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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 87 54
Rank change year-on-year +39 -33 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 161 80 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.94% 2.77% 4.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.13% 3.42% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 138 75 237
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £92,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 5,138 2,340 6,189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 81.14% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,367 1,270 4,570
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 2026. 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 +25 86 £75,000 +11.11% 10
Oxfordshire +25 45 £70,000 +27.27% 6
Buckinghamshire +3 30 £60,000 -15.49% 5
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, 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 46 (28.57%) SQL
2 38 (23.60%) Oracle
2 38 (23.60%) PL/SQL
3 36 (22.36%) .NET
3 36 (22.36%) Software Engineering
4 32 (19.88%) OLTP
5 30 (18.63%) Java
6 26 (16.15%) HTML
7 25 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (13.04%) C#
8 21 (13.04%) Degree
8 21 (13.04%) React
9 18 (11.18%) Software Testing
10 15 (9.32%) AWS
10 15 (9.32%) SOAP
10 15 (9.32%) XML
11 14 (8.70%) Agile
11 14 (8.70%) Android
12 13 (8.07%) JavaScript
12 13 (8.07%) Security Cleared
13 12 (7.45%) Android Development
13 12 (7.45%) Configuration Management
13 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
14 11 (6.83%) .NET Framework
14 11 (6.83%) Clean Code
14 11 (6.83%) REST
15 10 (6.21%) Azure
15 10 (6.21%) Git
15 10 (6.21%) Microservices

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 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.62%) Elementor
1 1 (0.62%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.32%) AWS
2 10 (6.21%) Azure
3 8 (4.97%) SaaS
4 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
4 4 (2.48%) Serverless
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (1.86%) GitHub
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.62%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.88%) OLTP
2 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.24%) MySQL
3 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Git
2 4 (2.48%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.24%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) git-flow
4 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.62%) Yeoman
General
1 14 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.73%) Finance
4 4 (2.48%) Health Technology
4 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.86%) Digital Health
5 3 (1.86%) Retail
6 1 (0.62%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.62%) Games
6 1 (0.62%) Marketing
6 1 (0.62%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.36%) .NET
2 26 (16.15%) HTML
3 21 (13.04%) React
4 15 (9.32%) SOAP
4 15 (9.32%) XML
5 11 (6.83%) .NET Framework
5 11 (6.83%) REST
6 9 (5.59%) JSON
6 9 (5.59%) Node.js
7 8 (4.97%) ASP.NET
8 7 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (4.35%) Entity Framework
8 7 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.73%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (2.48%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.48%) Blazor
10 4 (2.48%) Kafka
11 3 (1.86%) Laravel
11 3 (1.86%) RESTful
12 2 (1.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.83%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.11%) IoT
4 3 (1.86%) NHS
4 3 (1.86%) PMI
5 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.24%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.62%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.62%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.62%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.70%) Android
2 4 (2.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.36%) Software Engineering
2 25 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (11.18%) Software Testing
4 14 (8.70%) Agile
5 12 (7.45%) Android Development
5 12 (7.45%) Configuration Management
6 11 (6.83%) Clean Code
7 10 (6.21%) Microservices
8 9 (5.59%) Issue Tracking
8 9 (5.59%) Web Development
9 8 (4.97%) Propensity Modelling
10 6 (3.73%) Front End Development
10 6 (3.73%) Mentoring
11 5 (3.11%) CI/CD
11 5 (3.11%) SDLC
12 4 (2.48%) DevOps
12 4 (2.48%) iOS Development
13 3 (1.86%) Mathematics
13 3 (1.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (28.57%) SQL
2 38 (23.60%) PL/SQL
3 30 (18.63%) Java
4 21 (13.04%) C#
5 13 (8.07%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.73%) Ruby
8 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.48%) Swift
9 3 (1.86%) PHP
10 2 (1.24%) ABAP
10 2 (1.24%) Python
11 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.04%) Degree
2 13 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.86%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (1.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.24%) QA
2 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (23.60%) Oracle
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.24%) SAP
2 2 (1.24%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.62%) Adobe
3 1 (0.62%) Rollbar