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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 956 649 867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.00% 14.20% 15.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.92% 15.46% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 669 418 570
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,100 £39,107
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,730
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.59% +4.96%
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 5,335 4,197 5,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.86% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,033 2,583 3,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,348 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +38 42 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Stockport +33 23 £50,000 +5.26% 9
Altrincham -2 9 £67,500 +61.50% 4
Bolton - 8 £30,150 - 6
Rochdale - 7 £32,500 - 1
Wigan +10 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 2 June 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.

1 288 (30.13%) Agile
2 245 (25.63%) AWS
3 206 (21.55%) Software Engineering
4 188 (19.67%) Mentoring
5 181 (18.93%) Azure
6 166 (17.36%) Coaching
7 157 (16.42%) DevOps
8 146 (15.27%) Social Skills
9 138 (14.44%) Finance
10 133 (13.91%) Degree
11 125 (13.08%) SQL
12 113 (11.82%) Python
13 104 (10.88%) JavaScript
14 103 (10.77%) React
15 97 (10.15%) Microsoft
16 95 (9.94%) Terraform
17 93 (9.73%) CI/CD
18 92 (9.62%) Analytics
18 92 (9.62%) C#
19 90 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
20 85 (8.89%) .NET
21 80 (8.37%) Java
21 80 (8.37%) TDD
22 77 (8.05%) Public Sector
22 77 (8.05%) Kubernetes
23 68 (7.11%) Computer Science
24 64 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
25 63 (6.59%) Project Management
25 63 (6.59%) Linux
25 63 (6.59%) 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 (2.30%) ArcGIS
2 18 (1.88%) GeoServer
3 14 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.15%) CMS
5 11 (1.15%) SAS
6 8 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.63%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.52%) Confluence
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Apache
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.10%) Jetty
11 1 (0.10%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.42%) Maya
4 4 (0.42%) Sketch
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Magento
2 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.42%) 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 (0.10%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (25.63%) AWS
2 181 (18.93%) Azure
3 47 (4.92%) GCP
4 42 (4.39%) Amazon S3
5 37 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
5 37 (3.87%) Power Platform
5 37 (3.87%) SaaS
6 31 (3.24%) IBM Cloud
7 30 (3.14%) Amazon ECR
7 30 (3.14%) OCI
7 30 (3.14%) Route 53
8 28 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (2.41%) GitHub
10 21 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.09%) Entra ID
12 19 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.99%) Serverless
13 12 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.62%) WAN
2 23 (2.41%) Network Security
3 21 (2.20%) SD-WAN
4 16 (1.67%) DNS
5 12 (1.26%) Firewall
6 10 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (1.05%) LAN
7 8 (0.84%) DHCP
7 8 (0.84%) VPN
8 7 (0.73%) SSL
8 7 (0.73%) WLAN
9 6 (0.63%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.63%) HTTP
9 6 (0.63%) TETRA
9 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.52%) IPsec
10 5 (0.52%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.52%) Wireless
11 4 (0.42%) RS-232
11 4 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (4.18%) MySQL
3 37 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (3.66%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 20 (2.09%) Power BI
8 19 (1.99%) GIS
8 19 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (1.88%) Big Data
9 18 (1.88%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.88%) QGIS
10 17 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.36%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.15%) Redis
15 9 (0.94%) Metadata
16 8 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (5.96%) Git
2 23 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.67%) GitLab
4 11 (1.15%) Appium
4 11 (1.15%) JIRA
5 8 (0.84%) LabVIEW
6 7 (0.73%) Gatling
6 7 (0.73%) Gradle
7 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.52%) webpack
8 4 (0.42%) Subversion
9 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.21%) Maven
10 2 (0.21%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.10%) Storybook
General
1 146 (15.27%) Social Skills
2 138 (14.44%) Finance
3 77 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.28%) Retail
6 51 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (3.77%) Banking
8 24 (2.51%) Legal
9 23 (2.41%) Law
10 19 (1.99%) Health Technology
11 16 (1.67%) Electronics
11 16 (1.67%) Games
11 16 (1.67%) Marketing
12 15 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.26%) Automotive
15 10 (1.05%) Local Government
16 9 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.84%) Publishing
17 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (10.77%) React
2 85 (8.89%) .NET
3 53 (5.54%) Node.js
4 50 (5.23%) CSS
5 43 (4.50%) HTML
6 38 (3.97%) RESTful
7 34 (3.56%) REST
8 31 (3.24%) .NET Core
9 29 (3.03%) Kafka
10 26 (2.72%) AngularJS
10 26 (2.72%) Laravel
11 21 (2.20%) JSON
12 18 (1.88%) GraphQL
12 18 (1.88%) Leaflet
12 18 (1.88%) OpenLayers
12 18 (1.88%) PostGIS
12 18 (1.88%) Spring
13 15 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (1.57%) Web Services
14 13 (1.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.02%) Data Centre
2 39 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (3.97%) Blockchain
4 32 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.35%) Product Ownership
5 31 (3.24%) e-Learning
6 27 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.62%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.09%) Blog
9 18 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.78%) Driving Licence
11 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.36%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.26%) PropTech
13 12 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (1.05%) Cloud Native
15 9 (0.94%) IoT
15 9 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.59%) Linux
2 45 (4.71%) Windows
3 14 (1.46%) Android
4 12 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.63%) Unix
6 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (30.13%) Agile
2 206 (21.55%) Software Engineering
3 188 (19.67%) Mentoring
4 166 (17.36%) Coaching
5 157 (16.42%) DevOps
6 93 (9.73%) CI/CD
7 92 (9.62%) Analytics
8 90 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (8.37%) TDD
10 68 (7.11%) Computer Science
11 64 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
12 63 (6.59%) Project Management
13 62 (6.49%) Roadmaps
14 58 (6.07%) Actionable Insight
14 58 (6.07%) Test Automation
15 52 (5.44%) Containerisation
16 51 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
16 51 (5.33%) Open Source
17 49 (5.13%) Design Patterns
17 49 (5.13%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 125 (13.08%) SQL
2 113 (11.82%) Python
3 104 (10.88%) JavaScript
4 92 (9.62%) C#
5 80 (8.37%) Java
6 61 (6.38%) TypeScript
7 42 (4.39%) PHP
8 22 (2.30%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.57%) C
11 13 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.15%) Scala
13 10 (1.05%) Go
13 10 (1.05%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.94%) C++
15 8 (0.84%) R
16 7 (0.73%) Rust
17 6 (0.63%) COBOL
17 6 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.63%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 133 (13.91%) Degree
2 54 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 45 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 42 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (2.51%) CCNP
7 23 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.67%) CCNA
9 15 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.46%) JNCIA
10 14 (1.46%) JNCIP
11 12 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.15%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.84%) CCIE
15 7 (0.73%) CISSP
16 6 (0.63%) ACCA
16 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.63%) CISA
16 6 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.03%) QA
2 28 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.36%) WCAG
5 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.15%) NIST
7 8 (0.84%) GDPR
7 8 (0.84%) PMO
7 8 (0.84%) SLA
8 5 (0.52%) GMP
8 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.42%) IFRS
9 4 (0.42%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 48 (5.02%) Docker
2 30 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.99%) Firmware
4 8 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.42%) RACF
7 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) XenApp
9 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 95 (9.94%) Terraform
2 77 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 30 (3.14%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.46%) Ansible
5 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.05%) Stealthwatch
7 6 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.52%) CASB
8 5 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.52%) WSUS
9 3 (0.31%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.10%) Puppet
10 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 97 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 43 (4.50%) Cisco
3 41 (4.29%) IBM
4 33 (3.45%) Google
5 31 (3.24%) Oracle
5 31 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 30 (3.14%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.99%) Fortinet
8 18 (1.88%) ESRI
9 17 (1.78%) Adobe
10 16 (1.67%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.57%) Apple
11 15 (1.57%) Juniper
11 15 (1.57%) Meraki
12 14 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.36%) CA
14 12 (1.26%) VMware
15 11 (1.15%) SAP
16 10 (1.05%) MuleSoft
17 9 (0.94%) Databricks