Senior Developer Job Trends in Coventry

Senior Developer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Senior Developer salary in Coventry is £57,600 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 2.65% 1.39% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 1.51% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £53,160 £61,000 £60,125
25th Percentile £54,300 £71,875 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,600 £90,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +46.94% +11.36%
75th Percentile £59,500 - £62,813
90th Percentile £59,800 - £63,375
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 208 199 254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 92.13% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 104 98 230
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,825 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,775
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.89% -6.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,438 £62,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,875 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,371 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.53% +4.74% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Coventry

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Coventry.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Coventry

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

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

1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Blazor
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Delphi
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Django
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Flask
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Blazor
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) API Development
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Delphi
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle