Senior Developer Jobs in Cardiff

Senior Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Developer salary in Cardiff is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 9 54 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.92% 8.01% 6.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.03% 8.54% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6 46 18
10th Percentile - £44,190 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £62,813 £70,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £68,325
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £52,686 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.37% -4.21% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 179 632 515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.81% 93.77% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 127 549 396
10th Percentile £24,600 £27,157 £30,565
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,766 £67,178
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,875
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £46,244 £45,496
% change year-on-year +8.12% +1.64% -9.01%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Cardiff

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 Cardiff region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) Web Development
3 5 (55.56%) PHP
4 4 (44.44%) Git
4 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Symfony
5 3 (33.33%) MySQL
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) Docker
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) AWS
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Coaching
6 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (11.11%) API Integration
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 1 (11.11%) C#
7 1 (11.11%) User Experience
7 1 (11.11%) Microservices
7 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
7 1 (11.11%) React
7 1 (11.11%) webpack
7 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 1 (11.11%) BDD
7 1 (11.11%) NoSQL

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Grunt
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) Symfony
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Sass
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Web Development
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) API Integration
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Functional Programming
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Generation
5 1 (11.11%) MapReduce
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) Server Management
5 1 (11.11%) SOLID
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
26 Senior Developer jobs in South Wales