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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,828 1,535 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.30% 14.75% 12.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 25.32% 15.56% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 1,068 578
10th Percentile £7,000 £40,000 £42,759
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,783 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% -10.31% -

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 7,220 9,862 6,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.79% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,851 7,544 3,993
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,138
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £40,834
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 £76,840 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

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 31 May 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 31 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
Lancashire +2 712 £50,055 -13.65% 254
Cumbria +4 643 £7,000 -84.44% 31
Manchester -5 370 £65,000 +8.33% 508
Cheshire -24 64 £55,000 -4.35% 68
Merseyside -20 35 £65,000 +4.00% 44
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 1,127 (61.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 954 (52.19%) Degree
3 654 (35.78%) Systems Engineering
4 430 (23.52%) Agile
5 405 (22.16%) HND
6 373 (20.40%) Aerospace
7 323 (17.67%) Coaching
8 277 (15.15%) AWS
9 275 (15.04%) Software Engineering
10 269 (14.72%) Mentoring
11 257 (14.06%) Azure
11 257 (14.06%) Python
12 247 (13.51%) Java
12 247 (13.51%) Mathematics
13 246 (13.46%) HNC
14 245 (13.40%) Change Management
15 235 (12.86%) JavaScript
16 233 (12.75%) Social Skills
17 215 (11.76%) .NET
18 213 (11.65%) Microservices
19 212 (11.60%) GCP
19 212 (11.60%) Avionics
20 209 (11.43%) Physics
21 207 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
22 206 (11.27%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
23 205 (11.21%) Scrum
24 204 (11.16%) User Experience
24 204 (11.16%) Node.js
25 203 (11.11%) Linux
26 194 (10.61%) Analytical Skills

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 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.53%) Confluence
3 6 (0.33%) Apache
4 5 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.22%) IIS
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 3 (0.16%) nginx
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 109 (5.96%) Abaqus
2 85 (4.65%) Mathcad
3 73 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.74%) Simulink
5 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
6 16 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
8 7 (0.38%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.055%) InDesign
10 1 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.055%) Revit
10 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 65 (3.56%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.11%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.055%) Magento
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.055%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.055%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 277 (15.15%) AWS
2 257 (14.06%) Azure
3 212 (11.60%) GCP
4 30 (1.64%) Power Platform
5 23 (1.26%) Serverless
6 20 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (0.93%) SaaS
8 15 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (0.55%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.38%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.27%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.27%) NuGet
15 4 (0.22%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.22%) GitHub
16 3 (0.16%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.88%) VoIP
2 15 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 15 (0.82%) Wireless
3 12 (0.66%) Firewall
4 11 (0.60%) DNS
5 10 (0.55%) DHCP
5 10 (0.55%) LAN
6 8 (0.44%) Broadband
6 8 (0.44%) HTTP
7 7 (0.38%) WAN
8 5 (0.27%) Internet
8 5 (0.27%) PPP
8 5 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.16%) SAN
10 3 (0.16%) TETRA
11 2 (0.11%) BGP
11 2 (0.11%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.11%) NAS
11 2 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.31%) Power BI
3 20 (1.09%) MySQL
4 15 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 14 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 11 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.55%) Cloud Spanner
9 9 (0.49%) Big Data
10 8 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.27%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.27%) GIS
11 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.22%) Power Query
12 4 (0.22%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.22%) Redis
12 4 (0.22%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.16%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 83 (4.54%) JIRA
2 68 (3.72%) LabVIEW
3 35 (1.91%) Git
4 20 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 15 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.60%) eggPlant
8 5 (0.27%) JUnit
9 4 (0.22%) Storybook
10 3 (0.16%) Maven
10 3 (0.16%) NUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.11%) GitLab
11 2 (0.11%) TestRail
12 1 (0.055%) fastlane
12 1 (0.055%) Sinon.JS
General
1 373 (20.40%) Aerospace
2 233 (12.75%) Social Skills
3 212 (11.60%) Avionics
4 194 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 187 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 149 (8.15%) Aeronautics
7 136 (7.44%) Manufacturing
8 120 (6.56%) Finance
9 112 (6.13%) Automotive
10 64 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.52%) Retail
12 35 (1.91%) Electronics
13 32 (1.75%) Agriculture
14 30 (1.64%) Banking
15 25 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (1.37%) Games
16 19 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 16 (0.88%) Aviation
18 14 (0.77%) Law
19 13 (0.71%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (11.76%) .NET
2 204 (11.16%) Node.js
3 69 (3.77%) React
4 36 (1.97%) RESTful
5 26 (1.42%) .NET Core
6 23 (1.26%) AngularJS
6 23 (1.26%) CSS
6 23 (1.26%) HTML
7 19 (1.04%) REST
7 19 (1.04%) Spring Boot
8 16 (0.88%) Web Services
9 13 (0.71%) Kafka
10 11 (0.60%) .NET Framework
10 11 (0.60%) GraphQL
10 11 (0.60%) Spring
10 11 (0.60%) Vue
11 10 (0.55%) Entity Framework
12 9 (0.49%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (0.44%) Next.js
13 8 (0.44%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 176 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
2 174 (9.52%) Cyberattack
3 172 (9.41%) Linux Command Line
4 86 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 25 (1.37%) SCADA
6 23 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 16 (0.88%) Cloud Native
8 13 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 12 (0.66%) Driving Licence
10 10 (0.55%) Mobile App
10 10 (0.55%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.44%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.33%) Device Driver
13 6 (0.33%) IoT
13 6 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.27%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 203 (11.11%) Linux
2 17 (0.93%) Windows
3 9 (0.49%) Unix
4 8 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.22%) Android
6 4 (0.22%) CentOS
6 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (35.78%) Systems Engineering
2 430 (23.52%) Agile
3 323 (17.67%) Coaching
4 275 (15.04%) Software Engineering
5 269 (14.72%) Mentoring
6 247 (13.51%) Mathematics
7 245 (13.40%) Change Management
8 213 (11.65%) Microservices
9 209 (11.43%) Physics
10 207 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
11 206 (11.27%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 205 (11.21%) Scrum
13 204 (11.16%) User Experience
14 192 (10.50%) Machine Learning
15 187 (10.23%) Business Case
15 187 (10.23%) Cloud Security
16 184 (10.07%) Data Engineering
17 177 (9.68%) Requirements Management
18 174 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 146 (7.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 257 (14.06%) Python
2 247 (13.51%) Java
3 235 (12.86%) JavaScript
4 182 (9.96%) Go
5 180 (9.85%) C++
6 175 (9.57%) Rust
7 73 (3.99%) TypeScript
8 64 (3.50%) C#
9 63 (3.45%) MATLAB
10 57 (3.12%) SQL
11 21 (1.15%) C
12 19 (1.04%) PHP
12 19 (1.04%) VB
13 15 (0.82%) Ada
14 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.27%) Bash
15 5 (0.27%) Ruby
15 5 (0.27%) Scala
15 5 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,127 (61.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 954 (52.19%) Degree
3 405 (22.16%) HND
4 246 (13.46%) HNC
5 189 (10.34%) Security Cleared
6 181 (9.90%) AWS Certification
7 179 (9.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 172 (9.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 172 (9.41%) DV Cleared
9 157 (8.59%) Chartered Engineer
10 118 (6.46%) Master's Degree
11 48 (2.63%) Numerate Degree
12 19 (1.04%) PMP
13 15 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 12 (0.66%) ACCA
14 12 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.49%) SC Cleared
16 8 (0.44%) CIMA
17 6 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.72%) ISO 9001
1 68 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 35 (1.91%) IEC 61508
3 24 (1.31%) QA
4 23 (1.26%) ARP4754
4 23 (1.26%) DO-254
5 18 (0.98%) NEBOSH
6 13 (0.71%) GDPR
7 12 (0.66%) Def Stans
8 10 (0.55%) NIST
9 9 (0.49%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.33%) GAAP
12 6 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.33%) IFRS
13 5 (0.27%) HAZOP
14 4 (0.22%) SLA
15 2 (0.11%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (2.74%) Docker
2 12 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.22%) vSphere
5 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.64%) Terraform
3 10 (0.55%) SCCM
4 9 (0.49%) Ansible
5 6 (0.33%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.22%) SCOM
6 4 (0.22%) SCOrch
7 3 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.16%) Istio
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 50 (2.74%) MathWorks
3 45 (2.46%) ANSYS
4 37 (2.02%) Siemens
5 32 (1.75%) Google
6 18 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 14 (0.77%) VMware
8 13 (0.71%) Bloomberg
9 11 (0.60%) Cisco
9 11 (0.60%) Keysight
9 11 (0.60%) Ping Identity
10 10 (0.55%) SAP
11 9 (0.49%) Oracle
12 7 (0.38%) IBM
13 5 (0.27%) Databricks
13 5 (0.27%) Xilinx
14 4 (0.22%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.22%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.22%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.16%) Apple