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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 116 121 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.60% 3.93% 4.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 4.70% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 89 95 203
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £89,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -3.57%

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 4,108 2,577 5,210
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 83.64% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 1,258 3,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,438 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -7.27%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,000 £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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -19 63 £70,000 - 3
Oxfordshire +20 34 £75,000 +36.36% 10
Buckinghamshire +10 19 £62,500 - 4
Senior Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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 40 (34.48%) SQL
2 34 (29.31%) Oracle
2 34 (29.31%) PL/SQL
3 32 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 28 (24.14%) HTML
4 28 (24.14%) Java
5 26 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (21.55%) OLTP
7 24 (20.69%) C#
8 23 (19.83%) .NET
9 19 (16.38%) Degree
10 18 (15.52%) React
11 17 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (14.66%) Software Testing
12 15 (12.93%) Configuration Management
13 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
13 14 (12.07%) Microservices
13 14 (12.07%) SaaS
14 13 (11.21%) Azure
14 13 (11.21%) REST
14 13 (11.21%) SOAP
14 13 (11.21%) XML
15 11 (9.48%) Agile
16 10 (8.62%) Clean Code
16 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
17 9 (7.76%) AWS
17 9 (7.76%) Issue Tracking
17 9 (7.76%) JSON
18 8 (6.90%) Amazon S3
18 8 (6.90%) Android

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 (1.72%) OpenStack
1 2 (1.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (1.72%) Adobe Captivate
1 2 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.72%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.72%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (1.72%) Elementor
1 2 (1.72%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.07%) SaaS
2 13 (11.21%) Azure
3 9 (7.76%) AWS
4 8 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.90%) Serverless
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.17%) GitHub
7 5 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (4.31%) GCP
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.86%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.86%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.55%) OLTP
2 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.03%) MySQL
4 5 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Git
2 5 (4.31%) git-flow
3 4 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.86%) JIRA
5 1 (0.86%) Selenium
5 1 (0.86%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (8.62%) Finance
3 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.45%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.59%) Retail
6 2 (1.72%) Marketing
6 2 (1.72%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.14%) HTML
2 23 (19.83%) .NET
3 18 (15.52%) React
4 13 (11.21%) REST
4 13 (11.21%) SOAP
4 13 (11.21%) XML
5 9 (7.76%) JSON
6 7 (6.03%) .NET Framework
6 7 (6.03%) Kafka
6 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.17%) CSS
8 5 (4.31%) ASP.NET
8 5 (4.31%) AWS CDK
8 5 (4.31%) Material-UI
8 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.45%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (3.45%) Blazor
10 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.72%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.17%) IoT
3 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.59%) NHS
4 3 (2.59%) PMI
5 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.72%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.72%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.72%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.59%) Software Engineering
2 26 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (14.66%) Software Testing
4 15 (12.93%) Configuration Management
5 14 (12.07%) Microservices
6 11 (9.48%) Agile
7 10 (8.62%) Clean Code
8 9 (7.76%) Issue Tracking
9 8 (6.90%) Android Development
9 8 (6.90%) CI/CD
9 8 (6.90%) Propensity Modelling
10 6 (5.17%) DevOps
10 6 (5.17%) Front End Development
10 6 (5.17%) Web Development
11 5 (4.31%) Event-Driven
11 5 (4.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (4.31%) SDLC
11 5 (4.31%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.48%) SQL
2 34 (29.31%) PL/SQL
3 28 (24.14%) Java
4 24 (20.69%) C#
5 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.72%) Python
8 1 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) Degree
2 3 (2.59%) Numerate Degree
2 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
2 3 (2.59%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (29.31%) Oracle
2 2 (1.72%) Adobe