Senior Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 62 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 282 285 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.21% 4.65% 5.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.45% 5.17% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 231 207 270
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,875 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,341 5,512 6,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 89.92% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 3,218 4,172
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,954 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the Thames Valley

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior Developer 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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
Berkshire +22 177 £70,000 -6.67% 18
Oxfordshire -6 65 £61,500 -15.17% 7
Buckinghamshire -9 40 £65,000 -2.99% 11
Senior Developer
South East

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 132 (46.81%) JavaScript
2 119 (42.20%) C#
3 108 (38.30%) React
4 98 (34.75%) .NET
5 93 (32.98%) Agile
6 75 (26.60%) TypeScript
7 72 (25.53%) Azure
8 71 (25.18%) SQL
9 69 (24.47%) HTML
10 63 (22.34%) Docker
11 61 (21.63%) Git
12 59 (20.92%) CSS
13 58 (20.57%) Kubernetes
14 51 (18.09%) Degree
15 48 (17.02%) Artificial Intelligence
15 48 (17.02%) DevOps
16 47 (16.67%) Propensity Modelling
17 46 (16.31%) AWS
17 46 (16.31%) Front End Development
18 45 (15.96%) Computer Science
19 42 (14.89%) ASP.NET
20 38 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
21 37 (13.12%) Microsoft
21 37 (13.12%) RESTful
22 35 (12.41%) PHP
23 33 (11.70%) SQL Server
23 33 (11.70%) Java
23 33 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
24 32 (11.35%) Social Skills
24 32 (11.35%) .NET Core

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 30 (10.64%) CMS
2 23 (8.16%) Headless CMS
2 23 (8.16%) Kentico
3 18 (6.38%) IIS
3 18 (6.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 18 (6.38%) Umbraco
4 10 (3.55%) OpenStack
5 8 (2.84%) JBoss
5 8 (2.84%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (1.42%) nginx
7 3 (1.06%) Confluence
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (25.53%) Azure
2 46 (16.31%) AWS
3 23 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.38%) Kontent
5 13 (4.61%) SaaS
6 12 (4.26%) Serverless
7 10 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.19%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.42%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.42%) Firebolt
9 4 (1.42%) GCP
9 4 (1.42%) GitHub
9 4 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.42%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.42%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.42%) TestFlight
9 4 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) MQTT
1 4 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (1.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.70%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.93%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.74%) MySQL
5 13 (4.61%) OLTP
6 11 (3.90%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.90%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.84%) Oracle Database 11g
9 7 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.42%) Redis
11 3 (1.06%) Power BI
12 2 (0.71%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (21.63%) Git
2 19 (6.74%) Cypress.io
3 18 (6.38%) Selenium
4 16 (5.67%) Visual Studio
5 12 (4.26%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.90%) JIRA
7 9 (3.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (2.84%) JUnit
9 7 (2.48%) NUnit
10 5 (1.77%) Vite
11 4 (1.42%) gulp
11 4 (1.42%) PostCSS
11 4 (1.42%) rollup.js
12 3 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.71%) Gradle
14 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
14 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.35%) Subversion
14 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 32 (11.35%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.16%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.32%) Finance
4 6 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.77%) Banking
6 4 (1.42%) Back Office
6 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.42%) Games
6 4 (1.42%) Marketing
7 3 (1.06%) Local Government
8 2 (0.71%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.35%) Law
9 1 (0.35%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (38.30%) React
2 98 (34.75%) .NET
3 69 (24.47%) HTML
4 59 (20.92%) CSS
5 42 (14.89%) ASP.NET
6 37 (13.12%) RESTful
7 32 (11.35%) .NET Core
8 31 (10.99%) AngularJS
9 30 (10.64%) Node.js
10 27 (9.57%) HTML5
11 24 (8.51%) Next.js
11 24 (8.51%) SOAP
12 23 (8.16%) CSS3
13 22 (7.80%) ASP.NET MVC
14 19 (6.74%) .NET Framework
15 18 (6.38%) Jest
15 18 (6.38%) XML
16 16 (5.67%) REST
16 16 (5.67%) Web Services
17 14 (4.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.80%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.84%) e-Learning
3 7 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.42%) Animation
4 4 (1.42%) IoT
4 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.42%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (1.42%) NHS
4 4 (1.42%) Replication
5 3 (1.06%) BBC
5 3 (1.06%) Social Media
5 3 (1.06%) Solar Energy
6 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.71%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.71%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.48%) Linux
2 6 (2.13%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) Android
3 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (32.98%) Agile
2 48 (17.02%) Artificial Intelligence
2 48 (17.02%) DevOps
3 47 (16.67%) Propensity Modelling
4 46 (16.31%) Front End Development
5 45 (15.96%) Computer Science
6 38 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
8 31 (10.99%) MVC
9 27 (9.57%) Scrum
10 26 (9.22%) CRM
11 25 (8.87%) E-Commerce
12 24 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (8.51%) ERP
13 23 (8.16%) CI/CD
13 23 (8.16%) Software Engineering
13 23 (8.16%) Web Development
14 22 (7.80%) Project Delivery
15 20 (7.09%) Microservices
15 20 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (46.81%) JavaScript
2 119 (42.20%) C#
3 75 (26.60%) TypeScript
4 71 (25.18%) SQL
5 35 (12.41%) PHP
6 33 (11.70%) Java
7 24 (8.51%) PL/SQL
8 20 (7.09%) Python
9 12 (4.26%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.90%) C++
11 10 (3.55%) C
12 4 (1.42%) JSX
12 4 (1.42%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.42%) R
12 4 (1.42%) Ruby
12 4 (1.42%) Swift
12 4 (1.42%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.42%) VBScript
13 2 (0.71%) Fortran
14 1 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (18.09%) Degree
2 24 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.71%) PhD
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.38%) WCAG
2 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 63 (22.34%) Docker
2 4 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (20.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.90%) Ansible
3 3 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.87%) Oracle
3 18 (6.38%) Optimizely
3 18 (6.38%) Sitecore
4 10 (3.55%) WSO2
5 4 (1.42%) Adobe
5 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.06%) Apple
6 3 (1.06%) Facebook
6 3 (1.06%) Google
6 3 (1.06%) Sony
6 3 (1.06%) Yahoo!
7 2 (0.71%) VMware
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) UiPath