Senior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 86 70
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,159 2,177 3,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.93% 3.73% 4.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.09% 4.18% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 1,335 2,157
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 69,899 52,023 70,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.12% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 49,392 29,903 42,846
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North of England +39 567 £60,000 -4.00% 107
South East -29 522 £65,000 -7.14% 183
South West +47 411 £58,000 -3.33% 36
North West +41 342 £60,000 -2.83% 67
Midlands -15 281 £60,000 - 76
Yorkshire +51 191 £55,000 -12.00% 28
West Midlands -4 167 £62,500 +4.17% 50
Scotland -94 141 £57,500 -11.54% 25
East Midlands -34 113 £55,000 -12.00% 26
Wales +42 99 £55,000 - 8
East of England -43 98 £60,000 -14.29% 44
Northern Ireland +31 40 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -9 34 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 673 (31.17%) C#
2 641 (29.69%) .NET
3 629 (29.13%) JavaScript
4 606 (28.07%) Agile
5 490 (22.70%) Azure
6 438 (20.29%) AWS
7 434 (20.10%) SQL
8 425 (19.69%) React
9 372 (17.23%) Social Skills
10 364 (16.86%) DevOps
11 322 (14.91%) HTML
12 313 (14.50%) CSS
13 311 (14.40%) Full Stack Development
14 308 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
15 305 (14.13%) Git
16 274 (12.69%) PHP
17 267 (12.37%) Microsoft
18 261 (12.09%) TypeScript
19 257 (11.90%) CI/CD
20 241 (11.16%) Degree
21 238 (11.02%) Docker
22 236 (10.93%) Front End Development
23 234 (10.84%) AngularJS
24 223 (10.33%) .NET Core
25 222 (10.28%) Mentoring
26 218 (10.10%) MVC
27 217 (10.05%) Finance
27 217 (10.05%) Software Engineering
28 214 (9.91%) SQL Server
29 208 (9.63%) .NET Framework

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 86 (3.98%) CMS
2 44 (2.04%) Confluence
3 43 (1.99%) Umbraco
4 41 (1.90%) Headless CMS
5 40 (1.85%) Kentico
6 38 (1.76%) IIS
7 35 (1.62%) Sitecore CMS
8 22 (1.02%) WordPress
9 10 (0.46%) nginx
10 8 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) Apache
11 6 (0.28%) JBoss
11 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.28%) SharePoint
12 5 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 4 (0.19%) SAS
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
15 2 (0.093%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.19%) Maya
3 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.046%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.046%) Elementor
4 1 (0.046%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.046%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (1.57%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.79%) Shopify
3 15 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.69%) Magento
4 13 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
5 11 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.19%) Sonata
7 2 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 490 (22.70%) Azure
2 438 (20.29%) AWS
3 164 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (7.41%) SaaS
5 117 (5.42%) Power Platform
6 73 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
7 70 (3.24%) PowerApps
8 63 (2.92%) Power Automate
9 51 (2.36%) Serverless
10 47 (2.18%) GitHub
11 43 (1.99%) GCP
12 34 (1.57%) Kontent
13 28 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (0.69%) npm
18 13 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.79%) Internet
2 7 (0.32%) Network Security
3 5 (0.23%) DNS
4 4 (0.19%) Broadband
4 4 (0.19%) HTTP
4 4 (0.19%) MQTT
4 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.19%) VPN
5 3 (0.14%) SSL
6 2 (0.093%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.046%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.046%) CTI
7 1 (0.046%) VoIP
7 1 (0.046%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 158 (7.32%) MySQL
3 138 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (4.45%) NoSQL
5 85 (3.94%) Power BI
6 76 (3.52%) Oracle Database
7 66 (3.06%) Oracle Database 11g
8 51 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 35 (1.62%) MongoDB
10 34 (1.57%) Oracle BI EE
10 34 (1.57%) Siebel EIM
11 29 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.20%) DynamoDB
13 24 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.02%) Redis
15 20 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (0.69%) OLTP
18 14 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 305 (14.13%) Git
2 78 (3.61%) JIRA
3 71 (3.29%) Visual Studio
4 57 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 35 (1.62%) Selenium
6 31 (1.44%) Sourcetree
7 25 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 24 (1.11%) Jenkins
9 23 (1.07%) JUnit
10 19 (0.88%) webpack
11 18 (0.83%) NUnit
12 14 (0.65%) PHPUnit
13 13 (0.60%) Android Studio
14 12 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.46%) Appium
15 10 (0.46%) gulp
15 10 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
16 9 (0.42%) Maven
