Senior Developer Jobs in the South West

Senior Developer
England > South West

The median Senior Developer salary in the South West is £57,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 98 70
Rank change year-on-year +44 -28 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 382 219 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.18% 3.11% 4.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 3.49% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 332 138 245
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £60,000 £61,040
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.70% +20.28%
75th Percentile £66,250 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £89,000
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,284 7,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,903 5,084
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the South West

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Bristol +25 130 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Gloucestershire +38 68 £50,000 -14.89% 4
Dorset +18 65 £57,500 -14.81% 8
Devon +11 46 £46,958 -21.74% 6
Wiltshire +5 41 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Somerset +9 29 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Senior Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 West region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 134 (35.08%) JavaScript
2 118 (30.89%) C#
3 108 (28.27%) .NET
3 108 (28.27%) Agile
4 104 (27.23%) DevOps
5 97 (25.39%) Git
6 94 (24.61%) Azure
7 89 (23.30%) Scrum
8 88 (23.04%) Microsoft
9 79 (20.68%) React
10 76 (19.90%) MVC
10 76 (19.90%) Social Skills
11 72 (18.85%) HTML
11 72 (18.85%) CSS
12 66 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
13 59 (15.45%) Design Patterns
13 59 (15.45%) AWS
14 57 (14.92%) Software Engineering
15 55 (14.40%) Degree
16 54 (14.14%) .NET Framework
16 54 (14.14%) CI/CD
17 53 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
17 53 (13.87%) ASP.NET
18 52 (13.61%) PHP
19 49 (12.83%) SQL Server
19 49 (12.83%) Security Cleared
19 49 (12.83%) Laravel
20 46 (12.04%) JIRA
21 44 (11.52%) .NET Core

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 36 (9.42%) Confluence
2 24 (6.28%) CMS
3 17 (4.45%) Headless CMS
3 17 (4.45%) Umbraco
4 15 (3.93%) IIS
4 15 (3.93%) Kentico
4 15 (3.93%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.31%) WordPress
6 4 (1.05%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Mule
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (24.61%) Azure
2 59 (15.45%) AWS
2 59 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (4.71%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.19%) Power Automate
4 16 (4.19%) PowerApps
5 15 (3.93%) Kontent
6 14 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.14%) SaaS
8 8 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.83%) GitHub
10 6 (1.57%) GCP
10 6 (1.57%) npm
11 5 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.05%) Figma
12 4 (1.05%) Serverless
13 3 (0.79%) Google Analytics
14 2 (0.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (0.52%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.31%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) DHCP
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.83%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.50%) MySQL
3 20 (5.24%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.19%) Power BI
5 14 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.62%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.62%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.62%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.52%) Metabase
9 2 (0.52%) Redis
10 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 97 (25.39%) Git
2 46 (12.04%) JIRA
3 39 (10.21%) Visual Studio
4 38 (9.95%) Bitbucket
5 30 (7.85%) Sourcetree
6 12 (3.14%) Android Studio
7 6 (1.57%) Storybook
8 4 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.79%) Selenium
10 2 (0.52%) GitLab
10 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.52%) webpack
11 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.69%) Games
3 31 (8.12%) Presentation Skills
4 28 (7.33%) Finance
5 22 (5.76%) Fire and Rescue
6 14 (3.66%) Retail
7 13 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.09%) Legal
9 6 (1.57%) Publishing
10 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.79%) German Language
11 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
12 2 (0.52%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.26%) Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Environmental Health
13 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.26%) Local Government
13 1 (0.26%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (28.27%) .NET
2 79 (20.68%) React
3 72 (18.85%) CSS
3 72 (18.85%) HTML
4 54 (14.14%) .NET Framework
5 53 (13.87%) ASP.NET
6 49 (12.83%) Laravel
7 44 (11.52%) .NET Core
8 38 (9.95%) AngularJS
9 36 (9.42%) Vue
10 32 (8.38%) RESTful
11 30 (7.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 27 (7.07%) Entity Framework
13 25 (6.54%) Node.js
14 21 (5.50%) LESS
14 21 (5.50%) Web Services
15 18 (4.71%) Next.js
16 17 (4.45%) ASP.NET MVC
17 14 (3.66%) REST
18 12 (3.14%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.85%) Virtual Reality
2 17 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.93%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.62%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.31%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.79%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.79%) IoT
9 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.52%) Animation
10 2 (0.52%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.52%) Social Media
10 2 (0.52%) Social Network
10 2 (0.52%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.93%) Android
2 7 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.27%) Agile
2 104 (27.23%) DevOps
3 89 (23.30%) Scrum
4 76 (19.90%) MVC
5 66 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (15.45%) Design Patterns
7 57 (14.92%) Software Engineering
8 54 (14.14%) CI/CD
9 53 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
10 44 (11.52%) Mentoring
11 38 (9.95%) Front End Development
12 35 (9.16%) E-Commerce
13 30 (7.85%) UML
13 30 (7.85%) Use Case
14 29 (7.59%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (7.59%) User Experience
15 27 (7.07%) Unit Testing
16 26 (6.81%) Web Development
17 24 (6.28%) CRM
18 23 (6.02%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 134 (35.08%) JavaScript
2 118 (30.89%) C#
3 52 (13.61%) PHP
4 42 (10.99%) TypeScript
5 41 (10.73%) SQL
6 34 (8.90%) Java
7 16 (4.19%) Python
8 14 (3.66%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.62%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.31%) Swift
12 4 (1.05%) Bicep
13 3 (0.79%) C
13 3 (0.79%) Delphi
14 2 (0.52%) Lisp
14 2 (0.52%) Rust
14 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.26%) Go
15 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (14.40%) Degree
2 49 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.88%) QA
2 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (7.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 88 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.93%) Optimizely
2 15 (3.93%) Oracle
2 15 (3.93%) Sitecore
3 8 (2.09%) Google
3 8 (2.09%) Twitter
4 3 (0.79%) UiPath
5 2 (0.52%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe
6 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.26%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.26%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.26%) Coverity
6 1 (0.26%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.26%) Salesforce