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 leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 52 54
Rank change year-on-year -63 +2 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 81 282 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.26% 3.99% 5.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 4.22% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 70 236 216
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +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 3,218 6,682 4,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.71% 94.49% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 4,522 3,032
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,812 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,944 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -40 51 £68,750 -1.79% 25
Oxfordshire +8 22 £60,000 -2.44% 15
Buckinghamshire -14 8 £71,000 +15.92% 9
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 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 39 (48.15%) HTML
2 36 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 35 (43.21%) SQL
4 28 (34.57%) React
5 27 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 27 (33.33%) Oracle
5 27 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 27 (33.33%) C#
5 27 (33.33%) OLTP
6 24 (29.63%) Clean Code
7 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
7 22 (27.16%) AWS
8 20 (24.69%) Git
8 20 (24.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (22.22%) Degree
9 18 (22.22%) .NET
10 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
10 17 (20.99%) Java
11 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
11 16 (19.75%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (18.52%) AngularJS
12 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
12 15 (18.52%) JSON
12 15 (18.52%) Agile
13 14 (17.28%) Configuration Management
13 14 (17.28%) CSS
13 14 (17.28%) Issue Tracking
14 13 (16.05%) Mobile First
14 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving

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 10 (12.35%) IIS
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.16%) AWS
2 12 (14.81%) Cloudflare
3 6 (7.41%) Serverless
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.94%) Azure
6 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.23%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.23%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.23%) npm
8 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.23%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (33.33%) OLTP
2 17 (20.99%) SQL Server
3 12 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (14.81%) MySQL
4 7 (8.64%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.47%) Metadata
6 2 (2.47%) Power BI
6 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Git
2 11 (13.58%) NUnit
2 11 (13.58%) TeamCity
3 10 (12.35%) Jasmine
4 5 (6.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.47%) JUnit
5 2 (2.47%) Maven
5 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.23%) git-flow
6 1 (1.23%) GitLab
6 1 (1.23%) Gradle
6 1 (1.23%) gulp
6 1 (1.23%) PostCSS
6 1 (1.23%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.23%) Subversion
6 1 (1.23%) Vite
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Games
4 2 (2.47%) Finance
4 2 (2.47%) Legal
4 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Billing
5 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (48.15%) HTML
2 28 (34.57%) React
3 18 (22.22%) .NET
4 15 (18.52%) AngularJS
4 15 (18.52%) JSON
5 14 (17.28%) CSS
6 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET
6 13 (16.05%) SOAP
6 13 (16.05%) Vue
7 12 (14.81%) HTML5
7 12 (14.81%) XML
8 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (13.58%) CSS3
8 11 (13.58%) Jest
8 11 (13.58%) RESTful
9 9 (11.11%) Node.js
10 6 (7.41%) GraphQL
11 5 (6.17%) REST
12 3 (3.70%) Bootstrap
12 3 (3.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (8.64%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.17%) Online Games
4 2 (2.47%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (2.47%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Animation
5 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Clean Code
2 20 (24.69%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.52%) Agile
5 14 (17.28%) Configuration Management
5 14 (17.28%) Issue Tracking
6 13 (16.05%) Mobile First
6 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.05%) Software Testing
7 12 (14.81%) MVC
7 12 (14.81%) Propensity Modelling
8 8 (9.88%) Microservices
8 8 (9.88%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (9.88%) Unit Testing
9 7 (8.64%) Scrum
9 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.64%) Test Automation
10 6 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.41%) Event-Driven
10 6 (7.41%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 36 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 35 (43.21%) SQL
3 27 (33.33%) C#
3 27 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 27 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 17 (20.99%) Java
5 3 (3.70%) Bash
5 3 (3.70%) PHP
5 3 (3.70%) Python
6 2 (2.47%) C
6 2 (2.47%) C++
6 2 (2.47%) Fortran
7 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.70%) PhD
3 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Terraform
2 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (33.33%) Oracle
2 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.81%) Rollbar
4 2 (2.47%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian