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 leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 82 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1,926 1,826 3,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.95% 3.79% 4.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 4.23% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 1,171 2,109
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,520
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +44 515 £60,000 -4.00% 57
South East -12 514 £65,000 -7.14% 42
North West +53 304 £62,500 - 35
Midlands -19 299 £62,500 +4.17% 32
South West +32 286 £60,000 - 21
West Midlands +5 188 £62,500 +4.17% 19
Yorkshire +23 160 £60,000 -0.21% 11
Scotland -69 117 £60,000 -14.29% 11
East Midlands -43 110 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Wales +45 92 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East of England -32 70 £55,000 -18.52% 12
North East +5 51 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Northern Ireland +26 33 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 591 (30.69%) .NET
2 573 (29.75%) C#
3 529 (27.47%) JavaScript
4 460 (23.88%) Agile
5 412 (21.39%) Azure
6 361 (18.74%) React
7 310 (16.10%) SQL
8 301 (15.63%) AWS
9 298 (15.47%) HTML
10 287 (14.90%) CSS
11 285 (14.80%) DevOps
12 283 (14.69%) Full Stack Development
13 265 (13.76%) Social Skills
14 246 (12.77%) Git
15 235 (12.20%) TypeScript
16 224 (11.63%) PHP
17 218 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
18 216 (11.21%) CI/CD
19 193 (10.02%) ASP.NET
19 193 (10.02%) .NET Framework
20 190 (9.87%) Microsoft
21 188 (9.76%) Finance
22 183 (9.50%) Software Engineering
22 183 (9.50%) .NET Core
23 178 (9.24%) AngularJS
24 174 (9.03%) MVC
25 168 (8.72%) Mentoring
26 167 (8.67%) Docker
27 157 (8.15%) SQL Server
28 154 (8.00%) Azure DevOps

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 72 (3.74%) CMS
2 37 (1.92%) Umbraco
3 30 (1.56%) Headless CMS
4 29 (1.51%) Kentico
4 29 (1.51%) Sitecore CMS
5 28 (1.45%) IIS
6 23 (1.19%) WordPress
7 18 (0.93%) Confluence
8 16 (0.83%) nginx
9 13 (0.67%) Apache
10 10 (0.52%) Appian
11 9 (0.47%) SAS
12 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.16%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
14 2 (0.10%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.052%) Elementor
3 1 (0.052%) Mathematica
3 1 (0.052%) Maya
3 1 (0.052%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.052%) NUKE
3 1 (0.052%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.87%) Siebel CRM
2 20 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.93%) Magento
4 10 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.31%) Shopify
6 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.21%) Sonata
7 1 (0.052%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 412 (21.39%) Azure
2 301 (15.63%) AWS
3 154 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 120 (6.23%) SaaS
5 89 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 52 (2.70%) GCP
8 41 (2.13%) PowerApps
9 39 (2.02%) GitHub
9 39 (2.02%) Power Automate
9 39 (2.02%) Serverless
10 26 (1.35%) Kontent
11 21 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (0.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (0.62%) Azure Functions
15 12 (0.62%) npm
16 10 (0.52%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.42%) Network Security
2 4 (0.21%) Broadband
2 4 (0.21%) MQTT
2 4 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (0.21%) VPN
3 2 (0.10%) DNS
3 2 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.052%) CTI
4 1 (0.052%) SAN
4 1 (0.052%) SSL
4 1 (0.052%) VoIP
4 1 (0.052%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 140 (7.27%) MySQL
3 70 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 42 (2.18%) Power BI
6 38 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.87%) Oracle BI EE
7 36 (1.87%) Siebel EIM
8 29 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.83%) OLTP
12 16 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.52%) Oracle Database 11g
14 10 (0.52%) Oracle Database 12c
14 10 (0.52%) Redis
15 8 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 246 (12.77%) Git
2 51 (2.65%) Visual Studio
3 43 (2.23%) JIRA
4 37 (1.92%) Selenium
5 32 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 22 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 20 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
8 18 (0.93%) NUnit
9 15 (0.78%) Jenkins
9 15 (0.78%) PHPUnit
9 15 (0.78%) webpack
10 14 (0.73%) Android Studio
11 13 (0.67%) JUnit
11 13 (0.67%) Sourcetree
12 10 (0.52%) GitLab
12 10 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
13 9 (0.47%) MSBuild
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.42%) Jasmine
14 8 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 265 (13.76%) Social Skills
