Senior Developer Jobs in the South West

Senior Developer
England > South West

The median Senior Developer salary in the South West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 95 69
Rank change year-on-year +41 -26 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 390 211 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.22% 3.04% 4.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.39% 3.41% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 340 134 247
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,040
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.70% +22.08%
75th Percentile £65,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,375 £88,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,889 6,189 7,772
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 89.27% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6,488 3,847 5,162
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,850 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol +31 131 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Gloucestershire +44 71 £52,500 - 2
Dorset +13 67 £57,500 -14.81% 7
Devon +15 49 £46,958 -21.74% 5
Wiltshire +11 41 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Somerset +11 29 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 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 South West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 137 (35.13%) JavaScript
2 121 (31.03%) C#
3 111 (28.46%) .NET
4 110 (28.21%) Agile
5 106 (27.18%) DevOps
6 103 (26.41%) Git
7 95 (24.36%) Azure
8 91 (23.33%) Scrum
9 88 (22.56%) Microsoft
10 81 (20.77%) React
11 77 (19.74%) Social Skills
12 76 (19.49%) MVC
13 75 (19.23%) HTML
13 75 (19.23%) CSS
14 67 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
15 60 (15.38%) Software Engineering
16 59 (15.13%) AWS
16 59 (15.13%) Design Patterns
17 58 (14.87%) CI/CD
18 57 (14.62%) Degree
19 56 (14.36%) .NET Framework
20 55 (14.10%) ASP.NET
21 54 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
22 51 (13.08%) PHP
22 51 (13.08%) SQL Server
22 51 (13.08%) Security Cleared
23 48 (12.31%) JIRA
23 48 (12.31%) Laravel
24 45 (11.54%) .NET Core

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 38 (9.74%) Confluence
2 24 (6.15%) CMS
3 17 (4.36%) Headless CMS
3 17 (4.36%) Umbraco
4 15 (3.85%) IIS
4 15 (3.85%) Kentico
4 15 (3.85%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.28%) WordPress
6 4 (1.03%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Mule
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (24.36%) Azure
2 60 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (15.13%) AWS
4 18 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.10%) Power Automate
5 16 (4.10%) PowerApps
6 15 (3.85%) Kontent
7 14 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (3.08%) SaaS
9 8 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.79%) GitHub
11 6 (1.54%) npm
12 5 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.28%) GCP
12 5 (1.28%) Serverless
13 4 (1.03%) Figma
14 3 (0.77%) Google Analytics
15 2 (0.51%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.51%) dbt
15 2 (0.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.28%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) DHCP
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.08%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.13%) MySQL
2 20 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.10%) Power BI
4 14 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.56%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
6 6 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.51%) Metabase
8 2 (0.51%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (26.41%) Git
2 48 (12.31%) JIRA
3 40 (10.26%) Bitbucket
4 38 (9.74%) Visual Studio
5 30 (7.69%) Sourcetree
6 12 (3.08%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.54%) Storybook
8 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.03%) webpack
9 3 (0.77%) Selenium
9 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.51%) GitLab
General
1 77 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.49%) Games
3 31 (7.95%) Presentation Skills
4 27 (6.92%) Finance
5 24 (6.15%) Fire and Rescue
6 14 (3.59%) Retail
7 13 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.05%) Legal
9 6 (1.54%) Publishing
10 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.77%) German Language
11 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.51%) Marketing
12 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Local Government
13 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (28.46%) .NET
2 81 (20.77%) React
3 75 (19.23%) CSS
3 75 (19.23%) HTML
4 56 (14.36%) .NET Framework
5 55 (14.10%) ASP.NET
6 48 (12.31%) Laravel
7 45 (11.54%) .NET Core
8 37 (9.49%) AngularJS
9 35 (8.97%) Vue
10 32 (8.21%) RESTful
11 30 (7.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 29 (7.44%) Entity Framework
13 28 (7.18%) Node.js
14 22 (5.64%) LESS
15 19 (4.87%) Web Services
16 18 (4.62%) Next.js
17 17 (4.36%) ASP.NET MVC
18 14 (3.59%) REST
19 12 (3.08%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.69%) Virtual Reality
2 17 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.28%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.77%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.77%) IoT
10 3 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Animation
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.51%) Social Media
11 2 (0.51%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.85%) Android
2 7 (1.79%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (28.21%) Agile
2 106 (27.18%) DevOps
3 91 (23.33%) Scrum
4 76 (19.49%) MVC
5 67 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 59 (15.13%) Design Patterns
8 58 (14.87%) CI/CD
9 54 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
10 44 (11.28%) Mentoring
11 40 (10.26%) Front End Development
12 35 (8.97%) E-Commerce
13 30 (7.69%) UML
13 30 (7.69%) Use Case
14 29 (7.44%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (7.44%) User Experience
15 27 (6.92%) Unit Testing
15 27 (6.92%) Web Development
16 25 (6.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 24 (6.15%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 137 (35.13%) JavaScript
2 121 (31.03%) C#
3 51 (13.08%) PHP
4 44 (11.28%) TypeScript
5 42 (10.77%) SQL
6 35 (8.97%) Java
7 18 (4.62%) Python
8 14 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.28%) C
10 5 (1.28%) Swift
11 4 (1.03%) Bicep
11 4 (1.03%) Rust
12 3 (0.77%) C++
12 3 (0.77%) Delphi
12 3 (0.77%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.51%) Lisp
13 2 (0.51%) VB
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 57 (14.62%) Degree
2 51 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.82%) QA
2 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (6.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 88 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.85%) Optimizely
2 15 (3.85%) Oracle
2 15 (3.85%) Sitecore
3 8 (2.05%) Twitter
4 7 (1.79%) Google
5 4 (1.03%) UiPath
6 3 (0.77%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.77%) Coverity
7 2 (0.51%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe
8 1 (0.26%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.26%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.26%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce