Senior Web Developer Job Trends in the South East

Senior Web Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Web Developer salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 313 284
Rank change year-on-year +41 -29 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Web Developer 17 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.025% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.026% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £44,250 - £54,750
25th Percentile £46,875 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £56,875 - £80,000
90th Percentile £58,750 - -
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -25.00% +40.00%

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 8,033 11,436 7,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 96.42% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,488 6,474 5,460
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,730 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,520 £53,294 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -

Senior Web Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Web Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior Web Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Web Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Web Developer job vacancies in the South East

Senior Web Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Web Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Web Developer in the South East

Senior Web 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 Web Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 +6 16 £45,000 -
Berkshire - 14 - -
Oxfordshire +18 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £45,000 -
Hampshire - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Web Developer
England

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, Senior Web Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Web Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Web Development
2 16 (94.12%) React
2 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
3 15 (88.24%) HTML
3 15 (88.24%) CSS
3 15 (88.24%) Git
4 14 (82.35%) UX Design
4 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
4 14 (82.35%) Customer Engagement
4 14 (82.35%) RESTful
4 14 (82.35%) Azure
4 14 (82.35%) AWS
4 14 (82.35%) Marketing
4 14 (82.35%) QA
4 14 (82.35%) Node.js
4 14 (82.35%) Agile
4 14 (82.35%) Law
4 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
4 14 (82.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (82.35%) Design Patterns
4 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
4 14 (82.35%) Containerisation
4 14 (82.35%) Docker
4 14 (82.35%) DevOps
4 14 (82.35%) User Experience
4 14 (82.35%) GCP
4 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
4 14 (82.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Svelte
5 1 (5.88%) Conversational UI

Senior Web Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
1 14 (82.35%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
2 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.88%) npm
2 1 (5.88%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Mocha
General
1 14 (82.35%) Law
1 14 (82.35%) Marketing
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) React
2 15 (88.24%) CSS
2 15 (88.24%) HTML
3 14 (82.35%) Node.js
3 14 (82.35%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) Jest
4 1 (5.88%) Laravel
4 1 (5.88%) Playwright
4 1 (5.88%) Puppeteer
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) Svelte
4 1 (5.88%) SvelteKit
4 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Web Development
2 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 14 (82.35%) Containerisation
2 14 (82.35%) Customer Engagement
2 14 (82.35%) Design Patterns
2 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (82.35%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 14 (82.35%) User Experience
2 14 (82.35%) UX Design
3 1 (5.88%) AI
3 1 (5.88%) API Integration
3 1 (5.88%) Application Security
3 1 (5.88%) Conversational UI
3 1 (5.88%) Front End Development
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile First
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) PHP
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (82.35%) QA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes