Senior Backend Developer Jobs in England

Senior Backend Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 784 851
Rank change year-on-year +155 +67 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 33 49 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.072% 0.057% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.061% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 33 44 59
10th Percentile £54,250 £53,250 £56,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -16.13% +14.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -16.13% +14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in England

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
London +104 15 £80,000 -11.11% 3
Midlands +70 10 £65,000 +30.03%
West Midlands +56 10 £65,000 +30.03%
North of England +85 6 £61,250 +2.08% 12
South West - 6 £65,000 - 1
North West +18 5 £57,500 -8.00% 12
East of England +56 2 £78,750 +43.18% 1
Yorkshire +69 1 £66,500 +10.83%
Senior Backend Developer
UK

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Backend 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 England region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (57.58%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (54.55%) Docker
4 17 (51.52%) SQL
5 16 (48.48%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (48.48%) Azure
5 16 (48.48%) Containerisation
6 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
6 15 (45.45%) Python
7 14 (42.42%) FastAPI
8 13 (39.39%) Public Sector
8 13 (39.39%) Flask
8 13 (39.39%) DevOps
9 12 (36.36%) .NET
9 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
10 11 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (33.33%) C#
10 11 (33.33%) Git
11 10 (30.30%) NoSQL
12 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
12 9 (27.27%) RESTful
12 9 (27.27%) GCP
12 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
12 9 (27.27%) Finance
12 9 (27.27%) Google
12 9 (27.27%) Terraform
13 8 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (24.24%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (24.24%) QA
13 8 (24.24%) Agile

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) GCP
4 8 (24.24%) GitHub
4 8 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Datadog
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (30.30%) NoSQL
3 8 (24.24%) RDBMS
3 8 (24.24%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.18%) Redis
4 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.09%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
6 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 5 (15.15%) NUnit
4 4 (12.12%) JUnit
5 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.03%) PHPUnit
General
1 13 (39.39%) Public Sector
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 9 (27.27%) Finance
4 7 (21.21%) Electronics
4 7 (21.21%) Manufacturing
4 7 (21.21%) Marketing
4 7 (21.21%) Telecoms
5 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (9.09%) Agriculture
8 2 (6.06%) Games
9 1 (3.03%) Banking
9 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) FastAPI
2 13 (39.39%) Flask
3 12 (36.36%) .NET
4 9 (27.27%) RESTful
5 8 (24.24%) Node.js
5 8 (24.24%) REST
6 7 (21.21%) GraphQL
7 6 (18.18%) Django
7 6 (18.18%) Keycloak
7 6 (18.18%) OAuth
7 6 (18.18%) pytest
7 6 (18.18%) React
7 6 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
7 6 (18.18%) WebSockets
8 5 (15.15%) .NET Core
9 4 (12.12%) Jest
10 3 (9.09%) .NET Framework
11 2 (6.06%) Entity Framework
12 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
12 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (57.58%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (48.48%) Containerisation
4 13 (39.39%) DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 8 (24.24%) Agile
6 8 (24.24%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (24.24%) Front End Development
6 8 (24.24%) Process Improvement
6 8 (24.24%) Product Management
7 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (21.21%) Digital Marketing
7 7 (21.21%) Programme Management
8 6 (18.18%) Design Patterns
8 6 (18.18%) OOP
9 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
9 5 (15.15%) OO
9 5 (15.15%) Scrum
9 5 (15.15%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 11 (33.33%) C#
4 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
6 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 3 (9.09%) PhD
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
System Software
1 18 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (27.27%) Terraform
3 6 (18.18%) Grafana
3 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Google
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) SAP
4 5 (15.15%) Oracle
5 4 (12.12%) Okta
6 1 (3.03%) Zend