Senior Jobs in the North West

Senior
England > North West

The median Senior salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1,457 993 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.77% 12.62% 12.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.61% 14.14% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 617 747
10th Percentile £40,988 £43,515 £38,947
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% - +9.38%

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 9,331 7,025 8,989
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.29% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,169 4,098 5,355
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior in the North West

Senior
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior in the North West

Senior
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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 +9 903 £60,000 -5.51% 194
Merseyside +30 193 £60,000 +4.35% 22
Lancashire +17 163 £57,965 +14.22% 54
Cheshire +6 151 £57,500 -5.43% 66
Cumbria -7 44 £45,000 -18.18% 17
Senior
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 North West region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 436 (29.92%) Agile
2 318 (21.83%) AWS
3 291 (19.97%) Mentoring
4 279 (19.15%) Software Engineering
5 272 (18.67%) Azure
6 249 (17.09%) Coaching
7 226 (15.51%) Social Skills
8 215 (14.76%) DevOps
9 206 (14.14%) Finance
10 183 (12.56%) SQL
11 179 (12.29%) Degree
12 170 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
13 165 (11.32%) JavaScript
14 159 (10.91%) Python
15 136 (9.33%) Microsoft
16 131 (8.99%) React
17 130 (8.92%) C#
18 128 (8.79%) .NET
19 124 (8.51%) Public Sector
20 117 (8.03%) Terraform
21 116 (7.96%) Linux
22 114 (7.82%) Actionable Insight
23 108 (7.41%) Security Cleared
24 105 (7.21%) Java
25 103 (7.07%) Analytics
26 98 (6.73%) Project Management
27 97 (6.66%) Kubernetes
28 96 (6.59%) CI/CD
29 94 (6.45%) SC Cleared
30 88 (6.04%) Roadmaps

Senior 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 41 (2.81%) ArcGIS
2 37 (2.54%) GeoServer
3 21 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.10%) SAS
6 12 (0.82%) Tuxedo
7 10 (0.69%) CMS
8 8 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.55%) Confluence
9 3 (0.21%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Apache
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.069%) Kentico
11 1 (0.069%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.55%) Sketch
4 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.27%) Maya
7 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.14%) Revit
9 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.62%) Magento
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.069%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.069%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.069%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 318 (21.83%) AWS
2 272 (18.67%) Azure
3 52 (3.57%) GCP
4 49 (3.36%) Amazon S3
5 46 (3.16%) SaaS
6 44 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (3.02%) Power Platform
7 37 (2.54%) IBM Cloud
8 36 (2.47%) Amazon ECR
8 36 (2.47%) OCI
8 36 (2.47%) Route 53
9 35 (2.40%) GitHub
10 32 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (2.06%) Entra ID
13 24 (1.65%) Serverless
14 23 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (1.10%) OneDrive
16 14 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (0.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.54%) DNS
1 37 (2.54%) WAN
2 30 (2.06%) Firewall
3 28 (1.92%) Network Security
4 25 (1.72%) LAN
5 21 (1.44%) DHCP
5 21 (1.44%) PPP
5 21 (1.44%) SD-WAN
6 19 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.89%) Wireless
8 11 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (0.62%) HTTP
9 9 (0.62%) MQTT
9 9 (0.62%) VPN
9 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.55%) SSL
10 8 (0.55%) TETRA
11 7 (0.48%) BGP
11 7 (0.48%) VoIP
11 7 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (3.98%) MySQL
3 43 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (2.88%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.61%) GIS
6 37 (2.54%) QGIS
7 33 (2.26%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.65%) Power BI
9 21 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.30%) Oracle Database
12 18 (1.24%) Big Data
12 18 (1.24%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 14 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
14 11 (0.75%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.75%) Metadata
15 9 (0.62%) Data Vault
15 9 (0.62%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (5.83%) Git
2 27 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 27 (1.85%) JIRA
3 22 (1.51%) GitLab
4 13 (0.89%) PHPUnit
5 12 (0.82%) Appium
6 9 (0.62%) Maven
6 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 8 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.55%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.48%) Gradle
9 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.34%) JetBrains Rider
9 5 (0.34%) Selenium
9 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.34%) webpack
10 4 (0.27%) Subversion
11 3 (0.21%) JMeter
11 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 226 (15.51%) Social Skills
2 206 (14.14%) Finance
3 124 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 84 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (4.87%) Retail
6 69 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (4.26%) Banking
8 50 (3.43%) Legal
9 36 (2.47%) Law
10 29 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 29 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.78%) Health Technology
12 25 (1.72%) Marketing
13 22 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.37%) Publishing
15 17 (1.17%) Games
16 12 (0.82%) Electronics
16 12 (0.82%) Local Government
16 12 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.75%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.99%) React
2 128 (8.79%) .NET
3 85 (5.83%) CSS
4 66 (4.53%) Node.js
5 57 (3.91%) RESTful
6 56 (3.84%) HTML
7 54 (3.71%) .NET Core
8 46 (3.16%) AngularJS
8 46 (3.16%) Laravel
9 37 (2.54%) Leaflet
9 37 (2.54%) OpenLayers
9 37 (2.54%) PostGIS
10 36 (2.47%) REST
10 36 (2.47%) Vue
11 30 (2.06%) Kafka
12 29 (1.99%) Spring
13 24 (1.65%) JSON
14 19 (1.30%) PySpark
15 18 (1.24%) .NET Framework
16 17 (1.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.12%) Public Cloud
2 54 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 49 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 48 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.09%) Blockchain
7 37 (2.54%) e-Learning
8 35 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.58%) IoT
11 22 (1.51%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.17%) Cyberattack
15 15 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.03%) Reinsurance
16 14 (0.96%) Mobile App
17 13 (0.89%) Blog
17 13 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 116 (7.96%) Linux
2 80 (5.49%) Windows
3 30 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.37%) Android
5 16 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.75%) Unix
8 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.34%) VMS
11 3 (0.21%) VME
12 1 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (29.92%) Agile
2 291 (19.97%) Mentoring
3 279 (19.15%) Software Engineering
4 249 (17.09%) Coaching
5 215 (14.76%) DevOps
6 170 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (7.82%) Actionable Insight
8 103 (7.07%) Analytics
9 98 (6.73%) Project Management
10 96 (6.59%) CI/CD
11 88 (6.04%) Roadmaps
12 83 (5.70%) TDD
13 81 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 75 (5.15%) Full Stack Development
15 74 (5.08%) Design Patterns
16 72 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 71 (4.87%) Test Automation
18 70 (4.80%) Cybersecurity
19 64 (4.39%) Computer Science
20 62 (4.26%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 183 (12.56%) SQL
2 165 (11.32%) JavaScript
3 159 (10.91%) Python
4 130 (8.92%) C#
5 105 (7.21%) Java
6 68 (4.67%) TypeScript
7 67 (4.60%) PHP
8 27 (1.85%) C
9 24 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.58%) PowerShell
11 21 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.24%) C++
13 15 (1.03%) COBOL
13 15 (1.03%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 11 (0.75%) Go
15 10 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.55%) R
17 7 (0.48%) Rust
18 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (12.29%) Degree
2 108 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.72%) CCNP
7 23 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.24%) PMI Certification
11 17 (1.17%) JNCIP
12 14 (0.96%) JNCIA
13 13 (0.89%) CCNA
14 11 (0.75%) HND
15 10 (0.69%) CISSP
15 10 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 9 (0.62%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.62%) GIAC
17 8 (0.55%) CCIE
17 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.29%) Accessibility
2 40 (2.75%) QA
3 29 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 23 (1.58%) GDPR
5 22 (1.51%) WCAG
6 18 (1.24%) NIST
7 14 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.69%) SLA
9 9 (0.62%) GMP
9 9 (0.62%) PMO
10 8 (0.55%) IFRS
10 8 (0.55%) IFRS 9
10 8 (0.55%) ISO 9000
10 8 (0.55%) NCSC
11 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.069%) NIST 800
System Software
1 76 (5.22%) Docker
2 50 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.06%) Firmware
4 16 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) IAG
10 1 (0.069%) Lustre
10 1 (0.069%) RACF
10 1 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.069%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 117 (8.03%) Terraform
2 97 (6.66%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 20 (1.37%) Ansible
5 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.48%) CA Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.48%) Stealthwatch
9 6 (0.41%) WSUS
10 5 (0.34%) CASB
11 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.14%) Icinga
11 2 (0.14%) SCCM
12 1 (0.069%) Grafana
12 1 (0.069%) Graylog
12 1 (0.069%) Nagios
12 1 (0.069%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.069%) Puppet
Vendors
1 136 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 56 (3.84%) Oracle
3 51 (3.50%) Cisco
4 47 (3.23%) IBM
5 44 (3.02%) Google
6 37 (2.54%) ESRI
6 37 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 36 (2.47%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.65%) VMware
9 23 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 22 (1.51%) Juniper
11 20 (1.37%) Databricks
11 20 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 19 (1.30%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.24%) Informatica
14 17 (1.17%) CA
15 15 (1.03%) Micro Focus
16 14 (0.96%) Adobe
16 14 (0.96%) SAP
17 13 (0.89%) F5