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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 152 116
Rank change year-on-year +59 -36 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 96 21 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.53% 0.69% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 0.74% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 95 13 97
10th Percentile £51,236 £52,100 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £77,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -10.34%

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 5,869 2,849 6,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 93.44% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,004 1,527 4,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £76,025
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +32 55 £100,000 +33.33% 32
Bedfordshire - 18 £55,000 - 10
Cambridgeshire -18 12 £57,500 -17.86% 23
Hertfordshire -18 7 £72,500 +18.37% 19
Norfolk -28 3 £57,500 -4.17% 7
Suffolk - 1 £45,000 - 8
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 43 (44.79%) Microsoft
2 40 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (41.67%) SharePoint
2 40 (41.67%) User Experience
3 28 (29.17%) SQL
4 23 (23.96%) Azure
4 23 (23.96%) CSS
4 23 (23.96%) HTML
5 22 (22.92%) JavaScript
6 20 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (20.83%) C#
6 20 (20.83%) Power BI
6 20 (20.83%) Power Platform
6 20 (20.83%) TypeScript
7 18 (18.75%) .NET
7 18 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 16 (16.67%) .NET Core
8 16 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 15 (15.63%) Adobe
9 15 (15.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 15 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (15.63%) Document Management
9 15 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (15.63%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (15.63%) JSON
9 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Graph
9 15 (15.63%) OneDrive
9 15 (15.63%) Power Automate
9 15 (15.63%) PowerApps

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 40 (41.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (23.96%) Azure
3 20 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 18 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (15.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 15 (15.63%) OneDrive
6 15 (15.63%) Power Automate
6 15 (15.63%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.21%) AWS
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.17%) SaaS
9 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.08%) GitHub
9 2 (2.08%) Serverless
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) MQTT
2 2 (2.08%) Internet
3 1 (1.04%) AMQP
3 1 (1.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) Power BI
2 15 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.17%) MySQL
5 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.08%) SQLite
6 2 (2.08%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.04%) Metadata
7 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) git-flow
3 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.04%) Games
4 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.04%) Marketing
4 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.96%) CSS
1 23 (23.96%) HTML
2 18 (18.75%) .NET
3 16 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 15 (15.63%) HTML5 Canvas
4 15 (15.63%) JSON
4 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 15 (15.63%) SPFx
5 5 (5.21%) Kafka
5 5 (5.21%) RESTful
6 4 (4.17%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.17%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.17%) Swagger
7 3 (3.13%) Bootstrap
7 3 (3.13%) HTML5
7 3 (3.13%) jQuery
8 2 (2.08%) React
8 2 (2.08%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Android
2 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) User Experience
2 20 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 15 (15.63%) Document Management
4 15 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (15.63%) Project Management
4 15 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
4 15 (15.63%) Web Design
5 13 (13.54%) Web Development
6 8 (8.33%) Agile
6 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 7 (7.29%) Clean Code
7 7 (7.29%) Mentoring
7 7 (7.29%) Software Engineering
8 6 (6.25%) AI
8 6 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (6.25%) Event-Driven
9 5 (5.21%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.21%) Project Delivery
9 5 (5.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) SQL
2 22 (22.92%) JavaScript
3 20 (20.83%) C#
3 20 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 15 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.38%) Python
6 3 (3.13%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.08%) Ruby
7 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.08%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.04%) Bicep
8 1 (1.04%) Go
8 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (7.29%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.08%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (44.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.63%) Adobe
3 7 (7.29%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) Informatica
5 2 (2.08%) Infor
5 2 (2.08%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.04%) SAP