Senior Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 89 72
Rank change year-on-year -2 -17 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 2,045 2,278 2,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.92% 3.69% 4.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.08% 4.13% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,657 1,383 2,193
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,318
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +39 530 £60,000 -4.00% 86
South East -24 510 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West +46 383 £57,500 -4.17% 40
North West +42 319 £60,000 -4.00% 54
Midlands -25 249 £60,000 - 49
Yorkshire +58 183 £55,000 -12.00% 27
West Midlands -5 148 £62,500 +4.17% 31
Scotland -94 144 £58,750 -9.62% 31
East Midlands -34 103 £55,000 -12.00% 18
East of England -39 97 £60,000 -14.29% 19
Wales +34 95 £52,686 -8.37% 15
Northern Ireland +32 40 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North East -16 28 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 650 (31.78%) C#
2 621 (30.37%) JavaScript
3 602 (29.44%) Agile
4 599 (29.29%) .NET
5 466 (22.79%) Azure
6 445 (21.76%) AWS
6 445 (21.76%) SQL
7 423 (20.68%) React
8 366 (17.90%) Social Skills
9 347 (16.97%) DevOps
10 319 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
11 312 (15.26%) HTML
12 309 (15.11%) Git
13 308 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
14 296 (14.47%) CSS
15 266 (13.01%) PHP
16 260 (12.71%) Microsoft
17 259 (12.67%) TypeScript
18 255 (12.47%) Docker
19 250 (12.22%) Degree
20 248 (12.13%) CI/CD
21 233 (11.39%) AngularJS
22 231 (11.30%) Front End Development
23 224 (10.95%) Finance
24 220 (10.76%) Java
25 219 (10.71%) MVC
25 219 (10.71%) Mentoring
26 207 (10.12%) .NET Core
27 205 (10.02%) Software Engineering
28 202 (9.88%) Scrum

Senior 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 82 (4.01%) CMS
2 51 (2.49%) Confluence
3 41 (2.00%) Umbraco
4 40 (1.96%) Headless CMS
4 40 (1.96%) IIS
5 39 (1.91%) Kentico
6 34 (1.66%) Sitecore CMS
7 18 (0.88%) WordPress
8 10 (0.49%) nginx
8 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.39%) JBoss
10 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.29%) Apache
11 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.24%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.098%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.20%) Maya
3 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.049%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 30 (1.47%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.83%) Shopify
3 14 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 11 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.39%) Magento
7 4 (0.20%) Sonata
8 1 (0.049%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 466 (22.79%) Azure
2 445 (21.76%) AWS
3 149 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
4 148 (7.24%) SaaS
5 114 (5.57%) Power Platform
6 69 (3.37%) PowerApps
7 68 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 60 (2.93%) Power Automate
9 53 (2.59%) Serverless
10 46 (2.25%) GitHub
11 43 (2.10%) GCP
12 33 (1.61%) Kontent
13 28 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (0.88%) npm
17 16 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.88%) Internet
2 6 (0.29%) DNS
3 5 (0.24%) HTTP
3 5 (0.24%) MQTT
4 4 (0.20%) Broadband
4 4 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (0.20%) VPN
5 3 (0.15%) SSL
5 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.098%) Network Security
7 1 (0.049%) AMQP
7 1 (0.049%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.049%) CTI
7 1 (0.049%) DHCP
7 1 (0.049%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 157 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
3 153 (7.48%) MySQL
4 90 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 88 (4.30%) Oracle Database
6 84 (4.11%) Power BI
7 78 (3.81%) Oracle Database 11g
8 53 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 32 (1.56%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
11 30 (1.47%) Siebel EIM
12 27 (1.32%) DynamoDB
13 26 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (1.03%) Redis
16 19 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 18 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (0.73%) OLTP
19 14 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 309 (15.11%) Git
2 87 (4.25%) JIRA
3 68 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 55 (2.69%) Bitbucket
5 42 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 31 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 31 (1.52%) Sourcetree
7 30 (1.47%) Selenium
8 25 (1.22%) JUnit
9 17 (0.83%) Maven
10 14 (0.68%) NUnit
10 14 (0.68%) webpack
11 13 (0.64%) PHPUnit
12 12 (0.59%) Android Studio
13 11 (0.54%) gulp
13 11 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.49%) Appium
14 10 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
15 9 (0.44%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 366 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 224 (10.95%) Finance
3 79 (3.86%) Retail
4 64 (3.13%) Games
5 63 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.64%) Public Sector
7 53 (2.59%) Banking
8 45 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (1.86%) Marketing
11 32 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.22%) Legal
15 24 (1.17%) Fire and Rescue
16 22 (1.08%) Law
17 21 (1.03%) Health Technology
18 18 (0.88%) Tech for Good
19 14 (0.68%) Police
20 12 (0.59%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (29.29%) .NET
2 423 (20.68%) React
3 312 (15.26%) HTML
4 296 (14.47%) CSS
5 233 (11.39%) AngularJS
6 207 (10.12%) .NET Core
7 191 (9.34%) ASP.NET
8 187 (9.14%) .NET Framework
9 181 (8.85%) Laravel
10 180 (8.80%) Node.js
11 167 (8.17%) Vue
12 148 (7.24%) RESTful
13 128 (6.26%) REST
14 116 (5.67%) Web Services
15 90 (4.40%) Entity Framework
16 82 (4.01%) Spring
17 70 (3.42%) Kafka
18 69 (3.37%) JSON
19 68 (3.33%) jQuery
20 65 (3.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 120 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
2 77 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (2.35%) Mobile App
4 48 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 35 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.47%) Virtual Reality
7 26 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 24 (1.17%) IoT
9 22 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
10 21 (1.03%) Cloud Native
11 20 (0.98%) Client/Server
12 17 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 17 (0.83%) NHS
13 16 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.64%) PropTech
15 11 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.54%) Management Information System
16 9 (0.44%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.08%) Linux
2 49 (2.40%) Android
3 39 (1.91%) Windows
4 31 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.098%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (29.44%) Agile
2 347 (16.97%) DevOps
3 319 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
4 308 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
5 248 (12.13%) CI/CD
6 231 (11.30%) Front End Development
7 219 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 219 (10.71%) MVC
8 205 (10.02%) Software Engineering
9 202 (9.88%) Scrum
10 191 (9.34%) Unit Testing
11 189 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
12 183 (8.95%) Actionable Insight
13 174 (8.51%) TDD
14 167 (8.17%) Microservices
15 166 (8.12%) Computer Science
16 150 (7.33%) Design Patterns
17 143 (6.99%) Web Development
18 137 (6.70%) User Experience
19 135 (6.60%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 650 (31.78%) C#
2 621 (30.37%) JavaScript
3 445 (21.76%) SQL
4 266 (13.01%) PHP
5 259 (12.67%) TypeScript
6 220 (10.76%) Java
7 122 (5.97%) Python
8 105 (5.13%) PL/SQL
9 59 (2.89%) T-SQL
10 41 (2.00%) C++
11 36 (1.76%) Ruby
12 35 (1.71%) C
13 31 (1.52%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.37%) Go
15 16 (0.78%) Swift
16 14 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.68%) VB.NET
17 9 (0.44%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.44%) VB
18 8 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 250 (12.22%) Degree
2 154 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 137 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 86 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.64%) PhD
8 8 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.20%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.15%) MBA
11 2 (0.098%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.098%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.098%) OCP
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.049%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.28%) QA
2 18 (0.88%) WCAG
3 10 (0.49%) GDPR
4 9 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.29%) SLA
7 3 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.098%) GRC
System Software
1 255 (12.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.098%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.098%) Varnish
3 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.049%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 173 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.54%) Terraform
3 17 (0.83%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Rancher
5 1 (0.049%) Grafana
5 1 (0.049%) Istio
5 1 (0.049%) Kibana
5 1 (0.049%) MIIS
5 1 (0.049%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.049%) Puppet
Vendors
1 260 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.92%) Oracle
3 50 (2.44%) Google
4 37 (1.81%) Sitecore
5 33 (1.61%) Optimizely
6 30 (1.47%) Siebel
7 15 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.54%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.49%) WSO2
9 10 (0.49%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.44%) NVIDIA
11 8 (0.39%) Adobe
11 8 (0.39%) F5
11 8 (0.39%) Twitter
12 6 (0.29%) Databricks
12 6 (0.29%) UiPath
13 5 (0.24%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.24%) PayPal
13 5 (0.24%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.24%) WorldPay