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 3 May 2025.

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 80 284 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.61% 4.22% 4.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.19% 4.45% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 75 233 207
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75,625 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £82,000 £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 2,511 6,377 5,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.90% 94.70% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 4,541 3,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -29 57 £67,500 -3.57% 13
Oxfordshire -9 16 £55,000 -10.57% 8
Buckinghamshire +9 7 £71,000 +9.23% 6
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 36 (45.00%) React
2 35 (43.75%) HTML
3 33 (41.25%) TypeScript
4 30 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 29 (36.25%) SQL
6 27 (33.75%) Degree
7 25 (31.25%) Oracle
7 25 (31.25%) PL/SQL
7 25 (31.25%) OLTP
8 24 (30.00%) C#
9 22 (27.50%) Git
9 22 (27.50%) Clean Code
10 21 (26.25%) Agile
11 19 (23.75%) Software Testing
12 18 (22.50%) AWS
12 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (22.50%) Docker
13 17 (21.25%) Propensity Modelling
13 17 (21.25%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (21.25%) Computer Science
13 17 (21.25%) SOAP
13 17 (21.25%) XML
14 14 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence
14 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
14 14 (17.50%) .NET
14 14 (17.50%) Kubernetes
15 13 (16.25%) Node.js
16 12 (15.00%) Unit Testing
16 12 (15.00%) CSS
17 11 (13.75%) HTML5

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 4 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Strapi
2 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) Serverless
3 9 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.25%) Azure
5 4 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.25%) Firebase
8 1 (1.25%) Google Play
8 1 (1.25%) IaaS
8 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) OLTP
2 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) Metadata
6 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Git
2 7 (8.75%) Selenium
3 6 (7.50%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.00%) Jasmine
4 4 (5.00%) NUnit
4 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.75%) JIRA
6 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.25%) Babel
7 1 (1.25%) git-flow
7 1 (1.25%) GitLab
7 1 (1.25%) Gradle
7 1 (1.25%) Vite
7 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Finance
4 2 (2.50%) Marketing
4 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Electronics
5 1 (1.25%) Games
5 1 (1.25%) Legal
5 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.25%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (45.00%) React
2 35 (43.75%) HTML
3 17 (21.25%) SOAP
3 17 (21.25%) XML
4 14 (17.50%) .NET
5 13 (16.25%) Node.js
6 12 (15.00%) CSS
7 11 (13.75%) CSS3
7 11 (13.75%) HTML5
8 10 (12.50%) GraphQL
8 10 (12.50%) Jest
9 7 (8.75%) AngularJS
10 6 (7.50%) JSON
11 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET
11 5 (6.25%) RESTful
11 5 (6.25%) Vue
12 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (3.75%) React Native
14 2 (2.50%) REST
15 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.50%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (2.50%) Acoustics
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Clean Code
2 21 (26.25%) Agile
3 19 (23.75%) Software Testing
4 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (21.25%) Computer Science
5 17 (21.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (21.25%) Propensity Modelling
6 14 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
9 10 (12.50%) Microservices
10 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
10 9 (11.25%) Event-Driven
10 9 (11.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (11.25%) Functional Programming
10 9 (11.25%) Kanban
10 9 (11.25%) Secure Coding
10 9 (11.25%) Technology Strategy
11 7 (8.75%) Front End Development
11 7 (8.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.25%) TypeScript
2 30 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 29 (36.25%) SQL
4 25 (31.25%) PL/SQL
5 24 (30.00%) C#
6 9 (11.25%) Java
6 9 (11.25%) PHP
7 4 (5.00%) Python
8 2 (2.50%) Bash
8 2 (2.50%) C
8 2 (2.50%) C++
8 2 (2.50%) Fortran
9 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Degree
2 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.50%) PhD
4 1 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) WCAG
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) Oracle
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) IBM
4 1 (1.25%) SAP