Senior Developer
UK

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 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 79 83 64
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3,281 3,807 9,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.20% 3.91% 5.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 4.28% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 2,614 4,593
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK

Senior Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the UK 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
England +5 2,814 £65,000 -13.33% 515
UK excluding London +5 2,183 £60,000 -7.69% 334
Work from Home +17 1,530 £62,500 -10.71% 298
London -4 891 £80,000 -5.88% 211
North of England +37 573 £60,000 -4.00% 95
South East -25 526 £65,000 -7.14% 64
South West +52 413 £58,000 -3.33% 39
North West +39 345 £60,000 -4.00% 64
Midlands -12 284 £60,000 - 71
Yorkshire +55 193 £55,000 -12.00% 25
West Midlands -1 169 £62,500 +4.17% 49
Scotland -89 146 £57,500 -11.54% 22
East Midlands -32 114 £55,000 -12.00% 22
Wales +40 101 £55,000 - 9
East of England -43 99 £60,000 -14.29% 27
Northern Ireland +27 41 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -11 35 £55,000 -21.43% 6

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1,043 (31.79%) JavaScript
2 1,033 (31.48%) C#
3 974 (29.69%) .NET
4 906 (27.61%) Agile
5 810 (24.69%) Azure
6 778 (23.71%) AWS
7 759 (23.13%) SQL
8 693 (21.12%) React
9 568 (17.31%) Social Skills
9 568 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
10 536 (16.34%) DevOps
11 522 (15.91%) HTML
12 512 (15.60%) CSS
13 498 (15.18%) TypeScript
14 485 (14.78%) Finance
15 453 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
16 427 (13.01%) AngularJS
17 416 (12.68%) Java
18 410 (12.50%) Git
19 394 (12.01%) Software Engineering
20 383 (11.67%) Degree
21 378 (11.52%) Microsoft
22 370 (11.28%) CI/CD
23 361 (11.00%) Mentoring
24 349 (10.64%) SQL Server
25 339 (10.33%) Front End Development
26 334 (10.18%) Docker
27 332 (10.12%) PHP
28 313 (9.54%) Python
29 309 (9.42%) ASP.NET

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 115 (3.51%) CMS
2 58 (1.77%) Confluence
3 49 (1.49%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.25%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.22%) Kentico
6 39 (1.19%) IIS
7 38 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 32 (0.98%) WordPress
9 28 (0.85%) Apache
10 17 (0.52%) nginx
11 16 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (0.27%) Drupal
12 9 (0.27%) Mendix
13 8 (0.24%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
14 7 (0.21%) SharePoint
15 6 (0.18%) JBoss
15 6 (0.18%) NServiceBus
15 6 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
16 5 (0.15%) K2 blackpearl
Applications
1 20 (0.61%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Maya
6 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.061%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.030%) Elementor
8 1 (0.030%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (1.04%) Siebel CRM
2 24 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.52%) Magento
3 17 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
3 17 (0.52%) Shopify
4 16 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.12%) Sonata
6 4 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.030%) Endur
8 1 (0.030%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 810 (24.69%) Azure
2 778 (23.71%) AWS
3 206 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
4 205 (6.25%) SaaS
5 192 (5.85%) Power Platform
6 136 (4.15%) GCP
7 121 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
8 113 (3.44%) Serverless
9 109 (3.32%) PowerApps
10 98 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 86 (2.62%) GitHub
12 50 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 46 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
15 36 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 34 (1.04%) Kontent
17 30 (0.91%) Azure Functions
18 29 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
20 22 (0.67%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.55%) Internet
2 7 (0.21%) HTTP
2 7 (0.21%) Network Security
3 6 (0.18%) AMQP
4 5 (0.15%) DNS
4 5 (0.15%) MQTT
4 5 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.15%) VPN
5 4 (0.12%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.12%) Broadband
5 4 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.091%) IPFS
6 3 (0.091%) SSL
6 3 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.030%) CTI
7 1 (0.030%) VoIP
7 1 (0.030%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 210 (6.40%) MySQL
3 209 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 120 (3.66%) Power BI
5 116 (3.54%) NoSQL
6 113 (3.44%) Oracle Database
7 106 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 80 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
9 60 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 52 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 49 (1.49%) DynamoDB
12 41 (1.25%) Redis
13 38 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.04%) Oracle BI EE
14 34 (1.04%) Siebel EIM
15 33 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
16 30 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (0.61%) Power Query
19 15 (0.46%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 410 (12.50%) Git
2 136 (4.15%) JIRA
3 93 (2.83%) Visual Studio
4 65 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 49 (1.49%) Sourcetree
6 41 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 40 (1.22%) Jenkins
8 37 (1.13%) Selenium
9 36 (1.10%) NUnit
10 32 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
11 28 (0.85%) webpack
12 27 (0.82%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.79%) Moq
14 25 (0.76%) JUnit
15 22 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
16 20 (0.61%) Android Studio
17 19 (0.58%) git-flow
18 18 (0.55%) SpecFlow
18 18 (0.55%) Storybook
19 17 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 568 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 485 (14.78%) Finance
3 115 (3.51%) Banking
4 105 (3.20%) Marketing
5 101 (3.08%) Retail
6 95 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (2.74%) Games
8 89 (2.71%) Front Office
9 78 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 60 (1.83%) Back Office
11 59 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 48 (1.46%) Legal
13 46 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 41 (1.25%) Law
16 36 (1.10%) Health Technology
17 35 (1.07%) Aerospace
18 32 (0.98%) Investment Banking
18 32 (0.98%) Manufacturing
19 27 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 974 (29.69%) .NET
2 693 (21.12%) React
3 522 (15.91%) HTML
4 512 (15.60%) CSS
5 427 (13.01%) AngularJS
6 309 (9.42%) ASP.NET
7 308 (9.39%) Node.js
8 289 (8.81%) .NET Core
9 267 (8.14%) Vue
10 258 (7.86%) .NET Framework
11 226 (6.89%) RESTful
12 217 (6.61%) REST
13 208 (6.34%) Laravel
14 172 (5.24%) Web Services
15 139 (4.24%) Spring
16 135 (4.11%) Entity Framework
16 135 (4.11%) jQuery
17 127 (3.87%) JSON
18 125 (3.81%) Kafka
19 114 (3.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 197 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
2 103 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 99 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
4 85 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 79 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 73 (2.22%) IoT
7 72 (2.19%) Equities
8 69 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 69 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (2.04%) Derivative
10 63 (1.92%) Hedge funds
11 62 (1.89%) Fixed Income
12 53 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 43 (1.31%) Cloud Native
14 35 (1.07%) Client/Server
14 35 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 30 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (0.91%) Virtual Reality
17 24 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 93 (2.83%) Linux
2 78 (2.38%) Windows
3 75 (2.29%) Android
4 56 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.34%) Unix
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 906 (27.61%) Agile
2 568 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
3 536 (16.34%) DevOps
4 453 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
5 394 (12.01%) Software Engineering
6 370 (11.28%) CI/CD
7 361 (11.00%) Mentoring
8 339 (10.33%) Front End Development
9 300 (9.14%) Microservices
10 288 (8.78%) MVC
11 277 (8.44%) Computer Science
12 272 (8.29%) Unit Testing
13 263 (8.02%) Scrum
14 245 (7.47%) TDD
15 227 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence
16 210 (6.40%) Web Development
17 205 (6.25%) Design Patterns
18 200 (6.10%) User Experience
19 194 (5.91%) E-Commerce
20 188 (5.73%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (31.79%) JavaScript
2 1,033 (31.48%) C#
3 759 (23.13%) SQL
4 498 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 416 (12.68%) Java
6 332 (10.12%) PHP
7 313 (9.54%) Python
8 141 (4.30%) PL/SQL
9 103 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 73 (2.22%) Ruby
11 66 (2.01%) C++
12 62 (1.89%) Go
13 61 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 48 (1.46%) C
15 24 (0.73%) PowerShell
16 22 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (0.67%) Swift
17 21 (0.64%) Scala
18 19 (0.58%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 383 (11.67%) Degree
2 189 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 168 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 123 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.46%) PhD
8 12 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.18%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.12%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.091%) MBA
12 3 (0.091%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.061%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.061%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.030%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.08%) QA
2 34 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.52%) WCAG
4 12 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.34%) GDPR
6 9 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.21%) SLA
8 6 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.091%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.091%) PMO
10 2 (0.061%) EMIR
10 2 (0.061%) GRC
10 2 (0.061%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.061%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.061%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.061%) MiFID
System Software
1 334 (10.18%) Docker
2 11 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.061%) Firmware
5 2 (0.061%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.061%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.030%) Ceph
6 1 (0.030%) GridGain
6 1 (0.030%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 240 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 58 (1.77%) Terraform
3 21 (0.64%) Ansible
4 9 (0.27%) Grafana
5 7 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.18%) Rancher
7 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.091%) Kibana
9 2 (0.061%) MIIS
10 1 (0.030%) cPanel
10 1 (0.030%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.030%) Istio
10 1 (0.030%) Knative
Vendors
1 378 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 216 (6.58%) Oracle
3 70 (2.13%) Google
4 41 (1.25%) Sitecore
5 39 (1.19%) Optimizely
6 34 (1.04%) Siebel
7 32 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 29 (0.88%) Adobe
9 22 (0.67%) ServiceNow
10 17 (0.52%) Cognizant
10 17 (0.52%) Quadient
11 14 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 14 (0.43%) F5
11 14 (0.43%) MuleSoft
11 14 (0.43%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.34%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.30%) Databricks
14 9 (0.27%) NVIDIA
15 8 (0.24%) Blue Prism
15 8 (0.24%) UiPath