Senior Software Developer Jobs in the South East

Senior Software Developer
England > South East

The median Senior Software Developer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 229 282
Rank change year-on-year -67 +53 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 91 194 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 1.33% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.47% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 82 172 179
10th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +21.74%

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 15,669 13,202 19,109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 90.39% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,272 8,288 12,502
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 Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Developer in the South East

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior Software Developer in the South East

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Software Developer in the South East

Senior Software 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 Software Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 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 -22 44 £90,000 +20.00% 3
Berkshire +29 32 £105,000 +16.67% 2
Hampshire -71 13 £63,500 -5.93% 2
Oxfordshire -7 12 £70,000 -6.67%
East Sussex +24 11 £65,000 -16.13%
Kent +8 11 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Surrey -14 10 £77,500 +34.78% 1
Sussex - 2 £58,000 -
Senior Software Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 73 (80.22%) C#
2 51 (56.04%) .NET
3 46 (50.55%) JavaScript
4 42 (46.15%) Computer Science
5 41 (45.05%) Degree
5 41 (45.05%) Agile
6 37 (40.66%) TypeScript
7 35 (38.46%) React
8 32 (35.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (29.67%) Full Stack Development
10 26 (28.57%) Propensity Modelling
10 26 (28.57%) SQL Server
11 24 (26.37%) SQL
11 24 (26.37%) Docker
12 22 (24.18%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (23.08%) Kubernetes
13 21 (23.08%) NoSQL
14 14 (15.38%) CSS
14 14 (15.38%) Entity Framework
15 13 (14.29%) HTML
15 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET
15 13 (14.29%) MVC
15 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
16 12 (13.19%) Finance
17 11 (12.09%) Software Engineering
17 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
17 11 (12.09%) .NET Framework
17 11 (12.09%) .NET Core
18 10 (10.99%) Microservices
18 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving

Senior Software 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 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Mathematica
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
2 9 (9.89%) AWS
2 9 (9.89%) SaaS
3 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.40%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 21 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.59%) MySQL
4 4 (4.40%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.30%) Jasmine
3 3 (3.30%) NUnit
3 3 (3.30%) Selenium
3 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 2 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (13.19%) Finance
2 10 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Marketing
4 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Back Office
6 3 (3.30%) Law
6 3 (3.30%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (56.04%) .NET
2 35 (38.46%) React
3 14 (15.38%) CSS
3 14 (15.38%) Entity Framework
4 13 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 13 (14.29%) HTML
5 11 (12.09%) .NET Core
5 11 (12.09%) .NET Framework
6 9 (9.89%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.79%) CSS3
8 7 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (6.59%) HTML5
9 6 (6.59%) RESTful
10 4 (4.40%) Node.js
11 3 (3.30%) jQuery
11 3 (3.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 2 (2.20%) Laravel
12 2 (2.20%) LINQ
12 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (2.20%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
1 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
1 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Computer Science
2 41 (45.05%) Agile
3 27 (29.67%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (28.57%) Propensity Modelling
5 22 (24.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 13 (14.29%) MVC
7 11 (12.09%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.99%) Microservices
8 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.89%) Chemistry
9 9 (9.89%) Scrum
10 8 (8.79%) Design Patterns
10 8 (8.79%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.69%) DevOps
11 7 (7.69%) Front End Development
12 6 (6.59%) OO
12 6 (6.59%) OOP
12 6 (6.59%) TDD
12 6 (6.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (80.22%) C#
2 46 (50.55%) JavaScript
3 37 (40.66%) TypeScript
4 24 (26.37%) SQL
5 9 (9.89%) Java
6 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.49%) PHP
8 3 (3.30%) Python
9 2 (2.20%) C
9 2 (2.20%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 41 (45.05%) Degree
2 32 (35.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) QA
System Software
1 24 (26.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.20%) New Relic
2 2 (2.20%) VMware