Senior Developer Job Trends in Swansea

Senior Developer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Senior Developer salary in Swansea is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 2.33% 6.90% 4.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 6.90% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - - £51,250
25th Percentile £52,400 - £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £50,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -24.53% +32.50%
75th Percentile £58,000 £55,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £55,200 £50,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +10.40% -24.53% +32.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 39 116 132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 100.00% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24 87 115
10th Percentile £28,975 - £29,550
25th Percentile £37,050 £30,000 £36,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,674 £40,000 £44,710
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% -10.53% -7.82%
75th Percentile £56,205 £55,000 £55,875
90th Percentile £71,775 £68,000 £75,000
West Wales median annual salary £42,848 £40,000 £44,710
% change year-on-year +7.12% -10.53% -5.87%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in Swansea

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Senior 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 Swansea region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle