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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 84 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,684 3,450 6,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.12% 3.84% 5.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.31% 4.20% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,253 2,405 4,116
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £80,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £107,500
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 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 11 May 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 11 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
London -3 887 £80,000 -5.88% 182
North of England +30 529 £60,000 -4.00% 90
South East -25 505 £65,000 -7.14% 76
South West +42 390 £57,500 -4.17% 32
North West +35 322 £60,000 -4.00% 58
Midlands -26 252 £60,000 - 77
Yorkshire +56 180 £55,000 -12.00% 26
West Midlands -10 150 £62,500 +4.17% 48
East Midlands -36 102 £55,000 -8.33% 29
East of England -34 96 £60,000 -14.29% 16
North East -18 27 £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 11 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 across the England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 934 (34.80%) JavaScript
2 859 (32.00%) C#
3 816 (30.40%) .NET
4 802 (29.88%) Agile
5 652 (24.29%) SQL
6 649 (24.18%) Azure
7 647 (24.11%) AWS
8 611 (22.76%) React
9 479 (17.85%) Full Stack Development
10 463 (17.25%) Social Skills
11 447 (16.65%) HTML
12 437 (16.28%) CSS
13 434 (16.17%) TypeScript
14 433 (16.13%) Finance
15 418 (15.57%) DevOps
16 379 (14.12%) Java
17 370 (13.79%) Git
17 370 (13.79%) AngularJS
18 348 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
19 333 (12.41%) Microsoft
20 330 (12.30%) Software Engineering
21 329 (12.26%) Degree
22 322 (12.00%) Docker
23 307 (11.44%) SQL Server
23 307 (11.44%) CI/CD
24 297 (11.07%) Mentoring
25 292 (10.88%) PHP
26 287 (10.69%) Microservices
26 287 (10.69%) Python
27 276 (10.28%) 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
1 101 (3.76%) CMS
2 57 (2.12%) Confluence
3 46 (1.71%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.53%) Headless CMS
4 41 (1.53%) IIS
5 40 (1.49%) Kentico
6 37 (1.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 26 (0.97%) Apache
7 26 (0.97%) WordPress
8 17 (0.63%) nginx
9 16 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
10 10 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.34%) Mendix
12 8 (0.30%) Drupal
12 8 (0.30%) JBoss
12 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
13 7 (0.26%) SharePoint
14 6 (0.22%) NServiceBus
14 6 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.19%) K2 blackpearl
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 32 (1.19%) Siebel CRM
2 22 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.63%) Shopify
4 15 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
5 14 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
6 13 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
7 12 (0.45%) Magento
8 4 (0.15%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.11%) Endur
10 1 (0.037%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 649 (24.18%) Azure
2 647 (24.11%) AWS
3 174 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (6.15%) SaaS
5 152 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 117 (4.36%) GCP
7 92 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
8 90 (3.35%) Serverless
9 79 (2.94%) GitHub
10 78 (2.91%) PowerApps
11 72 (2.68%) Power Automate
12 36 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (1.27%) Kontent
14 29 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (0.93%) Azure Functions
18 22 (0.82%) 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 5 (0.19%) MQTT
3 5 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.19%) VPN
4 4 (0.15%) Broadband
4 4 (0.15%) DNS
4 4 (0.15%) Network Security
5 3 (0.11%) IPFS
5 3 (0.11%) SSL
6 2 (0.075%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.075%) VoIP
7 1 (0.037%) CTI
7 1 (0.037%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 195 (7.27%) MySQL
3 161 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 114 (4.25%) Power BI
5 97 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 80 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 76 (2.83%) Oracle Database
8 54 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 49 (1.83%) Oracle Database 11g
10 45 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.53%) Redis
12 35 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
13 32 (1.19%) Siebel EIM
14 31 (1.15%) DynamoDB
15 28 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.63%) Power Query
18 16 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (0.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 370 (13.79%) Git
2 128 (4.77%) JIRA
3 86 (3.20%) Visual Studio
4 61 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 46 (1.71%) Sourcetree
6 38 (1.42%) Cypress.io
7 36 (1.34%) Jenkins
8 32 (1.19%) NUnit
9 29 (1.08%) Selenium
10 26 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
11 25 (0.93%) JUnit
12 23 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 21 (0.78%) Moq
14 20 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
15 16 (0.60%) Android Studio
15 16 (0.60%) webpack
16 15 (0.56%) SpecFlow
17 14 (0.52%) git-flow
17 14 (0.52%) gulp
17 14 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 463 (17.25%) Social Skills
2 433 (16.13%) Finance
3 105 (3.91%) Banking
4 95 (3.54%) Retail
5 90 (3.35%) Front Office
6 88 (3.28%) Marketing
7 83 (3.09%) Games
8 81 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (2.20%) Back Office
10 56 (2.09%) Public Sector
11 44 (1.64%) Legal
12 41 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.34%) Law
14 34 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 33 (1.23%) Investment Banking
15 33 (1.23%) Tech for Good
16 32 (1.19%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.04%) Health Technology
18 27 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 816 (30.40%) .NET
2 611 (22.76%) React
3 447 (16.65%) HTML
4 437 (16.28%) CSS
5 370 (13.79%) AngularJS
6 276 (10.28%) ASP.NET
7 248 (9.24%) .NET Core
8 246 (9.17%) Vue
9 242 (9.02%) Node.js
10 215 (8.01%) .NET Framework
11 190 (7.08%) RESTful
12 189 (7.04%) REST
13 182 (6.78%) Laravel
14 140 (5.22%) Web Services
15 137 (5.10%) Spring
16 122 (4.55%) jQuery
17 121 (4.51%) Kafka
18 107 (3.99%) Entity Framework
19 101 (3.76%) HTML5
20 98 (3.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 165 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
2 102 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 73 (2.72%) Equities
4 71 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 69 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.53%) Derivative
7 64 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 63 (2.35%) IoT
9 62 (2.31%) Fixed Income
9 62 (2.31%) Hedge funds
10 60 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 43 (1.60%) Cloud Native
13 41 (1.53%) Onboarding
14 35 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 30 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
16 26 (0.97%) Client/Server
17 24 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 89 (3.32%) Linux
2 68 (2.53%) Windows
3 62 (2.31%) Android
4 52 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.34%) Unix
6 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.037%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (29.88%) Agile
2 479 (17.85%) Full Stack Development
3 418 (15.57%) DevOps
4 348 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
5 330 (12.30%) Software Engineering
6 307 (11.44%) CI/CD
7 297 (11.07%) Mentoring
8 287 (10.69%) Microservices
9 261 (9.72%) MVC
10 244 (9.09%) Front End Development
11 243 (9.05%) Computer Science
12 229 (8.53%) Scrum
13 213 (7.94%) TDD
14 193 (7.19%) Unit Testing
15 186 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence
16 180 (6.71%) Design Patterns
17 178 (6.63%) User Experience
18 174 (6.48%) E-Commerce
19 171 (6.37%) Web Development
20 151 (5.63%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 934 (34.80%) JavaScript
2 859 (32.00%) C#
3 652 (24.29%) SQL
4 434 (16.17%) TypeScript
5 379 (14.12%) Java
6 292 (10.88%) PHP
7 287 (10.69%) Python
8 98 (3.65%) PL/SQL
9 97 (3.61%) T-SQL
10 52 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 46 (1.71%) Ruby
12 42 (1.56%) C++
12 42 (1.56%) Go
13 26 (0.97%) C
14 21 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.78%) PowerShell
15 18 (0.67%) Apex Code
15 18 (0.67%) Swift
16 16 (0.60%) VB.NET
17 15 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 329 (12.26%) Degree
2 144 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 124 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 114 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (0.52%) PhD
8 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.22%) 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 88 (3.28%) QA
2 17 (0.63%) Accessibility
2 17 (0.63%) WCAG
3 11 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 11 (0.41%) GDPR
4 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.26%) SLA
6 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.11%) PMO
8 2 (0.075%) EMIR
8 2 (0.075%) GRC
8 2 (0.075%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.075%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.075%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.075%) MiFID
System Software
1 322 (12.00%) Docker
2 9 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.075%) Firmware
5 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.037%) GridGain
6 1 (0.037%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 236 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 55 (2.05%) Terraform
3 20 (0.75%) Ansible
4 9 (0.34%) Grafana
5 7 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.22%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.22%) Rancher
7 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.037%) cPanel
9 1 (0.037%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.037%) Istio
9 1 (0.037%) MIIS
Vendors
1 333 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 159 (5.92%) Oracle
3 71 (2.65%) Google
4 40 (1.49%) Sitecore
5 34 (1.27%) Optimizely
6 32 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.19%) Siebel
7 22 (0.82%) Adobe
8 14 (0.52%) Cognizant
8 14 (0.52%) F5
9 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 13 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.37%) WSO2
11 10 (0.37%) Xamarin
12 9 (0.34%) NVIDIA
12 9 (0.34%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.30%) Databricks
13 8 (0.30%) Facebook
13 8 (0.30%) Twitter