Senior Jobs in the North West

Senior
England > North West

The median Senior salary in the North West is £50,055 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,899 1,365 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.77% 15.01% 12.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 30.21% 15.81% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 959 665
10th Percentile £7,000 £41,850 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £70,588
% change year-on-year -2.34% -9.33% +0.84%

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 6,285 8,632 7,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 94.91% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,967 6,678 4,260
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,818 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,967 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.71% +0.42%

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 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 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
Cumbria +10 932 £40,000 -11.11% 21
Lancashire +6 502 £50,055 -13.65% 116
Manchester -1 365 £62,500 +4.17% 436
Cheshire +10 61 £55,000 -8.33% 89
Merseyside -10 36 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 2025, 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 1,225 (64.51%) Degree
2 1,031 (54.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 449 (23.64%) HND
4 411 (21.64%) Systems Engineering
5 313 (16.48%) Manufacturing
6 295 (15.53%) Aerospace
7 261 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
8 259 (13.64%) Master's Degree
9 256 (13.48%) Agile
10 252 (13.27%) Mathcad
11 249 (13.11%) Chartered Engineer
12 246 (12.95%) Coaching
13 245 (12.90%) Social Skills
14 221 (11.64%) HNC
15 209 (11.01%) Finite Element Analysis
16 206 (10.85%) Physics
17 203 (10.69%) Mathematics
18 198 (10.43%) Abaqus
19 191 (10.06%) Microsoft
20 186 (9.79%) CAD
21 173 (9.11%) Change Management
22 171 (9.00%) Business Case
23 155 (8.16%) MATLAB
24 149 (7.85%) ISO 9001
25 146 (7.69%) Project Management
26 143 (7.53%) Finance
27 142 (7.48%) Resource Management
28 141 (7.42%) LabVIEW
29 140 (7.37%) Workflow
29 140 (7.37%) Workflow Management

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 63 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.47%) Confluence
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.26%) SAS
5 4 (0.21%) Apache
5 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.053%) Mule
8 1 (0.053%) Strapi
Applications
1 252 (13.27%) Mathcad
2 198 (10.43%) Abaqus
3 100 (5.27%) SOLIDWORKS
4 75 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
5 68 (3.58%) Simulink
6 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
7 20 (1.05%) AutoCAD
8 16 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.11%) Sketch
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.053%) InDesign
11 1 (0.053%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.053%) Revit
Business Applications
1 65 (3.42%) Teamcenter
2 9 (0.47%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.053%) Magento
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 95 (5.00%) Azure
2 90 (4.74%) AWS
3 41 (2.16%) GCP
4 21 (1.11%) Power Platform
5 16 (0.84%) SaaS
6 15 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (0.58%) Azure Machine Learning
8 11 (0.58%) Serverless
9 8 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (0.32%) IBM Cloud
11 5 (0.26%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.26%) Figma
11 5 (0.26%) GitHub
12 4 (0.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 4 (0.21%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (0.21%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 20 (1.05%) VoIP
3 17 (0.90%) Firewall
3 17 (0.90%) Wireless
4 15 (0.79%) LAN
5 13 (0.68%) DNS
6 12 (0.63%) WAN
7 10 (0.53%) DHCP
8 6 (0.32%) Internet
8 6 (0.32%) VLAN
8 6 (0.32%) VPN
9 5 (0.26%) HTTP
9 5 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
10 4 (0.21%) BGP
10 4 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.21%) EIGRP
10 4 (0.21%) OSPF
11 3 (0.16%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.11%) MySQL
3 15 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 14 (0.74%) Power BI
5 13 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
6 10 (0.53%) Cloud Spanner
7 9 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.32%) Big Data
10 6 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.21%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.21%) Event Store
11 4 (0.21%) Power Query
11 4 (0.21%) PowerPivot
11 4 (0.21%) Redis
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 141 (7.42%) LabVIEW
2 99 (5.21%) JIRA
3 39 (2.05%) Git
4 23 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 18 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
6 15 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (0.79%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 11 (0.58%) eggPlant
8 9 (0.47%) Maven
9 6 (0.32%) JUnit
10 5 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.16%) NUnit
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.16%) Selenium
11 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.16%) Storybook
12 2 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 313 (16.48%) Manufacturing
2 295 (15.53%) Aerospace
3 261 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 143 (7.53%) Finance
6 112 (5.90%) Avionics
7 101 (5.32%) Aeronautics
8 96 (5.06%) Automotive
9 78 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
10 60 (3.16%) Legal
11 39 (2.05%) Retail
12 38 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (1.84%) Electronics
14 32 (1.69%) Agriculture
14 32 (1.69%) Banking
15 26 (1.37%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 21 (1.11%) Games
18 21 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (3.84%) React
2 58 (3.05%) .NET
3 35 (1.84%) HTML
4 33 (1.74%) RESTful
5 32 (1.69%) CSS
5 32 (1.69%) Node.js
6 30 (1.58%) AngularJS
7 24 (1.26%) .NET Core
8 17 (0.90%) Vue
9 15 (0.79%) .NET Framework
9 15 (0.79%) Spring Boot
10 11 (0.58%) Entity Framework
10 11 (0.58%) Next.js
10 11 (0.58%) REST
11 10 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (0.47%) jQuery
12 9 (0.47%) Kafka
12 9 (0.47%) Laravel
12 9 (0.47%) Redux
13 8 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 35 (1.84%) SCADA
3 20 (1.05%) Product Ownership
4 17 (0.90%) Driving Licence
5 16 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 11 (0.58%) Cloud Native
6 11 (0.58%) Onboarding
6 11 (0.58%) Social Media
7 10 (0.53%) Mobile App
8 9 (0.47%) Algorithms
9 8 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.37%) Cyberattack
10 7 (0.37%) e-Learning
10 7 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.32%) Device Driver
11 6 (0.32%) IoT
11 6 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.11%) Linux
2 35 (1.84%) Windows
3 11 (0.58%) Android
4 10 (0.53%) Unix
5 9 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.47%) Solaris
5 9 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.37%) Windows Vista
7 5 (0.26%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (21.64%) Systems Engineering
2 256 (13.48%) Agile
3 246 (12.95%) Coaching
4 209 (11.01%) Finite Element Analysis
5 206 (10.85%) Physics
6 203 (10.69%) Mathematics
7 186 (9.79%) CAD
8 173 (9.11%) Change Management
9 171 (9.00%) Business Case
10 146 (7.69%) Project Management
11 142 (7.48%) Resource Management
12 140 (7.37%) Experiential Learning
12 140 (7.37%) Workflow
12 140 (7.37%) Workflow Management
13 137 (7.21%) Requirements Management
14 136 (7.16%) Customer Requirements
15 131 (6.90%) Software Engineering
16 130 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
17 129 (6.79%) SDLC
18 126 (6.64%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 155 (8.16%) MATLAB
2 75 (3.95%) JavaScript
3 67 (3.53%) Java
4 66 (3.48%) C#
5 65 (3.42%) Python
6 57 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 51 (2.69%) SQL
8 23 (1.21%) C
9 21 (1.11%) PHP
10 20 (1.05%) VB
11 15 (0.79%) Ada
12 13 (0.68%) C++
12 13 (0.68%) Go
13 8 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.42%) Rust
14 5 (0.26%) Bash
15 4 (0.21%) Ruby
15 4 (0.21%) Scala
16 3 (0.16%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,225 (64.51%) Degree
2 1,031 (54.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 449 (23.64%) HND
4 259 (13.64%) Master's Degree
5 249 (13.11%) Chartered Engineer
6 221 (11.64%) HNC
7 59 (3.11%) Numerate Degree
8 49 (2.58%) CISM
9 48 (2.53%) CISA
10 34 (1.79%) Security Cleared
11 26 (1.37%) PMP
12 20 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 14 (0.74%) SC Cleared
15 10 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.47%) MRICS
16 9 (0.47%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.42%) CCNP
18 7 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.85%) ISO 9001
2 140 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 49 (2.58%) GRC
4 33 (1.74%) IEC 61508
5 27 (1.42%) QA
6 17 (0.90%) Def Stans
7 16 (0.84%) ARP4754
7 16 (0.84%) DO-254
8 15 (0.79%) NEBOSH
9 14 (0.74%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.47%) PMO
11 8 (0.42%) GDPR
12 7 (0.37%) SLA
13 6 (0.32%) NCSC
13 6 (0.32%) NIST
14 5 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.16%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 37 (1.95%) Docker
2 12 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.32%) vSphere
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 17 (0.90%) Terraform
3 12 (0.63%) SCCM
4 4 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (0.21%) SCOM
4 4 (0.21%) SCOrch
5 3 (0.16%) Istio
6 2 (0.11%) Ansible
6 2 (0.11%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.053%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 191 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 50 (2.63%) MathWorks
3 45 (2.37%) ANSYS
4 36 (1.90%) Siemens
5 24 (1.26%) Google
6 18 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 15 (0.79%) Apple
8 13 (0.68%) Cisco
9 11 (0.58%) Adobe
9 11 (0.58%) Keysight
10 10 (0.53%) IBM
10 10 (0.53%) Oracle
10 10 (0.53%) VMware
11 9 (0.47%) Citrix
11 9 (0.47%) NEC
12 8 (0.42%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.37%) SAP
13 7 (0.37%) Veeam
14 6 (0.32%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.26%) HP