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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 139 56
Rank change year-on-year +79 -83 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 256 107 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.27% 2.08% 3.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 2.32% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 213 96 291
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,719 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £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 10,697 4,612 9,785
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.68% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,034 2,402 7,370
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 £73,750 £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 15 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 15 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 +39 158 £65,000 - 19
Cheshire +50 64 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Lancashire +28 17 £70,000 +36.60% 5
Merseyside 0 17 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 65 (25.39%) CI/CD
2 61 (23.83%) Azure
3 60 (23.44%) DevOps
4 52 (20.31%) AWS
5 47 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (17.97%) Agile
6 46 (17.97%) C#
7 40 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 38 (14.84%) Microsoft
8 38 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (14.84%) SQL
9 36 (14.06%) Java
10 34 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 30 (11.72%) .NET
13 28 (10.94%) AI
14 27 (10.55%) TypeScript
15 25 (9.77%) GitHub
15 25 (9.77%) TDD
16 24 (9.38%) JavaScript
17 23 (8.98%) Power Platform
18 22 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (8.59%) REST
19 21 (8.20%) Roadmaps
20 20 (7.81%) B2B
20 20 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
20 20 (7.81%) Serverless
20 20 (7.81%) Test Automation
21 18 (7.03%) Middleware
21 18 (7.03%) Technical Leadership

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%) Adobe Experience Manager
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
3 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.83%) Azure
2 52 (20.31%) AWS
3 25 (9.77%) GitHub
4 23 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.81%) 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%) Azure Monitor
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 17 (6.64%) 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%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 23 (8.98%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.59%) Finance
3 21 (8.20%) Banking
4 18 (7.03%) Marketing
5 16 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.47%) Retail
7 10 (3.91%) Law
8 6 (2.34%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.95%) Legal
9 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.78%) Police
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
12 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.72%) .NET
2 22 (8.59%) REST
3 18 (7.03%) Middleware
4 17 (6.64%) React
5 16 (6.25%) JSON
6 15 (5.86%) CSS
6 15 (5.86%) HTML
6 15 (5.86%) SOAP
6 15 (5.86%) Spring
7 14 (5.47%) EDI
7 14 (5.47%) Node.js
7 14 (5.47%) XML
8 13 (5.08%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.13%) RESTful
10 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (2.73%) Vue
11 6 (2.34%) OpenAPI
11 6 (2.34%) Swagger
11 6 (2.34%) SwiftUI
12 5 (1.95%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
2 14 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.08%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.56%) Derivative
9 3 (1.17%) IoT
10 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Animation
11 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.39%) EPoS
11 1 (0.39%) Lidar
11 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.39%) PropTech
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.91%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.34%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.39%) CI/CD
2 60 (23.44%) DevOps
3 47 (18.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (17.97%) Agile
5 40 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 38 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 28 (10.94%) AI
10 25 (9.77%) TDD
11 21 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.81%) B2B
12 20 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
12 20 (7.81%) Test Automation
13 18 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (6.64%) CRM
15 16 (6.25%) API Development
15 16 (6.25%) API Integration
15 16 (6.25%) Clean Code
16 15 (5.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.97%) C#
2 38 (14.84%) SQL
3 36 (14.06%) Java
4 27 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 24 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.25%) Python
7 9 (3.52%) C++
8 7 (2.73%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.73%) Swift
9 6 (2.34%) 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 7 (2.73%) QA
3 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) 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%) Adobe
6 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.39%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.39%) Google
6 1 (0.39%) NEC
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle
6 1 (0.39%) Pega
6 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow