Senior Software Engineer Jobs in the North West

Senior Software Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in the North West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 125 219
Rank change year-on-year +13 +94 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 231 201 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.95% 1.81% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 1.90% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 54 132 42
10th Percentile - £52,500 £43,575
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,875 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,528 £80,000 £87,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% -6.90% +3.57%

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 7,120 10,604 6,259
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 95.33% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,828 7,828 3,959
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,110
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North West

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Engineer in the North West

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Engineer in the North West

Senior Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +36 125 £78,810 +31.35% 163
Lancashire -5 73 £66,500 +20.91% 16
Cheshire +2 25 £74,500 +24.17% 18
Merseyside +19 5 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Senior Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Senior Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 231 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 205 (88.74%) AWS
3 197 (85.28%) Java
4 194 (83.98%) JavaScript
5 193 (83.55%) Node.js
6 191 (82.68%) Agile
7 190 (82.25%) Python
8 187 (80.95%) Azure
9 185 (80.09%) Machine Learning
9 185 (80.09%) Mentoring
9 185 (80.09%) GCP
10 183 (79.22%) Cloud Security
11 182 (78.79%) Microservices
12 179 (77.49%) .NET
13 177 (76.62%) Linux
13 177 (76.62%) Go
14 176 (76.19%) C++
14 176 (76.19%) Scrum
15 175 (75.76%) Rust
16 174 (75.32%) User Experience
16 174 (75.32%) Security Cleared
17 173 (74.89%) Cyberattack
17 173 (74.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 172 (74.46%) Self-Motivation
18 172 (74.46%) Data Engineering
18 172 (74.46%) Linux Command Line
18 172 (74.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 172 (74.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 172 (74.46%) AWS Certified Developer
18 172 (74.46%) DV Cleared

Senior Software Engineer 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 2 (0.87%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 205 (88.74%) AWS
2 187 (80.95%) Azure
3 185 (80.09%) GCP
4 10 (4.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (1.30%) Apigee
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (0.87%) Serverless
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.43%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.43%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.60%) Wireless
2 4 (1.73%) Internet
2 4 (1.73%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.87%) HTTP
3 2 (0.87%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.33%) Cloud Spanner
2 6 (2.60%) MySQL
3 4 (1.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.33%) Git
2 6 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.30%) JUnit
3 3 (1.30%) Maven
3 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 172 (74.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (9.09%) Finance
3 16 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.63%) Banking
5 8 (3.46%) Retail
6 4 (1.73%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.87%) Electronics
8 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (83.55%) Node.js
2 179 (77.49%) .NET
3 25 (10.82%) React
4 19 (8.23%) RESTful
5 14 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.46%) REST
6 8 (3.46%) Web Services
7 5 (2.16%) CSS
7 5 (2.16%) HTML
8 4 (1.73%) Spring
9 3 (1.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.30%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.30%) NestJS
9 3 (1.30%) React Native
10 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.87%) OAuth
10 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.87%) OpenID
10 2 (0.87%) Playwright
10 2 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (74.89%) Cyberattack
2 172 (74.46%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (74.46%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.33%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.90%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.73%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.73%) IoT
6 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.87%) Device Driver
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.43%) PKI
8 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 177 (76.62%) Linux
2 3 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 191 (82.68%) Agile
3 185 (80.09%) Machine Learning
3 185 (80.09%) Mentoring
4 183 (79.22%) Cloud Security
5 182 (78.79%) Microservices
6 176 (76.19%) Scrum
7 174 (75.32%) User Experience
8 173 (74.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (74.46%) Data Engineering
10 25 (10.82%) CI/CD
11 15 (6.49%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (6.49%) Test Automation
12 12 (5.19%) Continuous Deployment
13 11 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (4.33%) Coaching
14 10 (4.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (3.90%) Code Quality
15 9 (3.90%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 197 (85.28%) Java
2 194 (83.98%) JavaScript
3 190 (82.25%) Python
4 177 (76.62%) Go
5 176 (76.19%) C++
6 175 (75.76%) Rust
7 31 (13.42%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.33%) C#
9 5 (2.16%) SQL
10 4 (1.73%) Ruby
11 2 (0.87%) C
11 2 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 174 (75.32%) Security Cleared
2 172 (74.46%) AWS Certification
2 172 (74.46%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (74.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (74.46%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 19 (8.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.90%) Terraform
3 3 (1.30%) Istio
4 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (4.33%) Google
2 8 (3.46%) Ping Identity
3 4 (1.73%) Xilinx
4 2 (0.87%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft