Senior Developer Job Trends in Durham

Senior Developer
North East > Durham

The median Senior Developer salary in Durham is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1 14 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.37% 5.32% 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 6.28% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £49,875 £45,875
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,563 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £58,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £65,000 £51,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +26.21% -8.44% -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Durham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 207 223 112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.53% 84.79% 92.56%
Number of salaries quoted 109 116 89
10th Percentile £25,087 £22,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £27,875 £35,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,448 £79,225 £68,960
North East median annual salary £45,000 £46,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.35% -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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 Durham.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Durham

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Durham.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Durham

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Durham region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle