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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 156 98
Rank change year-on-year +48 -58 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 102 18 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.23% 0.54% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 0.58% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 100 12 54
10th Percentile £51,236 £50,200 £44,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,000 £47,971
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +20.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 7,677 3,083 4,156
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.33% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,460 1,725 2,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,359 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £81,875
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 8 October 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 8 October 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
Cambridgeshire +2 30 £80,000 +10.34% 16
Essex +5 26 £100,000 +33.33% 7
Hertfordshire -16 21 £72,500 +45.00% 8
Bedfordshire - 12 £55,000 -
Suffolk - 9 £52,500 - 2
Norfolk -29 4 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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 26 (25.49%) Azure
1 26 (25.49%) Python
2 23 (22.55%) Microsoft
3 22 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 21 (20.59%) CSS
4 21 (20.59%) HTML
4 21 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (20.59%) SharePoint
4 21 (20.59%) User Experience
5 19 (18.63%) SQL
6 18 (17.65%) Docker
7 17 (16.67%) Agile
8 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
8 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
8 16 (15.69%) Roadmaps
9 15 (14.71%) C#
9 15 (14.71%) Event-Driven
9 15 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 14 (13.73%) AI
10 14 (13.73%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.73%) Clean Code
11 13 (12.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (12.75%) FastAPI
11 13 (12.75%) Kafka
11 13 (12.75%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (12.75%) RESTful
11 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
11 13 (12.75%) Validation
12 11 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
12 11 (10.78%) API Design

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 21 (20.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.49%) Azure
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (6.86%) AWS
4 7 (6.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (6.86%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.90%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.90%) Power Automate
5 5 (4.90%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.94%) SaaS
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.96%) GitHub
7 2 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.78%) MQTT
2 3 (2.94%) Internet
3 2 (1.96%) 4G
3 2 (1.96%) 5G
3 2 (1.96%) DNS
3 2 (1.96%) HTTP
3 2 (1.96%) SSH
3 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.80%) MySQL
2 7 (6.86%) Power BI
3 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.94%) SQLite
6 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.96%) Redis
6 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.96%) git-flow
3 2 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.96%) Selenium
3 2 (1.96%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
4 1 (0.98%) Law
4 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.59%) CSS
1 21 (20.59%) HTML
2 13 (12.75%) FastAPI
2 13 (12.75%) Kafka
2 13 (12.75%) RabbitMQ
2 13 (12.75%) RESTful
3 11 (10.78%) OpenAPI
3 11 (10.78%) Ruby on Rails
3 11 (10.78%) Swagger
4 9 (8.82%) .NET
5 5 (4.90%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.90%) HTML5 Canvas
5 5 (4.90%) jQuery
5 5 (4.90%) JSON
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (4.90%) SPFx
6 4 (3.92%) REST
7 3 (2.94%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.94%) HTML5
7 3 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.59%) User Experience
2 17 (16.67%) Agile
3 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
3 16 (15.69%) Roadmaps
4 15 (14.71%) Event-Driven
4 15 (14.71%) Software Engineering
5 14 (13.73%) AI
5 14 (13.73%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.73%) Clean Code
6 13 (12.75%) Validation
7 11 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
7 11 (10.78%) API Design
7 11 (10.78%) Containerisation
7 11 (10.78%) Continuous Delivery
7 11 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (6.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.49%) Python
2 22 (21.57%) JavaScript
3 19 (18.63%) SQL
4 15 (14.71%) C#
5 13 (12.75%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.78%) Ruby
7 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.94%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.96%) Bash
9 2 (1.96%) Bicep
9 2 (1.96%) Delphi
9 2 (1.96%) Java
9 2 (1.96%) PHP
9 2 (1.96%) Rust
9 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Degree
2 3 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.96%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Grafana
2 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) Oracle
3 5 (4.90%) Adobe
4 3 (2.94%) Informatica
4 3 (2.94%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.98%) Blue Prism