Senior Developer Jobs in the South East

Senior Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Developer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 54 80
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 514 573 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.41% 4.94% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.61% 5.41% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 417 440 699
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the South East

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Thames Valley +8 232 £70,000 - 19
Berkshire +21 149 £70,000 -6.67% 11
Hampshire -26 138 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Surrey -7 61 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Kent +7 50 £60,000 - 2
Oxfordshire -40 46 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Buckinghamshire +20 37 £65,000 -7.14% 2
West Sussex +3 15 £57,500 -8.00%
East Sussex -11 12 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Sussex - 6 £50,000 -
Middlesex -16 1 - - 1
Senior Developer
England

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 185 (35.99%) Agile
2 167 (32.49%) C#
2 167 (32.49%) .NET
3 150 (29.18%) JavaScript
4 111 (21.60%) Git
5 108 (21.01%) SQL
6 106 (20.62%) Azure
6 106 (20.62%) React
7 89 (17.32%) HTML
8 84 (16.34%) Docker
9 83 (16.15%) DevOps
9 83 (16.15%) CSS
10 80 (15.56%) Finance
11 79 (15.37%) ASP.NET
11 79 (15.37%) Full Stack Development
12 75 (14.59%) Social Skills
12 75 (14.59%) TypeScript
13 71 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (13.42%) PHP
14 69 (13.42%) CI/CD
15 65 (12.65%) TDD
15 65 (12.65%) CRM
16 62 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
17 61 (11.87%) AWS
17 61 (11.87%) Oracle
18 59 (11.48%) Software Engineering
19 55 (10.70%) Degree
20 54 (10.51%) .NET Framework
20 54 (10.51%) SQL Server
20 54 (10.51%) Microservices

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 25 (4.86%) CMS
2 16 (3.11%) Headless CMS
2 16 (3.11%) IIS
2 16 (3.11%) Kentico
3 15 (2.92%) Sitecore CMS
4 14 (2.72%) Umbraco
5 7 (1.36%) nginx
6 3 (0.58%) Apache
6 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
7 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.39%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Mathematica
1 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 36 (7.00%) Siebel CRM
2 11 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 106 (20.62%) Azure
2 61 (11.87%) AWS
3 36 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (5.84%) SaaS
5 16 (3.11%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.72%) Kontent
7 12 (2.33%) GCP
8 7 (1.36%) Serverless
9 6 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.17%) GitHub
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.78%) Azure Functions
10 4 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.78%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.78%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.56%) Network Security
2 4 (0.78%) MQTT
2 4 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 40 (7.78%) MySQL
3 36 (7.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 36 (7.00%) Siebel EIM
4 30 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.92%) OLTP
7 13 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.75%) Power BI
9 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.97%) Redis
12 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.58%) Power Query
13 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (21.60%) Git
2 32 (6.23%) Selenium
3 29 (5.64%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (3.31%) Cypress.io
5 17 (3.31%) JIRA
6 15 (2.92%) NUnit
7 12 (2.33%) JUnit
8 9 (1.75%) MSBuild
9 8 (1.56%) Jasmine
9 8 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (1.36%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.97%) rollup.js
11 5 (0.97%) Vite
12 4 (0.78%) gulp
12 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
12 4 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.78%) PHPUnit
12 4 (0.78%) PostCSS
13 3 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (15.56%) Finance
2 75 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 36 (7.00%) Aerospace
4 14 (2.72%) Law
5 10 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (1.95%) Multimedia
6 9 (1.75%) Marketing
7 8 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 5 (0.97%) Back Office
8 5 (0.97%) Games
8 5 (0.97%) Retail
9 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.19%) Banking
11 1 (0.19%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.19%) Publishing
11 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (32.49%) .NET
2 106 (20.62%) React
3 89 (17.32%) HTML
4 83 (16.15%) CSS
5 79 (15.37%) ASP.NET
6 54 (10.51%) .NET Core
6 54 (10.51%) .NET Framework
7 46 (8.95%) RESTful
8 37 (7.20%) AngularJS
9 36 (7.00%) REST
10 34 (6.61%) ASP.NET Web API
10 34 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (6.03%) Kafka
11 31 (6.03%) Web Services
12 27 (5.25%) GraphQL
12 27 (5.25%) gRPC
12 27 (5.25%) HTML5
13 24 (4.67%) Entity Framework
13 24 (4.67%) Laravel
14 23 (4.47%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.14%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (4.47%) Algorithms
2 23 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.75%) e-Learning
5 9 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.56%) Cybercrime
7 6 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.78%) Animation
8 4 (0.78%) IoT
9 3 (0.58%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.39%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.39%) CMDB
10 2 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.39%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.39%) iPhone
10 2 (0.39%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.19%) NHS
11 1 (0.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.70%) Android
2 12 (2.33%) Windows
3 7 (1.36%) Linux
4 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (35.99%) Agile
2 83 (16.15%) DevOps
3 79 (15.37%) Full Stack Development
4 71 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (13.42%) CI/CD
6 65 (12.65%) CRM
6 65 (12.65%) TDD
7 62 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
8 59 (11.48%) Software Engineering
9 54 (10.51%) Microservices
10 53 (10.31%) Front End Development
11 52 (10.12%) Computer Science
12 47 (9.14%) E-Commerce
13 44 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 41 (7.98%) MVC
15 40 (7.78%) Design Patterns
16 39 (7.59%) Collaborative Working
17 36 (7.00%) EAI
17 36 (7.00%) Unit Testing
18 32 (6.23%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 167 (32.49%) C#
2 150 (29.18%) JavaScript
3 108 (21.01%) SQL
4 75 (14.59%) TypeScript
5 69 (13.42%) PHP
6 46 (8.95%) Java
7 28 (5.45%) Go
8 25 (4.86%) Python
9 17 (3.31%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.53%) C++
11 9 (1.75%) C
11 9 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.56%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.78%) JSX
14 4 (0.78%) R
15 3 (0.58%) VB
16 2 (0.39%) Swift
17 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 55 (10.70%) Degree
2 42 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.95%) PhD
7 7 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.58%) MBA
9 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.11%) WCAG
2 9 (1.75%) QA
3 5 (0.97%) GDPR
4 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 84 (16.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.78%) Ansible
3 2 (0.39%) MIIS
3 2 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (11.87%) Oracle
2 50 (9.73%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.00%) Siebel
4 15 (2.92%) Sitecore
5 14 (2.72%) Optimizely
6 5 (0.97%) Adobe
7 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.58%) Google
9 2 (0.39%) New Relic
9 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.39%) WSO2
10 1 (0.19%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.19%) Cognos
10 1 (0.19%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.19%) IBM
10 1 (0.19%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.19%) Quadient
10 1 (0.19%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.19%) SAP
10 1 (0.19%) VMware