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 to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 59 65
Rank change year-on-year -27 +6 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 505 691 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.00% 4.75% 4.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 5.26% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 408 500 779
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £78,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,795 13,135 19,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 90.36% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,343 8,294 12,415
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +8 276 £67,500 -3.57% 31
Berkshire +24 172 £70,000 -6.67% 16
Hampshire -81 77 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Oxfordshire -5 64 £61,500 -15.17% 5
Surrey -15 58 £72,500 +7.41% 7
Buckinghamshire -1 40 £65,000 -6.47% 10
Kent +8 39 £60,000 - 9
East Sussex -7 32 £57,500 -11.54% 2
West Sussex -2 16 £57,500 -14.81% 3
Sussex - 6 £50,000 -
Middlesex -14 2 £44,000 -43.23%
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 210 (41.58%) Agile
2 196 (38.81%) JavaScript
3 184 (36.44%) C#
4 168 (33.27%) .NET
5 161 (31.88%) React
6 144 (28.51%) SQL
7 121 (23.96%) Docker
8 114 (22.57%) Azure
9 109 (21.58%) AWS
10 108 (21.39%) Git
11 101 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
12 95 (18.81%) HTML
13 93 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (18.22%) DevOps
15 91 (18.02%) CSS
15 91 (18.02%) TypeScript
16 90 (17.82%) Social Skills
17 86 (17.03%) CI/CD
18 83 (16.44%) Degree
19 80 (15.84%) Computer Science
19 80 (15.84%) Java
20 76 (15.05%) Kubernetes
21 74 (14.65%) SQL Server
22 71 (14.06%) Microservices
23 68 (13.47%) Finance
24 67 (13.27%) Front End Development
25 66 (13.07%) ASP.NET
26 63 (12.48%) Microsoft
27 62 (12.28%) Oracle
28 61 (12.08%) PHP

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 33 (6.53%) CMS
2 24 (4.75%) IIS
3 23 (4.55%) Headless CMS
3 23 (4.55%) Kentico
4 20 (3.96%) Umbraco
5 18 (3.56%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (1.98%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.58%) JBoss
7 8 (1.58%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (1.39%) Confluence
8 7 (1.39%) nginx
9 6 (1.19%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.59%) Apache
11 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.40%) WordPress
12 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Mathematica
1 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (6.34%) Siebel CRM
2 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.57%) Azure
2 109 (21.58%) AWS
3 42 (8.32%) SaaS
4 35 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (3.76%) Serverless
6 18 (3.56%) Kontent
7 13 (2.57%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.38%) GitHub
9 11 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (1.78%) GCP
11 7 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (0.79%) TestFlight
13 4 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) Internet
2 4 (0.79%) MQTT
2 4 (0.79%) Network Security
2 4 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.79%) VPN
3 3 (0.59%) DNS
3 3 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (14.65%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (8.12%) MySQL
4 39 (7.72%) NoSQL
5 32 (6.34%) Oracle BI EE
5 32 (6.34%) Siebel EIM
6 20 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.38%) OLTP
8 11 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.98%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.78%) Redis
11 8 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
12 7 (1.39%) Power BI
13 6 (1.19%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 108 (21.39%) Git
2 27 (5.35%) JIRA
3 25 (4.95%) Selenium
4 24 (4.75%) Visual Studio
5 22 (4.36%) JUnit
6 18 (3.56%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.57%) Jenkins
8 12 (2.38%) NUnit
9 10 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.19%) Maven
11 5 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.79%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.79%) Postman
12 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.79%) Vite
13 3 (0.59%) gulp
13 3 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.59%) PostCSS
13 3 (0.59%) rollup.js
14 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 68 (13.47%) Finance
3 32 (6.34%) Aerospace
4 26 (5.15%) Public Sector
5 14 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.77%) Marketing
6 9 (1.78%) Back Office
7 8 (1.58%) Law
8 7 (1.39%) Retail
9 6 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.99%) Banking
11 4 (0.79%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.59%) Games
12 3 (0.59%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.59%) Local Government
12 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.40%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.40%) Legal
14 1 (0.20%) Publishing
14 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (33.27%) .NET
2 161 (31.88%) React
3 95 (18.81%) HTML
4 91 (18.02%) CSS
5 66 (13.07%) ASP.NET
6 60 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 55 (10.89%) RESTful
8 54 (10.69%) .NET Core
9 48 (9.50%) .NET Framework
10 44 (8.71%) REST
10 44 (8.71%) Web Services
11 41 (8.12%) Node.js
12 36 (7.13%) Spring
13 34 (6.73%) HTML5
14 33 (6.53%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (6.14%) CSS3
15 31 (6.14%) Kafka
16 30 (5.94%) SOAP
17 27 (5.35%) gRPC
17 27 (5.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.31%) Enterprise Software
2 29 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.58%) e-Learning
6 4 (0.79%) IoT
6 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 4 (0.79%) Mobile Banking
6 4 (0.79%) NHS
6 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (0.79%) Replication
7 3 (0.59%) Animation
7 3 (0.59%) BBC
7 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.59%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.59%) Social Media
7 3 (0.59%) Solar Energy
7 3 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.57%) Linux
2 9 (1.78%) Windows
3 4 (0.79%) Android
3 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (41.58%) Agile
2 101 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 93 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (18.22%) DevOps
5 86 (17.03%) CI/CD
6 80 (15.84%) Computer Science
7 71 (14.06%) Microservices
8 67 (13.27%) Front End Development
9 61 (12.08%) CRM
9 61 (12.08%) TDD
10 57 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (10.50%) Software Engineering
12 52 (10.30%) MVC
13 50 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence
14 46 (9.11%) Scrum
15 45 (8.91%) Propensity Modelling
16 43 (8.51%) E-Commerce
17 42 (8.32%) Actionable Insight
18 40 (7.92%) Collaborative Working
19 32 (6.34%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 196 (38.81%) JavaScript
2 184 (36.44%) C#
3 144 (28.51%) SQL
4 91 (18.02%) TypeScript
5 80 (15.84%) Java
6 61 (12.08%) PHP
7 30 (5.94%) Python
8 22 (4.36%) Go
8 22 (4.36%) PL/SQL
9 19 (3.76%) T-SQL
10 14 (2.77%) C++
11 10 (1.98%) C
12 5 (0.99%) Ruby
13 4 (0.79%) JSX
13 4 (0.79%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.79%) R
13 4 (0.79%) Swift
13 4 (0.79%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.79%) VBScript
14 3 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (16.44%) Degree
2 56 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 49 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 42 (8.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.99%) PhD
7 3 (0.59%) MBA
8 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.37%) WCAG
2 16 (3.17%) QA
3 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.59%) GDPR
4 2 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 121 (23.96%) Docker
2 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.38%) Ansible
3 7 (1.39%) Terraform
4 1 (0.20%) MIIS
Vendors
1 63 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 62 (12.28%) Oracle
3 32 (6.34%) Siebel
4 18 (3.56%) Optimizely
4 18 (3.56%) Sitecore
5 11 (2.18%) Google
6 10 (1.98%) WSO2
7 5 (0.99%) Adobe
8 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.59%) Apple
9 3 (0.59%) Facebook
9 3 (0.59%) Sony
9 3 (0.59%) Yahoo!
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) VMware
11 1 (0.20%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.20%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.20%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.20%) SAP