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 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 62 86
Rank change year-on-year -28 +24 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 104 211 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.07% 3.09% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 3.26% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 89 172 102
10th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £48,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,300 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -8.45% -2.07%

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 4,416 6,468 3,719
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.07% 94.67% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,641 3,560 2,829
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,500
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 £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -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 18 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 18 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 -11 62 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Cheshire +27 38 £60,000 +17.07% 14
Lancashire -9 2 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Merseyside -24 2 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (39.42%) Agile
2 38 (36.54%) Mentoring
3 34 (32.69%) Test Automation
4 28 (26.92%) DevOps
5 27 (25.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (25.00%) AWS
7 24 (23.08%) .NET
7 24 (23.08%) C#
7 24 (23.08%) CI/CD
8 23 (22.12%) Azure
8 23 (22.12%) Clean Code
9 22 (21.15%) Process Improvement
9 22 (21.15%) Salesforce
10 21 (20.19%) Business Analysis
10 21 (20.19%) DBS Check
10 21 (20.19%) Java
10 21 (20.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 19 (18.27%) Docker
11 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (17.31%) TDD
13 17 (16.35%) Business Transformation
14 16 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
15 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
16 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
16 14 (13.46%) React
16 14 (13.46%) Roadmaps
17 13 (12.50%) Git
17 13 (12.50%) Microservices
18 12 (11.54%) TypeScript
19 11 (10.58%) Front End Development

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 1 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.96%) Apache
1 1 (0.96%) CMS
1 1 (0.96%) nginx
1 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Magento
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Odoo
2 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.00%) AWS
2 23 (22.12%) Azure
3 21 (20.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 9 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (8.65%) SaaS
4 9 (8.65%) Serverless
5 7 (6.73%) GCP
6 4 (3.85%) GitHub
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.92%) NuGet
8 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.96%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) HTTP
1 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 8 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.88%) GIS
3 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.92%) MySQL
4 2 (1.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) JUnit
4 1 (0.96%) Maven
4 1 (0.96%) Mocha
4 1 (0.96%) NUnit
4 1 (0.96%) Protractor
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
4 1 (0.96%) Sinon.JS
General
1 25 (24.04%) Marketing
2 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Finance
4 8 (7.69%) Games
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Back Office
6 2 (1.92%) Banking
6 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) Automotive
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Law
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.96%) Publishing
7 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.08%) .NET
2 14 (13.46%) React
3 11 (10.58%) RESTful
4 10 (9.62%) .NET Core
5 8 (7.69%) CSS
5 8 (7.69%) HTML
5 8 (7.69%) Spring
5 8 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.77%) Amazon Corretto
7 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (4.81%) Node.js
7 5 (4.81%) REST
8 4 (3.85%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.85%) Blazor
8 4 (3.85%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.85%) Web Services
9 3 (2.88%) Akka
9 3 (2.88%) Akka.NET
9 3 (2.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) e-Learning
2 5 (4.81%) IoT
3 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.96%) iPad
5 1 (0.96%) iPhone
5 1 (0.96%) Life Science
5 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.96%) Multi-touch
5 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Linux
2 3 (2.88%) Android
3 2 (1.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.42%) Agile
2 38 (36.54%) Mentoring
3 34 (32.69%) Test Automation
4 28 (26.92%) DevOps
5 27 (25.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 23 (22.12%) Clean Code
8 22 (21.15%) Process Improvement
9 21 (20.19%) Business Analysis
10 19 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (17.31%) TDD
12 17 (16.35%) Business Transformation
13 16 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
14 14 (13.46%) Roadmaps
15 13 (12.50%) Microservices
16 11 (10.58%) Front End Development
16 11 (10.58%) Product Roadmap
17 10 (9.62%) Containerisation
18 9 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 9 (8.65%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.08%) C#
2 21 (20.19%) Java
3 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.58%) SQL
6 9 (8.65%) Python
7 7 (6.73%) Ruby
8 5 (4.81%) Elixir
8 5 (4.81%) Go
9 4 (3.85%) PHP
10 2 (1.92%) C++
10 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.92%) Erlang
10 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.92%) Swift
11 1 (0.96%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) DBS Check
2 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (0.96%) PhD
3 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.96%) cPanel
3 1 (0.96%) Plesk
3 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Salesforce
2 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.85%) Google
3 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.88%) IBM
4 3 (2.88%) Moogsoft
4 3 (2.88%) Splunk
5 2 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.96%) Adobe
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle
6 1 (0.96%) PayPal