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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 141 57
Rank change year-on-year +79 -84 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 267 105 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.18% 2.06% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 2.30% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 216 92 217
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,350 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -3.42%
75th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -9.72%

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 11,625 4,565 7,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.63% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8,671 2,333 4,961
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,320
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 4 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 4 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 +35 166 £67,374 +3.65% 38
Cheshire +30 54 £73,500 +22.50% 7
Merseyside +8 26 £68,750 +5.77% 1
Lancashire +26 21 £75,000 +25.00% 9
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 70 (26.22%) Azure
2 64 (23.97%) CI/CD
3 60 (22.47%) DevOps
4 53 (19.85%) C#
5 52 (19.48%) Agile
6 50 (18.73%) AWS
7 47 (17.60%) Microsoft
8 44 (16.48%) Mentoring
9 43 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (14.98%) SQL
11 39 (14.61%) Java
12 38 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 31 (11.61%) TypeScript
14 29 (10.86%) AI
14 29 (10.86%) REST
15 28 (10.49%) .NET
15 28 (10.49%) Software Engineering
16 26 (9.74%) JavaScript
16 26 (9.74%) Power Platform
17 25 (9.36%) Collaborative Working
18 23 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
18 23 (8.61%) GitHub
19 22 (8.24%) Front End Development
19 22 (8.24%) HTML
19 22 (8.24%) Roadmaps
19 22 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
19 22 (8.24%) Test Automation
20 21 (7.87%) Middleware
20 21 (7.87%) Python

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 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.12%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.37%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 70 (26.22%) Azure
2 50 (18.73%) AWS
3 26 (9.74%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (8.61%) GitHub
5 18 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.99%) Serverless
7 13 (4.87%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.49%) Boomi
9 11 (4.12%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.75%) GCP
10 10 (3.75%) PowerApps
11 9 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.25%) SaaS
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) HTTP
2 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.62%) Power BI
2 12 (4.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.00%) MySQL
5 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.12%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.12%) Redis
8 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.37%) Git
2 14 (5.24%) JIRA
3 6 (2.25%) GitLab
4 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.50%) Maven
5 3 (1.12%) Ant
5 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.12%) Postman
5 3 (1.12%) Selenium
5 3 (1.12%) 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 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 30 (11.24%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.61%) Banking
3 20 (7.49%) Marketing
4 18 (6.74%) Finance
5 17 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.37%) Retail
6 8 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.62%) Legal
8 6 (2.25%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.87%) Publishing
10 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.86%) REST
2 28 (10.49%) .NET
3 22 (8.24%) HTML
4 21 (7.87%) Middleware
5 19 (7.12%) CSS
6 18 (6.74%) SOAP
7 16 (5.99%) React
7 16 (5.99%) XML
8 15 (5.62%) EDI
8 15 (5.62%) JSON
8 15 (5.62%) Terraform
9 14 (5.24%) Node.js
10 13 (4.87%) Spring
11 11 (4.12%) React Native
11 11 (4.12%) Spring Boot
12 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (3.37%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.00%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (3.00%) RESTful
14 8 (3.00%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.99%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.87%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.25%) Online Gambling
8 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.50%) Derivative
10 3 (1.12%) IoT
10 3 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.37%) Animation
12 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.37%) EPoS
12 1 (0.37%) Lidar
12 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.37%) PropTech
12 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.87%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.12%) Android
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.97%) CI/CD
2 60 (22.47%) DevOps
3 52 (19.48%) Agile
4 44 (16.48%) Mentoring
5 43 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (10.86%) AI
8 28 (10.49%) Software Engineering
9 25 (9.36%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (8.24%) Front End Development
10 22 (8.24%) Roadmaps
10 22 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (8.24%) Test Automation
11 21 (7.87%) TDD
12 20 (7.49%) B2B
12 20 (7.49%) CRM
13 19 (7.12%) API Development
14 18 (6.74%) API Integration
15 17 (6.37%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.85%) C#
2 40 (14.98%) SQL
3 39 (14.61%) Java
4 31 (11.61%) TypeScript
5 26 (9.74%) JavaScript
6 21 (7.87%) Python
7 9 (3.37%) C++
8 8 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.62%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.25%) PHP
11 5 (1.87%) Swift
12 4 (1.50%) C
12 4 (1.50%) SOQL
13 3 (1.12%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.12%) Go
13 3 (1.12%) Ruby
13 3 (1.12%) Scala
13 3 (1.12%) SOSL
14 2 (0.75%) Bicep
14 2 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (1.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (1.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.49%) TickIT
2 8 (3.00%) QA
3 6 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.24%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.37%) Splunk
4 4 (1.50%) NEC
5 3 (1.12%) Adobe
5 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.12%) Google
5 3 (1.12%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.12%) webMethods
6 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.75%) Apple
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.37%) Cognos
7 1 (0.37%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.37%) IBM
7 1 (0.37%) New Relic
7 1 (0.37%) Pega
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) YouTube