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 £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 222 163
Rank change year-on-year +109 -59 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 195 79 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.00% 1.01% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 1.13% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 123 51 83
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,875 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.96% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,385
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 9,248 6,965 8,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 88.96% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,102 4,048 5,399
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +95 136 £60,000 -4.00% 23
Cheshire +11 26 £60,000 - 2
Merseyside +21 25 - -
Lancashire -8 8 £50,000 - 3
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 7 May 2024, 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.

1 195 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 85 (43.59%) Agile
3 75 (38.46%) AWS
4 68 (34.87%) Azure
5 61 (31.28%) JavaScript
6 57 (29.23%) Python
7 56 (28.72%) DevOps
8 48 (24.62%) .NET
8 48 (24.62%) Security Cleared
9 47 (24.10%) React
10 45 (23.08%) SC Cleared
11 44 (22.56%) C#
12 43 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
13 42 (21.54%) Actionable Insight
14 41 (21.03%) CSS
15 38 (19.49%) Java
16 37 (18.97%) GIS
16 37 (18.97%) ESRI
16 37 (18.97%) ArcGIS
16 37 (18.97%) Web Development
16 37 (18.97%) GeoServer
16 37 (18.97%) OpenLayers
16 37 (18.97%) QGIS
16 37 (18.97%) PostGIS
16 37 (18.97%) Leaflet
17 31 (15.90%) .NET Core
18 30 (15.38%) SQL
19 28 (14.36%) Linux
20 25 (12.82%) Degree
20 25 (12.82%) Problem-Solving

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 37 (18.97%) ArcGIS
1 37 (18.97%) GeoServer
2 5 (2.56%) JBoss
2 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Fuse
3 3 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.46%) AWS
2 68 (34.87%) Azure
3 7 (3.59%) Serverless
4 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.54%) GCP
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) MQTT
2 4 (2.05%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.05%) RS-232
2 4 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (18.97%) GIS
2 37 (18.97%) QGIS
3 11 (5.64%) MySQL
4 7 (3.59%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.54%) Big Data
6 3 (1.54%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (9.23%) Git
2 7 (3.59%) Maven
3 5 (2.56%) GitLab
3 5 (2.56%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.56%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.05%) Subversion
5 3 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.03%) webpack
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.67%) Retail
3 12 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.64%) Finance
5 8 (4.10%) Health Technology
5 8 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.08%) Legal
7 5 (2.56%) Automotive
7 5 (2.56%) Retail Finance
8 3 (1.54%) Games
8 3 (1.54%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.03%) Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Electronics
9 2 (1.03%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.62%) .NET
2 47 (24.10%) React
3 41 (21.03%) CSS
4 37 (18.97%) Leaflet
4 37 (18.97%) OpenLayers
4 37 (18.97%) PostGIS
5 31 (15.90%) .NET Core
6 16 (8.21%) RESTful
6 16 (8.21%) Spring
7 13 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 12 (6.15%) HTML
9 11 (5.64%) Web Services
10 10 (5.13%) JSON
10 10 (5.13%) Spring Boot
11 9 (4.62%) Node.js
12 8 (4.10%) Django
12 8 (4.10%) Kafka
13 7 (3.59%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (3.59%) Jest
14 6 (3.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
1 10 (5.13%) IoT
2 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.03%) FMCG
3 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.51%) FPGA
4 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.08%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (3.08%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 85 (43.59%) Agile
3 56 (28.72%) DevOps
4 42 (21.54%) Actionable Insight
5 37 (18.97%) Web Development
6 25 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.26%) Microservices
8 19 (9.74%) Computer Science
8 19 (9.74%) Open Source
9 18 (9.23%) Mentoring
10 15 (7.69%) TDD
11 14 (7.18%) CI/CD
12 12 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (6.15%) Embedded Software Development
12 12 (6.15%) Full Stack Development
13 11 (5.64%) Multithreading
14 10 (5.13%) SDLC
14 10 (5.13%) Software Architecture
15 9 (4.62%) Continuous Deployment
15 9 (4.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.28%) JavaScript
2 57 (29.23%) Python
3 44 (22.56%) C#
4 38 (19.49%) Java
5 30 (15.38%) SQL
6 24 (12.31%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.21%) C++
8 12 (6.15%) C
9 3 (1.54%) PHP
9 3 (1.54%) Rust
9 3 (1.54%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 48 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 45 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.82%) Degree
4 9 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.59%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.56%) HND
7 4 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.59%) ISO 9000
2 4 (2.05%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Firmware
2 5 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (5.13%) Terraform
2 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (18.97%) ESRI
2 6 (3.08%) F5
3 3 (1.54%) Autodesk
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.51%) SAP
4 1 (0.51%) Xamarin