Senior Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 140 59
Rank change year-on-year +85 -81 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 274 114 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.34% 2.21% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 2.44% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 222 100 236
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,744 £49,230
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -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 11,124 4,670 8,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 90.33% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,336 2,441 5,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 5 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 5 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 +40 175 £65,000 - 30
Cheshire +43 62 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Lancashire +28 19 £70,000 +36.60% 4
Merseyside -6 18 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 72 (26.28%) CI/CD
2 70 (25.55%) Azure
3 65 (23.72%) DevOps
4 54 (19.71%) AWS
4 54 (19.71%) C#
5 53 (19.34%) Agile
6 47 (17.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (16.42%) Microsoft
8 44 (16.06%) Mentoring
9 43 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (14.96%) Java
10 41 (14.96%) SQL
11 33 (12.04%) .NET
11 33 (12.04%) AI
11 33 (12.04%) TypeScript
12 32 (11.68%) Software Engineering
13 28 (10.22%) JavaScript
14 27 (9.85%) TDD
15 26 (9.49%) Power Platform
16 25 (9.12%) GitHub
16 25 (9.12%) REST
17 23 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
17 23 (8.39%) Test Automation
18 21 (7.66%) B2B
18 21 (7.66%) Collaborative Working
18 21 (7.66%) HTML
18 21 (7.66%) Python
18 21 (7.66%) Roadmaps
19 20 (7.30%) Serverless

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 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.46%) IIS
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.09%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (1.09%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 70 (25.55%) Azure
2 54 (19.71%) AWS
3 26 (9.49%) Power Platform
4 25 (9.12%) GitHub
5 23 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (7.30%) Serverless
7 16 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.38%) Boomi
10 11 (4.01%) GCP
10 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (4.01%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.65%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.92%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.19%) SaaS
14 5 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) HTTP
1 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.47%) Power BI
2 12 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.92%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.55%) MySQL
6 6 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (6.93%) Git
2 14 (5.11%) JIRA
3 5 (1.82%) GitLab
4 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.09%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.09%) Maven
5 3 (1.09%) Postman
5 3 (1.09%) Selenium
5 3 (1.09%) Storybook
6 2 (0.73%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.73%) JUnit
6 2 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (0.73%) Spock
6 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.73%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.73%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) NUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 29 (10.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.85%) Finance
3 23 (8.39%) Banking
4 17 (6.20%) Marketing
5 16 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.11%) Retail
7 6 (2.19%) Law
7 6 (2.19%) Legal
7 6 (2.19%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.82%) Publishing
9 4 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Police
11 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.04%) .NET
2 25 (9.12%) REST
3 21 (7.66%) HTML
4 19 (6.93%) CSS
5 18 (6.57%) Middleware
6 17 (6.20%) React
7 16 (5.84%) JSON
7 16 (5.84%) Node.js
7 16 (5.84%) XML
8 15 (5.47%) EDI
8 15 (5.47%) SOAP
9 14 (5.11%) Spring
10 12 (4.38%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.01%) React Native
12 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (3.28%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.92%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (2.92%) RESTful
14 8 (2.92%) SPFx
15 7 (2.55%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.20%) Mobile App
2 16 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.84%) Enterprise Cloud
3 11 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.46%) Derivative
6 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.09%) IoT
8 2 (0.73%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
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 (5.47%) Apple iOS
2 13 (4.74%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.28%) CI/CD
2 65 (23.72%) DevOps
3 53 (19.34%) Agile
4 47 (17.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 44 (16.06%) Mentoring
6 43 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.04%) AI
9 32 (11.68%) Software Engineering
10 27 (9.85%) TDD
11 23 (8.39%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.66%) B2B
12 21 (7.66%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (7.66%) Roadmaps
13 20 (7.30%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (6.93%) API Development
14 19 (6.93%) Clean Code
14 19 (6.93%) CRM
15 18 (6.57%) API Integration
15 18 (6.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.71%) C#
2 41 (14.96%) Java
2 41 (14.96%) SQL
3 33 (12.04%) TypeScript
4 28 (10.22%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.66%) Python
6 9 (3.28%) C++
6 9 (3.28%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.92%) Swift
8 6 (2.19%) PHP
9 4 (1.46%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.46%) SOQL
10 3 (1.09%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.09%) Ruby
10 3 (1.09%) Scala
10 3 (1.09%) SOSL
11 2 (0.73%) Bicep
11 2 (0.73%) Go
11 2 (0.73%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (1.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.73%) HND
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.38%) TickIT
2 8 (2.92%) QA
3 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.09%) WCAG
5 2 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (5.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.47%) Terraform
2 10 (3.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.28%) Splunk
3 6 (2.19%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe
4 3 (1.09%) Cognos
4 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.09%) Google
4 3 (1.09%) IBM
4 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.09%) NEC
4 3 (1.09%) webMethods
5 2 (0.73%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.73%) Apple
6 1 (0.36%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.36%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.36%) New Relic
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle
6 1 (0.36%) Pega
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow