Senior Applications Developer Jobs

Senior Application Developer
UK

The median Senior Application Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 791 1113
Rank change year-on-year +16 +322 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 30 21 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.033% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.035% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 21 12 39
10th Percentile - £49,031 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,375 £48,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +20.71% +8.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 78,816 60,475 146,850
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 94.54% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 44,448 44,203 82,221
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Senior Applications Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Developer over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Applications Developer in the UK

Senior Applications Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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
UK excluding London -26 30 £65,000 - 5
England -4 26 £65,000 - 5
Work from Home +31 15 £75,000 +22.45% 2
South East -17 12 £75,000 +15.38% 1
South West - 9 £45,000 -
West Midlands -20 3 - -
Midlands -26 3 - -
Scotland -32 3 - - 1
North of England -1 1 £50,000 -9.09% 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £50,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Senior Applications 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 featuring Senior Applications Developer in the job title.

1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Fire and Rescue
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) C#
4 5 (16.67%) .NET
4 5 (16.67%) GDPR
5 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.33%) Mobile App
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle
5 4 (13.33%) CRM
5 4 (13.33%) ERP
5 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) RESTful
5 4 (13.33%) Azure
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (10.00%) Android
6 3 (10.00%) HIPAA
6 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (10.00%) CMS
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum
6 3 (10.00%) Billing
6 3 (10.00%) Logistics
6 3 (10.00%) Supply Chain Management
6 3 (10.00%) Degree
6 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (10.00%) Regression Testing

Senior Applications Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Kentico
2 1 (3.33%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.00%) OCI
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Azure App Service
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Kontent
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) JetBrains Rider
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (23.33%) Fire and Rescue
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Billing
4 3 (10.00%) Health Technology
4 3 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.00%) EDI
3 3 (10.00%) Kafka
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (10.00%) React
4 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.67%) CSS
4 2 (6.67%) HTML
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.33%) Next.js
5 1 (3.33%) React Native
5 1 (3.33%) Universal Windows Platform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Android
1 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (13.33%) CRM
2 4 (13.33%) ERP
3 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (10.00%) Logistics
3 3 (10.00%) Order Management
3 3 (10.00%) Order to Cash
3 3 (10.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (10.00%) Scrum
3 3 (10.00%) Supply Chain Management
3 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.67%) API Management
4 2 (6.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (6.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (6.67%) Microservices
4 2 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
3 2 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Swift
4 1 (3.33%) C
4 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.00%) Xamarin
4 1 (3.33%) Optimizely
4 1 (3.33%) Sitecore