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 to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 84 66
Rank change year-on-year +1 -18 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,668 3,610 6,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.17% 3.80% 5.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.36% 4.15% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 2,511 4,191
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 19 April 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 19 April 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 0 885 £80,000 -5.88% 193
North of England +41 533 £60,000 -4.00% 83
South East -24 513 £65,000 -7.14% 71
South West +43 375 £57,500 -4.17% 43
North West +40 324 £60,000 -4.00% 52
Midlands -24 241 £60,000 - 45
Yorkshire +69 180 £55,000 -12.00% 28
West Midlands +3 145 £62,500 +4.17% 25
East Midlands -41 98 £56,250 -10.00% 20
East of England -25 96 £60,000 -14.29% 16
North East -17 29 £55,000 -13.73% 8
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 932 (34.93%) JavaScript
2 874 (32.76%) C#
3 827 (31.00%) .NET
4 812 (30.43%) Agile
5 664 (24.89%) SQL
6 663 (24.85%) AWS
7 658 (24.66%) Azure
8 614 (23.01%) React
9 480 (17.99%) Full Stack Development
10 459 (17.20%) Social Skills
11 452 (16.94%) HTML
12 444 (16.64%) Finance
13 435 (16.30%) CSS
14 433 (16.23%) TypeScript
15 420 (15.74%) DevOps
16 392 (14.69%) Java
16 392 (14.69%) AngularJS
17 359 (13.46%) Git
18 350 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
19 337 (12.63%) Docker
20 330 (12.37%) Microsoft
21 328 (12.29%) Degree
22 322 (12.07%) Software Engineering
23 301 (11.28%) SQL Server
24 300 (11.24%) Microservices
25 298 (11.17%) CI/CD
26 296 (11.09%) Python
27 293 (10.98%) Mentoring
28 285 (10.68%) PHP
29 284 (10.64%) ASP.NET

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 97 (3.64%) CMS
2 52 (1.95%) Confluence
3 42 (1.57%) IIS
3 42 (1.57%) Umbraco
4 40 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 39 (1.46%) Kentico
6 36 (1.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 26 (0.97%) Apache
8 25 (0.94%) WordPress
9 20 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
10 17 (0.64%) nginx
11 12 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 11 (0.41%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.34%) JBoss
13 9 (0.34%) Mendix
13 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.30%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.26%) Drupal
15 7 (0.26%) NServiceBus
16 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 16 (0.60%) Photoshop
2 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) Maya
5 2 (0.075%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.037%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 29 (1.09%) Siebel CRM
2 20 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.64%) Shopify
4 13 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.49%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.26%) Magento
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.037%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 663 (24.85%) AWS
2 658 (24.66%) Azure
3 173 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (6.03%) SaaS
5 150 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 124 (4.65%) GCP
7 87 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
8 85 (3.19%) Serverless
9 82 (3.07%) GitHub
10 79 (2.96%) PowerApps
11 72 (2.70%) Power Automate
12 36 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
13 33 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (1.24%) Kontent
14 29 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (0.82%) Azure Functions
17 22 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (0.67%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.75%) Internet
2 7 (0.26%) AMQP
2 7 (0.26%) HTTP
3 6 (0.22%) MQTT
4 5 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.19%) VPN
5 4 (0.15%) Broadband
5 4 (0.15%) DNS
5 4 (0.15%) VoIP
6 3 (0.11%) IPFS
6 3 (0.11%) SSL
7 2 (0.075%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.037%) CTI
8 1 (0.037%) DHCP
8 1 (0.037%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 187 (7.01%) MySQL
3 170 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (4.16%) Power BI
5 101 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 84 (3.15%) Oracle Database
7 82 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.14%) Oracle Database 11g
9 53 (1.99%) MongoDB
10 45 (1.69%) Redis
11 42 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (1.09%) DynamoDB
13 29 (1.09%) Oracle BI EE
13 29 (1.09%) Siebel EIM
14 28 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 20 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (0.64%) Power Query
18 16 (0.60%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 359 (13.46%) Git
2 123 (4.61%) JIRA
3 83 (3.11%) Visual Studio
4 58 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 45 (1.69%) Sourcetree
6 40 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.31%) Jenkins
8 30 (1.12%) NUnit
9 27 (1.01%) Selenium
10 26 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
11 25 (0.94%) JUnit
12 24 (0.90%) TeamCity
13 20 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
14 19 (0.71%) Moq
15 18 (0.67%) Maven
16 17 (0.64%) gulp
17 16 (0.60%) Android Studio
18 15 (0.56%) webpack
19 14 (0.52%) SpecFlow
19 14 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 459 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 444 (16.64%) Finance
3 107 (4.01%) Banking
4 102 (3.82%) Retail
5 93 (3.49%) Front Office
6 85 (3.19%) Games
7 84 (3.15%) Marketing
8 83 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
9 56 (2.10%) Public Sector
10 54 (2.02%) Back Office
11 45 (1.69%) Legal
12 41 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 32 (1.20%) Law
15 32 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 32 (1.20%) Tech for Good
16 30 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 26 (0.97%) Health Technology
18 25 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 827 (31.00%) .NET
2 614 (23.01%) React
3 452 (16.94%) HTML
4 435 (16.30%) CSS
5 392 (14.69%) AngularJS
6 284 (10.64%) ASP.NET
7 256 (9.60%) .NET Core
8 255 (9.56%) Vue
9 236 (8.85%) Node.js
10 214 (8.02%) .NET Framework
11 191 (7.16%) RESTful
12 184 (6.90%) REST
13 177 (6.63%) Laravel
14 144 (5.40%) Spring
15 139 (5.21%) Web Services
16 123 (4.61%) Kafka
17 118 (4.42%) jQuery
18 105 (3.94%) HTML5
19 101 (3.79%) JSON
20 100 (3.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 154 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
2 106 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (2.85%) Equities
4 71 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 69 (2.59%) Derivative
5 69 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 64 (2.40%) Fixed Income
8 63 (2.36%) IoT
9 61 (2.29%) Hedge funds
10 59 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 46 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.54%) Cloud Native
13 39 (1.46%) Onboarding
14 35 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 30 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
17 26 (0.97%) Client/Server
18 22 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 95 (3.56%) Linux
2 63 (2.36%) Android
3 62 (2.32%) Windows
4 52 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.37%) Unix
6 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (30.43%) Agile
2 480 (17.99%) Full Stack Development
3 420 (15.74%) DevOps
4 350 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
5 322 (12.07%) Software Engineering
6 300 (11.24%) Microservices
7 298 (11.17%) CI/CD
8 293 (10.98%) Mentoring
9 268 (10.04%) MVC
10 247 (9.26%) Front End Development
11 238 (8.92%) Computer Science
12 234 (8.77%) Scrum
13 218 (8.17%) TDD
14 197 (7.38%) Artificial Intelligence
14 197 (7.38%) Unit Testing
15 184 (6.90%) User Experience
16 181 (6.78%) Design Patterns
17 170 (6.37%) E-Commerce
18 161 (6.03%) Fintech
18 161 (6.03%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 932 (34.93%) JavaScript
2 874 (32.76%) C#
3 664 (24.89%) SQL
4 433 (16.23%) TypeScript
5 392 (14.69%) Java
6 296 (11.09%) Python
7 285 (10.68%) PHP
8 105 (3.94%) PL/SQL
9 94 (3.52%) T-SQL
10 54 (2.02%) Kotlin
11 45 (1.69%) Ruby
12 43 (1.61%) C++
13 37 (1.39%) Go
14 21 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 20 (0.75%) C
15 20 (0.75%) PowerShell
16 18 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.64%) Swift
18 14 (0.52%) VB
18 14 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 328 (12.29%) Degree
2 134 (5.02%) Security Cleared
3 117 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 115 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.52%) PhD
8 9 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.11%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.11%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.11%) MBA
10 3 (0.11%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.075%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.075%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (3.64%) QA
2 19 (0.71%) WCAG
3 15 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.45%) GDPR
5 10 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.26%) SLA
8 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.15%) PMO
10 3 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.075%) GRC
11 2 (0.075%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.075%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.075%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 337 (12.63%) Docker
2 11 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 3 (0.11%) OpenSIPS
6 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.037%) GridGain
7 1 (0.037%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 249 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.87%) Terraform
3 20 (0.75%) Ansible
4 7 (0.26%) Grafana
4 7 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.22%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.22%) Rancher
6 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.037%) cPanel
7 1 (0.037%) Istio
7 1 (0.037%) Kibana
7 1 (0.037%) MIIS
7 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 330 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.11%) Oracle
3 74 (2.77%) Google
4 40 (1.50%) Sitecore
5 33 (1.24%) Optimizely
6 30 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.09%) Siebel
8 23 (0.86%) Adobe
9 13 (0.49%) Cognizant
9 13 (0.49%) F5
10 11 (0.41%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.41%) WSO2
11 10 (0.37%) Xamarin
12 9 (0.34%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.34%) Databricks
12 9 (0.34%) NVIDIA
13 8 (0.30%) Facebook
13 8 (0.30%) Sybase
13 8 (0.30%) Twitter