Senior Jobs in Cheshire

Senior
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior salary in Cheshire is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 158 93 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.77% 10.40% 11.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.12% 11.71% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 131 57 39
10th Percentile £36,250 £52,233 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £52,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,899 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +5.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,296 £80,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £94,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,561 794 1,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.48% 88.81% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 480 568
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,240 £23,838
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,479 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £88,750 £71,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in Cheshire

Senior
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Warrington -18 31 £57,500 -5.43% 22
Chester -3 20 £62,500 +4.17% 7
Alderley Edge +4 13 £50,000 -13.04%
Crewe +5 11 £57,500 -14.81% 4
Northwich - 9 £37,500 - 1
Knutsford -7 8 £105,000 +13.51% 2
Middlewich - 7 £40,000 - 4
Macclesfield -5 3 £52,500 - 1
Winsford - 1 £40,000 - 1
Widnes - 1 £50,000 - 1
Ellesmere Port - 1 £70,000 - 1
Frodsham - 1 - -
Senior
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 Cheshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 41 (25.95%) Software Engineering
2 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.99%) Agile
4 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
5 27 (17.09%) Azure
6 26 (16.46%) JavaScript
7 24 (15.19%) Microsoft
7 24 (15.19%) AWS
8 20 (12.66%) C#
9 18 (11.39%) PHP
9 18 (11.39%) .NET
9 18 (11.39%) Linux
10 17 (10.76%) Mentoring
11 16 (10.13%) Docker
12 15 (9.49%) DevOps
12 15 (9.49%) SQL
12 15 (9.49%) Degree
13 14 (8.86%) Finance
13 14 (8.86%) C++
14 11 (6.96%) Test Automation
14 11 (6.96%) Multithreading
14 11 (6.96%) SaaS
14 11 (6.96%) VMware
14 11 (6.96%) Firewall
14 11 (6.96%) Windows
14 11 (6.96%) Project Management
14 11 (6.96%) Kubernetes
14 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
15 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
15 10 (6.33%) REST

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (1.27%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.63%) SAP APO
1 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.63%) SAP PP
1 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.63%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.09%) Azure
2 24 (15.19%) AWS
3 11 (6.96%) SaaS
4 6 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.80%) IBM Cloud
4 6 (3.80%) OCI
4 6 (3.80%) Route 53
5 5 (3.16%) NuGet
6 4 (2.53%) GCP
6 4 (2.53%) npm
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.27%) Serverless
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.63%) IaaS
9 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) Firewall
2 9 (5.70%) DNS
2 9 (5.70%) LAN
2 9 (5.70%) WAN
3 7 (4.43%) DHCP
3 7 (4.43%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.80%) MQTT
5 4 (2.53%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.53%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.53%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (2.53%) IPv4
5 4 (2.53%) IPv6
6 2 (1.27%) SAN
7 1 (0.63%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.63%) Modbus
7 1 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.43%) MySQL
2 6 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.33%) TeamCity
2 6 (3.80%) Git
3 5 (3.16%) JetBrains Rider
3 5 (3.16%) JMeter
3 5 (3.16%) Selenium
4 3 (1.90%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.90%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.27%) JUnit
5 2 (1.27%) TestNG
General
1 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.86%) Finance
3 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.43%) Health Technology
6 7 (4.43%) Law
6 7 (4.43%) Retail
6 7 (4.43%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.53%) Publishing
9 3 (1.90%) Electronics
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.39%) .NET
2 10 (6.33%) REST
3 7 (4.43%) Laravel
3 7 (4.43%) React
4 6 (3.80%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.80%) CSS
4 6 (3.80%) Vue
5 5 (3.16%) Apache Thrift
5 5 (3.16%) Node.js
5 5 (3.16%) Web Services
6 4 (2.53%) React Native
7 3 (1.90%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.90%) EDI
7 3 (1.90%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.27%) RESTful
8 2 (1.27%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.63%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.63%) Node-RED
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.80%) Blockchain
1 6 (3.80%) e-Learning
1 6 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (3.80%) IoT
1 6 (3.80%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.16%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.27%) FMCG
4 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.63%) FPGA
5 1 (0.63%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.63%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.63%) SCADA
5 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.39%) Linux
2 11 (6.96%) Windows
3 6 (3.80%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (3.16%) VMS
5 4 (2.53%) Android
5 4 (2.53%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.95%) Software Engineering
2 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.99%) Agile
4 17 (10.76%) Mentoring
5 15 (9.49%) DevOps
6 11 (6.96%) Multithreading
6 11 (6.96%) Project Management
6 11 (6.96%) Test Automation
7 10 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (5.70%) Embedded Software Development
8 9 (5.70%) Fintech
9 8 (5.06%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (5.06%) Decision-Making
9 8 (5.06%) SDLC
10 7 (4.43%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (4.43%) CRM
11 6 (3.80%) ITIL
11 6 (3.80%) Observability
11 6 (3.80%) OO
11 6 (3.80%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.46%) JavaScript
2 20 (12.66%) C#
3 18 (11.39%) PHP
4 15 (9.49%) SQL
5 14 (8.86%) C++
6 5 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.53%) C
7 4 (2.53%) Java
8 1 (0.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (9.49%) Degree
2 6 (3.80%) HND
3 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.53%) CCNP
4 4 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.90%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.63%) HNC
6 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) ISO 9000
2 4 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (10.13%) Docker
2 10 (6.33%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.70%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (1.27%) Firmware
6 1 (0.63%) Lustre
6 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 11 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.70%) Terraform
3 6 (3.80%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.63%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.63%) Icinga
5 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.96%) VMware
3 10 (6.33%) Google
4 8 (5.06%) Cisco
5 7 (4.43%) F5
5 7 (4.43%) IBM
6 6 (3.80%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.80%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.53%) Aruba
7 4 (2.53%) Datto
7 4 (2.53%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.53%) HP
7 4 (2.53%) NETGEAR
7 4 (2.53%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.53%) SAP
7 4 (2.53%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (2.53%) Veeam
8 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.63%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.63%) Siemens