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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 85 86
Rank change year-on-year -131 +1 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Developer 514 2,159 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 2.93% 3.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 3.09% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 396 1,765 1,335
10th Percentile £49,000 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
South East -69 175 £65,000 - 59
North of England -150 130 £60,000 - 191
North West -146 82 £60,000 - 128
South West -63 63 £60,000 +3.45% 60
Midlands -102 60 £60,000 - 85
Scotland +41 50 £55,000 -4.35% 24
West Midlands -35 50 £61,250 -2.00% 58
Yorkshire -56 38 £55,000 - 44
East of England -33 18 £67,500 +12.50% 55
Wales -25 17 £65,000 +18.18% 36
North East +24 10 £72,500 +31.82% 20
East Midlands -59 10 £55,000 - 24
Northern Ireland +9 5 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Senior Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 211 (41.05%) JavaScript
2 183 (35.60%) React
3 173 (33.66%) Agile
4 162 (31.52%) C#
4 162 (31.52%) .NET
5 157 (30.54%) AWS
6 141 (27.43%) TypeScript
7 134 (26.07%) SQL
8 131 (25.49%) Azure
9 128 (24.90%) HTML
9 128 (24.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 111 (21.60%) CI/CD
11 109 (21.21%) Social Skills
12 95 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
13 90 (17.51%) DevOps
14 87 (16.93%) Serverless
15 85 (16.54%) Node.js
15 85 (16.54%) CSS
16 80 (15.56%) Git
16 80 (15.56%) Clean Code
17 79 (15.37%) SQL Server
18 77 (14.98%) Finance
19 73 (14.20%) Docker
20 72 (14.01%) Microservices
21 71 (13.81%) Mentoring
22 70 (13.62%) PHP
23 67 (13.04%) User Experience
24 66 (12.84%) .NET Core
25 65 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
25 65 (12.65%) ASP.NET

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 15 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.72%) CMS
2 14 (2.72%) Confluence
3 6 (1.17%) Headless CMS
3 6 (1.17%) IIS
3 6 (1.17%) Umbraco
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.58%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Apache
6 2 (0.39%) Strapi
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (2.92%) NetSuite
3 10 (1.95%) Magento
3 10 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 157 (30.54%) AWS
2 131 (25.49%) Azure
3 87 (16.93%) Serverless
4 65 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (6.81%) GCP
6 33 (6.42%) SaaS
7 29 (5.64%) Power Platform
8 25 (4.86%) GitHub
9 23 (4.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (4.28%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (2.53%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.33%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 8 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (1.36%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.70%) Broadband
2 9 (1.75%) Internet
3 7 (1.36%) HTTP
4 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.39%) Modbus
5 2 (0.39%) MQTT
5 2 (0.39%) Network Security
6 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.37%) SQL Server
2 58 (11.28%) MySQL
3 55 (10.70%) DynamoDB
4 30 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (4.86%) OLTP
5 25 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (4.47%) MongoDB
7 22 (4.28%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.14%) Power BI
10 7 (1.36%) Metadata
10 7 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.97%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.97%) Redis
11 5 (0.97%) SQL CLR
11 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.58%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 80 (15.56%) Git
2 26 (5.06%) JIRA
3 14 (2.72%) MagicDraw
4 13 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.95%) NUnit
6 9 (1.75%) JUnit
7 7 (1.36%) GitLab
7 7 (1.36%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.36%) rollup.js
8 6 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.97%) Maven
9 5 (0.97%) Mockito
9 5 (0.97%) webpack
10 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.78%) Gradle
10 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.58%) Mocha
11 3 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 109 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.98%) Finance
3 33 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.03%) Retail
5 28 (5.45%) Games
6 21 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.11%) Banking
7 16 (3.11%) Marketing
8 12 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.14%) Back Office
10 9 (1.75%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.36%) Law
13 4 (0.78%) Legal
14 3 (0.58%) Automotive
14 3 (0.58%) Electronics
15 2 (0.39%) Advertising
15 2 (0.39%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (35.60%) React
2 162 (31.52%) .NET
3 128 (24.90%) HTML
4 85 (16.54%) CSS
4 85 (16.54%) Node.js
5 66 (12.84%) .NET Core
6 65 (12.65%) ASP.NET
7 59 (11.48%) AngularJS
8 58 (11.28%) GraphQL
9 49 (9.53%) RESTful
10 41 (7.98%) Blazor
10 41 (7.98%) XML
11 38 (7.39%) Vue
12 34 (6.61%) REST
13 30 (5.84%) .NET Framework
14 25 (4.86%) Laravel
15 21 (4.09%) ASP.NET MVC
15 21 (4.09%) Jest
15 21 (4.09%) SOAP
16 19 (3.70%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.81%) Mobile App
2 28 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.95%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.95%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.36%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.97%) e-Learning
8 5 (0.97%) IoT
8 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.78%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.58%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.58%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.11%) Linux
2 12 (2.33%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Unix
4 6 (1.17%) Android
4 6 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (33.66%) Agile
2 128 (24.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 111 (21.60%) CI/CD
4 95 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (17.51%) DevOps
6 80 (15.56%) Clean Code
7 72 (14.01%) Microservices
8 71 (13.81%) Mentoring
9 67 (13.04%) User Experience
10 65 (12.65%) MVC
11 64 (12.45%) Test Automation
12 57 (11.09%) Software Engineering
13 54 (10.51%) Front End Development
14 47 (9.14%) Web Development
15 46 (8.95%) Unit Testing
16 45 (8.75%) Event-Driven
17 44 (8.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 44 (8.56%) UX Design
18 43 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
19 38 (7.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 211 (41.05%) JavaScript
2 162 (31.52%) C#
3 141 (27.43%) TypeScript
4 134 (26.07%) SQL
5 70 (13.62%) PHP
6 64 (12.45%) Python
7 62 (12.06%) Java
8 29 (5.64%) PL/SQL
9 22 (4.28%) C++
10 9 (1.75%) Apex Code
11 8 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.36%) Go
12 7 (1.36%) Ruby
13 5 (0.97%) Bicep
13 5 (0.97%) C
14 4 (0.78%) Bash
15 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.39%) Fortran
16 2 (0.39%) Swift
17 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (10.51%) Degree
2 23 (4.47%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (3.50%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.39%) PhD
9 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.33%) QA
3 2 (0.39%) GDPR
3 2 (0.39%) WCAG
4 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.19%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 73 (14.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.58%) Firmware
4 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.31%) Terraform
3 5 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 44 (8.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.61%) Oracle
3 12 (2.33%) New Relic
4 9 (1.75%) Adobe
4 9 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.36%) Rollbar
6 6 (1.17%) Twitter
7 5 (0.97%) VMware
8 4 (0.78%) IBM
9 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.58%) Google
9 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.58%) Splunk
10 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.39%) Apple
10 2 (0.39%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.39%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.39%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.39%) Okta
10 2 (0.39%) Spotify