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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 141 56
Rank change year-on-year +82 -85 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 256 111 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.28% 2.16% 3.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.40% 2.41% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 214 100 291
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,744 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
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 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £75,000 £78,750
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 10,646 4,601 9,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.64% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,012 2,396 7,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,562 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 11 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 11 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 +40 158 £65,000 - 21
Cheshire +53 63 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Merseyside -2 18 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Lancashire +28 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 11 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 64 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 62 (24.22%) Azure
3 59 (23.05%) DevOps
4 49 (19.14%) AWS
5 47 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (17.97%) Agile
7 45 (17.58%) C#
8 38 (14.84%) Mentoring
8 38 (14.84%) Microsoft
8 38 (14.84%) SQL
9 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (13.28%) Java
11 33 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (12.11%) Software Engineering
13 30 (11.72%) .NET
14 27 (10.55%) AI
15 26 (10.16%) TypeScript
16 25 (9.77%) GitHub
16 25 (9.77%) TDD
17 24 (9.38%) JavaScript
18 23 (8.98%) Power Platform
18 23 (8.98%) REST
19 22 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
20 21 (8.20%) Roadmaps
20 21 (8.20%) Serverless
21 20 (7.81%) B2B
22 19 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
22 19 (7.42%) Test Automation
23 18 (7.03%) Git
23 18 (7.03%) 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 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.78%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.52%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 62 (24.22%) Azure
2 49 (19.14%) AWS
3 25 (9.77%) GitHub
4 23 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.20%) Serverless
7 13 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.69%) Boomi
8 12 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.52%) GCP
10 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (3.13%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.73%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (2.73%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.34%) SaaS
13 5 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.95%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.86%) Power BI
2 12 (4.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.13%) MySQL
4 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (7.03%) Git
2 14 (5.47%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.17%) Postman
5 3 (1.17%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.78%) JUnit
6 2 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.78%) Spock
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.78%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.39%) fastlane
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 22 (8.59%) Finance
1 22 (8.59%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.20%) Banking
3 18 (7.03%) Marketing
4 16 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.47%) Retail
6 10 (3.91%) Law
7 6 (2.34%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Police
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.72%) .NET
2 23 (8.98%) REST
3 18 (7.03%) Middleware
3 18 (7.03%) React
4 16 (6.25%) JSON
5 15 (5.86%) CSS
5 15 (5.86%) SOAP
5 15 (5.86%) Spring
6 14 (5.47%) EDI
6 14 (5.47%) HTML
7 13 (5.08%) Node.js
7 13 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 13 (5.08%) XML
8 8 (3.13%) RESTful
9 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (2.73%) Vue
10 6 (2.34%) OpenAPI
10 6 (2.34%) Swagger
10 6 (2.34%) SwiftUI
11 5 (1.95%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
2 15 (5.86%) Mobile App
3 14 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.56%) Derivative
8 3 (1.17%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) Animation
10 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.39%) EPoS
10 1 (0.39%) Lidar
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.39%) PropTech
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.91%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.95%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 59 (23.05%) DevOps
3 47 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (17.97%) Agile
5 38 (14.84%) Mentoring
6 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (12.11%) Software Engineering
9 27 (10.55%) AI
10 25 (9.77%) TDD
11 21 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.81%) B2B
13 19 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (7.42%) Test Automation
14 18 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (6.25%) API Integration
15 16 (6.25%) CRM
16 15 (5.86%) API Development
16 15 (5.86%) Clean Code
16 15 (5.86%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.58%) C#
2 38 (14.84%) SQL
3 34 (13.28%) Java
4 26 (10.16%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.69%) Python
7 9 (3.52%) C++
8 7 (2.73%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.73%) Swift
9 5 (1.95%) PHP
10 4 (1.56%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.56%) SOQL
11 3 (1.17%) Ruby
11 3 (1.17%) Scala
11 3 (1.17%) SOSL
12 2 (0.78%) Bicep
12 2 (0.78%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (1.95%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.78%) HND
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.69%) TickIT
2 6 (2.34%) QA
3 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (6.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.86%) Terraform
2 11 (4.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.13%) Splunk
3 7 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.17%) Cognos
4 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.17%) IBM
5 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.78%) webMethods
6 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.39%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.39%) Google
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle
6 1 (0.39%) Pega
6 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow