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 6 March 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 7 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,991 1,092 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 26.81% 14.14% 13.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 29.05% 14.90% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 784 708
10th Percentile £9,250 £42,150 £41,122
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £58,943 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £85,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% -

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 6,854 7,328 7,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 94.90% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 5,716 4,378
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,000 £29,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,238 £50,000 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -8.41% +3.98%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% +1.67%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +14 998 £40,000 -11.11% 6
Lancashire +7 446 £50,055 -16.58% 109
Manchester -1 421 £60,000 -1.03% 267
Cheshire +21 73 £55,000 -15.38% 44
Merseyside -5 50 £65,000 +13.04% 19
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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 1,258 (63.18%) Degree
2 896 (45.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 429 (21.55%) HND
4 332 (16.68%) Systems Engineering
5 326 (16.37%) Manufacturing
6 282 (14.16%) Social Skills
7 272 (13.66%) Agile
8 270 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
9 268 (13.46%) Chartered Engineer
10 262 (13.16%) Master's Degree
11 252 (12.66%) Mathcad
12 221 (11.10%) HNC
13 216 (10.85%) Coaching
14 212 (10.65%) Microsoft
15 209 (10.50%) Aerospace
16 208 (10.45%) Finite Element Analysis
17 198 (9.94%) Abaqus
18 189 (9.49%) CAD
19 186 (9.34%) ISO 9001
20 171 (8.59%) Finance
21 167 (8.39%) Resource Management
22 165 (8.29%) Workflow
23 164 (8.24%) LabVIEW
23 164 (8.24%) Business Case
24 163 (8.19%) Experiential Learning
24 163 (8.19%) Workflow Management
24 163 (8.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
25 160 (8.04%) Mathematics
25 160 (8.04%) Physics
26 155 (7.79%) Project 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 71 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.66%) Confluence
3 10 (0.50%) Apache
4 9 (0.45%) SAS
5 8 (0.40%) nginx
6 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.25%) Mule
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.050%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.050%) Strapi
Applications
1 252 (12.66%) Mathcad
2 198 (9.94%) Abaqus
3 100 (5.02%) SOLIDWORKS
4 86 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
5 48 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 48 (2.41%) Simulink
6 30 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (1.16%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.10%) Sketch
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.050%) InDesign
10 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.050%) Revit
Business Applications
1 49 (2.46%) Teamcenter
2 20 (1.00%) NEC Housing
3 10 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.10%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.10%) Magento
5 2 (0.10%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.050%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 107 (5.37%) Azure
2 100 (5.02%) AWS
3 42 (2.11%) GCP
4 23 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (0.95%) Power Platform
5 19 (0.95%) SaaS
6 11 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (0.55%) Serverless
7 10 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.35%) Datadog
11 6 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.30%) dbt
11 6 (0.30%) IBM Cloud
12 5 (0.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.25%) Figma
12 5 (0.25%) PaaS
13 4 (0.20%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.41%) Firewall
2 20 (1.00%) VoIP
3 19 (0.95%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.90%) Wireless
5 15 (0.75%) DNS
5 15 (0.75%) LAN
6 14 (0.70%) PPP
7 12 (0.60%) WAN
8 11 (0.55%) VPN
9 8 (0.40%) DHCP
9 8 (0.40%) VLAN
10 6 (0.30%) BGP
10 6 (0.30%) Internet
10 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.25%) MPLS
12 4 (0.20%) Broadband
12 4 (0.20%) EIGRP
12 4 (0.20%) OSPF
12 4 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
12 4 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (1.71%) MySQL
2 25 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
5 17 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 14 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.60%) Power BI
8 10 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.40%) Cloud Spanner
9 8 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.30%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.20%) Big Data
12 4 (0.20%) Power Query
12 4 (0.20%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.20%) Redis
13 3 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.15%) Event Store
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 164 (8.24%) LabVIEW
2 104 (5.22%) JIRA
3 32 (1.61%) Git
4 21 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 18 (0.90%) Rational Rhapsody
6 17 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
8 15 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (0.55%) eggPlant
10 7 (0.35%) PHPUnit
11 6 (0.30%) Maven
12 5 (0.25%) Selenium
13 4 (0.20%) JMeter
13 4 (0.20%) JUnit
13 4 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.20%) TestNG
14 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.15%) GitLab
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
