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 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 140 55
Rank change year-on-year +84 -85 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 261 106 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.34% 2.11% 3.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 2.36% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 219 95 303
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,713 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £72,000 £77,500
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 10,571 4,498 10,168
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 89.60% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,966 2,335 7,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +7.95% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +43 160 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Cheshire +54 66 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Merseyside -2 18 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Lancashire +34 17 £70,000 +36.60% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 63 (24.14%) Azure
1 63 (24.14%) CI/CD
2 57 (21.84%) DevOps
3 47 (18.01%) AWS
3 47 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (17.62%) Agile
4 46 (17.62%) C#
5 39 (14.94%) Mentoring
5 39 (14.94%) SQL
6 38 (14.56%) Microsoft
7 35 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (13.03%) Java
9 33 (12.64%) .NET
9 33 (12.64%) Software Engineering
10 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (9.96%) AI
11 26 (9.96%) TypeScript
12 25 (9.58%) GitHub
12 25 (9.58%) TDD
13 23 (8.81%) REST
14 22 (8.43%) JavaScript
14 22 (8.43%) Power Platform
15 21 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (8.05%) Roadmaps
15 21 (8.05%) Serverless
16 20 (7.66%) Test Automation
17 19 (7.28%) B2B
18 18 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
18 18 (6.90%) Git
18 18 (6.90%) Middleware

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 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.45%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 63 (24.14%) Azure
2 47 (18.01%) AWS
3 25 (9.58%) GitHub
4 22 (8.43%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.05%) Serverless
6 13 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.60%) Boomi
8 11 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.45%) GCP
10 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (2.68%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.68%) SaaS
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.30%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.75%) Power BI
2 12 (4.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.68%) MySQL
6 6 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.90%) Git
2 14 (5.36%) JIRA
3 5 (1.92%) GitLab
4 4 (1.53%) 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%) Visual Studio
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%) Xcode
General
1 22 (8.43%) Finance
2 21 (8.05%) Banking
3 20 (7.66%) Social Skills
4 19 (7.28%) Marketing
5 16 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.36%) Retail
7 10 (3.83%) Law
8 6 (2.30%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.77%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Police
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.64%) .NET
2 23 (8.81%) REST
3 18 (6.90%) Middleware
4 17 (6.51%) React
5 16 (6.13%) JSON
6 15 (5.75%) SOAP
6 15 (5.75%) Spring
7 14 (5.36%) CSS
8 13 (4.98%) EDI
8 13 (4.98%) HTML
8 13 (4.98%) Node.js
8 13 (4.98%) Spring Boot
8 13 (4.98%) XML
9 7 (2.68%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.68%) RESTful
10 6 (2.30%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.30%) OpenAPI
10 6 (2.30%) Swagger
10 6 (2.30%) SwiftUI
10 6 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.13%) Enterprise Cloud
1 16 (6.13%) Mobile App
2 14 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.53%) Derivative
8 3 (1.15%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Animation
10 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.38%) EPoS
10 1 (0.38%) Lidar
10 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.38%) PropTech
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.83%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.14%) CI/CD
2 57 (21.84%) DevOps
3 47 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (17.62%) Agile
5 39 (14.94%) Mentoring
6 35 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (12.64%) Software Engineering
8 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (9.96%) AI
10 25 (9.58%) TDD
11 21 (8.05%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.66%) Test Automation
13 19 (7.28%) B2B
14 18 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (6.13%) API Integration
16 16 (6.13%) CRM
17 15 (5.75%) API Development
17 15 (5.75%) Clean Code
17 15 (5.75%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.62%) C#
2 39 (14.94%) SQL
3 34 (13.03%) Java
4 26 (9.96%) TypeScript
5 22 (8.43%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.60%) Python
7 9 (3.45%) C++
8 7 (2.68%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.68%) Swift
9 4 (1.53%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.53%) PHP
9 4 (1.53%) SOQL
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%) DataWeave
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 (1.53%) DBS Check
3 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.77%) HND
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.60%) TickIT
2 6 (2.30%) QA
3 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (6.13%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.75%) Terraform
2 11 (4.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.07%) Salesforce
2 8 (3.07%) 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%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle
5 1 (0.38%) Pega
5 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.38%) webMethods