Senior Developer Jobs in Dorset

Senior Developer
South West > Dorset

The median Senior Developer salary in Dorset is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 57 43
Rank change year-on-year +19 -14 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 65 26 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 5.77% 3.68% 7.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.07% 4.36% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 65 22 46
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +20.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,313 £74,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £95,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £57,750 £60,000 £60,520
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.86% +20.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 1,071 597 741
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 84.44% 97.76%
Number of salaries quoted 651 380 589
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% +10.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,625 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Dorset

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Dorset

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Dorset over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Dorset

Senior Developer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bournemouth -1 48 £57,500 -4.17% 7
Poole +12 9 £50,000 -25.93%
Senior Developer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Dorset region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 30 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 28 (43.08%) Laravel
2 28 (43.08%) React
3 27 (41.54%) Full Stack Development
4 22 (33.85%) PHP
5 21 (32.31%) Scrum
5 21 (32.31%) Agile
6 18 (27.69%) Git
7 17 (26.15%) HTML
8 16 (24.62%) CSS
8 16 (24.62%) E-Commerce
9 15 (23.08%) Vue
10 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (20.00%) TypeScript
12 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
12 12 (18.46%) Front End Development
13 11 (16.92%) RESTful
13 11 (16.92%) .NET
13 11 (16.92%) MySQL
14 10 (15.38%) Web Services
14 10 (15.38%) AngularJS
15 9 (13.85%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (13.85%) Retail
15 9 (13.85%) LAMP
15 9 (13.85%) MVC
15 9 (13.85%) OOP
15 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
15 9 (13.85%) Alpine.js
15 9 (13.85%) CI/CD
16 8 (12.31%) Design Patterns

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) AWS
1 8 (12.31%) Azure
2 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
2 5 (7.69%) GitHub
3 3 (4.62%) Google Analytics
4 2 (3.08%) SaaS
5 1 (1.54%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) MySQL
2 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
3 8 (12.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) Selenium
4 2 (3.08%) Storybook
4 2 (3.08%) webpack
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Retail
3 2 (3.08%) Finance
3 2 (3.08%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (43.08%) Laravel
1 28 (43.08%) React
2 17 (26.15%) HTML
3 16 (24.62%) CSS
4 15 (23.08%) Vue
5 11 (16.92%) .NET
5 11 (16.92%) RESTful
6 10 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 10 (15.38%) Web Services
7 9 (13.85%) Alpine.js
7 9 (13.85%) LAMP
7 9 (13.85%) Tailwind CSS
8 7 (10.77%) GatsbyJS
9 5 (7.69%) .NET Core
9 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET
9 5 (7.69%) Node.js
9 5 (7.69%) Svelte
10 3 (4.62%) GraphQL
10 3 (4.62%) jQuery
10 3 (4.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.62%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Android
1 3 (4.62%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Full Stack Development
2 21 (32.31%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) Scrum
3 16 (24.62%) E-Commerce
4 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.46%) Front End Development
6 9 (13.85%) CI/CD
6 9 (13.85%) MVC
6 9 (13.85%) OOP
7 8 (12.31%) Analytics
7 8 (12.31%) Design Patterns
7 8 (12.31%) Kanban
7 8 (12.31%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.77%) DevOps
9 6 (9.23%) User Experience
10 5 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (7.69%) Domain-Driven Design
10 5 (7.69%) Machine Learning
10 5 (7.69%) Microservices
10 5 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 22 (33.85%) PHP
3 13 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.62%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) SQL
5 1 (1.54%) Swift
5 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Google
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) Twitter
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe
4 1 (1.54%) Xamarin
43 Senior Developer jobs in the South West