15 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 326 (16.37%) Manufacturing
2 282 (14.16%) Social Skills
3 270 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (10.50%) Aerospace
5 171 (8.59%) Finance
6 92 (4.62%) Avionics
7 72 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (3.47%) Legal
9 60 (3.01%) Automotive
10 52 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 51 (2.56%) Aeronautics
12 49 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 43 (2.16%) Retail
14 37 (1.86%) Electronics
15 33 (1.66%) Banking
16 32 (1.61%) Agriculture
17 28 (1.41%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.36%) Law
19 25 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
20 24 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.72%) React
2 60 (3.01%) .NET
3 41 (2.06%) HTML
4 39 (1.96%) CSS
5 31 (1.56%) AngularJS
5 31 (1.56%) Node.js
6 28 (1.41%) RESTful
7 23 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 14 (0.70%) Vue
8 14 (0.70%) Web Services
9 12 (0.60%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.60%) LAMP
10 11 (0.55%) Next.js
11 10 (0.50%) REST
11 10 (0.50%) XML
12 9 (0.45%) jQuery
12 9 (0.45%) Laravel
12 9 (0.45%) LEMP Stack
12 9 (0.45%) Spring Boot
13 8 (0.40%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 152 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 39 (1.96%) SCADA
3 27 (1.36%) Driving Licence
4 16 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 15 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (0.75%) Public Cloud
5 15 (0.75%) Social Media
6 13 (0.65%) Onboarding
7 10 (0.50%) Algorithms
7 10 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (0.40%) Cloud Native
8 8 (0.40%) Life Science
8 8 (0.40%) Mobile App
8 8 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.35%) Cyberattack
9 7 (0.35%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.35%) e-Learning
9 7 (0.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 58 (2.91%) Windows
2 57 (2.86%) Linux
3 20 (1.00%) Solaris
4 13 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.55%) Android
5 11 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.45%) Windows Vista
7 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.40%) Unix
8 5 (0.25%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (16.68%) Systems Engineering
2 272 (13.66%) Agile
3 216 (10.85%) Coaching
4 208 (10.45%) Finite Element Analysis
5 189 (9.49%) CAD
6 167 (8.39%) Resource Management
7 165 (8.29%) Workflow
8 164 (8.24%) Business Case
9 163 (8.19%) Experiential Learning
9 163 (8.19%) Workflow Management
10 160 (8.04%) Mathematics
10 160 (8.04%) Physics
11 155 (7.79%) Project Management
12 149 (7.48%) Change Management
13 146 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
14 137 (6.88%) Mentoring
15 136 (6.83%) Software Engineering
16 130 (6.53%) Customer Requirements
17 118 (5.93%) SDLC
18 113 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (6.98%) MATLAB
2 80 (4.02%) JavaScript
3 72 (3.62%) SQL
4 71 (3.57%) Java
5 63 (3.16%) C#
6 62 (3.11%) Python
7 49 (2.46%) TypeScript
8 25 (1.26%) PHP
9 24 (1.21%) C
10 20 (1.00%) VB
11 18 (0.90%) C++
12 15 (0.75%) Ada
13 11 (0.55%) Go
13 11 (0.55%) Rust
14 10 (0.50%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.35%) Bash
16 6 (0.30%) Ruby
17 3 (0.15%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.15%) Scala
17 3 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,258 (63.18%) Degree
2 896 (45.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 429 (21.55%) HND
4 268 (13.46%) Chartered Engineer
5 262 (13.16%) Master's Degree
6 221 (11.10%) HNC
7 64 (3.21%) Numerate Degree
8 54 (2.71%) CISM
9 53 (2.66%) CISA
10 41 (2.06%) Security Cleared
11 34 (1.71%) DBS Check
12 28 (1.41%) PMP
13 19 (0.95%) SC Cleared
14 17 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 14 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.65%) MRICS
17 11 (0.55%) CCNP
17 11 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.55%) DV Cleared
17 11 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.34%) ISO 9001
2 163 (8.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 54 (2.71%) GRC
4 33 (1.66%) IEC 61508
5 29 (1.46%) QA
6 24 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 18 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.85%) Def Stans
9 16 (0.80%) ARP4754
9 16 (0.80%) DO-254
10 15 (0.75%) NEBOSH
11 12 (0.60%) SLA
12 9 (0.45%) PMO
13 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.35%) GDPR
14 6 (0.30%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.30%) NCSC
15 5 (0.25%) NIST
16 4 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.15%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 35 (1.76%) Docker
2 19 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.30%) vSphere
5 5 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.050%) Firmware
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.95%) Terraform
3 13 (0.65%) SCCM
4 10 (0.50%) Ansible
5 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.20%) SCOM
7 4 (0.20%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.050%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.050%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.050%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 212 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 36 (1.81%) Siemens
3 30 (1.51%) MathWorks
4 29 (1.46%) ANSYS
5 25 (1.26%) Google
6 22 (1.10%) NEC
7 20 (1.00%) Citrix
8 18 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.80%) Apple
9 16 (0.80%) Cisco
10 14 (0.70%) VMware
11 12 (0.60%) Adobe
11 12 (0.60%) IBM
11 12 (0.60%) SAP
12 11 (0.55%) Keysight
13 10 (0.50%) Oracle
13 10 (0.50%) Veeam
14 9 (0.45%) JDA
15 7 (0.35%) Aruba
15 7 (0.35%) Bloomberg