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 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 61 95
Rank change year-on-year -84 +34 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 101 248 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.97% 3.21% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 3.37% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 87 201 113
10th Percentile £51,850 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,500 £73,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 4,528 7,359 4,297
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.33% 95.26% 92.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,279 4,541 3,277
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £65,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -31 65 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Cheshire -12 29 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Lancashire -37 4 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Merseyside -31 3 £65,000 -
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 45 (44.55%) Agile
2 33 (32.67%) Mentoring
3 29 (28.71%) DevOps
3 29 (28.71%) AWS
4 25 (24.75%) Java
5 24 (23.76%) Test Automation
6 22 (21.78%) .NET
6 22 (21.78%) Docker
6 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.80%) CI/CD
7 20 (19.80%) C#
8 19 (18.81%) Finance
8 19 (18.81%) React
8 19 (18.81%) Clean Code
9 18 (17.82%) TypeScript
10 17 (16.83%) Azure
10 17 (16.83%) Marketing
10 17 (16.83%) JavaScript
10 17 (16.83%) SQL Server
10 17 (16.83%) Roadmaps
11 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
11 16 (15.84%) SQL
11 16 (15.84%) Salesforce
11 16 (15.84%) TDD
11 16 (15.84%) Kubernetes
12 15 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (14.85%) Process Improvement
13 14 (13.86%) DBS Check
13 14 (13.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 14 (13.86%) User Experience

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 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Magento
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Odoo
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.71%) AWS
2 17 (16.83%) Azure
3 14 (13.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 13 (12.87%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (12.87%) SaaS
4 13 (12.87%) Serverless
5 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.97%) GCP
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.98%) GitHub
7 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.98%) NuGet
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.99%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.99%) Contentful
8 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.99%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) HTTP
1 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.99%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.89%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.95%) Power BI
6 4 (3.96%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.96%) GIS
6 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.97%) Data Hub
7 3 (2.97%) Metadata
7 3 (2.97%) SQL CLR
7 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.98%) MySQL
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.99%) Event Store
9 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Git
2 3 (2.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) NUnit
4 1 (0.99%) GitLab
4 1 (0.99%) JUnit
4 1 (0.99%) Maven
4 1 (0.99%) Mocha
4 1 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) Sinon.JS
General
1 19 (18.81%) Finance
2 17 (16.83%) Marketing
3 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Games
5 9 (8.91%) Back Office
6 6 (5.94%) Retail
7 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.98%) Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Legal
9 2 (1.98%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.99%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.99%) Law
10 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.78%) .NET
2 19 (18.81%) React
3 12 (11.88%) RESTful
4 10 (9.90%) .NET Core
5 8 (7.92%) Amazon Corretto
5 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (6.93%) Blazor
7 6 (5.94%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.94%) Entity Framework
7 6 (5.94%) Spring
7 6 (5.94%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.95%) Kafka
8 5 (4.95%) REST
8 5 (4.95%) Web Services
9 4 (3.96%) CSS
9 4 (3.96%) HTML
9 4 (3.96%) Node.js
10 3 (2.97%) JSON
10 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) e-Learning
2 5 (4.95%) IoT
2 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.99%) iPad
6 1 (0.99%) iPhone
6 1 (0.99%) Life Science
6 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.99%) Multi-touch
6 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Android
1 4 (3.96%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.55%) Agile
2 33 (32.67%) Mentoring
3 29 (28.71%) DevOps
4 24 (23.76%) Test Automation
5 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.80%) CI/CD
7 19 (18.81%) Clean Code
8 17 (16.83%) Roadmaps
9 16 (15.84%) TDD
10 15 (14.85%) Process Improvement
10 15 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.86%) Business Analysis
11 14 (13.86%) User Experience
12 12 (11.88%) Front End Development
12 12 (11.88%) Microservices
13 11 (10.89%) Collaborative Culture
14 10 (9.90%) Business Transformation
14 10 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (9.90%) Product Roadmap
14 10 (9.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.75%) Java
2 20 (19.80%) C#
3 18 (17.82%) TypeScript
4 17 (16.83%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.84%) SQL
6 14 (13.86%) Python
7 8 (7.92%) Ruby
8 5 (4.95%) Elixir
8 5 (4.95%) Go
8 5 (4.95%) PHP
9 3 (2.97%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.98%) Swift
11 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.99%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) DBS Check
2 7 (6.93%) Degree
3 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (21.78%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (15.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.88%) Terraform
3 3 (2.97%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Salesforce
2 9 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.96%) IBM
3 4 (3.96%) Moogsoft
3 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.96%) Splunk
4 3 (2.97%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.97%) Google
4 3 (2.97%) VMware
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe
5 1 (0.99%) New Relic
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) PayPal