Senior Developer Jobs in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 67 103
Rank change year-on-year -136 +36 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 81 322 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.01% 3.26% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 3.45% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 73 247 180
10th Percentile £48,798 £43,381 £51,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £76,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +3.45%

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 7,355 9,331 7,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 94.60% 89.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,051 7,169 4,106
10th Percentile £26,943 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -38 64 £60,000 - 87
Cheshire -26 7 £60,000 +17.65% 18
Lancashire -69 6 £50,890 +1.78% 40
Merseyside -19 3 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Cumbria -78 1 £52,500 -12.50%
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 39 (48.15%) Agile
2 34 (41.98%) .NET
3 32 (39.51%) C#
4 30 (37.04%) React
5 29 (35.80%) JavaScript
6 28 (34.57%) AWS
7 24 (29.63%) Azure
7 24 (29.63%) TypeScript
8 22 (27.16%) DevOps
8 22 (27.16%) CI/CD
9 21 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (25.93%) .NET Core
10 20 (24.69%) AngularJS
10 20 (24.69%) SQL Server
11 19 (23.46%) TDD
12 16 (19.75%) CSS
12 16 (19.75%) HTML
12 16 (19.75%) SQL
13 15 (18.52%) Git
14 14 (17.28%) Docker
14 14 (17.28%) SaaS
15 13 (16.05%) Microservices
15 13 (16.05%) OOP
15 13 (16.05%) Finance
16 12 (14.81%) PHP
17 11 (13.58%) Games
17 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
17 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
17 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
17 11 (13.58%) Front End Development

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 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.47%) CMS
2 2 (2.47%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Magento
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) Azure
3 14 (17.28%) SaaS
4 9 (11.11%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.64%) Serverless
6 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 3 (3.70%) NuGet
8 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.47%) Contentful
8 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.23%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.47%) HTTP
3 1 (1.23%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.69%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) MySQL
3 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.70%) Data Hub
6 3 (3.70%) Event Store
6 3 (3.70%) Metadata
6 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.70%) Power BI
6 3 (3.70%) SQL CLR
6 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) Git
2 4 (4.94%) JIRA
3 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.70%) NUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.23%) git-flow
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.23%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (16.05%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Games
3 8 (9.88%) Back Office
3 8 (9.88%) Retail
3 8 (9.88%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Law
4 2 (2.47%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (2.47%) Marketing
4 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.23%) Automotive
5 1 (1.23%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (1.23%) Electronics
5 1 (1.23%) Legal
5 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (41.98%) .NET
2 30 (37.04%) React
3 21 (25.93%) .NET Core
4 20 (24.69%) AngularJS
5 16 (19.75%) CSS
5 16 (19.75%) HTML
6 10 (12.35%) .NET Framework
7 9 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
7 9 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 8 (9.88%) jQuery
8 8 (9.88%) Kafka
8 8 (9.88%) RESTful
8 8 (9.88%) Vue
9 7 (8.64%) LAMP
9 7 (8.64%) Node.js
10 5 (6.17%) Blazor
10 5 (6.17%) GraphQL
10 5 (6.17%) Next.js
10 5 (6.17%) REST
11 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.47%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Android
2 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.15%) Agile
2 22 (27.16%) CI/CD
2 22 (27.16%) DevOps
3 21 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (23.46%) TDD
5 13 (16.05%) Microservices
5 13 (16.05%) OOP
6 11 (13.58%) Front End Development
6 11 (13.58%) Mentoring
6 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
6 11 (13.58%) SOLID
6 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.35%) SDLC
7 10 (12.35%) User Experience
8 9 (11.11%) E-Commerce
8 9 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.88%) Kanban
9 8 (9.88%) Pair Programming
10 7 (8.64%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) C#
2 29 (35.80%) JavaScript
3 24 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 16 (19.75%) SQL
5 12 (14.81%) PHP
6 8 (9.88%) Java
6 8 (9.88%) Python
7 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.47%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (7.41%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) IEC 62304
1 1 (1.23%) ISO 13485
1 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 14 (17.28%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Terraform
3 3 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.70%) New Relic
2 3 (3.70%) Twitter
2 3 (3.70%) VMware
3 2 (2.47%) Google
3 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.23%) Intel
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Zend