Senior Developer Jobs in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 58 110
Rank change year-on-year -125 +52 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 112 361 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.46% 3.39% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 3.56% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 100 290 137
10th Percentile £48,744 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £86,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% -

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 6,917 10,149 6,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.35% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 7,405 3,906
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,600 £30,069
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £40,812
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 £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

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 July 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 July 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 -29 86 £65,000 +4.00% 62
Cheshire -23 15 £60,000 +17.65% 10
Lancashire -69 7 £51,245 -21.16% 43
Merseyside -18 4 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 54 (48.21%) Agile
2 41 (36.61%) AWS
3 36 (32.14%) .NET
4 33 (29.46%) React
5 32 (28.57%) C#
5 32 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 30 (26.79%) JavaScript
6 30 (26.79%) DevOps
7 29 (25.89%) TypeScript
8 27 (24.11%) Azure
9 25 (22.32%) Docker
9 25 (22.32%) TDD
10 23 (20.54%) .NET Core
11 22 (19.64%) Java
12 21 (18.75%) SQL Server
12 21 (18.75%) Finance
12 21 (18.75%) Clean Code
13 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (17.86%) SQL
14 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
14 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
15 18 (16.07%) Test Automation
15 18 (16.07%) Social Skills
16 17 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (15.18%) Serverless
16 17 (15.18%) SaaS
16 17 (15.18%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (15.18%) Microservices
17 16 (14.29%) Git
17 16 (14.29%) AngularJS

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 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.79%) Apache
2 2 (1.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Magento
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.61%) AWS
2 27 (24.11%) Azure
3 17 (15.18%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (15.18%) SaaS
3 17 (15.18%) Serverless
4 9 (8.04%) GCP
5 5 (4.46%) NuGet
6 4 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.79%) GitHub
8 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.68%) HTTP
3 1 (0.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.39%) DynamoDB
3 9 (8.04%) MySQL
3 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.46%) GIS
6 4 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.68%) Data Hub
7 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.68%) Event Store
7 3 (2.68%) Metadata
7 3 (2.68%) Power BI
7 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.68%) SQL CLR
7 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.89%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) NUnit
2 3 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.89%) GitLab
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Mocha
4 1 (0.89%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.89%) Sinon.JS
General
1 21 (18.75%) Finance
2 18 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.29%) Games
4 10 (8.93%) Back Office
5 9 (8.04%) Retail
6 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Marketing
7 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
8 2 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.89%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.14%) .NET
2 33 (29.46%) React
3 23 (20.54%) .NET Core
4 16 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 14 (12.50%) RESTful
6 12 (10.71%) .NET Framework
7 11 (9.82%) CSS
7 11 (9.82%) Entity Framework
7 11 (9.82%) HTML
8 10 (8.93%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (8.93%) Node.js
9 9 (8.04%) Amazon Corretto
9 9 (8.04%) Kafka
10 8 (7.14%) Blazor
11 7 (6.25%) REST
11 7 (6.25%) Vue
12 6 (5.36%) GraphQL
12 6 (5.36%) LAMP
13 5 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (4.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) e-Learning
2 7 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.68%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.79%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.89%) Life Science
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Android
3 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.21%) Agile
2 32 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 30 (26.79%) DevOps
4 25 (22.32%) TDD
5 21 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
8 18 (16.07%) Test Automation
9 17 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (15.18%) Microservices
10 15 (13.39%) Front End Development
11 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (12.50%) OOP
11 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.50%) User Experience
12 12 (10.71%) Pair Programming
13 11 (9.82%) Roadmaps
14 10 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (8.93%) Kanban
14 10 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.57%) C#
2 30 (26.79%) JavaScript
3 29 (25.89%) TypeScript
4 22 (19.64%) Java
5 20 (17.86%) SQL
6 13 (11.61%) Python
7 11 (9.82%) PHP
8 3 (2.68%) Ruby
8 3 (2.68%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.79%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.89%) Go
10 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (6.25%) Degree
2 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.68%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.89%) GDPR
2 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 25 (22.32%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.71%) Terraform
3 3 (2.68%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.46%) Google
2 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.68%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.68%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.68%) IBM
4 3 (2.68%) Moogsoft
4 3 (2.68%) New Relic
4 3 (2.68%) Splunk
4 3 (2.68%) VMware
5 2 (1.79%) Twitter
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) PayPal
6 1 (0.89%) Zend