Senior Developer Jobs 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 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 110 68
Rank change year-on-year +53 -42 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 304 182 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.28% 2.81% 4.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.44% 3.14% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 249 128 281
10th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,250 £72,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £87,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%

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 8,848 5,805 9,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 89.71% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6,232 3,732 5,883
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +40 190 £63,750 +2.00% 27
Cheshire -7 40 £50,000 -27.27% 4
Merseyside +37 38 £65,000 +4.00% 2
Lancashire 0 27 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Cumbria - 9 £60,000 - 1
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 83 (27.30%) Agile
2 76 (25.00%) AWS
3 72 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 64 (21.05%) .NET
5 62 (20.39%) C#
6 57 (18.75%) Azure
6 57 (18.75%) React
7 47 (15.46%) PHP
7 47 (15.46%) TDD
8 39 (12.83%) Software Engineering
9 37 (12.17%) DevOps
9 37 (12.17%) Full Stack Development
10 35 (11.51%) SQL
10 35 (11.51%) CSS
10 35 (11.51%) Finance
11 34 (11.18%) Clean Code
12 33 (10.86%) Dynamics 365
13 32 (10.53%) MySQL
14 30 (9.87%) Java
14 30 (9.87%) Node.js
14 30 (9.87%) Power Platform
15 29 (9.54%) REST
15 29 (9.54%) HTML
16 28 (9.21%) CI/CD
17 27 (8.88%) Social Skills
17 27 (8.88%) Design Patterns
17 27 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (8.88%) SaaS
17 27 (8.88%) Mentoring
18 25 (8.22%) TypeScript

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.96%) Apache
1 9 (2.96%) nginx
2 6 (1.97%) CMS
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.66%) Appian
3 2 (0.66%) Drupal
3 2 (0.66%) SAS
3 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Kentico
4 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.32%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (1.32%) Magento
2 4 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.00%) AWS
2 57 (18.75%) Azure
3 33 (10.86%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (9.87%) Power Platform
5 27 (8.88%) SaaS
6 24 (7.89%) GCP
7 11 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.29%) Serverless
9 9 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.96%) GitHub
10 7 (2.30%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.30%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.97%) Datadog
12 5 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.64%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.32%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.53%) MySQL
2 13 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 8 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.32%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.66%) Power BI
9 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.33%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 11 (3.62%) Git
1 11 (3.62%) PHPUnit
2 4 (1.32%) Appium
2 4 (1.32%) GitLab
3 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.99%) Maven
4 2 (0.66%) JetBrains Rider
4 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.33%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.33%) Storybook
5 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 35 (11.51%) Finance
2 27 (8.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.26%) Banking
4 16 (5.26%) Retail
5 8 (2.63%) Marketing
6 6 (1.97%) Games
6 6 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.64%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.64%) Law
8 4 (1.32%) Automotive
8 4 (1.32%) Publishing
8 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.66%) Legal
9 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.33%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.05%) .NET
2 57 (18.75%) React
3 35 (11.51%) CSS
4 30 (9.87%) Node.js
5 29 (9.54%) HTML
5 29 (9.54%) REST
6 24 (7.89%) Laravel
7 20 (6.58%) AngularJS
7 20 (6.58%) RESTful
7 20 (6.58%) Vue
8 19 (6.25%) Kafka
9 17 (5.59%) .NET Core
10 13 (4.28%) .NET Framework
10 13 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (3.62%) JSON
11 11 (3.62%) Symfony
12 9 (2.96%) React Native
13 8 (2.63%) ASP.NET
13 8 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
14 7 (2.30%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.59%) Mobile App
1 17 (5.59%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.96%) PropTech
3 7 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.99%) N-Tier
6 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.66%) Clustering
7 2 (0.66%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.33%) IoT
8 1 (0.33%) NHS
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.92%) Linux
2 13 (4.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.63%) Android
4 2 (0.66%) Windows
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (27.30%) Agile
2 47 (15.46%) TDD
3 39 (12.83%) Software Engineering
4 37 (12.17%) DevOps
4 37 (12.17%) Full Stack Development
5 34 (11.18%) Clean Code
6 28 (9.21%) CI/CD
7 27 (8.88%) Design Patterns
7 27 (8.88%) Mentoring
7 27 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (8.22%) OOP
9 24 (7.89%) Scrum
9 24 (7.89%) Web Development
10 22 (7.24%) MVC
11 21 (6.91%) User Experience
12 20 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (5.59%) Microservices
14 16 (5.26%) E-Commerce
14 16 (5.26%) Fintech
14 16 (5.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (23.68%) JavaScript
2 62 (20.39%) C#
3 47 (15.46%) PHP
4 35 (11.51%) SQL
5 30 (9.87%) Java
6 25 (8.22%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.91%) Python
8 11 (3.62%) C++
9 8 (2.63%) Ruby
10 6 (1.97%) Go
10 6 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.64%) Objective-C
11 5 (1.64%) Swift
12 4 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.99%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.66%) R
15 1 (0.33%) C
15 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (5.59%) Degree
2 9 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.97%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.95%) QA
System Software
1 24 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.92%) Google
3 8 (2.63%) Oracle
4 6 (1.97%) MuleSoft
4 6 (1.97%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.99%) PayPal
5 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.99%) WorldPay
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe
6 2 (0.66%) Coremetrics
6 2 (0.66%) Quadient
7 1 (0.33%) New Relic
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore