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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 120 227
Rank change year-on-year +12 +107 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 258 191 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.22% 1.93% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.51% 2.04% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 81 122 48
10th Percentile £48,869 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,528 £80,000 £81,125
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -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 7,357 9,353 6,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.63% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,011 7,192 4,022
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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 16 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 16 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 +44 139 £66,250 +10.42% 46
Lancashire -5 89 £50,055 +0.11% 15
Cheshire +2 24 £74,500 +24.17% 9
Merseyside +15 3 £65,000 - 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 16 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.

1 258 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 214 (82.95%) Agile
3 211 (81.78%) Java
4 208 (80.62%) AWS
5 198 (76.74%) JavaScript
6 197 (76.36%) Python
7 192 (74.42%) Azure
7 192 (74.42%) Node.js
8 187 (72.48%) .NET
8 187 (72.48%) Mentoring
9 185 (71.71%) GCP
9 185 (71.71%) Cloud Security
9 185 (71.71%) Machine Learning
10 182 (70.54%) Linux
10 182 (70.54%) Microservices
11 181 (70.16%) C++
12 178 (68.99%) Scrum
12 178 (68.99%) Security Cleared
13 176 (68.22%) Rust
13 176 (68.22%) Go
14 174 (67.44%) User Experience
15 173 (67.05%) Cyberattack
15 173 (67.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 172 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
16 172 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 172 (66.67%) AWS Certified Developer
16 172 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 172 (66.67%) Data Engineering
16 172 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
16 172 (66.67%) AWS Certification

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 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.39%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 208 (80.62%) AWS
2 192 (74.42%) Azure
3 185 (71.71%) GCP
4 10 (3.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.16%) Apigee
6 3 (1.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (1.16%) Serverless
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.39%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.26%) Wireless
2 5 (1.94%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (0.78%) HTTP
3 2 (0.78%) Internet
3 2 (0.78%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.88%) Cloud Spanner
2 9 (3.49%) MySQL
3 7 (2.71%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (6.59%) JIRA
2 16 (6.20%) Bitbucket
3 15 (5.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 15 (5.81%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (5.43%) Git
5 10 (3.88%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.16%) JUnit
6 3 (1.16%) Maven
6 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Storybook
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (8.14%) Finance
3 13 (5.04%) Banking
4 7 (2.71%) Aerospace
4 7 (2.71%) Retail
5 6 (2.33%) Electronics
5 6 (2.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.78%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (74.42%) Node.js
2 187 (72.48%) .NET
3 32 (12.40%) React
4 21 (8.14%) RESTful
5 14 (5.43%) Spring Boot
6 11 (4.26%) REST
6 11 (4.26%) Web Services
7 9 (3.49%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.10%) CSS
8 8 (3.10%) HTML
9 6 (2.33%) Vue
10 5 (1.94%) Laravel
11 4 (1.55%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.55%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.55%) Spring
12 3 (1.16%) Hibernate
12 3 (1.16%) NestJS
12 3 (1.16%) XML
13 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
13 2 (0.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 173 (67.05%) Cyberattack
2 172 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.33%) Device Driver
7 5 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.94%) IoT
8 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.39%) PKI
10 1 (0.39%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 182 (70.54%) Linux
2 4 (1.55%) Android
2 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 214 (82.95%) Agile
3 187 (72.48%) Mentoring
4 185 (71.71%) Cloud Security
4 185 (71.71%) Machine Learning
5 182 (70.54%) Microservices
6 178 (68.99%) Scrum
7 174 (67.44%) User Experience
8 173 (67.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 172 (66.67%) Data Engineering
10 28 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (8.91%) CI/CD
12 20 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (6.20%) Design Patterns
14 15 (5.81%) Configuration Management
14 15 (5.81%) Test Automation
15 14 (5.43%) TDD
16 12 (4.65%) Continuous Deployment
17 11 (4.26%) Cybersecurity
17 11 (4.26%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 211 (81.78%) Java
2 198 (76.74%) JavaScript
3 197 (76.36%) Python
4 181 (70.16%) C++
5 176 (68.22%) Go
5 176 (68.22%) Rust
6 34 (13.18%) TypeScript
7 27 (10.47%) C#
8 22 (8.53%) C
9 15 (5.81%) Ada
9 15 (5.81%) VB
10 6 (2.33%) PHP
11 4 (1.55%) SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Ruby
13 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 178 (68.99%) Security Cleared
2 172 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 172 (66.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.36%) Degree
4 15 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 18 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.33%) Terraform
3 3 (1.16%) Istio
4 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (3.88%) Google
1 10 (3.88%) Ping Identity
2 5 (1.94%) Xilinx
3 2 (0.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.39%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft