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 21 June 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 75 54
Rank change year-on-year -89 -21 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 165 591 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.71% 3.11% 5.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 3.29% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 134 477 478
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £71,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £87,500 £83,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%

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 8,519 17,938 11,715
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.45% 94.36% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,574 12,668 7,720
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

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 21 June 2025.

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 21 June 2025. 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 -59 76 £67,500 - 152
Berkshire -43 46 £67,500 -3.57% 112
Hampshire -5 36 £57,500 -14.81% 61
Surrey +18 35 £62,500 -16.67% 31
Oxfordshire +6 22 £60,000 -2.44% 24
Buckinghamshire +1 8 £71,000 +18.33% 17
Middlesex -11 8 - - 1
Kent +1 6 £39,500 -28.18% 11
West Sussex +19 2 £56,000 -2.61% 23
Sussex +18 1 £75,000 +50.00% 3
East Sussex +3 1 £65,000 +13.04% 25
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 74 (44.85%) React
2 70 (42.42%) JavaScript
2 70 (42.42%) .NET
3 63 (38.18%) C#
4 58 (35.15%) SQL
5 56 (33.94%) HTML
6 52 (31.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 51 (30.91%) TypeScript
8 47 (28.48%) AWS
9 44 (26.67%) SQL Server
10 40 (24.24%) ASP.NET
11 35 (21.21%) Agile
11 35 (21.21%) Node.js
12 34 (20.61%) MVC
12 34 (20.61%) Clean Code
12 34 (20.61%) Social Skills
13 33 (20.00%) AngularJS
14 30 (18.18%) Azure
15 29 (17.58%) Git
15 29 (17.58%) Test Automation
15 29 (17.58%) Software Testing
16 28 (16.97%) Serverless
17 27 (16.36%) Degree
17 27 (16.36%) CSS
17 27 (16.36%) XML
17 27 (16.36%) RESTful
18 26 (15.76%) Oracle
18 26 (15.76%) PL/SQL
18 26 (15.76%) OLTP
19 25 (15.15%) Problem-Solving

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 10 (6.06%) IIS
2 6 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.82%) CMS
3 3 (1.82%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (28.48%) AWS
2 30 (18.18%) Azure
3 28 (16.97%) Serverless
4 15 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.27%) Cloudflare
6 9 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (4.85%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (4.24%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.64%) GCP
10 5 (3.03%) Azure App Service
10 5 (3.03%) PaaS
11 4 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.42%) SaaS
12 3 (1.82%) Figma
12 3 (1.82%) GitHub
13 2 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.85%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 26 (15.76%) OLTP
3 19 (11.52%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (10.30%) DynamoDB
5 16 (9.70%) MySQL
6 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.21%) Big Data
7 2 (1.21%) Metadata
7 2 (1.21%) Power BI
7 2 (1.21%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.61%) Power Query
8 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (17.58%) Git
2 14 (8.48%) MagicDraw
3 11 (6.67%) NUnit
3 11 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 10 (6.06%) Jasmine
5 6 (3.64%) JIRA
5 6 (3.64%) rollup.js
6 3 (1.82%) Mocha
7 2 (1.21%) Babel
7 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.21%) JUnit
7 2 (1.21%) Maven
7 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.21%) webpack
8 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.61%) jMock
8 1 (0.61%) PostCSS
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Subversion
8 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 34 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.12%) Finance
3 16 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.85%) Games
5 5 (3.03%) Tech for Good
5 5 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.42%) Retail
7 2 (1.21%) Legal
7 2 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Advertising
8 1 (0.61%) Automotive
8 1 (0.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Billing
8 1 (0.61%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (44.85%) React
2 70 (42.42%) .NET
3 56 (33.94%) HTML
4 40 (24.24%) ASP.NET
5 35 (21.21%) Node.js
6 33 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 27 (16.36%) CSS
7 27 (16.36%) RESTful
7 27 (16.36%) XML
8 23 (13.94%) .NET Core
9 18 (10.91%) Vue
10 17 (10.30%) GraphQL
10 17 (10.30%) HTML5
11 16 (9.70%) Jest
11 16 (9.70%) JSON
12 14 (8.48%) Blazor
12 14 (8.48%) REST
12 14 (8.48%) SOAP
13 12 (7.27%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (6.67%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.55%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.03%) Online Games
5 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.21%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.21%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.21%) Cybercrime
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Animation
7 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.42%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) Unix
3 2 (1.21%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (31.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (21.21%) Agile
3 34 (20.61%) Clean Code
3 34 (20.61%) MVC
4 29 (17.58%) Software Testing
4 29 (17.58%) Test Automation
5 25 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (13.94%) CI/CD
7 22 (13.33%) Microservices
7 22 (13.33%) User Experience
8 21 (12.73%) DevOps
9 20 (12.12%) Data Modelling
9 20 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
10 19 (11.52%) Front End Development
11 18 (10.91%) Mentoring
12 17 (10.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (10.30%) Web Development
13 16 (9.70%) Event-Driven
13 16 (9.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 16 (9.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (42.42%) JavaScript
2 63 (38.18%) C#
3 58 (35.15%) SQL
4 51 (30.91%) TypeScript
5 26 (15.76%) PL/SQL
6 23 (13.94%) Java
7 13 (7.88%) Python
8 10 (6.06%) C++
9 9 (5.45%) PHP
10 5 (3.03%) Bicep
11 3 (1.82%) Bash
11 3 (1.82%) C
12 2 (1.21%) Fortran
13 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.61%) Go
13 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 27 (16.36%) Degree
2 14 (8.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 7 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.82%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (9.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (6.67%) Terraform
2 10 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (15.76%) Oracle
2 16 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.27%) Rollbar
4 2 (1.21%) Apple
4 2 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (1.21%) Spotify
4 2 (1.21%) Twitter
5 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco
5 1 (0.61%) UiPath