Senior Jobs in the North West

Senior
England > North West

The median Senior salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,448 984 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.93% 12.36% 12.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.75% 13.86% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 629 766
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,759 £38,947
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,833 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,250 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

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 9,192 7,102 9,035
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.19% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,069 4,115 5,476
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,800 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +9 899 £60,000 -4.00% 193
Merseyside +33 201 £60,000 +4.35% 16
Lancashire +19 157 £57,965 +17.10% 34
Cheshire +7 147 £60,000 +4.35% 55
Cumbria -8 41 £45,000 -18.18% 18
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 in the job title.

1 439 (30.32%) Agile
2 316 (21.82%) AWS
3 283 (19.54%) Mentoring
4 282 (19.48%) Software Engineering
5 273 (18.85%) Azure
6 240 (16.57%) Coaching
7 219 (15.12%) Social Skills
8 213 (14.71%) DevOps
9 196 (13.54%) Finance
10 184 (12.71%) SQL
11 174 (12.02%) Degree
12 169 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
13 162 (11.19%) JavaScript
14 157 (10.84%) Python
15 134 (9.25%) C#
16 132 (9.12%) .NET
17 129 (8.91%) Microsoft
18 128 (8.84%) Public Sector
19 126 (8.70%) React
20 124 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
21 115 (7.94%) Linux
22 114 (7.87%) Terraform
22 114 (7.87%) Security Cleared
23 109 (7.53%) Java
24 102 (7.04%) Analytics
25 99 (6.84%) Project Management
26 98 (6.77%) SC Cleared
27 97 (6.70%) Kubernetes
28 92 (6.35%) CI/CD
29 85 (5.87%) CSS

Senior 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 41 (2.83%) ArcGIS
2 37 (2.56%) GeoServer
3 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.10%) SAS
6 12 (0.83%) Tuxedo
7 9 (0.62%) CMS
8 8 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.55%) Confluence
9 5 (0.35%) JBoss
9 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Apache
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 1 (0.069%) Jetty
12 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.069%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.55%) Sketch
4 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.28%) Maya
7 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Revit
9 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.55%) Magento
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.069%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.069%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.069%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.069%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.069%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 316 (21.82%) AWS
2 273 (18.85%) Azure
3 49 (3.38%) Amazon S3
4 47 (3.25%) GCP
5 45 (3.11%) SaaS
6 44 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 43 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (2.56%) IBM Cloud
9 36 (2.49%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (2.49%) OCI
9 36 (2.49%) Route 53
10 35 (2.42%) GitHub
11 32 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.00%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.52%) Serverless
16 16 (1.10%) OneDrive
17 13 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (0.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.49%) WAN
2 34 (2.35%) DNS
3 30 (2.07%) Firewall
4 27 (1.86%) Network Security
5 25 (1.73%) LAN
6 20 (1.38%) SD-WAN
7 19 (1.31%) DHCP
7 19 (1.31%) PPP
7 19 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.97%) Wireless
9 9 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (0.62%) MQTT
9 9 (0.62%) VPN
9 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.55%) SSL
10 8 (0.55%) TETRA
11 7 (0.48%) BGP
11 7 (0.48%) HTTP
11 7 (0.48%) VoIP
11 7 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (3.80%) MySQL
3 43 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (2.97%) SQL Server
4 41 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (2.62%) GIS
6 37 (2.56%) QGIS
7 32 (2.21%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.66%) Power BI
9 22 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.45%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.38%) MongoDB
12 18 (1.24%) Big Data
12 18 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
14 12 (0.83%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.69%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.69%) Metadata
16 9 (0.62%) Data Vault
16 9 (0.62%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (5.80%) Git
2 28 (1.93%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.86%) JIRA
4 22 (1.52%) GitLab
5 13 (0.90%) PHPUnit
6 12 (0.83%) Appium
7 9 (0.62%) Maven
7 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.48%) Gradle
10 6 (0.41%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.35%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.35%) JetBrains Rider
11 5 (0.35%) Selenium
11 5 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.35%) webpack
12 4 (0.28%) Subversion
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 196 (13.54%) Finance
3 128 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 84 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (4.97%) Retail
7 60 (4.14%) Banking
8 45 (3.11%) Legal
9 36 (2.49%) Law
10 25 (1.73%) Health Technology
10 25 (1.73%) Marketing
10 25 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.38%) Publishing
14 17 (1.17%) Games
15 16 (1.10%) Local Government
16 11 (0.76%) Automotive
16 11 (0.76%) Electronics
17 10 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (9.12%) .NET
2 126 (8.70%) React
3 85 (5.87%) CSS
4 62 (4.28%) Node.js
5 57 (3.94%) RESTful
6 56 (3.87%) .NET Core
7 55 (3.80%) HTML
8 49 (3.38%) AngularJS
9 44 (3.04%) Laravel
10 37 (2.56%) Leaflet
10 37 (2.56%) OpenLayers
10 37 (2.56%) PostGIS
11 36 (2.49%) Vue
12 35 (2.42%) REST
13 31 (2.14%) Kafka
13 31 (2.14%) Spring
14 26 (1.80%) JSON
15 21 (1.45%) Web Services
16 19 (1.31%) PySpark
17 18 (1.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.14%) Public Cloud
2 54 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 48 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 46 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.97%) Blockchain
7 37 (2.56%) e-Learning
8 35 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (2.21%) Driving Licence
10 24 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 23 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.59%) IoT
12 20 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.17%) Cyberattack
15 15 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.04%) Reinsurance
16 14 (0.97%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 115 (7.94%) Linux
2 79 (5.46%) Windows
3 29 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.45%) Android
5 17 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.76%) Unix
8 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.35%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.069%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (30.32%) Agile
2 283 (19.54%) Mentoring
3 282 (19.48%) Software Engineering
4 240 (16.57%) Coaching
5 213 (14.71%) DevOps
6 169 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (8.56%) Actionable Insight
8 102 (7.04%) Analytics
9 99 (6.84%) Project Management
10 92 (6.35%) CI/CD
11 84 (5.80%) TDD
12 80 (5.52%) Roadmaps
13 79 (5.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 79 (5.46%) Design Patterns
14 76 (5.25%) Full Stack Development
15 73 (5.04%) Test Automation
16 69 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 68 (4.70%) Cybersecurity
18 63 (4.35%) Computer Science
19 62 (4.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 184 (12.71%) SQL
2 162 (11.19%) JavaScript
3 157 (10.84%) Python
4 134 (9.25%) C#
5 109 (7.53%) Java
6 65 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 64 (4.42%) PHP
8 26 (1.80%) C
8 26 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 19 (1.31%) C++
11 13 (0.90%) COBOL
11 13 (0.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 10 (0.69%) Go
12 10 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.48%) R
13 7 (0.48%) Rust
14 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 174 (12.02%) Degree
2 114 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 98 (6.77%) SC Cleared
4 37 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.59%) CCNP
8 18 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.24%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.17%) JNCIP
10 16 (1.10%) Postgraduate
11 15 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.97%) JNCIA
13 13 (0.90%) HND
14 11 (0.76%) CCNA
15 10 (0.69%) CISSP
15 10 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 9 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
16 9 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 36 (2.49%) QA
3 28 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 22 (1.52%) WCAG
5 19 (1.31%) GDPR
6 18 (1.24%) NIST
7 14 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.62%) PMO
8 9 (0.62%) SLA
9 8 (0.55%) IFRS
9 8 (0.55%) IFRS 9
9 8 (0.55%) ISO 9000
10 7 (0.48%) NCSC
11 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.28%) GMP
13 1 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.069%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (5.04%) Docker
2 48 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.93%) Firmware
4 15 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
5 13 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) IAG
10 1 (0.069%) Lustre
10 1 (0.069%) RACF
10 1 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.069%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 114 (7.87%) Terraform
2 97 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 20 (1.38%) Ansible
5 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.41%) WSUS
10 5 (0.35%) CASB
10 5 (0.35%) Stealthwatch
11 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.14%) Icinga
11 2 (0.14%) SCCM
12 1 (0.069%) Grafana
12 1 (0.069%) Graylog
12 1 (0.069%) Nagios
12 1 (0.069%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.069%) Puppet
Vendors
1 129 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.01%) Oracle
3 50 (3.45%) Cisco
4 46 (3.18%) IBM
5 42 (2.90%) Google
6 37 (2.56%) ESRI
6 37 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 36 (2.49%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.73%) VMware
9 24 (1.66%) Fortinet
10 23 (1.59%) Juniper
11 20 (1.38%) Databricks
11 20 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.24%) Informatica
14 16 (1.10%) CA
15 14 (0.97%) SAP
16 13 (0.90%) F5
16 13 (0.90%) Micro Focus
17 12 (0.83%) Adobe