Senior Applications Developer Jobs

Senior Application Developer
UK

The median Senior Application Developer salary in the UK is £61,500 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 815 946 1080
Rank change year-on-year +131 +134 -224
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Applications Developer 79 43 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.041% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.045% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 78 21 47
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,372
25th Percentile £46,199 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £64,750 £75,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £56,250 £55,100
% change year-on-year +9.33% +2.09% +0.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +58 79 £61,500 +9.33% 7
England +145 74 £61,500 -5.38% 8
Work from Home +131 51 £61,500 -5.38% 8
South West +17 42 £46,958 -6.09% 3
South East +42 27 £61,500 +6.96% 3
Midlands +3 4 £35,750 -31.90% 1
Wales - 4 £52,101 -
West Midlands +15 3 £34,000 -35.24% 1
North of England +39 1 £75,000 +36.36%
East Midlands -16 1 £37,500 -
Scotland -62 1 £57,500 -
North West - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 53 (67.09%) C#
2 48 (60.76%) .NET
3 47 (59.49%) ASP.NET
3 47 (59.49%) Microsoft
4 46 (58.23%) CMS
5 36 (45.57%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (45.57%) Azure
6 35 (44.30%) MVC
6 35 (44.30%) JavaScript
6 35 (44.30%) DevOps
6 35 (44.30%) React
7 34 (43.04%) .NET Core
7 34 (43.04%) CRM
7 34 (43.04%) RESTful
7 34 (43.04%) .NET Framework
8 33 (41.77%) ASP.NET MVC
8 33 (41.77%) Continuous Integration
8 33 (41.77%) Umbraco
8 33 (41.77%) Sitecore CMS
8 33 (41.77%) Sitecore
8 33 (41.77%) E-Commerce
8 33 (41.77%) ERP
8 33 (41.77%) IIS
8 33 (41.77%) Optimizely
8 33 (41.77%) Presales
8 33 (41.77%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (41.77%) Next.js
8 33 (41.77%) Technical Leadership
8 33 (41.77%) Deployment Automation
8 33 (41.77%) Mobile First

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 46 (58.23%) CMS
2 33 (41.77%) Headless CMS
2 33 (41.77%) IIS
2 33 (41.77%) Kentico
2 33 (41.77%) Sitecore CMS
2 33 (41.77%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.57%) Azure
2 33 (41.77%) Azure DevOps
2 33 (41.77%) Kontent
3 14 (17.72%) Power Automate
3 14 (17.72%) Power Platform
3 14 (17.72%) PowerApps
4 13 (16.46%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.80%) iPaaS
5 3 (3.80%) PaaS
5 3 (3.80%) WhatsApp
6 2 (2.53%) AWS
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) Power BI
2 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.80%) MySQL
4 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (27.85%) Fire and Rescue
2 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Finance
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Welsh Language
5 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (60.76%) .NET
2 47 (59.49%) ASP.NET
3 35 (44.30%) React
4 34 (43.04%) .NET Core
4 34 (43.04%) .NET Framework
4 34 (43.04%) RESTful
5 33 (41.77%) ASP.NET MVC
5 33 (41.77%) Next.js
6 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.27%) Blazor
7 1 (1.27%) Dapper ORM
7 1 (1.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.27%) Flutter
7 1 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.27%) Kafka
7 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.27%) REST
7 1 (1.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (45.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.80%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.27%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.30%) DevOps
1 35 (44.30%) MVC
2 34 (43.04%) CRM
3 33 (41.77%) Continuous Integration
3 33 (41.77%) Data Privacy
3 33 (41.77%) Deployment Automation
3 33 (41.77%) E-Commerce
3 33 (41.77%) ERP
3 33 (41.77%) Mobile First
3 33 (41.77%) Presales
3 33 (41.77%) Project Delivery
3 33 (41.77%) Technical Leadership
4 30 (37.97%) Web Development
5 15 (18.99%) Agile
6 14 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (15.19%) Performance Management
7 12 (15.19%) Scrum
8 11 (13.92%) Backlog Management
8 11 (13.92%) Customer-Centricity
8 11 (13.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 53 (67.09%) C#
2 35 (44.30%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.86%) SQL
4 3 (3.80%) C
5 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (3.80%) Degree
Vendors
1 47 (59.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (41.77%) Optimizely
2 33 (41.77%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.27%) Xamarin