Senior Backend Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Backend Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Backend Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 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 749 731 830
Rank change year-on-year -18 +99 -207
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 22 31 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.051% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.057% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 23
10th Percentile £49,500 £57,313 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £72,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +14.81% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Backend Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Backend Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Backend Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Backend Developer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +27 14 £60,000 -11.11%
North West +5 8 £62,500 -7.41%
Yorkshire +88 6 £60,000 -22.58%
Midlands - 4 £49,990 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £49,990 -
East of England +21 2 £55,000 -4.35%
South East +13 2 £55,000 -29.03% 1
Senior Backend Developer
UK

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior Backend 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 11 (50.00%) .NET
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) C#
4 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) MySQL
5 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 7 (31.82%) Terraform
5 7 (31.82%) DynamoDB
5 7 (31.82%) Docker
5 7 (31.82%) Microservices
6 6 (27.27%) React
6 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (27.27%) Serverless
6 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 6 (27.27%) Node.js
6 6 (27.27%) Kafka
7 5 (22.73%) Azure
7 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket
8 4 (18.18%) HTML
8 4 (18.18%) CSS
8 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (18.18%) TDD
9 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing

Senior Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (9.09%) CMS
1 2 (9.09%) IIS
1 2 (9.09%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Moodle
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (27.27%) Serverless
3 5 (22.73%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Datadog
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) DynamoDB
1 7 (31.82%) MySQL
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.09%) DocumentDB
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.64%) Postman
3 2 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Automotive
2 1 (4.55%) Games
2 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 6 (27.27%) React
3 4 (18.18%) CSS
3 4 (18.18%) HTML
3 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET
4 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (13.64%) Blazor
4 3 (13.64%) Entity Framework
4 3 (13.64%) JWT
4 3 (13.64%) OAuth
4 3 (13.64%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) Web Services
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) LAMP
6 1 (4.55%) MSMQ
6 1 (4.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) Microservices
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
5 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) TDD
7 3 (13.64%) API Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (13.64%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
7 3 (13.64%) SOLID
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (9.09%) Design Patterns
8 2 (9.09%) Event-Driven
8 2 (9.09%) Front End Development
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (9.09%) Project Planning
8 2 (9.09%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) C#
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Google