Senior Backend Developer Job Trends in England

Senior Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 611 712
Rank change year-on-year -68 +101 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 63 39 47
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.067% 0.089% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.098% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 55 33 35
10th Percentile £52,250 £56,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -16.13%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,000 - £81,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +19.23% -16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 88,542 39,676 68,922
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.61% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 62,156 23,891 46,902
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Backend Developer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Backend Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Backend Developer job vacancies in England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
London -37 33 £95,000 +18.75% 4
South East +3 21 £70,000 -22.22% 2
North of England -55 7 £65,000 -3.70%
Yorkshire - 5 £65,000 -
North West -16 2 - -
Midlands -42 1 £75,000 +25.00%
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
Senior Backend Developer
UK

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, Senior Backend 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 England region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 25 (39.68%) AWS
2 21 (33.33%) Python
3 20 (31.75%) Agile
4 19 (30.16%) Docker
5 18 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 18 (28.57%) PHP
6 17 (26.98%) GCP
6 17 (26.98%) Git
6 17 (26.98%) MySQL
6 17 (26.98%) TDD
7 16 (25.40%) OOP
7 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (23.81%) Clean Code
9 14 (22.22%) OO
9 14 (22.22%) OOD
9 14 (22.22%) Refactoring
9 14 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
11 11 (17.46%) Java
12 10 (15.87%) DevOps
13 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 9 (14.29%) SQL
14 8 (12.70%) Event-Driven
15 7 (11.11%) API Development
15 7 (11.11%) Azure
15 7 (11.11%) C#
15 7 (11.11%) Code Quality
15 7 (11.11%) Microservices
15 7 (11.11%) RESTful
16 6 (9.52%) .NET

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (3.17%) Apache
1 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) GCP
3 7 (11.11%) Azure
4 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.59%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.59%) Firebase
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.59%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.59%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.98%) MySQL
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) Redis
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) PHPUnit
2 4 (6.35%) Selenium
3 1 (1.59%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.59%) NUnit
General
1 11 (17.46%) Finance
2 4 (6.35%) Digital Health
2 4 (6.35%) Front Office
2 4 (6.35%) Retail
2 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.17%) Banking
3 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.59%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) RESTful
2 6 (9.52%) .NET
2 6 (9.52%) LAMP
2 6 (9.52%) Node.js
3 4 (6.35%) CSS
3 4 (6.35%) HTML
3 4 (6.35%) jQuery
3 4 (6.35%) Kafka
3 4 (6.35%) Next.js
3 4 (6.35%) XHTML
4 3 (4.76%) REST
4 3 (4.76%) Swagger
4 3 (4.76%) WinForms
5 2 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.17%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.17%) JPA
5 2 (3.17%) Pandas
5 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.17%) Spring
5 2 (3.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.75%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (25.40%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 14 (22.22%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.76%) Blockchain
4 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.17%) Derivative
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.17%) Equities
5 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.17%) Online Gambling
5 2 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Android
2 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Agile
2 17 (26.98%) TDD
3 16 (25.40%) OOP
3 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.81%) Clean Code
5 14 (22.22%) OO
5 14 (22.22%) OOD
5 14 (22.22%) Refactoring
5 14 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 10 (15.87%) DevOps
8 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 8 (12.70%) Event-Driven
10 7 (11.11%) API Development
10 7 (11.11%) Code Quality
10 7 (11.11%) Microservices
11 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (9.52%) Migration
11 6 (9.52%) Observability
12 5 (7.94%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) PHP
3 11 (17.46%) Java
4 9 (14.29%) SQL
5 7 (11.11%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) VB
6 3 (4.76%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.17%) Go
7 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.59%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (30.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Google
2 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.17%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.59%) OpenAI