Senior Developer Job Trends in Ipswich

Senior Developer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median Senior Developer salary in Ipswich is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Ipswich 0.93% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £81,250 - -
Suffolk median annual salary £52,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Ipswich. 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 Ipswich with a recognized job title 320 129 165
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.07% 99.23% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 198 116 105
10th Percentile £29,525 £27,375 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +14.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £67,188 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £76,250 £78,750
Suffolk median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +35.71% -22.22%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Ipswich

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Ipswich.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Ipswich

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Ipswich

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Ipswich over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Ipswich

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

For the 6 months to 30 August 2026, Senior 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 Ipswich region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) 4G
3 1 (33.33%) 5G
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Flask
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 4G
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Flask
3 1 (33.33%) Jinja
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) pytest
3 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
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