Senior Developer Job Trends in the East of England

Senior Developer
England > East of England

The median Senior Developer salary in the East of England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 145 129
Rank change year-on-year +43 -16 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 89 26 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.42% 0.88% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 0.94% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 87 20 85
10th Percentile £50,742 £43,750 £46,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +14.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £89,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,845 2,772 5,800
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 93.84% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 1,509 4,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,250 £34,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.30% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,100 £63,284
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 the East of England.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the East of England

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the East of England

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Essex +26 60 £100,000 +42.86% 2
Bedfordshire +29 18 £55,000 +12.82% 2
Cambridgeshire -26 9 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Hertfordshire -22 2 £67,500 -1.82% 2
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2026, 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 East of England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 41 (46.07%) Microsoft
2 39 (43.82%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (43.82%) SharePoint
2 39 (43.82%) User Experience
3 26 (29.21%) SQL
4 21 (23.60%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (22.47%) Power BI
5 20 (22.47%) Power Platform
6 19 (21.35%) CSS
6 19 (21.35%) HTML
7 18 (20.22%) Azure
7 18 (20.22%) JavaScript
8 17 (19.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (19.10%) TypeScript
9 16 (17.98%) .NET
9 16 (17.98%) .NET Core
9 16 (17.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (17.98%) JSON
9 16 (17.98%) Machine Learning
9 16 (17.98%) Web Development
10 15 (16.85%) Adobe
10 15 (16.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 15 (16.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (16.85%) C#
10 15 (16.85%) Document Management
10 15 (16.85%) HTML5 Canvas
10 15 (16.85%) Microsoft Graph
10 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
10 15 (16.85%) Power Automate

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 39 (43.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.82%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (22.47%) Power Platform
3 18 (20.22%) Azure
4 17 (19.10%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (17.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (16.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
6 15 (16.85%) Power Automate
6 15 (16.85%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.49%) SaaS
8 3 (3.37%) AWS
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.12%) GitHub
9 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) AMQP
1 1 (1.12%) Broadband
1 1 (1.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) Power BI
2 15 (16.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.25%) Metadata
5 2 (2.25%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.12%) Git
General
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.25%) Marketing
4 1 (1.12%) Electronics
4 1 (1.12%) Finance
4 1 (1.12%) Games
4 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.12%) Retail
4 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) CSS
1 19 (21.35%) HTML
2 16 (17.98%) .NET
2 16 (17.98%) .NET Core
2 16 (17.98%) JSON
3 15 (16.85%) HTML5 Canvas
3 15 (16.85%) Microsoft Graph
3 15 (16.85%) SPFx
4 2 (2.25%) Bootstrap
4 2 (2.25%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.25%) HTML5
4 2 (2.25%) jQuery
4 2 (2.25%) Kafka
4 2 (2.25%) PySpark
4 2 (2.25%) REST
4 2 (2.25%) RESTful
5 1 (1.12%) JSON-LD
5 1 (1.12%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.12%) React
5 1 (1.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.49%) Low-Code
1 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.12%) Linked Data
4 1 (1.12%) Semantic Web
4 1 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.12%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) User Experience
2 21 (23.60%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (17.98%) Machine Learning
4 16 (17.98%) Web Development
5 15 (16.85%) Document Management
5 15 (16.85%) Project Management
5 15 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (16.85%) Web Design
6 8 (8.99%) Software Engineering
7 5 (5.62%) Agile
7 5 (5.62%) AI
7 5 (5.62%) Test Automation
8 4 (4.49%) Clean Code
8 4 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (4.49%) ERP
8 4 (4.49%) Mentoring
8 4 (4.49%) Project Delivery
8 4 (4.49%) Roadmaps
9 3 (3.37%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.21%) SQL
2 18 (20.22%) JavaScript
3 17 (19.10%) TypeScript
4 15 (16.85%) C#
4 15 (16.85%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.87%) Python
6 3 (3.37%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.12%) Go
8 1 (1.12%) SHACL
8 1 (1.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) Degree
2 3 (3.37%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.25%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (46.07%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.85%) Adobe
3 6 (6.74%) Oracle
4 3 (3.37%) Informatica
5 2 (2.25%) Infor
5 2 (2.25%) SAP