Senior Jobs in Manchester

Senior
North West > Manchester

The median Senior salary in Manchester is £60,000 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 5 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 931 660 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.22% 14.12% 15.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.20% 15.33% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 654 420 581
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,200 £39,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.75% +4.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,115 4,304 5,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 92.06% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,925 2,573 3,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,588
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,874 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,159 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,150 £82,500 £85,000
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Senior in Manchester

Senior
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior within the Manchester 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
Salford +40 38 £45,000 -33.33% 8
Stockport +37 23 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Altrincham -2 8 £67,500 +61.50% 4
Bolton - 8 £30,150 - 5
Rochdale - 7 £32,500 - 1
Wigan +7 1 - - 2
Bury - 1 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 1 - -
Senior
North West

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

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 Manchester region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 289 (31.04%) Agile
2 241 (25.89%) AWS
3 199 (21.37%) Software Engineering
4 188 (20.19%) Mentoring
5 181 (19.44%) Azure
6 166 (17.83%) Coaching
7 158 (16.97%) DevOps
8 148 (15.90%) Social Skills
9 142 (15.25%) Finance
10 130 (13.96%) Degree
11 126 (13.53%) SQL
12 112 (12.03%) Python
13 102 (10.96%) JavaScript
14 98 (10.53%) React
14 98 (10.53%) Terraform
15 96 (10.31%) Microsoft
16 93 (9.99%) CI/CD
17 90 (9.67%) C#
17 90 (9.67%) Problem-Solving
18 89 (9.56%) Analytics
19 83 (8.92%) .NET
20 79 (8.49%) Kubernetes
21 78 (8.38%) Java
22 77 (8.27%) TDD
23 76 (8.16%) Public Sector
24 67 (7.20%) Computer Science
25 64 (6.87%) Linux
26 63 (6.77%) Project Management
26 63 (6.77%) Artificial Intelligence
26 63 (6.77%) Analytical Skills

