Senior Backend Developer Jobs in Essex

Senior Backend Developer
East of England > Essex

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in Essex is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £78,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +43.18% -4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 340 823 677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.95% 94.16% 79.27%
Number of salaries quoted 207 672 377
10th Percentile £24,898 £25,759 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,625 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in Essex

Senior Backend Developer
Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 7 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
Loughton - 1 £105,000 -
Senior Backend Developer
East of England

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 7 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 Essex region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Mob Programming
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Mob Programming
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker