Senior Developer Jobs in Sheffield

Senior Developer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Developer salary in Sheffield 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 39 64 54
Rank change year-on-year +25 -10 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 42 45 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.98% 4.89% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.17% 5.53% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 41 1 28
10th Percentile - - £59,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,891 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,045 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -29.94% +62.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £51,198 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 - £81,625
South Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,772 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -27.47% +62.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 1,007 814 828
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 88.48% 98.22%
Number of salaries quoted 818 387 515
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £31,385
25th Percentile £36,813 £33,750 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Sheffield

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Sheffield

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

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

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Sheffield

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

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 Sheffield region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 19 (45.24%) PHP
2 18 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 15 (35.71%) Web Development
4 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (30.95%) Shopify
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
5 13 (30.95%) .NET
5 13 (30.95%) C#
6 12 (28.57%) E-Commerce
6 12 (28.57%) Retail
6 12 (28.57%) Azure
7 10 (23.81%) User Experience
8 9 (21.43%) UX Design
8 9 (21.43%) Laravel
8 9 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
9 8 (19.05%) ASP.NET
9 8 (19.05%) DevOps
10 7 (16.67%) Vue
10 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 7 (16.67%) Docker
10 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 7 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (16.67%) AWS
11 6 (14.29%) SQL
11 6 (14.29%) TDD
11 6 (14.29%) .NET Framework
11 6 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (11.90%) TypeScript

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Business Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Shopify
2 1 (2.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) SaaS
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Retail
3 4 (9.52%) Tech for Good
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) .NET
2 9 (21.43%) Laravel
3 8 (19.05%) ASP.NET
4 7 (16.67%) Vue
5 6 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (9.52%) Entity Framework
6 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
6 4 (9.52%) RESTful
7 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 3 (7.14%) CSS
7 3 (7.14%) HTML
7 3 (7.14%) Kafka
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js
7 3 (7.14%) Nuxt
7 3 (7.14%) OAuth
7 3 (7.14%) OpenID
7 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (9.52%) Podcast
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Web Development
2 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (30.95%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 10 (23.81%) User Experience
6 9 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
6 9 (21.43%) UX Design
7 8 (19.05%) DevOps
8 7 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.29%) TDD
10 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 4 (9.52%) Domain-Driven Design
11 4 (9.52%) Microservices
11 4 (9.52%) Product Requirements
11 4 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
12 3 (7.14%) Coaching
12 3 (7.14%) Functional Programming
12 3 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) PHP
2 18 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.95%) C#
4 6 (14.29%) SQL
5 5 (11.90%) Python
5 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (2.38%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Google