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 22 (2.36%) ArcGIS
2 18 (1.93%) GeoServer
3 14 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.18%) SAS
6 10 (1.07%) CMS
7 8 (0.86%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.64%) Tuxedo
9 4 (0.43%) Confluence
10 3 (0.32%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Apache
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.21%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) Jetty
12 1 (0.11%) Kentico
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.43%) Maya
4 4 (0.43%) Sketch
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.07%) Magento
2 9 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.21%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.21%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 241 (25.89%) AWS
2 181 (19.44%) Azure
3 48 (5.16%) GCP
4 43 (4.62%) Amazon S3
5 37 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (3.87%) Power Platform
6 36 (3.87%) SaaS
7 31 (3.33%) IBM Cloud
8 30 (3.22%) Amazon ECR
8 30 (3.22%) OCI
8 30 (3.22%) Route 53
9 27 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (2.58%) GitHub
11 22 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.15%) Entra ID
12 20 (2.15%) Serverless
13 19 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.58%) WAN
2 23 (2.47%) Network Security
3 20 (2.15%) SD-WAN
4 16 (1.72%) DNS
5 12 (1.29%) Firewall
6 10 (1.07%) LAN
7 9 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (0.86%) DHCP
8 8 (0.86%) VPN
9 7 (0.75%) SSL
9 7 (0.75%) WLAN
10 6 (0.64%) Ethernet
10 6 (0.64%) HTTP
10 6 (0.64%) TETRA
10 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.54%) IPsec
11 5 (0.54%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.43%) RS-232
12 4 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (4.30%) MySQL
3 37 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.04%) GIS
8 19 (2.04%) Power BI
8 19 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (1.93%) Big Data
9 18 (1.93%) QGIS
10 17 (1.83%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.40%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.07%) Redis
15 9 (0.97%) Metadata
16 8 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (6.23%) Git
2 24 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.72%) GitLab
4 11 (1.18%) Appium
5 10 (1.07%) JIRA
6 8 (0.86%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.75%) Gradle
8 6 (0.64%) Gatling
9 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.54%) webpack
10 4 (0.43%) Subversion
11 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.21%) Maven
12 2 (0.21%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.11%) NUnit
General
1 148 (15.90%) Social Skills
2 142 (15.25%) Finance
3 76 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (6.34%) Retail
6 51 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (4.30%) Banking
8 25 (2.69%) Legal
9 22 (2.36%) Law
10 19 (2.04%) Health Technology
11 16 (1.72%) Games
11 16 (1.72%) Marketing
11 16 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.61%) Electronics
13 12 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.18%) Automotive
15 10 (1.07%) Local Government
16 9 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.86%) Publishing
17 8 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (10.53%) React
2 83 (8.92%) .NET
3 49 (5.26%) Node.js
4 48 (5.16%) CSS
5 41 (4.40%) HTML
6 37 (3.97%) RESTful
7 32 (3.44%) REST
8 30 (3.22%) .NET Core
9 29 (3.11%) Kafka
10 26 (2.79%) AngularJS
10 26 (2.79%) Laravel
11 21 (2.26%) JSON
12 18 (1.93%) Leaflet
12 18 (1.93%) OpenLayers
12 18 (1.93%) PostGIS
12 18 (1.93%) Spring
13 17 (1.83%) GraphQL
14 15 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (1.50%) Web Services
16 12 (1.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 39 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (4.08%) Blockchain
4 33 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.33%) e-Learning
7 27 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.04%) Blog
10 18 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.83%) Driving Licence
12 15 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.40%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.29%) PropTech
14 12 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
15 10 (1.07%) Cloud Native
16 9 (0.97%) IoT
16 9 (0.97%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.87%) Linux
2 45 (4.83%) Windows
3 14 (1.50%) Android
4 12 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.64%) Unix
6 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (31.04%) Agile
2 199 (21.37%) Software Engineering
3 188 (20.19%) Mentoring
4 166 (17.83%) Coaching
5 158 (16.97%) DevOps
6 93 (9.99%) CI/CD
7 90 (9.67%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (9.56%) Analytics
9 77 (8.27%) TDD
10 67 (7.20%) Computer Science
11 63 (6.77%) Artificial Intelligence
11 63 (6.77%) Project Management
11 63 (6.77%) Roadmaps
12 58 (6.23%) Test Automation
13 57 (6.12%) Actionable Insight
14 52 (5.59%) Containerisation
15 50 (5.37%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (5.37%) Open Source
16 49 (5.26%) Design Patterns
17 48 (5.16%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 126 (13.53%) SQL
2 112 (12.03%) Python
3 102 (10.96%) JavaScript
4 90 (9.67%) C#
5 78 (8.38%) Java
6 59 (6.34%) TypeScript
7 42 (4.51%) PHP
8 22 (2.36%) T-SQL
9 19 (2.04%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.61%) C
11 14 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.07%) Go
12 10 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.07%) Scala
13 8 (0.86%) R
14 7 (0.75%) Rust
15 6 (0.64%) C++
15 6 (0.64%) COBOL
15 6 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.64%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 130 (13.96%) Degree
2 54 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 45 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (2.47%) CCNP
6 23 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.61%) CCNA
8 14 (1.50%) JNCIA
8 14 (1.50%) JNCIP
9 11 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.18%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.86%) CCIE
12 7 (0.75%) CISSP
13 6 (0.64%) ACCA
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.64%) CISA
13 6 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.11%) QA
2 28 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.40%) WCAG
5 11 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.18%) NIST
6 8 (0.86%) GDPR
6 8 (0.86%) PMO
6 8 (0.86%) SLA
7 5 (0.54%) GMP
7 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.43%) IFRS
8 4 (0.43%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.43%) NCSC
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 50 (5.37%) Docker
2 29 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.04%) Firmware
4 7 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.43%) RACF
7 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (10.53%) Terraform
2 79 (8.49%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.22%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.61%) Ansible
5 13 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.97%) Stealthwatch
7 6 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.54%) CASB
8 5 (0.54%) WSUS
9 3 (0.32%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
10 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 96 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.51%) IBM
3 41 (4.40%) Cisco
4 34 (3.65%) Google
5 31 (3.33%) Oracle
5 31 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 30 (3.22%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.04%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.93%) ESRI
9 16 (1.72%) Adobe
10 15 (1.61%) Juniper
10 15 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.50%) Apple
11 14 (1.50%) Meraki
11 14 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.40%) CA
13 11 (1.18%) SAP
13 11 (1.18%) VMware
14 10 (1.07%) Databricks
14 10 (1.07%) MuleSoft