) Postman
5 3 (1.13%) Selenium
5 3 (1.13%) 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%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.75%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (10.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.55%) Banking
2 20 (7.55%) Marketing
3 18 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.42%) Retail
5 15 (5.66%) Finance
6 8 (3.02%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.64%) Legal
8 6 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.89%) Publishing
10 4 (1.51%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Police
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Back Office
13 1 (0.38%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.38%) Law
13 1 (0.38%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.57%) .NET
1 28 (10.57%) REST
2 22 (8.30%) HTML
3 21 (7.92%) Middleware
4 20 (7.55%) React
5 19 (7.17%) CSS
6 18 (6.79%) SOAP
7 16 (6.04%) XML
8 15 (5.66%) EDI
8 15 (5.66%) JSON
9 14 (5.28%) Node.js
9 14 (5.28%) Terraform
10 13 (4.91%) Spring
11 11 (4.15%) React Native
11 11 (4.15%) Spring Boot
12 10 (3.77%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (3.02%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (3.02%) SPFx
14 7 (2.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.66%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.53%) Enterprise Cloud
3 12 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.02%) Online Gambling
6 7 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.51%) Derivative
9 3 (1.13%) IoT
9 3 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Animation
11 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.38%) EPoS
11 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.38%) PropTech
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.77%) Android
2 9 (3.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (22.64%) CI/CD
2 57 (21.51%) DevOps
3 51 (19.25%) Agile
4 45 (16.98%) Mentoring
5 44 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (10.94%) AI
9 28 (10.57%) Software Engineering
10 26 (9.81%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (8.68%) Front End Development
12 21 (7.92%) Roadmaps
12 21 (7.92%) TDD
12 21 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (7.92%) Test Automation
13 20 (7.55%) API Integration
13 20 (7.55%) CRM
14 19 (7.17%) API Development
14 19 (7.17%) B2B
15 17 (6.42%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 56 (21.13%) C#
2 40 (15.09%) Java
2 40 (15.09%) SQL
3 31 (11.70%) TypeScript
4 29 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.30%) Python
6 9 (3.40%) C++
7 8 (3.02%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.64%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.26%) PHP
10 5 (1.89%) C
11 4 (1.51%) SOQL
12 3 (1.13%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.13%) Go
12 3 (1.13%) Ruby
12 3 (1.13%) Scala
12 3 (1.13%) SOSL
12 3 (1.13%) Swift
13 2 (0.75%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
1 3 (1.13%) SC Cleared
1 3 (1.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.53%) TickIT
2 7 (2.64%) QA
3 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Packer
2 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.66%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.40%) Splunk
4 4 (1.51%) NEC
5 3 (1.13%) Adobe
5 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.13%) webMethods
6 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.75%) Apple
6 2 (0.75%) Google
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.38%) Cognos
7 1 (0.38%) IBM
7 1 (0.38%) New Relic
7 1 (0.38%) Pega
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) YouTube