Senior Development Manager Job Trends in Cambridge

Senior Development Manager
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Senior Development Manager salary in Cambridge is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Development Manager 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 377 578 389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 96.17% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 257 348 250
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £47,500 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.04% +10.45% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £73,000 £85,000 £87,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -

Senior Development Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Development Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Senior Development Manager job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Senior Development Manager
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for Senior Development Manager job vacancies in Cambridge.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Development Manager job vacancies in Cambridge

Senior Development Manager Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, Senior Development Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Senior Development Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories

Senior Development Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible