Senior Developer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 53 58
Rank change year-on-year -56 +5 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 84 184 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.26% 4.24% 4.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 4.42% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55 137 140
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,407 4,165 3,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 96.03% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,652 2,121 2,241
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Senior Developer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the Thames Valley

Senior Developer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire -48 59 £70,000 - 32
Oxfordshire +18 19 £65,000 -18.75% 13
Buckinghamshire -19 6 £61,250 -5.77% 14
Senior Developer
South East

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 28 October 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 49 (58.33%) HTML
2 45 (53.57%) JavaScript
3 32 (38.10%) React
4 31 (36.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (35.71%) C#
5 30 (35.71%) SQL
6 29 (34.52%) AWS
6 29 (34.52%) CSS
7 28 (33.33%) Agile
7 28 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 28 (33.33%) Git
8 25 (29.76%) Oracle
8 25 (29.76%) PL/SQL
8 25 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (28.57%) Azure
10 23 (27.38%) RESTful
11 22 (26.19%) OLTP
11 22 (26.19%) QA
12 21 (25.00%) DevOps
13 20 (23.81%) .NET
14 18 (21.43%) Docker
14 18 (21.43%) GCP
14 18 (21.43%) Java
15 17 (20.24%) Configuration Management
15 17 (20.24%) TypeScript
15 17 (20.24%) Web Development
16 16 (19.05%) Clean Code
16 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
16 16 (19.05%) User Experience
17 15 (17.86%) Containerisation

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (9.52%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.19%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.19%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (1.19%) Elementor
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.52%) AWS
2 24 (28.57%) Azure
3 18 (21.43%) GCP
4 10 (11.90%) Cloudflare
5 9 (10.71%) SaaS
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub
7 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.76%) Serverless
8 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) OLTP
2 15 (17.86%) MySQL
3 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
4 10 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.19%) Power BI
9 1 (1.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (10.71%) NUnit
2 9 (10.71%) TeamCity
3 8 (9.52%) Jasmine
4 4 (4.76%) git-flow
5 3 (3.57%) JIRA
6 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.38%) JUnit
6 2 (2.38%) Maven
6 2 (2.38%) Selenium
6 2 (2.38%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.19%) gulp
7 1 (1.19%) PostCSS
7 1 (1.19%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.19%) Subversion
7 1 (1.19%) Vite
General
1 40 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.05%) Law
4 15 (17.86%) Marketing
5 8 (9.52%) Games
6 5 (5.95%) Finance
7 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.19%) Banking
9 1 (1.19%) Billing
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Legal
9 1 (1.19%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (58.33%) HTML
2 32 (38.10%) React
3 29 (34.52%) CSS
4 23 (27.38%) RESTful
5 20 (23.81%) .NET
6 15 (17.86%) JSON
7 14 (16.67%) Node.js
8 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 12 (14.29%) Vue
9 11 (13.10%) ASP.NET
10 10 (11.90%) HTML5
11 9 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (10.71%) CSS3
11 9 (10.71%) Jest
12 8 (9.52%) SOAP
13 7 (8.33%) XML
14 5 (5.95%) REST
15 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
15 4 (4.76%) Kafka
15 4 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Online Games
2 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.19%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.19%) Animation
4 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.19%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.19%) IoT
4 1 (1.19%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (33.33%) Agile
2 28 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 25 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (25.00%) DevOps
5 17 (20.24%) Configuration Management
5 17 (20.24%) Web Development
6 16 (19.05%) Clean Code
6 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
6 16 (19.05%) User Experience
7 15 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 15 (17.86%) UX Design
8 14 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
8 14 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 14 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
9 11 (13.10%) Mobile First
10 9 (10.71%) MVC
10 9 (10.71%) Propensity Modelling
11 8 (9.52%) Software Testing
12 7 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) JavaScript
2 30 (35.71%) C#
2 30 (35.71%) SQL
3 25 (29.76%) PL/SQL
4 18 (21.43%) Java
5 17 (20.24%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.57%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (11.90%) Degree
2 3 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (26.19%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (29.76%) Oracle
2 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.90%) Rollbar
4 2 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.19%) Adobe
5 1 (1.19%) Atlassian