Senior Software Developer Jobs in the North West

Senior Software Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the North West is £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 271 277
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 5 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.066% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 21
10th Percentile - £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,500 £60,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,250 £112,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £64,700 - £70,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Senior Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the North West

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the North West

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +65 5 £59,000 -5.60% 15
Senior Software Developer
England

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Vue
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
4 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (20.00%) Bluetooth
4 1 (20.00%) Intel
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) Electronics
4 1 (20.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (20.00%) Magento

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Contentful
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Bluetooth
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) Vue
3 1 (20.00%) Express.js
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) React Native
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Android Development
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Physics
4 1 (20.00%) Product Management
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Software Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) IEC 62304
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Intel