16 9 (0.42%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.32%) Eclipse
General
1 372 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 217 (10.05%) Finance
3 79 (3.66%) Retail
4 63 (2.92%) Games
5 59 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.41%) Banking
7 50 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 43 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (1.90%) Marketing
10 36 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 32 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.39%) Law
14 27 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.16%) Fire and Rescue
16 24 (1.11%) Health Technology
16 24 (1.11%) Legal
17 21 (0.97%) Tech for Good
18 12 (0.56%) Music Industry
18 12 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 641 (29.69%) .NET
2 425 (19.69%) React
3 322 (14.91%) HTML
4 313 (14.50%) CSS
5 234 (10.84%) AngularJS
6 223 (10.33%) .NET Core
7 208 (9.63%) .NET Framework
8 204 (9.45%) ASP.NET
9 182 (8.43%) Laravel
9 182 (8.43%) Node.js
10 164 (7.60%) Vue
11 138 (6.39%) RESTful
12 133 (6.16%) REST
13 105 (4.86%) Entity Framework
13 105 (4.86%) Web Services
14 72 (3.33%) jQuery
15 68 (3.15%) Spring
16 67 (3.10%) HTML5
16 67 (3.10%) JSON
17 66 (3.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
2 82 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 51 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 48 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 37 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 30 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 30 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.39%) Virtual Reality
8 25 (1.16%) IoT
9 22 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
10 20 (0.93%) Client/Server
10 20 (0.93%) Cloud Native
11 17 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 17 (0.79%) NHS
12 15 (0.69%) PropTech
13 13 (0.60%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.51%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.46%) Online Banking
16 9 (0.42%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.83%) Linux
2 50 (2.32%) Android
3 41 (1.90%) Windows
4 30 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.093%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (28.07%) Agile
2 364 (16.86%) DevOps
3 311 (14.40%) Full Stack Development
4 308 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
5 257 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 236 (10.93%) Front End Development
7 222 (10.28%) Mentoring
8 218 (10.10%) MVC
9 217 (10.05%) Software Engineering
10 197 (9.12%) Scrum
11 181 (8.38%) Unit Testing
12 172 (7.97%) TDD
13 171 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
14 165 (7.64%) Web Development
15 161 (7.46%) Actionable Insight
16 159 (7.36%) Design Patterns
17 158 (7.32%) Computer Science
17 158 (7.32%) Microservices
18 147 (6.81%) User Experience
19 141 (6.53%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 673 (31.17%) C#
2 629 (29.13%) JavaScript
3 434 (20.10%) SQL
4 274 (12.69%) PHP
5 261 (12.09%) TypeScript
6 195 (9.03%) Java
7 117 (5.42%) Python
8 93 (4.31%) PL/SQL
9 60 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 45 (2.08%) C++
11 39 (1.81%) Ruby
12 36 (1.67%) C
13 32 (1.48%) Go
14 31 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.83%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.69%) Swift
17 10 (0.46%) R
17 10 (0.46%) VB
18 8 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 241 (11.16%) Degree
2 149 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 131 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 81 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.65%) PhD
8 8 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.14%) MBA
10 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.093%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.046%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.046%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.15%) QA
2 16 (0.74%) WCAG
3 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.42%) GDPR
5 8 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.28%) SLA
7 3 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.093%) GRC
System Software
1 238 (11.02%) Docker
2 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 162 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 53 (2.45%) Terraform
3 14 (0.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.28%) Rancher
5 2 (0.093%) MIIS
6 1 (0.046%) Grafana
6 1 (0.046%) Istio
6 1 (0.046%) Kibana
6 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 267 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 156 (7.23%) Oracle
3 48 (2.22%) Google
4 38 (1.76%) Sitecore
5 34 (1.57%) Optimizely
5 34 (1.57%) Siebel
6 14 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 13 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 13 (0.60%) Xamarin
8 11 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.46%) Adobe
10 9 (0.42%) NVIDIA
11 8 (0.37%) F5
11 8 (0.37%) Twitter
11 8 (0.37%) UiPath
11 8 (0.37%) WSO2
12 7 (0.32%) SAP
13 5 (0.23%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.23%) Micro Focus
13 5 (0.23%) PayPal