2 188 (9.76%) Finance
3 57 (2.96%) Retail
4 53 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (2.34%) Banking
6 43 (2.23%) Games
7 42 (2.18%) Marketing
8 37 (1.92%) Law
9 36 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 27 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.30%) Tech for Good
12 23 (1.19%) Public Sector
13 19 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 16 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.73%) Health Technology
15 14 (0.73%) Legal
16 13 (0.67%) Automotive
17 12 (0.62%) Music Industry
18 10 (0.52%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 591 (30.69%) .NET
2 361 (18.74%) React
3 298 (15.47%) HTML
4 287 (14.90%) CSS
5 193 (10.02%) .NET Framework
5 193 (10.02%) ASP.NET
6 183 (9.50%) .NET Core
7 178 (9.24%) AngularJS
8 128 (6.65%) Vue
9 127 (6.59%) Laravel
10 125 (6.49%) RESTful
11 114 (5.92%) Node.js
12 112 (5.82%) REST
13 99 (5.14%) Entity Framework
14 89 (4.62%) Web Services
15 64 (3.32%) ASP.NET Web API
16 61 (3.17%) Kafka
17 57 (2.96%) GraphQL
18 55 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
19 54 (2.80%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
2 66 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
3 60 (3.12%) Mobile App
4 49 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 35 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 22 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 18 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 17 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (0.73%) IoT
12 13 (0.67%) Virtual Reality
13 10 (0.52%) Online Banking
13 10 (0.52%) PropTech
14 9 (0.47%) e-Learning
14 9 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (0.42%) Cybercrime
15 8 (0.42%) NHS
16 7 (0.36%) Client/Server
16 7 (0.36%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.39%) Android
2 44 (2.28%) Linux
3 41 (2.13%) Windows
4 28 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.10%) Unix
7 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (23.88%) Agile
2 285 (14.80%) DevOps
3 283 (14.69%) Full Stack Development
4 218 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (11.21%) CI/CD
6 183 (9.50%) Software Engineering
7 174 (9.03%) MVC
8 168 (8.72%) Mentoring
9 153 (7.94%) Front End Development
10 152 (7.89%) Web Development
11 149 (7.74%) TDD
12 124 (6.44%) Design Patterns
13 121 (6.28%) E-Commerce
14 120 (6.23%) Scrum
15 118 (6.13%) Microservices
16 111 (5.76%) Computer Science
16 111 (5.76%) CRM
16 111 (5.76%) Unit Testing
17 102 (5.30%) Clean Code
17 102 (5.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 573 (29.75%) C#
2 529 (27.47%) JavaScript
3 310 (16.10%) SQL
4 235 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 224 (11.63%) PHP
6 151 (7.84%) Java
7 93 (4.83%) Python
8 58 (3.01%) C++
9 43 (2.23%) PL/SQL
10 40 (2.08%) Go
11 38 (1.97%) T-SQL
12 30 (1.56%) C
13 28 (1.45%) Ruby
14 25 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.99%) Scala
15 19 (0.99%) VB.NET
16 17 (0.88%) Swift
17 15 (0.78%) R
18 7 (0.36%) Rust
19 5 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 147 (7.63%) Degree
2 90 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 82 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 54 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 13 (0.67%) PhD
7 12 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.21%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.16%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.16%) MBA
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.052%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.052%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.18%) QA
2 16 (0.83%) WCAG
3 10 (0.52%) GDPR
4 7 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.16%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.10%) GRC
6 2 (0.10%) MISRA
6 2 (0.10%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.052%) SLA
System Software
1 167 (8.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.052%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.44%) Terraform
3 7 (0.36%) Ansible
4 5 (0.26%) Rancher
5 2 (0.10%) MIIS
6 1 (0.052%) Grafana
6 1 (0.052%) Istio
6 1 (0.052%) Kibana
6 1 (0.052%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 190 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.61%) Oracle
3 36 (1.87%) Siebel
4 30 (1.56%) Sitecore
5 29 (1.51%) Google
6 26 (1.35%) Optimizely
7 21 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 15 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 15 (0.78%) Xamarin
9 10 (0.52%) Adobe
9 10 (0.52%) Quadient
10 8 (0.42%) SAP
10 8 (0.42%) UiPath
11 7 (0.36%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.36%) Twitter
12 5 (0.26%) Micro Focus
13 4 (0.21%) Databricks
13 4 (0.21%) New Relic
13 4 (0.21%) SEEBURGER
14 3 (0.16%) NVIDIA