Senior Developer Jobs in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 83 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,678 3,585 6,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.16% 3.85% 5.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.34% 4.20% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,248 2,474 4,161
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,563 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -3 883 £80,000 -5.88% 187
North of England +39 530 £60,000 -4.00% 87
South East -24 510 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West +46 383 £57,500 -4.17% 40
North West +42 319 £60,000 -4.00% 55
Midlands -25 249 £60,000 - 48
Yorkshire +58 183 £55,000 -12.00% 27
West Midlands -5 148 £62,500 +4.17% 31
East Midlands -34 103 £55,000 -12.00% 17
East of England -39 97 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North East -16 28 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 926 (34.58%) JavaScript
2 864 (32.26%) C#
3 818 (30.55%) .NET
4 806 (30.10%) Agile
5 662 (24.72%) SQL
6 661 (24.68%) AWS
7 653 (24.38%) Azure
8 609 (22.74%) React
9 477 (17.81%) Full Stack Development
10 465 (17.36%) Social Skills
11 445 (16.62%) HTML
12 441 (16.47%) Finance
13 435 (16.24%) TypeScript
14 432 (16.13%) CSS
15 415 (15.50%) DevOps
16 387 (14.45%) Java
17 381 (14.23%) AngularJS
18 364 (13.59%) Git
19 353 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
20 329 (12.29%) Docker
21 328 (12.25%) Microsoft
22 326 (12.17%) Degree
23 323 (12.06%) Software Engineering
24 305 (11.39%) SQL Server
25 302 (11.28%) CI/CD
26 294 (10.98%) Python
27 293 (10.94%) Mentoring
28 292 (10.90%) Microservices
29 287 (10.72%) PHP
30 279 (10.42%) ASP.NET

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 99 (3.70%) CMS
2 54 (2.02%) Confluence
3 43 (1.61%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.53%) IIS
5 40 (1.49%) Headless CMS
6 39 (1.46%) Kentico
7 36 (1.34%) Sitecore CMS
8 26 (0.97%) Apache
9 24 (0.90%) WordPress
10 18 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
11 17 (0.63%) nginx
12 11 (0.41%) SharePoint
13 10 (0.37%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.34%) Mendix
15 8 (0.30%) Drupal
15 8 (0.30%) JBoss
15 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
16 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
16 6 (0.22%) NServiceBus
16 6 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.63%) Photoshop
2 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.15%) Maya
6 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.037%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 30 (1.12%) Siebel CRM
2 21 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.63%) Shopify
4 14 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
5 13 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.34%) Magento
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
8 4 (0.15%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.037%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 661 (24.68%) AWS
2 653 (24.38%) Azure
3 173 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (6.01%) SaaS
5 153 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 120 (4.48%) GCP
7 90 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 87 (3.25%) Serverless
9 80 (2.99%) PowerApps
10 79 (2.95%) GitHub
11 73 (2.73%) Power Automate
12 34 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 33 (1.23%) Kontent
14 30 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 27 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (0.90%) Azure Functions
18 23 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
19 19 (0.71%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.71%) Internet
2 7 (0.26%) AMQP
2 7 (0.26%) HTTP
3 6 (0.22%) MQTT
4 5 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.19%) VPN
5 4 (0.15%) Broadband
5 4 (0.15%) DNS
6 3 (0.11%) IPFS
6 3 (0.11%) SSL
6 3 (0.11%) VoIP
7 2 (0.075%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.075%) Network Security
8 1 (0.037%) CTI
8 1 (0.037%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 191 (7.13%) MySQL
3 172 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (4.22%) Power BI
5 97 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.14%) Oracle Database
7 81 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.13%) Oracle Database 11g
9 53 (1.98%) MongoDB
10 44 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 42 (1.57%) Redis
12 36 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (1.12%) DynamoDB
13 30 (1.12%) Oracle BI EE
13 30 (1.12%) Siebel EIM
14 28 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (0.63%) Power Query
18 15 (0.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 364 (13.59%) Git
2 127 (4.74%) JIRA
3 87 (3.25%) Visual Studio
4 60 (2.24%) Bitbucket
5 46 (1.72%) Sourcetree
6 39 (1.46%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.31%) Jenkins
8 32 (1.19%) NUnit
9 28 (1.05%) Selenium
10 26 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
11 24 (0.90%) JUnit
11 24 (0.90%) TeamCity
12 20 (0.75%) Moq
12 20 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
13 16 (0.60%) Android Studio
13 16 (0.60%) gulp
13 16 (0.60%) Maven
13 16 (0.60%) webpack
14 15 (0.56%) SpecFlow
15 14 (0.52%) git-flow
General
1 465 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 441 (16.47%) Finance
3 106 (3.96%) Banking
4 101 (3.77%) Retail
5 94 (3.51%) Front Office
6 86 (3.21%) Marketing
7 85 (3.17%) Games
8 83 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
9 57 (2.13%) Back Office
10 55 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 44 (1.64%) Legal
12 41 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 33 (1.23%) Law
14 33 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 32 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.16%) Aerospace
17 27 (1.01%) Health Technology
18 26 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 818 (30.55%) .NET
2 609 (22.74%) React
3 445 (16.62%) HTML
4 432 (16.13%) CSS
5 381 (14.23%) AngularJS
6 279 (10.42%) ASP.NET
7 252 (9.41%) Vue
8 251 (9.37%) .NET Core
9 238 (8.89%) Node.js
10 209 (7.80%) .NET Framework
11 188 (7.02%) RESTful
12 185 (6.91%) REST
13 179 (6.68%) Laravel
14 141 (5.27%) Web Services
15 139 (5.19%) Spring
16 124 (4.63%) Kafka
17 117 (4.37%) jQuery
18 103 (3.85%) HTML5
19 101 (3.77%) Entity Framework
20 100 (3.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 160 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
2 105 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (2.84%) Equities
4 69 (2.58%) Derivative
4 69 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (2.39%) Fixed Income
6 64 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 63 (2.35%) Hedge funds
7 63 (2.35%) IoT
8 58 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 41 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 40 (1.49%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
15 26 (0.97%) Client/Server
16 23 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (3.47%) Linux
2 63 (2.35%) Android
2 63 (2.35%) Windows
3 53 (1.98%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.37%) Unix
5 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (30.10%) Agile
2 477 (17.81%) Full Stack Development
3 415 (15.50%) DevOps
4 353 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
5 323 (12.06%) Software Engineering
6 302 (11.28%) CI/CD
7 293 (10.94%) Mentoring
8 292 (10.90%) Microservices
9 266 (9.93%) MVC
10 246 (9.19%) Front End Development
11 238 (8.89%) Computer Science
12 235 (8.78%) Scrum
13 219 (8.18%) TDD
14 197 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence
15 196 (7.32%) Unit Testing
16 180 (6.72%) User Experience
17 179 (6.68%) Design Patterns
18 171 (6.39%) E-Commerce
19 163 (6.09%) Web Development
20 156 (5.83%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 926 (34.58%) JavaScript
2 864 (32.26%) C#
3 662 (24.72%) SQL
4 435 (16.24%) TypeScript
5 387 (14.45%) Java
6 294 (10.98%) Python
7 287 (10.72%) PHP
8 105 (3.92%) PL/SQL
9 96 (3.58%) T-SQL
10 53 (1.98%) Kotlin
11 45 (1.68%) Ruby
12 43 (1.61%) C++
13 40 (1.49%) Go
14 22 (0.82%) C
15 20 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 20 (0.75%) PowerShell
16 18 (0.67%) Apex Code
16 18 (0.67%) Swift
17 15 (0.56%) XPath
18 14 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 326 (12.17%) Degree
2 138 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 120 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 112 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.52%) PhD
8 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.11%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.11%) MBA
11 3 (0.11%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.075%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.47%) QA
2 18 (0.67%) WCAG
3 15 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.45%) GDPR
5 11 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.26%) SLA
8 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.11%) PMO
10 2 (0.075%) GRC
10 2 (0.075%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.075%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.075%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 329 (12.29%) Docker
2 9 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.075%) OpenSIPS
6 2 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.037%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 242 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 54 (2.02%) Terraform
3 20 (0.75%) Ansible
4 7 (0.26%) Grafana
4 7 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.22%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.22%) Rancher
6 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.037%) cPanel
7 1 (0.037%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.037%) Istio
7 1 (0.037%) Kibana
7 1 (0.037%) MIIS
7 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 328 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.20%) Oracle
3 73 (2.73%) Google
4 39 (1.46%) Sitecore
5 33 (1.23%) Optimizely
6 31 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.12%) Siebel
8 22 (0.82%) Adobe
9 14 (0.52%) Cognizant
9 14 (0.52%) F5
10 12 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.41%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.37%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.37%) Sybase
12 10 (0.37%) WSO2
12 10 (0.37%) Xamarin
13 9 (0.34%) Databricks
13 9 (0.34%) NVIDIA
14 8 (0.30%) Facebook
14 8 (0.30%) Twitter