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 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 90 57
Rank change year-on-year -51 -33 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 178 505 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.92% 3.00% 4.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 3.20% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 158 408 497
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £79,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £86,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +3.45%

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 8,004 15,797 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.47% 93.98% 90.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,536 11,357 8,268
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -52 76 £67,500 - 31
Berkshire -30 53 £67,500 -3.57% 13
Hampshire +32 46 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Surrey +30 36 £62,500 -13.79% 5
Oxfordshire -9 16 £55,000 -10.57% 18
Kent +4 7 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Buckinghamshire +4 7 £71,000 +9.23% 4
West Sussex +29 6 £62,500 +8.70% 2
Middlesex -10 6 - -
Sussex +14 1 £75,000 +50.00% 4
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 South East region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 83 (46.63%) React
2 75 (42.13%) .NET
3 68 (38.20%) JavaScript
4 63 (35.39%) C#
5 56 (31.46%) HTML
5 56 (31.46%) TypeScript
6 55 (30.90%) SQL
7 54 (30.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (25.28%) Node.js
9 43 (24.16%) Azure
10 39 (21.91%) Agile
10 39 (21.91%) Degree
11 38 (21.35%) Test Automation
12 36 (20.22%) AWS
12 36 (20.22%) Git
13 35 (19.66%) SQL Server
14 33 (18.54%) Software Testing
14 33 (18.54%) Microservices
14 33 (18.54%) Clean Code
15 31 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (17.42%) .NET Core
16 30 (16.85%) Serverless
16 30 (16.85%) XML
17 29 (16.29%) Social Skills
18 28 (15.73%) ASP.NET
18 28 (15.73%) Docker
19 27 (15.17%) MVC
20 26 (14.61%) Finance
21 25 (14.04%) OLTP
21 25 (14.04%) CSS

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 6 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.25%) CMS
2 4 (2.25%) IIS
2 4 (2.25%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 2 (1.12%) WordPress
5 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.16%) Azure
2 36 (20.22%) AWS
3 30 (16.85%) Serverless
4 16 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (5.62%) Azure Functions
7 9 (5.06%) GCP
8 8 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.37%) GitHub
10 5 (2.81%) Azure App Service
10 5 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.81%) Figma
10 5 (2.81%) PaaS
10 5 (2.81%) SaaS
11 4 (2.25%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Broadband
1 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.66%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.04%) OLTP
3 17 (9.55%) DynamoDB
4 12 (6.74%) NoSQL
5 11 (6.18%) MySQL
6 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.25%) Big Data
7 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.12%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.12%) Metadata
8 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.12%) Redis
8 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 36 (20.22%) Git
2 14 (7.87%) MagicDraw
3 7 (3.93%) rollup.js
4 6 (3.37%) JIRA
4 6 (3.37%) Selenium
4 6 (3.37%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.81%) webpack
6 4 (2.25%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.25%) NUnit
7 3 (1.69%) Babel
7 3 (1.69%) GitLab
7 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.12%) ESLint
8 2 (1.12%) Mocha
8 2 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.12%) Sinon.JS
8 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Vite
General
1 29 (16.29%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.61%) Finance
3 10 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.37%) Tech for Good
5 5 (2.81%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.25%) Retail
7 2 (1.12%) Games
7 2 (1.12%) Marketing
7 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Automotive
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Law
8 1 (0.56%) Legal
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (46.63%) React
2 75 (42.13%) .NET
3 56 (31.46%) HTML
4 45 (25.28%) Node.js
5 31 (17.42%) .NET Core
6 30 (16.85%) XML
7 28 (15.73%) ASP.NET
8 25 (14.04%) CSS
9 20 (11.24%) AngularJS
10 19 (10.67%) Blazor
10 19 (10.67%) HTML5
11 18 (10.11%) Jest
11 18 (10.11%) RESTful
12 17 (9.55%) GraphQL
12 17 (9.55%) SOAP
13 15 (8.43%) REST
14 12 (6.74%) JSON
15 11 (6.18%) CSS3
16 10 (5.62%) Vue
17 9 (5.06%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.36%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.06%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.12%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (1.12%) Acoustics
5 2 (1.12%) Cybercrime
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
5 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.56%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.12%) Linux
1 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
1 2 (1.12%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 39 (21.91%) Agile
3 38 (21.35%) Test Automation
4 33 (18.54%) Clean Code
4 33 (18.54%) Microservices
4 33 (18.54%) Software Testing
5 31 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (15.17%) MVC
7 23 (12.92%) Front End Development
7 23 (12.92%) Secure Coding
8 21 (11.80%) DevOps
9 20 (11.24%) Code Quality
9 20 (11.24%) Translating Business Requirements
10 19 (10.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (10.67%) Software Engineering
10 19 (10.67%) Unit Testing
10 19 (10.67%) User Experience
11 18 (10.11%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.11%) Kanban
12 17 (9.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (38.20%) JavaScript
2 63 (35.39%) C#
3 56 (31.46%) TypeScript
4 55 (30.90%) SQL
5 25 (14.04%) PL/SQL
6 21 (11.80%) Java
7 15 (8.43%) PHP
8 11 (6.18%) C++
9 10 (5.62%) Python
10 5 (2.81%) Bicep
11 3 (1.69%) C
11 3 (1.69%) Go
12 2 (1.12%) Bash
12 2 (1.12%) Fortran
12 2 (1.12%) Objective-C
12 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (21.91%) Degree
2 14 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (7.30%) DBS Check
4 8 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.12%) PhD
5 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.37%) QA
2 5 (2.81%) WCAG
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (15.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (14.04%) Oracle
2 7 (3.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.25%) Rollbar
4 2 (1.12%) Apple
4 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.12%) Databricks
4 2 (1.12%) Spotify
4 2 (1.12%) Twitter
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco
5 1 (0.56%) Google
5 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.56%) IBM
5 1 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) UiPath