Senior Job Trends in Salford

Senior
Manchester > Salford

The median Senior salary in Salford is £74,401 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 10 30 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 8.47% 30.00% 26.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.11% 30.93% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 1
10th Percentile £55,000 - -
25th Percentile £58,453 £40,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £59,430 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% -25.71% +56.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,310 £82,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 -
Manchester median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 90 97 51
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.27% 97.00% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 55 24 30
10th Percentile £26,700 £40,000 £41,011
25th Percentile £31,625 £44,000 £42,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,430 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +10.57% +2.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,013 £61,445
90th Percentile £76,500 £74,144 £69,800
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Salford.

Senior job vacancy trend in Salford

Senior
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Salford.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Salford

Senior
Salary Histogram in Salford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Salford over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior in Salford

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Salford region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (30.00%) Biometrics
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (20.00%) dbt
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Django
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Observability
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Redis
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) dbt
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (30.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (30.00%) Biometrics
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Observability
3 2 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google