Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 141 60
Rank change year-on-year +87 -81 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 281 111 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.32% 2.13% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.45% 2.36% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 227 96 227
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,120 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,288 £56,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -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 11,485 4,705 8,005
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 90.15% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 2,432 5,512
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +42 176 £67,249 +3.46% 10
Cheshire +34 60 £70,000 +16.67%
Merseyside +3 23 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Lancashire +26 22 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 73 (25.98%) Azure
2 70 (24.91%) CI/CD
3 65 (23.13%) DevOps
4 55 (19.57%) AWS
5 54 (19.22%) Agile
5 54 (19.22%) C#
6 47 (16.73%) Mentoring
6 47 (16.73%) Microsoft
7 45 (16.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (15.30%) Java
10 41 (14.59%) SQL
11 39 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (12.10%) TypeScript
13 31 (11.03%) .NET
13 31 (11.03%) AI
14 30 (10.68%) Software Engineering
15 28 (9.96%) REST
16 27 (9.61%) JavaScript
17 26 (9.25%) Power Platform
18 25 (8.90%) TDD
19 24 (8.54%) GitHub
20 23 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
20 23 (8.19%) Collaborative Working
20 23 (8.19%) Python
20 23 (8.19%) Test Automation
21 22 (7.83%) Front End Development
21 22 (7.83%) Roadmaps
22 21 (7.47%) HTML
23 20 (7.12%) B2B

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 11 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.07%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.07%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.07%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.07%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.71%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.98%) Azure
2 55 (19.57%) AWS
3 26 (9.25%) Power Platform
4 24 (8.54%) GitHub
5 23 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.12%) Serverless
7 18 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.27%) Boomi
9 12 (4.27%) GCP
10 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.56%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.85%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.49%) SaaS
14 5 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) HTTP
2 3 (1.07%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.34%) Power BI
2 12 (4.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.49%) MySQL
4 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.07%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.71%) Redis
9 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.05%) Git
2 14 (4.98%) JIRA
3 5 (1.78%) GitLab
4 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.07%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.07%) Maven
5 3 (1.07%) Postman
5 3 (1.07%) Selenium
5 3 (1.07%) Storybook
6 2 (0.71%) Ant
6 2 (0.71%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.71%) JUnit
6 2 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.71%) Spock
6 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.71%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 30 (10.68%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.19%) Banking
2 23 (8.19%) Finance
3 19 (6.76%) Marketing
4 16 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.69%) Retail
5 7 (2.49%) Legal
6 6 (2.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.14%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.78%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.78%) Publishing
8 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.07%) Law
9 2 (0.71%) Police
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.03%) .NET
2 28 (9.96%) REST
3 21 (7.47%) HTML
4 20 (7.12%) Middleware
5 18 (6.41%) CSS
6 17 (6.05%) Node.js
6 17 (6.05%) React
6 17 (6.05%) SOAP
7 16 (5.69%) Terraform
7 16 (5.69%) XML
8 15 (5.34%) EDI
8 15 (5.34%) JSON
8 15 (5.34%) Spring
9 13 (4.63%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.91%) React Native
11 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (3.20%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.85%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (2.85%) RESTful
13 8 (2.85%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.05%) Cloud Native
1 17 (6.05%) Mobile App
2 15 (5.34%) Enterprise Cloud
3 12 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.42%) Derivative
6 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.07%) IoT
7 3 (1.07%) Online Gambling
7 3 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Animation
9 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.36%) EPoS
9 1 (0.36%) Lidar
9 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.36%) PropTech
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.34%) Apple iOS
2 13 (4.63%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (24.91%) CI/CD
2 65 (23.13%) DevOps
3 54 (19.22%) Agile
4 47 (16.73%) Mentoring
5 45 (16.01%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (11.03%) AI
9 30 (10.68%) Software Engineering
10 25 (8.90%) TDD
11 23 (8.19%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (8.19%) Test Automation
12 22 (7.83%) Front End Development
12 22 (7.83%) Roadmaps
13 20 (7.12%) B2B
13 20 (7.12%) CRM
13 20 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (6.76%) API Development
14 19 (6.76%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (6.41%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.22%) C#
2 43 (15.30%) Java
3 41 (14.59%) SQL
4 34 (12.10%) TypeScript
5 27 (9.61%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.19%) Python
7 10 (3.56%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.20%) C++
9 7 (2.49%) PHP
9 7 (2.49%) Swift
10 6 (2.14%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.42%) SOQL
12 3 (1.07%) DataWeave
12 3 (1.07%) Go
12 3 (1.07%) Ruby
12 3 (1.07%) Scala
12 3 (1.07%) SOSL
13 2 (0.71%) Bicep
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (1.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.71%) HND
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.27%) TickIT
2 8 (2.85%) QA
3 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.07%) WCAG
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.91%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.20%) Splunk
4 4 (1.42%) NEC
5 3 (1.07%) Adobe
5 3 (1.07%) Cognos
5 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.07%) Google
5 3 (1.07%) IBM
5 3 (1.07%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.07%) webMethods
6 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.71%) Apple
7 1 (0.36%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.36%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.36%) New Relic
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle
7 1 (0.36%) Pega
7 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow