Senior Developer Jobs in Cardiff

Senior Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Developer salary in Cardiff is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 34 63
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 50 34 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.59% 5.94% 3.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.12% 6.55% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 43 17 27
10th Percentile £43,704 £39,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +18.56%
75th Percentile £66,625 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,500 £71,250
South Wales median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% +9.09% +13.40%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 616 519 822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 90.73% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 534 393 615
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,850 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,838 £40,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,575 £67,070 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,604 £45,476 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.48% -7.19% +8.89%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 17 (34.00%) Mentoring
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.00%) Clean Code
3 12 (24.00%) Git
3 12 (24.00%) AWS
4 11 (22.00%) PHP
4 11 (22.00%) SQL
4 11 (22.00%) Full Stack Development
4 11 (22.00%) Coaching
5 10 (20.00%) Oracle
6 9 (18.00%) Web Development
6 9 (18.00%) React
6 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
7 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.00%) Android Development
7 8 (16.00%) Laravel
7 8 (16.00%) Android
7 8 (16.00%) Azure
7 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
7 8 (16.00%) Finance
8 7 (14.00%) PL/SQL
8 7 (14.00%) SOAP
8 7 (14.00%) Web Services
8 7 (14.00%) XML
8 7 (14.00%) RESTful
8 7 (14.00%) Degree
8 7 (14.00%) JSON
8 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
8 7 (14.00%) Oracle APEX

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (6.00%) CMS
1 3 (6.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.00%) npm
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Heroku
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle Database
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (6.00%) MySQL
2 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.00%) Selenium
4 3 (6.00%) webpack
5 2 (4.00%) Grunt
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) React
2 8 (16.00%) Laravel
3 7 (14.00%) JSON
3 7 (14.00%) RESTful
3 7 (14.00%) Sass
3 7 (14.00%) SOAP
3 7 (14.00%) Web Services
3 7 (14.00%) XML
4 6 (12.00%) HTML
5 5 (10.00%) Node.js
5 5 (10.00%) SwiftUI
5 5 (10.00%) Symfony
6 4 (8.00%) GatsbyJS
6 4 (8.00%) Redux
6 4 (8.00%) REST
6 4 (8.00%) Spring
7 3 (6.00%) Android Jetpack
7 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Android
2 4 (8.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (24.00%) Clean Code
3 11 (22.00%) Coaching
3 11 (22.00%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
4 9 (18.00%) Web Development
5 8 (16.00%) Android Development
5 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.00%) Agile
6 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (10.00%) iOS Development
8 5 (10.00%) User Experience
9 4 (8.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (8.00%) TDD
10 3 (6.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) PHP
1 11 (22.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.00%) PL/SQL
3 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.00%) Kotlin
4 5 (10.00%) Swift
5 4 (8.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.00%) WooCommerce