Senior Developer Jobs in the East of England

Senior Developer
England > East of England

The median Senior Developer salary in the East of England is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 128 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 -36 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 26 96 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.80% 1.57% 3.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.67% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 22 84 113
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,813 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,875 £84,375 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +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 2,968 5,749 4,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.94% 84.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 4,391 2,263
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,142 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the East of England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 9 May 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 9 May 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
Cambridgeshire +16 9 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Bedfordshire -8 6 £47,500 -26.92% 2
Hertfordshire +16 5 £68,750 +5.77% 7
Essex +7 5 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Norfolk +6 1 £52,500 +5.00% 4
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Senior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 14 (53.85%) C#
2 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 12 (46.15%) .NET
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
4 8 (30.77%) Entity Framework
4 8 (30.77%) GitHub
4 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 8 (30.77%) CSS
4 8 (30.77%) HTML
5 7 (26.92%) Java
5 7 (26.92%) SQL
5 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET
5 7 (26.92%) MVC
5 7 (26.92%) .NET Framework
5 7 (26.92%) Git
5 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) SaaS
6 6 (23.08%) DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) Sass
6 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
6 6 (23.08%) C++
7 5 (19.23%) Objective-C
7 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) PHP
7 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
7 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (19.23%) Xamarin

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) CMS
1 1 (3.85%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) SaaS
4 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) AWS
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) Figma
7 1 (3.85%) Firebase
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Google Play
7 1 (3.85%) npm
7 1 (3.85%) Serverless
7 1 (3.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LTE
1 1 (3.85%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
3 4 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) webpack
5 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) gulp
5 1 (3.85%) Vite
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Automotive
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) .NET
2 8 (30.77%) CSS
2 8 (30.77%) Entity Framework
2 8 (30.77%) HTML
3 7 (26.92%) .NET Framework
3 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET
3 7 (26.92%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (23.08%) Sass
5 5 (19.23%) HTML5
5 5 (19.23%) RESTful
6 4 (15.38%) CSS3
6 4 (15.38%) LESS
6 4 (15.38%) Vue
7 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
7 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
7 3 (11.54%) React
8 2 (7.69%) Next.js
8 2 (7.69%) Node.js
8 2 (7.69%) REST
8 2 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
1 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Android
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) MVC
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 4 (15.38%) Project Management
5 4 (15.38%) SDLC
5 4 (15.38%) User Experience
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
6 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (11.54%) OOP
7 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 2 (7.69%) E-Commerce
7 2 (7.69%) Multithreading
7 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) C#
2 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 7 (26.92%) Java
4 7 (26.92%) SQL
5 6 (23.08%) C++
6 5 (19.23%) Objective-C
6 5 (19.23%) PHP
7 4 (15.38%) C
7 4 (15.38%) T-SQL
8 3 (11.54%) Python
9 2 (7.69%) Ruby
10 1 (3.85%) OpenEdge ABL
10 1 (3.85%) Rust
10 1 (3.85%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
1 5 (19.23%) Xamarin
2 2 (7.69%) Google