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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 151 56
Rank change year-on-year +98 -95 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 259 93 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.37% 1.98% 3.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.22% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 219 83 317
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,688 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £71,250 £76,750
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 10,280 4,186 10,703
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.03% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,758 2,071 8,233
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +48 158 £65,000 +4.00% 9
Cheshire +55 65 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Merseyside -5 20 £60,000 -7.69%
Lancashire +38 16 £70,000 +37.55% 5
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 (25.10%) Azure
2 58 (22.39%) CI/CD
3 55 (21.24%) DevOps
4 47 (18.15%) C#
5 45 (17.37%) Agile
5 45 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (16.60%) AWS
7 40 (15.44%) SQL
8 38 (14.67%) .NET
8 38 (14.67%) Mentoring
9 33 (12.74%) Microsoft
10 32 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (11.97%) Java
12 30 (11.58%) Software Engineering
13 27 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (9.65%) TDD
15 24 (9.27%) GitHub
15 24 (9.27%) TypeScript
16 23 (8.88%) AI
16 23 (8.88%) REST
17 20 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (7.72%) JavaScript
17 20 (7.72%) Roadmaps
18 19 (7.34%) Power Platform
18 19 (7.34%) Serverless
18 19 (7.34%) Test Automation
19 18 (6.95%) B2B
19 18 (6.95%) Git
19 18 (6.95%) Middleware
20 17 (6.56%) Collaborative Working

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 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 9 (3.47%) Visualfiles
2 3 (1.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.10%) Azure
2 43 (16.60%) AWS
3 24 (9.27%) GitHub
4 20 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 19 (7.34%) Serverless
6 13 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (4.63%) Boomi
8 10 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.47%) SaaS
10 8 (3.09%) GCP
10 8 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.93%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.93%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.41%) Power BI
2 12 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.93%) MySQL
5 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.95%) Git
2 14 (5.41%) JIRA
3 5 (1.93%) GitLab
4 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.77%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) JUnit
5 2 (0.77%) Postman
5 2 (0.77%) Selenium
5 2 (0.77%) Spock
5 2 (0.77%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.39%) fastlane
6 1 (0.39%) Gradle
6 1 (0.39%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.39%) NUnit
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.39%) Xcode
6 1 (0.39%) YouTrack
General
1 22 (8.49%) Finance
2 21 (8.11%) Banking
3 20 (7.72%) Marketing
4 18 (6.95%) Social Skills
5 16 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.41%) Retail
7 9 (3.47%) Law
8 6 (2.32%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Police
10 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.67%) .NET
2 23 (8.88%) REST
3 18 (6.95%) Middleware
4 17 (6.56%) React
5 16 (6.18%) JSON
6 15 (5.79%) SOAP
7 14 (5.41%) Spring
8 13 (5.02%) CSS
8 13 (5.02%) Node.js
8 13 (5.02%) XML
9 12 (4.63%) EDI
9 12 (4.63%) HTML
9 12 (4.63%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.25%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.86%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.32%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.32%) SwiftUI
13 5 (1.93%) OpenAPI
13 5 (1.93%) RESTful
13 5 (1.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.95%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.18%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (5.02%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.16%) Derivative
9 3 (1.16%) IoT
10 2 (0.77%) NHS
10 2 (0.77%) 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
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.86%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.93%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.39%) CI/CD
2 55 (21.24%) DevOps
3 45 (17.37%) Agile
3 45 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (14.67%) Mentoring
5 32 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (11.58%) Software Engineering
7 27 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.65%) TDD
9 23 (8.88%) AI
10 20 (7.72%) Roadmaps
11 19 (7.34%) Test Automation
12 18 (6.95%) B2B
13 17 (6.56%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (6.18%) API Integration
15 15 (5.79%) Clean Code
15 15 (5.79%) CRM
15 15 (5.79%) Front End Development
15 15 (5.79%) Release Management
15 15 (5.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.15%) C#
2 40 (15.44%) SQL
3 31 (11.97%) Java
4 24 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 20 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.63%) Python
7 9 (3.47%) C++
8 7 (2.70%) Swift
9 6 (2.32%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.93%) PHP
11 4 (1.54%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.54%) SOQL
12 3 (1.16%) Ruby
12 3 (1.16%) SOSL
13 2 (0.77%) Bicep
13 2 (0.77%) Groovy
13 2 (0.77%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (1.93%) SC Cleared
1 5 (1.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.77%) HND
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.63%) TickIT
2 5 (1.93%) QA
3 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (5.79%) Docker
2 8 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.79%) Terraform
2 10 (3.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.09%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.70%) Splunk
4 3 (1.16%) Cognos
4 3 (1.16%) IBM
5 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
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