Senior Software Developer Jobs in Sheffield

Senior Software Developer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Software Developer salary in Sheffield is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 75 103
Rank change year-on-year +37 +28 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.70% 0.85% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.89% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - £61,500 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 275 1,013 820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 95.48% 88.46%
Number of salaries quoted 189 820 397
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,938 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -10.00%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in Sheffield

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Software 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 Sheffield region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Skia Graphics Library
2 1 (50.00%) Azure WebJobs
2 1 (50.00%) SignalR
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Azure WebJobs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) SignalR
2 1 (50.00%) Skia Graphics Library
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL