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 £65,000 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 175 115 221
Rank change year-on-year -60 +106 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 83 196 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.10% 2.02% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 2.13% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 80 124 51
10th Percentile £48,869 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £54,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% +6.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,991 £74,375
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,534 £83,750
England median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 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 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 1 May 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 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 -2 56 £65,000 +4.00% 60
Lancashire -36 19 £50,055 +0.11% 17
Merseyside +18 3 £65,000 - 4
Cheshire +17 2 £76,000 +26.67% 10
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 1 May 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 83 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 42 (50.60%) Agile
3 36 (43.37%) Java
4 35 (42.17%) AWS
5 29 (34.94%) TypeScript
5 29 (34.94%) React
6 28 (33.73%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (33.73%) C#
7 27 (32.53%) JavaScript
8 25 (30.12%) Python
9 23 (27.71%) C
9 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
10 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (26.51%) Azure
11 21 (25.30%) Finance
11 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (24.10%) Node.js
12 20 (24.10%) Degree
12 20 (24.10%) RESTful
13 18 (21.69%) Docker
14 17 (20.48%) JIRA
14 17 (20.48%) .NET
15 16 (19.28%) TDD
15 16 (19.28%) Bitbucket
15 16 (19.28%) Mentoring
15 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
15 16 (19.28%) Design Patterns
16 15 (18.07%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (18.07%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (18.07%) Test Automation

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 (2.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.20%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.17%) AWS
2 22 (26.51%) Azure
3 14 (16.87%) GCP
4 10 (12.05%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (6.02%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.61%) Apigee
6 3 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (3.61%) Serverless
7 2 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.20%) AWS IoT
8 1 (1.20%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.25%) Wireless
2 5 (6.02%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (2.41%) HTTP
3 2 (2.41%) Internet
3 2 (2.41%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Spanner
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.43%) MySQL
4 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (20.48%) JIRA
2 16 (19.28%) Bitbucket
3 15 (18.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 15 (18.07%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (16.87%) Git
5 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.61%) JUnit
6 3 (3.61%) Maven
6 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.20%) GitLab
7 1 (1.20%) Storybook
7 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (25.30%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Banking
3 7 (8.43%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.23%) Electronics
4 6 (7.23%) Retail
4 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.02%) Social Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.61%) Automotive
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.94%) React
2 20 (24.10%) Node.js
2 20 (24.10%) RESTful
3 17 (20.48%) .NET
4 13 (15.66%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.84%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.84%) CSS
5 9 (10.84%) HTML
5 9 (10.84%) REST
5 9 (10.84%) Web Services
6 7 (8.43%) Vue
7 6 (7.23%) Laravel
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.82%) XML
9 3 (3.61%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.61%) NestJS
9 3 (3.61%) Spring
10 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.84%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.23%) Device Driver
3 6 (7.23%) IoT
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.02%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.61%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.20%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.20%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.20%) NHS
8 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.25%) Linux
2 5 (6.02%) Android
2 5 (6.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 42 (50.60%) Agile
3 28 (33.73%) Continuous Integration
4 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
5 22 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (19.28%) Design Patterns
6 16 (19.28%) Mentoring
6 16 (19.28%) TDD
7 15 (18.07%) Configuration Management
7 15 (18.07%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.66%) Machine Learning
9 12 (14.46%) Continuous Deployment
10 11 (13.25%) Cloud Security
10 11 (13.25%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (12.05%) Coaching
12 9 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (9.64%) BDD
13 8 (9.64%) Data Science
13 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (9.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) Java
2 29 (34.94%) TypeScript
3 28 (33.73%) C#
4 27 (32.53%) JavaScript
5 25 (30.12%) Python
6 23 (27.71%) C
7 15 (18.07%) Ada
7 15 (18.07%) VB
8 10 (12.05%) C++
9 7 (8.43%) PHP
10 5 (6.02%) Rust
11 4 (4.82%) Go
11 4 (4.82%) SQL
12 3 (3.61%) Ruby
13 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) Degree
2 15 (18.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) QA
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Istio
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) Google
2 8 (9.64%) Ping Identity
3 5 (6.02%) Xilinx
4 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.20%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft