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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 147 57
Rank change year-on-year +94 -90 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 260 96 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.37% 2.01% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 2.26% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 219 86 306
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £44,190
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £71,250 £76,875
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 10,343 4,244 10,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 88.86% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,807 2,114 7,921
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 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 26 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 +43 158 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Cheshire +55 67 £66,250 +10.42% 3
Merseyside -4 18 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Lancashire +35 17 £70,000 +37.55% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 65 (25.00%) Azure
2 62 (23.85%) CI/CD
3 56 (21.54%) DevOps
4 48 (18.46%) C#
5 46 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (17.31%) Agile
6 45 (17.31%) AWS
7 40 (15.38%) SQL
8 39 (15.00%) Mentoring
9 37 (14.23%) .NET
9 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
10 34 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (12.69%) Java
12 31 (11.92%) Software Engineering
13 29 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (10.00%) AI
15 25 (9.62%) GitHub
15 25 (9.62%) TDD
15 25 (9.62%) TypeScript
16 23 (8.85%) REST
17 21 (8.08%) Power Platform
17 21 (8.08%) Roadmaps
17 21 (8.08%) Serverless
18 20 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
18 20 (7.69%) JavaScript
18 20 (7.69%) Test Automation
19 18 (6.92%) B2B
19 18 (6.92%) Git
19 18 (6.92%) Middleware
20 17 (6.54%) 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 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.00%) Azure
2 45 (17.31%) AWS
3 25 (9.62%) GitHub
4 21 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.08%) Serverless
5 20 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.62%) Boomi
8 10 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.46%) GCP
10 8 (3.08%) SaaS
11 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.31%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.92%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.92%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.38%) Power BI
1 14 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.31%) MySQL
5 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.92%) Git
2 14 (5.38%) JIRA
3 5 (1.92%) GitLab
4 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.15%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.15%) Postman
5 3 (1.15%) Selenium
6 2 (0.77%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.77%) JUnit
6 2 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.77%) Spock
6 2 (0.77%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.77%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.38%) fastlane
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) NUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 22 (8.46%) Finance
2 21 (8.08%) Banking
3 19 (7.31%) Marketing
4 17 (6.54%) Social Skills
5 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.38%) Retail
7 9 (3.46%) Law
8 6 (2.31%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.54%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.77%) Police
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.23%) .NET
2 23 (8.85%) REST
3 18 (6.92%) Middleware
4 16 (6.15%) JSON
4 16 (6.15%) React
5 15 (5.77%) SOAP
5 15 (5.77%) Spring
6 13 (5.00%) CSS
6 13 (5.00%) Node.js
6 13 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.00%) XML
7 12 (4.62%) EDI
7 12 (4.62%) HTML
8 11 (4.23%) ASP.NET
9 10 (3.85%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.31%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.31%) OpenAPI
10 6 (2.31%) RESTful
10 6 (2.31%) Swagger
10 6 (2.31%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.54%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.15%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.54%) Derivative
8 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Animation
11 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.38%) EPoS
11 1 (0.38%) Lidar
11 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.38%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.85%) CI/CD
2 56 (21.54%) DevOps
3 46 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 45 (17.31%) Agile
5 39 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 34 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (11.92%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (10.00%) AI
10 25 (9.62%) TDD
11 21 (8.08%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.69%) Test Automation
13 18 (6.92%) B2B
14 17 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (6.54%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (6.15%) API Integration
15 16 (6.15%) CRM
16 15 (5.77%) Clean Code
16 15 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (5.77%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.46%) C#
2 40 (15.38%) SQL
3 33 (12.69%) Java
4 25 (9.62%) TypeScript
5 20 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.62%) Python
7 9 (3.46%) C++
8 7 (2.69%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.69%) Swift
9 4 (1.54%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.54%) SOQL
10 3 (1.15%) PHP
10 3 (1.15%) Ruby
10 3 (1.15%) Scala
10 3 (1.15%) SOSL
11 2 (0.77%) Bicep
11 2 (0.77%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (1.92%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.54%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.77%) HND
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.62%) TickIT
2 5 (1.92%) QA
3 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (6.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.77%) Terraform
2 11 (4.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.08%) Salesforce
2 8 (3.08%) Splunk
3 3 (1.15%) Cognos
3 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.15%) IBM
4 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.38%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.38%) Google
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle
5 1 (0.38%) Pega
5 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow