Senior Jobs in Salford

Senior
Manchester > Salford

The median Senior salary in Salford is £72,192 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 8 1 39
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 6 38 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 14.29% 26.95% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.38% 27.54% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 3
10th Percentile £64,069 £35,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £64,509 £36,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,192 £45,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.43% -33.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,275 £75,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,750 £78,250
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +12.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Salford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Salford. 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 Salford with a recognized job title 39 138 127
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 97.87% 83.55%
Number of salaries quoted 28 99 57
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £35,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -9.09% +19.57%
75th Percentile £74,258 £62,200 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £76,250 £75,000
Manchester median annual salary £57,500 £53,503 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.47% -6.95% +4.55%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Salford

Senior
Salary Trend in Salford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior in Salford.

Salary trend for Senior in Salford

Senior
Salary Histogram in Salford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Salford over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Salford

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford

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 Salford region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Redis
2 3 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) Django
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (50.00%) Pulumi

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (50.00%) dbt
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google