Senior Developer Jobs in the North West

Senior Developer
England > North West

The median Senior Developer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 101 73
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 323 265 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.28% 3.38% 4.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.47% 3.80% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 246 180 274
10th Percentile £43,381 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +13.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £86,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 9,310 6,965 8,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 88.96% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,147 4,048 5,399
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the North West

Senior Developer
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 Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Manchester +15 199 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Merseyside +39 62 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Cheshire +10 42 £51,000 -24.44% 10
Cumbria - 10 £60,000 -
Lancashire -13 9 £50,000 -11.11% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 100 (30.96%) Agile
2 91 (28.17%) AWS
3 84 (26.01%) JavaScript
4 71 (21.98%) C#
5 68 (21.05%) .NET
6 66 (20.43%) Azure
7 61 (18.89%) PHP
7 61 (18.89%) React
8 58 (17.96%) SQL
9 51 (15.79%) Finance
9 51 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
10 46 (14.24%) DevOps
11 44 (13.62%) Laravel
11 44 (13.62%) TDD
12 43 (13.31%) Node.js
13 42 (13.00%) MySQL
13 42 (13.00%) Clean Code
14 40 (12.38%) Unit Testing
15 37 (11.46%) Design Patterns
16 35 (10.84%) CSS
17 33 (10.22%) Java
17 33 (10.22%) Degree
17 33 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (9.91%) Software Engineering
19 31 (9.60%) REST
20 30 (9.29%) Docker
20 30 (9.29%) Vue
20 30 (9.29%) CI/CD
21 29 (8.98%) Social Skills
21 29 (8.98%) AngularJS

Senior Developer 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 9 (2.79%) CMS
2 2 (0.62%) Apache
2 2 (0.62%) Apache Solr
2 2 (0.62%) Confluence
2 2 (0.62%) nginx
2 2 (0.62%) SAS
2 2 (0.62%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.31%) Jetty
3 1 (0.31%) Kentico
3 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.93%) Magento
2 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 91 (28.17%) AWS
2 66 (20.43%) Azure
3 29 (8.98%) SaaS
4 17 (5.26%) GCP
5 16 (4.95%) GitHub
6 13 (4.02%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (3.10%) Google Play
9 9 (2.79%) Serverless
10 8 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.17%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.17%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.86%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.55%) NuGet
13 5 (1.55%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.00%) MySQL
2 28 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.95%) Oracle Database
3 16 (4.95%) Oracle Database 11g
4 11 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.10%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.17%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.86%) Power BI
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.24%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.62%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.62%) Tableau
12 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.74%) Git
2 13 (4.02%) PHPUnit
3 10 (3.10%) Appium
4 6 (1.86%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.55%) JetBrains Rider
6 3 (0.93%) GitLab
6 3 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.93%) JIRA
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) Storybook
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 51 (15.79%) Finance
2 29 (8.98%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.95%) Banking
4 12 (3.72%) Retail
5 10 (3.10%) Health Technology
6 8 (2.48%) Marketing
7 7 (2.17%) Games
7 7 (2.17%) Legal
8 5 (1.55%) Law
9 4 (1.24%) Publishing
10 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.93%) Police
11 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Automotive
12 1 (0.31%) Back Office
12 1 (0.31%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.05%) .NET
2 61 (18.89%) React
3 44 (13.62%) Laravel
4 43 (13.31%) Node.js
5 35 (10.84%) CSS
6 31 (9.60%) REST
7 30 (9.29%) Vue
8 29 (8.98%) AngularJS
9 27 (8.36%) HTML
10 19 (5.88%) RESTful
11 18 (5.57%) .NET Core
11 18 (5.57%) Kafka
12 16 (4.95%) JSON
13 15 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (4.02%) .NET Framework
14 13 (4.02%) Symfony
15 10 (3.10%) Android SDK
15 10 (3.10%) jQuery
15 10 (3.10%) React Native
16 9 (2.79%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.72%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.41%) PropTech
5 10 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (2.48%) IoT
7 7 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.93%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.93%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.62%) Clustering
12 2 (0.62%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.19%) Linux
2 18 (5.57%) Android
3 14 (4.33%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.93%) Windows
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.96%) Agile
2 51 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
3 46 (14.24%) DevOps
4 44 (13.62%) TDD
5 42 (13.00%) Clean Code
6 40 (12.38%) Unit Testing
7 37 (11.46%) Design Patterns
8 33 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (9.91%) Software Engineering
10 30 (9.29%) CI/CD
11 28 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (8.67%) Mentoring
11 28 (8.67%) Secure Coding
12 27 (8.36%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (8.36%) Front End Development
12 27 (8.36%) Scrum
13 26 (8.05%) OOP
14 25 (7.74%) MVC
15 24 (7.43%) User Experience
16 22 (6.81%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (26.01%) JavaScript
2 71 (21.98%) C#
3 61 (18.89%) PHP
4 58 (17.96%) SQL
5 33 (10.22%) Java
6 27 (8.36%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.95%) PL/SQL
8 15 (4.64%) Python
9 11 (3.41%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.10%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.86%) Go
12 3 (0.93%) Ruby
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.62%) R
13 2 (0.62%) Swift
14 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (10.22%) Degree
2 14 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.19%) QA
2 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (9.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 19 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (7.43%) Google
2 21 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.88%) Oracle
4 10 (3.10%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.55%) PayPal
5 5 (1.55%) WorldPay
6 2 (0.62%) Adobe
6 2 (0.62%) Coremetrics
6 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.62%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.31%) Atlassian