Senior Developer Jobs in England

Senior Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 82 72
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,431 2,755 7,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.10% 3.88% 4.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% 4.23% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,971 2,089 3,868
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £56,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in England

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in England

Senior 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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -22 723 £80,000 -5.88% 77
North of England +44 515 £60,000 -4.00% 57
South East -12 514 £65,000 -7.14% 42
North West +53 304 £62,500 - 35
Midlands -19 299 £62,500 +4.17% 32
South West +32 286 £60,000 - 21
West Midlands +5 188 £62,500 +4.17% 19
Yorkshire +23 160 £60,000 -0.21% 11
East Midlands -43 110 £60,000 -4.00% 13
East of England -32 70 £55,000 -18.52% 12
North East +5 51 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 England region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 773 (31.80%) .NET
2 767 (31.55%) JavaScript
3 760 (31.26%) C#
4 639 (26.29%) Agile
5 575 (23.65%) Azure
6 493 (20.28%) React
7 483 (19.87%) SQL
8 447 (18.39%) AWS
9 428 (17.61%) Full Stack Development
10 426 (17.52%) HTML
11 413 (16.99%) CSS
12 380 (15.63%) TypeScript
13 362 (14.89%) DevOps
14 354 (14.56%) Finance
15 339 (13.94%) Social Skills
16 312 (12.83%) Git
17 280 (11.52%) Java
18 277 (11.39%) AngularJS
19 272 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
20 268 (11.02%) Software Engineering
21 263 (10.82%) CI/CD
22 260 (10.70%) Degree
23 256 (10.53%) PHP
23 256 (10.53%) ASP.NET
24 251 (10.32%) Microsoft
25 248 (10.20%) SQL Server
26 228 (9.38%) Python
27 223 (9.17%) Docker
28 217 (8.93%) .NET Core
28 217 (8.93%) MVC

Senior 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 86 (3.54%) CMS
2 35 (1.44%) Umbraco
3 33 (1.36%) Apache
4 31 (1.28%) IIS
5 30 (1.23%) Headless CMS
6 29 (1.19%) Kentico
6 29 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
7 28 (1.15%) WordPress
8 26 (1.07%) Confluence
9 22 (0.90%) nginx
10 12 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.37%) Mendix
11 9 (0.37%) SAS
12 7 (0.29%) Appian
12 7 (0.29%) Drupal
13 6 (0.25%) Apache Spark
14 5 (0.21%) K2 blackpearl
15 4 (0.16%) SharePoint
16 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
17 2 (0.082%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 21 (0.86%) Photoshop
2 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.041%) Elementor
5 1 (0.041%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.041%) Maya
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.041%) NUKE
5 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.48%) Siebel CRM
2 31 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.78%) Magento
4 18 (0.74%) SDL Web 8
5 10 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.41%) Shopify
6 6 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.16%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.12%) Endur
10 2 (0.082%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.041%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 575 (23.65%) Azure
2 447 (18.39%) AWS
3 174 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
4 146 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 140 (5.76%) SaaS
6 114 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
7 97 (3.99%) GCP
8 80 (3.29%) Serverless
9 66 (2.71%) PowerApps
10 61 (2.51%) Power Automate
11 58 (2.39%) GitHub
12 40 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 34 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (1.28%) Azure Functions
15 26 (1.07%) Kontent
16 25 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (0.90%) PaaS
18 20 (0.82%) NuGet
19 19 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.33%) Network Security
2 5 (0.21%) AMQP
2 5 (0.21%) MQTT
2 5 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (0.21%) VPN
3 4 (0.16%) Broadband
4 2 (0.082%) HTTP
4 2 (0.082%) Internet
4 2 (0.082%) IPFS
5 1 (0.041%) CTI
5 1 (0.041%) DNS
5 1 (0.041%) SAN
5 1 (0.041%) SSL
5 1 (0.041%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 171 (7.03%) MySQL
3 88 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 73 (3.00%) Power BI
6 72 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 45 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 37 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 36 (1.48%) Oracle BI EE
9 36 (1.48%) Siebel EIM
10 30 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 26 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (1.03%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (0.78%) Oracle Database
15 17 (0.70%) Redis
16 16 (0.66%) OLTP
16 16 (0.66%) Power Query
17 10 (0.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 312 (12.83%) Git
2 83 (3.41%) JIRA
3 72 (2.96%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.52%) NUnit
4 37 (1.52%) Selenium
5 35 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 30 (1.23%) Sourcetree
8 29 (1.19%) Moq
9 25 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
9 25 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (0.78%) Jenkins
12 18 (0.74%) git-flow
12 18 (0.74%) SpecFlow
13 16 (0.66%) Android Studio
14 15 (0.62%) IntelliJ
14 15 (0.62%) PHPUnit
15 13 (0.53%) JUnit
15 13 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 354 (14.56%) Finance
2 339 (13.94%) Social Skills
3 95 (3.91%) Marketing
4 79 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (3.25%) Banking
5 76 (3.13%) Retail
6 67 (2.76%) Front Office
7 57 (2.34%) Games
8 48 (1.97%) Law
9 40 (1.65%) Back Office
10 39 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 36 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 35 (1.44%) Legal
13 34 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (1.07%) Public Sector
15 24 (0.99%) Investment Banking
16 23 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.78%) Manufacturing
18 17 (0.70%) Health Technology
19 16 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (31.80%) .NET
2 493 (20.28%) React
3 426 (17.52%) HTML
4 413 (16.99%) CSS
5 277 (11.39%) AngularJS
6 256 (10.53%) ASP.NET
7 217 (8.93%) .NET Core
8 216 (8.89%) .NET Framework
9 170 (6.99%) RESTful
10 165 (6.79%) Vue
11 156 (6.42%) Node.js
12 152 (6.25%) REST
13 138 (5.68%) Laravel
14 119 (4.90%) Entity Framework
15 109 (4.48%) Web Services
16 104 (4.28%) Kafka
17 100 (4.11%) jQuery
18 90 (3.70%) GraphQL
18 90 (3.70%) Spring
19 84 (3.46%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 135 (5.55%) Greenfield Project
2 88 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 77 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 71 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 63 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.18%) Equities
7 52 (2.14%) Derivative
8 49 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 49 (2.02%) Hedge funds
9 45 (1.85%) Fixed Income
9 45 (1.85%) IoT
10 44 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.73%) Cloud Native
12 37 (1.52%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.03%) Legacy Code
14 22 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
16 19 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
17 15 (0.62%) Low-Code
18 13 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 59 (2.43%) Windows
2 58 (2.39%) Linux
3 52 (2.14%) Android
4 37 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.29%) Unix
6 4 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (26.29%) Agile
2 428 (17.61%) Full Stack Development
3 362 (14.89%) DevOps
4 272 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
5 268 (11.02%) Software Engineering
6 263 (10.82%) CI/CD
7 217 (8.93%) MVC
8 208 (8.56%) Mentoring
9 200 (8.23%) Microservices
10 199 (8.19%) Computer Science
11 182 (7.49%) TDD
12 178 (7.32%) Scrum
13 172 (7.08%) Web Development
14 171 (7.03%) Front End Development
15 156 (6.42%) E-Commerce
16 155 (6.38%) Unit Testing
17 147 (6.05%) Design Patterns
18 130 (5.35%) Clean Code
19 129 (5.31%) CRM
20 123 (5.06%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 767 (31.55%) JavaScript
2 760 (31.26%) C#
3 483 (19.87%) SQL
4 380 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 280 (11.52%) Java
6 256 (10.53%) PHP
7 228 (9.38%) Python
8 65 (2.67%) T-SQL
9 48 (1.97%) C++
10 46 (1.89%) Go
10 46 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 39 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 34 (1.40%) Ruby
13 27 (1.11%) Scala
14 22 (0.90%) VB.NET
15 19 (0.78%) XPath
16 18 (0.74%) C
16 18 (0.74%) PowerShell
17 16 (0.66%) R
18 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 260 (10.70%) Degree
2 100 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 91 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 91 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 41 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 15 (0.62%) PhD
6 13 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.21%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.12%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.12%) MBA
11 2 (0.082%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.082%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.041%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (2.76%) QA
2 16 (0.66%) WCAG
3 12 (0.49%) GDPR
4 11 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.25%) MiFID
8 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.16%) EMIR
10 3 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.082%) GRC
11 2 (0.082%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.082%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.082%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.041%) SLA
System Software
1 223 (9.17%) Docker
2 6 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.082%) Firmware
4 1 (0.041%) Ceph
4 1 (0.041%) GridGain
4 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 177 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.06%) Terraform
3 9 (0.37%) Grafana
4 8 (0.33%) Ansible
5 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.21%) Rancher
7 4 (0.16%) Kibana
7 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.082%) MIIS
9 1 (0.041%) cPanel
9 1 (0.041%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.041%) Istio
9 1 (0.041%) Knative
Vendors
1 251 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 112 (4.61%) Oracle
3 40 (1.65%) Google
4 36 (1.48%) Siebel
5 30 (1.23%) Sitecore
6 29 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.15%) Adobe
8 27 (1.11%) Optimizely
9 25 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 18 (0.74%) Cognizant
11 14 (0.58%) Xamarin
12 12 (0.49%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.49%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.41%) Databricks
15 8 (0.33%) SAP
16 7 (0.29%) Progress
16 7 (0.29%) Quadient
16 7 (0.29%) Sybase
16 7 (0.29%) Twitter