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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 97 97
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 16 92 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.39% 2.51% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 2.80% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11 72 23
10th Percentile £50,000 - £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £43,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £69,063 £80,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,693 3,285 1,793
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 89.73% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,232 1,556 1,300
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £26,363
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -8 8 £90,000 +28.57% 12
Hertfordshire -6 4 £50,000 -25.93% 10
Bedfordshire +1 3 £70,000 +47.37%
Cambridgeshire +9 1 - - 3
Senior Developer
England

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

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

1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (25.00%) Web Development
3 3 (18.75%) Data Validation
3 3 (18.75%) JSON
3 3 (18.75%) Metadata
3 3 (18.75%) Pandas
3 3 (18.75%) RDF
3 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) AI
4 2 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) LLM
4 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 2 (12.50%) PyTorch
4 2 (12.50%) QA
4 2 (12.50%) Reference Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) TensorFlow
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) XML

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 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (6.25%) PaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 2 (12.50%) Electronics
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Health Technology
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 2 (12.50%) Wearables
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
1 3 (18.75%) Pandas
2 2 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 2 (12.50%) TensorFlow
2 2 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.25%) JSON-LD
3 1 (6.25%) Matplotlib
3 1 (6.25%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) SAP PI
3 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.25%) Seaborn
3 1 (6.25%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Semantic Web
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Linked Data
3 1 (6.25%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (25.00%) Web Development
2 3 (18.75%) Data Validation
2 3 (18.75%) RDF
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) AI
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Data Management
3 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
3 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) LLM
3 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 2 (12.50%) Reference Data Management
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Data Science
4 1 (6.25%) Domain Models
4 1 (6.25%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) R
3 1 (6.25%) SHACL
3 1 (6.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) EU AI Act
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Foundry
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft