Senior Developer Jobs in Oxford

Senior Developer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Senior Developer salary in Oxford is £55,000 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 30 38 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 9 25 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 3.77% 3.83% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.11% 4.02% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 25 13
10th Percentile - £49,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -12.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £92,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year -10.57% -13.68% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 219 622 399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 95.40% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 130 467 283
10th Percentile £39,750 £30,000 £26,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,250 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Oxford

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in Oxford

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Oxford over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in Oxford

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Oxford region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 9 (100.00%) React
1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (55.56%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
2 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
2 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
2 5 (55.56%) Functional Programming
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) GraphQL
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Kanban
2 5 (55.56%) Node.js
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) .NET
3 4 (44.44%) MySQL
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) IIS
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) MVC

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 4 (44.44%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
2 4 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (44.44%) MySQL
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) Jasmine
1 4 (44.44%) NUnit
1 4 (44.44%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) React
2 5 (55.56%) GraphQL
2 5 (55.56%) Node.js
3 4 (44.44%) .NET
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) CSS3
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) Jest
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) 3D Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Functional Programming
2 5 (55.56%) Kanban
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
2 5 (55.56%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Mobile Application Development
3 4 (44.44%) Mobile First
3 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 4 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) Rollbar