Senior Backend Developer Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Senior Backend Developer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in Hertfordshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.055% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £62,500 £78,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.63% +43.18% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 1,649 928 1,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 83.91% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 994 454 959
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,438 £65,625
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,750 £75,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -7.41%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Senior Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Backend Developer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Affiliate Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Affiliate Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle