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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 138 61
Rank change year-on-year +66 -77 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 259 105 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.00% 2.00% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 2.28% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 218 90 194
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,150 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 12,092 4,613 7,154
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 87.97% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,895 2,272 4,166
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,250 £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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 October 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 October 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 +21 157 £66,124 +1.73% 52
Cheshire +20 43 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Merseyside +11 29 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Lancashire +42 27 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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 64 (24.71%) CI/CD
2 62 (23.94%) Azure
2 62 (23.94%) C#
3 54 (20.85%) Agile
4 49 (18.92%) DevOps
5 47 (18.15%) AWS
6 46 (17.76%) Mentoring
7 44 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.83%) Java
8 41 (15.83%) Microsoft
9 39 (15.06%) SQL
10 37 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (13.90%) .NET
11 36 (13.90%) Software Engineering
12 35 (13.51%) AI
13 34 (13.13%) JavaScript
14 33 (12.74%) TypeScript
15 28 (10.81%) Front End Development
16 27 (10.42%) React
16 27 (10.42%) REST
17 25 (9.65%) Python
18 24 (9.27%) HTML
19 22 (8.49%) Collaborative Working
19 22 (8.49%) Test Automation
20 21 (8.11%) CSS
20 21 (8.11%) Power Platform
20 21 (8.11%) TDD
20 21 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
21 19 (7.34%) Azure DevOps

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 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.16%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.16%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Kentico
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.94%) Azure
2 47 (18.15%) AWS
3 21 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (6.95%) GitHub
5 18 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (6.95%) Serverless
6 11 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.25%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.86%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.86%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.09%) Boomi
10 7 (2.70%) GCP
11 6 (2.32%) SaaS
12 5 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.93%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.54%) HTTP
2 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.86%) Power BI
3 9 (3.47%) MySQL
3 9 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.16%) Redis
7 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.39%) Chroma
8 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (7.34%) Git
2 10 (3.86%) JIRA
3 7 (2.70%) GitLab
4 5 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.54%) Maven
6 3 (1.16%) Ant
6 3 (1.16%) Postman
6 3 (1.16%) Selenium
6 3 (1.16%) Storybook
7 2 (0.77%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.77%) JUnit
7 2 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.77%) Spock
7 2 (0.77%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.77%) YouTrack
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 26 (10.04%) Social Skills
2 17 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.18%) Banking
3 16 (6.18%) Marketing
4 12 (4.63%) Finance
4 12 (4.63%) Retail
5 11 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.32%) Legal
8 5 (1.93%) Publishing
9 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Police
9 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Law
10 1 (0.39%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.90%) .NET
2 27 (10.42%) React
2 27 (10.42%) REST
3 24 (9.27%) HTML
4 21 (8.11%) CSS
5 17 (6.56%) Middleware
6 14 (5.41%) SOAP
7 13 (5.02%) Node.js
7 13 (5.02%) Spring
7 13 (5.02%) Terraform
8 12 (4.63%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.63%) React Native
8 12 (4.63%) XML
9 11 (4.25%) EDI
9 11 (4.25%) JSON
9 11 (4.25%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (3.86%) Vue
11 9 (3.47%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.79%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.47%) Online Gambling
5 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.54%) Derivative
9 3 (1.16%) IoT
9 3 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.39%) Animation
11 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.39%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.39%) PropTech
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.47%) Android
2 8 (3.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.71%) CI/CD
2 54 (20.85%) Agile
3 49 (18.92%) DevOps
4 46 (17.76%) Mentoring
5 44 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (13.90%) Software Engineering
8 35 (13.51%) AI
9 28 (10.81%) Front End Development
10 22 (8.49%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (8.49%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.11%) TDD
11 21 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (7.34%) Roadmaps
13 18 (6.95%) API Development
13 18 (6.95%) API Integration
13 18 (6.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (6.56%) Design Patterns
14 17 (6.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.94%) C#
2 41 (15.83%) Java
3 39 (15.06%) SQL
4 34 (13.13%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.74%) TypeScript
6 25 (9.65%) Python
7 10 (3.86%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.47%) C++
9 7 (2.70%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.32%) PHP
11 5 (1.93%) C
12 4 (1.54%) SOQL
13 3 (1.16%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.16%) Go
13 3 (1.16%) Ruby
13 3 (1.16%) Scala
13 3 (1.16%) SOSL
13 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.77%) Groovy
14 2 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (1.54%) Degree
2 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.16%) SC Cleared
2 3 (1.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.47%) QA
2 8 (3.09%) TickIT
3 6 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.54%) WCAG
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (6.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.77%) Packer
2 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.79%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.47%) Splunk
4 4 (1.54%) NEC
5 3 (1.16%) Adobe
5 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.16%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.16%) webMethods
6 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.77%) Apple
6 2 (0.77%) Google
6 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle
7 1 (0.39%) Cognos
7 1 (0.39%) IBM
7 1 (0.39%) Mistral
7 1 (0.39%) New Relic
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) YouTube